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with the exception of one invalid. Offenders sentenced to the treadmill, are sent to workhouses in the adjoin ing parishes. We called on our return at the school recently established by the bishop. The master and his wife, two colored young persons, appeared to take an interest in their occupation ; and the children seemed to have profited by the pains bestowed upon them, though the school has been established too recently for any marked proficiency to be manifest. There were fifty-one scho lars on the list. This school is the only one in the parish, which comprises a negro population of ten thou sand souls. A building is being erected on the pre mises of the Baptist mission station, for a school, but is impeded by want of funds. This appears to be one of the parishes most destitute of the means of instruc tion, and the n(!gros are represented to be among the most ignorant and benighted. 11th.—We proceeded early in the morning to Morant Bay, in the parish of St. Thomas in the East, a little town and port about twelve miles distant from Yallahs. We were introduced to M. H O D G B , a mis sionary of the London Society at this station, who is on the point of quitting the island. He kindly accom panied us to the parish school, where there were about forty children, chiefly colored. We heard a class con jugate a difficult verb, spontaneously selected, in a very creditable manner. We next visited the school attached to the London mission, which is conducted by a catechist. The average attendance of the children, is about fifty. They were in good order, but they did not ap pear as yet, to have made any considerable proficiency. We saw the jail, a small, confined building, in which happily there are no prisoners. The state of it