The news from Barbadoes More than justifies all our previously
expressed opinions on the ;state of affairs in the oolony. It is clear that the narrow little oligarchy which rules the island grossly abuses its power ;• that the House of Assembly is anxious above all things to retain its ill-used political monopoly ; that justice is so little considered, that while a white man is bailed by the Chief Justice for a more serious bffenee,liladle men who hate already
been four months in prison are refused the privilege of bail for less serious offences; and that Mr. Pope Hennessy, insulted, and even assaulted, by members of the. Defence Association, has been -showing the utmost magnanimity in granting a free pardon to the -chief of these offenders. Lord Carnarvon's wise decision to send out a special Judge to try the rioting cases has been much more than vindicated,—shown to be absolutely necessary, by the partisan -course of Chief Justice Packer. And it is obvious that even the members of the purblind and very misrepresentative Assembly -which is supposed to speak for the people of the inland, are already beginning to see that in their passionate resistance to Lord Car- a' narvon's policy, they are only accumulating fresh evidence to prove the growing and urgent need for their political extinction.
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