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ever, that the people neglected their own grounds, and refused to work for wages in their extra time. He adheres to the eight-hour system, a circumstance which is sufficient to account for a large amount of disaffec tion. On our way home, we passed through Bushy Park estate, one of the largest and most populous in the island. W e have been favored by the overseer of Bushy Park with a table of births and deaths on that estate, from which it appears, that the former, since eighteen hundred and thirty-four, have been fortyseven, and the latter eleven, from which it may be in ferred, that the infants and pregnant women, and nursing mothers, have received the same indulgences, as during slavery, which we are sorry to say, is not generally the case. 19th.—THE SABBATH.—We attended this morning the various services at the station of the baptist mis sion in Spanish Town. The first of these was a prayer meeting, held very early in the morning, attended by about six hundred persons. At nine o'clock we visited the Sunday schools, in which were about one hundred children, chiefly in the alphabet class, who have no other means of instruction. At eleven the morning service commenced. The meeting-house, which holds about fifteen hundred, was densely crowded, chiefly by apprentices from the surrounding estates, who were . very attentive and decorous in their deportment. At • the conclusion, the minister married a young couple, who were apprentices on an estate some miles distant. The formula was that of the church of England abbre viated, to which was added a suitable exhortation and prayer. J. M. PHILLIPPO has married about three hundred of the apprentices within the last twelve months.