102.-At Wonaston Mill, near Monmouth, Mrs. Waltham, 104.April 12. At her residence, Fairy-hill, Glamorganshire, Right Hon. Diana Baroness Barham, of Barham Court, county of Kent, sole daughter and heiress of Charles Middleton, first Lord Barham, and lady of Sir Gerard Noel Noel, Bart., M.P. She was a lady of eminent piety, and was the honoured instrument of planting several churches in the vale of Gower, which she selected as the place of her retreat, and where, for some years past, she has diffused far around her the blessings of her pious and unostentatious benevolence. Ecclesiastical Preferment.—Rev. C. E. Davies, Flint, P.C.

SCOTLAND.

Death.-March. Near Kincardine, George Keith Elphinstone, Viscount Keith, Baron Keith of Stonehaven Marischal, Kincardine, and of Banheath, Dumbartonshire, Viscount Keith of the United Kingdom, Admiral of the Red, G.C.B., K.C., and F.R.S., Secretary, Chamberlain, Keeper of the Signet, and a Counsellor of State for Scotland, and Treasurer of the Household to his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence. His Lordship was the fifth son of Charles, tenth Baron_Elphinstone, by Clementina Fleming, only daughter of John, Earl of Wigton, and was born in 1747. Entering the navy at an early age, he served with great credit under Lord Howe in America, in the action off Brest in 1778., and in 1781, whilst in command of the Warwick of 50 guns, in his passage down the Channel, fell in with and captured the Rotterdam, a Dutch ship of the same size, which had before been repeatedly engaged by another 50-gun ship. In the commencement of the French war in 1793, he served as a post-captain under Admiral Hood in the Mediterranean, and behaved himself with great gallantry in command of Fort Malgue, on our taking possession of Toulon; the destruction of its fortifications and shipping, on the evacuation of that port, being also ably conducted under his direction. As a reward for these important services, he was 'shortly afterwards created a Knight of the Bath, and a rear-admiral. Having been made a vice-admiral in 1795, he was entrusted with the command of the naval part of the expedition which captured the Cape of Good Hope, and afterwards, without firing a shot, procured the surrender of the Dutch fleet sent to recapture that colony. For this service, he was created an Irish peer in March, 1797. He afterwards served in the Mediterranean under Earl St. Vincent, whom he succeeded in that important station; and for his conduct in it, whilst employed against the French in Egypt, was, on the 5th of December, 1801,elevated to a peerage of Great Britain. He also received, on the same account, the thanks of both Houses of Parliament, and was presented by the city of London with a sword of the value of 100 guineas. On the 9th of November, 1805, his Lordship was raised to the rank of Admiral of the White, and in 1814 was advanced to the dignity of a Viscount of the United Kingdom, a peerage now extinct for want of issue male, though in the English and Irish baronies he is succeeded by his only daughter, Margaret Mercer, by his first wife, Jane, daughter and sole heiress of Wm. Mercer, Esq., of Aldie, Perthshire, who was married in 1817 to Count Flahault. His Lordship married, secondly, Hester Maria, eldest daughter and coheiress of Henry Thrale, Esq., of Streatham, by Hester his wife, afterwards more celebrated as Mrs. Piozzi, and by her has left issue one daughter, now about fourteen years of age. His Lordship was in his seventy-sixth year.

He formerly represented the counties of Dumbarton and Stirling in Parliament, in which he always acted as an independent member.— May 12. At Greenock, Rev. Joseph Ribbons, superintendant of the Methodist societies in that circuit, and for 31 years an itinerant minister in the Wesleyan connection.

Ordination.—July 29. Rev. Mr. Maclaurin, late student in the Independent Academy, Rotherham, and in the University of Glasgow, over the Independent church and congregation in the island of Islay, Argyleshire.

IRELAND.

Deaths.-Jan. 22. At his seat, near Dublin, Charles Henry Cook, Baron Castlecoote, governor of Queen's county, and chief commissioner of the customs. He is succeeded in his titles and estates by Eyre, his third but only surviving son, by his wife Elizabeth Anne, eldest daughter and coheiress of the Rev. Henry Tilson, D.D., of Eagle-hill, county of Kildare, 67.-Feb. 15. At Friar's-hall, near Melros, Right Hon. Richard Barri Dunning, second Baron Ashburton, of Ashburton, in the county of Devon. He was the youngest son of the celebrated lawyer, to whose titles and estates he succeeded at eleven months of age. He married in Sept. 1805, Anne, daughter of the late William Cunningham, Esq., of Laurislaw, but having no issue, the title becomes extinct, 40.—March 26. At Bird Avenue, Roebuck, the Hon. Luke Wellington Gardiner, Viscount Mountjoy, son and heir of the Earl of Blessington.—April. At Clonmel, Řev. Mr. Pendergrast.-At Belan, county of Kildare, John Stratford, third Earl of Aldborough, Viscount Amiens, Viscount Aldborough of Belan and Baron of Baltinglass, and governor of the county of Wicklow. He was one of the sixteen children of the first, and brother of the late, Earl; but by his death, without male issue, the title is extinct. His Lordship had by Elizabeth, daughter of the Hon. and Rev. Frederick Hamilton, eldest son of the late Lord Archibald Hamilton, to whom he was married in April, 1777, three daughters, all of whom have married, and two surviving him.At Kilkenny, Rev. C. F. Philips.-24. Rev. Moses Neilson, D.D., 56 years Presbyterian minister of Kilmore; he was a man of literary eminence, and consistent religious character, 84.-May 10. Dr. John Thomas Troy, R.C., Archbishop of Dublin, 83.—June 5. At his house in Merrion-Square, Dublin, the venerable Judge Fletcher, who was elevated to the bench in the year 1806, by the Duke of Bedford, then Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland.

Ecclesiastical Preferments.-Right Rev. Dr. Nathaniel Alexander, bishop of Down and Connor, to the bishoprick of Meath.-Right Rev. Dr. Richard Mant, bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora, to the bishopric of Down and Connor.-Rev. Dr. Alexander Arbuthnot, dean of his Majesty's cathedral church of St. Coleman's, Cloyne, to the bishopric of Killaloe.

SUMMARY OF MISSIONARY PROCEEDINGS.

WE commence our summary with the pleasing intelligence, that the SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS, have resolved to send out three Missionaries to the East Indies, with Dr. Heber, the new bishop of Calcutta, in whose

appointment to that most important station, every friend to the union of learning and religion must rejoice. A library for the college, of the value of a thousand pounds, will also be forwarded by the same favourable opportunity. The principal of that college (Dr. Mills) has lately transmitted to the society a detailed account of a journey which he has taken round the Peninsula, in which he was occupied more than a year, directing his attention, as did the excellent Dr. Buchanan before him, more especially to the state of the native Christians, into whose history and situation he enters very minutely. From the success which has attended the introduction of a regular ecclesiastical establishment in our Eastern possessions, the Bath District Committee have been induced to present an address to the Parent Society, most earnestly recommending a similar episcopal establishment for our West Indian islands; and could we be assured that fit men would be selected to fill the various posts in this new hierarchy, most earnestly should we wish that the suggestion might be promptly attended to.

Of the proceedings of the MORAVIAN MISSION, we are not in possession of any very recent intelligence. In June of last year, the centenary of the renewal of the church of the Brethren was celebrated at Gnadenthall, in Southern Africa, when the Missionaries addressed their Hottentot converts under the shade of the old pear-tree planted eighty years ago, when their predecessors in this labour of love first set their feet upon this barren waste, as the heralds of the cross, and the civilizers of Africa. Mr. Hallbeck, one of the Missionaries at this interesting station, is employing part of his time in rescuing from oblivion the history and language of the Hottentots, to whom, from some of their customs and words, he ascribes, and we think with great probability, an Hindostanee or Malay origin; more probably, we should say, the latter.

The BAPTIST MISSION seems to have a door opening at Dijah, by means of which the gospel may find an entrance among the higher classes of Hindoos, whom it has hitherto been difficult to approach. A Rajah has for some time been living in one of the Bungalows of the Society, attended by brahmins, and a great number of servants of different descriptions. His object appears to be the performance of his religious ablutions on the banks of the Ganges; but whilst thus superstitiously engaged, he has made some inquiries after a better way, and he and his attendants have been supplied with the living oracles of the only true God, which, on one at least of them, seem to have made a deep, and, we would fain hope, a saving impression, besides leading many of them to inquiry.-From the same station, we rejoice to find that our judicial authorities have determined at length to put a stop to one of those superstitious practices of selfmurder, which have so long been the disgrace of British India. One of the district judges has issued an order, of which the friends of justice, humanity, and religion must alike cordially approve, directing, as it does, that any person assisting in the self-destruction of the natives, by drowning in the sacred waters of the Jumna, shall be deemed guilty of murder, and on apprehension, shall be tried for that offence. This judicious proclamation had the desired effect, and the crowd assembled to witness this celebrated religious rite, dispersed without the least disturbance, as would, we are satisfied, be the case also, were our Indian government to interpose with similar decision, in preventing Suttees, a new species of which has lately been observed

at Kemnedy, in the suffocation of a young widow of seventeen, in a pit which she had directed to be dug, by sand poured upon her head. The Brethren seem to be in some difficulty as to their converts, who very generally entertain the notion, that when baptized, those who have induced them to abandon their caste, and with it frequently their original means of subsistence, are bound to provide for them. Should this opinion spread, we apprehend that it will do incalculable mischief in the secularization of missionary exertions, whilst, on the other hand, we see not how the brethren of this particular Society can meet the evil, without violence to the distinguishing feature of their church discipline. At Monghyr two native teachers are very laboriously supplying the place of Mr. Chamberlain, in whose stead the Society earnestly hope, ere long, to send out another English Missionary. One of those employed in Ceylon, has made a short tour into the interior of Candy, where he was very kindly received at the British residency at Ratnepoor, and earnestly entreated, both by the natives and Europeans, who are alike left without the means of grace, to visit them frequently, and establish schools amongst them; measures which will, we hope, speedily be taken, as the best calculated for promoting the conversion of this vast, but benighted kingdom to Christianity. In Sumatra, the distribution of the scriptures and Malay tracts is carrying on with great activity; people of the higher rank, and the petty rajahs, and even Mussulman priests, receiving them gladly.-Turning from East to West, we are much gratified to find, that the converts at Jamaica are rapidly increasing. One hundred and fifty adults were lately baptized at once by the Missionaries of this Society, who assure the parent Institution, that the greatest caution was exercised in receiving these candidates for this Christian rite. In Kingston they have a thousand stated communicants. At Port Royal, the church congregation and school have also greatly increased. The seeds of heresy seem, however, already to be sowing in this new field of Christian labours; a black preacher, who has been on the island for many years, having prejudiced several of the old people against instruction, by misrepresenting the text of the scripture which declares, that " the letter killeth."

The LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY continues to go on prosperously in the islands of the South Sea, the chief scene of the triumph of their exertions. The number of baptized and of communicants has considerably increased, and the work of civilization keeps pace, as it ever should do, with that of evangelizing the people. For their use a system of arithmetic has lately been printed in the Tahitan language, in which the whole of the Gospels are already printed, and the Acts are in the press. The last annual meeting of the Auxiliary Missionary Society of these islands, was attended by about 3500 people who seemed to take the liveliest interest in its proceedings. The infant king, Pomare III. in the arms of one of the chiefs, sat in the chair, as the newly elected president. But whilst the work is thus prospering in the Society islands, a still wider sphere of usefulness has been unexpectedly opened, through the instrumentality of the deputation sent out by the Society to visit them in the Sandwich islands, which contain a population of above 200,000 souls. Reaching Owhyhee, one of those islands, in their way to the Marquesas, in company with Mr. Ellis, the Missionary at Huaheine, and two of the deacons of the church there, and their wives, who were intended to settle in the latter islands, one of these women was providentially

led to discover her own brother, who had left Tahiti when a boy, without their having heard from him for thirty years, now a confidential attendant on the queen of Attooi, who was staying with the king of Owhyhee, by whom and his queen the deputation were earnestly invited to leave Mr. Ellis and his companions, as their teachers in the knowledge of that God of whom they are so ignorant, that not a single native could be found who had the least notion who made the earth, the sea, the sky, or themselves. The king has already declared himself decidedly in favour of Christianity, and has become the instructor of the Missionaries in the language of his people. One of the Tabitans and his wife accompanied the king and queen of Attooi, by whom they are most kindly treated.

The active agents of the CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY in Southern Africa have recently paid a visit to the Bullom country, in company with a native youth, who has been educated for the ministry in their Christian institution, and their reception both by the king and people every where, holds out the most encouraging prospect for the re-establishment of the mission to the Bulloms, as soon as their countryman shall have finished his education, which he will not, however, have done for two years. In the mean time, at the earnest request of the king, the Society has consented to receive two youths for instruction, as teachers in the schools which are then to be established, and for the commencement of which, the people are very anxious. They have also taken a tour of inspection to the more distant settlements of the British colonies, which they found, without exception, much improved both in religious knowledge and moral conduct. -From the East Indies, the Society has received no very recent intelligence, though the little that has arrived is encouraging. In Calcutta the schools are flourishing, and the prejudices against them seem daily to decrease; so much so indeed, that the Missionaries who superintend them can now freely speak of the Christian religion without danger of diminishing the number of their scholars. In the surrounding villages they are still more successful, and applications for the establishment of new ones are more frequently made, than, by reason of a want of funds, they can be attended to. Boys' schools, we are assured, might now be extended to any degree. One for teaching English to those who have the best conducted themselves in, and profited by, the native schools, has lately been opened with very promising prospects of great success. In it, none but Christian books are used. The difficulties so long opposed to female education in India seem also to be gradually, though, as might be expected by those who know their nature and extent, very gradually giving way! The first school of this description commenced at Calcutta with eight girls, was increased to thirteen, on the Pundit who taught there, giving the parents an undertaking in writing, that they should hang him up, if the Missionaries, after educating their children, should steal them away; and since then a far greater advance has been made, by producing such an impression on the natives, that petitions have been presented by them for the establishment of schools of this description, whilst their daughters are coming for instruction of their own accord. Indeed, some of the native gentlemen, who declined, as members of the school committee, taking a part publicly in native female education, privately assist in procuring ground for erecting schools for the purpose. The number of these now under the care of Miss Cooke is fifteen, of scholars nearly 400, and an opening has