The second school is at Inch. The master of this school had not collected the children that day, in consequence of the illness of his own mother, with whom he was obliged to be; so that I could not examine the children. I understood, however, from two or three persons on the spot, who often visit the school, that it is going on well. The clergyman of the parish takes an interest in its prosperity. allowed me by the Committee, will permit. The Committee will be glad to hear that we baptized one person yesterday, who is to be added to the church in Cork, and who will, I trust, prove a blessing to us. We shall depend on your prayers, that this may be the first fruits of a large harvest. I remain, Gentlemen, your devoted servant, From R. P. June 20, 1820. The third school is about four miles from the above, in the parish of Mahony. This school was opened on trial at the commencement of May last, instead of one near Clonckilly, which was given up in consequence of the master's dismission. There are 80 children in this school; as it was only on trial, I had not given out the requisite number of books. We are indebted to the Methodists for lending, books from their reading room, for the assistance of the children, and also for occasional visits from some of the minis-three months past. I have found from fifty ters of that denomination. The fourth school is at Flaunbrack. There were 69 names on the list, 53 children present. According to the number on the list there are 33 reading the 2 books of the Societies... 10 ditto the 1 ditto.. 26 ditto the Testament. 69 The Committee will see, that there are six schools in the county of Cork, though four only are mentioned in the report. I have pressing applications to establish more schools near Dunmanevay; which I should be happy to comply with if the Committee authorize me. There is a great desire for hearing the gospel in the towns of Dunmanevay and Clonckilly; on which account, as well as on the account of the schools, I must go there again very soon; and as often as my engagements in Cork, and the means Rev. SIR, I am truly happy to inform you, that the Schools are in a more prosperous state at present than they have been those to a hundred in almost every one of the Schools I have inspected, and the chil dren repeated their tasks with the greatest accuracy. Many of them repeated near thirty chapters in the New Testament, though some of them could scarcely speak a word of English when they came to our Schools. I still continue, through much weak. ness, to declare the glad tidings of salva tion as often as I possibly can. I recently preached in a place called Rathday following, in Crossmolina, in a pubnanaugh, to a small congregation; the lic house; the greater part of the congregation were soldiers, who paid the greatest attention. We received no interruption, except from a few people who were calling for liquor. The next day I preached in Mulifarry to about forty. I should have had more, but they had only an hour's notice. In the Glen where I stopped, I have been deprived of the house in which I preached formerly. The gentleman to whom it belonged, seemed to think that enthusiasm, as he was pleased to call it, was spreading too much. But though this seemed to be much against us at first, we find it now to be all for the better, as the Lord has opened an extensive door for his word. I preach six or seven times each week, from house to house. The last time was in a Roman Catholic's house; his whole family are converted from Popery; but he himself continues under the dominion of sin. I cannot devote much of my time to my own improvement; but it is well to be employed in a good work. I arrived here last night from the County of Clare, where I have been preaching the Gospel, inspecting the Schools, and paying the Masters and Irish Readers their salaries; for the early payment of which, at this distressing season of bank failure, they were very grateful to the Society. I send inclosed their receipts. I have been to the Schools four times within these three months, as they require constant attention, particularly when under opposition, prejudice, and lying reports. They are attended with no small degree of anxiety, when their welfare, the prosperity of the Society, and the glory of our dear Redeemer, are at heart. Those, to whose care they are committed, require unwearied zeal, wisdom, and prudence, and particularly the prayers of the people of God. The priests have issued the most strict injunctions that the children shall only read the scriptures once a week, and commit none to memory. But all this is overcome. The children, such as are able, constantly read the scriptures, and commit them to memory. In the Anghnist School, twentyone of the children have committed to memory, since the 1st of April, 172 chapters, and the other Schools have done the same in proportion. I am happy I can say there is a great improvement in every thing. I have been highly pleased this inspection. The Schools are filled with poor children, who would, in all probability, be left to perish in ignorance and in sin, were it not for the Benevolent Society. According to the Committee's desire, I have been to Lady O'B. I have established one School for her Ladyship, the 1st of this month, at Bodythe, where it was very much wanted: there were eighty children in it yesterday. The gentlewoman under whose care Lady O'B. wished me to establish it, attends to it every day herself; and so does a Roman Catholic lady, (besides the master,) who does all she can to improve the children, and reads some of the best tracts for them. The priest spoke against the School, and the lady's conduct, last Sunday, on the altar at mass. The lady got up, and defended the School, and her own conduct, before the congregation! The School is continued, and likely to prosper. It is kept at present in the Roman Catholic Chapel; but Mrs. O'C. (to whom Lady O'B. has given the School,) will, with her friends, build a schoolhouse immediately. The other two Schools I am to establish for her Ladyship the 1st of July, according to her wish, as she could not till then fix upon the most important places. I intend going to-morrow to have them established by the 1st of July. Her Ladyship procured for me an unexpected congregation, principally Roman Catholies, and was very glad I came. She was wishing, she said, at the time of my arrival, that the Lord would send some person. The people were very attentive. One Roman Catholic said, that " no person should prevent him from hearing the word of God;for that, though the priests reproved them for this, they did not reprove them when they committed sin." Lady O'B. wishes very much for one, or more, Irish Readers. When I mentioned their usefulness to her, she was much pleased; and I promised her that I would request the Committee to send one into her neighbourhood. I am certain I do not mistake, when I say, there is not one nominal Protestant in the County of Clare, to six hundred, or a thousand Papists. In most of our Schools in that County, there is not a single Protestant child, and they are all in the most deplorable ignorance. Missionary Herald. BAPTIST MISSION. Home Proceedings. ANNIVERSARY OF THE YORKSHIRE AND LANCASHIRE ASSISTANT SOCIETY. THE annual services connected with the Yorkshire and Lancashire Assistant Baptist Missionary Society, were held this year at Liverpool; and afforded much gratification to the numerous friends of the Mission, who assembled, from various places, on this interesting occasion. The first sermon was preached at Mr. Lister's chapel in Lime-street, on Tuesday evening, the 11th of July, by the Rev. William Ward of Serampore, from Mark xvi. 16, He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be damned. Mr. Ward preached again the next evening, at the Wesleyan Chapel in Brunswick-street, which had heen most kindly lent for the purpose, from Psalm Ixxiv. 20, Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. And on Friday evening, the 14th, a ser mon was delivered at Byrom-street Meeting, (Mr. Fisher's,) by the Rev. John Birt of Manchester, from Rom. iii. 1, 2, What advantage then hath the Jew ? Or what profit is there of circumcision ? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God. The public meeting for business was held on Thursday evening, the 13th, at Lime-street Chapel, and was very numerously and respectably attended. William Hope, Esq. the much-respected Treasurer of the Society, was called to the Chair, who briefly explained the object of the VOL. XII, meeting, and called on the Rev. William Hargreaves of Ogden to engage in prayer. A statement of the objects, lahours, and success of the Missionaries, was then made, at some length, by Mr. Ward; and various appropriate resolu→ tions were moved and seconded, respectively, by the Rev. Dr. Steadman, and Rev. P. S. Charrier; Rev. Christmas Evans of Anglesea, and Rev. John Dyer, Secretary of the Parent Society; Rev John Birt, and Captain Pudner; Rev. William Dyer of Bacup, and Rev. Robert Philip; Mr. Samuel Hope, and Mr. William Rushton; and Rev. James Lister, and Rev. Moses Fisher. It was stated that the receipts of the Society for the year had been about £630, (one hun dred pounds of which was a liberal donation, presented by several friends of the Independent denomination in Man chester.) Mr. Hope kindly complied with the request of the meeting to retain the office of Treasurer for the year ensuing, and Rev. John Birt of Manchester was elected Secretary, in consequence of the resignation of Rev. William Stephens of Rochdale. On the following Sabbath, sermons were preached, on behalf of the Mission, at the Scotch Church in Oldham-street, at Rev. R. Philip's, Newington Chapel, and at Rev. Thomas Rames's, Great George-street, by Mr. Ward; and at Rev. P. S. Charrier's, Bethesda Chapel, and Rev. Dr. Stewart's, Gloucester-street Chapel, by Mr. Dyer. The readiness with which these various places of worship were granted for our accommodation was completely in unison with the spirit of brotherly kindness and Christian friendship, displayed, on this pleasing occasion, by our brethren of other denominations. Sermons had been preached, on the preceding Lord's-day, in the chapels belonging to our Welsh friends, by Rev. Christmas Evans from Anglesea, and Rev. John Edwards of Ruthin. various collections amounted to about £240; and it is earnestly hoped, that 3 E The the lively interest excited by this meeting, will lead to renewed and zealous efforts in behalf of the Missionary cause, throughout that extensive district comprehended in the sphere of this Society. SERAMPORE COLLEGE. First Examination of the Students." On the 2d of August, the Students, to the number of seventeen, who have commenced the study of Sungskrita in the College established last year at Serampore, were examined respecting the progress they had made in the grammar, by Dr. Carey, the President, in presence of a number of Pundits resident at Seram. pore. They were divided into three classes: those who are in the verbs; those in the nouns, adjectives, and pronouns, (in the Sungskrita grammar classed together, as following precisely the same regimen ;) and those who are committing to memory the Sundhee, the rules for the junction of the various letters. The first class included four; three Christian youths, and a young Brahmun. The first of these was the native Christian, Komula, about eighteen. On examination it appeared, that in the last six months this young man had committed to memory a hundred and twelve pages of the Moogduboodha: and that, in this whole period, he had not omitted a single lecture. The second in the class was Tarachundra, another Christian youth, about sixteen years of age. He had committed to memory nearly ninety pages of the Sungskrita grammar in the last six months; and had been absent from ten lectures. The third was the Brahmun, Eeshwar, about nineteen, who having been admitted into the Native School at Serampore about three years before, in a few months made such proficiency in the newly adopted plan, as, in the management of the School, to surpass the old Teacher, and to be within a year entrusted with the sole care of it, as mentioned in the First Report for Native Schools. At this examination, thirty learned Hindoos, mostly Brahmins, from all parts of India, speaking_different languages, stood round Dr. Carey, as spectators. What an interesting spectacle at the very first examination of an Institution so fitted for diffusing light and happiness through out the Continent of India! Soon after the institution of the College, he entreated permission to attend it, for the sake of farther improvement, while he still discharged his duties in the School. This request being granted, he immediately commenced the study of Sungskrita. It appeared on examination, that he had committed to memory thirty-three pages, which he repeated with the utmost readiness. The fourth in this class was Jeevuna, about twelve years of age, the son of Rammohuna, who for fifteen years has uninterruptedly supported the character of an upright and sincere Christian. This youth, although much interrupted by sickness, had made a sufficient progress to evince his ability to learn; as he had commenced the study of Sungskrita more than a year previously to the institution of the Col lege, he has committed to memory the greatest part of the Sungskrita grammar, notwithstanding his tender age. To par ticularize farther is unnecessary. Suffice it to say, that several of the Christian youths have committed to memory above three-fourths of the Sungskrita grammar in the space of one year; and that the progress of the greater part of the rest affords almost equal hope. The method adopted in examining them was such as to preclude the concealment of non-proficiency: the Examiner, having ascertained how far they had advanced, opened the book casually, and pronouncing the first two, or three words, the Student immediately went on, repeating page after page, till the President told him to cease; the Examiner then turning to another part, began, in the same manner; to which the student responded as before, going forward tilltold to stop. This was repeated till the President had fully satisfied himself respecting their proficiency. In this mode of trial only one failed in repeating his exercises readily from memory, and he had been previously absent above six weeks, chiefly on account of sickness. Of those thus examined in Sungskrita, two, were Brahmun youths, two of the Writer cast, one a Sikh, two Khasee youths; and two of Burman extraction, one of them & Christian. The rest were Christian youths. The view of these young men from vari ous parts, thus laying a solid foundation for that expansion of mind, which may enable them hereafter to become the means of diffusing light within their respective circles, with that of nine Christian youths, making so happy a beginning, the very first year of the College, in a language which forms the key to all the science and literature of India, filled the minds of the Committee with sensations of pleasure and hope which they cannot easily describe. Extract from the First Report, JUST ARRIVED. "THE Committee are fully convinced of the importance of supporting native youths who are not Christians, while they prosecute their studies, as well as those who are. This will be attended with little disadvantage. As a brahmun cannot, without losing cast, eat with a soodra, nor even under the same roof with a brah mun of another province, all youths who are not Christians must live separately, and of course without the walls of the College, in order to preserve inviolable their own ideas of cast, which it is not the design of this Institution to constrain them to violate in any degree. An Institution which ought to combine within itself every advantage for instruction, ought to be as free as the air; and no native youth ought to be deprived of its benefits, for having the misfortune to be born and brought up within any particular circle; no barrier to admission ought to exist, except the inability of its funds to support and instruct more. " They are equally convinced, that no native youth should be constrained to do a single act as the condition of his enjoying the benefits of this Institution, to the doing of which he attaches any idea of moral evil. As it can be no crime in any youth that he did not regulate the circumstances of his birth, and of his first reception of ideas, to make it the condition of his receiving certain important literary advantages, that he shall be constrained to do what he himself deems wrong, or to hear books read which he deems it wrong to hear, is the ready way to corrupt the moral principle implanted in his mind by nature. While, therefore, the Committee are aware of the necessity of guarding against the omission of College duties from mere idleness, under the pretence of conscience, they are firmly convinced, that to compel any native youth to violate his sense of right and wrong, would be to teach him to act against his conscience for the sake of advantage; and that to deprive him in the least degree of the benefits of the Institution for refusing it, would be to turn a desire to act rightly into a crime, and to be guilty of the most agrant injustice. In their view, nothing but incorrigible negligence, or immoral conduct, can form a just reason for depriving any youth, whatever be his religious prejudices, of the advantages of this Institution. "They also feel the propriety of introducing into this College, all the science now possessed by the natives themselves. To an Institution intended to convey superior information to native youth of the highest casts, it is desirable that there be that respectability attached in the eyes of the most learned among the natives, which shall prevent their undervaluing the instruction conveyed, because it is not what they have. All the science they really have, ought to be preserved, and not a particle of it lost. If they have carried the study of any branch of knowledge beyond us, this circumstance ought to be acknowledged and improved; if they have merely trodden in the same path, a knowledge of the science they really have, will enable us to take it up where they fail, and carry it to its proper extent: 'while the ideas they now possess, and the terms in which they express them, will facilitate the communication of superior ideas. This particularly applies to Grammar and to Astronomy, which latter science, from its connexion with their religious festivals, is cultivated by them with peculiar eagerness." The following are the concluding remarks of the Committee: "The plan of the Institution, thus fully developed, they respectfully leave before the public. If India needs enlightening beyond almost any other blessing, as is universally acknowledged, this, if it be ever effected, must be attempted by suitable means; and to be done efficiently, it should be attempted through the natives themselves, as Europeans are too far removed from them, and too little adapted to the climate, to become the immediate agents to any extent in this important work; but if it must be done by native agents, what method more likely to effect it, than that of collecting youths from every tribe and every part of India, and, restraining them from nothing but idleness and positive vice, to imbue their minds with the love of study and investigation, lay open to them, by means of an ample library and able teachers, the various stores of learning and science furnished by the western as well as the eastern world, and give them leisure and oppor. tunity to pursue their researches, free from interruption and distracting care, till they ultimately return to their own provinces, not corrupted by unreasonable expectations, but fraught with knowledge, to become a blessing, in their own sphere, to the end of life? To accomplish this, however, some spot is necessary, secluded from those allurements to vice which abound in eastern capitals, together with a library and apparatus, the collection of which, with suitable buildings, and the support of able professors, involves too great an expense to be provided in many |