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NEWSPAPERS. 



tious politician. He also occupies a seat in the Assembly. 

 There are three semi-weekly journals printed in Jamaica, 

 the Cornwall Chronicle, at Montego Bay, established in 

 1*781, of which Alexander Holmes is editor; the Cornwall 

 Courier, at Falmouth, established in 1832, and edited by 

 Edward Burns : and the Falmouth Post, at the same 

 place, established in 1835, and edited by John Costello. 



The highest circulation of the dailies, is from 600 to 800. 

 That of the provincials h more limited. 



All these papers are under the editorial management of 

 cultivated men, and the original articles very uniformly, 

 betray a degree of taste and scholarship which is rarely to 

 be found in American journalism. But their columns are 

 chiefly filled with extracts from English journals, and ac- 

 counts of what is doing " at home," by which the stranger 

 may perceive at once, that Jamaica has a transitory and 

 dependent population, and that she inspires among them 

 no feeling of nationality or sentiment of home. 



