letter of instruction has been Ljjd to the several Valuers, by the Secretary I am directed by His Excellency ‘£ s rnor and the Assistant Commissioners of to communicate to you, the following Co®?*" * Ar tfOur guidance in the performance of the to you, in classyfying and valuing W**®" settled or domiciled within the several „t 0 which you have been appointed. j You will proceed on the Ist of August, to visit ml Plantations or Domiciles of slaves, in tbe Strict to which you have been appointed, D ' h tte assistance of the Manager, Overseer, '“7'l Attendant, or other Persons acquainted ak die slaves thereon, and by the inspection of , Dentation Books, arrange the whole number of under the several derisions and classes phoned in th® form of Returnß eent herewith will then proceed to affix with all Sh accuracy, to the best of your judgment, Vto value, in Sterling money, of the number contained in the several classes, which feund to be on each Plantation or Sniale as the case may be, and as near as possible, bTTformUy with the standard of value determined the piecting on Monday last, the 11th Lint in order that no material descrepancy be tetween the Valuation in different part of the reft* Blank Fotjns «ent herewith, marked A are low «11«“ *’P and lodgad in the office of the SiUnt Commissioners, on or before the 6th day of September uexl. (The form A is omitted from want of space, lat g will Mplain its nature. It con conmerely merely conmerely of a statement of how many slaves d»M are u P on ’*** fcS,il,e » ’>*>‘l ‘C, C y -UILL. « e ” Hr, ». • „ 4 • PR ”CL 4 tfA 7TO.V- in a K’t’l*, the Lords and the Com- o° biirliSinetit assembled, have Britid, r 1 slavery shall be abolished throughout on ' | ’“les, on, from, and vOer the Fust of ‘hose l- s . who ore cent to rro n A ero P loyer8 ’ ' vitho, ‘ t Pernussion, ex- • To D g °'° n \^ h l Ure, ‘ or fnarktt ™by 1«W allowed new atme m th g h° r i" 06 . ° r mis *PP rel ‘«"sion of the and the hlvh 11,0 Blaves are 9<( °" to be placed : itl neS ' h&t anse i should t«> y ’ ”1 U 8 lce to themselves, that thev ' diti± S ?heT te, » y ,nf ? rmed of lhe con- Os Augjfr e o n e e\^ oWn ' A on and F'rst [ ' four dl tho«n JBa " d ht hundred aild ‘fertv ‘fertvtn tn ‘fertvtn L hose ? ho now ure tn « state of dwverv are me and be called apprenticed laborers \vith I ■ Thoße W who ri^ ht * t nd P r j v,|, '£*‘* secured to them, f I usua lv emni been heret °f®«» daves for life * suallv employed in agriculture or in the manufac-* I i“d 1 °' herWi8 ' «P°“ "»" d «' ! their emn£ Prß?d ‘ a a PP rentice8 > are to serve I be enSv T" 8 aß u a PP re « lic ®s. and then to oe entirely free. During these six years, however for nX eXl t 0 WOFk fc r ty ; fi ’ e in each week ' and holniLr ,er *’ l W ' th clothin g> medicine, ano hospital care, as heretofore. ' during enj P*°y ers require their apprentices to work must h c Uni l ' M " are herein specified, they h y 1 l em ®* tra hours beyond forty.five in the week belong toihe i ialS’profiL " ,y f '" U “' r ° w ” j The apprentices are not to be punished bv their , employers or managers, nor otherwise than by thr ; decision ot magistrates whom the King has ordered l ic Governor to commission, and some of whom his aisjesty bus sent here expressly from England to reside in the different Districts of this Colony, with full an anthonty thonty anthonty and pc.v-w to make the employers do justice to ; the apprentices, and to make the apprentices perforin work and duty tu their employers. I hese magistrates will hear ali complaints of em employers ployers employers against apprentices and of apprentices against employers; and these magistrates have alone the authority to punish. They will explain and secure to lhe apprentices all the rights, privileges, and advtut advtuttages tages advtuttages the law has provided for ihem; &nd under the power and protection of the Governor and those ma ma, , ma, gistrates, the apprentices may, by quiet and obedient conduct, ensure to themselves an easy and a happy time. But since His Majesty has been so indulgent to those who were until now slaves for life, He justly expects good conduct, submission, and contentment from them as Apprentices ; and although he has ap appointed pointed appointed special Magistrates on purpose to protect the Apprentices, yet these Magistrates are al the same time ordered to do justice to the Employers, and in particular to punish those Apprentices who neglect i or imperfectly perform their work, who are guilty of I insolence or insubordination, or who quit or runaway I from the service of their employers. Those slaves, such as domestic*, who have not before the Twenty.eighth of August, One Thousand Eight Hundred and I hirty-two, worked in the Field, or on Lands or Estates, arc called Non-praeditil, and are to serve their Employers as at present required, for only Four Years from the First of August, One j Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-four. ; All Children who shall be on the First of August, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-four, un under der under six years of age, shall be absolutely and entirely | free, and those also who shall be born after that day, ' to be maintained at the expense of their parents, or 1 to be apprenticed in case of inability on the part of the parent* to support them; and measures are to be adopted to afford sufficient instruction to all those whoso condition is thus to be changed, to fitly qualify i them for lhe enjoyment of it- Having thus described and proclaimed what is to be the improved situation of those who are to become apprenticed labourers compared with their former state of slavery, H now only remains to exhort them in the name ot their King and in 'he words His Royal j Proclamation given out in this Colony on the eleventh of October last, to yield due obedience to thi< law, for his Majesty doth make known and declare his settled pursose and resolve to enforce obedience thereto by all the powers and authority in him vested, and to prevent, and if necessary io repress and punish, all contraventions of the said law. Given under my Hand and the. Great Seal of the Gland at Government-/louse, in the Town of Port of Spain, thie Twelfth day of July, One Thoutand £iyht Hun Hundred dred Hundred and Thirty-four. By His Excellency’s Command, PHILIP D. SOUPER. Cdonial Secretary. TRINIDAD. AN ORDINANCE. .Enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor cf Trinidad with the Advice and Content of the Council df Govern Government ment Government thereof. To Induce Runaway Slave* to return to their Owners or Employer* on or before the Tbirty-lirst day ut July Instant, and to relieve them from Punishment * fZ. S.) G. F. HILL. Whereas there are many runaway slaves who are now absent from the service of their masters ; and, for the purpose of inducing such runaway slaves to return to their masters, it is expedient that all siich runaways who may voluntarily return to the service of their respective masters before the first day of August next should be relieved and discharged from 1 all punishment for or on account ot their having so | absented themselves as aforesaid — Now, therefore, bo it enacted bv His Excellency i The Right Honorable ShGkvroh Fitzokrmld Hhx, i Baronet, Colonel of the Londonderry Reginfejjt ot Militia, Lieutenant-Governor and Commander-in- Chief in and over the said Island and its Dependencies, bv and with lhe advice nnd consent of the Council of t Government thereof, and by the authority of the same, ' I that from and after the promulgation of this Ordinance ■ I it shall not be lawful for any. master or employer or other person having authority over any slave m this ■ colonv who is now a runaway or .‘•bseiit from the service of his or her master or employer or other person having authority over him or her. to inflict any punishment on such clave by reason of or by wav of punishment for such his or her running away or i absence from the service of his or her master or em emplover plover emplover or other person aforesaid : Provided such slave shall, of his-or her own free will and without compul compulsion. sion. compulsion. return to the estate or plantation to which he or nhe may belong, or to the house or residence of such his or her ma*»er, employer, or other person aforesaid, and shall deliver himself or herself up, and place him him' ' him' self or herself tinder the d-reetton or controul of such his or her master or employer or other person having • authority over him or her as aforesaid, at any time on or before the thirty-first day of July now instant. Passed in Council this Tenth day of July, o>s of Haiti have passed a liural Code, cout.dning pro- I v '] s ' o,is u ’kieh are wnhont example in any nattoti. ! i heir object is to il * people to labour for I tlieir subsistence by inflictin' penalties upon idle idlentsa. ntsa. idlentsa. »Ve have extraeted th»'following articles, which render the condition id* the free blacks of j very little different ft mi the slaves in tl e culoiiies Art. 174. AHpeis. ns whA are not 1 proprktors or farmers in the piai'e in which they I • reside, and slmll not have engaged themselves to ■ work for some proprietor or fanner, shall l,e re- ! i ported as shall be arrested bv the rural , police of the place in which they may be found, i and brought before the just fee of the peace oi lhe j 1 district. —‘ 4n. 177. if, alter eight days’ dtlen- | lion, they shall refuse 10 work, they shall ire,sent , to labour on the public works of lhe town or dis- : trict in which they may lie arrcsfotl, until they I consent to work in the ftJlds “ A.t, 180. Every ' labourer, who, on working days, arid at lhe hours al which he ought to be. employed, shall be founu un,occupied, or walking upon -the public wavs, shall be feonsidered. as-un idler, arrested as such, ■and ’broughi before a justice of the jieuce, who, for the first otience, may send hitn to prison ior V 4 hour.?'; and tor any repetition may send him toAhe public wprks Art. 184 The ordinary la labopM bopM labopM in,lhe field shall commence at daylight, and continue, till midday, with an iqterval of half an hour for breakfast the, labour shall be resumed at 2 o’clock, ami conliiiue nil sunset.’’—“ Art. 185. Pregnant women shall be employed onlv upon light work, but after the fmirlh month of lheir pregnancy they, shall not be. compelled to wotk in fields at all " —“ Art. ’l-86 Fmrr months alter their delivery they shall resume thcir'labours in the field, but shall not begin work till an hour after sunrise, afi'l Cohtmue till 11 o'clock, and shall work in th afternoon only from 2 o’clock I till an hour before sunset.”-Art. IRO. Salur days, Sundays, and fete-days being entirely at the dis|wisal of the labourers, they are not to be i penni ted to leave their woik an the other dins ' for the purpose of dan ing or amiiwnient, eiilur day or night. The delinquents in such cases shall be liable to imprisonment for three davs fur the first offence, and tor six days on every repetition us lhe otfenee.” I • . Macadamizing D'mcrnvy A year or two ago, the experiment of macadimitzing the low lying streets of Dcmerarv was tried, and we heir tin t t has given so much satisfaction that orders have been given to send out one Inindered tons of road metal this.season from Greenock. Formerly the 1 vessels sailing from to Demerary were ■ obliged th take ballast of a useless descriptions on i 1 itoard, but since lhe introduction of macadamizing the West Indies, the road metal forms the ballast of the vessels, and the ship owners, instead of paying fin ballast, have now freight fiaid them for taking it out. The Quarry man at Goiirock is the contractor for supplying the metal. The contract . has proved a kind of windfall for the inhabitants us Gourock, Ils Is. 6d. per ton is given by the j contractor for breaking and gathering lhe stones; j and some of the little boys who are expert at the business, earn Is 6d. per day. The stones are 1 taken liom the heaps of rubblish lying on the sea shore, and at the quarry.— Elgin Courier. Dram Drinking.— A Scotch Parson once preached a long sermon about dram drunkine, a vice very prevalent in his parish, and from which report said lie was not himself wholly exempt, “ whatever “you do, brethren,'’ said he, do it with moderati ut, and, aboon all, be moderate in dram-dripkiiig. When you get'up, indeed, you may tali a dram, and anither before break fist, and perhaps anitlier after, but dinna be always drain drinking. Ifyotiare out in the tnorn, you may just brace up yourself with anither dram, and perhaps lak anither hefo r e luncheon, and some 1 fear,tak one after, which is no very blame blameable, able, blameable, but dinna be always dram dram draining away; nae body can scruple for ane just after dinna, and when the desert is brought in, and ane after its men away ; and perhaps ane or it may be twa, in the course of the afternoon, just to keep you,' fra dowzyirtg and snozz’ing, but be always dram-drinking; afore tea and after lea, between tea and siq.per, is no more than right.aqd good, but let me camion you, brethren, noMo be always dram dram draming; just when ymrstmt f-t bed, and wlren ye’re ready to p«p inlo’t, a'rtd perhaps wheh yoit wake in the nigltt, to-take/a drain m twa is no more than a clirisiiiH man may lawfully do, but bietluen, let me ctiutrun you m>t to drink more than I’ve men mentioned, tioned, mentioned, <r hi u>r a more vulgar phrase,—(and it nnfortmiatHly hnnp'-i.v that vulgarphriuscs are tvoinsfujies iaiivtdv ex expressive.)— pressive.)— expressive.)— who “ quarrel with their oread jind jindbetter,are better,are jindbetter,are seldom succe-sful in their vocation. Tu most us thaso lhe breajl-'od-buttcr is d'-b d in very, thin slices—n.4>>y >'f ’h-fo get none ar nil. fiie* c*yc-. of Sitnon was not-x- eplion tdtlrs rille* I’» pr<>p>Tlfou as the trr latiutr unreased to whi'.h M< "e'Jn's dignily,” aid lhe “respect which he oW>-3' to hiiwwlf," r#nd<*red him liable, the ntwiher of fo-icdi' 'gs diuiimsl.ed. Tins ifefalcaticn, winch Ins t’linslinas, accounts ihsisted most disrespectfully upon h:s»ai,k-. nowledging, he attributed to unfair cfeuipetilitfn. ni the trade, to private main e, to public enmity, to every-’ thing, iu short, but it. true cause ; till at rengtlf “ the i particular occupation in which he to be" engaged * ceasing, from want of “ elienfo,” to Lc an | occupation, lie sold Ins “gallery,” and retired into 1 pnva’e hfe, upon three hundred a year, wlwli'luckily - for him, he possess, d. independently of. Ii;& j4o— j4othat that j4othat is to say his itffi.ee. He was now to all intents and purposes, a gentle gentleman man gentleman ; for lie lived noon his means,and had mglung do. Whether or not, no human being ever maiiiiesi maiiiiesied ed maiiiiesied the »!’ be mynded. Yet w«s Simon aivll fosg at his fease than before. His trienos were either too warm or too cohl -i -i---with --with -i---with lifnf,' too distant er too familiar. Dip you,give; him a friendly nod in passing—-he was n6w'as gi/tfit aS yourself, aud could not uTiders'and whv ton slfotihi not have -topped to talk with him-. Dai von.'stof/ - nnd shake him famiharly by the hand—lre did nut hke hketlial tlial hketlial Hiurt of ftatgonage fr<»ni »nv one .wlrij w;ia now n.» more than his equal. I*', when uyfoe-a juwcuing; 1 call, he was invited to a'av nnd ,dine—it was ,i;a offensive hiyt that they tfemglit him not as well jible, now, ns fijrinef.lv, to provide liinisidf with a' din.T>*r. Was he allowed to depart uhinvrt^d—'there-was 1 ‘ time when lie should not have been treated with such insulting negiect. He uneeretnoniouslv refused to dine with Lord R , one us bis- form- r •• elw-nts,” • . bo'-ause the invitation was fire . Atoday. -u Iftrsaw , through that: why did Ls Lordship yilecl that par particular ticular particular day ? all days were at h s disposal new 1. it was evidently in allusion io Ins late ‘ oecupritiori/ i and he would notßhbutit to such disrespect fill treat treat-1 -1 treat-1 inent from the (rest lord in tire land.’’ In feet, any allusion, intentionnl ornut,. to his “ late occupation,” was, ofall offences, the gravest that could be offered todiis digmtv. and self-respect. It was dangerous tu tail about prills in his presence; and if a few engrav engravings ings engravings happened to be scattered upon a table in n room which Ire entered, he hud no doubt on his mind they had been placed there purposely to remind him that lie had been a print-seller. No one can sit long at ease upon a barrel' of gun gunpowder. powder. gunpowder. As formerly his ill-conditioned spirit (ia