viets, &c.; and an effort is now making to civilize and instruct the natives.

NORTH AMERICA, Missionaries are employed in Canada, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland.-WEST INDIES, &c. Mr. Wray labours at Berbice, Mr. Davies and Mr. Elliot in Demerary, and Mr. Adam in Trinidad.

SOUTH AFRICA.

In the NAMAQUA COUNTRY, Messrs. Albrecht, Ebner, and Schmeleu.-BETHESDA, Messrs. Helm and Sass.-GRIQUA TOWN, Messrs. Anderson and Janz. -BETHELSDORP, Messrs. Read, Messer, and Corner.-THEOPOLIS, Messrs. Ulbricht and Bartlett.-TUIBACH, Mr. Kramer. STELLENBOSCH, Mr. Bakker. HOOGE KRALL, Mr. Pacalt.-ZUURBRAK, Messrs. Seidenfaden and Wimmer.-RODEZAND, Mr. Vos.-BUSHMAN'S COUNTRY, Mr. Smit.-CAPE Town, Mr. Thom.

Four Missionaries and their wives are on their passage to South Africa, to form at Lattakoo and other

new missions places.

Sixteen Students are in a course of preparation for the work of Missionaries at the Society's Seminary in Gosport. The expenditure of the Society in these missions during the last year, amounted to about £16,000.

regularly during the week in forty-seven different houses, and are invited to many more, but their time does not admit them to accept these invitations.

"To take a general view of Calcutta at the present day, and look back merely to the short period of two years, who can help wondering at their vast progress, which the Gospel has made amongst all ranks from the very highest to the lowest orders. It is no novelty to see a Bible upon a European's table, or for a Hindoo or Mussulman to read and admire that blessed book; or for the praises of God to be sung, and the voice of prayer to be heard in the families of the great."

From Mr. CHAMBERLAIN to Dr. MARSHMAN. Sirdhana, January 14, 1814. "Since I wrote to you last, things have rather revived at Sirdhana, I have great hopes of Purumanunda, my head writer, and also of a Mussulman phukeer. A Mussulman doctor is here employed in writing in the Persian character, and in reading the Scriptures. He reads the Arabic Bible excellently, and seems to delight in it, on which account I have hope of him also. Four of the Christians of this place commonly attend public worship, two Roman Catholics and two Protestants, one of them is European, an officer in Her Highness's service.

RECENT INTELLIGENCE.

From Mr. LEONARD to Mr. WARD. Calcutta, April 13, 1814.

"In the fort there are meetings every morning and evening throughout the week. Religion may truly be said to flourish where Satan once ruled without the shadow of opposition, and where the vilest practices were carried on in open day, without a blush. On preaching nights, seldom less than three hundred hear the sound of the gospel, who before this liberty was granted by their muchbeloved and indulgent Colonel, would have shunned a place of worship, as they would a house wherein a contagious plague raged. There were one hundred and eighty of the 24th regiment at the Chapel last Sabbath morning. It would prove tedious, and perhaps uninteresting, to name every person at whose house our native brethren preach during the week. SEBUKRAM preaches at twenty different places during the week, including Dum Dum, which is about seven miles off, and Allipoor, about three miles; added to this, he has to cross and recross the river every day. BHUGVEET preaches at eleven different places in and about the town during the week. NEELOO preaches at about ten private houses, and MANEK at six. Brethren JAHANs, Cait'HANS, and PETRUSE, speak occasionally in other quarters of the town; but the four brethren abovementioned preach

never met with a person so much to my mind as Purumanunda is; he is willing to work, and works night and day. He two hours, and then brushes on till sunattends soon after sun-rise, goes to eat set; after which, two evenings in the nuensis in the translation. This evening week and more, he attends as my amahe staid till between 9 and 10 o'clock, and wrote off from my mouth the 8th and part of the 9th chapters of the Revelations. In the market Parumanunda is in constant employ, and besides his writing, he superintends a Hindoo school, in which are 10 or 12 scholars, and this from his own choice. Mr. D. has one school, in which twelve or thirteen children are instructed in Persian and Hindosthanee; mine of the same class contains the same number; and 3 Hindoo schools contain about 40 children. We morning; in which we sing sometimes have worship in Hindosthanee every Abdool Museck's hymns, which are very much approved of by the people here." From Mr. MOORE, dated Digah, Sept. 14, 1813.

Immolation on the funeral pile.Yesterday, about half-past 11, A. M. immediately after our morning worship, a native came to inform me that a woman was burning with her husband in a neigh bouring garden of ours. Lieut. P. and myself instantly ran off to the place, about 150 yards from our native school

the Report of the Committee. He himself knew two or three cases. In one instance the widow of a subaltern officer was left with six daughters unprovided for; her three sons had fallen in the service of the country, and at that time she had no more than fifteen pounds a year, to support, in a country not her own, such a family. There was another case of a British Officer, who had served twenty-five years. While a prisoner he was compelled to sell his commission, and the consequence was, that his wife, who had six children, was at that moment in want of bread. Such were the cases they were desirous of taking up; but they were in want of funds. Five shillings from each person in the room, would, however, afford great means, in addition to what they had. They had already relieved those who had been reduced by misfortunes while in the service of their country, and it would still be a pleasing task to extend the charity to others equally deserving. The Resolution was then put and carried.

Mr. Dudley stated several cases of distressed ladies who had been objects of the charity, which he highly praised. One of the fair sufferers had three children, and she spoke five different languages.

The Thanks were then voted to the Duke of Kent; also to the illustrious Patroness the Princess Charlotte of Wales, the Trustees, and Committees, which produced suitable addresses.

After his Royal Highness had recommended the Ladies present to procure at their tea-tables and evening parties as many subscribers as they could, the proceedings of the day were ordered to be published, and the business ended.

We have seldom seen a more elegant assemblage of beauty and fashion.

SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION. ON Wednesday morning, May 10th, the Annual Meeting of this Society, was held at the City of London Tavern, Bishopsgate Street. JOSEPH BUTTER WORTH, Esq. M. P in the Chair. The Rey. Mr. HARTLEY, of Lutterworth, opened the Meeting with prayer; after which a pleasing Report of the Society's transactions during the past year was presented, and extracts of a very interesting nature were read from the Reports of Auxiliary and Country Sunday School Unions; forming a most animating body of intelligence, and proving the flourishing state of Sunday Schools in this kingdom, and their progressive establishment abroad

NOTICE OF MEETINGS. THE Anniversary Meetings of this Institution will be held during the third week in this month. On the morning of Wednesday, June 21st, the friends of the Society will meet for public worship at the Chapel in Spa Fields, when Mr. Hinton of Oxford is expected to preach, Service to begin at II o'clock. In the evening of the same day, a Meeting will be held at Sion Chapel, when Mr. I. Birt of Birmingham is expected to preach. Service to begin at 6 o'clock.

On Thursday, Mr. Hughes of Battersea, is expected to preach the Annual Sermon for the benefit of the Stepney Academical Institution, at Mr. Ivimey's Meeting, Eagle Street, Red Lion Square.

BRITISH SYSTEM OF EDUCATION.

MAY 22.-A General Meeting of the Friends and promoters of the public School for the wards of Farringdon within, Farringdon without, Castle Baynard, and the parish of Clerkenwell, was held at the New London Tavern, Cheapside. His R. H. the Duke of SUSSEX was expected to take the Chair, but was absent, through indisposition, to the disappontment of the company assembled. WILLIAM FREND, Esq. was called to the Chair. Mr. R. TAYLOR read the Report of the Committee. The School has been established three years; during which time, for want of suitable premises, its exertions have been circumscribed: but a grand School is now to be erected at the corner of Poppin'scourt, which is to contain 500 children. The Meeting was severally addressed by the Chairman, Alderman Wood, Messrs. Waithman, Pearsall, Mawman, &c.

AWFUL CALAMITY.

ON Tuesday, the 2d instant, the village of Addington, near Croydon, was visited with a dreadful storm of thunder and lightning, during which a water-spout, on the top of an adjoining hill, burst with great violence, deluging, with destructive fury, the houses contiguous to it. Not a moment's warning could be given, and the inhabitants of the small cottages were obliged to leave all they possessed to the fury of the flood, and fly for their lives. Some small idea may be formed of the force of the water, when it is told that it broke down the wall surrounding Addington Church-yard, tore up the tomb-stones, and did considerable damage wherever it went. A farmhouse nearly opposite the Church has suffered greatly; the water entered the house at the first-floor window. Men were employed on Saturday last, clear

OBITUARY.

Ir is a painful task, which is this month imposed upon us, to record the departure, though we trust it is to their eternal rest, of so many Pastors of Christian churches. Never since the commencement of our work, have we had to announce such severe losses to the Church militant, as have taken place in the month of May. They present a loud call to ourselves and our readers to remember our own mortality; to have our loins girt about with truth, and our lamps burning; and to be waiting for the coming of our Lord.

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MAY 1. The Rev. JAMES WRAITH, of Hampstead, in his eighty-first year; who lived universally respected, and Finished his course with joy." His Funeral Sermon was preached to a crowded audience, by the Rev. JACOB SNELGAR, from Luke ii. 29, 30. The Discourse, with extracts from a Memoir, written by himself, will, by pärticular request, be printed.

AT Tring, Herts. the Rev. JOHN REES, Pastor of the Baptist Church at New Mill, near that place. This young Minister appeared to be calculated for great usefulness; his genuine piety, unaffected manners, and diligence, united in the discharge of the duties of his office, to procure him the respect and .attachment of the people of his charge.

On Lord's day, May 7th, the Rev. ANDREW FULLER, who was more than thirty years pastor of the Baptist Church at Kettering in Northamptonshire. His writings, and more especially his indefatigable labours in behalf of the Baptist Mission, to which he sustained the office of Secretary, from its commencement to the day of his death, have made him so well known to the religious world, that it may with truth be said, there were few men of the age in which he lived better known, and still fewer whose loss to the grand and noble cause in which he was incessantly occupied, will be more severely felt. To make comparisons between different characters is always an invidious task, and seldom gives satifaction to those who are concerned in them. cannot refrain from adding, that if there were any one of our countrymen of the present generation, who might, without presumption, adopt the words of the great Apostle of the Gentiles, and say, "I laboured more abundantly than they all," that man was Andrew Fuller! An ardent desire to promote the good of his fellow creatures, by the dissemination of, the word of life among them, took the lead in his character; and his efforts both in public and in private to carry it into effect were unwearied. In many of those lesser graces which render the human character amiable and endearing, Mr. Fuller was surpassed

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by others; but for clearness of conception, for strength and vigour of mind, for decision of character, for laborious exertion, for punctuality and promptness in all his measures, where shall we find his equal? It is no hyperbole to say of him, that he discharged the duties of half a dozen men. But to form any tolerable estimate of his character in this point of view, and of the loss of such a man to society at large, and more immediately to the circle in which he moved, we must not merely look at his labours by means of the press, which in one form or other were every month presenting themselves to our notice -nor must we fix our attention singly on his exertions in the discharge of his pas toral office, his sermons and his exhortatious which were delivered both "in season and out of season"-nor yet to the correspondence which he kept up to an extent which could only be surpassed by the punctuality and diligence with which it was invariably maintained and conducted-it is only by combining in one comprehensive view, those multifarious labours which occupied the life of Fuller, that we can estimate his worth, the greatsustained by his death. ness of his character, or the loss we have

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It is scarcely necessary to add, that so extraordinary as those which for several years he sustained, must have required a constitution more than ordinarily robust; and our gratitude is due to the beneficent Creator, who, when he designed Fuller for distinguished usefulness in the kingdom of his Son, was pleased thus to qualify him for his labours. It is, however, with the sincerest regret we now add, what a regard to truth extorts from us, that there is too much reason to apprehend the accumulated labours of his station became ultimately more than his frame could sustain, and that their increasing pressure tended to cut short the thread of his eminently useful life. But he had served his day and generation, and we have no doubt is gone to receive the welcome plaudit, "Well done, good and faithful servant; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord!". Dr. Ryland of Bristol preached his funeral Sermon at Kettering, which we understand is to be printed; and Mr. Hall of Leicester delivered the Oration at his grave. Sermons have also been preached on occasion of his death, not only by the London ministers, but throughout the denomination at large. But, as we intend to furnish our readers with a copious Memoir of him, we at present forbear further enlargement.

NOTICE.

In a few days will be published, CARMEN FLEBILE; or an irregular Lyric Ode to the memory of the late Rev. Andrew Fuller. Gale, and Button.