2. THE ST. VINCENT'S DISTRICT.---Samuel P. Woolky, Chairman. 49 St. Vincent's, 50 Grenada, 51 Trinidad, 52 Barbadoes, 53 Tobago, 54 Demerara, Moses Raynar, John Smedley, John Nelson, jun. Another is to be sent. William D. Goy, James Cheesewright, William Squire. William J.'Shrewsbury. Another is to be sent. 3d. THE JAMAICA DISTRICT.---George Johnstone, Chairman. 55 Kingston, 56 Spanish-Town, 57 Morant-Bay, 58 Grateful-Hill, 59 Montego Bay, 60 St. Ann's-Bay, George Johnstone, Peter Duncan. Another is to be sent. William Ratcliffe. William Binning. 4th. THE BAHAMA DISTRICT.---William Wilson, Chairman. 61 New-Providence, William Wilson, sen. 62 Eleuthera, 63 Harbour-Island, 64 Abaco, 65 Turks' Island, 66 Port an Prince, 67 Cape Henry, 68 Quebec, THE BRITISH DOMINIONS IN AMERICA. 69 Montreal, 70 Kingston, 1st. THE CANADA DISTRICT.---John Hick, Chairman. 71 St. Armand's, 72 Melburne, 73 Stansted, 74 Three Rivers, 75 Shefford, James Booth. Henry Pope. John Hick. Richard Pope. Thomas Catterick. 76 Caldwell's Manor, William Sutcliffe. 77 French Mission, John De Putron. 2d. THE NOVA SCOTIA AND NEW BRUNSWICK DISTRICT. Robert L. Lusher; William Black and George Jackson, Supern. 80 Shelburne and Barrington, Robert H. Crane. 81 St. David's and St. Stephen's, Duncan M'Coll. 87 Horton, Windsor and Cornwallis, William Burt, John Pope. 88 Newport, Matthew Richey; William Bennett, Supernumerary. 89 Lunenburgh and Petit Riviere, George Orth. 92 Charlotte Town, Prince Edward's Island---Stephen Bamford, 93 Bedeque, ditto, Thomas Payne. 94 Murray Harbour, ditto. One is requested. 3d. THE NEWFOUNDLAND DISTRICT.---John Bell, Chairman. N. B. In this list of Foreign Stations, some will be observed to occur without appointments. All those for which Missionaries have been requested by the several District-Meetings, will be taken into early consideration by the Committee, and Missionaries appointed for such of them as it may be thought proper to supply immediately, from the list of reserve, or otherwise, according to our rules on that subject. The following Missionaries, accepted and admitted on trial, will receive their appointments from the Missionary Committee as they may be wanted: viz.-William Threlfall, John White, jun., John Crofts, Evan Harris, and William Oke. The number of Members of Society in our Foreign Stations, as made up at the last Conference, is 28,678, making an increase in the course of last year of 1236. We regret to state the death of another of our valuable Missionaries in the WestIndies, MR. MADDOCK, who was sent out in 1817. He died at MONTSERRAT, on the 29th of May last, "regretted," says a Gentleman of the Island who furnishes the account, "by all in this Colony, without exception." See the Obituary in this Number, p. 704. We shall shortly publish some Letters from our Brethren who have commenced the new mission on the river Gambia, West-Africa. Messrs. Baker and Morgan had commenced their labours at St. Mary's and the neighbourhood, and have the prospect of success at Tentebar, as soon as the season will allow of the attempt to establish a Mission there. Letters just received from MESSRS. B. SHAW and S. KAY, South Africa, state that their prospects of usefulness, both at Cape-Town and in the interior of the Colony, continue to enlarge. The congregation in Cape-Town was increasing. FORMATION or MISSIONARY SOCIETIES. New Societies have lately been formed at Douglas and at Peel, in the Isle of Man, with good promise of success both as it respects the increase of the Funds, and the local benefit resulting from those institutions. We have also received accounts of the formation of an Auxiliary Society at Sydney, New South-Wales, and of Branch-Societies having been formed at Windsor, Paramatta, Liverpool, Richmond, and Castlereah, in that Colony. One of the Missionaries who was present at these meetings, writes respecting one of them, that "the assembly was not numerous nor wealthy, but the subscriptions were very liberal. Not forty persons were present, including children, yet they subscribed upwards of Twenty pounds. At the different meetings, the subscriptions, annual and quarterly, amounted to about One Hundred pounds." The Committee present their thanks for the following acceptable presents to the Society: From a few Ladies in Basseterre, St. Christopher's, (to be sold, and the produce to assist in erecting a new Methodist chapel in that town,) 34 gold trinkets, one large gold bead pin, one pair of gold sleeve buttons, one necklace, gold beads, and a quantity of old silver. [Such is the interest felt in the erection of this new place of worship, the old chapel being now in a state of complete de gay, that the negro children, when they come to the chapel on Wednesday and Friday mornings, have for some time past, each brought a stone, towards the erection of the new chapel. Mr. Morgan, the Missionary, says, "Both boys and girls have been very active, and the number of stones they have collected in so short a time, is a subject of wonder to every one. To see the children from five years old and upwards Joaded with a stone from different parts of the town, where they are abundant, is truly pleasing, and leads us to pray, that all our little labourers may be built up a spiritual house.” In how many ways may the cause of God be forwarded, when the heart is willing!] A gold ring from a Lady, by the Rev. James Wood, Liverpool. Sundry presents from the children of Nut-Grove School, near Milbrook, Lancashire, for the children of the Mission Schools. Sundry Books, by a friend in Halifax, for the use of the Missions. Fifty-two cards with coloured Engravings, and Hymns, for the use of the children of the Mission Schools, from Miss Field, Low-Moor, near Bradford, by the Rev. Joseph Entwisle. To sundry friends in Hull, and its vicinity, for presents to schools in Ceylon; to Miss Wall, Lamb's Conduit-street, for a quantity of books; to Rosemary Y---n, Salisbury, for two dozen of table spoons, and four tea canisters; to Miss Sarah Cook, and Mrs. Emory, Salisbury, for sundry Magazines, Tracts, &c.; to friends at Mansfield, for eight volumes of Methodist Magazines, sundry articles of hardware, dress, &c. for South Sea Missions; to G. H. Isle of Dogs, for two volumes of the Methodist Magazine, and two parts of Matthew Henry's Bible; to a friend at Chedder, for two pieces of linen, for South-Sea Missions; to Mr. Powell, Compton, for writing-paper, &c. for South-Sea Missions; to Anonymous, for "a trifle" for Mission Schools; to a Friend to Missions, Tenterden, for a parcel of books; to friends at Huddersfield, for nine volumes of the Methodist Magazine, bound, &c.; to Miss Caillus, Raithhy, for three volumes of the Methodist Magazine, bound, &c. for South-African Missions; to a Sunday Scholar, Raithby, for a volume of Tracts; to Mrs. William Williams, Belmont House, South-Lambeth, President of the Female Friends' Society, for a parcel of child-bed linen, for South-African Mission; to Mr. Kirk and Mrs. Cropper, Lincoln, for one volume of the Methodist Magazine, and one volume of the Missionary Register; to Mr. Starr, Bassingham, for 33 dozen of buttons, and three dozen of buckies; to Mrs. Fisher, Newark, for five volumes of the Methodist Magazine: to Mr. P. Barff, Newport, for four pairs of shoes; to Miss Eliza and Miss Sarah Brittain, Newport, for a parcel of rewards for schools in New Zealand; to Miss Thompson, Molescroft, for ten volumes of the Evangelical Magazine; to Miss Labourn's and Miss Johnson's scholars, Hull, for sundry rewards for Mission Schools; to Mr. Snell, Newport, for a bag of garden seeds; to Mr. Thomas Bristo, Newport, for nine dozen of thimbles for South-Sea Missions; to a Friend to Missions, Ripon, for Dr. Coke's Commentary, five volumes 4to. royal paper; to Mrs. Dresser, Ripon, for six volumes of the Methodist Magazine, one Simpson's Tracts, and one volume of Wesley's Sermons; to Ladies in the Ripon Circuit, for sundry articles for Mission Schools; to Miss Plummer, Ripon, for two pieces of gingham: Anonymous, six iron pails, two tin kettles, and two dozen of tin cans; to Mr. Sparham Fison. Thetford, a plough, and implements to it; to friends at Greenwich, per Rev. J. Fordred, for sundry articles for South-Sea Missions; to Mrs. Humphrey, Harpenden, for eight volumes of the Methodist Magazine, Hervey's Meditations, Common Prayer, and Brackenbury's Hymns, for South-Sea Missions; to Mr. Hall, Plymouth-Dock, for two volumes of the Methodist Magazine; to " A sincere Friend to Missions," for three volumes of the Methodist Magazine; to Mr. Bates, Plymouth-Dock, for a parcel of sundries; to the Teachers and Children of the Sunday-Schools, Plymouth-Deck, for a variety of presents for Schools in South-Africa; to the Rev. E Lake, Worcester, for two hundred Hints for a General Union of Christians for Prayer; to the Rev. Thomas Boys, High-Wycomb, for two hundred copies of "Text-Book for the year 1892." RECENT DEATH. The following is an Extract of a Letter from the REV. DAVID DEAKINS, dated Shaftsbury, August 25. "On Wednesday, the 22d instant, our old Friend, the REV. GEORGE BUTTON, departed this life about eight o'clock in the evening. On my arrival at his house, was desired to go into his room: I found him insensible, and labouring hard for breath; and in a few minutes, he died without sigh or groan. From what I could learn, he had been in a very weak state for some time; but bore his affliction with patience. It does not appear that he had any apprehension that his end was so near, until the day before his death; as he was preparing to go to Salisbury, for which place he had been stationed as a supernumerary Preacher by the late Conference. But when he found that his decease was approaching, he expressed himself in terms which shewed that he was resigned and happy. He enjoyed a Christian confidence as to his acceptance with GOD; and had a good hope of eternal life through JESUS CHRIST Our LORD." Printed by T. Cordeuz, 14, City-Road. |