been favoured to lay the foundation of a great and glorious work, to the praise and glory of God our Saviour; we have been favoured, for a long time, to sow the seeds of Divine truth among this people by tracts, by the Holy Scriptures, and preaching. Others, who enter after us into the work, find it now easier. I regret it by no means, that I have spent such a long time in Java, and I rejoice to see others come to take up the work of evangelizing the poor Javanese." RELIGIOUS. LIGHT FROM FRANCE.-The extreme rabidness of the Ultramontane priesthood and press in France has at length provoked a a reaction, and devout Catholics, of more moderate views, are disclaiming the right of persecution, and even defending the fair fame of Protestant believers. M. de Remusat, a Cabinet officer under Louis Phillippe, a scholar of generous culture and genial charity has published a little volume maintaining that Protestantism is a positive religion, exerting a powerful influence over the lives of its disciples. He says it originated in the refusal of prelates to effect the reforms which the Church imperatively needed, and that Luther and his coadjutors were honest and zealous in their efforts to secure high moral ends in their separation from the Church of Rome. The Univers and the Ultramontane press generally have rung endless changes upon the bold assertion that Protestantism is no religion, but only a negation, having no moral power, and exerting no control over the life, and that Protestants, therefore, should be treated as atheists, and persecuted as dangerous enemies to the well being of the State. M. de Remusat has generously undertaken to defend his Protes tant fellow citizens from such gratuitous slander, and his little treatise, written with candour, and enforced with logic and true eloquence, cannot fail to exert an influence upon thoughtful Catholics. We shall hope to hear of good results from its circulation. THE OLDEST CHURCH now existing in the United States, is one near Smithfield, Isle of Wight county, Va. It was built in the reign of Charles I, between the years 1630 and 1635. The brick, lime, and timber, were imported from England. The timber is English oak, and was framed in England. The structure is of brick, erected in the most substantial manner. The mortar has become so hardened that it will strike fire in collision with steel. IMPORTANT TO RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES.The following official letter has been received by the Secretary of the Colonial Church and School Society:-"Inland Revenue, October 17, 1854. Sir-In reply to the inquiry contained in your letter of the 11th inst., I have to inform you that as some doubt is entertained as to the liability to stamp duty of receipts for subscriptions or donations to charitable institutions, the board will treat such receipts as if they were expressly exempted from duty. I am, Sir, THOMAS KEOGH." BIBLES AT RAILWAY STATIONS. We understand the committee of the Edinburgh Bible Society, with the concurrence of the directors of the several lines, have placed large bibles in the waiting-rooms at the principal stations of the North British, Edinburgh and Glasgow, and Caledonian railways, for the use of the railway officials and passengers waiting the trains. believe the stations on several of the English lines have been supplied with bibles and other religious books by private individuals. We THE EDITION OF THE BIBLE translated and printed by the British and Foreign Bible Society, in the language of the Mongol Tartars, remains useless on the Society's shelves in London, the Emperor of Russia having forbidden its circulation. THE MANCHESTER CITY MISSION has now an income of £5000 a year, and employs eighty-one missionaries. GENERAL. WONDERFUL!-A New York contemporary tells us that the editor of the North Carolina Baptist Spectator is an officiating minister of the gospel; a licensed attorney; agent for nearly all the insurance and assurance companies north of the Potomac; commissioner for thirty states; and applicant for the same when Kansas and Nebraska shall have come in; bank director; chairman of the Board of Superintendents of the common schools; temperance orator; agent and counsel for Wake Forest college; president and secretary of all the boards of the baptist church, &c.; and in addition, he owns more town property, has the neatest farm, the best fruits, and the finest cattle of any man in the country. ACCIDENTS AND WAR.-Some two or three hundred persons drowned by the sinking of a steam-ship sends a thrill of horror through a nation, and the lamentations are yet loud on account of the loss. Five or six thousand human beings slaughtered in the Crimea, causes all the bells in England and France to be set ringing for joy, and the organs in the churches peal forth strains of exultation over the glorious' result. A MACKEREL BOAT, of about 20 tons, is at present undergoing the necessary repairs and alterations at Newlyn, in Cornwall, for the purpose of conveying a crew of five men to Australia! To enable the boat to sustain the many storms which may be expected on her voyage out, and to render her as secure as possible, the crew have coppered the lower part of her hull, in addition to which she is comfortably decked, cabins also being placed for the accommodation of the men who intend to navigate ber. The boat will be ballasted with fresh water. A CURIOSITY. In the county of Harrison, Mississippi, lives a female in a house the fabric of her own hands; she cultivates her fields, splits her rails, and does her own fencing; and the present autumn she will have one hundred bushels of corn to sell and a few hundred bushels of potatoes, the produce of her unaided labours! She has not a neighbour within three miles. NEW BEER ACT.-The Wigan Examiner says that, as the result of the new beer act, there has been a reduction of fifty per cent. in the number of persons apprehended or summoned for drunkenness betwixt the hours of twelve o'clock on Saturday night and four o'clock on Monday morning, FORTY-SEVEN LICENSED VICTUALLERS and retail brewers of West Bromwich, have signed a declaration expressing their determination to close their houses on the sab. bath for the sale of beer, spirituous liquors, or any other kind of drink. HENRY WARD BEECHER says, with great truth, that the last quarter of an hour of a long-drawn and tiresome discourse, gives a repulsiveness to religious truth, stronger than can be dissipated by two good sermons afterwards. COMMON SCHOOLS.-There are in the United States about 60,000 common schools, which are supported at an annual expense of nearly six millions of dollars; more than half of which is expended by the States of New York and Massachusetts. THE BIBLE, on the stenographic system, for the use of the blind, costs six pounds, and occupies forty large volumes. CHINESE. The number of Chinese in California, is estimated at 40,000, and hundreds continue to arrive in a state of great poverty. FATHER GAVAZZI now lectures dressed in a robe, on which there is the representation of an open Bible embroidered on the breast. LONGFELLOW calls Sunday the golden clasp which binds together the volume of the week. THE CAPE papers do not announce "births, marriages, and deaths," but "marriages, christenings, and deaths." TREES are said to have been discovered at Calavera, in California, 350 feet high, REVIEW OF THE PAST MONTH. Friday, November 24. AT HOME there has been little to call for remark, except the excitement caused by the news from the seat of war, and the large subscriptions that are making all over the kingdom for the wounded, and the widows and orphans of the slain. But ABROAD, on the Crimea especially, the plot thickens and deepens. On the day we were writing our last "review the Russians attacked the rear of the English position leading to the sea-port of Balaclava, which is now in our possession. The new Turkish troops fled from the redoubts; but the Highlanders repulsed the Russians, and our heavy horse compelled them to fly. Our light horse, mistaking a command, attacked the artillery of the enemy, and several hundreds of our brave soldiers were cut off, as many of the spectators expected, when they saw them gallantly galloping along to certain death But the Russians were effectually repulsed, and they have since relinquished the redoubts they gained from the Turks. On sabbath day, Nov. 5-Waterloo was fought on a sabbath-the Russians made a powerful attack on the British before Sebastopol. The royal princes, sons of the Czar, had arrived and brought reinforcements. They resolved to annihilate the British, and began the battle at day-break. A division of the French came to our help, and after fighting nearly all the day the Russians were at length driven back with great slaughter. As many as ten thousand men must have died that day! On our side, General Cathcart, and several other generals, were killed; and several generals were wounded, among whom were Sir George Brown. The Queen's cousin-the Duke of Cambridge-had a horse shot under him. When the news arrived it caused much anxiety, for it was evident that a few more such victories and we must retire. Next day reinforcements arrived, and they are arriving now in great numbers; and many more are leaving France and England. Up to the 12th of Nov. no further great contest had taken place, and for a fortnight more this will be the best news we can hear, for all our reinforcements will by that time have arrived. It appears from Lord Raglan's official despatch that the attack of the 5th Nov. was made during rain and thick fog by 60,000 Russians and 90 pieces of Artillery. The English were only 8,000, and the French 6,000, and yet they repulsed them with a loss on the part of the Russians of 16,000. What wonderful courage! But what dreadful carnage! Lord Raglan, who has been made a Field Marshal, says, and he is an old soldier, "I never before witnessed such a spectacle as the field presented." Marriages. Oct. 25, at Bloomsbury baptist chapel, (Rev. W. Brock's) by the brother of the bride, Frank, youngest son of J. Holmden, Esq., of Eden Bridge, Kent, to Emily, third daughter of the late Thomas Swinbourn, Esq., of Kilburn. Oct. 29, at the General Baptist chapel, Kirton Lindsey, by Mr. Stapleton, Mr. George Everett, to Mrs. Susanna Croackley. Oct. 30, at the baptist chapel, Stow-onthe-Wold, Mr. James Thompson, to Miss Hannah Cambrey.-And Nov. 4, Mr. Thomas Payne, to Miss M. A. Haywood-And Nov. 6, Oct. 31, by license, at the Baptist Chapel Nov. 9, at Belvoir Street baptist chapel, Leicester, by Mr. Mursell, Mr. John Sharpe, to Miss M. A. Wales. Deaths. Oct. 17, at Southampton, after a long affliction, Emily, the beloved wife of Mr. Henry Apsey, aged 26. For eight years a member of the baptist church meeting in East Street. Sep. 14, at Brandon, Oakland County, | Mr. D. Jarman. She was humble, diligent, Michigan, U. S., Mr. Thomas Wilders, and sincere in her profession; and we can pastor of the baptist church in that place- truly say her end was peace. which he had been the instrument of raising. Mr. W. was long known in the midland counties as pastor of the General Baptist church at Kegworth, Leicestershire. He was a man of true and unaffected piety, sound in the faith, mild in manners, and peaceful in disposition. He went out with his sons to America a few years ago, and was much respected there. He was confined but a few days; and preached on the sabbath before he was taken ill. He said few words during his illness, but was calm and resigned; his faith and hope being fixed on Him, whose cross and salvation had been his constant theme. Sept. 29, at Ticknal, Derbyshire, Mr. Thomas Richardson, aged 72, for thirtyseven years a very steady and worthy member, and several years a deacon, of the General Baptist church at Melbourne. Mr. R. was highly esteemed by a large circle of friends for his amiable and generous conduct. His end was peaceful and serene, and his prospect of eternal rest with Christ was unclouded. Oct. 6, at Brynrothed, near Newbridge, Ann, wife of Mr. Thomas Bowen, aged 81, after a few days' illness. Mrs. B. was brought to a knowledge of the truth in early life. In 1792 she joined the Independent church at Rhayader, and remained in that connexion until 1816, when her attention was directed to believers' baptism. struggled for some time against her convictions, but at length yielded a willing obedience to her Lord, and joined the baptist church at Newbridge, under the pastorate of She Oct. 22, aged 52 years, John Nottage, five years the respected pastor of the baptist church at Saxlingham, Norfolk. He had just resigned the pastorate, and was that day to preach a farewell sermon to his flock, when he was suddenly called from his usefulness on earth to join the redeemed in the assembly of the church triumphant. Nov. 1, at Leicester, aged 80, Mr. John Green, formerly of Market Harborough; the baptist church at which place he aided to form, and of which, for many years, he was a peaceful and pious member. Nov. 2, at Hastings, aged 67, after long suffering, Mr. George Mogridge, of Kingsland, whose writings, bearing the signature of "Old Humphrey," have long been favourably known. Mr. M. was author of as many as 150 publications, besides various smaller pieces in magazines. Nov. 9, aged 60, Mrs. Mary Croft, a member of the baptist church, Walkergate, Louth. She died in peace and hope. Nov. 12, at Oakham, aged 63, Mary, widow of the late Mr. Joseph Ashford, baptist minister. She rested on Christ alone for salvation; felt him to be precious to her soul; and her end was peace. 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