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I shall baptize him in the course of a few days; we have not yet determined by what ChrisHe is a very interesting character, and often delights me by his simple and Christianlike conversation. He superintends our school at Meerut, living in a very pleasant range of rooms over one of the great gateways of the city. I have also arranged, in four different villages in the neighbourhood (north, south, east, and west), schools for the instruction of the native children. These are weekly visited by our dear Purmunund, and monthly by myself. The way seems open, in a few instances, to the reception of moral, if not religious, instruction."

MADRAS.

The Report details the arrival, at Madras, of Messrs. Bailey and Dawson, on the 9th of September -the activity and usefulness of the missionaries Schnarrè aud Rhenius and the assistance rendered to the work by Christian, a native, now a reader of the Scriptures under the Society. Under the direction of the Madras Committee, there are now, beside Madras and its more immediate vicinity, two important spheres of labour-Tranquebar and Travancore.

In reference to Tranquebar, an extract of a letter from the Bishop of Copenhagen to the Society, conveys the grateful acknowledgments of the Royal Danish Mission College for its timely assistance rendered to the school-establishments of the late Dr. John, and commits the future care of them to the Society. Mr. Schnarrè has returned to Tranquebar, at the invitation of Dr. Caemmerer, to take a share in all the work of the mission, and the particular charge of the schoolestablishments. Under his care, Mr. Thompson expects these schools to furnish a number of valuable youths, for a seminary of a higher order meditated at Madras. By the

half-yearly return at Christmas, 1815, the whole number admitted from the beginning was 2179; and those then remaining under education were 956. At the half-yearly return at Midsummer, 1816, the total admitted had been 2282; and there then remained in the schools 960. Mr. John Sullivan, the collector at Coimbatore, has opened an English free-school, for the benefit of the natives, in one of his principal districts. It is conducted by masters supplied from among the seminarists at Tranquebar. "Thus," says says Mr. Thompson, "this part of your establishment in the south is beginning to become effective in general education. The Society will, I trust, soon be instructors of Indian youth, both Christian and Heathen, far and wide."

Travancore promises to repay all the labour that can be bestowed upon it. The president, Colonel Munro, having built a college for the education of Syrian priests, the missionaries Norton and Bailey have, at his request, been placed at Allepie, a large town in the vicinity of the college. Mr. Dawson was to proceed to South Travancore. The Committee are anxious to adopt every practicable measure for reviving the Syrian Churches, and supplying Travancore at large with more labourers. Mr. Lee has devoted a part of his valuable time, with the cheerful acquiescence of the Committee, to the editing of the Syriac New Testament, and is now engaged in preparing an edition of the Old. He has taken a very warm interest in the revival of the Syrian Churches in India; and, as the real history of those churches is imperfectly known, the Committee have requested Mr. Lee to compile a brief narrative of the principal events which have occurred in that history. This task Mr. Lee has very ably executed. The history, with several other valuable 'documents, appear in the Appendix to the Report, e kun

* DE CEYLON. Though the Committee were in duced, on several grounds, to establish Messrs. Norton, Greenwood, and Schroeter, originally destined to Ceylon, on the continent of India, they have been anxiously preparing the way to take some share in the vigorous efforts which are making to bestow the blessing of Christianity on this most important colony. After a grateful notice of the kindness shewn to these missionaries while in Ceylon, particular acknowledgments are made to the chief justice, Sir Alexander Johnston, for the efficient measures adopted by him to prepare the way for the Society. Many persons have, consequence, determined to form associations in aid of its objects.

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Sir Alexander Johnston has forwarded a plan for establishing freeschools at the four principal stations, of Colombo, Galle, Jaffnapatam, and Trincomalè. In order to accomplish this plan, the Committee have resolved to send out four clergymen, to act as missionaries and superintendants of schools at the said stations. They have three of these clergymen in view: and they have it in contemplation to propose, that the Rev. Joseph R. Andrus, a young American Clergyman of the Episcopal Church, strongly recommended to them by the Right Rev. Bishop Griswold, shall occupy the fourth station; unless a fourth English clergyman should offer; in which case, they will still invite Mr. Andrus to proceed to Ceylon, in order to co-operate with the missionaries of the Society. The plan here referred to appears in the Appendix; as also the documents, at large, respecting the abolition of slavery in Ceylon-a measure of the utmost benefit to the whole island, and accomplished by the exertions of the Chief Justice.

NEW ZEALAND.

Here, as well as in Africa, the Society's attempts for the civilization and conversion of the natives

are retarded and counteracted by the conduct of men who disgrace the name of Englishmen. After referring to the government and general orders issued in New South Wales against these practices, and the formation of a Society at Sydney for the protection of the natives of the South Seas, the Report proceeds

"But the meeting will hear with sorrow, that these measures are rendered well-nigh nugatory; and that the cruelty of some Europeans navigating those seas, still continues to stimulate the minds of the inhabitants to acts of retaliation, on either the innocent or the guilty, which endanger the safety of those benevolent men who are labouring for their eternal good, and which present a formidable obstacle to the success of their attempts among them."

It is added-" Your Committee feel it strongly that the providential guidance of their Heavenly Master has thrown the Society, in its two attempts among the more uncivilized heathen, into conflict with the most rapacious and the most unfeeling of their countrymen. But, whether it respect Western Africa or New Zealand, they will not cease to protest against these enormities, and to wipe their hands of these crimes; nor will they de sist from employing all practicable methods of obtaining redress, till such redress is actually obtained.”

Whenever such remedies shall be applied, the Society will be encou raged to extend its efforts in New Zealand to the utmost degree which its funds will allow. Possibly his Majesty's ministers may be induced to form a National Establishment, which will give permanence and stability to the efforts of the So. ciety: but, if not, the Society cannot doubt of their countenance and assistance in the extension of its plans, which have as direct a bearing on the commercial interests of our own country, as they have on the higher interests of the natives,

This Committee do not represent the New Zealanders as oppos ing of themselves no obstacles to their conversion, except such as grow out of the cruelties of Europeans. The representations of Mr. Marsden, of Mr. Nicholas who accompanied him, and of the Settlers, sufficiently declare, that, while they have virtues which place them in the highest ranks even of civilized nations, they partake of many of the common evils of the uncivilized. Since Mr. Marsden's departure from New Zealand, individual acts of robbery and violence have been committed on the Settlers: yet it must be declared, to the honour of that, magnanimous people, that, while not less than one hundred natives have been murdered by Europeans within no great distance from the Society's settlement, yet no public suspicion or act of retaliation whatever has fallen on the settlers. Yet it must be obvious, that the lives of the missionaries, which are wholly in the power of the natives, must be exposed to imminent hazard, until an effectual stop be put to such wanton cruelties.

Mr. Kendall actively employs himself in visiting the surrounding chiefs, and applying to their benefit his early knowledge of farming. He is the sower of their wheat, and the director of their incipient farms. August 18th, (he says) I went up the river about twelve miles, to sow some wheat for my friends Shunghee and Tai

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Mr. Hall and Mr. King are t engaged in their respective de partments. The former has been active in procuring timber, and employs as many natives as he cau in such work as they can perform. He is acquiring the language with great rapidity.-The establishments of the Society in the Bay of Islands contained, at the date of the last advices, twenty-six men, women, and children, supported by its funds. A further purchase of land, of about fifty acres, has been made for the Society at Wytanghee; this being the most eligible spot, on some accounts, for a settlement in the Bay of Islands. Warrackie, the chief of whom the land was purchased, expressed, as several other chiefs have done, and as the dying Duaterra seems to have felt, apprehensions lest the English should ultimately dispossess the natives of their country. The conduct of both the Government and the Society will, doubtless, be directed to allay these fears, which thoughtless or evil-minded have awakened.

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The character and death of the. young chief Duaterra are then referred to, and a most interesting Memoir of him is given in the Appendix. It is remarked in the Report:

"There are some circumstances attending the death of this hopeful young man, which cannot be read without feeling. They paint, in gloomy colours, the deadly in fluence of old superstitions on a man not far, at least, from the kingdom of God, and of whom we cannot but hope that he has found mercy; and they draw a heartrending picture of the conflict of natural feeling against the cruel, dictates which govern in the dark places of the earth.

"But we leave this lamented chief in the hands of Infinite Mercy. Of one of his countrymen, who has,

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like him, left this world, no anxieries whatever can rest on the mind with respect to his eternal safety. Mowhee, with whose name the reader of Mr. Marsden's Narrative will be acquainted, has left his earthly remains with us in this land, but his soul is with his Lord; and the first-fruits of New Zealand have been doubtless gathered into the garner of heaven, and are a pledge of that abundant harvest which will one day be there safely housed for ever!"

A Memoir and Obituary of this young man have been drawn up by the Rev. Basil Woodd, to whose kind protection and care he was entrusted by the Committee.

PERSIA.

The vicinity of the Caspian Sea has long engaged the attention of the Society. The Committee are anxious to awaken the Protestant Churches to missionary labours, more particularly in the northern and internal parts of Continental Asia. They have conferred on this subject with two Prussian clergymen, the Rev. Frederick andCharles Sack; and have offered assistance in the establishment of Foreign Missionary Institutions. The Sultan Kategerry Krimgerry, lately on a visit to this country, has recommended Baku, on the western shore of the Caspian, as a suitable station, with reference to Persia.

MALTA AND THE LEVANT. Mr. Jowett continues his useful and important labours. After adverting to the expediency and the means of procuring a translation of the Old Testament into modern Greek, and the revision of that of the New Testament, the Report states, that the Committee have been preparing measures for one or more journeys, for the purpose both of acquiring and communicating information, through Egypt, Palestine, Syria, the Lesser Asia, and Greece. Mr. James Connor, of Lincoln College, has been studying, under the patronage of the Society, with the view of joining

Mr. Jowett." He will shortly enter into holy orders; and will then proceed to Malta. Dr. Naudi may probably take a part in these journeys. These travellers will view every scene with the eye of Christians: they will communicate all the good in their power to those whom they may visit: and will return home, stored, it may be hoped, with such full and accurate information respecting the moral and religious state of the countries through which they will pass, and such suggestions and plans for their melioration, as will enable the Committee to pursue their ultimate object by means best adapted to ensure success. The Committee have already received from Mr. Jowett ample details on the state of manners, of learning, and of religion, particularly among the Greeks, and expect to receive similar details during the whole of the intended journey.

ANTIGUA.

The appeal made by Mr. Dawes in behalf of the elder female scholars in the schools at English Harbour has not been made in vain. The Committee are anxious to avail themselves of Mr. Dawes's continuance in Antigua, to render all the aid in their power to his plans for the instruction of the young; and have authorised him to employ a teacher, at the charge of the Society.

With respect to translations into foreign languages, of the Scriptures, the Liturgy, and Tracts, the Committee bear testimony to the exertions of Mr. Lee; who, during his academical course at Cambridge, has rendered important services to the Society; and, with the cordial consent of the Committee, has undertaken works for the British and Foreign Bible Society, and the Prayer-book and Homily Society, which nothing but his own unwearied assiduity and attainments could enable him to accomplish, The new font of Persian types, mentioned in the last