To this list we can only add a few explanatory notes.

The uncertainty respecting the Chittagong schools will be un derstood by referring to Mr. Johannes' letters in a following page. We have reason to hope, that the obstructions experienced in that quarter will very soon be removed.

Of the Cuttack schools we have not had very recent information ; the number given we received several months ago; since that time Mr. and Mrs. Peggs have been compelled to go to Pooree on account of illness, but Cuttack is now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Lacey.

*At Digah, we believe, Mrs. Rowe has not been able, since her return from the Presidency, to establish any exclusively female schools, but in the different boys' schools a number of girls attend, fully equal to what we have mentioned above.

In our enumeration we have taken care to come within rather than exceed, the true numbers, when we were at all in doubt. A considerable addition ought to be made to the sum total, on account of girls taught in private Native families, but to what extent we cannot say. There is at least one private female school in Serampore, perhaps there are more; and in Calcutta, we have under◄ stood, that they are increasing.

CALCUTTA. Extract from Mr. C. C. Aratoon's Journal for April." On the first Thursday of the month, we went as usual tọ the strand, on the banks of the river, and read and conversed with the people till past seven in the evening. When we left the place, we saw a Hindoo coming after us, and asked him the reason; he said, "I wish to know the place of your abode, that I may come there and hear more respecting what I heard this evening." While we were on our way home he told us, "these people do not understand that you are seeking their good, therefore they trouble you and do not hear you quietly." We asked him, if he should continue to come and hear us, whether he would not offend his gooroo: he said, no, for it was his gooroo's wish that he should do or follow what is good. When we came to my house, we asked him if he thought himself to be a sinner. "Sinner!" said he, "I am a great sinner, and through my sins, the people of the world are corrupted, and there is no one equal to me." Asking him what it was he wanted, be said, "I wish the eyes of my understanding to be opened, that I may see and know what is good and what is evil." At 9P. M.bro.

S. left us, and then the Hindoo went away promising that he would come again to hear us. In the morning of the 17th hề came, and brought me a rupee as a salamee or compliment. I read and explained to him the 10th chapter of Acts. He heard with much attention, and I prayed with him and for him; he then left me. He is about 40 years of age, and is a respectable merchant of the Burabazar."

The prayer-meetings formerly mentioned are continued with increasing prosperity.

BEERBHOOM. Several months ago, Mr. Hampton who occupied this station, gave up his Missionary connection and it has since been destitute of a regularly appointed Missionary. But our friend Mr. P. who resides there, has so zealously exerted himself in gratuitous labours for the Heathen, and the Native Church, that the loss has scarcely if at all been felt. In a letter, dated 26th May, 1824, he thus writes ; "I feel happy to state, that the work of disseminating the Gospel at this place is carried on by me and two Native brethren in my employ. I have built a house a mile from hence, near a large village, where I preach twice a week. The gospel is preached every day in places adjacent to this. You will naturally expect from me some account of the heathens. We have many attentive and sedate hearers, whilst others mock and scoff. Ah poor souls; to their own tremendous injury they thus act. Some say, "we will die in our sins, what is that to you?" Some assent to the gospel, but being hardened in sin, will not consent to walk in it. Here and there prejudices seem to be wearing away, as the Native brethren are sometimes cheerfully entertained by the heathens, when they go to preach the gospel: others however hate them, and say that they pollute the very place on which they stand or sit, and that they have been thus polluted by embracing the gospel-although it inculcates the purest doctrines. Could we suppose, if it were not thus proved to us, that Man, who was created in the image of God, should be reduced to such depravity and ignorance."

CHITTAGONG.We turn to this station with mingled pleasure, and regret. The labours of our dear brethren have been abundant, and by no means without the Divine blessing. But they have been of late cntirely suspended, and instead of bright and pleasing prospects, we have now only gloom and desolation, Our readers will be

able to judge, from the following extracts, of the sadness of the reverse that has happened. On the 3d of May, Mr. Johannes thus

"I am happy to bring to the notice of my brethren the state of my Schools. They are all in a pleasing and prosperous way. Since the establishment of the two last Female Schools, applications have been made for eight more from different quarters, and in each, four, six, or eight girls, having been collected, I have encouraged them, and said that when twelve or sixteen have been collected, I shall fix the salary. This they are endeavouring to do, and I am happy to hear that some have collected twelve girls. The two Schools I have at present, contain forty-six girls. We make frequent visits to them, and from the readiness of the girls to learn, and the removal of those obstacles which threatened our undertaking at first, as well as the progress they have made in so short a period, I am led to entertain the most pleasing hopes of succeeding well in this department of our exertions. What I mostly need at present is, books. For want of this the teachers are obliged to write for them on paper. A supply of Persian and Bengalee Testaments, and a few elementary books would assist us greatly, and encour. age the teachers.

"On account of the oppressive heat of the sun, the two Native Schools (for boys) are considerably thinned in their attendance. Many of the children are confined at home, and their parents will not allow them to attend the School until they are perfectly recovered. This however is unavoidable, and onght to be no matter of discouragement.

"In addition to these, I have lately established a Persian school; I have thirty-one boys in it, and as soon as I hear from you I shall appoint a teacher over it.

"Some in my school (the Benevolent Institution) are, I trust, truly converted unto God. At the last celebration of the festival of Corpus Christi, in the Roman Catholic Church, they would not attend, but endeavoured to do good by conversing on the folly of such superstitious practices, and the necessity of repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Because they would not do what their conscience told them was wrong, they were turned out with the appellation of" Baptist boys." These children are indeed doing well, and promise much as to future usefulness. Our ́brethren here take a deep interest in their welfare, and by attending their meeting, which is coming on greatly to the satisfaction of

us all, they encourage them and lead them to increased zeal in the pursuit of those things which make for their eternal good. When I see such beginnings among some of these little ones, I look forward to still better prospects.

"Our meeting among our brethren is continued. We have fifteen here now every Sunday morning the school-room is quite full. Many of the Established Church attend, the whole of the boys of both the christian Bengalee schools, and some of the school boys' parents. In the evening we have worship at brother Fink's, where many of the Roman Catholics, men and women, attend, and continue singing Bengalee hymns till sometimes one in the morning, and generally till eleven and twelve o'clock. There are hopeful appearances, and the result is only known to Him who knoweth all that is to happen in future."

The following extracts from Mr. Johannes' next letter, dated 20th May, exhibit a very different scene however." Chittagong presents nothing but confusion and disorder. Consternation and dismay are pictured in the countenances of all. The inhabitants of the town are leaving every day. Nothing is cared for so much as life, and all verify the truth, "Skin for skin, all that a man hath will he give for his life." Yesterday the Mug brethren, with their wives and children, landed here from Cox's bazar and other places, and their condition is truly wretched: as things are so very dear now, I do not know how so many will subsist themselves. Since this uproar I have not had a boy in the School. Most of them have left Chittagong, and when they may return, and when I may have the pleasure of beginning the school again, I know not. Last Tuesday brother Fink left this with his family, and will go either to Dacca or Calcutta. The Company's offices are all closed, and the place looks completely desolate. I am all alone now, yet not so while I have the omnipresent Saviour. His promises comfort me."

FUTTYGHUR. The following short notices, from a series of Mr. Richards' letters, will shew the patience of his labours, and the manner in which the Lord is crowning them with his blessing. March 10th, he writes, "I have been lying in a dreadful fever but the Lord has restored me to health again. The Doctor, who is very kind to me, came three times a-day, and made his Native Assistant stay with me constantly. I thank my Maker for his gracious

care of such a worm as I am."

March 11th." I am happy to inform you that two more persona have joined themselves to our Church; one is Mrs. M. and the other, brother Ramdas's wife. They were baptized on the 29th ult." April 2nd. "I have at present five Hindoos under instruction, four men and one woman, and also two Mussulmans, a man and a woman. . The people of this part listen with great attention, and I hope some good will arise from it hereafter." May 20th. “ I have reason to hope that God has turned the heart of a bralımun, named Poorundas. He has thrown away his poita, and given up his caste by eating and drinking with Ramdas. He seems to have a great delight in learning, and I have commenced teaching him the Scriptures. I have some hopes of two other persons, who come to morning and evening worship, and seem to pay great attention. There is with me a lad named George, the orphan of some European, whom I picked up at Cawnpore about two years ago, and have instructed in English, Persian, and Hindee, so that he can now read them all with great fluency. He appears to take great delight in the work of our Redeemer. I have often beard him talk with the natives and with the school-boys on religion ; and at present he is teaching Poorundas the scriptures, and takes him into a room and prays with him, and also gets him to pray. He has several times expressed a wish to be baptized." At the end of the rains, our brother, intends building a house for worship, and a school-room for the Native boys, at his own expense; he has already purchased the timber.

DELHI.—By a letter dated 27th April, we learn that Mr. Thompson has baptized two young men of H. M. 14th Foot, who had for some months expressed a desire to join the Church. Mr. T. mentions a melancholy instance of the fatal effects of intemperance in the sudden death of several strong, healthy, young men, who had been drinking together, till the advanced period of the night separated them. "These," adds he," are some of the effects of departure from God, evinced in men who both by their lives and lips say to Him, "Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways."

PERSIA. The following is a translation of a letter addressed to our brother Aratoon, by a friend of his, a deacon of the Armenian Church, who left Calcutta about a year ago, and is now at Shiraz, It cannot be wholly uninteresting to our readers.