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three thousand five hundred children are regularlyinstructed in school learning, and much pains takenin their religious and moral instruction. The bestschool in this city is the African Free School, underthe care of our Abolition Society. They have in thisschool from two hundred and fifty to three hundredchildren ; besides this, some young women (Friends)have a first day school for black women. I latelyvisited it, and noticed one woman seventy-two yearsof age, and another ninety-one!—Including these schools, and Sunday schools, there are about six hun-dred people of colour who receive the benefits of edu-cation in this city. I should esteem it a particular favour if thouwouldst send me a number of your last Annual Reportof the British and Foreign School Society, and also some of the former years. If you have published ahistorical account of that society, it would also bevery acceptable. Inclosed is a letter from Mary Knight, handed meby a valuable friend, left open for thy perusal; herequests thy kind attention to have it safely deliveredas directed. During the last sitting of our Legislature, I sent toa member the following resolution, and proposed tohis consideration to offer it to the House of Assembly: Resolved, If the Hon. the Senate concur therein,that the Governor be empowered, and he is herebyempowered, to appoint three discreet and competentpersons, citizens of the state, as Commissioners, forthe purpose of considering what amendments, if any, are necessary in the existing penal laws, and to de-vise the best plan for the management of the StatePrisons; and that the Commissioners, so appointed,after due consideration of all matters and thingsrelative to the present penal code, report to the nextLegislature, such alterations and amendments of theexisting laws relative to crimes and their punish-ments, as in their opinion may best conduce to the