Birmingham Church Missionary Association. On Sunday Morning, Oct. 16, a very eloquent Sermon, on behalf of the Church Missionary Society, was preached at St. Mary's, Birmingham, by the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Wells; and another in the Afternoon, at St. James's, by the Rev. T. T. Biddulph, of Bristol.

On Wednesday, the 19th, a numerous and highly respectable Meeting was held at the Shakespeare, for the establishment of a Church Missionary Association for Birmingham and its vicinity, in aid of the Parent Institution. The Right Hon. Lord Calthorpe was in the Chair; and introduced the business of the day in a very appropriate manner. The Secretary, who is a native of Birmingham, addressed his townsmen at considerable length, in explanation of the objects, proceedings, and present situation of the Society. The Rev. Edward Burn, the Rev. Edward Palmer, the Rev. T. T. Biddulph, C. C. Adderley, Esq., George Simcox, Esq., Theodore Price, Esq., the Rev. C. Jervis, the Rev. John Cawood, and other Clergymen and Gentlemen, followed the Secretary. A great impression was made on the Meeting by the energy, eloquence, piety, and knowledge of the subject, which the speakers discovered. Upwards of 400l. was contributed, and much more may be expected.

Lord Calthorpe was appointed President, and the Rev. Edward Burn Secretary.

Birmingham is situated at or near the junction of four counties, and in the centre of a very populous manufacturing district. Its inhabitants have been among the first to suggest and to foster, according to their opportunities, all judicious plans for promoting benevolent and pious objects. The Bir mingham Church Missionary Association is likely,

therefore, to render important service to the Parent Society, by diffusing among multitudes the knowledge of its proceedings, and by combining and embodying their zeal in its support..

WESLEYAN METHODIST MISSIONS.

AT the Annual Conference of the Wesleyan Methodists, lately held in Bristol, Dr. Adam Clarke in the Chair, the immediate establishment of a Methodist Missionary Society, in every district in which it had not been already accomplished, was strongly recommended, in order to raise the necessary sup-, plies for the support of the Missions undertaken by the Society. The Thanks of the Conference were given to those of the Preachers in the Leeds, Halifax, York, Sheffield, Cornwall, and Newcastle Districts, who had assisted in the formation therein of Methodist Missionary Societies; and to all the Members of those Societies, for their liberal and zealous support. Mr. James Wood was appointed General Treasurer of all the Missions, during the ensuing year.

In the further directions of the Conference respecting their Missionary Affairs, the Missionaries in Newfoundland are instructed to pay particular attention to St. John's: and three Missionaries, in addition to the two already there, are to be sent to Newfoundland; two to Demerara; one to Montreal; and two to New South Wales.

Beside the number in connection with the Methodist Societies in Europe, and the Whites in the United States of America, amounting together to 374,765; there are

Coloured People and Blacks in the

$42,859

United States

In the West Indies

17,002

1,568

96

In Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.......

In Sierra Leone..................

Making the total number in the Methodist Societies throughout the world, 436,290.

Death of Dr. Coke.

We are sorry to inform our readers, that the Rev. Dr. Coke has not lived to reach Ceylon. He died at sea on the 3d of May. The surviving Missionaries landed at Bombay on the 15th, and were received with great kindness by his Excellency Sir Evan Nepean. They expected to proceed in a few days to their destination.

(LONDON) MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

Auxiliaries and Anniversaries.

THE Society has been this summer exerting itself with zeal to confirm and extend its influence throughout the country. Beside Anniversary Meet-ings in various places, some active members of the Society visited Coventry, Birmingham, Shrewsbury, Chester, Manchester, Derby, Leicester, and Bedford. At most of these places Collections were made: they amounted to upward of 17007. In this journey, Auxiliaries were formed for eight counties.

Missionary Rooms.

The Society has entered on a set of Rooms in the Old Jewry, being the second story of a spacious building, late in the occupation of the London

Institution, and formerly the residence of the Lord Mayors of London. These rooms, nine in number, are well adapted to their intended purposes: some being very spacious, and capable of accommodating large Committees; and others adapted for a Library, the use of the Secretaries, &c. Various curiosities, transmitted from Otaheite, China, South America, and South Africa, will be arranged in suitable apartments, and opened for public in spection.

Twentieth Report.

Five thousand copies of this Report are now printing, in the German Language, at Berlin, under the direction of the Rev. John Jænicke, for circudation on the continent.

Chinese New Testament.

Several printed. copies of the whole New Testa ment, translated by Mr. Morrison into Chinese, have arrived. The first copy which came to hand was presented to the British and Foreign Bible Society.

BAPTIST MISSIONS.

MR. Yates, late a Student in the Bristol Academy, is about to proceed to India; leave having been granted for that purpose, by the Board of Controul, under the authority of the late Act for renewing the East-India Company's Charter.

The 26th Number of the Society's "Periodical Accounts" has just been published, from which it appears that the receipts for the Mission in the last year were 43281. 5s. 3d.; and those for the Translations, 44357, 19s. 6d.; being together

87641. 4s, 9d. The Disbursements amounted to 90831. 19s. Od. We shall lay the principal contents of this interesting Number before our readers.

General State of the Church Missionary Settlements. FURTHER Communications have arrived, during this month, from the Settlements of the Church Missionary Society, in addition to those mentioned in our last Number. His Excellency Governor Maxwell, at present in this country, has brought very recent intelligence from the coast.

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The Missionaries had not as yet heard of the probable revival of the French Slave Trade in that quarter. They had long had, however, to combat with very peculiar difficulties and dangers, from the machinations of the Slave Traders, and the self-interested attachment of many of the natives to the traffic. The praise-worthy energy of his Majesty's Government at Sierra Leone,for the eradication of this commerce, has been revenged on the Society's Establishments; the adherents to the trade having calumniated the Missionaries as informers and spies. One of the houses in the Bashia Settlement has been burnt; and the School-House in the Canoffee Settlement burst into flames, in the dead of night, while the children were asleep, but they were all providentially alarmed in sufficient time to escape, by the falling of some burning thatch on the face of one of