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BISHOPRIC OF JAMAICA.
By the last arrival .ofFa7erslrom hinnies, we have
advices of the active and zealous rags of the Bishop
in the discharge•of his sacred unctions. His Lordship
had visited several of the coffee properties in the St. An-
drew's and Port Royal mountains, to fix on a spot whereon
to erect a chapel m the vicinity of the most extensive
plantations, for the benefit of the slaves: In addition to
the Rev. George Wilson Bridges, B.A. the Bishop has sp.
pointed the following Clergymen to be his Chaplains:-..
The Rev. David Williams, the Rev. John 'Mclntyre, A.M.
the Rev. Thomas Alves, the Rev. Wm. Patterson, and the
Rev. C. Bolton, A.IJ.,
Congratulatory icktcFew*, have been presented to hie
Lordship by the Public Authorities, Clergy, Magistrates,
Grand Jurors, Vestrymen. and other Inhabitants of all the
parishes in the Island. The Members of the Church of
Scotland.have also joined in this general expression of re-
spect and satisfaction. We extract the following, which
are all we have space to insert:—
ADDRi.:F.3 OF TITE CITY AND PARR3H OP KINGSTON.
To the Right Rev. Father in God, Chrictopher, by Divinepermis.
sion Bishop of Janiatca.
May it please your Lordship—NWe, the Chum. Magistrates,.
Mayor, Aldermen. Commonalty, and other Inhabitants of the
city and parish of Kingston, beg leave to offer to your Lordship
our unfeigned congratulations on your safe arrival in this island.
The wishes of the refiectingpart of the inhabitants of Jamaica,
and the deliberations of her Legislature, have been long earnestly
directed to the diffusion of truc knowledge and pure religion.
Our gracious Sovereign, in paternal solicitude for the welfare of
his people, founded the Bishopric of Jamaica, and comatitted to
your Lordship the discharge of the sacred dutic*of a Disltog.
From the ecclesiastical superintendenee of a dign.tary rof the
Established Church, of liberal mind, of enlightened judgment, of
extensive learning, and true piety, we anticipate, with confidence,
the full attaintment of the objects of our fervent prayer--the in.
erease of virtue and marality, the conseqemit security of good
order, and the improvement or society in all its ranks.
We humbly hope and pray, that for the fulfilment of duties so
arduous, and for the accompliahment of purposes so important,
the Merciful and All-wise Disposer of Events wilt enatinue to your.
Lordship the long enjoyment of uninterrupted health.
HIS Loatisinals RZTLY.
Gentlemecy-I should be forgetful of the awful responsibility of
my station, It I did not feel a mast lively.interest in whatever con.
cents the city and parish of Kingston.
The pressing claims of the increasing population in a large nom.
mercial city will naturally hare the first claim on my ear end,
attention ; and I beg to assure you, that no exertions on my part
shall be wanting to increase the means •of attending on public
worship.
It is thus, I trust, that in conjunction with use lineation of the
rising generation in the principles of true religion, we shall be en.
abled by degrees to increase the security of good order, and the
improvement of society in all its ranks; and I am well aware of a
corresponding anxiety on your parts cheerfully to meet every sound
and feasible method of promoting these important objects.
•DDRISS OT THK MINISTER, ELDERS, AXD xrientns
THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAILI.
To the Right Reverend Chris4topher, Lord Bishop of Jamaica,
c. c.
My Lord Bishoo--We, the filietiktei and Elders, representatives
of the Church of neotland in this island,.beg leave to offer our sin-
cere congratulations on your safe arrival in Jamaica; and request
your Lordship to accept the assurances of our mom ready co.
operation with the clergy of the diocese in every plan valid' roe,
be devised for prclgigating religion, and for confirming It among,
the ignorant.
Deeply sensible of that spirit of liberality and dour with
which the Clergy and other Members of the Society for Promoting
Christian Knowiefige, extended its advantages to the latch Church.
before your Lordship was appointed President. we have now to ex-
press our gratitude for the privilege thus afforded us, of extending
the benefits of religious improvement to all ranks; and considering
that the great-object, to be secured and provided for, is the Marna.
tian of old and young in the knowledge of the Sacred Scriptures,
and in the pure principles of true piety and good morals; that by
these means they may be saved from the greatest of all dangers, Ig.
norance of our holy faith; we beg to assure your Lordship. that we
shall exert our humble efforts to costrjbute annually to the support
of the Society, laying aside all differences of opinion, to rally
round it u a common standard, and by our individual and united
endeavours assist in diffusing the word of Gud, the food of spiritual
life, amongst all our poorer bltLbßell.
HIS unto:air:. s REPLY.
Gentlemen--I receive with peculiar satisfaction these fins* of
respect for the sacred office., to which it has pleased his Majesty to
call me, from so reapectabla a portion of the Established Church
of Scotland.
Recognized and protected by the same impartial laws, represented
by the lime Most Gracious Sovereign, as our acknowledged and le-
gitimate head. lit that laudable emulation, which has hitherto
raised up under both establishments so many splendid ornaments of
their profession, still continue " to provoke each other to love."
Let ouronly contention be, how each may best discharge i.s /levered
duties, how best diffuse the consolations and exemplify the precepts
of the Gospel.
From the high character of the Minister, who now so ably
ciates is the Presbyterian Community of Jamaica, I feel the greater
confidence in the declaration of these sentiments; and may the
blessing of Almighty God attend the exercise of our mutual en.
deseaurs.

The following is his Lordship's reply to the address of
the Grand Inquest of Middlesex :
Gentlemen—ln • country where the Christian Religion is pare
of the law of the land, I rejoice to hear the declaration of senti-
ments such as these—and more especially from persons, to whom is
entrusted by the Constitution the discharge of such solemn and itn.
portant duties.
On the weight attached to the sanctity of an oath depends, as
you well know, the vital administration of justice; and I feel as.
sured that, at every step in the progress of your difficult investiga-
tions, you must have frequently witnessed the good effixts of reli-
gious principle, or the lamentable consequences of the utter want of
it, in the diderent modes of giving testimony, and in the various
and progressive gradations of crime.
From the very gratifying manner in which his Majesty's paternal
regard for the welfare of this Colony has been received by all classes
of the community since my arrival here, I anticipate a steady co-
operation is the views of the .Ministers of Religlos ; and I hail -
with gratitude and confidence so auspicious a commencement of
this my arduous undertaking.

On the 9th of February, at an Extraordinary Congress
at Bogota, it was resolved to continue Bolivar President
of the Republic. The election of Vice-President and
Representatives was shortly to take place. An agent
from Ilayti had arrived at Bogota, to propose a commercial
and defensive treaty with the Republic of Colombia, which
was declined by the latter.
Letters from Pernambuco, dated 19th March, announce
the arrival of a French brig from Lima. The Captain re.
ports, that the Asia and the other Spanish vessels quitted
the coast for Europe, with a great number of Royalists -
that an unsuccessful atta:k was made upon the fleet by the
Independent Admiral Guise; he was beat off with a trifling
loss.

A letter from Bombay, dated the 2Sth of December,
says the crop of cotton was so short that there would not
be more than what is required for supplying the repayr
demand for the China market.

By the Singaiore Chronicle it appears that the exports
from that settlement during the year 1823 amounted to the
very large sum of 5,568,560 Spanish dollars) The trade
consists of five distinct branebes—that, with Great Britain,
with Bengal, and other parts of Western India, with
China, native and European, with Siam and Cochin.
China, with the distant commercial tribes of the Indian.
Archipelago itself, &c. In 1822, four ships only cleared
out for London ; in 1823, the number had increased to
nine.wi in Isnpal
(tihnellavrasll6l,oll34rit;isihnpiren3rod
thelly ihnlarlrisneedn
t 0.1.064,380 • and the exports were in proportion. The
increase of the trade with China, Siam, and Cochin China,
is on a corresponding scale.
Some difficulties have arisen about Madame Pasta, and
obstacles to her departure from Paris have been created.
Some of the French Papers assert, that when she de-
manded a eong-, it was refused, and in consequence a week
ago, Madame Pasta, in her turn, refused to sing in a new
opera, it Crucial°, where a particular part had been com-
posed expressly for her, and the opera could not therefore
be produced. She was to have appeared as a man, and
there being no clause in her agreement to oblige her to
.jouer le role dein homptr, she availed herself of that to
justify her refusal. She has written to this country,
stating her determination to come here in spite of every
obstacle, and that even if passports are denied her, still she
will find means to snake good her journey. She may
adopt a disguise. and although she would not sing in man s
attire, she may not be unwilling to travel in it, at Iraq
until she is free front the harriers of Paris.
A woman, nainc.l Read, has been committed to Lei-
cester Gaol, charged with the murder of her husband, by
pushing him into the canal, near Foxtcn.
The Burton Mail, on its way from London on Sunday
morning last, WAS upset near Alconbury Hill, by which ac-
cident the guard lost his life, being killed on the spot.—
Slefiehl
'f he cultivation of flex has so increased in Sweden, that
in many principal markets of the interior not a pound of
Russian flax cats now be sold.