ANTIGUA.
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King." " What has the King done for you ?"—" He make us free," was responded by upwards of one hun dred little voices, with the greatest enthusiasm. The police district of Parham comprises a circle of forty estates. The offences are chiefly breach of contract, trespass, absenting from work, and cane breaking. The officers mentioned to us several cases of distress, where the parties, becoming unable to work, had been compelled to quit the estates. In one instance, a woman with three children, left the estate on which she was formerly a slave, and went to reside with her husband on another. She became diseased in her feet, and unable to work, and her hus band discarded her, although they had been regularly married by a Wesleyan minister. She and her child ren were turned oif the estate. This is an illustra tion of the consequences of the non-recognition of Dissenters' marriages, and also of their being no public resource for the destitute poor. 9th.—With the Governor's permission we obtained some extracts from the police records. We also at tended another sitting of the Court of King's Bench.— We have before noticed the character of the proceed ings, and the leniency of the punishments. The last, we find, is partly owing to the expense of transporta tion and long imprisonments. We visited this morning a planter who is the lessee of MACKINNON'S estate, which has been alluded to in the British Parliament, as an illustration of the econo mical advantages of free labor. He gave us much interesting information respecting tropical productions. Sugar, molasses and rum, besides a little arrow-root, raised by the negros, are the only articles of export from Antigua. Cotton, Indigo, and G