called Hebraism in the New Testament, has its parallel in Greek. There are scarcely any peculiarities in the Hebrew Syntax, which do not find analogies in Sophocles, Euripides, and Pindar." LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL INETLLIGENCE. Ar the late Commencement of the University of North Carolina, thirtyeight young gentlemen received the degree of A. B. and four the degree of A. M. The Western University of Pennsylvania held its first Commencement at Pittsburg on the twenty-sixth of June. The degree of Bachelor of Arts was conferred on 7 young gentlemen.-The Rev. John H. Hopkins, Pastor of the Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh, has been elected by the Board of Trustees, Professor of Belleslettres, Criticism, and Composition, in the University. It is stated that Chief Justice Marshall has nearly completed a History of the American Government, from the adoption of the Constitution, to the termination of Washington's presidency. em "In the last six numbers of our work," says the U. S. L. Gazette, bracing a period of three months, we have collected and published the titles of one hundred and eighty-five new American works, including pamphlets and periodicals, which issued from the different presses in the United States during that time. Nine of them are works of two volumes each; making, in all, one hundred and twenty-four volumes. A goodly portion of them, however, are twelve and a half cent pamphlets, of which our authors and presses seem abundantly prolific. In the same numbers, we have published the titles of fifty foreign works, making sixty-nine volumes, which have been reprinted in this country during the same time. The whole number of volumes therefore, foreign and domestic which have issued from our presses, during the last three months, is two hundred and sixty-three, Probably many works have been published, which have not reached us, but we think this is as complete a list as can be found in any journal in the country for the same time." NEW VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY.-On Thursday the 19th of May his Britannic majesty's ship Blossom, Capt. F. W. Beechey, sailed from England upon her interesting voyage of discovery and survey in the Pacific.-After visiting Pitcairn Island, Otaheite, Easter, and Friendly Islands, and settling, indisputably the position of all the Islands with which that neighbourhood abounds, the Blossom is to proceed to Behring's Straits, and if the season admit of it, has not been effected since Capt. to proceed around Icy Cape, (which Cook's discovery) along the northern shores of America towards Hecla and Fury Strait, for the purpose of falling in with Capt. Franklin or Capt. Parry, The Blossom is also to complete the survey of the coast of America in such parts about Behring's Straits as are imperfectly known; and after rendering Capt. Franklin the assistance he may require, she is to proceed entirely upon discovery, directing her route for such purpose towards those parts of the Pacific which are the least known or frequented. She is furnished with a large supply of presents for the purpose of bartering with the islanders, and has on board a handsome present for the King of Otaheite and the King of the Sandwich Islands. MUNGO PARK.-The uncertain fate of the enterprising Park, renders every attempt to explore those regions, where he is supposed to have closed his life, peculiarly interesting, from the reflection that some information may, by possibility, be obtained respecting him. We do not know that the tale of his death has been either negatived or confirmed by accounts recently procured from Africa, but we have it on very respectable authority, that some information relative to his last expedition will shortly gratify the literary world. We had lately to announce the return of Lieut. Clapperton, after successfully exploring those wilds, which have been the grave of so many of our heroic countrymen. We now understand that, besides discovering walled towns, in places heretofore supposed to be solitary deserts, peopled with inhabitants who were in the constant habit of using articles furnished by the manufacturing industry of this country, he had the good fortune to discover what, to the reading public, will appear an invaluable prize, the Journal, or part of the Journal, kept by Mungo Park when he last attempted to discover the source of the Niger. How this treasure was obtained we have not heard; but, if we are correctly informed, the MS. has been preserved with care, probably by those who were ignorant of its true value, and who, it is to be feared, at a former period, by their culpable rapacity or murderous resentment, prevented the author from bringing it to that conclusion which he contemplated, and which science desired. A relic so interesting will be regarded with no common anxiety; and we trust little time will elapse before every thing which the gallant Lieutenant may have learned relative to his daring predecessor, will be published.Lond. paper, RELIGIOUS. NEW PUBLICATIONS. To Commend Truth to the Conscience, the object of a Faithful Minister; a Sermon, delivered March 9th, 1825, at the Installation of the Rev. Leonard Bacon, as Pastor of the First Congregational Church and Society in New-Haven. By Joel Hawes, Pastor of the First Church in Hartford. New-Haven. N. Whiting. Views in Theology. No. III. President Edwards's Doctrine of Original Sin, the Doctrine of Physical Depravity. New-York, pp. 104, 8vo. Biblical Repertory. A Collection of Tracts in Biblical Literature. By Charles Hodge. Vol. I. No. 3. Princeton. MISCELLANEOUS. A Discourse, delivered on the Fourth of July, 1825, in the city of Washington by Ralph Randolph Gurley. Washington. Gales and Seaton. A Plea for Africa; delivered in New-Haven, July 4th, 1825. By Leonard Bacon, Pastor of the First Church in New-Haven. T. G. Woodward and Co. Constitution, Government, and Digest of the Laws of Liberia, as confirmed and established by the Board of Managers of the American Colonization Society, May 23, 1825. Washington. An Oration, delivered at Concord, April, 19th, 1825. By Edward Everett. Boston: Cummings and Hilliard, The Christian Indian; or, Times of the First Settlers. First of a Series of American Tales. 1 vol. 12mo. New York. Collins and Hannay. A Northern Tour; being a Guide to Saratoga, Lake George, Niagara, Canada, Boston, &c. &c. embracing an account of the Canals, Colleges, Public Institutions, Natural Curiosities, and Interesting Objects therein. Philadelphia. Carey and Lea. An Address, delivered at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument. By Daniel Webster. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. LONDON RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY. THIS Society held its Twenty-sixth Anniversary Meeting at the City of London Tavern, on Friday, the 13th of May. "After an elegant breakfast," says the British Press, "the company adjourned to the ball-room, which was completely filled, there being upwards of 1200 hundred persons present, and nearly half as many were turned away from the door for want of room. Among the speakers who addressed the meeting, were the Rev. Dr. Morrison, the Rev. T. Mortimer, the Rev. Sereno E. Dwight, of Boston, the Rev. Mr. Reeve, from Bellary, and the Rev. E. Bickersteth, Secretary of the Church Missionary Society. By the politeness of an esteemed friend we have received a copy of the report which was read to the meeting. From this document it appears that the Society has circulated during the past year more than TEN MILLIONS FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND Tracts and books, making the total issues since the establishment of the Society, more than SEVENTY MILLIONS; without including the Tracts which have been published at the expense of the Society in foreign countries. The number of Subscribers to the institution is now greater than at any former period. The gratuitous issues and money granted to Foreign Societies during the year, together with the loss on Hawkers' Tracts, amounted to 20951. being an increase of gratuitous issues beyond that of the preceding year of 3751. The following abstract of the Report will show the extent of the Society's operations in all parts of the globe. CHINA. As the living teachers of Christianity are not permitted to visit China, the only method of making an impression upon this vast empire is through the medium of Tracts and Bibles, distributed among the Chinese, who in great numbers reside at Malacca, Singapore, and other European settlements, and maintain a constant intercourse with their own country. This method has been adopted, and it has been attended with the happiest success. Numerous copies of the Chinese put in circulation; as many as 4000 of Scriptures and Tracts have been lately the latter within a period of four months. At the celebration of a Chinese festival, the Missionaries were invited into the principal temple, by the Malacca, and were permitted to give respectable residents of that nation at their Chinese books to every one of the assembly who could read; the priests alone refused to receive them. The Rev. D. Collie, of Malacca, has communicated to the Society the pleasing intelligence of the publication of Broad Sheets in the Chinese language. He states, "We have sometimes the pleasure of seeing these Sheets pasted up in the houses of the Chinese. Since we commenced distributing them, four applied for copies of the Scriptures, Chinese, from one of the villages, have and a considerable number have expressed a desire to have longer treatises on the Christian Religion." At Singapore, to which place the Chinese College has been removed, Dr. Morrison has, at his own expense, School-Room adjoining, where the erected a bookseller's shop, with a Chinese version of the Scriptures, and Religious Tracts, will be exhibited for sale. will gladden your heart to hear that A letter to Dr. Morrison says:-" It many, both of the Chinese and the Malays, have lately called and begged for the word of life. We sent lately to Cochin-China, by government ves3000 volumes of Chinese books. They sels, belonging to that country, nearly were eagerly read by the Cochin-Chinese, and many of their great men came to the College with a great body of servants, and requested books. As a proof that the books sent to that country, when you were here, have been read, and understood by them, they had copied the names of many of them, and brought them to us in order that they might be supplied with books of the same kind. Many hundred copies have gone from hence since you left us, and there appears an increasing desire, by all classes, to obtain our books. Our weekly Tract is continued, and is much sought after by the Tract has not been read in the Chinese." vain." In consequence of this animating intelligence, the Committee placed 3001. at the disposal of Dr. Morrison and the missionaries at Malacca. They also voted to devote all the profits of a little periodical work, entitled "The Child's Companion," which is published by the Society, and extensively circulated in Great Britain, to the circulation of Tracts in China and the East. The profits of this work during the past year amounted to 2001. HINDOOSTAN. Calcutta. A Religious Tract Society, supported by various denominations of Christians, has been established during the past year at Calcutta, with very encouraging prospects of useful ness. The Secretary writes-"Had we funds, we could do much in the circulation of Tracts; new fields are opening before us daily. Pious officers and gentlemen, in the upper Provinces, when they leave Calcutta for their destinations, wish to furnish themselves with Tracts. As an instance I can state, that a military conductor has distributed, in a few months, 4000 Tracts, and requests more. Many others are employed the whole year in circulating these heralds of salvation. The Committee, highly approving the consolidation of the efforts of all the Missionaries in that part of India, have voted 200 reams of paper, and 40,000 English Tracts to this new Society. It appears that the missionaries at Calcutta have circulated 170,000 Tracts in the English, Bengalee, and Hindoostanee languages. A missionary in connexion with the Baptist Society, in India, writes, "I cannot con clude without telling you, that this morning I have seen a whole family of natives, consisting of grandfather, father, mother, and three sons, all evidently seeking the way of salvation. They were first roused to a sense of their condition by a Tract left at the house of a neighbour, which he threw indignantly into the road, where one of the boys belonging to the family, about fifteen years of age, saw it, and carried it home. They read it, and came for more: I gave them the Four Gospels, and hope that time will show Madras. The Madras Society is very active in the distribution of Tracts. The committee have granted to this Society 50 reams of printing paper, and 12,000 English Tracts. The field of its operations is great."We have," says Mr. Loveless, “an extensive population, increasing prospects of usefulness, and this in four languages, viz. English, Tamul, Taloogoo, and Hindoostanee; in all of which the Gospel may be preached, Schools established, Tracts printed and circulated, and the Sacred Scriptures extensively distributed." Nagercoil. The members of the Society at this place are native Hindoos, and the institution possesses peculiar interest from this circumstance. Six Tracts have been published in Tamul by this Society. Bellary. More than 15,000 Tracts, English and native, have been distributed from this place during the past year,and with themost gratifying effects. Bombay. The American Missiona ries at Bombay have applied for assistance. They say "For several years we have printed and distributed many thousand Religious Tracts, and have had the most ample evidence of their utility. We have found that the attention of this people, ignorant as they are, besotted with idolatry, and averse to argumentation and thinking, is best engaged by something short and impressive. While contemplating the spiritual wants of seven millions of people, who speak and read the Mahratta language, we most ardently desire to send abroad among them, in a concise form, those truths which are essential to salvation; and in looking around for help, our eyes have been directed to your Society. The thousands of Tracts which we have already distributed, have shown us that tens and tens of thousands more are needed, which we cannot supply for want of pecuniary means. The demand for Tracts in the Mahratta country, and the facilities for distributing them, appear to us to be almost unlimited. In compliance with this request the committee forwarded 16 reams of paper, and 4780 Tracts; and the missionaries were authorized to draw for 301. on the formation of a Tract Society at Bombay. CEYLON. The Wesleyan Missionaries have translated various Tracts into the languages of the Island, in Cingalese, in Tamul, and in Indo-Portuguese, and testify to the value of scriptural tracts, for distribution in places where the Christian Missionary cannot gain access. In Ceylon there is a numerous class of nominal Christians, who, as to all mental and religious culture, are as really destitute as the heathens themselves; they are decendants of the Portuguese, who formerly had possession of the island. Several valuable works have been published for their benefit, which have been sought for, and read with avidity. The committee have sent 3000 English Tracts and a further grant of paper to aid the Wesleyan Brethren. The missionaries in Ceylon have recently made great efforts for the education of the young, and there are now more than 10,000 native children receiving Christian instruction in that Island. To avail themselves of the facilities thus afforded for the circulation of divine truth by means of Tracts, the committee have authorized the translation and publication of a Bible Catechism, and of Janeway's Token for Children. Mr. Newstead, who is stationed in this island, says: I have distributed many thousands of scriptural Tracts, in six or seven different languages, and have had the happiness of hearing, on the shores of Ceylon, and in the very heart of the Kandian provinces, these sacred instructors taking place of the vain and polluting stories of heathenism, and the Holy Scriptures themselves chanted at the cottage doors in the evening, instead of the songs of Budhu." AUSTRALASIA. The Australasian Religious Tract Society continues in active operation. His Excellency Major General Sir Thomas Brisbane, the Governor of New South Wales, together with his lady, are the highest subscribers to the Institution, and have been the largest purchasers from its depository: 501. have been remitted from this Society. Various grants have been made to friends, sailing for New South Wales, and also for the use of different convict-ships: and to friends proceeding to Van Dieman's Land. In the latter VOL. VII.-No. 8. 55 place a Religious Tract Society has been recently formed. SOUTH SEAS. George Bennet, Esq. one of the Deputation from the London Missionary Society, communicates the pleasing information that at Matavai a Religious Tract has been written and printed in Taheitan; it is called "Parau Taitoito," a Word of Warning, or "The Warning Voice," and has been widely circulated among both children and adults. AFRICA. Abut 12,000 English and Dutch Tracts have been sent during the past year to missionaries stationed in different parts of South Africa; and on the application of the Church Missionary Society 6,500 books were granted to the missionaries at Sierra Leone. Mauritius, or Isle of France.A Tract Society has been established at this place, and a supply of 9000 French and English Tracts have been forwarded to the new Society. SOUTH AMERICA. It is less than two years since the Society commenced its operations in this interesting portion of the globe. During the past year, by the assistance of some Spaniards of piety and of literary attainments, 12 Spanish Tracts have been added to the Society's catalogue, and several others are in a course of publication. The Rev. Geo. Burder, author of the Village Sermons, has been at the expense of translating twelve of those excellent discourses into the Spanish language, and the committee feeling the importance of their permanent and extensive circulation, have defrayed the charge of siercotype plates. "Leslie on Deism," has also been translated for circulation in that part of the globe, with a view to counteract the evil tendency of infidel books, large numbers of which have been recently sent thither. More than 82,000 Spanish Tracts have been forwarded to Lima, Carthagena, Valparaiso, Buenos Ayres, Chili, Cuba, the Bahamas, and Mexico, and more than 24,000, placed at the disposal of the Liverpool Tract Society, have been forwarded from that city to different ports of the South American continent. In these grants and in the Spanish translations more than 3007. |