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two years hence, I believe all this and more will be realized. The last Saturday in every month is court day.-One has occurred, and we have had one trial by jury. It was conducted with great propriety, and the verdict strictly according to evidence. It was a criminal prosecution.'

Commissioners for Foreign Missions.-The fourteenth annual meeting of this board was holden in Boston on the 17th and 18th of September. Fifteen members were present. The report of the Treasurer stated the receipts of the year ending August 31st, to be $55,808 94, and the expenditures, $66,379 75. Seven new members were elected. The Annual Sermon was preached by Rev. Pres. Day, of New Haven, from Nehemiah vi. 3. The next meeting is to be holden in Hartford, Connecticut, on the third Wednesday of September, 1824.

General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church.-In the narra tive of the state of religion, &c., presented at the last meeting of this body, we are told that the Presbyterian Church in the United States, embraces 13 Synods, and more than 70 Presbyteries. One of these Presbyteries is in the eastern part of New England; all the others lie on the west and south of that region, and stretch from Niagara and Champlain, in the State of New York, to Missouri and Louisiana on the south-west, a distance of more than 1500 miles.'

The Assembly has under its direction, two Theological Seminaries. The Theological Seminary, at Princeton, has been unusually full during the last year. At present, it numbers eighty-five students. But the Board have still to detail the embarrassments under which it labours for want of funds. The Theological Seminary at Auburn is yet in its incipient state, but is represented as rising in prosperity. Its number of students, at present, is thirteen.' The condition of the Theological Seminary at Princeton, is more particularly described in the Abstract of the eleventh annual report of the board of directors.' 'The number of students at the date of the last report was sixty-five. During the summer session eight were received; and three were regularly dismissed.

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At the close of the session, certificates that they had completed the whole course prescribed, were given to seven students. 'During the winter session Forty-four additional students were received; seven withdrew in good standing; ten were regularly dismissed, and two died.

'The whole number of students connected with the Seminary during the winter session was ninety-six. The number now in connexion with it is eighty-five.

"Since the last Annual Report, twenty-two students have been licensed to preach the Gospel.

"The Semi-annual examinations of the students have been satisfactory to the Board.

'The benefactions during the year for the support of necessitous students, as reported by the Professors, amount to $1,910 63, exclusive of several articles of clothing.

'The number of books presented to the library through the year past has been small, compared with preceding years. Only twenty volumes have been received. To these, the Board have the pleasure to report, has been added the valuable library of the late Theological Seminary of the Associate Reformed Synod. Shortly after the last Assembly rose, this library, together with the valuable cases in which it was contained, were delivered by a committee of the late Associate Reformed Synod, to a committee of the Board of Directors. The books and cases were received into the Seminary in the month of June last. On this subject, the librarian in his report to the Board remarks, 'The number of volumes is between 2400 and 2500. They are, with some exceptions, in very good condition as to binding, &c. generally excellent editions, and making altogether a collection equally rare and valuable, and fully answering, it is believed, any expectations that may have been formed respecting it.' The whole library now consists of about 4,500 volumes, and nearly 600 pamphlets.'

The last Assembly appropriated for the general purposes of the Institution, including the unexpended balance of the former year, the sum of $5,430 28.

The expenditures of the year have amounted to $5,358 951; leaving $71 27 of the appropriation unexpended.

OBITUARY.

FOR THE CHRISTIAN DISCIPLE.

WHEN SO valuable a life as that of the late MRS. GRAY was so unexpectedly terminated, saddened and subdued by the intelligence, the heart was at first too oppressed at the removal of such a character, calmly to enumerate the traits which composed it. To those who knew the deceased, the effort could, indeed, at no time be necessary. To such, it were superfluous to mention the shrewdness and sagacity of her intellect, her solid judgment and lively observation, her union of the devout and social affections-a spirit of ardent, profound, contemplative piety, combined with every social, and companionable quality-strict in principle, yet indulgent in disposition, and with vigorous powers of body and mind continually ex

erted to add to faith, virtue.' They who were, in any degree, admitted to an intercourse with this venerated lady, can testify as to these characteristics; not to touch on the hallowed precincts of that domestic circle where they were more peculiarly developed, and where their recollection, alas! only enhances the poignancy.of their sense of privation. But, as the examples of those who occupy the high places in society, is, and ought to be, of extensive influence, if there be any who have heard of the departed, only as the wife of the wealthiest among our citizens, it may not be useless to inform them, that advantages so liberally allotted, were received with religious gratitude, enjoyed with tempered satisfaction, and dispensed with liberality, unalloyed by ostentation. Remarkable indeed for the prosperity which attended her-both in degree and durationshe might almost be fancied as having sat for that portrait of 'Wisdom,' where, in the boldness of oriental personification, she is represented with length of days in her right hand, and in her left hand, riches and honour. Yet, however privileged in an extraordinary exemption from the evils of poverty, sickness, or bereavement, she was far more favoured to escape the natural and most formidable influences of so cloudless a career in forwarding the selfish propensities and drying the springs of sympathy. But she seems to have looked on life, and its goods, with the conscientious and responsible feelings of a Christian, who, aware of its exposure to reverse, retained those moderate desires in success, that were a security against depression in possible disaster. And while the sunshine of her happier destiny was reflected upon others, to cheer and to comfort by its kindly communications, she proved her beneficence not of that kind which requires the goad of personal suffering to stimulate its activity, since, though the iron had never entered her own soul, she knew how to feel for those who were pierced. May the effect of such example not be wholly lost on the community, but continue preserved in that holy remembrance which constitutes the earthly immortality of the just, and is the earnest of an higher reserved for them in the heavens!

TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS.

THE Conductors of this work give notice that, after the next number, which concludes the fifth volume of the second series, they shall continue to publish under the title of the Christian Examiner and Theological Review. One of the reasous for this change is, that very few complete copies of the work remain for the supply of new subscribers. No alteration in its character is contemplated, except that of embracing a somewhat greater variety of topics. The price of subscription will be the same as heretofore. A number of 80 pages will be published every two months. The type and size of the page will be those of the North American Review. Every exertion will be made to secure a punctual publication and transmission to distant subscribers. Communications may be made to Oliver Everett, the publisher (at No. 13 Cornhill.)

A list of donations to the Evangelical Missionary Society in Massachusetts Is necessarily postponed to the next number.

The communication of A CONSTANT READER is under the consideration of the gentleman who superintended the number for May and June.

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