We heard of this circumstance on the day of Mr. C.’s commitment, and we were told that it would probably go very hard with him on his trial, and that he would be very fortunate if he escaped the gallows or transportation.  A few days after this we were surprised to hear that Mr. C. had died in prison.  Upon inquiry, we learned that he died literally from rage and mortification.  His case defied the, skill and power of the physicians.  They could detect the presence of no disease whatever, even on a minute post-mortem examination.  They pronounced it as their opinion that he had died from the violence of his passions—­excited by being imprisoned, together with his apprehensions of the fatal issue of the trial.

Not long before emancipation, Mr. Scotland was imprisoned for befriending the negroes.  After emancipation, Mr. Corbett was imprisoned for wronging them.

Mr. Corbett was a respectable planter, of good family and moved in the first circles in the island]

TWENTY-FIRST PROPOSITION.—­Emancipation has been followed by a manifest diminution of “prejudice against color,” and has opened the prospect off its speedy extirpation.

Some thirty years ago, the president of the island, Sir Edward Byam, issued an order forbidding the great bell in the cathedral of St. John’s being tolled at the funeral of a colored person; and directing a smaller bell to be hung up in the same belfry, and used on such occasions.  For twenty years this distinction was strictly maintained.  When a white person, however vile, was buried, the great bell was tolled; when a colored person, whatever his moral worth, intelligence, or station, was carried to his grave, the little bell was tinkled.  It was not until the arrival of the present excellent Rector, that this “prejudice bell” was silenced.  The Rev. Mr. Cox informed us that prejudice had greatly decreased since emancipation.  It was very common for white and colored gentlemen to be seen walking arm in arm an the streets of St. John’s.

“Prejudice against color is fast disappearing.  The colored people have themselves contributed to prolong this feeling, by keeping aloof from the society of the whites.”—­James Howell, of T. Jarvis’s.

How utterly at variance is this with the commonly received opinion, that the colored people are disposed to thrust themselves into the society of the whites!

“Prejudice against color exists in this community only to a limited extent, and that chiefly among those who could never bring themselves to believe that emancipation would really take place.  Policy dictates to them the propriety of confining any expression of their feelings to those of the same opinions.  Nothing is shown of this prejudice in their intercourse with the colored class—­it is ’kept behind the scenes.’”—­Ralph Higginbotham, U. S. Consul.