"that, in Missionary Work, and particularly in our situation, every thing must come from God-money, men, health, and a heart to labour: and, after all, success is HIS gift alone. But, then, how rich is He in mercy! how ready to bestow! Let us take new courage, and rejoice in Him." Beneficial Influence of the Female Schools. The Female Scholars, amounting, as was stated at p. 24, to 579, are thus assigned: Serampore, 224-Beerbhoon,68-Dacca, 161-Chittagong, 94-Jessore, 17Benares, 12-Allahabad, 3. On these Schools it is said We are not now reporting interesting, but uncertain experiments. We are approaching the Sixth Anniversary of the extended establishment of our Female Schools: and have the pleasure of seeing them assume, more and more, the character of a confirmed institution; while, in extent and efficiency, they are at least equal to what they have been at any time since their commencement. It is no small reward to have seen the First Generation of our Scholars pass almost entirely away into the engagements of active life; while their places are occupied by others, in every way as promising. We now see around us a number of Young Wives and Mothers, whose minds have been stored with useful knowledge-with that which is most useful; who are familiar with Divine Truth, entirely through our Schools. Every day their number is increased; and it will be truly astonishing, if these Young Women exercise no better influence upon society than those who have grown up with minds void of all instruction-unaccustomed to mental culture and enjoyments—and, of necessary consequence, vain, indolent, and vicious. We assuredly expect-we have begun to reap-better things. Recent Miscellaneous Intelligence. UNITED KINGDOM. Anti-Slavery Soc.-The Committee have addressed the following Circular to the Friends of the Anti-Slavery Cause throughout the United Kingdom : The Meeting of Parliament is fixed for the 26th day of Octo ber next. It is hoped, and most earnestly requested, that those, who intend to unite in imploring the EARLY AND UTTER EXTINCTION OF COLONIAL SLAVERY, will transmit their Petitions to both Houses of Parliament by that day, or as soon after as possible. No needless delay should be allowed to prevent the ful filment of this Sacred Duty. Church Miss. Soc.-The health of the Rev. John Murrell having become seriously affected, he embarked at Sierra Leone, June the 24th, on board the Navarino, Captain Rolls, and landed at Portsmouth on the 26th of August. Jews' Society-The Rev. J. B. Cartwright and the Rev. J. C. Reichardt returned from their visit to Warsaw (see p. 240) on the 18th of August. London Miss. Soc.-Some misapprehension existing among the friends of the Society, in different parts of the country, as to the usual practice of the Directors, in regard to the ap. plication of individuals offering themselves as Candidates for Missionary Service, who have previously formed an acquaintance with a view to the Marriage Relation; the Directors have stated, that the application of persons who have formed such acquaintance will not, except in extraordinary cases, be entertained by them. Wesleyan Miss. Soc. -Mr. Turner, Mr. Watkin, and Mr. Wood, with their Wives, lately sailed for the Friendly Islands. Dr.Milnor on Public Meetings - The Rev. Dr. Milnor, who, with the best effect, appeared, at our last Anniversaries, as the Repre. sentative of several of the chief Societies of the United States, thus compares, in a Letter from London printed in the Philadelphia Recorder, the Public Meetings of the two Coun tries: The Public Meetings in London are differently conduct ed in one respect from ours. Most of our Addresses smell of the lamp, having all the stateliness and accuracy of PREPARED Compositions. Here, on the contrary, they appear, with very few exceptions, at least as to language, the effusions of the moment. If less elegant and precise, they are, nevertheless, in London, more full of animation and fire than in New York; and if the report of them, în the Publications of the day, place the Speakers here in an infe rior light to ours (who generally furnish the Manuscript from which their Addresses have been committed), they are abundantly more stirring and interesting, in the delivery. Irish Schools and Popery-The Titular Roman-Catholic Archbishop of Tuam bears unfrom a Circular to his Clergy, to the efficiency willing testimony, in the following Extract of Protestant Schools in undermining the errors of his own Church : If the design of extirpating the Catholic Religion by violence and persecution has been, in some degree, aban doned, to it has succeeded one more likely to effect its purpose, because less apparent. Recourse is had to se duction and insinuation. An attempt is made to strip of its natural deformity and turpitude the erime of tampering with the religious principles of the poor. The Schools that are established are embellished with a thousand specious names; but, at the bottom, the evil lies concealed. Proselytism is become the order of the day; and the enemies of our Faith, like the serpent, creep and give death under flowers. What is the consequence? Why, unless we establish and support Schools for the education of distressed Children of our Persuasion, the triumph will be eventually complete the mystery of iniquity will have absorbed the mystery of holiness-and what the cruelty of tyrants could not bave completed in this Island of Saints, will be speedily accomplished by softer means. Curates in the Church of England-The following Abstract of a Return, made by the Archbishops and Bishops to the Privy Čouncil for the year 1827, and lately made public, will give a view of the comparative labours of the respective Dioceses, and of the manner in Number of which they are remunerated. Curates employed in the several DiocesesSt. Asaph, 30; Bangor, 58; Bath and Wells, 190; Bristol, 103; Canterbury, 135; Carlisle, 44; Chester, 158; Chichester, 110; St. David's, 194: Durham, 78; Ely, 71; Exeter, 256; Gloucester, 128; Hereford, 153; Llandaff, 94; Lichfield and Coventry, 268; Lincoln, 550; London, 234; Norwich, 473; Oxford, 69; Peterborough, 116; Rochester, 47; Salisbury, 174; Winchester, 177; Worcester, 83; York, 261. Total, 4254. Stipends received by Curates-6 receive under 204; 59 under 30%.; 173 under 401.; 441 under 50%.; 892 under 601.; 300 under 701.; 415 under 801.; 458 under 90%.; 156 under 100%.; 500 under 110%.; 69 under 1207.; 207 under 1301.; 52 under 1401.; 32 under 150l.; 162 under 1601.; 26 under 1701.; 15 under 1801.; 5 under 1901; 3 under 2001.; 17 under 210Z.; 2 under 2201.; 2 under 2301.; 2 under 2401.; 3 under 2501; 4 under 2601.; 1 under 2901.; 2 under 310.; 1 under 3201.; and 1 under 3402. Oriental Translation Fund-Professor Lee, some time since, suggested to Sir Alexander Johnston the expediency of establishing a Society, the object of which should be the Translation into English of such Oriental Works, whether in Europe or elsewhere, as contain information new and interesting to the European Public. This suggestion was zealously acted upon by Sir Alexander, and met with liberal countenance in the highest quarters. His late Majesty became Patron; and the principal Members of the Royal Family, with many Noblemen and Gentlemen, Vice-Patrons. An Annual Subscription of Ten Guineas entitles the Subscriber to a fine-paper copy of every Work issued by the Committee; and one of Five Guineas entitles to any of the Works published by the Committee, to the amount of the subscription, at half the price charged to Non-Subscribers. From the Third Annual Report, delivered on the 14th of June, it appears that the Receipts of the year had been nearly 24001. The Society has published many valuable Works, and has formed important and extensive connections, particularly with the Indian Presidencies and with Rome: the treasures of the Vatican have been thrown open to the Society. Idolatry-Tax in India-Mr. Poynder brought forward the Motion, mentioned at p. 335, relative to the Collection of Tribute at Places of Idolatrous Worship in India, at a Quarterly Court of East-India Proprietors held on the 22d of September; and enforced it in a long and able Speech, in the course of which he quoted a great number of testimonies to the scandalous nature of the worship which is thus virtually sanctioned by a Christian Government. The Motion was supported by Mr. Trant and other Gentlemen; but was lost on a division. Perseverance will, no doubt, be ultimately crowned with success, as in the case of the Abolition of the Suttee. WEST AFRICA. Colonel Findlay, formerly Commandant at the Gambia, has been appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Sierra Leone. MEDITERRANEAN. Church Miss. Soc. The Rev. C. L. F. Schleinz returned to Malta August the 23d, having been absent four months on a visit to Greece for the benefit of his health, which had become impaired. NEW SOUTH-WALES. King's Schools-A Plan for the establishment of Grammar Schools, introductory to the ultimate institution of a Colonial College, drawn up by the Archdeacon, has been laid before the Governor by the Trustees of the Clergy and School Lands. It is proposed, for the present, to found one School for Day Scholars in Sydney, and another for both Day Scholars and Boarders at Parramatta: each Day Scholar is to pay 81. per annum, each Boarder 281. It is to be declared in the Deed of Endowment, that these Schools are established for the "training up of the rising generation, and of all succeeding generations in this Colony for ever, in the Faith of Jesus Christ, the Redeemer of the World, and in a firm assurance of the sufficiency of His Atonement for the Salvation of Mankind :" and in the Address of the Trustees to the Governor, they thus state the principle on which it has been prepared in reference to Religious Principles: It is made imperative on them by the Charter, and it is no less coincident with their own views and persuasions, to "maintain and support Schools in connection with the Established Church, and under and subject to the visitation and controul of the Bishop, or, in his absence, of the Archdeacon for the time being." Anxiously desirous, however, that all classes of the community should equally participate in the benefits of the projected Course of Education, they have strenuously endeavoured to accomplish the purpose with which, they are charged, upon terms as little exclusive as the nature of the case would admit. While, therefore, they have made provision for the maintenance of their own principles, and, above all, of the great principle, that Revealed Religion should form the Basis of Education, they have considered it the soundest policy to trust the extension of the Established Church to the influence of a general persuasion of her desire to promote the good of all, and to the inculcation of those Chief Truths which in common with other Christian Churches she holds as a sacred deposit, rather than to any direct interference with the opinions of those who are not attached to her Communion. UNITED STATES. Baptist Missions-The Rev. John Taylor Jones sailed from Boston, with his Wife, on the 2d of August, in the ship Cows, Captain Spaulding, for Calcutta, on their way to join the Burmah Mission, Board of Missions-The Rev. W. Ramsey, the Rev. W. Hervey, and the Rev. Hollis Reed, with their Wives, sailed also in the Cows, destined for Bombay--The Rev. Elijah C. Bridgman and the Rev. David Abeel, who sailed (see p. 18) from New York on the 10th of June, arrived at Canton, after a passage of 125 days. Episcopal Miss. Soc.-The Rev. J. H. Hill (see pp. 240, 336) has been appointed a Missionary to Greece by the Executive Committee. Denominations. Min. Cong. Members. Population. 194.. 500 .. Reformed Dutch.. Baptists: Calvinistic ..... 2914.. Religious Denominations -The following Table is founded on a detailed estimate, given in the Quarterly Journal of the American Education Society, of the Ministers, Congregations, and Members or Communicants belonging to the different Religious Denominations in the United States: some corrections have been made from the New-York Observer; and a column has been added from that Publication, in which the Editors have assigned to each Denomination that portion of the general population, which they consider, according to the best information to which they had access, to belong to such Denomination: they add 1,500,000 as Infidels or persons of United Brethren... no Religious Profession, carrying the total population to upward of Thirteen Millions. Denominations. Min. Cong. Members. Population. Congregationalists, 1000.. 1250 .... 1600.. 2070 Presbyterians Tunkers..... Emancipators.. 4381 .. 304.827 .. 2,500,000 2,000.. 20 .. 1,800 .. 370.. 16,000 .. 2211 3,500.. 20,000 20,000 150,000 30.. 30,000 10 104.. Quakers or Friends, Miscellanies. BRIEF ACCOUNT OF KIDDEEKIDDEE, IN NEW ZEALAND. (With an Engraving.) Kiddeekiddee is situated on the banks of a river, from whence it takes its name. The fresh-water stream, which is not navigable even for a boat, empties itself, by a fall of ten feet, into a natural basin in the front of the Settlement, where it is mingled with the tide, and lost in the waters of the Southern Ocean. The Station is entirely surrounded by hills; and the valley, in which it stands, is of very small extent: it was formerly an extensive Native Residence, the metropolis of the Bay of Islands, but is now totally deserted. The climate of Kiddeekiddee is very salubrious: though on the banks of a river, and in a valley, it is seldom visited with fogs or damps; neither are showers of rain so frequent here as in other parts of the island. The seasons are regular: the middle of May may be called the commencement of winter, and the middle of August its termination. The winter is particularly mild: there are sometimes slight frosts in the night, but they vanish with the morning sun. Winds prevail very much during the whole year, particularly from the south and west. It is somewhat more than ten years since a Mission was established here by the Church Missionary Society; but the Station has not been supplied with an efficient number of Labourers till within about five years. Of its advantages, in reference to the Mission, the Rev. W. Yate remarks— Kiddeekiddee is within seven miles of Waimate and twelve of Ahuahu, which are by far the most populous places on this side of the island: it being the principal way to the sea, great numbers are constantly passing through, with whom we have much intercourse; besides which, there are parties to be found on the banks of the saltwater river, who may be visited by means of the boat: these come from inland; some of them from such a distance as to render it impossible for any of us to visit them there. Of the population of the District, consisting, perhaps, of from 3000 to 4000, Mr. Yate states They are all Heathen; without, I believe, a single exception. Their state of mutual feeling is such, that they cannot depend on one another: suspicion and distrust are the prominent features in their character. They dislike quarrelling one with another; and this leads them to live in villages, containing, for the most part, not more than two or three families. These villages are at such convenient distances, that the whole of their inhabitants may be assembled at a very short notice, in case of danger threatening any part of the community. |