7 OCTOBER 1876, Page 15

BARBADOES.

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR:1

the letter which you were kind enough to insert last faturday, 1 made an error which I should feel very much obliged to you to permit me to correct by one line. There are two 'petitions from Barbadoes, one from the respectable inhabitants, asking for the recall of the Governor, the other from the House of Assembly, asking for a Royal Commission of Inquiry. My mistake lay in confounding the prayers of these two petitions, and saying that the inhabitants had asked for a Royal Com-