A new song this, well befitting the times and the prospects, but provoking enough to oppressors.

The consul denounced he special magistrates; they were an insolent set of fellows, they would fine a white man as quick as they would flog a _nigger_.[A] If a master called his apprentice "you scoundrel," or, "you huzzy," the magistrate would either fine him for it or reprove him sharply in the presence of the apprentice.

This, in the eyes of the veteran Virginian, was intolerable.
Outrageous, not to allow a _gentleman_ to call his servant what names he chooses! We were very much edified by the Colonel's _expose_ of Jamaica manners.

We must say, however, that his opinions had much less weight with us after we learned (as we did from the best authority) that he had never been a half dozen miles into the country during a ten year's residence in Kingston.
[Footnote A: We fear there is too little truth in this representation.] We called on the Rev.Jonathan Edmonson, the superintendent of the Wesleyan missions in Jamaica.

Mr.E.has been for many years laboring as a missionary in the West Indies, first in Barbadoes, then in St.
Vincent's, Grenada, Trinidad, and Demerara, and lastly in Jamaica.