salaries to professors, and prizes for youthful talent. Tutors of real zeal and undoubted ability should be provided at all events, and the Principal should be a man of that nerve and judgment which will be requisite in governing and defending a great and novel institution. The domestic economy of the college would be on a much simpler and less expensive plan than in our universities; less than half of what is now spent by the Creoles in travelling or idleness would decently maintain them, and I am convinced that want of money would never be any impediment to the full consummation of the project. The bishop, as visitor, should be made available in the way of superintendence, and perhaps order be taken in the proper quarters for license and authority to confer the usual academical degrees *.

The trustees of Codrington College comprize a large portion of the learning and virtue of England; their. disinterestedness is perfect, their intentions excellent, their care commendable. Their disposable funds are ample, and the trust estates remarkably flourishing. They deserve this prosperity; their zeal for the welfare of their slaves is

It is worthy of remark, for the purpose of obviating prejudices, that in the letters patent, which were intended to found Berkeley's college in the Bermudas, a power of conferring all the degrees was expressly given.

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most exemplary, and they have gone to the utmost bounds of prudence in advancing the condition of those negros whose happiness and salvation have been committed to them. A chapel and a school have been erected almost exclusively for their use, and a clergyman fixed amongst them whose talents, kindness and simplicity of manners are not more remarkable than his judgment and his piety. The attorney and manager are both of established character, the buildings, especially the hospital, in good order, and the negro huts comfortable. Under these circumstances, and with these means in their possession, the trustees incur a heavy responsibility: they have indeed a perfect right to assume the power of providing in a Christian manner for slaves in a Christian land, and they should treat all malignant insinuations of breach of trust, with a righteous scorn; but they must at the same time remember that the object of the charity is to educate the whites, and let not them or the public think this object exclusive of the other; so far from it, I am convinced that one of the most effectual measures for bettering the slaves would be a thorough and humanizing education of the masters themselves. Towards the attainment of this most desirable end, not

*The Rev. John H. Pinder.

only in Barbados, but ultimately throughout the whole British West Indies, no man, or society of men, possesses so great means as the trustees of this institution, not merely from large and unfettered funds, but also from superior knowledge and freedom from prejudice. In all the widely extended operations of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign parts, there is no instrument so ready, so safe, so prolific of future good as this college is, or may be made to be; and without pretending to dictate to, or even admonish, the members of that venerable body, I cannot refrain from exhorting them most earnestly to draw this object closer to them than heretofore, and examine with hope and faith into its capabilities of perfection *.

There are eleven churches in Barbados, one large chapel, called All Saints, the chapel in the College, and the above mentioned chapel on the

* I have been informed that the substance of what I have here ventured to remark has for a considerable time been a subject of inquiry and deliberation to the Society. It is to be wished by every philanthropist that no obstacles may arise in any quarter to a thorough reformation of the present institution and a liberal communication of its advantages to the natives of the other islands. Barbados itself would augment its importance and its wealth by the confluence of strangers and the excitement of domestic industry.

Society's estate; a new church is now building in Bridge Town, and all these are in very respectable preservation. Another place of worship is still much wanted in the southern quarter of the town called the Bay, and one even more so in the seaside parts of St. Philip's parish. That there should be no church for the garrison, with an establishment of not less than two thousand persons of one sort or another, is a disgraceful circumstance, which it is to be hoped the proper department at home will not suffer to remain much longer. As it is, I trust it is no calumny, or even a great reflection, to say, that the military, ladies and all are forced to live without any observance of any public religious worship whatever. The reading of a few prayers in the open parade ground by the chaplain is really a complete farce, and so understood to be.

TRINIDAD.

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AFTER about seven weeks residence in Barbados, I had the pleasure of accompanying the new bishop in his first visitation of his diocese. We were accommodated in the most comfortable manner by Captain Lawrence of H. M. S. Eden, sloop of war, and set sail for the south on Tuesday evening the 22d of March. We sighted Tobago on the larboard beam on the 24th, and were so baffled by light heading winds that we did not make the land of Trinidad till the afternoon of the 25th. full moon was shooting a wild and lustrous glare through the crevices of a black mass of clouds, which hung half way down the mountains of the Main, when we sailed with a fresh breeze through the Boca Grande into the beautiful gulf of Paria. This passage is about four or five miles wide, and as I gazed with intense interest for the first time upon the shores of South America, I could not help thinking that the fitful glare and the dark atmosphere formed together an impressive emblem of the present state of that mighty continent. "May