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man, of the name of Packer, has indeed already been appointed at the earnest instances of the bishop to attend to the prisoners; regular visitations of magistrates should be established, and, above all, a capacious treadwheel should be forthwith erected. The money laid out on this sovereign machine would be saved in the first year by the reduction of the usual jail expenses. Herbert or White would.make the article of pitch pine, and it is almost impossible to set bounds to the improvement which might be expected to take place in the public character under the mild influence of this blessed invention. The fact is, the thing is found to answer exceedingly well in Trinidad, and Barbados would be the better for following the example. There are three other towns in the island. Hole Town is a collection of five or six houses on the sea shore, about seven miles from the capital, and is remarkable only for having been the first settlement of the English, who landed in the neighbourhood, and called their hamlet James Town, in honor of the first Stuart. Speight's town, or Spike's, as it is commonly pronounced, is a pretty large place, seven miles farther on the coast; it has a roadstead and wharf, and formerly exported a great deal of sugar directly to England, but the usual practice now is to send it by droghers or small cutters to Carlisle Bay. There is a daily communication by water between Speight's