like him, left this world, no anxieties whatever can rest on the mind with respect to his eternal safety. Mowhee, with whose name the reader of Mr. Marsden's Narrative will be acquainted, has left his earthly remains with us in this land, but his soul is with his Lord; and the first-fruits of New Zealand have been doubtless gathered into the garner of heaven, and are a pledge of that abundant harvest which will one day be there safely housed for ever!" A Memoir and Obituary of this young man have been drawn up by the Rev. Basil Woodd, to whose kind protection and care he was entrusted by the Committee. PERSIA. The vicinity of the Caspian Sea has long engaged the attention of the Society. The Committee are anxious to awaken the Protestant Churches to missionary labours, more particularly in the northern and internal parts of Continental Asia. They have conferred on this subject with two Prussian clergymen, the Rev. Frederick and Charles Sack; and have offered assistance in the establishment of Foreign Missionary Institutions. The Sultan Kategerry Krimgerry, lately on a visit to this country, has recommended Baku, on the western shore of the Caspian, as a suitable station, with reference to Persia. MALTA AND THE LEVANT. Mr. Jowett continues his useful and important labours. After adverting to the expediency and the means of procuring a translation of the Old Testament into modern Greek, and the revision of that of the New Testament, the Report states, that the Committee have been preparing measures for one or more journeys, for the purpose both of acquiring and communicating information, through Egypt, Palestine, Syria, the Lesser Asia, and Greece. Mr. James Connor, of Lincoln College, has been studying, under the patronage of the Society, with the view of joining Mr. Jowett. He will shortly enter into holy orders; and will then proceed to Malta. Dr. Naudi may probably take a part in these journeys. These travellers will view every scene with the eye of Christians: they will communicate all the good in their power to those whom they may visit: and will return home, stored, it may be hoped, with such full and accurate information respecting the moral and religious state of the countries through which they will pass, and such suggestions and plans for their melioration, as will enable the Committee to pursue their ultimate object by means best adapted to ensure success. The Committee have already received from Mr. Jowett ample details on the state of manners, of learning, and of religion, particularly among the Greeks, and expect to receive similar details during the whole of the intended journey. ANTIGUA. The appeal made by Mr. Dawes in behalf of the elder female scholars in the schools at English Harbour has not been made in vain. The Committee are anxious to avail themselves of Mr. Dawes's continuance in Antigua, to render all the aid in their power to his plans for the instruction of the young; and have authorised him to employ a teacher, at the charge of the Society. With respect to translations into foreign languages, of the Scriptures, the Liturgy, and Tracts, the Committee bear testimony to the exertions of Mr. Lee; who, during his academical course at Cambridge, has rendered important services to the Society; and, with the cordial consent of the Committee, has undertaken works for the British and Foreign Bible Society, and the Prayer-book and Homily Society, which nothing but his own unwearied assiduity and attainments could enable him to accomplish. The new font of Persian types, mentioned in the last Report, is completed. It is now employed in printing the Society's tracts; and the use of it has been tendered to the above-named Societies, and thankfully accepted by them. Mr. Lee has proposed to enhance to the Syriac Churches the value of the gift of the New Testament, by furnishing them with an edition of the Old Testament, chiefly by the aid of the celebrated Travancore MS. of Dr. Buchanan. Beside these works, Mr. Lee is editing the Old and New Testament, in the Malay language, printed in Roman characters; of which tongue he made himself master, for the pur. pose of rendering this service: and he is also carrying through the press an edition of Martyn's Hindoostanee New Testament; and the Book of Genesis in the same tongue, translated by Mirza Fitrut, and revised from the Hebrew by the lamented Martyn, the MS. copy of which book was kindly presented to the Society by one of its friends from India. The same gentleman (Mr. Sherwood, of Worcester,) has also presented the remaining books of the Old Testament, &c. translated by Mirza Fitrut into the Hindoostanee: these have not, however, undergone the revision of Mr. Martyn; but the Committee are happy to learn from Mr. Lee, that the translation is exceedingly well executed. Martyn's Persian New Testament has been printed in Russia, and has been circulated with great acceptance; and copies of a Persian translation of the Psalms by him, have reached both this country and Calcutta from Persia. In the language of West Africa, as these tongues had not been previously written, the Society's Missionaries have had, of course, a most laborious task to fix the sounds and construction of the languages. The Gospel of St. Matthew, translated into Bullom, by Mr. Nyländer, has been printed in parallel columns, Bullom and English, by the Bible Society, and is now used in the Bullom school. To the Gospels of St. Matthew and St. Mark, before translated, Mr. Nyländer has since added those of St. Luke and St. John: the Four Gospels will, therefore, be presented to the Bulloms in their own tongue, as soon as the ability to read it, as first fixed for them by Mr. Nyländer, shall have prepared them to receive this boon. Mr. Wilhelm having translated the first seven chapters of St. Matthew into Susoo, they were printed by the Committee, and copies of them are now used at the schools at Canoffee. Mr. Wilhelm has since sent home the whole Gospel of St. Matthew in that tongue. Mr. Nyländer's translation into Bullom of the Morning and Evening Services, mentioned in the last Report, has been printed by the Prayer-book and Homily Society. Copies have been sent to Africa, and are now used in public worship at Yongroo Pomoh. Mr. Renner has translated the same services into Susoo. The MS. has been received by the Committee. Preparation is making, in conjunction with the Prayerbook and Homily Society, to pub lish the Liturgy in the Arabic, Persian, and Hindoostanee Languages; but these important works will require much time. The Committee have received, from Bâsle, copies of a translation into German, of the "Spirit of British Missions," by the Reverend and learned inspector of the Bâsle Seminary; printed by the aid of the Society. Various tracts in Arabic, Persian, and Hindoostanee, are in preparation. Those before printed in Arabic have been freely circulated, and thankfully received. The offers of service in the missionary work have been very numerous this year. Not less than FIFTY persons have expressed their desire to devote themselves to some or other of its various departments. Even if the general want of employment had not induced the Committee to scrutinize, with peculiar care, into the motives which led to these numerous offers, yet the excess of the Society's present expenditure beyond its income, rendered it their duty to admit no new candidates, but under the most promising appearances of fitness and readiness for the service. The Committee have wisely established it as a general rule, to admit no one as a missionary candidate, until he has resided in the house of the Society, under the eye of the Secretaries and the Committee, and has been exercised in suitable studies for a length of time sufficient to enable them to form a judgment of his spirit and qualifications. The house of the Society has been fitted up for this purpose; and for the accommodation of missionaries and schoolmasters, while preparing for their future destination. A number of students, and several clergyman, are pursuing their preparation, in different parts of the country, and at both the universities; as it would be neither practicable nor expedient to receive all the students into the house of the Society. The persons received there, are limited to candidates on trial, and to clergymen and school masters preparing for embarkation. Such regulations have been adopted for the government of the family, as seemed best adapted to train them for their future employ. The Rev. Henry Charles Decker, and the Rev. George Theophilus Bärenbruck, having received their education in the Berlin seminary, and been admitted in that city to holy orders, arrived in this country about Midsummer. They are now pursuing their studies in the house of the Society. The Society, not being likely to call for more students from the Berlin seminary, at least for some time to come, express their gratitude for the valuable men which the seminary, under the guidance of the venerable Mr. Jænickè, has been the means of furnishing, at a time when English missionaries were not to be procured. The Committee have great pleasure in reporting, that the number of chaplains on various foreign stations, who enter cordially into the work of missions, has been much increased during the last year. The Society have offered assistance toward the formation of missionary institutions in the Continental Protestant States. In conformity with this principle, the Society has undertaken to supply that defect of service in the earliest Protestant Mission in India, established by the Danes in Tranquebar, which the distresses of the mother-country have occasioned. The Committee have also granted pecuniary aid to the Missionary Institution of Basle, mentioned in the last Report. That institution is proceeding in the preparation of missionaries, under the immediate sanction of the Government; and has been supported liberally, by private benevolence, even in the midst of the deep poverty of that country. It may be hoped, that many students from the Bâsle and other institutions will, in the course of time, take their stations in those fields of labour which are most ac cessible to them. The exertions of the Protestants of Germany, of Switzerland, of Prussia, of Hungary, of Poland, and of Sweden, have a vast field before them in Northern Asia; while the maritime states of the Netherlands, and of Denmark, may find full occupation in their own foreign possessions. It was stated in the last Report, that letters had been addressed to several of the leading members of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, in the hope of obtaining the co-operation of that church in the work of missions. And the Committee have much pleasure in reporting, that very encouraging answers have been received from the bishops of the eastern diocese and of Philadel phia; which will lead, as they trust, to an increase of missionary exertions among the members of the episcopal body. In furtherance of this object, the Committee have suggested the expediency of forming, in the Episcopal Church of the United States, a Missionary Society for the advancement of the kingdom of Christ among the heathen; and have authorised Bishop Griswold, on the establishment of such institution, to draw on this Society for the sum of 2007., as an encouragement to its own exertions, and in the full persuasion that those exertions will be, as they are daily felt to be in this country, a blessing to those who make them, as well as to those toward whose immediate benefit they are directed. Such a society would have another important object before it the melioration of the condition of the Negroes in the United States. This subject was mentioned in the Twelfth Report, in reference to Nova Scotia. From a communication since received from the Rev. Dr. Morse, of Boston, the Committee learn, that it had been suggested by him and other friends to Bishop Griswold, to form an Episcopal Society in the United States, to co operate with the Church Missionary Society in accomplishing this great work of benevolence. "There is already," Dr. Morse writes, "a visible and most remarkable preparation for the commencement of this work in this country. No object of benevolence appears to me, at the present time, of greater magnitude, or of more promising aspect." The colonization of Christian Negroes in Africa, and the preparation of the most able and pious among them to become teachers to their countrymen, would fall peculiarly within the province of the proposed Missionary Society. Copies of the Society's publications have been presented to the Russian Bible Society; and a set of the more rare versions of the CHBIST. OBSERV. APP. Scriptures published by that magnificent institution has been re ceived, through the Rev. John Paterson, in return. To the Edinburgh Missionary Society, the Committee propose to present a duplicate set of stereotype plates of the Arabic version of Ostervald on Christianity, for the use of that Society's Missionaries at Astrachan; that tract having been so well received by the learned among the Mohammedans, that the missionaries had thoughts of reprinting it. In the mean time, the Committee have forwarded to them 400 copies for distribution. It is their intention, also, to furnish the missionaries at Astrachan with stereotype plates of such other tracts in Persian and Arabic as are in preparation. The Committee conclude by the following summary view of the Society's exertions. "The number of stations which the Society occupies, including the schools dependent on the Tranquebar mission, amounts to about forty-five. In these stations there are upward of eighty Christian teachers, of the various descriptions of missionaries, readers of the Scripture, schoolmasters, and settlers, who are labouring to make known to all around them the truths of the Gospel. These Christian teachers pay especial attention to the education of the young; and have about three thousand children under their care, of whom at least four hundred are wholly supported at the expense of the Society. Beside these children, there are many adult scholars; and the Gospel of Christ is also regularly preached to thousands of the Heathen. In various places it has been blessed to the conversion of both young and adult heathen; and, from all the chief scenes of the Society's labours, some have fallen asleep in Christ, and have been gathered into the garner of heaven, as the first fruits of the harvest which will assuredly follow." 5 T THE MERCHANT-SEAMEN'S AUX- WE most readily lay before our in vain. Among the charitable institutions of this country, it would be difficult to point out one so simple in its nature, and so important and beneficent in its object, as the British and Foreign Bible Society. The only purpose of this Society is to circulate the word of God; and the blessing of God has rested largely upon it. In the course of a it has excited the few very years, attention of many nations, and has extended the light of Divine knowledge to many distant lands. After a period which might seem hardly sufficient to accredit a new institution, even in the country which gave it birth, the Bible Society finds itself surrounded by a large family of kindred institutions, which have sprung up not only in Great Britain and Ireland, but in almost every region of the earth-all formed on the same principle, all animated by the same spirit, and all occupied in the same righteous cause. If in the comparative infancy of this goodly tree, it has thus struck its roots deep into the soil, and thus extended its branches, what may we not hope from the maturity of its growth? Are we not justified in believing that the same power which has hitherto so won derfully blest this Society, will still continue to bless it;-that this Vine, which,' we trust, the Lord hath planted,' will still be visited by the influences of Heaven, until the farthest hills shall be covered with its shadow, and every desert of the earth shall rejoice and blossom beneath it? "But we must always bear in mind, that, in the prosecution of even the loftiest and most extensive plans of benevolence, we are not to neglect the claims of country and of kindred. We have no right to calculate on the continuance of the blessing of God, in the diffusion even of his own Word, if, in the imposing splendour of our foreign operations, we should overlook the urgent wants of our own country, men, and especially of those amongst us, who, by the peculiarity of their circumstances, are necessarily shut out from the full benefit of the religious instruction which others enjoy. "It was, doubtless, from a sense of the duties which, as Christians, we owe to persons thus unfavourably situated, that the Naval and Military Bible Society derived its existence. This excellent institution was formed with an exclusive reference to the destitute condition of that deserving class of men who were engaged in fighting the battles of their country by sea and land; and to them it has proved, by the blessing of God, a distinguished instrument of good. "But there is another class of men, whose claims on the public regard (and this is saying much) are not inferior even to those of our navy and army, but whose spiritual necessities have hitherto been either wholly neglected, or very inadequately provided for: we mean the seamen belonging to the mercantile marine of Great Britain, These can derive no advantage from the Naval and Military Bible Society. On the contrary, numbers, who, during the late protracted war, were the constant objects of its Christian care, having, on the peace, been discharged from the navy, necessarily ceased to participate in its bounty. These, we may presume, have since entered into the merchant service. "The attempts which have been made, both in London and some of the out ports, to supply the mercantile seamen with Bibles, although highly laudable, have con |