Proceedings of other Societies.

FOREIGN.

ANNIVERSARIES OF ENGLISH SOCIETIES.

THE following notices of some of the more important of the late anniversaries in London are taken, with omissions, from the Evangelical Magazine.

British and Foreign Bible Society.

Sunday School Union.

The annual meeting of this society, which has been so greatly blessed of God, was held at Exeter Hall, on Thursday evening, the 3d of May, Lord Henley in the chair.

Including the Sunday School Society for Ireschools, 115,709 teachers, 1,131,023 scholars; land, there are belonging to the Union, 10,897 being an increase, during the year, of 735 schools, 8,162 teachers, and 78,367 scholars.

London Hibernian Society.

On Saturday, the fifth of May, the anniversary of this institution was celebrated at Exeter Hall, the Marquis of Cholmondeley in the chair. The number of day, Sunday, and adult schools, in connection with the society, during the past year, have been 1,569, in which 90,085 scholars have been enrolled, being an increase on the returns of the former year of 4,330 children and adults. Making allowances for the double enrollment of certain of the pupils in the class-books of the day schools, and of the Sunday schools, it appears that no fewer than 73,655 have been in actual attendance, for a longer or shorter period, during the past year, being an increase on the preceding year of

The anniversary of this great society was held at Exeter Hall, on Wednesday, the 2d of May, and the occurrences of the day were such as to awaken sentiments of devout thanksgiving to God, among all the attached friends of the cause. The hall was full-the platform presented a delightful spectacle of rank, talent, and piety-and the dove of peace once more hovered over the assembled advocates and distributors of revealed truth. Lord Bexley, in the absence of the venerable president, took the chair; and, in an appropriate speech, congratulated the meeting on two things the mild visitation of the hand of God, in that disease which has of late prevailed, and the re-establishment of peace and union in the society. He concluded by urging the friends of the cause to increased diligence, watchful-3,500. The Roman Catholic pupils, it is calcuness and prayer.

The report of the society was unusually interesting. It opened by a temperate reference to recent differences; it recorded the unanimity of the society's councils; and mentioned the fact that more than one thousand pounds had been voluntarily spent by the friends of the cause in defending it from the attacks of its enemies. The foreign operations of the institution have been most encouraging.

The income of the society, during the past year, has amounted to 81,735. 16s. 4d.; being a dimination on the receipts of the preceding year of 13,6882. arising exclusively from a variation in the amount of legacies falling in to the society during the year. The expenditure of the society has been 98,4091. 10s. 9d. The issues of Bibles have been 160,701, and of Testaments, 182,444, which, added to the issues on the continent, make a total of 583,888, being an increase on the issues of the preceding year of 100,000 copies of the word of God. The total issues of Bibles and Testaments, from the commencement of the society, have been 7,608,615, and the sum spent in effecting this grand object, 1,878,3821. 16s. 2d. Among the occurrences of the day, nothing was perhaps more gratifying, than the modest, humble, and self-denying manner in which the Hon. and Rev. Gerard Noel acknowledged his error in having opposed himself, for a time, to the great and good cause.

British and Foreign School Society.
The twenty-seventh annual meeting of this
society was held on Monday, the 7th of May,
Lord John Russell in the chair.

The total receipts of the past year, including 1007. from the king, have amounted to 2,572. 10s. 8d.; and the expenditure has been 2,5381. 4s. 3d.

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lated, have amounted to 36,000.

The day schools are 692, in which there are 55,750 scholars; 24,490 of whom are Roman Catholics, and 31,260 Protestants. The Sunday schools are 468, containing 23,346 scholars. The adult schools are 409, containing 10,989. Of these, three schools have been entirely instructed in the Irish language. In the day schools, there are 34 Irish classes, in which 594 children have been taught to read in the Irish tongue. Of the thirty-two counties into which Ireland is divided, twenty-nine are blessed with the schools of this admirable institution.

It was reported that of the 692 day schools belonging to the society, 347 were under the superintendence of clergymen of the established church of Ireland; forty-five under the ministers of other denominations; 282 under noblemen, ladies and gentlemen; and eighteen having no local visitors.

The Bibles distributed during the year have been 4,712; the English Testaments 12,832; the Irish Testaments, 330; and the Irish Bibles, 69; making a total of, since the commencement of the society, 273,519. During the past year, a grant has been made to the institution by the British and Foreign Bible Society, of 500 Bibles and 16,000 Testaments.

The receipts of the past year have amounted to 9,8221. 15s. 6d.; and the expenditures to 8,2971. 8s. 1d.

Religious Tract Society.

On the 8th of May, early in the morning, the anniversary of this society was celebrated at the City of London Tavern, W. B. Gurney, Esq. in the chair. After prayer, the chairman briefly explained the objects of the society, and then called on Mr. W. Jones to read the report. It stated that a grant had been made in China to 34

ABYSSINIA.

THE death of Mr. Kugler, and of his patron, Segabadis, and the residence of Mr. Gobat among a strange and wild people, were mentioned at p. 166. A more particular account of these events is subjoined, taken from the Church Missionary Record.

I hope you will have received the letter which we wrote to you on the 20th of October last (1829). We had then the best prospects on changed, at least for a season. The hope only every side; but, since that time, all has been remains to me, that God will bring clearer days on this miserable country, and that he will not suffer me to be cast out as a vessel of no use.

Leang-a-fa for the printing of tracts written by || CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY'S MISSION IN himself, and circulated from one end of that vast empire to the other. In Siam a tract, printed at the request of one of the native princes, has been largely distributed, and has excited great interest among thousands. At Malacca 10,000 Chinese tracts have been circulated, About 17,500 Javanese tracts have been printed, 4,000 of which have been furnished at the expense of the Singapore society. The accounts from Burmah, transmitted by Dr. Judson, are of the most encouraging character. He says the Burmans are an inquiring and reading people, and that the tracts of the society now pervade the whole country, from the frontiers of China to the banks of the Ganges, and from the borders of Cassay to the southermost villages of British Pegu. At the last festival 10,000 tracts were distributed. At Calcutta 72,500 tracts have been printed, and 83,204 circulated. At Serampore 18,000 copies of eleven new tracts have been put in circulaYou will already know that I have been at Gondar from the 26th of March to the 4th of Oction; and in various languages there have been distributed altogether no fewer than 33,050. A tober; whilst my dear brother Kugler remained at Tigre. At Gondar I have found many indigrant of 4,200 tracts have been sent to Berhamviduals inclined to receive the word of life. I pore. 3,800 suitable books and tracts have been have disposed of sixty copies of the Four Gossent to Chunar. 9,000 tracts have been sent to pels, which I have sent into all the provinces of the military stations at Cawnpore and Meerut. the interior, as far as Shoa. I added a short letDuring the year 92,000 native tracts have been printed at Madras, including twelve new tracts. ter to the Gospels and Acts, which I sent to the king of Shoa. I have since heard that he was In the same period in various languages, 99,305 tracts were circulated, being an increase on the well pleased with the whole, and that he intended former year of 47,831. The total circulation of to send me a present, when he heard that I should be out of the eountry before his present the Madras society has amounted to 461,722 could reach me. I was in the favor of the etchtracts. At Bangalore 15,000 tracts have been printed on the divine attributes. At Nagercoil, in the absence of an abuna or bishop, the greategua (the chief of all the Monks, and at present, 45,000 tracts have been dispersed. At Bombay 25,000 have been printed within the year. est ecclesiastic of the country,) and in general in the favor of all the great men whom I have seen, Surat, Mr. Fyvie, missionary, has distributed 40,000 books and tracts during the year. Other except the old king, who has at present no kingdom. But for all the details I refer you to my parts of the report were equally encouraging. journal; which I, at first, intended to bring myBoth at home and abroad God is eminently pros-self, at least to Egypt, as you will have seen in pering its endeavors to spread the knowledge of divine truth. 8,350 tracts have been voted for distribution in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland; 150,000 for Ireland; for the courts and alleys of the metropolis, 99,750; for circulation in reference to the cholera, 72,500; for counteracting Sabbath-breaking and infidelity in the metropolis, 164,000; for hospitals and workhouses, 8,000; for country villages and hamlets, 300,000; for horse-races, 20,500; for places where scepticism has been making visible progress, 10,700; for the North of England during the prevalence of cholera, 28,000; for soldiers, sailors, watermen, rivermen, bargemen, and canal men, 43,000; for foreigners, 8,800. The new publications for the year have been 186.

At

The sums received during the year for the sale of publications has been 26,9491. 11s. 8d. The total amount of the society's receipts has been $1,3761. 6s. 11d. The publications circulated during the

our joint letter of October. At present I cannot send it, for fear of the robbers, who infest the way from hence to Massowah. But I will send it as soon as the state of things shall be a little ameliorated. A few Mohammedan pilgrims will take this letter to Massowah; but it is a great chance if it ever reach you.

Your very kind letter, I believe of November 1829, reached me, toward the end of December last. I was then at Adowah, with brother Kugler, and little thought that it was the last of it proved. Thus it has pleased a wise Proviyour letters we should ever read together; but so dence to take away from me the only missionary brother whom I had in this dark land. He died last, of a small wound which he had got in the in the peace of God, on the 29th of December large losses of blood. The last evening was, I left arm on the 10th of December, after several hope, for the edification of many who witnessed his death; for they all said, that they had never seen a man die in such full confidence in the Savior. A Mussulman, who was present, said, in the presence of all, that he had seen many persons in the hour of death; that four had died in his arms; but that he had never seen true faith till this day. His remains were deposited in the church called Madhan-Alam (the Savior of the world,) on the 31st of December, 1830. You will see the details of his illness and death in my journal. The young Tecla-Georgis, son of the The thirty-second anniversary was held on late king of the same name, was a great help to the first of May, Lord Bexley in the chair. The me receipts of the year were 40,7511. and the dis-Aichinger was himself very ill, and all at that period; as my Christian brother bursements 47,1731, other my friends had gone to the war; and the priest re

year amount to 11,714,965. The total circulation at home and abroad has amounted to nearly 165,000,000.

Port of London and Bethel Union Society. The thirteenth anniversary was held at the City of London Tavern, on the 7th of May, Lord Mountsandford in the chair. Receipts 7097. 10s.

Church Missionary Society.

feed our mules. We intended to march again during the night; but, after being there about half an hour, a messenger arrived to Wolda Michael, who brought the news that Ras Marea was dead: he had been shot at the beginning of the battle, without his soldiers knowing it until the evening. All was joy in our camp. The brother of Sebagadis arrived. It was immediately resolved that we should return, altogether, the next day to Adowah: but when we rose in the morning, the soldiers were going the same way to their home, and the officers were in silence. Wolda Michael sent to inform me, privately, that a messenger had arrived in the night with the news that his father Sebagadis was dead: he had been taken prisoner on the 14th, and killed on the 15th. We then consulted what was to be done. He advised me to prosecute the plan which I had formed, of leaving all my clothes and money at Debra Damot, a monastery situated on a rock, where no one can ascend without a rope; and to go with our Ali to his village, where I now am. In two days we arrived at Debra Damot; but the monks made many difficulties. I could not ar range with them until the evening of the 20th, when Wolda Michael arrived, and settled every thing as I wished; but he did not ascend to the convent. On the 21st I arrived here at Behati, where I intend to stay, with Ali, until the state of things shall be a little better. The country is full of robbers; but I do not know any other place of refuge; and I hope the Lord will have his eyes upon me, as he has done hitherto.

Thus you see the state in which I am. Do not forget me: pray for this poor people. There will probably be a long series of misery in all this land; for though Wolda Michael will probably succeed his father, it will not be without inward war and much bloodshed.

fused to receive the remains of brother Kugler || into the church, because I would not permit them to pronounce the absolution over him. At that moment, also, the help of God was with me. But another occurrence has lately taken place, by which the work of this mission will be suspended altogether, for several months at least. When I left Gondar, there was a general cry for war against Tigre. When I arrived at Adowah on the 17th of October, I found Sebagadis, who was then going to war. He received me in every respect as his equal. We passed two evenings alone together; on the last of which he wept almost all the time. When we separated, he said to me, "I love you; not because you are a great man, nor because you are a white man, but because you love the Lord whom I wish to love with all my heart. pray you to be my brother, and to consider me as your brother." “No,” said I, “I will be your son, and you shall be my father." At this he kissed my hand, weeping, and saying, "I am not worthy to be called your father; but I will be a faithful brother to you." Thus we parted forever. On the 19th of October he left Ódowah; and, without a halt, he passed the Tacazze, took the mountains of Samen, and went as far as Inchetkaub, the residence of the governor of Samen, who had joined the rest of the governors against Tigre. The intention of Sebagadis was, to attack his enemies before they could assemble in great numbers: and indeed Marea, who governed all the interior from Tacazze, marched immediately against him; but he remained on the mountain Samalemon, until his troops were collected. Sebagadis retired to, this side of the Tacazze. On Sunday, the 13th of February, the Galla for so the Abyssinians call all the soldiers of the interior, the chief governor being a Gallapassed the Tacazze without resistance; because Sebagadis was not willing to fight on a Sunday. On the 14th, the most bloody battle which Abyssinia ever witnessed was fought. The Tigre soldiers fled; and on the 15th the news arrived at Adowah that the Tigre had been beaten. At night some soldiers, who had fled, arrived; and in the morning the whole of the inhabitants had fled, with the exception of some old women, who were weeping, and beating their breasts, on the tops of the houses. About an hour after sunrise, the streets were full of people, who had come from the war: all were in tears; and a dead silence was only broken by the loud cries of those who had still strength to cry. Till then I had almost resolved to remain at Adowah; supposing that some of the chiefs of the interior would know me, and preserve my house. Whilst I was praying to God that he would direct all my steps, I heard that a son of Sebagadis and his brother had passed near Adowah, without entering the town. I ran after them, to ask for surer news; when they both told me that there was no time to be lost, but that I should come immediately with them to a mountain near the town. In the mean time my dear brother Aichinger was preparing every thing for departure. When I returned home, I found our Ali, who had been sent by the eldest surviving son of Sebaga-Tigre, about the same size as the Amharic one; dis, Wolda Michael, to take me with him. I put the books and medicines in a church, and went away with the lighter articles. We marched for some hours in the night: some of our party were plundered by the people of the country; but I lost nothing. On the 17th I met Wolda Michael, who knew me only by reputation. We marched until three o'clock, P. M., when we halted to

We have little news of the Galla: some say, that they are divided amongst themselves, and that they are returning to their country: others say, that they are near Axum, with the intention of plundering it, as they have already done some sacred places, which used, as Axum, to be secure places of refuge in time of war; that they will come to Adi-Grate, where Sebagadis had his money, and then return, through Antalo, to their own country. The Gooderoo Galla, Mohammedans, are the worst of all; they spare neither church nor monastery; they even take delight in killing the priests and monks. The Christians do not spare the churches for fear of God; but they fear the saints to whom the churches and monasteries are consecrated. The brother of Marea will find opposition; but if he succeeds in taking the place of his brother, there is some hope for the interior; for they say, that he is a good man, as his father, Ras Googsa, was.

I have found an able man, the son of a Greek ecclesiastic, born in this country, who will translate the whole New Testament for 200 dollars. He has already translated Matthew, chapters five, six and seven, and St. Luke to the end of the eleventh chapter. I hope he will have finished Luke when we shall meet again. Mr. Kugler had also prepared an alphabet-book in

but it is of no use. In the Amharic, only the alphabetical table with the single words will be of any use. If other missionaries should come to this country, nothing would be better for school-books than select passages of the Bible, or entire chapters or epistles, with some psalms. I have frequently been unwell, since I first entered this country; always with more or less