The Rev. John Scoble of London--who had spent the greater part of the last three years in the British West Indies, as an agent of the British Anti-Slavery Society--at a meeting held in Boston, August 22, 1839, gave a most interesting exposition of the results of the emancipation of the slaves in these colonies, in answer to questions proposed to him. A few extracts from his statements will be given, taken from the Essex Register. “From all which he had heard and seen, he was satisfied the experiment of _complete emancipation_ had worked well for the owners of the estates; and the prosperity of the colonies would be greatly increased by it. Landed property, he said, had increased in value in Barbadoes from 25 to 40 per cent. in some districts--and generally in the colonies, from 5 to 25 per cent.” “There had,” he said, “been a great improvement in the domestic condition of the laborers--they enjoyed more comforts--their huts, or rather _hovels_, which they formerly occupied, were giving place to more comfortable habitations--they were not willing to wear the poor and cheap clothes which their masters formerly furnished for them--many of the women, instead of toiling in the fields, were now devoted to household duties; and many children, who formerly had been compelled to work in the fields, were now sent to school. “Enquiries were made of Mr. Scoble, as to the willingness of the blacks to labor for fair wages--as to the state of morals and religion among them--how the aged and infirm poor were supported among them, &c.; to all which Mr. S. gave the most satisfactory answers. In regard to the state of _morals_, he said, crime had decreased since the emancipation--and he stated many interesting facts in regard to the number of persons confined in prisons in several colonies at his visits in 1836, compared with the number in 1838. The number is now _only about half as large_ as in former years, and most of the offences of the negroes were misdemeanors, petty thefts,” &c. Similar testimony is furnished in a letter, published in the New York Journal of Commerce, from Mr. Gurney, an English Quaker gentleman, who has lately visited some of the Windward Islands. He says, “Landed property _has risen, and is still rising in value_--being decidedly of greater value now than it was six years ago. In Antigua it seems to be a clear point, that the property _without_ the slaves, is now of equal value with the property _and_ the slaves, six years ago, or before emancipation. “A similar remark applies with still greater force to St. Kitts. R. Claxton, the Solicitor General there, told me that he would not take £6,000 now for a property which cost him only £2,000 six years ago. Indeed, many planters spoke of what they receive in the shape of compensation, as quite a gratuity.