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from 30 tons to 300, and upwards. This officer seems less adequately provided for than any other, considering the attention required, and the responsibility attendant on his office. 8. The Postmaster, who is paid by the home government, receives 80/. sterling per annum. The judicial officers connected with the colony are numerous, considered with respect to the population ; but as none, with the exception of the chief judge, receive pecuniary remuneration, and he only 300/. sterling,* and from fees, the appointments, although high-sounding, are, with this exception, only honorary, and almost parallel with that of the unpaid, though not less useful, magistracy of England. The appointments are as follow:—A chief judge; four assistant justices; a chief baron of the exchequer; judge of the viceadmiralty court ; registrar of the vice-admiralty court ; two masters examiners of chancery ; registrar in chancery ; provost marshal, advocate, and attorney-general ; procurator and solicitorrgeneral ; three king's counsel and a coroner, (the latter receiving 300/. per annum sterling from the colony.) The office of coroner is filled by Sir Robert Horsford, the attorney-general. To these must be added two stipendiary magistrates, appointed under the provisions of the act for the abolition of slavery, and paid by the home government. The ecclesiastical establishment now comprises a bishop, receiving 2000/. ; an archdeacon, receiving 500/. sterling from the British government; the rector of the parish of St. John, receiving, with a curate, 330/. from the colony; the rector of the parish of St. George, who receives a stipend of 230/. sterling ; the rector of the parish of St. Paul's, who receives 250/. sterling ; the rector of the parish of St. Peter's, who receives 300/. sterling ; and the rector of the parish of St. Philip's, who receives a stipend of 275/. sterling. * It must be remarked that this salary is not a determined one. The judge receives it as a boon from the existing legislature. His successor may, perhaps, only obtain the honour conferred by the appointment.