was distinguished by such simplicity, and accompanied by so warm a glow of Christian Feeling, that it appeared to his hearers to verify itself; and carried conviction to their hearts, on the two great points on which he chiefly dwelt-the NECESSITY and the PRACTICABILITY of the object for which they were assembled.

The testimony of Mr. Corrie, after a residence of some years in India, during which he has been the liberal Benefactor and affectionate Friend of the wretched Natives, cannot fail to animate all the Members of the Society in their great work. His discriminating mind and Christian Charity have qualified him, in an eminent degree, to appreciate justly, not only the actual condition of that vast portion of the Mahometan and Heathen World, among whom he has lived and laboured, but the most efficient remedies for the evils of their condition, and the spirit and temper in which those remedies should be applied.

The Birmingham Association remitted to the Parent Society, as the produce of its First Year, the sum of 5357. 6s.; and there is good reason to hope, that, when all the parts of the machine are brought into action, even a much larger sum will be annually supplied to the Funds.

The Secretary preached, in behalf of the Society, in various Churches in the vicinity of Birminghamat St. John's and St. Peter's, Wolverhampton, on Sunday, Nov. 19th-at Darlaston, Wednesbury, and Rowley Regis, on the following Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday-and, at West Bromwich and Harborne, on Sunday, the 26th of November.

Second Anniversary of the Leicester and Leicestershire Church Missionary Association.

The Rev. Edward Burn, of Birmingham, having preached two able Sermons at St. Mary's and St. Martin's Churches, in Leicester, on Advent Sunday, the Annual Meeting was held at the Guildhall, on Wednesday, the 6th of December, Thomas Babing ton, Esq. M. P. for Leicester, and one of the VicePresidents, in the Chair.

We extract the following passage from the account of the Proceedings of the Day, as published in the papers, because it furnishes an excellent pattern for framing the Resolutions of Meetings of this nature. All the great parts of the Society's plans are thus brought distinctly before the Members of the Association, and their attention drawn to such details thereon as may make them familiar with the Society's designs and proceedings.

The Chairman having opened the business of the day, the Report of the Committee of the Association was read by the Secretary.

On the motion of the Rev. Josiah Pratt, B.D. Secretary to the Church Missionary Society, seconded by Matthew Babington, Esq., it was resolved, "That the Report now read be adopted as the Report of the Association, and be printed under the direction of the Committee."

Mr. Pratt entered into an enlarged view of the principles, proceedings, and prospects of the Church Missionary Society.

Mr. M. Babington expressed his cordial approbation of the proposed resolution, of the objects of the Society, and of meetings such as those in which he was then taking part.

On the motion of the Rev. Edward Burn, M. A. seconded by Mr. William Harrison, it was resolved, "That this Meeting congratulates the Church Missionary Society on the important augmentation which its funds have received within the last two years."

Mr. Burn enlarged upon the great duty of sending wellappointed Missions to the Heathen; upon the peculiar claims which the Church Missionary Society has upon the public, as purely a Church Institution; and upon the exalted station which our eminent Establishment ought to fill, in the work of evangelizing the Heathen.

On the motion of the Rev. Edward Vaughan, M. A. seconded by the Rev. R. W. Allix, M. A., it was resolved, "That this Meeting sincerely condoles with the Church Missionary Society on the difficulties which it has been called to encounter in its West-African Mission; that it highly approves the vigorous exertions which the Society continues to make on that coast; and cordially wishes success to its Missionary Ship, its Education Fund, and its Christian Institution."

Mr. Vaughan commended these several parts of the Society's plans with respect to Africa, as being peculiarly adapted to remove or relieve the difficulties which are experienced in that Mission.

On the motion of the Rev. G. B. Mitchell, M. A. se conded by the Rev. John Kempthorne, B. D. it was resolved, "That this Meeting is impressed with lively gratitude for the success which has manifestly attended the Society's efforts in India, and for the prospects which are opening upon it in the Northern Provinces, in the Peninsula, and in Ceylon; and expresses an earnest hope that the Society will zealously prosecute its plans in the East, with respect to Readers, Missionaries, Schools, and Christian Institutions."

Mr. Mitchell dwelt particularly on the state of Ceylon, as mixing encouraging hopes of success with loud calls for help.

On the motion of the Rev. John Benson, M. A. seconded by the Rev. Robert Martin, M.A., it was resolved, "That this Meeting, animated by the lively and judicious statements of the Rev. Samuel Marsden, and assured of the talents, literary attainments, and piety of the Rev.William Jowett, is induced to expect the most favourable results from the arduous and enlightened plans of the Society with respect to New Zealand and Malta.

The Association has remitted to the Church Mis sionary Society, during its Second Year, including 561, 0s, 5d. from a Branch Association at Ashby-de

la-Zouch, the sum of 4971. 13s. 5d. About 907., in addition, was collected after Sermons, including those on Sunday by Mr. Burn, and others, by the Secretary, at Foston, on Tuesday, and at St. Martin's, on Wednesday Evening.

The Chairman took occasion, on adjourning the Meeting, to call the attention of the Members of the Association to the fund opened for the maintenance and education of African Children; and spoke in terms of high commendation of the plan of giving them English Names, as likely, with the Divine Blessing, to operate powerfully on their minds. Several new contributions to that fund were, in consequence, obtained; and it cannot be doubted but that the benevolent Members of the Leicester and Leicestershire Association, when the probable benefits to little Africans of this part of the Society's plan come to be duly appreciated by them, will contribute to the support and education, in the Christian Institution of the Society on LEICESTER MOUNTAIN in the Colony of Sierra Leone, of many African Children.

JEWS' SOCIETY.

Prospectus of the "Jewish Expositor, and Friend of Israel," a New Monthly Publication.

The "Jewish Repository," of which three volumes are now completed, not having been found sufficiently popular to interest the various classes of readers whose attention it is desirable to awaken to the subject of the Jews, a new work will commence on the 1st day of January, 1816, entitled the "Jewish Expositor, and Friend of Israel."

The following Extract from the Prospectus will

sufficiently explain the plan, which has our most hearty good wishes :

The Committee of the London Society for promoting Christianity amongst the Jews, have deemed it advisable that some alteration should be made in the monthly publication, hitherto called the Jewish Repository.

Much as this work has assisted to recommend the great cause for which the Society was instituted, much as it has tended to elucidate the important question at issue between Jews and Christians, and to call the attention of the learned to this most interesting subject, it is still to be lamented, that it has failed to recommend itself to the Christian Public in general, and to attract the notice of those various classes of the community by whom similar works are sought for, as means both of rational entertainment and religious information and instruction. Why a work of so much importance, especially in the present eventful æra of the Church, has not engaged more of the public attention and support, is not now the subject of inquiry: the fact, that it has not been so generally received as the Committee had reason to expect, is that which most demands their attention, inasmuch as it shews them the necessity of endeavouring, by a judicious alteration in the plan of the publication, to procure for it a wider circulation and a more general acceptance. The importance of an attempt of this kind, becomes the more apparent, as they attentively look at the several ways in which such a publication may be made useful. Whether they contemplate it with immediate reference to the Jews, and as intended, by every legitimate method of argument and persuasion, to influence the minds of that people in favour of Christianity; or as designed to engage the piety, learning, and talents of the Christian World, in this great cause, both by holding out to them an invitation, and affording them an opportunity, to contribute in promoting its progress; or, finally, as a channel through which those who already co-operate in the undertaking, may statedly receive information, both as to the actual result of their labours, and as to the prospect of future success in whichever of these views they regard the work, the absolute necessity of deriving the materials for it from very diversified sources, and of adapting them to a variety of tastes and habits, is equally manifest, Little

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