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A petition was presented for the cleansing of a pond which supplied the town of English Harbor with water. The hon. member stated, that the old act had become obsolete, which provided that these ponds should be kept in order by contribution from the dif ferent estates of slave labor, which " had now happily ceased to exist." Another gentleman proposed, that as these ponds were equally for the benefit of rich and poor, that the laboring classes should be taxed to con tribute their quota towards this object, either in labor or money. He complained that they required higher wages for such labor, than the regular rate of one shil ling a day. A letter of thanks was read from J A M E S Cox, on behalf of the Wesleyan missionaries, for the grant of a piece of ground, in St. John's, for the erec tion of a new chapel and school. The proceedings were concluded by the reading of several bills, not of general interest. 2nd.—To-day was the commencement of the Grand Sessions of the Court of King's Bench. The business was begun amidst some disorder and confusion ; the witnesses, prisoner, prosecutor, jurors and judges, speaking and asking questions indiscriminately. In one of the indictments were several mistakes of dates and places, which would probably have quashed the proceedings in an English Court. The witnesses usually gave their testimony in a clear, straightforward manner, without being prompted by interrogatories. The sentences were lenient ; in which respect they differed much from the decisions of the magistrates at the police court of English Harbor. We called in the evening upon R . HOUBERTON, the Rector of St. John's, who is deeply interested in the condition of the negro population, and a most active and zealous supporter of