We have in our possession a number of official documents from gentlemen, officers of the government, and variously connected with its administration, in the different islands which we visited: some of these–such as could not be conveniently incorporated into the body of the work–we insert in the form of an appendix. 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.