Census of Antigua, taken in 1821; similar numbers are given for 1828. [B. B.]

Baptisms Margs. Burials Baptisms Margs. Burials Baptisms. Margs. Burials

Note. These returns would appear to be for the established church alone, except in marriages.

There has been no change in the parochial division in the island for more than 100 years.
+ Re-opened, after repair and enlargement, on 1st January, 1837.

+ This chapel has lately undergone considerable repairs in consequence of the hurricane of 1835.

The amount of population given in this return appears to be in a great measure conjectured; there being no recent census to refer to. St. George's church has been enlarged this year, at the expense partly of the parish and partly of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.

Fees to the Clergy.-The vestry assembles, when the acting churchwarden lays before them an estimate of the ways and means for the year. The number of acres and of slaves in the parish show the amount of the tax on each. This amount, with all items, is settled by the majority; the churchwarden delivers the accounts and collects the money. One of the principal disbursements is the minister's salary; about 2001. sterling is provided by an act of the island, and it is customary for the vestry to make a volun

tary addition to it, generally from 607. to 1001. per annum. This, with a parsonage house, and sometimes a horse, is sufficient to make a clergyman comfortable; and the minister is under the necessity of avoiding conduct which would be offensive to his parishioners, while a portion of his income depends on the good will of his flock. The salary of the clerk is also on a liberal scale, being from 751. to 1201. per annum; he acts as vestry clerk in keeping the accounts and collecting the taxes. The surplice fees are liberal; three guineas is a common fee to a clergyman, and not unfrequently one guinea and a half to the clerk, as a wedding fee. This, with 31. 13s. 6d. to the governor for a license (few white people being married by banns), makes matrimony an expensive business. [B. B.]

There is a very general countenance of religious instructors and instruction in most of the islands, and in Antigua particularly.

sistance received from the local, or branch association | gradual extension of Christian instruction, so that all of the Christian Faith Society, in 1836, amounted to may read the scriptures and worship the supreme nearly 20l. sterl.; but besides this, the assistance Being intelligently. given to each separate school by private individuals in the loan of houses, allowances of provisions, &c. would, if calculated, amount to a considerable sum. The principle of small payments from the scholars, There are Sunday and infant day schools carried on has been tried with some, but not general success. by the Church of England, the Moravians and the In the national schools in St. John's Town, the sum Methodists. The majority of the clergy are intent on of about 20 guineas, or rather more, was thus received the great duties of their calling of the missionaries in 1836, by payments from the senior classes of three- too much can scarcely be said. A too rigid adherence halfpence, sterl., and from the junior of half that sum to high church principles has done much injury to the weekly. In some, also, of the rural schools, the plan establishment, and exhibited the inadequacy of the has succeeded. It will probably become general by episcopal system to the religious requirements of the degrees. The total number under school instruction, slave population. The abandonment of the West Inby this return, is less than by the last; there has dies by the Church Missionary Society, has been of been a falling off of about 200, or about one in eleven; essential disservice; still there is much doing by exwhich may be accounted for from various incidental emplary and devoted men in the establishment, by causes, but chiefly from the temporary failure of cer- going about on the estates, and preaching in the negro tain pecuniary supplies, on which the remuneration houses in a truly missionary spirit. The appointment of the teachers depended; these supplies are now re- of assistants or helpers (called by the negroes "God. turning, and the schools in consequence are begin- fathers,") to exercise a certain surveillance over their ning to flourish again. Besides regular schools, there flocks on the plantation, has tended very much to give is also much desultory instruction going on, by means effect to their ministrations. By these and other of which, individuals unnoticed in the parochial re-means, the character of the negroes has been much turns, are learning to read on estates, at the intervals of their work, from their acquaintance or friends or some private teachers. On the whole, education is spreading in Antigua, as fast, probably, as is desirable. More excitement might unsettle the moral and industrious habits of the people and give rise to dis. content, though there is still room for the quiet and

Years.

improved, and their outward attention of religion greatly increased; add to this, the refusal of all the ministers and missionaries to bury any whose names are not inserted as members in their books, produces an anxiety, on this, if on no other account, to be enrolled among the professors of religion. [B. B.]

IX. Number of Prisoners in the Goal of Antigua throughout each year. [B. B.]

Male Fm. Totl. Male Fm. Totl. Male Fm. Totl. Male Fm. Totl. Male Fm Totl. Male Fm. Totl.

Deaths.

1 none 4

13

59

36 8

44

1

34

21

1

2

2

29

19

Note.-No return for 1830. An augmentation of prisoners in the two last years is given in all the gaol returns, owing probably to some mistaken mode of filling up the Blue Book columns.

X. Antigua is legislated for by a Governor, Legislative Council (10 members), and House of Assembly, consisting of a Speaker and 25 members, representing the capital town (St. John's) and twelve divisions, or six parishes, into which the island is divided. The Governor of Antigua is also Governor and Commander-in-Chief over Montserrat, Barbuda, St. Christopher, Nevis, Anguilla, the Virgin Islands and Dominica; he, however, generally remains stationary at Antigua. The Governor is chancellor of each island by virtue of his office, but commonly holds the court in Antigua. In hearing causes from the other islands he acts alone; but in cases which arise in Antigua he is assisted by a council, and by an act of the Assembly of this island, the President and a certain number of the Council may determine chancery causes during the absence of the Governor. He has an Executive Council of 12 members to assist him in his government. The other courts of this island are a Court of King's Bench, a Court of Common Pleas, and a Court of Exchequer.

The militia consists of a brigade of artillery, a squa dron of light dragoons, and a windward and leewar regiment of infantry.

Return of Militia [B. B.]-Artillery.-1 Colonel 1 Lieut.-Colonel; 1 Major; 4 Captains; 8 Lieute nants; 1 Adjutant; 1 Quarter-Master; 1 Surgeon 8 Serjeants; 8 Corporals; 3 Buglers; 170 Gunners 1 Assistant Quarter-Master. Total, 208.

Light Dragoons.-1 Colonel; 1 Lieut.-Colonel; Major; 2 Captains; 2 Lieutenants; 2 Cornets; Adjutant; 1 Quarter-Master; 1 Surgeon; 4 Ser jeants; 4 Corporals; 89 Privates; 2 Buglers; 1 Ar mourer. Total, 113.

1st Regiment.-1 Colonel; 1 Lieut.-Colonel; Majors; 7 Captains; 7 Lieutenants; 4 Ensigns; Adjutant; 1 Quarter-Master; 1 Surgeon; 14 Ser jeants; 9 Corporals; 14 Drummers; 98 Privates Total, 160.

2d Regiment.-1 Colonel; 1 Lieut.-Colonel ;

Majors; 8 Captains; 10 Lieutenants; 7 Ensigns; 1 XI. The Antigua gross revenue in pounds sterling Adjutant; 1 Quarter-Master; 1 Surgeon; 1 Assistant in 1821 was 12,3821. Surgeon; 30 Serjeants; 29 Corporals; 16 Drummers; 341 Privates; 1 Quarter-Master Serjeant. Total, 450. Recapitulation.-Staff, 15; Commissioned Officers, *7; Non-commissioned Officers and Privates, 843; Total, 945.

Comparative yearly statement of the revenue of Antigua.-Sundry Taxes, viz. Record Tax, Tax on deficiency of White Servants, Cistern Tax, Street Tax, &c. 1827, 12,3691.; 1828, 11,3371.; 1829, 19,8841.; 1830, 14,3571.; 1831, 18,154l.; 1832, 13,568.; 1833, 17,8431.; 1834, 13,1937.; 1835, 12,3697.; 1836, 11,3371.

cial Establishment, Coroner, 3001.; No salary to Judges; Ecclesiastical Establishment, 2,330.; Congent Expenditure, 2,8837.; Miscellaneous Expendi6,3454.; Pensions, 2751. Total, 21,4627. sterl. Commissariat. Provisions and Forage received England, 3,8751.; Purchased in the Command, ; amount in pounds sterling, 9,132.; Fuel and received from England, 1361.; Purchased in the Ommand, 4001.; amount in pounds sterling, 5361.

laneous Purchases, 291.; Transport, 4167.; Pay *extra Staff, 3301.; Military allowances, 7517.; Speservices, 641.; Contingencies, 2067.; Ordnance,

; Ordinaries, 10,5831.; Pay of Commissariat cers, 7621. Total, 25,0701. Deduct Repayments. mmissariat, 2931.; Ordnance, 4391. Total, 7331. aning, 24,3371.