15 FEBRUARY 1840, Page 8

A meeting e of Jamaica planters and merchants, held on Wednesday,

resolutions expressing high satisfaction that the Jamaica Legis-

lature had resumed its duties under the ancient constitution of the Island, and that the business of the session had been conducted with uninterrupted harmony.

A "Citizen of the Uoited States " has sent a letter to the Muniq Chronicle suggesting the propriety of the Americans in London pub. liely celebrating Washington's birth-day—the 22nd instant,