even unwilling to pray, when under such temptations.

His mind has also been troubled about Caste: he felt that it was not right; but, at last, he had thought it not very necessary to abandon it," of which," he added, "I know pride is at the bottom." One argument, with which he had endeavoured to stifle his convictions on this subject, was this: "God commanded Moses to pull off his shoes, before he came near to the mountain; yet Ministers and Europeans in general do not do so, when they enter the Church :" in the same manner, he thought, though Christ has commanded Love thy neighbour as thyself, yet he needed not follow that command and abandon Caste, since Caste had got a footing in the world." I gave him the best advice that I could on these

several topics; directing him, in all things continually to apply to the Saviour of Sinners, and to listen well to the voice of the Spirit; unfolding to him, as well as I could, the various ways in which our proud hearts and the enemy of souls endeavour to cheat us away from Christ, and to disturb the peace which faith in Him, by His Grace, produces. He felt comforted and strengthened.

Blessed be the Lord for this fruit of the seed of the Gospel! I think the Lord is pleased, in this way, to humble his soul fully, and make him enjoy the fruits of His death and resurrection, and to become an useful Christian. May such instances be greatly multiplied! and may we be endowed with wisdom to direct these our brethren into the way of peace!

The circumstance, that he had still in remembrance several Sermons which

I preached in former months, and which by the blessing of God, had done him good, though I knew nothing of it till now, may prove an encouragement, to myself and to my brethren in the

Ministry.

Travancore.

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. State and Prospects of the Mission among the Syrians.

In a review of the Mission presented to the Madras Corresponding Committee, the Missionaries-Messrs.

Bailey, Fenn, and Baker - thus sum up their observations on its present condition, wants, and pro

spects:

We hope, that, by the Reports which accompany this, the Committee will see that every thing is in progress in the Mission, though the progress is slow, and much slower than we desire.

The connexion between us and the Syrian Church is as close as ever; and the period for the revival of learning and piety seems slowly approaching. The desire of instruction is increasing, and rapidly increasing; and, in a very short time, our present means and establishments will be quite insufficient.

The Committee have requested us to state what help is necessary, and what stations in Travancore offer good openings for Missionary Labours.

With regard to the latter point, excepting Cochin, we know of no places on this side of Quilon where it would be advisable to establish a separate Mission. Strengthening the Mission here seems likely way of ultimate success. Of course to us the most safe way, and the most we except Allepie, of whose wants Mr. Norton is the best judge. The appointment of a Missionary at Cochin is a blishment of another Mission by any matter of great importance: the estaSociety sending out any other Missio naries than Clergymen of the Church of England, might be injurious to the piety of the Syrian Church.

With regard to the wants of our Mission, we would consolidate our wishes and requests for one-a suitable Principal for the College. We do not mean that more Missionaries are not wanted: by our former Reports, the Committee will remember that we have asked for more;

but we wish to have the aid of better advice before proposing any plan of considerable expense. We hope that it may be possible to persuade one, who has dis tinguished himself in the seats of learning in England, to come and take charge of our Institutions. We are sure that there is no Station, which presents so many attractions to a man, who wishes to employ his talents in the instruction of his fellow-creatures: the whole of the Syrian -Population look to the College as the eye of their body, and make it their boast; and the exertions of some of the feeling. present Students will ere long justifythis

We request the Committee to adopt some plan for the increase of the Syrian College Library. If it were publicly known, perhaps many Gentlemen might be inclined to make presents of valuable works.

We do not, at present, exercise any of the functions of English Clergymen, except preaching in English to the Members of our own Mission. We preach occasionally at Cochin, where we also perform the different ceremonies of our Church when requested by the European residents. But we do not look upon that as our station; but only consider ourselves as occupying the ground till another labourer arrives. We have hitherto declined baptizing any Heathen, and prefer sending them to the Syrian Clergy.

During the last year, a breach has occurred in our Missionary Circle in Travancore: we allude to the death of Mrs. Norton: it affected us all most deeply; and the more so, as it was the first that had been made. Soon after Mrs. Norton's death, Mr. Bailey had a severe attack of sickness: the affection, manifested by the Metropolitan and his Clergy and all the Syrians, was very remarkable and gratifying; and, in several Churches, did many meet to pray, according to their mode, for his recovery: it has pleased God to hear their prayers; and we are all now in the enjoyment of tolerable health, the whole of which we desire to consecrate to the service of our God and Saviour.

The following view of the hopes and prospects of the Syrian Church is given in a late Quarterly Circular of the Calcutta Corresponding Committee of the Society :

The Bishop himself is spoken of as a man possessing an excellent understanding, having his mind much occupied with the low condition of his Church, and anxious to improve it by the circulation of the Scriptures and the diffusion of general education. For these exertions, the people appear singularly prepared: the whole Syrian Church seems awakening to the use of those advantages, which Divine Providence has so wonderfully opened to her. The Central College is furnished with Native Malpans, or theological professors, and with European Teachers, far too few for the occasion: and it is crowded, almost

beyond its present means of accommodation, with Students from all parts of Travancore and Cochin; who, beside their old Syriac and the country Malayalim, with the elements of Sanscrit, are learning English and Latin, and promise soon to be ready for Greek.

If the Almighty enable both the Bishop and the Missionaries to continue in the course which they have so happily begun, there seems no consequence too great to expect from it.

Here is a centre of Christian Light and Faith, fixed in a most important part of India, with Churches and Chapels, and a Primitive Discipline already established (the excellence of which is admirably shewn in the preservation of this small band for so many centuries, and with such a deficiency of internal light, in the midst of an idolatrous government and people)-possessing the means of further extension and waiting only for a proper direction, and, what is above all, for the influence of the Holy Spirit to do so vigorously and effectually-possessing already a Version of the Scriptures, the best in the world-having a venerable, and, when purged of some bad additions, a truly pious and evangelical Liturgy— and differing remarkably from every other body of Native Nominal Christians in that quarter, in bearing a deservedly high character among the surrounding Heathen.

A people so situated, and anxious to adopt the means of improvement af

forded them, is surely a sublime and powerfully interesting spectacle; and it is devoutly to be hoped, that no prudent and practicable means of assisting to raise this ancient and venerable Church will be withheld. It must, however, here be added, that these means are to be derived, for the present, only from European Christians.

British America.

SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL.

Missionaries, Schoolmasters, and Notitia. THE following abstract is formed from the Report for 1822.

Newfoundland.!

Stations, 19-Missionaries, one at 2001. per annum, four at 2501. each, and one Visiting Missionary at 350-Schoolmasters, 17; at Stipends amounting together to 2704.-Vacancy, one Schoolinaster,

190-Burials, 125.

Nova Scotia.

Stations, 40 Missionaries, 27: of whom, one has 30l. per annum; one, 1007.; twenty-three, 2001. each; one Visiting Missionary, 3001.; and one, at Halifax, 4007.- Catechists, 2; at 101. each Schoolmasters, 35; of whom, one at Halifax, on the National System, has 150l. per annum; the Stipends of the other 34 amounting together to 4801.-Schoolmistresses, 6; of whom, a National Schoolmistress at Halifax has 50%., and the rest together 401.-Vacancies, two Schoolmasters.

Marriages, 201-Baptisms, 713-Scholars, at Halifax, 200 male and 120 female; and, at three other Stations, 74 male and 33 female-Communicants, at Halifax, 330; and, at ten other Stations, 355Burials, 188,

Church Missionary Society.

MR. JOWETT left Malta, on the 13th of August, for Alexandria, on a visit to Syria, and more particularly Jerusalem. He was well furnished with the Scriptures and Tracts.

The Rev. Michael Wilkinson (see pp.238 and 326) states, in a Letter, dated July 22d, in S. Lat. 28. E. Long. 33, that they were all well, and treated with much kindness by all on board; and were particularly happy in the society of the Rev. Mr. Boys, Company's Chaplain to Madras.

It was Mr. Marsden's intention to settle the Rev. H. Williams and Mr. Clarke, with their families, (see pp. 327 and 407,) at Whangarooa, in New Zealand, about 30 miles northward of the Bay of Islands; from which place communication would be open, by land or water, with the Missionaries in the Bay.

The Rev. John West left the Red River Settlement, Lake Winnipeg, early in June; and arrived in England on the 24th of October. The Rev. David Jones (see p. 239) reached York Fort, Hudson's Bay, on the 10th of August: there he met Mr. West on

his way home, and conferred with him on the concerns of their Mission.

Wesleyan Missionary Society.

Two important openings for Missionary Exertion, in countries toward which the Committee have been, for some time, directing their attention, have taken place. The Cape Colonial Government has given a favourable answer to an application from Mr. W. Shaw, to commence a Mission among the Caffres, and has liberally afforded encouragement to the undertaking. Still higher up the Eastern Coast of Africa, a large tract of land has been ceded to the British Government, near Delagoa Bay: one of the stipulations of the Natives was, that they should be furnished with Christian Teachers; and Capt. Owen, the Officer who conducted the negotiation, being about to sail from the Cape to this New Settlement, took with him Mr. Threlfall, who is now employed there: Mr. Whitworth, late Missionary in the West Indies, has been appointed to take charge of this Station: should this new African Settlement prosper, a communication will probably be opened between it and a part of

Madagascar not yet visited by any Missionaries, and thus afford facilities for the introduction of Christianity into the darkest parts of that important island also. Two additional Missionaries will likewise speedily sail for South Africa, with reference to the opening in Caffraria, and another for the Western Coast.

Mr. Cook, who has been employed on a Mission in France, is on the point of setting off for Palestine. On his arrival at Jerusalem, he is to collect information on the facilities which may exist there, or in any other part of Palestine, for the establishment of a permanent Mission.

Arctic Seas and North-West Passage. The Voyage of Captains Parry and Lyon, which is just concluded, after continuing about two years and a half, will not have added much, it is feared, to our geographical knowledge, in consequence of the insuper able obstacles which our hardy seamen had to encounter. A Foreign Journal recapitulates the following advantages, as derived to science and commerce, from the late British Voyages of Discovery in the Arctic Seas, prior to this last Voyage of Captain Parry:

1. That the continent of America is not so extensive as has been commonly supposed toward the North Pole. 2. That its northern coasts, though at present inaccessible, lie under parallels less elevated than those of the Asiatic Coasts in general, and exceed only by a few degrees the latitudes in the North of Europe. 3. That Baffin's Bay, as it is called, is not properly a bay, but forms a part of the Arctic Ocean, communicating with it by Lancaster Streight. 4. That Greenland is not conjoined with the Arctic Countries of North America, bit forms an immense island, or rather a sixth continent (Australasia being the fifth) from the extremity of the great headland which it projects, between Europe and America to New Siberia, which appears to be its fur

thest limits. 5. That, admitting this, it must be frozen land, and not the Hyperborean Ocean, which fills the space between the 80th degree of latitude and the North Pole. 6. That, combining the results of the Polar Expeditions with Russian Discoveries, there is reason to conclude that this Arctic Continent has been originally subject to the same geological laws as the other great divisions of the globe: its configuration, it would appear, is similar; its greatest breadth being in the northern part, as in the five other continents. One advantage to navigation has already resulted from certain passages discovered by Captain Parry: the whale-fisheries have ventured as far as Lancaster Streights, having returned with rich cargoes. Egypt.

The following view of the State of Egypt is given in Silliman's Journal of the Arts and Sciences, published in the United States:

Every traveller in Egypt attributes to the Viceroy all the qualities of a statesman. The Christians,

who live under his laws. are under many obligations to him; and enterprising travellers of all nations and religions may now traverse Egypt, with a security before unknown to the Ottoman Dominions. The army of the Viceroy consists of not less than 45,000 men; comprehending infantry, cavalry, and artillery. His naval force is composed of 22 vessels; and the navigation of the Nile is protected by a great number of gun-boats, each of which carries 40 men. The revenues of

Mahomed Ali, as Viceroy, amount to 25 millions of Spanish piastres: they arise from custom-house duties, taxes, tolls, fisheries, public domains, contributions from conquered countries, and from caravans, &c. The Viceroy pays, in title of Vassal, 2,400,000 livres to the Sultan: he sends the same sum to the treasury of Mecca; 800,000 measures of rice, &c. to Constantinople; furnishes provisions to the caravans of Cairo; keeps a brilliant Court; and often sends presents to the Sultan, to the favourite Sultana, as well as to the Ministers of his Highness, and to persons in credit at the Seraglio. The actual population of Egypt does not exceed 3,000,000. It contains 2496 towns and villages; of which 957 are in Upper Egypt, and 1539 in the Delta.