Of St.
James's of course, we speak more particularly,--St.James's, hitherto the most reviled, and most unwarrantably calumniated parish, of all the parishes in this unfortunate and distracted colony!" The _Cornwall Courier_ says, "The first of August, the most important day ever witnessed in Jamaica, has passed quietly as far as actual disturbance is concerned." The _Jamaica Morning Journal_, of whose recent course the planters should be the last to complain, gives more particular information of the transition in all parts of the island.

We give copious extracts, for to dwell upon such a scene must soften the heart.

It is good sometimes to behold the joy of mere brute freedom--the boundings of the noble horse freed from his stable and his halter--the glad homeward flight of the bird from its cage--but here was besides the rational joy of a heaven-born nature.

Here were 300,000 souls set free; and on wings of gratitude flying upwards to the throne of God.

There were the gatherings in the public squares, there were the fireworks, the transparencies, the trees of liberty and the shouts of the jubilee, but the churches and the schools were the chief scenes, and hymns and prayer the chief language of this great ovation.