BARBADOS.
[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."]
Stn,—I notice that your comments upon recent occurrences in Barbados are based upon statements in the address of the Governor. It is right that you should see how those state- ments are met by the representatives of the people. I in- close, therefore, a printed copy of the reply of the House of Assembly to the address. It must be borne in mind that this House of Assembly is elected annually, by electors of all creeds and colours. Last autumn, its members were one and all returned pledged to protect for the Barbadians their valued privileges of self-taxation and self-government. These privileges they have for more than two centuries enjoyed, and not without good results, inasmuch as the colony is quite free from the burthen of any public debt, and its tribunals are ready of access to the poorest and humblest of her Majesty's subjects, without distinction of race, colour, class, or creed.—
[The Barbadian privileges of self-taxation and self-government were never threatened by the Confederation scheme. Lord Carnarvon and Mr. Hennessy both guarded themselves most carefully on this point.—En. Spectator.]
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