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the Brethren BAYNES and MILLER. We esteem it a privilege to be permitted to witness the good which the missionaries are doing. Harmony, simplicity, and love, appear to reign in their households, and shine forth in their conduct and conversation. We heard to day a distressing account of a poor man, who was starved to death. He was unable to work ; and had been detected stealing canes, to which he was probably impelled by hunger ; as he had no allowance from the estate on which he lived. He ran away for fear of punishment, and was found dead in the open country at some distance from home. The most painful fea ture in the state of Antigua at the present moment is the destitute condition of the old and infirm, owing to the absence of a legal provision for them, and to the present distress from the long period of drought. 30th.—At Grace Hill the missionaries are about to let ofl^ a part of the mission property on the cottage system, as at Newfield. A considerable portion also of a neighbouring estate has been sold in acres, and half-acres, to the laborers ; who have built cottages thereon for themselves, and still continue to work on the adjoining properties. The price paid has been thirty-five dollars per acre, and six dollars for the con veyance. We left early this morning for English Har bor. One of the Brethren kindly accompanied us as far as Falmouth ; where he introduced us to Dr. M U R RAY, whose lady has established an interesting infant school of about thirty children. They read and spelt pretty well, and were neatly dressed. The Doctor con firmed a statement we have frequently heard ; that there has been a great decrease of sickness on the estates since Emancipation. On our way to English Harbor, we were overtaken by a gentleman who iiiE