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pleasure of making the acquaintance of J. L. L E WIN, a private individual residing in Montego Bay, who is one of the best friends of the negros, and has often advocated their rights. 3rd.—We visited Latium estate, which is situ ated in this parish, and is considered one of the best managed properties in the island. The number of slaves upon it in 1834 was four hundred and fifty. The Special Magistrate of the district, W . CAKNABY, has obligingly furnished us with a memorandum of the Courts he has held upon it during the last fourteen months. Out of twenty-five official visits, complaints were brought before him on five occasions only, being in the whole thirteen cases, in eleven of which punish ments were awarded, including one of flogging. From other information we learn that the apprentices . are nearly all Baptists, attending Salter's Hill Chapel in the immediate neighbourhood ; that there are eightythree married couples among them, and that fifty of the free children attend the school at the mission sta tion, which has been liberally encouraged by pecuniary aid from the attorney. The apprentices and their free children not only receive all their accustomed allow ances, but are left in undisturbed enjoyment of their half Fridays and Saturdays. They are remunerated for the extra labor required from them during crop, as well as for as many of their own days, as they choose to employ in working on the estate. Under this ma nagement the crops are equally large, and the net revenue from the estate greater than at any former pe riod. The Attorney, HENRY HUNTER, to whom we were introduced, gave us much valuable information. The minutest details of the management of the planta tion for a series of years have been reduced by him to ,