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Lyttelton Times, Volume III, Issue 106, 15 January 1853, Page 8

Near East Dereham, in Norfolk, a magnificent mansion is in course of erection, over the doorway of which is the following inscription. "Ex jussa curioe cancellariaa." The mansion in. question, Bylaugh Hall, it appears, is being erected by order of the Court of Chancery out of the funds of the Loomb family accumulated in the hands of the accountant of the Court. The estate, it is said, is worth £17,000 a-year ; and the Mr. Loomb, for whom it is built, is aa elderly gentleman in an infirm state of health.

Dreadful Condition op Jamaica.—A clergyman, lately arrived from Jamaica, has, in the following letter to a friend, too truly depicted the deploroble condition to which this once flourishing colony has been reduced by the effects of free trade :—" Things in that doomed and ill-fated country are getting daily worse and worse. Moral worth and intelligence are unappreciated, simply because there are none comparatively to appreciate them; and the only other attraction—the amassing of wealth—is now at an end. There were upwards of 300 applications, chiefly of Anglo-Saxon blood, for passages to Australia, when I left. Nobody will buy anything; the kw articles I had were put up to public sale, and were going at such a sacrifice that the auctioneer withdrew them; faucy a good mahogany sideboard selling for 3s. My carriage, which I bad just had repaired, could not find a purchaser, so that I have been obliged to leave it and the horses to their fate. It became a melancholy task at last to see th«» long faces and sorrowful loolcs of the merchant and others, and it was really a relief to, get, away from such scenes. It is painful now s to; think of poor Jamaica, so many years ouvhome, and our prayers are unceasing for its inhabit tants. If something be not done soon,. Jamaica, will be another St. Domingo. The negroes,, like poor ignorant caeatures as they are, rejoice at the news of an estate being given up ; they are pleased at the prospect of soon having then* foy their own."— Home News.