Their boldness in the midst of suffering and persecutions, their denunciations of oppression, though they did for a time arouse the wrath of oppressors, and cause their chapels to be torn down and themselves to be hunted, imprisoned, and banished, did more probably than any other cause, to hasten the abolition of slavery.
_Schools in Kingston_ .-- We visited the Wolmer free school--the largest and oldest school in the island.

The whole number of scholars is five hundred.

It is under the charge of Mr.Reid, a venerable Scotchman, of scholarship and piety.

All colors are mingled in it promiscuously.

We saw the infant school department examined by Mr.R.There were nearly one hundred and fifty children, of every hue, from the jettiest black to the fairest white; they were thoroughly intermingled, and the ready answers ran along the ranks from black to white, from white to brown, from brown to pale, with undistinguished vivacity and accuracy.