We here saw a specimen of the aristocracy of the island.

A considerable number present were whites,--rich proprietors with their families, managers of estates, officers of government, and merchants.

The greater proportion of the auditory, however, were colored people and blacks.

It might be expected that distinctions of color would be found here, if any where;--however, the actual distinction, even in this the most fashionable church in Antigua, amounted only to this, that the body pews on each side of the broad aisle were occupied by the whites, the side pews by the colored people, and the broad aisle in the middle by the negroes.

The gallery, on one side, was also appropriated to the colored people, and on the other to the blacks.