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arithmetic, which subjects occupy the remainder of the day, from ten to twelve; between this hour and one, the children are again employed in making or mending their clothes, and in preparing their table neatly for dinner, which is served to them at one o'clock. At two, school is re-opened, and the boys are exclusively engaged in reading, writing, and arithmetic. At four the school is closed with prayers and a hymn. The boarders are called in at six, from their play-ground, to supper; and in the course of the evening, for about an hour, one of the elder boys reads aloud, in turn, from some work of amusement and general instruction out of the school library. At eight they retire to their dormitory, where the Short Prayer for a Young Person, from Crossman's Catechism, is read aloud by the head boy. They rise in the morning between five and six o'clock; and, after offering up a short morning prayer to God for his blessing, recommence the business of the day. On Sunday, a full attendance of boarders and day-scholars is insisted on at nine o'clock; between which time, and half-past ten, (the hour of morning service), the Psalins and Lessons for the day are read aloud. The Sunday is marked by a meal of a better kind-fresh meat, with bread, being provided, instead of the vegetable soup, yams, and other roots, of which they partake on the other days of the week. In the afternoon, at half-past four o'clock, the children of the schools are required again to be present at church. Each child in the school, according to rank, is expected to learn the Collect, Epistle, and Gospel, at intervals, during this day, and to repeat it as the first exercise on Monday morning. Both schools are publicly catechized during Lent in the cathedral.

Although no school-master or mistress has been trained this year at the schools; yet, on the application of Lieutenant Colonel Hardy, of the 19th regiment, a boy attached to the regi

ment was boarded at the central school, for many weeks, until qualified to introduce the National system into the regimental school, which the Committee are informed he has since done in a very efficient manner. It is with much satisfaction the Committee are able to state, that seven boys have been regularly apprenticed out to the following occupations:*-two, as apprentices on an estate; one, in a merchant's counting-house; two, to a house carpenter; one, to a shoe-maker; and one has been taken into a highly respectable family, as clerk and accountant. Another boy is desirous of going to sea, but no advantageous situation has been yet obtained for him. All these were publicly examined, and approved by the Committee, before leaving school. Four girls also have been sent out to service. According to the established custom of the school, every boy and girl has been presented with a Bible, Prayer-book, and Crossman's Catechism, on leaving the school. The Committee have again to acknowledge with thankfulness, the benefits arising from the continued inspection of the Ladies' Committee.

To increase the number of boarders at the Girls' School, has been an object long and patiently desired by the Committee. They feel satisfied, that, under under the tuition of the present schoolmistress, and the vigilant inspection of the Ladies' Committee, every female boarder will form a new security for the morals of the country.

CONSECRATION OF ST. MATTHEW'S CHAPEL.-March 18th., being the day appointed for the consecration of the new chapel lately erected in the parish of St. Michael, a meeting of the parishioners interested in its erection took place at the chapel at an early hour. The Lord Bishop of the diocese arrived at the chapel door at eleven o'clock, where he was met by the Chancellor, Registrar, Rector, and others of the Clergy, and several members of the

It is but justice to add, that after careful inquiry into the character and conduct of several who were apprenticed out in former years, the Committee have received most gratifying accounts and they are invited on this ground to re-double their exertions for the education of the poor.

vestry. His Lordship, being shown into the vestry-room, and having put on his episcopal robes, proceeded to the altar, where, the petition having been presented by the Rector, and read by the Registrar, the Consecration Service commenced, according to the usual form, by the Bishop and Clergy repeatting alternately the 24th Psalm. After the service of the day had been performed, during which the Psalms for the occasion were sung by the children of the Belle and Lears' plantations, the Bishop delivered a most impressive and appropriate discourse from Psalm cxxii. 1.-" I was glad when they said unto me, We will go into the house of the Lord."

The consecration of the chapel being concluded, the Bishop, with the Clergy, &c. proceeded to the consecration of the burial-ground attached to the chapel, when the fifth, sixth, and seventh verses of the 39th Psalm were sung by the children. The congregation then dispersed, highly gratified with the scene which they had witnessed.

We have much satisfaction in stating that his Excellency the Governor was present at the ceremony, whose readiness to advance the interests of religion, by cooperating in all measures taken for that purpose, has ever been conspicuous. Many persons of influence and respectability, with their families, were also present.

The foundation of the chapel was laid on the 21st of November, and the building has been completed in less than four months. It is sixty-eight feet long, and twenty-four feet wide, is fitted up in a neat style, and is capable of containing nearly four hundred persons. It has been erected entirely by private contributions, and the whole expense of the building, every thing considered, does not exceed £800 Barbados currency-a considerable proportion of which was contributed in labour and materials. The children who sang were clothed in a neat uniform dress, and the adult negroes who were present evinced, by their decent behaviour and devout attention to the service, their willingness to avail themselves of the opportunity now afforded them for receiving religious instruction on the Sabbath.

The piece of land upon which the chapel is built was part of the plantation called Friendship, and was conveyed to the rector of St. Michael by James Thomas Rogers, Esq. the proprietor of the said plantation, and of Parks' plantation in the said island of Barbados.

CEREMONY OF LAYING THE CORNERSTONE OF ST. PAUL'S CHapel.

FRIDAY, April 23, being the day appointed for laying the first stone of St. Paul's Chapel, about to be erected in the Bay, his Excellency, the Governor, after having attended parade at the garrison, in commemoration of the birth of His Majesty, arrived at the residence of the Hon. John A. Beckles, at one o'clock, where the Bishop, the Clergy, vestry, and other gentlemen were assembled. The Procession passed through the private grounds of Judge Beckles, to the site fixed upon for the Chapel, in the following order :

The Boys of the Central School.
The Clergy.

The Vestry of St. Michael.
The Grand Master of Freemasons and
the Architect.

Many respectable gentlemen, holding no
official situations.
The Military and Staff of his Excellency.
The Bishop's Chaplains.

His Excellency the Governor, and the
Lord Bishop.

On arriving at the spot where the stone was to be placed, his Excellency and the Bishop ascended the platform, which had been prepared for the occasion, neatly covered with green baize, when his Lorship offered up the following prayer :

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"Prevent us, O Lord, &c. &c.

"O Lord God Almighty, without whom nothing is strong, nothing_is holy, look down from Heaven, thy dwelling place, and bless the undertaking of thy humble servants. We desire to raise an edifice to thy honour and glory, and for the good of our fellow-creatures, wherein high and low, rich and poor, bond and free, may meet together to worship Thee their common Father and Redeemer.

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Incline, we beseech Thee, every heart to this work of piety and love; give skill to our architect, and strength to our labourers; and grant, if it be Thy good pleasure, that all we assembled this day before Thee, may live to behold the completion of the work in its solemn dedication to Thee, our God.

Lord, we are ourselves the work of Thy hands, and Thou hast graciously promised to take up Thy abode in every faithful and obedient heart: make us duly sensible of this our high and holy privilege and as we watch from day to day, the gradual rise of this material building, so may we labour, through Thy grace, to grow up ourselves into a living temple of the Lord, builded together for an habitation of God, through the Spirit; that, finally, when our earthly house of this our fleshy tabernacle is dissolved by death, we may yet have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens, purchased and prepared for us through the merits of Thine only Son Jesus Christ, our Lord."

"Our Father," &c.

Immediately after which, while the Governor, the Architect, and the Grand Master, were adjusting the stone, the old version of the 100th Psalm was sung by the boys of the Central School, the Bishop having first pronounced the two concluding verses of the 90th Psalm. The stone being laid, and his Excellency having re-ascended the platform, the Bishop concluded the ceremony with the Collect, "Assist us mercifully, O Lord," &c. and the Blessing. The company then returned to Judge Beckles', and partook of a handsome collation prepared for their refreshment.

The whole of the ceremony was interesting and impressive, and many thanks are due to Judge Beckles, for his kindness and exertions, and much credit to Mr. Anglim (the architect), for his judicious arrangements.

CODRINGTON COLLEGE.- His Majesty's subjects in the British WestIndia colonies, are informed, that the day of election of Exhibitioners, on the foundation of Codrington College, in the Island of Barbados, is fixed for the ninth of September in the present year; and all Students for Holy Orders, from the age of sixteen years and upwards, intending to offer themselves as candidates, are required, without delay, to send in their names, with their baptismal registers, duly certified by the minister of their respective parishes, to "The Rev. the Principal of the College, Barbados;" and to present themselves at the College, for examination, on the 13th day of August next.

For the further information of the public, the following extracts from the minutes of the Committee of the "Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts," at their meeting, on the 8th of December, 1828, are annexed:

"That such of the civil authorities as have hitherto acted as governors of the Institution, be requested, at the first opening of the College, to nominate four young men professing to be Candidates for holy orders, as exhibitioners upon the foundation; subject to such examination as the visitor shall deem expedient."

"That the Bishop, as visitor, be requested to nominate the remaining eight exhibitioners, under the same regulations."

The eight last-mentioned exhibitions will be open for public competition.

The twelve exhibitioners will be maintained and educated free of any charge, and may be chosen from any part of His Majesty's West India possessions.

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JOHN H. PINDER, M. A., Principal. E. P. SMITH, В. A. Tutor. By direction of the Rt. Rev. the Visitor. Barbados, April 20, 1830.

POLITICAL RETROSPECT.

DOMESTIC. Just as we were going to press, the melancholy news arrived from Windsor, that our beloved Sovereign departed this transitory life, at a quarter-past three o'clock, on the morning of Saturday the 26th instant.

Lord Winchilsea has again called the attention of the House of Lords to the melancholy fact, that our Protestant officers and soldiers are obliged to take a part in the superstitious and idolatrous ceremonies of the Roman Catholic Church, both in Malta and the Ionian islands. That such a practice should have grown up without observation, is a most discreditable circumstance to a Protestant nation, much more so then, that, having been pointed out, it should still be continued; it is giving a countenance to the idolatries and blasphemies of the Romish Church, strongly inconsistent in a Christian government, and is certainly an unwarrantable infringement on that liberty of conscience which is every man's right, and about which we have heard so much in less justifiable cases.

A bill for repealing the punishment of forgery with death, (with one exception,) has passed the House of Commons.

FRANCE. The King has issued his proclamation, summoning a new chamber of deputies, which it is generally expected will be more tractable than the last, though whether the country at large will be willing to acquiesce quietly in the submission, does not appear certain, as it is in a general ferment on the subject of politics, and great dissatisfaction is expressed at the measures of the present ministry. The unsatisfactory nature of the intelligence from the Algerine expedition must increase their unpopularity. After remaining some time at Palmo, stationary on account of bad weather, till Admiral Duperre became apprehensive that provisions might fail, Government having supplied stores for only ten days, reasonably calculating on a landing

being effected before the expiration of that term, the troops have at length disembarked on the African coast, and we are told to expect immediate intelligence of either a battle or a siege. It is however rumoured, that negotiations have been proposed with the dey; should this prove true, it will indeed be a contemptible conclusion to so much noise and preparation for war.

PORTUGAL AND BRAZIL.-It now seems probable, that the quarrel between these potentates will be amicably adjusted. There has hitherto existed in the Emperor's cabinet a strong party opposed to peaceful councils; these he is now getting rid of; and the arrival from Lisbon, in a Portuguese brig of war, of 250,000l., besides diamonds,-his share of the property left by the Queen-mother,may have done something towards mollifying his anger. Her death has also been a step towards lessening the dissensions between the two brothers; and it is generally anticipated that the affairs of Portugal will be speedily settled, to the satisfaction of all parties, and that Don Miguel will even be permitted to marry Donna Mariaan arrangement that may prove happy to every one but the Queen.

TURKEY.-The Turkish ambassador at St. Petersburgh has so far succeeded in the object of his mission, that the Porte is excused from the payment of almost the whole of the military contribution; in lieu of which, the fortresses of Silistria and Erzeroum are to be surrendered into the hands of the Russians.

AMERICA.—The republic of Mexico is in a most distracted state; the reign of the present dominant is expected to be of short duration; and which of the factions, that are struggling to succeed, will obtain the preeminence, is very uncertain, as the soldiery, in whose hands lie the disposing power, are ready to forward the views of that leader who will best repay them with the liberty of plunder.

Bustomerte has hitherto been enabled. to maintain his power; but, as his resources are now nearly exhausted, it is evident his authority must soon come to an end. Among the evils growing out of this disturbed state of the country, the depression sustained by foreign commerce is not the lightest; and, indeed, it appears at present almost totally extinguished.

In South America, the same dreadful dissensions continue to exist. Generals Paz and Quiroga have fought a battle in the state of Buenos Ayres, in which the latter was defeated; but since the city of Buenos Ayres has engaged to support him, and has commenced taking steps for that purpose, a civil war, and its concomitant evils, appear inevitable.

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW CHURCH.

The chapel of the Holy Trinity, in the parish of Tottenham, Middlesex, has been consecrated by the Bishop of London.

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