"When four hours have been spent in the school, we conclude by reading a chapter; in which all join who can read, and having sung a hymn and repeated the Lord's Prayer, we depart. At three o'clock is dinner-time. After dinner is play-time; or they are variously employed. Toward evening they write or work out their examples of arithmetic, the first class on paper, and the rest on slates, for evening examination. Sometimes brother Butscher goes after dinner with them to take a walk into the country, of which they are very fond, particularly when the fruits are ripe on the bushes. At seven the bell gives notice for evening prayer; where likewise one boy is to read a chapter, and brother Butscher prays with them. Afterwards he examines their tasks of writing and arithmetic, and concludes with reading and explaining to them some part of the Scripture. About nine o'clock all is done; and then most of them go to bed: some sit up, and exercise themselves in reading as long as they please.

"On Sundays, after the afternoon-service, the Sunday-school begins.

"In the female-house, similar regulations are observed. Mr. and Mrs. Renner have the chief manage ment of the girls: they likewise eat, sleep, and live in the same house. The females, after getting up in the morning, read, spell, are catechised, and go through the addition and multiplication tables: then the bell is rung for prayer, and one of them reads a chapter out of the Bible. When prayer is over, they take their sewing-work till breakfast, except those who go to the morning school. In that house we have our breakfast a little before nine o'clock; and then the girls

theirs. Before and after school, they have their sewing-work; and, occasionally, toward evening, they take a walk with Mrs. Renner into the country. After tea, till eight o'clock, they have their daily and Sunday's task to learn: then the bell calls to prayer; and, having committed themselves to God for the night, all march to bed. Girls, who belong to the settlement and others not belonging to it, are variously employed: some are appointed to wash and iron our clothes; others to wash the boys' and girls' clothes, on some appointed days: some wait at the table, and keep the house clean: others have to beat rice; and others assist in cooking for both houses: but none of the school-girls are thus employed.

"Mrs. Renner has likewise her full employment. She sees that the girls are kept clean in their dress; has to cut out and shew them how to cut out their own clothes; and to keep the lazy ones to their needles, to talk with them, and to correct them, as they may deserve. External affairs are very often so pressing, that only one of us can attend the school, which is not advantageous for the scholars; and, at times, both are so variously engaged, that the school has not its regular attendance. In this respect, one or two laymen would be of great service to each settlement, as they would take off a great deal of the trouble of the secular concerns from the missionaries, and might also assist in the school, in case of sickness. We should be very glad if this proposal should meet the approbation of the Committee. Such men ought to be Christians, and of a willing mind to serve their Lord and Master, in that station which he points out for them. We wish that one might be a carpen ter, and the other a blacksmith by profession; so that they might teach the same trade to some of the boys who belong to the settlement."

The Appendix likewise contains an admirable charge of the Rew Thomas Scott to the missionaries

Wilhelm and Klein, which is too long to admit of its being inserted, or even usefully abstracted, but which should be read by every missionary, and by every missionary institution, as exhibiting an able, luminous, and comprehensive view of the qualifications, duties, and encouragements of missionaries...

Dr. Naudi of Malta, in a letter addressed to the Secretary, has brought under the consideration of the Committee, the expediency of sending missionaries into the Levant. "There are," he observes, "in these parts, well peopled and very opulent districts, where multitudes of Christians of different denominations live mingled in confusion with the Turkish inhabitants. But, unhappily, these Christians are so ignorant, that, deprived of the true light of the Gospel, they not only can contribute nothing to the extension of religion, but are scarcely able to maintain the great doctrines of redemption among themselves.

"Until the present war, the congregation, at Rome, de Propaganda Fide, watched over these important interests. It frequently sent Missionaries; maintaining strangers in its bosom, in order to qualify them to render service to these countries, on their return to them. But this institution exists no more; its property is sold its revenues are usurped, and entirely diverted.

"It now, therefore, belongs to you to enter on this labour of propagating the Christian faith among infidels, and of confirming it among the ignorant.

"Let me beg you, therefore, to represent to the Society the necessity of sending some missionaries to the Levant. I would recommend, that young and healthy men only be destined for these missions; and such as will accommodate themselves to eastern customs, in respect of man ners, dress, &c. and that they speak Greek or Arabic: it would be advantageous, indeed, if they could speak both tongues. The Archbishop of Aleppo assured me; that a

good missionary, in the vicinity of his diocese, might be the instrument of as much good as an apostle."

In consequence of this communication, the Committee have invited duly qualified clergymen to offer themelves for this service.

It is to the Eastern world that the Committee are disposed to look as to the widest and most important field of operations. A large proportion of the myriads of the East already possess a written language, and into many of their languages the Bible is either already translated or in a course of translation. A missionary who is master of the Ethiopic, Persian, Arabic, or Syriac, Tamul, Cingalese, Bengalee, Malay, or Hindostanee, may take the Scriptures in his hand and read them, and preach from them, to millions perishing for lack of knowledge. Abyssinia, especially, a country professing Christianity, but where Christianity, through the general want of the Scriptures, is in a debased state, requires the reinvigorating influence of religious knowledge and principles. To say nothing of Persia and Arabia, what powerful claims on Christian and British liberality have the Syrian Christians of Malayala, and the half-a-million professing Christians of Ceylon, now fast relapsing, through our neglect, inte Popery or the worse idolatry of Buda? The local government of this land has shewn itself particularly favourable to the extension of Chritianity, and their laudable efforts to that end call loudly on the English clergy to enter on this field; while the whole Malayan Archipelago, over which multitudes of native Christians are scattered, and which is now subjected to the dominion of Britain, enlarges that field to an almost boundless extent.

Under these impressions the Committee felt it incumbent on them, on the occasion of the expected renewal of the East-India Company's Charter, to endeavour, by proper applications to Government,to secure to its missionaries every requisite facility of access to India, and pro

tection while there. The steps taken with this view have already been noticed in our present volume p. 249 and 324; and it must afford unspeakable satisfaction to every Christian mind that the views of the Government appear to be coincident with those of the Committee. We are therefore permitted to indulge the gratifying hope that the sixty millions of heathens, subjects of the British Crown, nay tenants and retainers of the British nation, shall no longer be denied those means of enlightening their minds, elevating their characters, and saving their souls, which the labours of Christian missionaries can alone place within their reach.

Accounts have been received from New South Wales, by which it appears that the settlers destined for New Zealand are still actively and usefully employed at Paramatta, waiting for a favourable opportunity of prosecuting their original design. Mr. Marsden confirms his former representations of the injuries inflicted on the New Zealanders, by our whaling vessels, and of the expectations which may be formed, from the noble character of that people, of the progress of civilization and Christianity among them.

We have already noticed the change which has taken place, in the constitution of the Society, by the appointment of a president and vicepresidents (p. 324.)

The Report closes with an appeal, in behalf of the Society, to the ministers and members of the Established Church.

LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

Of the Report made at the general meeting of this Society in May last, we propose to give a brief ab

stract.

SOUTH AFRICA.

The missions of the Society in this quarter have experienced considerable interruption. The stations occupied in the Lesser Namaqua country, and at the Warm Bath, in the

Great Namaqua country, have both been abandoned in consequence of the hostility of a native chief called Africaner. The sufferings, on this occasion, both of the missionaries, and of the people whom they had collected around them,appear to have been very severe. One of the missionaries, Mr. Albrecht, with his as sociates, has since established himself on the northern limit of the colony, at the Kamies' mountain; the Government not only assuring him of protection, but furnishing him liberally with the means of defence. Here he has since been joined by four fresh missionaries from Europe, three of whom are accompanied by their wives. Another of the missionaries, Mr. Seidenfader, driven from his station by Africaner, is about to settle at a kraal of Hottentots in the vicinity of Swellendam; and a third is gone to labour among the Christians and slaves near Stellenbosch. The Rev. Mr. Vos, formerly a missionary at Ceylon, labours with good success among the Christians and heathens at Tulbach; and Mr. Kicherer goes on prosperously at Graaf Reinet and its neighbourhood.

In consequence of the representations made to Government by Dr. Vanderkemp and Mr. Read, the Society's missionaries at Bethelsdorp, of the cruelties and murders committed on the Hottentots, in this neighbourhood, by the Dutch boors, Lord Caledon had appointed a commissioner to visit the district, and try and punish the guilty. This business brought these two missionaries to the Cape. While there, the occurrence of an earthquake excited great alarm among the inhabitants, and disposed them to lend an attentive ear to the preaching of the Gospel. This was the last labour of love in which the great Head of the church saw it right to employ Dr. Vanderkemp. On the 15th of De cember 1811, he closed his eyes on this world, and departed to share in His glory, whom he had so faithfully preached on earth. At the time of