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teresting Report read at this meeting will enable us to lay before our readers an account of the proceedings of the institution during the past year. We cannot, however, withhold the expression of our regret, that no allusion was made to the society's proceedings in Barbadoes. In ranging from North America to Southern India, the friends of the society omitted to mention their own slaves, whose labours on their plantations augment their funds "for propagating the Gospel in foreign parts." We confess, however, that we gather a favourable presage from this silence it is clear that the friends of the society do not consider either the retention of slaves, or the appropriation of the produce of their extorted labour to purposes of general benevolence, as circumstances calculated to interest the British public in behalf of the institution. Let then the friends of the unhappy slave come forward manfully in the society, and plead his cause; and let them never relax their efforts, till the society can fairly expurgate itself from the guilt of being slave-holders, and from the incongruity of watering the tree of life planted in India or America, with the tears and the blood of unhappy Africa. We are aware that the society has done something towards improving the temporal and the spiritual condition of their bondsmen; but bondsmen they still are; and, so far as any thing has yet been effected or proposed, in hopeless, perpetual, interminable slavery. We trust that another Porteus will be found to advocate the cause of the society's bondsmen, who cannot plead their own cause; and, even should some pecuniary sacrifice arise from restoring them to the freedom which no individual or society has any just right to deprive them of, the society will gain tenfold more by the benevolent zeal of the British public, to whom such an act of Christian philanthrophy would be the strongest recommendation. We ourselves know of individuals zealously affected to the society's object; but to whom it is absolutely a point of conscience, not to cast in their mite to a fund contaminated by the produce of extorted slave labour. We write frankly, it may be warmly, because we wish well not only to the slave, but to the society; and we are doubly grieved that its members should incur the guilt of being willing slaveholders; or that their example should be pleaded by others, or rest as an incubus on the efforts of those enlightened and benevolent men who are seeking the best welfare, both for this world and that which is to come, of many hundreds of thousands of our oppressed fellow-subjects in our slave

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at Madras, by Mr. Robinson, chaplain to the late bishop.

"The objects embraced by this institution are various and most important. The first is one perhaps whose utility is most immediately apparent, the reception of missionaries on their arrival from England, to prepare them by all facilities, of books, of native instructors, of leisure and advice, for the field of labour on which they are entering; to direct their view, without loss of strength or time, to those studies and pursuits which will best fit them for future usefulness; and thus to make the wisdom of those who have preceded them available for their encouragement and instruction. They who are at all acquainted with the history of missions, and who have seen how much of patient labour and ardent zeal has been absolutely wasted during the first years of the young missionary's residence in this country, from the mere want of libraries, of instruction, and, above all, of the advice and controul of those who have already borne the burthen and heat of the day, well know how to appreciate the wisdom of this part of the design. A second object is to encourage and superintend translations of the Scriptures, the liturgy, and other religious books, into the different languages of the East, and to take care that no work issue from their press, but with the careful revision and approval of the learned persons connected with the establishment, and a syndicate of revision specially appointed in each several language. But the chief and most important object of all is the instruction of youth, both native and European, in sound learning, and religious education, with an especial reference to the sacred office and thus forming a nursery of future labourers in this vast and important field. These advantages are not, however, confined by the parent society to those employed by herself alone: they are open to all other societies connected with our church; and the only condition required of them is that which gives energy, and weight, and sanction to their exertions, a conformity to the direction and authority of our ecclesiastical governors.

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These plans, are now in active operation. The ministers of the Gospel have already issued from its walls, and some whose humble and zealous labours, especially among the Paharees of Northern India, are not without large promises of future success. But the great and essential value of the institution is not, in the very nature of things, to be fully seen, till they who have nursed its infancy and watched its growth shall have been long silent in the grave. And it is on this ground that I venture most strongly to ask for it your present liberality and your continued support. The plans of individual missionaries, however useful and admirable they may be, cease with the life

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of those who gave them birth; and much
general effect is lost by the interruption
and change of a regular system of pro-
cedure. This will be a permanent and
abiding source of knowledge and truth to
generations yet unborn.

"In the earliest ages of the Christian
church, such colleges were found abun-
dantly useful for the propagation of our
holy religion in heathen lands; such were
the Gymnasia of Ephesus and Alexandria;
and by the aid of such seminaries the light
of the blessed Gospel was first communi-
cated and continued in our own land.
And why may we not indulge the pious
hope, that the building now raised on the
banks of the Ganges may, by the abund-
ant blessing of Almighty God (without
whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy),
become the fountain of spiritual light to
the nations among whom we dwell?

"But to fill up this large and extended
outline, the liberal and continued bounty
of our countrymen is absolutely necessary.
If it be not supported and extended on a
scale of efficiency answerable to the plan
of its first foundation, much of what has
already been expeuded will be thrown
away. It has been called into existence,
and kings and prelates have watched over
its infancy; but its steps are yet trembling,
and it looks earnestly to you, to care and
provide for its weakness. Much yet re-
mains before it can arrive at its mature
and perfect age; when the strength and
vigour, which it is now acquiring, will be
exerted with successful energy in diffusing,
to the provinces in India, an hundred
fold the fruits of your present bounty."

EPISCOPAL MISSION TO THE
ONEIDA INDIANS.

Among the missions of the Episcopal
Church in the United States is one to the
Oneida Indians. Mr. Davis, catechist
and lay-reader, states, that the mission
continues in a prosperous state. Divine
service has been regularly performed dur-
ing the past year. A respectable number
of the natives, manifesting a serious atten-
tion, have usually attended. It is truly
gratifying to witness the humility and de-
votion which distinguish these people
when engaged in public worship; to be-
hold the sturdy savage-who once roamed
at large in the desert, ignorant of the way
of salvation by Jesus Christ, and en-
deavoured to appease the anger of his
fancied god by the sacrifice of dogs-now
enter the house of prayer, and reverently
offer up his adorations in the language of
our excellent liturgy, to that exalted Being
who alone is to be worshipped, of whom
cometh pardon, peace, and salvation. In
the school thirty scholars now attend, and
make very good proficiency. Several of
them are able to study the Scriptures in
the English language. During the past
year, the ordinance of baptism has been
administered to thirty Indian children.

Mr. Davis has frequently catechised about forty children.

SERAMPORE COLLEGE. The Sixth Report of this institution conveys the following information.

"The committee contemplate the creation of a body of native fellows and tutors from among the Christian students of the college, who will reside in its vicinity, and will undertake the tuition of the students. In this manner the committee propose to create eight senior and ten junior fellows and tutors. This body of learned fellows will serve to strengthen the college, while the prospect of rising to this dignity will act as a stimulus to the zeal and industry of the students in no ordinary degree. It is highly desirable, however, that these fellowships, so important to the permanent utility of the college, should be independent of the fluctuation of subscriptions. The committee hope to be able to assist in the endowment of a certain number of them, when the heavy expense of completing the buildings shall cease to press on their private funds; and they respectfully solicit the aid of gentlemen, both in India and Europe, towards the accomplishment of the design. The late excellent Mr. Grant, one of the directors of the Hon. East-India Company, having bequeathed to them, as the Serampore missionaries, 2,000 rupees, they have determined to devote this sum to the foundation of a fellowship, to be denominated The Grant Divinity Fellowship.' This sum will be permitted at present to accumulate at interest, and, with the aid of a donation from themselves, will in about ten years be equal to the perpetual maintenance of one individual.'

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SOCIETY FOR THE IMPROVE-
MENT AND ENCOURAGEMENT
OF FEMALE SERVANTS.

The Report read at the fourteenth annual meeting of this useful institution states, that the Society has given away, since its formation, 997 Bibles to that number of servants, and three thousand seven hundred and fifty-four pounds in money in 2195 rewards from half a guinea to five guineas. Five hundred servants are now nominated on the books by the subscribers with whom they live. The subscribers may always have as many names of servants on the books as the number of guineas annually subscribed; besides the privilege of resorting to the Society's Registry in Hatton Garden to obtain servants free of expense. Nearly six thousand servants have obtained situations with subscribers without any expense

whatever to themselves.

ANNIVERSARY MEETINGS OF

RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES. We have frequently stated, that our plan and limits do not admit of our detail

ing the addresses delivered at the anniversary meetings of our religious and charitable societies; but we shall, as usual, present to our readers the substance of the proceedings of the chief of these institutions, on the publication of their respective Reports and other documents. We are happy in announcing, that these anniversary meetings still continue to excite their wonted interest among the friends of religion of all persuasions; and though the pressure of the times, and the increase of new institutions, have in some instances partially diminished the funds of some of the societies, those of others have not only kept up but have increased; while almost all of the institutions are discovering new fields of utility opening before them, and the blessing of God accompanying their labours to promote his glory and the best welfare of mankind. The enlarged interest excited on behalf of some of our older church societies, is a most pleasing feature in this year's anniversaries; in proof of which we need only refer to our notice of the meeting of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. -The Church of Scotland has also been urging its claims upon the affections of its members resident in our metropolis, through the powerful arguments, deep piety, and earnest eloquence of Dr. Chalmers and Dr. Gordon, at the opening of the spacious and elegant structure erected by the members of that church, under the pastoral charge of Mr. Irving. The warm sisterly affection expressed on this and other occasions, by our Northern Presbyterian brethren, those "sons of rugged sires," towards the Episcopal Church of England is, we trust, one among many pleasing indications of the decrease of bigotry and party spirit, combined with

an increased attachment to the common faith in which all true Christians agree, and this without any compromise of private opinion. Indeed, we may say generally of the sentiments expressed at the anniversary meetings of our religious societies, and on similar public occasions, that the graces of Christian charity and candour were never perhaps more strikingly evinced than in the present times. At the same time we deeply regret to add, that in some, we would hope but few, instances a very different spirit is at work. The late controversy respecting the Bible Society has shewn how fearfully an unchristian temper may insinuate itself into the minds of men who seem to think they are "doing God service" by reviling their fellow-Christians. "Tantæne animis cœlestibus iræ ?" We shall rejoice to be able to state that a similar unhallowed spirit is not awakened by questions mixed up with the religious necessities of the Roman-Catholic population of Ireland. We have not heard without extreme pain the anathemas which have been hurled in some quarters against a spirit of conciliation, as if conciliation must of necessity be grounded on an indifference to truth and a compromise with error. Let those who "lay their hand upon the ark of the magnificent and awful cause of Christian benevolence, diligently examine "what spirit they are of;' let them earnestly guard against a harsh, a rash, a dogmatical, or an opinionated frame of mind; ever remembering that "the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God;" and that "the servant of God must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient; in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth."

VIEW OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

THERE is no article of foreign intelligence that particularly calls for our notice. At home the chief subject of interest is the late change in the administration, the extent of which will be seen from the following list:-Sir J. Copley is the new chancellor, and takes his seat in the House of Lords under the title of Baron Lyndhurst. The other peers who are members of the cabinet are, the Earl of Harrowby, president of the council; the Duke of Fortland, lord privy seal; Lord Bexley, chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster; Viscount Dudley and Ward, secretary of state for foreign affairs, but it is understood provisionally only; Mr. Robinson, under

the title of Viscount Goderich, secretary of state for the colonies, and the Marquis of Lansdowne, but without office. The cabinet ministers in the House of Commons are, Mr. S. Bourne, secretary of state, provisionally only it is understood, for the home department; Mr. Huskinson, president of the board of trade; Mr. Wynn, of the board of controul; Lord Palmerston, secretary at war; Mr. Tierney, master of the mint; and Mr. Canning, first lord of the treasury and chancellor of the exchequer. Among the other public officers, not members of the cabinet are, the Duke of Clarence, lord high admiral; the Marquis of Anglesea, master of the ordnance; the

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Duke of Devonshire, chamberlain of the household; the Duke of Leeds, master of the horse; the Earl of Carlisle, surveyor of woods and forests; Mr. Lamb, chief secretary for Ireland; Sir John Leach, master of the rolls; Mr. now Sir A. Hart, vice-chancellor; Sir James Macdonald, a member of the board of controul; Mr. now Sir J. Scarlett, attorney-general; Sir N.Tindal, solicitor general; and the Honourable James Abercromby, advocategeneral. Mr. Plunkett and the Lord Chief Justice are raised to the peerage.

The new ministers have not entered upon their functions without experiencing a large measure of support on the one hand, and, on the other, a most zealous opposition. The chief measures of the late cabinet having been, for the last two or three years, warmly hailed by the late Whig opposition, and Mr. Canning and his friends having been considered the chief originators or promoters of those measures, the great body of that opposition have pledged themselves to support the new ministry. On the leading questions of our foreign policy, and on various important questions also of domestic interest, they were perfectly agreed in sentiment with the recent measures of Lord Liverpool's administration, the general course of which is to be pursued by the present ministers; but the closest bond of union between them and Mr. Canning is their strong view of the necessity of relieving the Roman Catholics from the civil disabilities which at present attach to them; and it is chiefly with the hope of eventually furthering this object, (though it is not to be made a cabinet question,) that they have been induced to unite themselves with the existing administration, notwithstanding a difference of opinion between its leader and many of thera, respecting parliamentary reform, the abolition of the sacramental test, and several minor subjects. Mr. Tierney and Mr. Brougham in the House of Commons, and Lord Lansdowne and Lord Holland in the House of Peers, have accordingly taken their seats on the ministerial benches, and are among the most powerful supporters of the new administration. A few individuals in both houses, and particularly Earl Grey, have refrained from joining either the ministry or their regular opponents. The opponents of the administration have commenced a series of attacks upon it; chiefly, however, in a way which, while it gives birth to much teazing interruption of public business, and much acrimonious remark, avoids every fair and direct

trial of strength. In some cases indeed, it has assumed the form of personal dislike to Mr. Canning, rather than of objection to any measure which has been brought forward by himself or his friends. Indeed, with the exception of the important question of Catholic emancipation, there appears to be no present topic of great parliamentary interest in which Mr. Canning does not express an opinion coinciding with the opinions of his late colleagues. The corn bill, which is in its progress through the legislature, was avowedly framed by Lord Liverpool; Mr. Peel's admirable bills for simplifying and improving the criminal code, which are also in progress, are lauded by all parties; and, with regard to both our foreign and our commercial policy, no change has taken place in our public measures since the seceding ministers spoke and voted in favour of what

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now denominated Mr. Canning's measures. We are constrained to think therefore, that whatever differences of opinion may exist upon the momentous question of Catholic emancipation, it is the duty of loyal and Christian subjects not vexatiously to embarrass the public councils, by an indiscriminate and systematic opposition to the measures of those whom his majesty has constitutionally appointed to the high and responsible office of conducting the affairs of the state. Where those measures are considered wrong, they ought, without doubt, to be as strenuously opposed as the constitution of this free and happy country permits; but we should deprecate, as unchristian and injurious to the welfare of the realm, a bitter spirit of opposition directed more against men than measures, or originating in a mere party contention for emolument and power. We ourselves have differed widely from some of Mr. Canning's expressed or understood opinions; and we have not been backward, nor shall we be backward in future, to animadvert upon them freely whenever we are required by a sense of duty to do so: but this may always be effected without either virulence or indiscriminate condemnation. And we trust our readers will not think the warning superfluous in a matter which, we regret to say, has called forth political heats to which for some time we have happily been strangers; heats, we also regret to add, which have not been confined to the arena of secular controversy, but have, in some instances, even intruded into the assemblies of religious benevolence, and into the Christian pulpit itself.

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ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. Rob. Gray, D. D. Prebendary of Durham, to be Bp. of Bristol.

Rev. Dr. King, Archd. of Rochester. Rev. W. Ainger, Preb. of Chester Cath. Rev. C. E. Keene, Wiveliscombe Preb. in Wells Cath.

Rev. C. R. Ashfield, Blakenham R. Suffolk.

Rev. T. Baker, Bexhill V. with Rodmill R. Sussex.

Rev. Ld. F. Beauclerk, St. Michael's V. St. Alban's, co. Herts.

Rev. R. Burnaby, St. George R. Leic. Rev. T. Clark, Dallinghoe R. Suffolk. Rev. C. Cremer, Ailmerton with Runton R. Norfolk.

Rev. C. Cremer, Felbrig with Melton R. Norfolk.

Rev. H. Dawson, Hopton R. Suffolk. Rev. J. Edmeads, St. Mary Crickdale R Wilts.

Rev.-Elliott, to the New Chapel of St Mary's, Brighton.

Rev. P. Glubb, Clannaborough R. Devon.

Rev. J. Griffith, Fulbourn V. Cambr. Rev. W. A. Hadow, Haseley R. Warw. Rev. J. Hallward, Assington V. Suffolk, with Easthope R. Essex.

Rev. Dr. Irwin, Chatham P.C. Kent.
Rev. W. Jones, Eastbridge R. Kent.
Rev. F. V. Lockwood, Mersham R.
Kent.

Rev. S. Rowe, Budeaux P. C. Devon.
Rev. W. Wallinger, Hellingby V. Sus-

sex.

Rev. Dr. Wellesley, Bishop Wearmouth R. Durham.

Rev. W. Adamson, Kilkishem R. co.
Clare.

Rev. C. L. Band, Sheldon P. C. with
Combrawleigh R. Devon.

Rev. A. Bayley, Edgcott R. Northamp.
Rev. A. Beckwith, Collingham R. York.
Rev. E. R. Benyon, Downham R.
Essex.

Rev. C. Hall, Routh R. York.

Rev. T. Bradburne, Toft R. with
Caldecott V. annexed, co. Cambridge.
Rev. C. Johnston, Feliskirk V. York.
Rev. G. W. Jordan, Waterstock R.
Oxon.

Rev. M. Keating, Ventry R. co. Kerry,
Ireland.

Rev. J. Kempthorne, Wedmore V. co.
Som.

Rev. W. Lloyd, Lillingstone Lovell
R. co. Oxford.

Rev. M. Lowther, Maker R. York.
Rev. A. M'Laine, to the Parish of
Ardnamurchan, Scotland.

Rev. W. Mayd, Wethersfield R. Suf

folk.

Rev. G. Montagu, South Pickenham
R. Norfolk.

Rev. C. Musgrove, Halifax V. co. York.
Rev. S. Burder, Chaplain to the Earl
of Bridgewater.

Rev. E. Burton, Examining Chaplain
to the Bishop of Oxford.

Rev. J. H. Seymour, Chaplain to the
King.

Rev. J. Harrison, Chaplain to the Duke
of Sussex.

Rev. J. Fletcher, Chaplain to the Earl of Warwick.

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

SENIOR; I. A. H.; J. L.; J. J. S.; A CONSTANT READER; E. H.; T. G.; CUSTOS
ECCLESIÆ; D. M. P.; and W. B., are under consideration.

So far from being offended with A SUBSCRIBER for his inquiry respecting the intended
Index to our first twenty volumes, we are much obliged to him for affording us
an opportunity of rendering an explanation on the subject to himself, and our readers
in general. The delay in preparing it has been a subject of great vexation to us,
and it has not been for want either of exertion or expense on our part, that it has
not been completed long ago. Great delays took place in consequence of different
friends, who had successively undertaken it being obliged, from the pressure of other en-
gagements, and from finding the labour much greater than they had contemplated, to
relinquish it after holding it in their hands a considerable time. Afterwards, when
it appeared nearly fit for publication we were induced, from the discovery of errors and
deficiencies, to have the whole revised and corrected. The gentleman who under-
took this office returned the manuscript to us last year for press; but upon re-ex-
amination we still found so much that required alteration that we determined, though
with renewed expense and delay, to have the whole again revised. This revision
is now in progress, and we hope shortly to be able to announce that the manuscript
is in the hands of the printer.

We are desired to assure Mr. BUDDICOM, that the remarks of which he complains, in our last Number, had no personal reference to himself, beyond the single paragraph, at p. 244, which commences the discussion. Had the writer suspected that either Mr. Buddicom himself, or any other individual, would consider the ge neral remarks which follow as directed to him, he would have sedulously guarded against that inference. But he had no such suspicion. The reproof contained in all but that single paragraph had long been meditated, and had an application far beyond the immediate occasion which called it forth, and to some other places even still more than to Liverpool.

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