Apprentices from the 1st to 31st August 1837.

1708 Ditto from the 1st to 30th September 1464 Ditto from the 1st to 15th October 574 Grand Total 3746 Total number of Apprentices punished from the 1st to 31st August 1608 Ditto from 1st to 31st September 1321 Ditto from the 1st to 15th October 561 Grand Total 3490 Total compromised, admonished and dismissed from 1st to 31st August 105 Ditto from the 1st to 30th September 113 Ditto from 1st to 15th October 38 Total 256 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.