9.  What are the wages of these teachers?

The teachers’ pay is, some four, and some three dollars per month.  This sum is far too small, and would be greater if the funds were sufficient.

10.  How and by whom are the expenses of superintendent, teachers, and schools defrayed?

The superintendent’s salary, &c., is paid by the Wesleyan Missionary Society.  The expenses of teachers and schools are defrayed by charitable societies and friends in England, particularly the Negro Education Society, which grants 50l. sterling per annum towards this object, and pays the rent of the Church Missionary Society’s premises in Willoughby Bay for use of the schools.  About 46l. sterling per annum is also raised from the children; each child taught writing and needle-work, pays 1-1/2d. sterling per week.

11.  Is it your opinion that the negro children are as ready to receive instruction as white children?

Yes, perfectly so.

12.  Do parents manifest interest in the education of their children?

They do.  Some of the parents are, however, still very ignorant, and are not aware how much their children lose by irregular attendance at the schools.

13.  Have there been many instances of theft among the scholars?

Not more than among any other class of children.

RESULTS.

Besides an attendance upon the various schools, we procured specific information from teachers, missionaries, planters, and others, with regard to the past and present state of education, and the weight of testimony was to the following effect: 

First, That education was by no means extensive previous to emancipation.  The testimony of one planter was, that not a tenth part of the present adult population knew the letters of the alphabet.  Other planters, and some missionaries, thought the proportion might be somewhat larger; but all agreed that it was very small.  The testimony of the venerable Mr. Newby, the oldest Moravian missionary in the island, was, that such was the opposition among the planters, it was impossible to teach the slaves, excepting by night, secretly.  Mr. Thwaites informed us that the children were not allowed to attend day school after they were six years old.  All the instruction they obtained after that age, was got at night—­a very unsuitable time to study, for those who worked all day under an exhausting sun.  It is manifest that the instruction received under six years of age, would soon be effaced by the incessant toil of subsequent life.  The account given in a former connection of the adult school under the charge of Mr. Morrish, at Newfield, shows most clearly the past inattention to education.  And yet Mr. M. stated that his school was a fair specimen of the intelligence of the negroes generally.  One more evidence in point is the acknowledged ignorance of Mr. Thwaites’ teachers.  After searching through the whole freed population for a dozen suitable teachers of children.  Mr. T. could not find even that number who could read well.  Many children in the schools of six years old read better than their teachers.