4 OCTOBER 1834, Page 2

An arrival from Jamaica brings some accounts to the 20th

of August, of the state of the slave population in that colony. With An arrival from Jamaica brings some accounts to the 20th of August, of the state of the slave population in that colony. With the exception of a few estates in the parish of St. Anne, the Negroes generally went to work on the morning of the 3d August. A military force, despatched to St. Anne's by the Governor, soon convinced the poor slaves, that they had not been made positively free, as they supposed, by the King and Lord MULGRAVE ; and they also soon went to work. At St. Thomas's and St. Kitt's, there was much disorder. It is even said, but not on the best authority, that in the latter island several Blacks had been ftogged to death : many had been shipped off to Bermuda.