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at present conducted in a large dwelling-house, from which most of the interior walls and partitions have been removed. According to the usual custom in Jamaica, a prayer meeting was held early in the morn ing. Three of the negros took part in it, one of whom was an old African; their expressions were often beau tiful and eloquent. We afterwards visited the Sunday schools, in which there was five hundred and fourteen children assembled. The extensive difi^iision of reli gious instruction and education by such an apparently limited agency is remarkable at all the stations of the Baptists which we have visited. The morning service commenced at ten, and was attended by at least three thousand persons, many of whom came from great distances. In the evening we came to Mount Carey, a mountain station of the baptist missionaries of Montego Bay. There is also a flourishing school here, attended on the Sabbath b y five or six hundred children, and on other days by about one hundred. On our way the scenes of many of the principal events of the late rebellion were pointed out to us. 6th.—Mount Carey is in the heart of the districts involved in the rebellion. The works and buildings of every estate in its neighbourhood, were destroyed by the insurgents, and on many the effects of the re cent desolation were still visible in the bare and un roofed walls of many of the buildings. In the course of the morning, we visited Eden, a well managed estate, and one which furnishes little employment for the Special Magistrate. Its population was on the average stationary from 1 8 1 7 to 1834, and has since begun to increase. We next proceeded to Wiltshire estate, another well-conducted property. The resident Attor ney, FENTON, is the only manager at whose