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presides in the various useful establishments which they have formed, and which are conducted by themselves.

"Mr. Colebrook has lately presented the College with a Dictionary of the Punjabee Language.

"Lieutenant Lockett is preparing a list of books purchased on his late tour to Arabia; and a faithful and detailed memoir of that tour, deeply interesting to the antiquary, the historian, and the scholar, is anxiously looked for by the public, from the authentic and learned pen of Lieut. Lockett himself.

"Of the Sanscrit and English Dictionary by Mr. Wilson, noticed in my last Discourse, the manuscript is in great forwardness, and some progress has been made in printing it. Two years more will, however, be required, for the completion of the work.

"The same author has presented to the public the valuable gift of a translation in verse of the Sanscrit poem, entitled the Megha Duta.

"The Megha Duta, or Cloud Messenger, is a work of high repute amongst the native professors of Sanscrit Literature, and is entitled, by beauty and simplicity of style, by rich description, just sentiment, and warm and tender feeling to the rank it holds. Calidasa, the author to whom it is generally attributed, is already known to European Literature through a prose translation, by Sir William Jones, of the drama of Sacontala, one of his most esteemed works; and he is beyond doubt the author of many of the most admired compositions in the Sanscrit Language.

"From one of the best authors, therefore, of that language, Mr. Wilson has selected for publication and translation, the Megha Duta, as a book equally calculated to gratify the Sanscrit scholar, and the cultivator of general literature.”

Lord Minto speaks in the very highest terms of this translation.

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RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SO

CIETY.

On Wednesday, May 4, the tenth anniversary of this Institution was held. At ten o'clock in the morning, the great hall of the Freemasons was overflowing with persons from all parts of the kingdom, who came to witness this scene.

At twelve o'clock, the Right Hon. Lord Teignmouth, President of the Society, took the chair. He commenced the business of the day by reading the Report of the Committee. It appeared from the Report that the exertions, patronage, and influence of the Society had been greatly extended during the past year, more particularly in Russia and Holland. Since the commencement of the Institution, there have been issued 390,323 Bibles and 595,002 Testaments; to which may be added, 17,585 Bibles and 23,940 Testaments, purchased and issued for the Society on the Continent of Europe. In addition to these, 73,000 Bibles and 49,000 Testaments have been printed and circulated on the Continent, by societies aided by the British and Foreign Bible Society: making, in one total amount, one million, one hundred and forty-eight thousand, eight hundred and fifty copies.

The total net receipts, exclusive of sales, has amounted to 62,4417. 8s. 10d. during the past year, being 4,4381. 7s. 3d, less than the receipts of the ninth year. The receipts

for Bibles and Testaments (the greater part of which has been paid by Bible Associations) amounts to 24,7661. 2s. 10d. being 15,241. 4s. 7d. inore than in the ninth year; making an excess in the total receipts of the tenth year over the ninth of 10,761. 5s. 9d. The total net payments of the past year were 84,652l. 1s. 5d.

We had hoped to have had it in our power to have given our readers a full and authentic report of some of the admirable speeches which distinguished this meeting, but we are under the necessity of deferring our purpose. The speakers were, besides the noble President and the Secretaries, his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent; the Hon. the Dean of Wells; Mr. Paterson, and Mr. Pinkerton; the Chancellor of the Exchequer; the Count de la Gardie; the Rev. Mr. Burder; Mr. Wilberforce; the Bishop of Norwich; Mr. C. Grant, jun. ; the Earl of Northesk; the Rev. Dr. Blackburne; Mr. H. Thornton; the Rev. Dr. Thorpe; Lord Gambier, and the Rev. W. Dealtry.

The following Imperial Ukase was read at the Meeting, by the Rev. Mr. Pinkerton, from Moscow, as evincing the lively interest which the Emperor Alexander takes in the cause of religion:

"Beloved Subjects! A year has elapsed since we were called upon to return thanks to God for delivering our realms from the hands of cruel and powerful enemies.

Scarcely is the present year expired, and already our victorious banners are erected on the banks of the Rhine. Europe, which was armed against us, is now voluntarily marching with us! All the nations which lie between Russia and France follow our example; and, having united their arms with ours, turn them against the oppressor of the nations. "So great a change upon earth could only have been effected by the special. power of God. The destiny of nations and states rises and falls by the power of his Almighty Arm. Who is powerful without him? Who is strong and stable, unless by his will? Let us turn to him with cur whole heart and mind. Let us not be proud of our own deeds. Let us never imagine that we are more than weak mortals. What are we? So long as the hand of God is with us, we are in possession of wisdom and might: but, without him, we are nothing. Let all the praise of man, therefore, be silenced before him. Let each of us present the sacrifice of praise to him to whom it is due. Our true glory and honour is humility before him. We are convinced that each of our faithful subjects always feels this, and especially after so much Divine goodness has been poured out upon us. Animated, therefore, by these sentiments of humility and zeal, we ordain, on the present occasion, that throughout our whole Empire, every temple of God be opened; that in every church solemn thanksgivings be presented, on bended knees, to the Maker and Disposer of all things; and that all present tears of the warmest gratitude to him, for the unspeakable mercy shewn us. By the power of his Almighty Arm he hath drawn us out of great deeps, and placed us on the pinnacle of glory. What shall we render unto him but tears of gratitude and joy!

(Signed) "ALEXANDER."

Given at the Head-quarters, Carlsruhe, Dec. 6, (O. S.) 1813.

The following Letter was also read from Prince Galitzin, President of the St. Petersburgh Bible Society, dated Jan. 20, 1814, addressed to Lord Teignmouth :

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"The first year of its existence, this our Society has been already signalized by very numerous and considerable enterprizes and actions. Beside the distribution of the Holy Scriptures in different languages throughout several countries of this extensive empire, the Committee have partly begun and partly undertaken to print them in the Sclavonic, German, Finnish, French, Polish, Armenian, and Kalmuck or Mongol languages. The number of members and benefactors in this salutary work increases daily; the most distant provinces of Russia are emulating the nearest in active contribution towards the success of it; and the light of the Word of God begins to illuminate the cottages of the poor, the asylums of the helpless, the hospitals, and the prisons. The prisoners of war partake of it; even the Heathen and Mahometans begin to receive and to feel it. In the mean time, the happy effect of the establishment of the St. Petersburgh Society and its Committee has been, the production of similar Committees, or rather parts of our General Committee, in several cities of Russia, such as Moscow, Riga, Yaroslaff, Dorpat, Reval, and Mitau.

"We entertain the most sanguine hopes from the co-operation of these Committees in our general undertakings.

"The Committee, while they prostrate themselves before the Almighty Giver of all good, who, with one hand, hath delivered Russia from her outward enemies, and, with the other, planted in her bosom an institution for disseminating more effectually his word, acknowledge with a heartfelt satisfaction the instruments of his Holy Decrees.

"The British and Foreign Bible Society have acquired a sacred right to the everlasting gratitude of the Society of St. Petersburgh; which cannot at the same time but give a solemn testimony to the indefatigable co-operation of their member, the Rev. John Paterson, in their splendid successes.

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Accept, my Lord, of the assurance of my esteem and most unfeigned respect for your person.

"I have the honour to be, &c.

"PRINCE ALEXANDER GALITZIN." EDINBURGH BIBLE SOCIETY. This Society held its fourth annual meeting on the 31st of May, 1813. Its affairs during the preceding year appear to have greatly prospered. Considerable donations of the Scriptures had been made to the military and to schools, to patients in hospitals and to convicts, to poor Highlanders and to prisoners of war, and to various other destitute

persons. Three hundred pounds were given to assist in repairing the loss by fire incurred by the Missionaries at Serampore; and 50l. to the Naval and Military Bible Society; and 9501 were transmitted to the British and Foreign Bible Society. Eleven Societies, auxiliaries to this, had been formed during the preceding ten months in different parts of the country; making the whole uumber of auxiliaries twenty-five; whose contributions during that period have amounted to 8864. 5s. 7d. chiefly raised by weekly contributions of one penny. The Appendix to the Report contains much interesting matter; from which we can afford to make only a single extract of a letter from a correspondent in the Highlands, dated March, 1813. "After passing Fort-William, I entered on the parish of Kilmanivaig. In one house I entered, in Glengary, I saw sitting round a fire no less than twenty persons, twelve of whom belonged to the family, hearing the head of the house reading a chapter of the Prophecies of Isaiah, which was the only part of a Bible they had remaining! He was a poor man; and by the condition the family were in, I verily believe he was unable, as he said, to purchase a copy of the holy Scriptures. The whole appeared remarkably attentive while he read. The chapter was the fortieth. After he was done, he pressed the few pages, and, with affection, consigned them to his bosom. I left the poor man's house; but not till I saw him in raptures, at my promising him a Bible should I chance to come that way again."

WORCESTER AUXILIARY BIBLE
SOCIETY.

On the 23d June, 1813, an Auxiliary Bible Society was formed at Worcester, for that city and county, Lord Viscount Deerhurst in the chair. The Earl of Coventry was chosen President. The Vice-Presidents are, Viscount Dudley and Ward; Viscount Valentia; Viscount Deerhurst; Lord Foley; Lord Beauchamp; Sir T. E. Winnington, Bart., M. P.; Sir George Cornewall, Bart.; Hon. W. B. Lygon, M. P.; Hon. W. H. Lyttelton, M. P.; A. Robarts, Esq., M. P.; W. Gordon, Esq., M. P.; W. Manning Esq., M. P.; J. Martin, Esq., M. P.; E. Lechmere Charlton, Esq., High Sheriff of the County; and Thomas St. John, Esq., Mayor of the City.

Thomas Carden, Esq., and R. Spooner, Esq., were chosen Treasurers; and the Rev. Digby Smith, the Rev. S. Olduail, Mr. S. Pumphrey, and Mr. R. Gillam, Secretaries. The cause of the Society was ably advocated

by the noble Chairman; the High Sheriff of the County; the Rev. E. Burn of Birmingham; the Rev. C. F. Steinkopf; the Rev. Joseph Hughes; the Rev. Thomas White; John Richards, Esq.; James Wakeman, Esq.; S. Crane, Esq.; H. Wakeman, Esq.; the Rev. G. Gibbs.; R. Hudson, Esq.; the Rev. Dr. Smith; R. Barneby, Esq; the Rev. Mr. Cottam; the Rev. John Cawood; the Rev. Dr. Booker ; the Rev. I. M. Butt; R. Spooner, Esq.; Mr. S. Pumphrey; the Rev. I. Shaw; the Rev. I. A. James; the Rev. E. Lake; Mr. Alderman Carden, and the Rev. D. Pritchett.

The following interesting fact was stated by John Richards, Esq. in the course of his speech :

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In the town and neighbourhood of Stourbridge, where an Auxiliary Bible Society, of which I have the honour to be a member, has been recently established, the number of poor families in want of Bibles was found to be far greater than would have been believed by any one, previously to the fact being ascertained. All of them who could be furnished with Bibles, received them eagerly and thankfully; many of them with tears. One hundred and ninetysix persons, between the ages of fifteen and forty-five, who, before the institution of a Bible Society in that neighbourhood, were unable to read, have voluntarily, between the hours of labour, begun to learn to read, in order that they may peruse the Scriptures. The places of public worship also are more numerously attended; and religious animosities are much softened, if not entirely subdued. This is no varnished tale,' but a plain statement; the truth of which lam ready to prove to any individual who wishes it."

The Rev. Dr. Booker, vicar of Dudley, observed, that " previously to the formation of a similar institution in my own parish, (the parish of Dudley, containing about 14,000 inhabitants), it was thought by some that such a society there was not absolutely needed-few families were supposed to be so poor as to be without a Bible. But, upon

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accurate survey of that parish, to ascertain the real wants of the poor in this respect, what was found to be the case? What proportion of its 14,000 inhabitants were found destitute of the word of God? Nearly one half. Yes; 6689 persons were there found sitting in darkness, and in the shadow of death!'

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the poor, to make the survey of which I have just spoken, our Committee soon began to remark a difference between those families who possessed a Bible and those who were destitute of it; so striking a difference, that, on entering any house, we could generally tell, without making an inquiry, whether it contained a Bible or not. For, with few exceptions, where the Bible was not, cleanliness was not; but every thing, both in person and apartment, that is squalid and disgusting. On the contrary, in the neighbourhood, among persons of the same trade or calling, wherever the Book of God blessed the humble dwelling, every thing seemed sanctified by it: every thing was clean, every thing decent and in order.' He, then, must be a bad politician, and a worse philosopher, who has to learn what a close alliance there is between foul habits and religious ignorance, For, when ⚫ gross darkness covers a people,' a grossness of manners and demeanour will distinguish them likewise: thus demonstrating the value of the Bible even in a temporal point of view. But, when to such minor considerations, which relate chiefly to the body, are superadded those weighty ones, those of eternal import, which concern the neverdying soul, the Bible must be deemed of unspeakable moment indeed!"

Soon after the formation of this Auxiliary Society, a Bible Association was formed among persons in the bumble walks of life, resident in Worcester and its vicinity, to which near 500 individuals immediately entered their names as subscribers.

HACKNEY AND NEWINGTON AUXILIARY BIBLE SOCIETY.

The First Annual Report of this Society was made to a general meeting of the subscribers, on the 13th of December, 1813. The only allusion it makes to the vehement attack which had been made upon its character and proceeding by the Rev. Mr. Norris (see our Number for January), is the following:

"It would have been truly agreeable to the Committee, to whom you entrusted the affairs of your Institution, if it had been their lot to propose its liberal and benevolent objects to the unbiassed consideration of the inhabitants of the district. But it has long been known to those acquainted with its local circumstances, and is now manifest to the public at large, that neither the pure benevolence of the plan, nor the unoffending manner in which your Committee acted upon it, has proved sufficient to avert from

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your Society a hostility, which they will forhear to characterize further, than that it has been unceasing in its aggressions.

“Amidst many provocations, your Committee have judged it most consistent with the principles on which your Society is founded, to avoid controversy, and to leave your opponents to work their own defeat, by the self-condemning futility aud intemperance of the charges which they have ventured to allege.

"This meeting will learn, with great satisfaction, that, notwithstanding the influence which this opposition may be presumed to have had, the general sense of the district has been decidedly in favour of your Society; so that your Committee have been enabled to contribute to the funds of the Parent Institution the considerable sum of 8001. Independently, therefore, of the benefits derived, and to be derived, to the poor of the district, from the distribution of the Bibles and Testaments which the moiety of this contribution will command, the members of the Society have the high gratification of knowing that they have applied the sum of 4001. to the noble purpose of sending the Word of God to countries yet destitute of it."

The Committee had distributed 631 Bibles and 344 Testaments; and they observe :

"It is but just to the poorer part of their neighbours, for your Committee to state, so far as their experience extends, that the Word of God is not generally held in less veneration among them than it is among those raised in circumstances above them. Indeed, your Committee can confidently assure you, that no instance of the abuse of the Bibles and Testaments, by any of those to whom they have been given, has come to their knowledge."

Five Bible Associations had been formed in the district.—The only speech given along with the Report is that of the Rev. John Owen; and it certainly is entitled to high distinction. After an able, ingenuous, and candid apology, both for the Bible Society and its advocates, he thus concludes:

"Sir, we are so far from presuming to have been all which our rigid opponents seem to think they had a right to exact, that we do not profess to have executed our own intentions. We have an arduous duty to perform, as advocates and conductors of this glorious Institution; and it is the wish nearest our heart, so to demean ourselves in the discharge of it, as to have always a conscience void of offence both towards God and towards man. With this view we are

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