To insert them _all_, would unduly increase the size of the present volume.

Those not embodied in this appendix, will be published in the periodicals of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
* * * * * OFFICIAL COMMUNICATION FROM E.B.LYON, ESQ., SPECIAL MAGISTRATE.
_Jamaica, Hillingdon, near Falmouth, Trelawney, May 15, 1837_.
TO J.H.KIMBALL., ESQ., and J.A.THOME, ESQ.
DEAR SIRS,--Of the operation of the apprenticeship system in this district, from the slight opportunity I have had of observing the conduct of managers and apprentices, I could only speak conjecturally, and my opinions, wanting the authority of experience, would be of little service to you; I shall therefore confine the remarks I have to make, to the operation of the system in the district from which I have lately removed.
I commenced my duties in August, 1834, and from the paucity of special magistrates at that eventful era, I had the superintendence of a most extensive district, comprising nearly one half of the populous parish of St.Thomas in the East, and the whole of the parish of St.David, embracing an apprentice population of nearly eighteen thousand,--in charge of which I continued until December, when I was relieved of St.
David, and in March, 1835, my surveillance was confined to that portion of St.Thomas in the East, consisting of the coffee plantations in the Blue Mountains, and the sugar estates of Blue Mountain Valley, over which I continued to preside until last March, a district containing a population of four thousand two hundred and twenty-seven apprentices, of which two thousand eighty-seven were males, and two thousand one hundred and forty, females.

The apprentices of the Blue Mountain Valley were, at the period of my assumption of the duties of a special magistrate, the most disorderly in the island.

They were greatly excited, and almost desperate from disappointment, in finding their trammels under the new law, nearly as burdensome as under the old, and their condition, in many respects, much more intolerable.

They were also extremely irritated at what they deemed an attempt upon the part of their masters to rob them of one of the greatest advantages they had been led to believe the new law secured to them--this was the half of Friday.