square miles, and twenty-six churches, entertained of carrying the great object in some of which were in an unfinished state. view completely into effect. The quali When we advert to accounts of this de- fications of a proper missionary for India scription, and listen to the urgent demands were of a very complicated description. in both those extensive dioceses for addi- He must be not only full of piety and zeal, tional missionaries, it is impossible not to devoted to the work he had undertaken, join in the wish expressed by the Com- and relying upon the Divine blessing for mittee, that the funds of the society were the success of his labours, but also a man more equal to the exigencies of the case. of extensive and solid acquirements, of Upon the laborious nature of the epis- considerable knowledge of mankind, of copal office in those parts of the world, great perseverance, and moreover of sound and its influence in promoting Christian judgment, discretion, and moderation. knowledge, there can be no difference of He must not look back when he had put judgment among those who look at the his hand to the plough. He must be extent of the countries to be visited, and content to sacrifice what might be most the various duties which devolve upon dear to him in this country. And when the bishop. We know the value of epis- it is considered that the man who possesses eopal superintendence in this country, such qualifications might fairly look forand it cannot be less valuable there." ward to adequate remunerations in his "We cannot but admire," continued Mr. own country, it was hardly to be expected Dealtry," the wisdom and prudence of that a succession of such persons could be those excellent men who instituted this found willing to forego these prospects for society. It was from no restricted views, the toils and perils of a far-distant mission. either of the value of Divine truth, or of It was therefore of great importance to our bounden duty to propagate it through form an establishment in India, where, in the world; it was from no narrow or due time, not only young students from limited principle of charity, that they this country, but native students also, turned, in the first instance, to the co- might be trained to the ministry, under lonies of Great Britain. These have, the guidance of able and approved instrucdoubtless, the first claim upon this Christors from England. The college at Caltian church: they were, nominally at least, of the household of faith; and where would have been the charity, or where the good sense, of looking at the heathen world, and leaving those who were so closely connected with us, to incur the hazard of relapsing into a state little better than heathenism, to the utter scandal and disgrace of the Christian name? Perhaps, in the formation of this society, its founders bore in mind, that the Apostles addressed themselves in the first instance to the Jews-beginning at Jerusalem :' perhaps they looked to One yet greater than the Apostles, who declared himself to be especially sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.' We cannot hesitate to say, therefore, that they acted well and wisely. The Epis copal churches in the United States, and in the dioceses of Nova Scotia and Quebec, prove that, unostentatious as were the labours of the society, the effects of them have been of no ordinary magnitude; and when the religion of Christ shall, in future times, be extended through the whole of North America, the historian of that day will not fail to point to this society as the main instrument in the promotion of that blessed work."

The Bishop of Durham, in alluding to the college at Calcutta, stated that Bishops Middleton and Heber had considered it deserving of their especial attention, as forming the basis and groundwork of their best expectations with regard to the main purpose they were labouring to promote. It was obvious, that, without such an institution, no reasonable hope could be

cutta appeared to be in a very promising condition. At present it could accommodate only ten students, but Bishop Heber had expressed his wish that it might be made capable of admitting thirty or forty, and was of opinion, that, when the expense of such an enlargement of the building had been provided for, the increased annual expense of supporting it would be inconsiderable, compared with the increased benefit which would result from it. The Society had therefore resolved upon this enlargement, trusting to the public for the means of effecting it. It was satisfactory also to know, that this object of the society had been much encouraged by the munificent aid of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, which had contributed 50001. towards the first foundation of the college, and had afterwards added 60001. more for the endowment of an additional number of studentships. The Church Missionary Society had also presented a donation of 50001. and subse quently two grants of 1000%. each, with an intimation that further annual supplies to the same amount might be expected. The British and Foreign Bible Society had also contributed 2000l. towards translations of the Scriptures into the native languages of India. It was not only due to those societies gratefully to acknowledge such liberal benefactions, but it was also gratifying to observe, on the part of publie bodies not immediately connected with our own, and constituted upon somewhat different views and principles, such a mark of confidence and of good feeling towards it.

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Relig. Intell.-Society for the The Rev. C. W. Le Bas, a professor in the East-India Company's College, said that it had been the aim of the professors of that establishment, so to conduct its concerns that it might send forth into every department of the Indian civil service, men who by their lives, at least, should do the work of evangelists, and who should thus become faithful auxiliaries to this society, in its designs for the happiness of mankind. He exulted with no common joy, in hearing of the prosperity and usefulness of that glorious and kindred foundation, Bishop's College, in India. "Think," said he, " of the hundred millions of Hindoos who are now governed by a few myriads of our countrymen; and then remember, that Bishop's College was founded to diffuse among those ignorant idolaters the blessings of intelligence, to form a bond of union between our church and the churches which may hereafter arise throughout the vast provinces of India, and to distribute to the very extremities of that weary land the living waters, which alone can give health and purity to the soul! And are not these precisely the purposes which seem to be forced upon us by the very course and order of that Providence, which has placed in our hand the destiny of those innumerable and distant multitudes? Can our country look towards Hindostan without feeling bowed down under the weight of her own glory? Can her children find any rest unto their souls but in aiding her to discharge her vast and imperial responsibilities?"

The Bishop of Gloucester, in speaking of Bishop Heber, remarked, that he had carried with him no ordinary qualifications to the scene of his most useful labours. To the imagination of a poet he added the most solid judgment, and the most ardent zeal and piety. Thus qualified, he proceeded to his task, and answered the fullest expectations that had ever been formed of him. But he was soon called to his reward. His death was untimely to us, and to the church of Christ in India; but to himself death could never be unseasonable. His successor had expressed his desire to tread in the steps of Heber and Middleton. He hoped that his labours would encourage the growth of Christianity in India; and that, under his government, God may give the increase to that husbandry which a Middleton had planted and a Heber had watered; that our church in India may enlarge the place of her tent, and stretch forth the curtains of her habitation.

Dr. George Barnes (late Archdeacon of Bombay) observed, that, from his connexion with the Indian Missions, he might well say that the Gospel had made great progress in India under Bishops Middleton and Heber. He wished, however, for the sake of the successor, that the labour had been divided. Bishop

Propagation of the Gospel. [AUG. Middleton was ready to sink under it; and although Bishop Heber did not complain, still it was well known that he was anxious that the diocese should be divided. But the successor would find those in with him. With respect to the propagation India who would cheerfully co-operate of the Gospel in India, it was to be observed that it was not idolatry alone with idolatry the Gospel had always triumphed. which we had there to contend. Over posed on the Hindoo the distinction of But his code of religious belief had imporal and eternal. Thus he grew up in caste under the fear of punishment temprejudice; and it was our policy to have quence of which was, that the ordinances but few Europeans in India; of our religion were not exhibited to them the consein the manner most calculated to be attended with beneficial effect. The only means, therefore, that could be employed was, that of sending out missionaries and establishing schools, and the appointment of chaplains in distant situations. Biitself the means of supplying these imshop's College, in Calcutta, contained in portant auxiliaries; and he rejoiced in the liberality of so many societies, especially of the Church Missionary Society, to that institution. for some time, but the good seed had been The fruit might not appear sown, and would not perish.

The Bishop of Calcutta, after dwelling decessors, added: "For myself, my path upon the character and labours of his preyet one which, if Heaven spares me a term is clear and open: an humbler task, and of years, may not pass without fruit: be it mine to aim at producing a closer union endeavour to present a less broken phaof the Christian body in general, and to lanx than heretofore to the enemies of the wealth, and dignity, are given to the station cross. It is for this purpose that honour, to which it has pleased his Majesty's government to appoint me: it is for this and union, that every true church estapurpose, to produce Christian harmony terror, not by inquisitorial means, but by blishment is formed; not by a system of that mild and genial influence which such institutions shed on those around."

Meeting, considering the immense field of
The Earl of Winchelsea moved that the
necessity of a great addition to its means,
the society's operations, and the absolute
creasing demands for missionaries in every
to enable it to meet the continually in-
part of the British colonies, earnestly
every Christian, at least upon every mem-
presses its claims for support, if not upon
ber of the Church of England; and espe-
of District Committees, to extend the
cially recommends the general formation
knowledge of its designs, and obtain con-
tributions to its revenues.
of Landaff, in seconding this resolution,
said that the Report had afforded ample
The Bishop

data for the necessity of such an appeal.
Had it contained but the single fact, that
the province of New Brunswick alone
stood in need of thirty-three additional
missionaries for the work of evangelism
in that quarter, there would be enough to
excite them to join heart and hand, and
to stimulate to fervent prayer that the
Lord of the harvest, who alone could bless.
the increase, would send forth more la-
bourers into his vineyard. This, however,
was the call of one single bishop, from one
single province; and in ministering to his
wants to the utmost of the requisition, the
no less pressing demands of other British
colonies were still left unsatisfied. In
proof of this, his Lordship read extracts
of a letter from Dr. Morrison, which he
had that day received from China; from
which it appeared that Dr. Morrison
was then the only Protestant minister
in China, and that he expressed a strong
desire that missionaries of the English
Church should be sent to the Straits
of Malacca, Penang, and Sincapore;
observing, that "the harvest, indeed,
was great, but the labourers, alas, how
few! His Lordship recommended
the general formation of District Com-
mittees, from his own experience of the
expediency of resorting to this method of
enlarging the means of the society. In
Glamorganshire he found, last year, only
two annual subscribers to the society.
After recommending the formation of a
District Society, and writing letters to the
principal laity of the county, a meeting
took place, when the designs of the so-
ciety were explained, and a collection of
more than 1301. was made, consisting
almost entirely of annual subscriptions.
Scanty as are the resources of the paro-
chial clergy in that part of Wales, no
fewer than forty-six incumbents and cu-
rates, in that single county, are now found
in the list of the District Committee. He
had said thus much of the success of one
humble attempt, in the hope of holding
out some encouragement to the more effi-
cient endeavours of others. The Church
of England was under strong obligations
to exert herself in the work of evangelizing
the world. She first led the way, by
sending the first Protestant Mission to
India. It became her now to enlarge her
sphere; and, standing, as she does, like a
Pharos among the nations, to be herself,
by God's blessing, the principal means of
diffusing light throughout the world.

Lord Kenyon, having eulogized the conduct of the Most Rev. Chairman, his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, whom he had found not less than four times that week presiding at meetings called for similar purposes; the Archbishop returned thanks; adding, that it was but right to state to the meeting, that his presidency there, or at any meeting assembling with like views, was merely in the performance of his duty as a Christian minister.

Mr. Bennett and the Rev. D. Tyerman, who have been employed by the London Missionary Society for examining the state of their Missions in various parts of the world, have lately visited India. They conclude the report of their inves tigation with the following encouraging facts.

Having now given some account of the state of things, as we have seen them in Calcutta, Kidderpore, Chinsurah, Berhampore, and Benares, we would remark generally, that our expectations respecting the missionary good that has been effected, and the prospects of more good being done, have been greatly exceeded by what we have found, and by what, under the blessing of God, we may reasonably hope. Our faith respecting the conversion of the Hindoos has been much increased by what we have seen both in Bengal and in the Upper Provinces, and from the concurrent testimony of wise and observing men, who describe the great difference there is between the state of things now and what it was some years ago, both among the rich and poor Hindoos, and among the Brahmins, many of whom begin to be ashamed of the gross impositions they have long practised, and of the oppressions which, by prescription, they have inflicted on the inferior castes. The reverential regard, reaching to actual adoration, with which these inferior castes treated the Brahmins, is very much lessened. We think we see the fetters of caste very much weakened; and we do cheerfully hope that the whole series of the links of this cruel chain will be for ever broken, under the commendable moderation and prudence of our enlightened Government, and especially by the blessing of God on the efforts of prudent Christian members and missionaries, who, while they preach the Gospel, very widely and faithfully exhibit a scriptural temper and conduct towards each other, towards the European inhabitants, and towards the heathen population; and who are also zealously engaged in superintending the education of the young of both sexes; in writing, printing, and distributing useful books, especially the Scriptures, to so very great an extent. The effects which have been already produced on the native population, by the introduction of an increased number of wise and good missionaries, and members of religion not being missionaries, have already been great, directly, in various parts of India; nor less so indirectly, by having effected so manifest a moral improvement in the resident British population in these parts. This change is so great and so valuable, that no reflecting person can help seeing it, and no benevolent person can avoid rejoicing in it."