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town. Mails are despatched from Kingston every Monday 

 and Thursday afternoons, at half-past five o'clock, to all 

 parts of the island. The return mail arrives on Wednes- 

 days and Saturdays, and delivered at nine A. M., making- 

 two country mails per week. A letter not exceeding half 

 an ounce, to be conveyed not exceeding 60 miles, is charged 

 8 cents, over 60 miles and under 100, 12 cents, over 200 

 and under 200, 16 cents. 



NEWSPAPERS. 



There are two daily newspapers published in Jamaica 

 both at Kingston. The oldest is the Kingston Journal y 

 established in 1838, and edited by Robert Jordan and 

 Eobert Osborne, both colored men. This is the organ of 

 the government, and its proprietors are printers for the As- 

 sembly. They are both also members of thai body. 



The Colonial Standard is the name of the other daily. 

 It was established in 1849, by W. Girod, a talented and 

 energetic Englishman, who was formerly the editor of 

 another once popular journal, the Kingston Dispatch^ 

 which he left in consequence of a difference of opinion 

 with his associate, and which has become extinct. The 

 Standard is the organ of the country party, and devoted 

 to the advocacy of a protective tariff, reduction of salaries 

 and the importation of labor from Africa. Mr. Girod is a 

 good scholar and a vigorous writer, but rather an incan- 



