All classes feel an interest in _knowledge_.

While the schools previously established are flourishing in newness of life, additional ones are springing up in every quarter.

Sabbath schools, adult and infant schools, day and evening schools, are all crowded.

A teacher in a Sabbath school in St.
John's informed us, that the increase in that school immediately after emancipation was so sudden and great, that he could compare it to nothing but the rising of the mercury when the thermometer is removed _out of the shade into the sun_.
We learned that the Bible was the principal book taught in all the schools throughout the island.

As soon as the children have learned to read, the Bible is put into their hands.