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quickly and slowly alternately. One young man of color, who was put on for the first time, after many ineffectual attempts to catch the step, hung suspended by the wrists during the greater part of the time, the wheel revolving against his legs. His cries were most piercing ; " I don't know what they sent me here for ; I have done nothing to be sent here." When he came off he appeared much exhausted. He told us that he was a carpenter on Grove Plain estate. The constable sent him to give an order to the gang, which he did, but they did not attend to it. The constablte was sent by the overseer to repeat the order, with directions that if it were not complied with, the prisoner and the other people should be put in confinement. The con stable, without repeating the order, locked him up at once. When released the next day, he asked the overseer what he had done to be locked up, for which he was taken before the Special Magistrate on a charge of insolence, and sent to the workhouse and treadmill for ten days. This account was subsequently confirmed to us by an apprentice from the same estate, with whom we had an opportunity of conversing. After the first spell was ended, the two women from Phoenix estate, whose case has been previously noticed, were put upon the mill. Being of lighter weight, the mill revolved more slowly, and they kept the step better, but were quite exhausted, and in a profuse perspiration when the time had expired. The supervisor told us that the . prisoners nearly always suffered in the manner abovementioned, when first putupon the mill. We saw this morning a woman named M A R Y S A U N D E R S , who had been sent to the workhouse under the following circumstances :—About a year ago, she was valued for nineteen pounds, and paid the money to Y 3