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support, and the criminals one shilling and three-pence, which sums are paid them in money. The only agree able feature in the present state of the jail, is the fact that there are only seven or eight women in the whole number of prisoners Ath. Month, 2nd. (April.)—We went this morning to the Kirk, which is the largest and most costly place of worship in the city. The minister is liberally sup ported at the public expence. His congregation is small, and composed almost exclusively of the wealthy merchants and their families. The number of black and colored persons in the small unpewed portion of the gallery, did not exceed twenty. There is but one service in the week. 3rd.—We were introduced to day to Alderman N E T H E R S O L E , an intelligent and public spirited citi zen ; and we are informed, it is principally owing to his exertions, that the Kingston Workhouse is in its present creditable state. He is the proprietor of a large establishment, for tanning and manufacturing leather articles of every description. His numerous workmen and apprentices in the manufactory, are nearly all black and colored free persons, and he considers that for skill and good conduct, they will bear com parison with those of any English establishment. We were shewn over the premises, and the respectable ap pearance and industry of the workmen, and the quality of their manufacture, as far as we could judge of it, corresponded with the account we had received. In the tan-yard, which we had not time to visit, native products are used for tanning, of which the principal are the mangrove, and the seed pods of a tree called the divey—divey, which is found on the Spanish Main. The latter contains seventy per cent, of tanners. The