not specified 1864) 6091; marriages 2046; funerals 4358.-The number of communicants reported at the last convention of the diocese, is 6930-The cause of missions, from the circumstance of there being so much new country, and so many rapidly increasing settlements within the borders of this state, it ought to be expected, should excite much interest, and call forth much active exertion, in this diocese. In a good degree, and we be lieve in an increasing degree, this is the case. As stated above, twenty-six missionaries are now employed. They are appointed by, and under the direction of, a Committee for Propagating the Gospel, of which the bishop is chairman ex officio, appointed by the convention. The funds are supplied by collections in the churches, by missionary societies, and by an annual grant from the Society for Promoting Re ligion and Learning. Some of the largest and most flourishing parishes in the diocese, owe their existence, under God, to the fostering care of the above mentioned committee, through the faithful labours of the missionaries, and the active super intendence of the bishop. When the settle ments in which those parishes are established were just forming, the missionary began there his pious work. His little flock grew with the growth, and strengthened with the strength, of the town, until, nurtured by the divine blessing, the church became competent to its own support, when the aid was withdrawn, and transferred to visit another region with a similar blessing. In this way, two or three missionary stations are dropped every year, and others established. Merely this, however, by no means keeps pace with the demand. There is a loud call for the constant increase of the means of this all-important and indis. pensable mode of advancing the interests of the Gospel. Every friend to those in terests must hope and pray that this good work may abound more and more. The purposes of pious charity continue to be prosecuted by the several societies established with that view, by the bishop, elergy, and members of the church in this diocese. At the head of them is to be ranked the Society for Promoting Religion and Learning, which consists of a board of trustees, originally appointed, and li berally endowed, about twenty-four years ago, by the corporation of Trinity church in the city of New-York; and which annually expends between three and four thousand dollars in various measures promotive of the interests of the Gospel. Two large and flourishing daily charity schools in the city of New-York, and Sunday schools in almost every parish, are communicating gratuitously to many thousands the blessings of an ordinary, and especially of a religious, education. Missionary societies and associations, in all

parts of the diocese, are annually supplying the ecclesiastical authority with the means of continuing and increasing missionary services. Bibles, Common Prayer Books, and tracts, are circulated, in great numbers, by societies formed for the purpose. Although, however, in these several lines of usefulness, the church has cause gratefully to acknowledge many noble examples of liberality and devotedness; still, much remains to be done; a wide field for exertion is still unoccupied; and im mense resources are still inoperative.-It was mentioned, in the last report of this diocese, that there was a prospect of having a college established at Geneva, in the county of Ontario, principally under the direction of the members of our church. The measure has since been carried into effect. And while, at Geneva College, no peculiar privileges are enjoyed by Epis. copal students over others, and every measure unfavourable to the fullest toleration of all religious sentiments, or tending to a system of proselytism, is most scrupulously avoided, the youth of our own church are exposed to no inducements to forsake her, but have every facility of becoming stablished, strengthened, and settled, in her primitive and evangelical doctrines and order.-With regard to "the attention paid to the canons and rules of the church," into which an inquiry is, at this time, ordered to be made, it is gratifying to know that the general fidelity in this particular, with which this diocese has been uniformly characterized, not only continues, but seems to be gaining ground, and becoming more and more firmly settled. Especially, in seasons and neighbourhoods of peculiar religious excitements, the faithful and conscientious pastor has found the provisions of the church, and the zealous and industrious, but consistent, practical application of her principles of order, the most successful mode, under the divine blessing, of rendering those excitements promotive of substantial and permanent evangelical piety.—In conclusion, we would turn to that consideration from which every other derives its greatest value, and to which the devout Christian will ever delight to look as the great end and aim of every visible mean, and every external operation, the state of the diocese in reference to evangelical piety. Of the progress of this, every one acquainted with the genuine character of our holy religion, will be aware, that the evidences must be found in the meek, humble, holy, and selfsubduing, practical operation of a true and living faith on the general character and life. From the observation to this end, which the bishop has made in his extensive visitations, and more extensive intercourse in other ways, with his diocese, and from the missionary and parochial

reports, and other authentic sources of information, we have reason to thank God, that through his grace, there is generally apparent in this diocese, an increase of real religious concern, and an increased sensibility to the pure and holy obligations of the Christian profession. And although much indeed of alarming deficiency on these momentous subjects still exists, to awaken our solicitude, engage our prayers, and enlist our most zealous efforts; still, may we thank God, and take courage, in the humble confidence that his word, worship, and ordinances, are made channels of increasing spiritual blessings to his people.

From the London Christian Remembrancer for January, 1827.

cute the important measures which come recommended to its adoption as his last wishes.

4. That the society, having reference to a desire strongly expressed by the late bishop of Calcutta, that members of the Asiatic Episcopal churches not in subordination to the see of Rome, should be admitted into Bishop's College, do agree to place the sum of 2,000l. at the disposal of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, for the foundation of two scholarships for that purposeprovided they be for ever called Bishop Heber's Scholarships.

5. That in deference to the further

ledge.

A special general meeting of this society was holden on the 6th December last, the archbishop of Canterbury in the chair. There were present the bishops of London, Exeter, and Llandaff; the Hon. Mr. Justice Park, Sir Thomas D. Acland, M. P., and a numerous assemblage of the clergy and laity.-The secretary read several letters received from the society's missionaries in India, and the meeting was addressed by Dr. George Barnes, late archdeacon of Bombay, Mr. Trant, Sir Thomas D. Acland, and Dr. Spry; after which the following resolutions were carried unanimously:

1. That the society deeply deplores the sudden death of the late bishop of Calcutta, which has deprived this institution of a valuable friend, the Indian diocese of an unwearied and truly primitive prelate, and the church at large of one of its brightest ornaments.

2 That this loss has been peculiarly aggravated to the society by its having occurred at a time when the effect of Bishop Heber's presence was beginning to be felt in the missions in Southern India, so long under the superintendence of the society, of which he often emphatically said, that "the strength of the Christian cause in India was there."

3. That the society, being anxious to record its sense of the zeal and energy of this lamented prelate, is of opinion, that the best tribute which it can pay to his memory will be, to prose VOL. XI.

dras district committee be authorized to draw upon the society for a sum not exceeding 2,000l., for the enlargement of the church at Tanjore; and for building, repairing, and enlarging churches, schools, and houses for schoolmasters, catechists, and missionaries, in other parts of Southern India.

6. That Bishop Heber having likewise strongly recommended an extension of the society's printing establishment in Southern India, and it appearing that such a measure may greatly conduce, as well to the immediate advancement of native education, as to the future support of native schools, it be further agreed, that a sum not exceeding 5007. be expended out of the Native School Fund, in enlarging the society's ancient press at Vepery; and that the profits be applied, under the direction of the Madras district committee, for the benefit of native schools in that presidency.

7. That the society in thus testifying its sense of the services of Bishop Heber, adverts with feelings of the most painful recollection, to the short interval which has elapsed since it was called upon to pay the like tribute to the memory of his illustrious predecessor.

8. That the society, therefore, on the present occasion, while it acknowledges with the deepest gratitude the paternal care of his majesty's government, as well in the formation of an Indian Episcopate, as in the selection of the highlygifted persons who successively devoted themselves to the charge, feels it a paramount duty to repeat the earnest prayer 16

all temporal blessings, as men never knew before. The boundaries of the kingdom of Christ will be extended from the rising to the going down of the sun; and Antichristianism, Deism, Mahometanism, Paganism, and Judaism, shall all be destroyed, and give place to the Redeemer's throne. By the preaching of the Gospel, the reading of the Bible, and the zeal of Christians in every station; by the judgments of heaven on the children of men, for their iniquities; above all, by the mighty efficacy of the Holy Ghost, will the glory of the latter days be brought about. Religion will then be the grand business of mankind. The generality will be truly pious; and those who are not,

will be anxious to conceal their real character; and their sentiments and practice have no weight or influence on the public mind. The earnest desire which every pious soul must feel for the long continuance of this glory, will be gratified to hear, that the time mentioned in prophetic language, as the period of its duration, is a thousand years. Such I believe to be the doctrine of the millennium.-Dr. Bogue.

New York Protestant Episcopal Missionary Society.

We have great pleasure in giving place to the following acknowledgment of pious liberality in the ladies of two of the congregations of the Protestant Episcopal Church in this city; and that pleasure is greatly heightened by the knowledge of the fact, that the ladies of two other congregations have recently been engaged in a similar pious act in reference to the General Missionary Society, of which we hope soon to see a record. And our gratification is not less excited by the munificence of "A Friend to Episcopacy," whose excellent letter, communicating his pious offering, we have been permitted to copy, and whose example is warmly recommended to those members of our com. munion whose wealth enables them to follow it." He that soweth plenteously, shall reap plenteously."

"The treasurer of the New-York Protestant Episcopal MissionarySociety gratefully acknowledges the receipt of the following sums:

"Fifty dollars from the ladies of the congregation of St. Luke's church, NewYork, to constitute the rector, the Rev. George Upfold, a director for life.

"Fifty dollars from the ladies of the congregation of St. Thomas's church, New York, to constitute the rector, the Rev. Cornelius R. Duffie, a director for life.

"One hundred dollars from an unknown

donor, (through the post-office,) signed, A Friend to Episcopacy.'

22d March, 1827."

"BENJAMIN M. Bnows, treasurer.

"Sir,

"Mr. B. M. Brown, treasurer.

"I enclose a bank bill of one hundred copal Missionary Society. Believing as I dollars, for the use of the Protestant Episdo, that as the church is constituted among us, wherever an Episcopal congregation is established, a bulwark is erected in Zion, guarding against the assaults of infidelity from without, and what is as important, controlling fanaticism within, it is my intention, so long as God shall spare my life, and continue to me the means, to be a contributor to your society annually at least to this limited extent. "A FRIEND TO EPISCOPACY. "New-York, 21st March, 1827."

General Missionary Society.

The Rev. George Weller, secretary to the board of directors of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, has published a notice in the Church Register of the 24th of March, that the annual meeting of the board will be held in the vestry-room of St. James's church, Philadelphia, on "the Thursday following the third Tuesday in May," being the 17th day of that month, at ten of the clock in the morning. To this notice the following is appended:"To the Clergy of the Protestant Episcopal

Church.

"The executive committee of the board of directors of the Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church, having resolved to recommend to the board of directors, at their annual meeting in May next, the appointment of some fit and qualified clergyman to reside at Buenos Ayres, in South America, the committee are desirous of being informed of any suitable clergyman, who may be willing to devote himself to this duty, before the meeting of the board. The requisitions of the board in point of character and abilities, on the part of the applicant, are, that 'he is a clergyman of respectable standing in this church, and that he possesses such qualifications as may render him apt and meet for the duties of a missionary;' and he must produce a recommendation to this effect, from his bishop, with the ad

Protestant Episcopal Society for the Ad vancement of Christianity in the State of Mississippi.

A society with this title was formed at Natchez (Mississippi) on the 24th of January. The Hon. Chancellor Clarke presided at the meeting, and Dr. A. P. Merrill acted as secretary. The following gen

tlemen were chosen the first officers of the

society:-President, Gov. David Holmes; Vice-President, Rev Albert A. Muller; Corresponding Secretary, Rev. James Pilmore; Recording Secretary, Joseph Dunbar, esq.; Treasurer, Dr. A. P. Merrill; Trustees, Rev. James A. Fox, Rev. John W. Cloud, Hon. J. G. Clarke, Hon. Peter Randolph, Hon. Edward Turner, Hon. George Winchester, Dr. A. Merrill, John T. Griffith, Henry W. Huntingdon, Joseph Barnard, Robert Moore, and James G. Wood, esqrs.-Church Register.

German Universities.

In Germany, for a population of about thirty-six millions, there are twenty-two universities; six belonging to Prussia, three to Bavaria, two to the Austrian states, two to the grand duchy of Baden, two to the electorate of Hesse Cassel, and one to each of the following states-Saxony, Wirtemburg, Denmark, Hanover, the great duchies of Mecklenburg Schwerin and Saxe-Weimar, and Switzerland. The Roman Catholic part of Germany, containing about nineteen millions of inhabitants, possesses only six universities; while the Protestant part, for seventeen millions of inhabitants, has no less than seventeen.Christian Observer.

of Rome is strongly shown in a circular, just issued by the pope, ordering all Jews to dismiss their Christian servants, females as well as males, not excepting such of the former as may be employed as nurses. This papal bull also prohibits introducing into the houses of Jews, any Christian for the purpose of lighting fires on Friday evenings, on Saturdays, or on any Hebrew festival whatever. The violators of this inquisitorial order are liable pleasure of the supreme holy congregato severe penalties, to be inflicted "at the tion."-Ib.

East-Indian Drawings.

Amongst the presents made to the museum of the Calcutta Asiatic Society, are various drawings of Buddha shrines and temples in Nepal: the drawings are the work of a native artist. The artists of Nepal commence their education at ten years of age, and hence acquire great manual dexterity: their apparatus is only a piece of charcoal, an iron style, and one small brush made of goat's hair. The government have agreed to make over to the Asiatic Society, for publication, all documents of a description calculated to illustrate the geography, statistics, or history of India.-16.

Products of the Burmese Empire.

Among the chief natural products of the Burman empire, which are articles of exportation, or likely to become so, are rice, cotton, indigo, cardamoms, pepper, aloes, sugar, saltpeter, salt, teak timber, sticklac, terra japonica, areca nuts, fustic, honey, bees' wax, ivory, rubies, and sapphires. The mineral products are iron, copper, lead, gold, silver, antimony, white marble, limestone, and coal. The teak possible demand, for a period beyond forests are described to be equal to any computation.-Ib.

EPISCOPAL ACTS.

In the Diocese of Connecticut. On the afternoon of the third Sunday in Lent, the holy and apostolic rite of confir Rev. Bishop Brownell, in Christ church, mation was administered by the Right Hartford, to 44 persons, nine of whom were members of Washington College.Episcopal Watchman.

On January 21st, in Christ church, Hartford, William Lewis was admitted to the holy order of deacons by the Right Rev. Bishop Brownell; and has since been engaged as an assistant to the Rev. Mr. Judah, at Bridgeport.-Ib.

In the Diocese of New-York. On the second Sunday in Lent, March