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all the older free children, and a few of the apprentices. The classes read and spelt correctly, and a few of them wrote to dictation. The school does great credit to the teacher, a young woman, about nineteen, the daughter of SAMUELS, the overseer. We were after足 wards shewn over the hospital, which is a good and airy building. We met there the medical attendant, who is a colored man, and an irregular practitioner, in considerable practice. He was formerly a slave on this property, but purchased himself because his wife was free and lived at a distance. Our next stage was Stewart's Town, another small interior town in Saint Ann's, on the borders of the parish of Trelawney. We called on the Wesleyan and Baptist missionaries. At the house of the latter we met J. VINE, one of the six missionaries, sent out two years ago, by the London Missionary Society. He was stationed on Acadia, the estate of W . A. HANKKY, where his ministry had a very auspicious commence足 ment, but was at length successfully obstructed by the attorney, and his longer residence rendered impossible, by the want of sympathy and positive discouragement he met with from the proprietor. His present resi足 dence, where we subsequently visited him, is about four miles from Stewart's Town, on the summit of a hill, where he has purchased a small spot of ground for a mission station. The house, which consists of two apartments and a porch or hall, is in a ruinous condi足 tion. In many places the sky can be seen through the roof. Two additional rooms are being built, which will make it barely tenantable. The missionary, his wife, and children, are surrounded by inconveniences, which nothing but a dedication to their work could enable them to endure. Their temporary chapel is a-