Justice Court,—­A Despot in convulsions; arbitrary power dies
    hard,—­Encounter with Mules in a mountain pass,—­Silver Hill Estate;
    cases tried; Appraisement of an Apprentice,—­Peter’s Rock
    Estate,—­Hall’s Prospect Estate,—­Female Traveling Merchant,—­Negro
    Provision Grounds,—­Apprentices eager to work for Money,—­Jury of
    Inquest,—­Character of Overseers,—­Conversation with Special Justice
    Hamilton,—­With a Proprietor of Estates and Local Magistrate;
    Testimony,—­Spanishtown,—­Richard Hill, Esq., Secretary of the
    Special Magistracy,—­Testimony of Lord Sligo concerning him,—­Lord
    Sligo’s Administration; its independence and
    impartiality,—­Statements of Mr. Hill,—­Statements of Special
    Justice Ramsey,—­Special Justice’s Court,—­Baptist Missionary at
    Spanishtown; his Testimony,—­Actual Working of the Apprenticeship;
    no Insurrection; no fear of it; no Increase of Crime; Negroes
    improving; Marriage increased; Sabbath better kept; Religious
    Worship better attended; Law obeyed,—­Apprenticeship vexatious to
    both parties,—­Atrocities perpetrated by Masters and
    Magistrates,—­Causes of the ill-working of the
    Apprenticeship—­Provisions of the Emancipation Act defeated by
    Planters and Magistrates,—­The present Governor a favorite with the
    Planters,—­Special Justice Palmer suspended by him,—­Persecution of
    Special Justice Bourne,—­Character of the Special
    Magistrates,—­Official Cruelty; Correspondence between a Missionary
    and Special Magistrate,—­Sir Lionel Smith’s Message to the House of
    Assembly,—­Causes of the Diminished Crops since
    Emancipation,—­Anticipated Consequences of full Emancipation in
    1840,—­Examination of the grounds of such anticipations,—­Views of
    Missionaries and Colored People, Magistrates and
    Planters;—­Concluding Remarks.

APPENDIX.

Official Communication from Special Justice Lyon,—­Communication from the Solicitor General of Jamaica,—­Communication from Special Justice Colthurst,—­Official Returns of the Imports and Exports of Barbadoes,—­Valuations of Apprentices in Jamaica,—­Tabular View of the Crops in Jamaica for fifty-three years preceding 1836; Comments of the Jamaica Watchman on the foregoing Table,—­Comments of the Spanishtown Telegraph,—­Brougham’s Speech in Parliament.

INTRODUCTION.

It is hardly possible that the success of British West India Emancipation should be more conclusively proved, than it has been by the absence among us of the exultation which awaited its failure.  So many thousands of the citizens of the United States, without counting slaveholders, would not have suffered their prophesyings to be falsified, if they could have found whereof to manufacture fulfilment.  But it is remarkable that, even since the first of August, 1834,