hbourhood have declared themselves friendly towards the
object, and have promised to assist in its support. As an instance, His
Honour the Custos, Member of Assembly and Island Secretary, and Price
Watkis, Esq., the uncompromising advocate of negro emancipation in our
Colonial Parliament, are to lay the foundation-stones on Thursday next.
The Custos has moreover sent fourteen young women to the school to be
educated as schoolmistresses, and to be completely under the charge of
the resident schoolmistress, his intention being to employ them in the
different estates for which he is attorney. This example I have reason
to hope will be extensively followed.

"We have still between three and four hundred children in attendance
at our Sabbath-school, and the library I brought out with me is in
extensive circulation. Every thing in connexion with our work appears
prospering to an unexampled degree. God is indeed doing great things for
us, whereof we are glad. What a change has been effected, also, on the
moral aspect of society! Sunday markets abolished, and all the etceteras
of evil that followed in their train!"

Top Hill, near the junction of the two parishes of St. Ann's and St.
Thomas-in-the-Vale, has been the scene of one of those cruel outrages on
the helpless and unoffending, which have too often stained the page of
Colonial history. We give the account in the words of our Missionary
brother, Mr. Clarke.

"On the evening of Lord's-day, September 14th, as nine of my
people were returning to their homes from worshipping God, they
were stopped and turned back by a young coloured man, who has
by the death of his father come to an estate before he knows
how to act for his own interest, and is fast spending it in
riotous living. These friends had no sooner quietly taken their
way back to go home by a more distant road, than this man set
his dog upon them, and with Dr. B., a companion of his, pursued
them about a half a mile.

"Dr. B. threw off his coat to enable him to run with the
greater speed; an aged female who is highly respected by all
around, fell: and Dr. B. immediately fixed the dog upon her,
which tore her leg severely in many places. Her husband ran to
lift her up, and to drive off the dog, when Dr. B., seized him
and attempted to throw him over a fearful precipice into a
deep chasm, where he must have been dashed to pieces; but Go