who do most to repress our sentiments, are those that discuss them publicly. The evils to which a sectarian spirit will lead under skilful management in such a work as he contemplates-should such a spirit unhappily exist-will not be discussion of the points at issue between the denominations, but a silent passing over of baptist institutions, while due reference is made to those of the independents; the overlooking of the books written by baptists, except in cases where the work of a baptist can be selected with apparent justice for castigation; the use of the definite article in describing societies supported by congregationalists, though baptist societies for the same purposes are in existence; and the adoption of a style more elevated in diction, but similar in effect, to that of an advertiser who concluded an elaborate description of his own excellent establishment thus :-"N.B. No connexion with the little shop next door." Dunnington, Warwickshire Finchampstead, Berkshire.... ...30 "III. That the thanks of the meeting be presented to the Rev. James Smith for his kindness in preaching the annual sermon, and to the Rev. J. H. Evans, A.M., with the church meeting in John Street, for the collection of £16 8s. 3d., and the use of their meeting-house granted at that service on the 25th of August, 1844. IV. That the thanks of the meeting are hereby presented to the Rev. C. Stovel, for his services as secretary to the society. "V. That the thanks of the meeting be presented to Joseph Fletcher, Esq., the treasurer, for his kindness in presiding on this occasion." The attendance was better than on former years, and the new subscriptions obtained in the past year amount to £94. LOCKERLEY, HANTS. On the 21st of June, the baptist chapel at Lockerley was re-opened, after being closed for a considerable time to undergo great alterations and improvements. On the afternoon of the same day Mr. John Bailey, who has been for many years an honourable member of the church, was set apart to the deacon's office; Mr. Burnett, who has been pastor of the church for twenty-two years, Messrs. Farmer of Romsey, Woodrow of Downton, Russell of Broughton, New of Salisbury, and George of Romsey conducted the very interesting services of the day. LLANELLY. At the second anniversary of Bethel Chapel, Llanelly, Carmarthenshire, September the 22nd and 23rd, the collections towards liquidating the debt amounted, we are informed, to £90 14s. 6d. RESIGNATIONS. CORRESPONDENCE. THE LATE DR. CARSON'S WORKS. DEAR SIR,-I wish to state, through the columns of your periodical, that the family of the late Dr. Carson intend to publish a uniform edition of all his writings. A prospectus is in course of preparation, and will be submitted to the public as soon as possible. You will be glad to learn that, in arranging his papers, we have found a considerable number of very important manuscripts which he had prepared some years since. If your readers have any letters of his which would suit for publication along with his miscellaneous papers, or might assist in making out an account of his life, I will feel particularly obliged if they will be kind enough to send them to me at their earliest convenience. I remain, dear sir, Diamond Coleraine, EDITORIAL POSTSCRIPT. relating to schools, books, or matters of gereral business, will be gladly received by our publishers. The provisional committee appointed in August to prepare a plan for the re-publication of scarce works by English baptist writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, hope to meet the friends of that undertaking in the library at the Mission House, Moorgate Street, on the evening of Wednesday the 13th of November. Underhill is expected to be present, and to deliver an address on the subject; and practical measures will be submitted to the consideration of the meeting. We trust that the attendance will be such as to justify the contemplated enterprise. Mr. The secretaries of the Baptist Union request that persons entitled to a copy of the last Annual Report who have not received it, will apply to the Rev. J. H. Hinton, 13, Liverpool Street, London, stating the mode in which it may be most conveniently forwarded. The only reply that has been received to the queries in our last is from a correspondent who declines entering into a discussion respecting the propriety of eating the Lord's supper without the presence of a pastor, but refers to the Works of Mr. Mc Lean of Edinburgh, vol. III. 8vo. edition, pages 403 to 466, and to Mr. Braidwood's Works, vol. I., pages 220 to 266. He advises the inquirer "to consult the above authorities;" but the use of this last word is, we are persuaded, a slip of the pen. The respected writer would not deliberately speak of any uninspired men as "authorities," on a question relating to the will of the Lord, or to the interpretation of scripture. A desire has been expressed in different quarters for a Baptist Almanack, containing with such information as is given in Almanacks generally, statistical and other details having special reference to our own denomination. For several years, many such particulars have been given annually in our December number; and this year, an attempt will be made to meet the wishes of our friends more fully. In our double number, next month, some pages will be found, entitled "The Baptist Al Bucks, in a kind note relating to efforts for the The pastor of the church at Haddenham, manack for 1845," including a Calendar; increase of our circulation, says, " Experience lists of our principal denominational and general societies, with the addresses of their has taught me that if the ministers who have officers; the chapels of our denomination in ability, and approve of the magazine, would the metropolis; the residences of the minismore frequently give us short and good exters composing the Baptist Board; and a perimental pieces, and sign their names, the variety of other statistics relating to the bap-sale among the common people would soon be tist churches in England, Scotland, Ireland, and elsewhere. It is intended also to publish this Almanack separately, in a portable form, which we trust will be found adapted to common use. Any information that can conduce to the completeness of the undertaking, will be thankfully welcomed. Secretaries of associations especially, who have not yet forwarded their circular letters to the editor, are requested to do so without delay. Advertisements for the Baptist Almanack, whether increased." Philadelphos requests answers to the following questions: 1. To what should a backslider be restored when re-admitted to the fellowship of the church? 2. In what cases of backsliding may his former privileges be curtailed or diminished? 3. What are the authorities and considerations which justify such curtailment or diminution. TRINIDAD. MISSION PREMISES. We cannot give a more suitable accompaniment to the view of the premises in Port of Spain recently purchased from the trustees of the Mico Charity, than the following extract from Mr. Phillippo's report, after having made a tour among the West India Islands last winter at the request of the Committee. Trinidad, you are aware, is an almost nation. It should at once be occupied by inconceivably magnificent and fertile island, two principal stations at the least, in addition situated at the southern extremity of the to the one now existing at Port of Spain. Caribbean Archipelago, and separated only One of these should be amidst the encampfrom the continent of South America by the ments of discharged African soldiers, situated Gulf of Paria, and the smooth streams of the on the banks of the Quara, Torure, and La mighty Oronooko and Guaripeehè. It is Sewa rivers, on the north-east part of the ninety miles long and fifty broad, shaped like island, from which two other important settlea parellelogram; with an area of 2400 square ments of the same kind, Toco, at the extreme miles, and is from 9.30 to 10.51 north lati- point of the north-east, and Manzinilla, near tude, and from 60.30 to 61.20 west longitude. the middle of the eastern shore, could be The population of the island a few years frequently reached. The second station since, was about 42,000, of which 16,000 should be fixed about five or six miles beyond were contained in Port of Spain, the capital; Savana Grande, not far from the centre of but to such an extent has immigration latterly the island, where a baptist church formed by increased, and which has been at the rate of our missionary brother Mr. Cowan already from 3 to 4000 per annum, that it cannot be exists, comprising twenty-seven members. at present less than 100,000. To meet the The people here also are chiefly soldiers, moral and religious necessities of this large Africans or of African descent, disbanded and rapidly augmenting community, there after the American war, and many of them are not, as far as I could ascertain, more than were members of baptist churches in the ten evangelical ministers :-three Wesleyans, Southern States. About 3000 are calculated three of the Scotch secession church, one as being comprised in this latter locality baptist, and two or three of the protestant alone, extending only within a circle of ten establishment. Thus calculating that there miles. Nearly the same may be said with are ten who preach the gospel in its sim- respect to the district previously named. As plicity and purity, and these equally dis- a very considerable number of these people tributed throughout the island, there would are prepossessed in favour of our denominabe but one sound spiritual instructor to every tion, and have no minister of any kind reten thousand souls. Equally disproportionate siding amongst them, they cannot but appear are means and institutions for the scriptural to the committee and to the society at large, instruction of the rising generation. The to present powerful claims upon their attenwants of the people, therefore, in these re- tion and efforts. I visited both these districts spects, are great and appalling; and the in company with Mr. Cowan, and can assure destitution becomes the more palpably and painfully evident by the general habits and character of the great mass of the population. In no part of the West Indies have I found the lower classes so benighted, idle, and depraved. Compared indeed with their brethren in those islands where missionary operations have been more abundant and of remoter origin, they are at the present moment in a state but little removed from that in which the former were found fifty years ago. The desirableness of extended missionary effort in this island, it will thus be seen, does not admit of an inquiry, and various circumstances, which I cannot now detail, particularly distinguish it as a field which claims the prompt and generous aid of our own denomi the committee and the Christian public that nothing could exceed the earnestness with which these poor, and I believe many of them, pious people, implored that missionaries of their " own society" might be sent among them, or the pleasure and gratitude they expressed at the prospect of such a consummation of their long and ardent prayers, having, as they said, "been holding on and looking up to God for a minister for twentyeight years." Owing to some past peculiar circumstances the people are generally poor, and therefore at present able to do but little towards the support of ministers among them. Cheered and supported, however, by their presence, and encouraged by their example and advice, I have no doubt that the industrial habits of the mass, would soon be so stimulated as to enable them, at least, to contribute towards the support of their pastors in provisions and labour, and thus gradually diminish the annual pecuniary claims of each station upon the society. They have, indeed, generally ex pressed themselves to this effect, and as an evidence of their desire to assist the cause in every way to the best of their ability, two or three of them have already given land as sites for the erection of places of worship and other buildings necessary to a complete missionary establishment, whilst numbers have pledged themselves to contribute in labour and materials for their erection. These spheres of labour I consider especially important and promising; equally encouraging with those now presented in some of the interior districts of Jamaica, and not dissimilar in some other respects. We held several meetings in the neighbourhood during our stay, and I was peculiarly gratified with the neat appearance and orderly deportment of all who attended them, nor less so, with the simple enthusiasm which these services soon began to awaken in their bosoms, proving that, like their brethren in Jamaica, there was a chord of their hearts, which, if once struck, would vibrate with equal facility and animation. In neither of these districts, probably, do any influential individuals reside upon whom we could depend for present assistance either as to the support of schools, or in furtherance of any other of our operations. this must be our head quarters; here we have Under these circumstances, and for additional reasons which I may hereafter assign, I urge the committee to purchase the premises of the Mico Charity at once, if at a price not exceeding that, or but little exceeding that, I have previously named, and commence vigorous efforts there without further delay. An impression is actually abroad at Port of Spain, that the efforts of our society there are only by way of experiment, and which injurious conclusion the renting of the premises for ever so short a time, will but tend to confirm. With Port of Spain I think it would be Trinidad, I repeat, is a very important and otherwise in respect to pecuniary aid. Several necessitous field of missionary labour; and as respectable and influential individuals here to the country districts I have named, I know have already contributed considerable sums of none more attractive to real Christian phito Mr. Cowan towards the erection of a place lanthropists, who would prefer untrodden of worship, and I have no doubt but that as fields of enterprise, and delight in promoting soon as circumstances justify the prospect of the temporal as well as spiritual interests of a permanent establishment in that important their fellow-men. Buildings necessary to be town, in connexion with our society, much erected for establishments in the country (for larger and more numerous sums would be they are not here commonly to be rented) cheerfully given. It cannot be dissembled would be of the plainest, simplest possible that considerable misapprehension exists description; and as all, or nearly all, the throughout the island as to the real objects of our society and the tendency of their efforts in the West India Colonies generally, on which account your agents may for some time be regarded with suspicion and treated with hauteur by the majority of the white inhabitants; there is not, perhaps, notwithstanding, one town in the West Indies in which so many respectable individuals are to be found of such, truly liberal and enlightened views, or so free from narrow, sectarian, selfish prejudice and bigotry, as are associated in this beautiful and thriving capital. With regard to the continued occupation of Port of Spain as a mission station, I have already given you my opinion. The more I reflect on the subject, the more am I convinced that however discouraging the prospects of success may for some time appear, materials for such purpose may be obtained on the spot, comparatively little pecuniary outlay would be required, except for workmen's wages, which would render even the commencement of such stations comparatively inexpensive. The first thing that will be required here are residences, which probably might be erected, under judicious superintendence, and the co-operation of the people, for about £200 or £300 sterling each; after which, places of worship of a description that would be at first required might be raised at a still more inconsiderable cost. The expense of hiring houses in Trinidad, when they can be obtained, is considerably greater than in Jamaica. Hence it would be impossible to rent any thing like a decent residence in Port of Spain, for a missionary |