Deficiency in compromised cases in 1837 comparatively
    with those of 1838 158

    Grand Total 414

    FREEDOM.

Total of Complaints vs.  Labourers from the 1st to the 31st August 1838 582 Ditto from the 1st to the 30th September 386 Ditto from the 1st to the 15th October 103

    Total 1071

    Comparative Surplus of Complaints in 1838 2675

    Grand Total 3746

Total of Laborers punished from the 1st to the 31st August, 1838, 334 Ditto from the 1st to 30th September 270 Ditto from the 1st to 15th October 53

    Total 657

    Comparative surplus of punishment in 1837 2833

    Grand total 3490

Total compromised, admonished and dismissed from the 1st to the 31st August 248 Ditto from the 1st to 30th September 116 Ditto from the 1st to 15th October 50

    Grand Total 414

    NOTE.

It may be proper to remark that the accompanying General Abstract for August, September, and to the 15th October, 1837, does not include complaints preferred and heard before the Local Magistrates during those months for such offences—­viz. for misdemeanors, petty debts, assaults and petty thefts—­as were not cognizable by the Special Justices; so that estimating these offences—­the number of which does not appear in the Abstract for 1837—­at a similar number as that enumerated in the Abstract for 1838, the actual relative difference of punishments between the two and a half months in 1837 and these in 1838, would thus appear: 

    Surplus of Apprentices punished in 1837, as
    above 2833

    Offences in August, September, and to the
    15th, October, 1837 heard before the General
    Justices of the Peace, and estimated as follows: 

Petty thefts                                75
Assaults                                   143
Misdemeanors                                98
Petty Debts                                 19—­835

    Actual surplus of punishment in 1837, 3168

From the Journal of Commerce.

Letter from W.R.  Hays, Esq.  Barbados, W.I. to Rev. H.G.  Ludlow, of New Haven.

    BARBADOS, Dec. 26, 1838.