to foot-men, women, and children. The whole of the females had neat straw bonnets on their heads, and these had been manufactured by themselves. As soon as Mataitai ascended the pulpit, and had called upon the Congregation to pray, the whole of them, without exception, kneeled down in an instant. His prayer was short, but full of pious matter, and solemnly addressed to his Maker. This done, he gave out some lines of a Native Hymn; and the whole Congregation, standing up, sang I with him. I never before this had witnessed a Congregation of Natives who were so interesting in their appearance, so settled in their countenances, or so neat and cleanly in their persons. could, by a quick glance of the eye, observe many of them looking up earnestly at their Teacher, as if eager to receive whatever might drop from his lips. After addressing his people ardently and distinctly, he then prayed, and thus concluded the Service. The strictest silence prevailed from the beginning to the end. Recent Miscellaneous Entelligence. UNITED KINGDOM. Church Miss. Soc.-The Rev. Thomas Morris, who sailed for India in February 1820 and has laboured in the North-India Mission, has been obliged by the state of his health to return home: he left Calcutta, with Mrs. Morris, in the Broxbournebury, Capt. Edward Chapman, on the 15th of January; and arrived at Plymouth, much restored by Mr. J. C. the voyage, on the 11th of May. Thompson, who had been for some time supported by the Society as a Student at Bishop's College, came to England in the Broxbournebury, with the view of availing himself, chiefly at the expense of his friends, of the advantages afforded by the Society's Institution at Islington in the furtherance of his studies-The Society has lost the benefit which it derived in Calcutta from the assistance of several of its friends. Mr. Matthew Gisborne, who had taken an active share in its concerns, is returned home; and the Rev. Francis Goode (not Henry, as was printed by mistake at p.198) came to England from the Cape in the Broxbournebury, not having sufficiently recovered at the Cape to authorise his return to India - The Rev. William Sawyer, who sailed for India in April 1822 and has laboured at Madras, arrived at Falmouth, on a visit home, on the 15th of May, in the Medina, Captain John Mordaunt: the passage had been long, the ship having left Madras on the 21st of September. King's College-At a Meeting, held at the Freemasons' Tavern on the 16th of May, the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Chair, a Report was presented by the Provisional Committee, from which it appeared that 126,974l. 3s. 6d. had been subscribed; of which, the sum of 54,0741. 3s. 6d. consisted of Benefactions, and the rest of Shares. Government has granted the ground on the east side of Somerset House, for One Thousand Years. free of all charge, as a site for the College: about 140,000l. will be required for the building, 10,000l. for furniture, 17,000l. for purchasing ground for an opening into the Strand, and 3000l. for incidental expenses. The outline of a Charter, by which His Majesty incorporates the College, was heard with much satisfaction. London Miss. Soc.-Several of the Society's Labourers in India have been obliged to seek the restoration of health in their native coun India. try. On the 18th of April, Mr. and Mrs. Hands and their family, from Bellary, arrived in the Carn-Brea Castle, Captain Davey: it is nearly 20 years since Mr. Hands sailed for On the same day, Mr. George Mundy, of Chinsurah, arrived in the Providence, Captain Ford; with Mrs. Hill, wife of Mr. James Hill of Calcutta, and their children. Public Building for Societies-The design of erecting in the Metropolis, a Building for the Meetings of Religious, Charitable, and Scientific Institutions is about to be carried into effect. A Site has been obtained in the Strand, near the spot lately occupied by Exeter Change, of sufficient extent to admit of building a Hall capable of containing 3000 persons, and of providing Committee Rooms and Offices for the convenience of different Institutions. A large Coffee Room forms part of the plan; and will be placed under responsible superintendence, for the accommodation of strangers coming to town to attend the Anniversaries of the different Institutions. Roman-Catholic Book-Societies-A Society has been recently formed in Dublin, for the purpose of furnishing "every poor RomanCatholic Family in Ireland," to use the words of a Circular issued on the occasion, "with a select Library of Religious and other Useful Books." Four Papal Archbishops and Twenty-six Bishops, with a very large number of the Roman Clergy, have already joined the Society. A hope is expressed in the Circular, that such support will be given by the public as to enable the Society to circulate One Hundred Thousand Religious Books through the country before the expiration of the next three months, and that the same liberal aid will be continued each succeeding Quarter till the end be accomplished. But efforts of this nature are not confined to Ireland; nor are they limited to defence, but are extending in various quarters, and assume the character of aggression and proselytism: copies of a Sermon on Faith, Hope, and Charity, in which Popery is delineated in the most attractive guise, have been very widely circulated by a "Catholic Association" in England. While these measures call for the most intelligent and assiduous counteraction, they sufficiently indicate the fears of the Roman-Catholic Body, and are full of promise that Error will rapidly lose the dominion which it has so long usurped over the minds of millions of our countrymen. CONTINENT. France-In a late Number of a French Periodical Work, the "Revue Encyclopédique," it is stated, with what truth we have no means of judging, that more than ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND copies of the complete Works of Voltaire and Rousseau, independently of partial editions of their principal Writings, have been circulated in the last ten or twelve years! French Protest. Miss. Soc.-On Wednesday, the 29th of April, the Annual Meeting of the Society was held in the Church of St. Marie at Paris; and, on Saturday the 2d of May, in the same Church, the Three Missionaries mentioned at p.216 as attending the Annual Meeting of the London Missionary Society, were Ordained by the Consistory to their solemn charge. Their names are Rolland, Lemue, and Bisseaux. Church Miss. Soc.-The Rev. Christian Kugler, who proceeded to the Continent (see p.51) in October, on his return to Egypt, writes from Bâsle at the end of January I have discharged the office of a Travelling Missionary in my native country, with good success; going from town to town and from village to vil. lage, calling the attention of my countrymen to the great work of the Lord. This labour has occupied about a mouth, in which I preached thirteen Missionary Sermons in as many different Churches, and held Meetings in School Rooms. I have also preached two Sermons in my native place,each to a very crowded Congregation. With her Royal Highness the Duchess of Wuertemberg, Mother of our present Queen, I had an interesting conversation of an hour and a half; and was delighted to find such genuine piety and humility in the Duchess, who shews much zeal in the Cause of Christ. WESTERN AFRICA. Church Miss. Soc.-Mr. and Mrs. Metzger sailed in the Potton, on a visit to Europe: the ship foundered off the Western Islands, crew and passengers saved; but particulars have not yet arrived. Slave Trade-Mr. Weeks, who lately (see p. 223) sailed for Sierra Leone, writes Off Cape Blanco we saw four Slave Ships, and were near enough to discern the Slaves on deck: it was evident that we were taken for a Ship of War, as they made sail on our approach, but hauled in again for the land as soon as they saw that we stood on our course. If a judgment may be formed from the number of captured Slave Ships now lying in Freetown Harbour, I should say that the Slave Trade is increasing on the Coast: two were brought in last week, and another is hourly expected. I went on board one of these vessels, which had 221 Slaves, the greater part of them children: it was truly distressing to see how miserably they were stowed together. Wesleyan Miss. Soc.- The Missionaries Monro and Peck (see p. 12) arrived at Freetown on the 16th of December. Of their two predecessors, Mr. May has departed this life, and Mr. Courties was so reduced as to be scarcely able to leave on his return home. Liberia-Mr. Sessing (see p. 224) brings intelligence, that, while the Colonists were preparing, in the beginning of November, to attack a Slave Vessel which had entered the harbour, an explosion took place, in which eight boys, a Carpenter, and the Acting Governor, Mr. Lott Carey, the Africo-American, were killed. Mr. Carey was governing the Colony till the arrival of Dr. Randall; which not taking place till the end of December, Mr. Colston M. Waring, the late Mr. Carey's co-adjutor in the Baptist_Mission, succeeded to the charge till Dr. Randall's arrival. MEDITERRANEAN. Church Miss. Soc.-Dr. Kluge, whose name has been frequently mentioned in connection with the Egyptian Mission, is coming to England, with a view to enter on a course of Missionary Studies in the Institution at Islington: he was to leave Caïro for Malta in the beginning of March. INDIA WITHIN THE GANGES. Church Miss. Soc. The Rev. J. B. Morewood (see pp. 471,472 of our last Volume) reached the Cape on the 14th of December, on his way to India. London Miss. Soc.-The Rev. John Adam, who sailed (see p. 253 of our last Volume) on the 16th of April 1828, reached Calcutta on the 4th of September. UNITED STATES. Bible Society-The following description appears, in the New-York Observer, of a New House, lately entered on by the Society in that city, and of the work executed there It is about 40 feet square on the ground, and four stories high above the basement. The basement story is occupied by the steam-engine and machinery for driving the Power Presses, and by Standing Presses; the first story above the basement, by the eight Power Presses; the second, as a Depository for paper not printed; the third, by nine Common Printing Presses; the fourth, by eleven others, of the same kind; and the loft above, as a place for drying the paper after it is printed. The eight Power Presses being equal to twenty of the common kind, it follows that the whole number is equal to forty. About 400 reams of paper are printed per week, which, at the rate of three dollars per ream, would cost 1200 dollars, or more than 60,000 dollars per annum." The whole number of men and boys employed in this department, is 48girls, 23. Total, 71. The rooms in the old Bible House, which were formerly occupied by the printing apparatus, are now devoted chiefly to the use of the binders. Here are employed 36 men, 2 boys, and 74 girlsTotal, 112. In the offices of the Agent and Secretary, are 4 persons, including the keeper of the Depository, which, added to 71 in the Printing Department and 112 in the Bindery, make a total of One Hundred and Eighty-Seven Persons, actively employed in the good work of multiplying and issuing copies of the Sacred Volume. Baptist Miss. Board - Mr. Cephas Bennet has been appointed to proceed to Maullaming, as Printer to the Burmah Mission. Types have been ordered from Calcutta; but he will take with him a Press, and such materials for his department as can be best supplied in America. Board of Missions-The Rev. C. S. Stewart, late Missionary at the Sandwich Islands, has been appointed Chaplain of the U. S. Sloopof War, Vincennes, now in the Pacific, and to visit those Islands. As the vessel, to which Mr. Stewart is to be attached, is expected to remain some time at the Islands, he will be commissioned by the Board to perform an agency in respect to the Mission there. He will sail in the Guerriere.-The Rev. James Ely, from the Sandwich-Islands Mission, left Oahu, on account of ill health, on the 15th of October, with Mrs. Ely and their two children and a daughter of Mr. Bingham: they sailed in the Enterprise, Captain Swain; and arrived, after experiencing the kindest treatment from the Officers, at Edgartown in Massachusetts, on the 7th of March. The Owner, Gilbert Coffin, Esq. of Nantucket, from whom the Board have before received favours, generously declined any compensation for the passage-The Rev. John Thompson and Mrs. Thompson, with Miss Fuller, have lately proceeded to join the Cherokee Mission: they are to be stationed at Carmel. Colonization Soc.-The Managers state, that there are now ready to depart for the Colony at Liberia 400 Free Coloured People; and that the Owners of 200 Slaves have signified their willingness to release them, so soon as means can be provided for their removal to the Colony. Most of these Owners will bear a part, and some the whole of the expense of such removal. Colleges The Secretary of the American Education Society has obtained, by special correspondence, and has published in the Quarterly Journal of that Institution, a comprehensive Statistical View of the Colleges in the United States. From this document it appears that there are 36 Colleges, with 202 Academic Instructors, in which a total of 29,252 Alumni are under instruction or have been instructed. Of these Alumni, 11,009 are now living, 4016 became Ministers, and of these Ministers 1901 are now living. The Graduates in 1827 were 594: the Undergraduates in 1827-8 were 2922. The Students maintaining a religious profession were 684, and the Indigent Students assisted were 290. The number of Volumes in the College Libraries, were 111,300; and those in the So cial Libraries of the Students, 56,000. Two of the Colleges were founded in the Seventeenth Century, 16 in the Eighteenth, and 19 in the Nineteenth. The two older Colleges are, Harvard University, at Cambridge, in Massachusetts, founded in 1633; and the College of William and Mary, at Williamsburgh, in Virginia, founded in 1691. Methodists-From the Minutes of the Annual Conferences for 1828, it appears that the Methodists of the United States are 421,105 in number; consisting of 361,512 Whites, 59,055 Coloured and Black, and 538 Indians : this is an increase, in the year, of 39,108. The Travelling Preachers are 1533, and the Superannuated 109: being an increase of 66 in the year. The Return of the Indians is defective the last Report of the Methodist Missionary Society makes the number to be 1615. Presbyterians-From the Minutes of the General Assembly for May 1828, it appears that the Presbyterian Church of the United States consists, at present, of 16 Synods, 90 Presbyteries, 1285 Ministers, 194 Licentiates, 242 Candidates, 1968 Churches, and 146,308 Communicants. The New Communicants, in the past year, were 15,095. The Adults baptized were 3389, and the Infants 10,790. Tract Society-The New-York Observer thus speaks of the House occupied by the Society in that city, and the work carried on there In this building, which is 80 feet long by 40 wide, and four stories high above the basement, there are in operation ten Common Presses, and four Power Presses, the latter driven by two mules: the whole are equal to twenty presses of the usual kind: here are employed 29 men and boys, and 14 girls. The quantity of paper consumed per week is about 200 reams. In the Bindery are 6 men, 1 boy, and 51 girls. Employed in Stereotyping, 3. In the Secretary's Office, Depository, and Sales Room, 6. Total engaged in preparing and sending forth Tracts, One Hundred and Ten Persons. CONTRIBUTIONS TO CHURCH MISS. SOC. BY ASSOCIATIONS & COLLECTORS JUNE, 1829. Biography. OBITUARY OF REV. DANIEL TYERMAN, THE death of Mr. Tyerman was stated at p. 37 of the Survey. We shall here collect such information relative to the latter end of this exemplary Servant of Christ as has been published by the London Missionary Society, in whose service he had spent the closing years of his life, by visiting, in company with George Bennet, Esq. of Sheffield, all its principal Missions. Mr. Freeman, of the Mission at Tananarivou, in Madagascar, writes from that place, on the 8th of August We have received a melancholy lesson, as to the futility of all human expectations, and the incapacity of man to comprehend the REASONS of the ways of Him who worketh all things after the counsel of His own will. How much pleasure did we anticipate in the longexpected visit of our friends-the Deputation! How desirous were we, that they should come and visit our Schools, and inspect their progress! What a welcome, we said, will they receive from the King! and how much interest did we hope that they would excite, in favour of Madagascar, on their return home to England! But a dark cloud has arisen, and we are called on to sit down in silent submission. I had the pleasure of going rather more than two days' journey from the capital, to meet our friends, on their way thither: but, with no little concern, I found that Mr. Tyerman's state of health, on reaching the capital, made him very anxious to return as soon as possible. In no country, perhaps, can an anxious state of mind be more unfavourable to health than Madagascar. The Missionaries give the following Letter from Mr. Tyerman, as breathing his amiable spirit, and as shewing how well he sustained June, 1829. the fatigues of the journey to Moramanga, a village within three days' reach of Tananarivou: it is dated from that village, July 17, 1828 We had great pleasure, on our arrival at Tamatave, in finding Letters from Mr. Griffiths and Mr. Freeman, for which we return them our cordial and sincere thanks: their contents were highly gratifying, and deserving of our affectionate acknowledgments. We had, also, the peculiar satisfaction of meeting there, our worthy and mutual friend and brother, Mr. Jones; concerning whom we had suffered much anxiety, having been the cause of detaining him so long at Tamatave waiting our arrival, though our delay arose from causes over which we had no controul. However, it rejoiced our hearts to find him in good health: and this blessing, we are happy to add, is still continued to him, notwithstanding his great fatigues there, and ever since, to promote our comfort and safety. We feel more indebted to him than we can express, for his unceasing kindness: he takes from us every care, every difficulty, which, without his kind assistance, would have been to us insuperable, in accomplishing this long and most arduous journey. May that God, whose we are and whom we serve, reward him a thousandfold! We are happy to inform you all, that we have, this evening, arrived in health and safety at this village: and 21 here we raise our grateful Ebenezer, and say, Hitherto the Lord hath helped us! Through the whole of this journey, the Lord hath loaded us with His benefits, and preserved us from innumerable dangers to which we have been exposed; but which we need not enumerate, you having all encountered them before us. We were never in a country where tra velling is so difficult; nor did we ever travel any country of greater beaut,y nor with more interest. But, alas! these dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of Heathen Ignorance. Oh, may the Sun of Righteousness soon arise upon them! and may you be the honoured instruments of ushering in that glorious day, when all shall behold the brightness of His rising! We are rejoiced, Beloved Brethren and Sisters, in being, at length, so near to you. On Monday next, if the Lord will, we hope to have the joy of seeing you all. We calculate on great enjoyment in your society. Receive us, not as strangers and foreigners, but as fellowcitizens and as brethren. Ours is a visit of Christian Love from that great Society which we all serve. We come as fellow-workers, to assist you in your arduous engagements in any way that we can, and to bid you God speed. The Missionaries communicate the following details of the closing seene: On reaching Tananarivou, on the 21st of July, our deceased friend several times complained of cold; and said that he felt the climate to be very different from any which he had before experienced. Viewing all circumstances, we do not wonder that Mr. Tyerman should have been anxious to go over the business of the Mission without delay, and prepare for his return to the Mauritius. Devoted to the work before him, he attended two evenings (though unable to sit up) to the affairs of the Mission, so far as his strength allowed. Immediately on the arrival of our lamented friend, suitable medicines were administered. He complained of an entire prostration of strength, and compared his feebleness with that of infancy. He was restless several nights; and remarked, that he could not compose his thoughts sufficiently for sleep: yet there was scarcely any acceleration of pulse, no pain whatever was felt, and none of the symptoms of the Malagasy Fever could be perceived. On Tuesday, July 22d (the day after his arrival), he called, with Mr. Bennet, on the several Members of the Mission Family, and afterward went to the Missionary Chapel: he attended, also, the next morning, and Thursday Afternoon, when some senior scholars were examined in their theological knowledge. Sabbath Morning, July 27th, he attended Public Worship, but was too indisposed to take any part in it, and returned home unwell; still complaining only of weakness. On Wednesday, the 30th, he had intended accompanying Mr. Jones to visit some of the Schools in the neighbouring villages; but, not feeling adequate to the effort, he merely took a ride a short distance, in a palanquin, and felt able to converse and ask questions during the exercise, both going and returning. But, soon after reaching the house of Mr. Jones, he became so obviously and alarmingly ill, that the Missionaries were requested to meet with Mr. Bennet, they could entertain but one opinion, viz. that the symptoms were those of apoplexy: one course alone remained to be pursued-to take immediately a quantity of blood from the patient: this was promptly done, and a blister applied. During the application of the blister, Mr. Tyerman fainted-was gently placed on pillows-and, in a few moments, while we stood gazing on him with feelings not to be described, the spirit fled without a groan, or sigh, or struggle, life was extinct! : Owing to his debility, he had not been able to converse much with those about him. The last words which could be understood, as they escaped his lips, were, "All is right! The Covenantthe Covenant of Grace." We know in whom he had believed, and are able to bear testimony how he had served the cause of his Redeemer; but, in the midst of his labours, he has been sum moned to his rest. He has departed: he is now with Christ, and triumphs in the eternal gain. Friday, August 1st, was appointed for the funeral. All the members of the Mission Family attended-Mr. Bennet, the chief mourner-General Brady, and Monsieur Le Gros, and a great body of the Natives. Many more of the Natives, and among them those in office, would, we well know, have attended, |