the parish of St. Peter,-Births, 46; total, 268: Mar- VII. Number of Churches, Livings, &c. in 1836. riages, 6; total, 34: Deaths, 12; total, 48. [B. B.]-In the united parishes of St. Anthony and A statement of the number of Slaves for whom | St. Patrick, there is one Protestant church, which compensation has been claimed, and of the number of claims preferred for such compensation, and of the amount of compensation awarded in each of the classes of prædial-attached, prædial-unattached, and non-prædial. [Parliamentary return to the House of Lords, March, 1838.] will contain 750 persons, and is generally well filled; the value of the living is about 2001. sterling. In the parishes of St. Peter and St. George, there is one Protestant church, which will contain, when the enlargement is completed, 350 persons, it is generally well attended; the value of the living is about 2007. sterl. There are also three Dissenting places of worship, one in town and two in the country, belonging to the Wesleyans. The Wesleyan chapel in town contains 400 persons; that in the country to the east, 700; and that to the north, 150. There is an infant day school in town, attended by 126 scholars; and two in the country, attended by 130. They have also three Sunday schools, which are well attended. VIII. In 1831, there were six public or free schools, with 298 males and 390 female scholars. Number of Schools, Scholars, &c. in 1834. 2687 Field Labourers Amount, 2379 54280 Inferior ditto £79245. 1171 14842 Head People... Tradesmen 456 No. of Slaves, 556. 273 Amount, 8419 £11204. 1902 Annual expenses In addition to the day schools, there are four Sun-ration are without means of obtaining instruction, day schools, consisting of the children of the day schools and of about 300 others who are unable to attend during the week. The total number under instruction in these parishes, amount to 878. There is also one private school, but the number of scholars is very limited. A great portion of the rising gene and they are consequently more idle and vicious than the children of most other Brit. West India colonies. Besides the day schools here set down, there are three Sunday and two evening schools, containing about 200 persons in addition to the number stated to be in attendance with the day schools. IX. Number of Prisoners in the Goals of Montserrat, throughout each year. [B. B.] No. of No. of Debtors. No. of Misde- No. of Felons. No. of tried No. of untried Male Fm. Totl. Male Fm. Totl. Male Fm. Totl. Male Fm. Totl. Male Fm. Totl. Male Fm. Totl. 1833 1 Deaths. 4 Nil. ditto 8 1834 1836 60 :25 10 45 105 45 48 93 X. The executive is embodied in the government of XI. Revenue of Monserrat for 1836.-Transient tax, 521.; import duty, 5201.; duty on brandy and gin, 261.; export duty, 1117.; liquor duty, 531.; colonial duty, 2497.; fees received from town police, 501.; property tax on lands, 5,7071; property tax on houses, 919.; income tax, 2 per cent. 1351.; income tax, 1 per cent. 1087.; Miscellaneous, 221.; Total revenue, 7,9521. Total revenue for 1834, 3,9601. Total revenue for 1835, 6,2461. No local return. the poor received, 700.; the police, 1,300l.; the clergy, 1,0821.; and the military expenditure by the colony, about 6007. British Military Expenditure included in Antigua. Recapitulation of the Establishment paid by the Colony in sterling money.-Civil establishment, 1,774; contingent expenditure, 9881.; judicial establishment, 1007.; contingent expenditure, 1841.; ecclesiastical establishment, 4391.; contingent expenditure, 141.; The coin in circulation is about 2,000l. There is miscellaneous expenditure, 7101.; Total, 4,3371. 1001. sterling. no paper money. 210l. currency XII. The details enumerating staple products, as given under the other islands, answer for Montserrat, the sugar and rum of which, are much esteemed. Cotton is now being cultivated with success. The Expenditure for 1836, was 8,674l., of which Val. No. Tons. Val. £ Val. £ No. Tons. Val. £ No. Tons. Val. £ No. Tons. Val. £ No. Tons. Men. 14 531 18215 46 2807 239 84 5131 438 3865 2237 28 1107 17781 110 5824 579 3325 525 2514 934 3032 2249 278 1228 17 595 22800 117 5509 562 24 127 6134 591 16 137 5165 587 823 20836 174 5422 719 to 368.; milk, 6d. per qt.; butter, fresh, 4s. 6d. per lb. (very scarce); butter, salt, 4s. 6d. per lb.; cheese, 18. 1d. per lb.; wheaten bread, 4 d. to 6d. per lb.; beef, 9d. per lb.; mutton, 9d. per lb.; pork, 6d. per lb.; rice, 17. 78. per cwt.; coffee, 51. 88. per cwt.; tea, 13s. 6d. per lb.; sugar, 17. 11s. 6d. per cwt.; salt, 68. 9d. per bush.; wine, from 188. to 54s. per doz.; brandy, 10s. per gal.; beer, 13s. 6d. per doz.; to The principal exports from Montserrat since 1828, XIII. Prices of Produce and Merchandize, 1836. Wages for Labour.-Domestic, 13s. 6d. to 18s. per month; Prædial, 44d. per day; Trades, 27. 5s. per month. CHAPTER XII.-ST. CHRISTOPHER. SECTION I. In 17.18, N. latitude, 62.40. W. lontude, 72 miles in circumference, and containing 68 are miles, is situated St. Kitt's or St. Christopher, ased by the Caribs Licmuiga, or the fertile isle, and in shape somewhat like Italy-as an outstretched leg. II. This singular looking but beautiful spot was scovered by Columbus, in 1493, and, as stated by me, received its name from the great navigator himself, by reason of his being so pleased with its trie appearance; others say its name is derived from a part of Mount Misery, bearing a resemblance to the statues common at that period on church perches, of St. Christopher carrying our Saviour on *s shoulders. The island was then densely peopled y Caribs, who remained for some time after its scovery in possession of their native home, subject to the occasional visits of the Spaniards for water, with whom they are stated to have been on terms of endship-a very doubtful fact, unless the Spaniards not require the land or persons of the Caribs. In 1623, Warner (afterwards Sir Thomas) settled the island, with his son and fourteen Londoners, and found three Frenchmen residing in tranquillity h the natives. Warner returned to England for more recruits, and, on his return in 1625, landed the day with M. D'Enambuc, who had arrived from Face with a party of colonists. The Caribs took arm-made war on the European invaders-were comfted with the loss of 2,000 in killed and worded, leaving 100 foes dead from their poisoned The English and French agreed to divide the and between them, and articles of partition were ed 13th of May, 1627. The island was divided sc upper and lower portions-the former and most extensive, called Capisterre, belonging to the French; the lower, called Basseterre, alone inhabited by the English. Most and many taken prisoners. At the peace of Breda, III. St. Kitt's presents to the eye an irregular oblong figure, through the centre of which runs a regular series of mountains from N. to S. in the midst of which stands Mount Misery, 3,711 feet in perpendicular height, and, although evidently a volcanic production, clothed with the finest wood and pasture, almost to the very summit. From the foot of Mount Misery and the adjoining hills the country has a Da Frederick de Toledo, a Spaniard, proceeding to ivannah, with 15 frigates and 24 ships of burden, tacked the colonists in 1629, burned and plundered E every direction, and carried off 600 Englishmen as oners; but the flow of emigration was so great the West Indies at this period, that in the follow-uniform sloping direction, stretching from a centre to year the number of English settlers amounted to 9. Jealousies, bickerings, and at length hostilibes began between the English and French settlers, ch were stopped by the latter compelling the rer to return within their line of demarcation; , though it was agreed that if France and Engsad went to war the colonists of St. Christopher could remain neutral, the resolution was broken on ecommencement of hostilities in Europe, and a Tibe battle, which lasted several days, ended in Sour of the French colonists, who assumed the ry of the whole island, and gallantly defended acquisition in the following year against a large Jazush force (sent to recover possession), in the test for which Lord Belamont and Colonel Lauen were slain, all their officers wounded, eight ers lost, 700 British troops killed and drowned, a circumference, bounded by the coast, every inch of which is in a high state of cultivation. There is no plain in the island deserving the name of a swamp, and the great declination of the land towards the sea carries off any superabundant moisture. On the W. side, Brimstone hill rises gradually from the sea to a height of 750 feet; its E. prospect for two thirds of its altitude has a somewhat conical appearance, and then suddenly projects into two peaks, the N. one being called Fort George, the S. Fort Charlotte or Monkey Hill. At the foot and between these prominences is a plain of quadrangular shape, compassing about an acre of land, having on its E. skirts the barracks (denominated Bedlam), for 220 men. fortifications are very strong, and there is a tank within the ramparts capable of containing 90,000 gallons of water. Monkey hill is the S. termination The 1 of a range of great mountains, which increase in the depth of 75 feet, on a substratum of gravel. This height towards the N., and thicken together in enor-compost is considered the best in the West Indies iz mous masses in the centre of the island. The apex the cultivation of sugar. Clay is found in consider of this rude pyramid is the awful crag of Mountable quantities in the high or mountain land, wh Misery, which is bare, black, and generally visible; the low lands are entirely deficient of it. Among the whilst the under parts of the mountain are enveloped mountains in the centre of the island there is n in clouds. It may, indeed, be termed a tremendous which contains mines of sulphur, and there is another precipice of 3,000 feet, shooting slantingly forward not far distant from Fort Charles, in which there over the mouth of a volcanic chasm, like a vast aerial' said to be a mine of silver. In the N. E. there an peninsula. The vale of Basseterre is exquisitely beau- very fine salt ponds, which produce most exceller tiful when viewed from the hills of Mary Cayon, it salt; one of these is more than 100 acres in extent, has been said that there is no place on earth which surrounded with several lesser ponds. The struct int can surpass the richness and cultivated beauty of this of Brimstone Hill consists of granite, limestone, jinlovely scene. Nothing can be better disposed for mary rock, schistus, volcanic ashes and madrepores. completing the effect than the plantations are; the with a very small proportion of alluvial deposits on a tall and moving windmills, the houses of the proprie- few spots. tors, the works and palm-thatched cottages of the negroes embosomed in plantain groves, present the appearance, as indeed they are the substance, of so many country villages in England. On one side is Basseterre, with the ships, on the other the ocean to windward, the mountains behind, in front the broken peninsular termination of the island to the S., the salt lakes gleaming between the opening of the rocks, and Nevis towering majestically over all. There are four rivers in the isle, two at Oldroad, in the parish of St. Thomas, middle island; another at the small village of St. Mary's (Cayon), and the fourth (Pelhans) at Palmetto point, Trinity parish. In rainy weather few plantations are without their running streams. In the low lands springs are plentiful, but some of their waters unfit for drinking, owing to strong saline impregnations. The water in common use (as is the case in most of our West India possessions) is rain water, collected from the houses, preserved in large tanks, and of wholesale quality. IV. This isle is unquestionably of igneous origin; immense layers of volcanic ashes are found in every parish, and the soil is chiefly of a dark grey loam, extremely porous. At Sandy Point, St. Ann's parish, there are alternate layers of this loam and ashes, to V. From the smallness of the isle and its elevation above the sea, St. Kitt's is extremely dry and healthy, the mean temperature on the coast is 80, but the mornings and evenings of the hottest days are agreeably cool. The coldest month is February — ti warmest August. The winds for the greater part of the year are from the N. E. and S. E.; and although the isle is, from its position, within the range of the hurricanes, yet by these storms the air is tempered and purified, and health is the natural result. Th rains that fall are more frequent than heavy, and the bracing qualities of the atmosphere are pourtrayed in the ruddy complexions of the inhabitants and the vigorous strength of body which they possess. VI. The number of inhabitants was at one period, particularly as regards whites, very numerous. 1673, there were in the island 496 men able to bear arms, and 352 negroes; in 1707, whites 1,416, negroes 2,861; in 1720, W. 2,740, N. 7,321; in 1724, W 4,000, militia 1,200, N. 11,500; in 1730, W. 3,677, N. 14,663; in 1733, W. 3,881, N. 17,335; in 1787, W. 1,912, free coloured 1,908, slaves 20,435; in 1798 slaves 20,435; in 1802, by computation, W. 4,564, free coloured 500, slaves 25,000; in 1805, W. 1,50), free coloured 198, slaves 26,000. Area in square miles and acres, and population of each parish in the island. [B. B. for 1836, Colonial Office.] St. George, Basseterre St. Mary, Cayon...... 10 24 864 4910 5774 180 43 184 6 606 106 2807 2915 84 16 6 326 45 2251 2316 Christ Church, Nicholas Town 7 125 65 2117 2158 A statement of the Number of Slaves for whom Compensation has been claimed, and of the Number of Claims preferred for such Compensation, and of the Amount of Compensations awarded in each of the classes of Prædial Attached, Prædial Unattached, and Non-prædial. [Parliamentary Return to the House of Lords, March, 1838.] Slave Population of St. Kitt's, from 1819 to 1831.-[Parliamentary Returns.] Increase by Birth. Decrease by Death. Manumission. Decrease by |