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ishment probably less severe than a single spell of ten minutes length, on some of the treadmills in the other workhouses. He also visited the rector of the parish, attached to whose living are a pen or glebe, and a num ber of apprentices. In 1820, the number of slaves was sixty-five; at the present time there are about one hundred and ten apprentices and their children. This is therefore another conspicuous instance of the effects of kind treatment. The people are allowed one day in the week in addition to the time legally due to them, in lieu of all allowances, an arrangement satisfactory and profitable to both parties. 15th.—We took leave this morning of the hos pitable family at Hopeton. Their residence is situated about two thousand feet above the level of the sea, and possesses a very fine climate. The mountain scenery on every side is grand and beautiful. We left at an early hour, accompanied by Mc M U R R A Y , who was proceeding to his residence at Comfort, in the parish of Manchester. Our first stage was Holland estate in St. Elizabeth, the property of GLADSTONE where we staid breakfast. It is a very fine estate with a large number of apprentices. During slavery the numbers rapidly declined, but are now supposed to be stationary. The estate school and the allowances of the free children have been discontinued in consequence, as the book-keeper informed us, of the children refusing to give one or two days labor in the week in return. We left this property about eleven A . M . and called on our way at a Mico School by the road side, which has been recently established. There were seventy children present, who were eating their " second breakfast," of cold boiled yams and cocoas, of which their parents had supplied them with a very abundant meal. We after-