The Governor, in his opening speech, had told the house that from the agitation at home, and the corresponding agitation which at the present moment prevailed here, it was physically impossible to carry one the apprenticeship with advantage to masters and labourers.

He would take leave to remark, that the apprenticeship _was working very well_--in some of the parishes had worked extremely well.

Where this was not the case, it was attributable _to the improper conduct of the Special Justices_.

He did not mean to reflect upon them all; there were some honorable exceptions, but he would say that a great deal of the ill-feeling which had arisen in the country between the masters and their apprentices, was to be traced to the _injudicious advice_ and conduct of the special Justices." Such were the sentiments of by far the majority of those who spoke in the Assembly.

Such, doubtless, were the sentiments of more than nine-tenths of the persons invested with the management of estates in Jamaica.