Up to the moment when the post left Morant Bay, the utmost tranquillity prevailed.  In fact, from the quiet of the day and the circumstance of droves of well-dressed persons going to and from the Church and Chapels, I was occasionally deluded, says a correspondent, into the belief of the day being Sunday.  The parish Church was crowded, and the Rector delivered a very able and appropriate address.  The Methodist and Independent Chapels were also filled.  At both places suitable sermons were preached.  At the latter, the resident minister provided an ample second breakfast, which was faithfully discussed under the shade of a large tent purposely erected for the occasion.  The Rev. Mr. Atkins, Wesleyan Minister, has proceeded from this place to lay the foundation stone of a chapel this afternoon, (1st August) at Port Morant, in which important service he will be assisted by Thomas Thomson, Esq., Church warden, and Alexander Barclay, Esq., Member for the parish.  It is expected that many thousand spectators will be present at the interesting ceremony.  From all I have been able to learn the changes among the labourers on the estates in this quarter, will be very limited, these people being apparently satisfied with the arrangement for their continued domicile on the respective properties.

Another correspondent writes—­“we are very quiet here.  The day has arrived and nearly passed off, and thank God the predictions of the alarmists are not fulfilled.  The Chapels were quite full with a great many persons in the yards.  The Independents are just sitting down to a feast.  The Rector delivered a sermon or rather a string of advices and opinions to the labouring population, the most intolerant I have heard for a long time.  This parish will, I am quite certain, enjoy in peace and quietness this happy jubilee.”

MANCHESTER.

We learn from this parish that the Churches and Chapels were crowded many hours before the usual time for beginning service.  Several thousand persons remained outside the respective places, which were much too small to afford the accommodation.  Every thing was quiet and orderly when the post left.

Says the Jamaica Gazette of Aug. 4th, a paper of the Old School—­“In spite of all the endeavours of a clique of self-interested agitators, clerical humbug and radical rabble, to excite the bad passions of the sable populace against those who have been the true friends of Colonial freedom, and the conservators of the public peace and prosperity of the country, the bonfire, bull-roast, and malignant effigy exhibited to rouse the rancor of the savage, failed to produce the effect anticipated by the projectors of the Saturnalia, and the negro multitude fully satisfied with the boon so generously conceded by the Island Legislature, were in no humor to wreak their wrath on individual benefactors, whom the envy of party spirit had marked out as the victims of truth and independence.