MISSIONARY.

APTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

tion to the Brief Facts given in our nber, page 189, we add the following: missionaries and native teachers, less dependent upon the Society, creased, within the last twelve years, bout 85 to about 290, not including s latter number) Jamaica; an intwofold of European missionaries, reefold of native teachers. For the of these agents the Society has not man £15,000 a year available. encouragements to missionary labour The evangelization of the West of the South Seas Archipelago, of n and Southern Africa, bears testio the value of missions.

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ndia and Ceylon, alone, 309 native es have been formed by the agents rent Societies. These churches con7,356 truly converted persons, and he nucleus of a native christian com7 of 103,000 individuals, who are constant bible instruction. 850, 130,000 copies of the bible, or f it, in thirteen languages of India, published, and 185,400 copies disd.

erever christian missions have been shed, slavery has been abolished. ndia and the South Seas, suttees and cide have ceased.

arts of peace and civilization have a place amid the deserts of Africa h missionary influence.

erty of conscience has been secured Eastern possessions.

the many heathen lands which were against the gospel fifty years ago, ith the exception of Japan, are now o its messengers.

the fact be pondered, that the eight red millions of our fellow men who without Christ, are accessible to the mers of the cross.

the nearly two hundred millions of , there are but 403 missionaries. In al and Behar, alone, it is reckoned een millions never hear the gospel. in fifty miles of Calcutta, there are of 30,000, 20,000, and 10,000 inhabithat have never seen a missionary. i, with 150,000 people, has had no onary since Mr. Thompson died. Mide, with 70,000, has none.

t more than nine hundred churches eted for the Society in Great Britain reland last year: but upwards of 200 ese have (as yet) a collection only every - year. Nearly 150 of them seem to è no other systematic effort. If all

collect every year, the Society would be relieved of its difficulties.

The Society has not, as yet, 3000 subscribers of 10s. and upwards.

Very many of the wants of the Society would be supplied (so far as funds can supply them), if the income of the Society for ordinary purposes averaged one penny a week from each of the members of our churches. A penny a month collected by each scholar connected with our Sunday schools would raise £7,500 a year.

Will the friends of missions remember that their gifts are to be divided among upwards of 200 stations, and that they are spent in three continents, for the support of more than 200 labourers, each of whom is deserving of, and needs, liberal aid?

"He which soweth bountifully, shall reap also bountifully."

MR. AND MRS. BUCKLEY, of the General Baptist Mission in Orissa, advised to return to their native land for the restoration of their health, arrived safe in this country, on June 12th.

BAPTIST INTELLIGENCE.

ADDITIONAL.

TREFOREST.-Mr. D. Davies, from Pontypool college, was publicly recognised as minister of the English church in this place, June 13 and 14; when Messrs. J. Richards, J. E. Jones, A. G. Fuller, W. Jones, C. Jones, T. Davies, and T. Thomas, president of Pontypool college, preached. The devotional services were conducted by brethren D. Jones, M. Kent, J. Phillips, and O. Williams. On June 4, one candidate was baptized in the presence of a very large audience, in the river Taff, by Mr. D. Davies. The cause is in a flourishing state in this thriving place.

MALTON, Yorkshire.-Mr. John Bane, many years pastor of the baptist church at Aylsham, in Norfolk, and late of Downham, in the same county, having accepted a unanimous invitation from the baptist church at this place to become its pastor, was set apart to this office, June 7, when Messrs. Evans of Scarboro', Oliver of Sunderland, Tompson of Hull, Morgan of Bridlington, and the pastor's son, took part in the services of the day. Two deacons were set apart at the same time.

HAVERFORDWEST, Bethesda. - Mr. T. Burdett has entered upon the pastorate of the baptist church meeting here, and is also engaged as classical and mathematical tutor of the Baptist College, Haverfordwest.

CHEDDAR, Somerset.- Mr. W. T. Price, of the baptist college, Bristol, has accepted an invite to the pastorate of the baptist

MIDLAND ASSOCIATION. The annual meeting of this association, formed at Warwick in 1655, was held at Dudley, May 17 and 18. The following pastors of churches were present, and many lay delegatesbrethren Swan, Landels, Taylor, and O'Neill, of Birmingham; Morell of Netherton, Davis of Willenhall, Mills of Kidderminster, Cozens of Bewdley, Young of Coseley, Jones of West Bromwich, Macmaster of Walsall, and Tipple of Wolverhampton. Brother Rogers was moderator, and brother Stokes secretary. The Circular Letter was by brother Landels, "On the miracles of Christ." The sermons were by brethren Swan, Taylor, and O'Neill. Resolutions were passed against American Slavery and Church Rates, and petitions to Parliament against Church Rates and the Government Education Bill, and in favour of the Peace Society. The next annual meeting to be at New Hall Street, Birmingham. Circular Letter by brother Stokes, on the History of the Association."

-The annual

NORTHERN ASSOCIATION. meeting of this Association took place at Middleton-in-Teesdale, May 16 and 17, when reports of the state of the churches, sabbath schools, &c., were read, and the usual denominational business was transacted. Among other resolutions adopted, was one condemnatory of the Government measure of education, and a petition to that effect was forwarded to the House of Com

mons. It was also resolved, unanimously, "That the thanks of the ministers and members be presented to Edward Baines, Esq., of Leeds, for his able and untiring efforts in the cause of voluntary education."

THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION met at Ryde, Isle of Wight, June 7 and 8, when sermons were preached by Messrs. Cox and Griffiths. A petition against Government Education, and a resolution against American Slavery, were adopted; and delegates to the Anti-State-Church Convention were appointed.

A SINGULAR BLUNDER !-The Liverpool Albion lately gave the following paragraph: "The Hon. and Rev. B. W. Noel has arrived in Australia, and has been appointed a magistrate of Victoria." Nothing could be more incorrect. Possibly some other member of the Noel family may be intended.

Saffron Walden. Mr. W. A. Gillson, of York Street, Bath, has accepted an invitation to the pastorate of the baptist church at the Upper Meeting in this town.

WEYMOUTH.-Mr. John Price, of Aberdeen, has accepted the pastoral office over the baptist church in this place.

REL

RELIGIOUS AWAK -The following ex town in Piedmont name) will be read w the two months tha work of Bible instru We sold a great num some Bibles, to th went away rejoicing treasure of which t deprived. The mee struction increased them in different par my departure last been occupied by m his care, the work of a manner truly rej continued. A small s the meetings have be to those strictly rel class, have been ad literary character, fo are infidel. In these is assisted by a d refugee, who has give of sincere conversion

and is a man of solid various meetings, rel every Lord's-day mor ble of containing 200 almost filled."

CHOBHAM, Surrey.— Instruction Society their large tent on th on which the soldier

It is intended to hav sabbath-day. Beside soldiers, many thousa in constant attendance when people take del tacles, especially on th in Leicester, we have new militia parading evenings, playing song boys and girls after county Duke, who is a son the Marquis, ough our peaceful sabbath rudely invaded. If su people will be come F

CALIFORNIA. There in San Francisco. T each thousand inhal judging from other cit a fair average. The M the Episcopalians, Pre tists, two each; the Roman Catholics, S Welsh, one each.

OLD SABBATH SCHO

persons who within th

ERSION OF AN INDIAN PRINCE TO TANITY.In his speech on India, on 3, Sir Charles Wood adverted to isfactory results of the missionary in which the Bible is ordinarily th the full knowledge of the Brah and to the unquestionable fact, that -ead of education among the more ed and enlightened class of Hindoos, sapping the foundations of their defaith. He referred to the recent n of Dhuleep Singh, a descendant of t Singh, and a prince of high rank; pressed his confidence that education gradually lead to the reception of the an faith. He was born in 1837, and has, re, attained what in India is the age hood. "From the time that he was under the care of Dr. Login," we are ed by the Friend of India, "his ion has been most carefully provided nd the boy who, when rescued from e, could not even read, is now almost sh in language, ideas, and feelings. onduct with reference to the ceremoalutes, and his visit to the Governor al, are sufficient proofs that his judgis not beneath his acquirements, and e has been fairly rescued from those nces which warp the minds of the yrogeniti of the East. Sixteen is the t which even the law courts acknowthe right of a native youth to choose mself; and this last act of the Mahahas been taken entirely of his own will. He has been neither coaxed nor

ened into christianity. Indeed, the rnment had every motive for retaining in his old creed. An Asiatic christian e, with £40,000 a year, might excite terest in England, which it has hitherto the policy of the Home authorities to 1; but they doubtless felt that it was For them to interpose obstacles in his The Maharajah was formally aded into the christian church by baptism, he 8th of March last, by the Rev. W. -y, chaplain of Futtehgurh, after a carexamination into his knowledge of the as in which he professed his belief. ceremony, which took place in the arajah's own house at that station, was aded by all the civil and military authos, the American missionaries, and a ber of the Maharajah's own attendants, latter of whom are said to have eared deeply impressed with its solem"Christianity," remarks the Calcutta istian Advocate, "has not only been efited by the baptism of princes; but, this instance, if all we have heard be e, the gospel will have no occasion to be amed of its noble convert."

he examination was scriptural; but how vas baptism administered ?]

LONGING FOR THE FLESH РотS.-At the annual assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, the voluntary system was again denounced as false and mischievous, though they have, for the last ten years, reaped rich fruits from it-to the tune of an average of £300,000 a year. They have as much right, they say, to endowment as their brethren in Ireland. So they have-that is, no right at all! And another thing, they will never get it. So they had as well be content with such things as they have. We must have no more endowments of any kind. work will now be to break up those which exist. The dissenters of England have set the example in getting rid of the regium donum.

Our

UNCLE TOM'S CABIN AND THE BIBLE.The Paris Correspondent of the New Orleans Christian Advocate says:-"Uncle Tom's Cabin is having as great a run in France as it seems to have had in England and America. Whatever be the opinion on slavery, it will be acknowledged, that this work has done one good in France, viz., it has awakened a desire in many minds to read the Bible. Colporteurs have reported lately, that the question has been put to them, whether their Bibles were the same as Uncle Tom's; and when an affirmative answer has been made, the Bible has been bought at once."

THE WESLEYAN DISRUPTION.-Another attempt has been made, by what may be called the moderate party, to effect a reconciliation. For this purpose a conference of delegates has been held in Manchester. For the honour of our common christianity, we should be glad to hear of any prospect of success.

PUBLIC HOUSES ON THE SABBATH.-We are much gratified to observe a movement in many large towns in favour of petitioning Parliament for the closing of these places during the whole of the sabbath day. Those nests of vice and pollution beershops, must, of course, be included.

THE MADIAI are now residing in the city of Nice, Piedmont. We understand that some provision is contemplated by their friends in this country for their future subsistence.

A CLERICAL ELECTION. - The vicarage of Piddington, Oxfordshire, being vacant, and the gift in the hands of the parishioners, 155 parsons made application for the post.

BATH.-The church meeting in Argyle Chapel have voted an annuity of £200 a year to their late venerable pastor, the Rev. W. Jay.

THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH.-It appears that several communities of Jews are disposed to observe the Lord's-day as the sabbath.

GENERAL.

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TURKEY.-The empire of the Greeks was overthrown in 1483, when the Mussulman conqueror entered Constantinople. nearly 300 years the Turks were the scourge and dread of Europe; but their power has now dwindled into weakness, and within the past fifty years their existence, as a nation, has been several times in peril. In 1844, England secured from the Turks freedom from persecution for the christians, and the abrogation of that law of the Koran which made it criminal to profess christianity. In the Turkish empire at this time, commerce prospers, the bible is free and much sought after by many, and there are now twenty evangelical christian churches, chiefly Armenians. But the rulers of the Greek and Latin churches oppose these as protestants, and would persecute them were they not protected by the Turkish Government.

BAPTISM IN THE GREEK CHURCH has, as most of our readers are aware, always been performed in the right way—that is, by dipping the subject in water. It now appears that the Emperor of Russia, as pope of the Eastern Church, is interfering in this matter also. We copy a paragraph from the public papers: "The Patriarch Germanos takes much to heart the tone of supremacy with which Prince Menschikoff made him prohibit the sale of the pamphlet lately published upon the baptism of the Greek Church, (by immersion) the only baptism valid at Constantinople. The synod of St. Petersburg, less exclusive on this point, admits the baptism of Latinists and Protestants."

BEWARE OF FALSE PROPHETS!-Rumours of wars being abroad, some cunning fellows are taking advantage thereof to make money, and have irreverently called in scripture to help them. We allude to several books which have lately appeared with catching titles. We would as soon believe the predictions of old Moore or Zadkiel, or a gipsy fortune-teller, as the writer of "The Coming Struggle," and several similar publications of the day. What a proof of the gullibility of John Bull we have in the rapid sale of tens of thousands of one of these fabrications.

ROYAL VISITORS.-The Duke of Genoa, brother of the King of Sardinia, is, at the time we write, a visitor at the British Court; and the King and Queen of Hanover are expected.

TAXATION.-Mr. W. Williams affirmed in the House of Commons, that out of seventyfive millions gross taxation of this country, the land only paid seventeen millions, and he would undertake to prove that at any

DISSENTERS.-M on church rates, is there were now christians in this hearers, not of the appears, too, that many as 58,804 diss have been certified.

A CURIOUS DISSE farmer member for ported to have said mons, that if churc and the prayer bo and thousands of di to the Church of Eng things some men wil to their own little se

GIPSY TRICKER labouring man, the the neighbourhood c gipsy woman to cl sovereigns on the I a good wife with p. gipsy vanished; an now go to work again use what little comm

FUGITIVE SLAVES puted that about 300States slavery arriv Canadas. About 70is open to them. W that a respectable age gathering subscriptio in obtaining their ow

THE LORD MAYOR convened, at the M eighty mayors of our many other eminent sult on the best mode and art.

AT A CONFIRMATION George's Church, Eve of the London swell n for stealing a gold war two men were habite the women as ladies o

TWO REMARKABLE mouth, the Duke of W of 120 guns -ane Southampton, a large yacht, the Northern S Mr. Vanderbilt, a rich

AN AUSTRALIAN NI Melbourne Argus, is copies per day. Its E over for more rapid meantime, no more supplied.

A GOLDEN PRIZE.largest ever found, and said to have been disc four men in Australia. TWENTY-EIGHT SLAV