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" Antigua. — The revenue for the year 1859 was £40,000 ; the 

 expenditiu'e, £39,000. There is a public debt due to Her Majesty's 

 Treasury of £40,000. The last census of the population, taken in 

 1856, gave 35,408 souls. Five-sevenths of the population have ceased 

 to reside on estates, but live in towns or villages. The average 

 number of inmates to each dwelling in the towns and villages is 

 nearly five and a-half; on the estates, scarcely three and a-half. 

 Morality seems to have been almost exiled from Antigua. Out of 

 4,134 births registered in three years, 2,201 were illegitimate. This 

 proof of vice, it is said, would be strengthened if the number of 

 abortions and premature births could be ascertained. Here children 

 are deemed an encumbrance to the mother ; they are badly nursed, 

 and badly fed, and are deprived of proper medical attendance. These 

 are among the causes of declining population. Under slavery these 

 evils did not occur ; the planter provided the slave with everything 

 needful. The imports of 1859 were £203,000 ; the exports £289,000. 

 In the same year the exports of sugar were 13,706 hogsheads ; of 

 molasses, 675,000 gallons ; of rum, 112,120 gallons. Formerly, in 

 1834, Antigua produced nearly 21,000 hogsheads of sugar ; of late 

 years it has rarely made 16,000. The soil is rich ; the seasons very 

 uncertain. Much land is still uncultivated. On the whole, the con- 

 dition and prospects of the colony are considered by G-overnor Eyre 

 as unsatisfsctory. "What is chiefly wanted is a large influx of the 

 industrious coolies. 



" MONTSEEEAT, St. KiTT'S, NeTIS, DoMINTCA, THE ViEGIlir 



Islands. — These are all under the Grovernor of Antigua, and 

 with it constitute the group known as the Leeward Islands, as 

 Barbados, Grenada, Tobago, St. Vincent, and St. Lucia constitute 

 the group known as the Windward Islands. Of the first four in the 

 list of Leeward Islands no information of any European interest is 

 conveyed in the report, and not much of the last, or Virgin Islands. 

 Of these the most valuable product is copper, obtained from the 

 mines of Virgin G-orda. The general exports go to the Danish 

 islands of St. Thomas and St. Croix, which are only valued at 

 £11,000 ; to British North American and West Indian colonies, 

 £460 ; to the United Kingdom, nil. The exports referred to are 

 homed cattle, horses, firewood, charcoal, and building lime ; and if 

 we notice such trifles it is because we wish to give a complete state- 

 ment of what is scarcely known. The copper mine at Gorda was 



