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twenty miles from their homes. There are only three or four resident proprietors, although on almost every estate, there is a large and substantial " great house," furnished and kept in order, but only occupied by the planting attorneys on the occasion of their hasty and infrequent visits. The number of these expensive man sions would indicate that the parish once possessed a numerous resident proprietary. Although there are fewer abuses in this parish, than in many others, yet W . KNIBB, who has the most extensive opportunities of knowing the treatment of the apprentices, said, that during the last eighteen months, he had never heard of an oppressed apprentice having obtained effectual re dress by making complaint; but that he was acquainted with numerous instances when their appeals to the magistrate had resulted in their being punished. 2nd.—We left Falmouth early this morning for Montego Bay, the chief town and port of the adjoining parish of St. James. We visited the workhouse and jail. The latter is a large, airy building, with spacious and convenient court and apai'tments. The workhouse is on a hill above the town, in a healthy situation, but the building is too small for its purposes, and in a state of dilapidation. The treadwheel was also a ricketty and miserable machine. Several of the solitary cells were perfectly dark and very insufficiently ventilated. There are at the present time thirty prisoners in the workhouse, including one life convict. Women as well as men work in the penal gang in chains and iron, collars, in this as in other parts of the island. We called in the course of the day on THOMAS BURCHBLL, the Baptist missionary, whose exertions and sufferings on behalf of the negros are well known in England, and also on his colleague S. OUGHTON. We had also the