CEYLON. a reduced system: by deducting 20 rix-dollars monthly, from the allowance of each family. We hope that the Sovereign Lord of Missions will continue to incline the hearts of His children to contribute to the support of that cause, in which thou. sands of immortal souls, equally precious with theirs, are eternally concerned. We do earnestly hope, that they will not allow these Establishments to droop and die. We feel confident, that the more they do for the sake of Him, who loved them and gave himself for them, the greater will be their crown of rejoicing in that day, when they must meet these Heathen, whom they have a strict charge to evangelize. We trust, when they reflect how touch the Lord has already blessed their exertions to spread the light of the Gospel in this benighted land, that they will feel encouraged to make every exertion, to assist us in the important work to which we have been called. JAFFNA. The Capital of the District of Jaffna. WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY. T. Osborne, Abr. Stead, Missionaries. John Hunter, Assistant. 63 the 10th of May, he resumed the duties of the Fort Church, on which he had entered at his first arrival, and regularly discharges them. Mrs. Bailey was much indisposed. Mr. Knight had pursued his usual course, till interrupted by the return of the fearful Epidemic, which has so long been the scourge of the East. The Cholera relast Survey, in the beginning of October commenced its ravages, as stated in the 1821 they continued till the early part of last year, when they began to subside. Seven out of the Nine Schools had been suspended: but, about Midsummer last, six of the seven had been resumed, when the 8 Schools had 296 Children and an average attendance of 228; and some of them gave Mr. Knight more satisfaction than before their suspension. In the absence of the Rev. Christian David, for several months in the Summer of 1821, Mr. Knight took charge of his Con The number of Schools is 10, of Children 510, and of Catechists and School-gregation of Native Christians. He went masters 11. A Female School also has been opened. The Committee state The New Chapel, toward which 3000 rix-dollars had been raised, sustained serious injury by a storm, and its completion has been delayed: the Congregation continues large, and much good has been done. The Tamul Preaching, both in Jaffna and the country parts of the Circuit, is well and seri. ously attended. The Brethren all preach in Tamul, The Missionaries write The demand for the Scriptures among the Natives is much on the increase. We have Three Young Men who take their work régularly with us as Preachers. By their help, we are able to have about 60 regular Services every month in the Jaffna part of the Circuit only. Our School-Rooms are our general places of preaching; but, as the Congregations there are uncertain, wherever a company of men can be found there we preach and teach, whether it be in a Rest-house or the Bazar. The the prevalence of the Epidemic, reading also among the people, especially during Tracts and distributing them; and he witnessed, with grief, that little favourable impression seemed to be made by the chastisement, but the Heathen became even⚫ more mad after their idols. Several excursions were likewise taken, in company with one or other of his neighbouring fellowlabourers, for conversation with the Natives and the distribution of Tracts. supplied him with Tracts; but as the deMadras Corresponding Committee had mand was much beyond the supply, they being in most places eagerly sought after, he distributed many, after the example of the American Missionaries, written by the Scholars on ollahs: these were not, however, so acceptable to the people as printed Tracts. Mr. Knight was, therefore, in hopes of being able to establish a Press at Nellore. The Fifteenth Appendix to the Twentysecond Report contains Mr. Knight's Rules for conducting his Schools, and a copious series of Extracts from his Journal. On this Journal, the Committee remark— It is of that nature which they always receive with pleasure, as it contains a full report of his proceedings, in reference to his great object; with de tails of his conversations with the Natives and of their notions and superstitions, and a record of his own views and feelings, as they arise under the various cireumstances which occur.. Mr. Knight uniformly speaks with pleasure, of his constant and beneficial intercourse with his fellow-labourers of the Wesleyan and American Societies. Endian Archipelago. We regret that we do not receive more regular and full accounts of the Proceedings of the Netherlands' Missionary Society in this Quarter of the Survey. In the last Survey, the Names and Stations of Eight of its Missionaries were given as follows:-Buttenaar, in Java-Hellendoorn, in Celebes-Le Brunn, in Timor-Finn, Mueller, Bormeister, and Akersloth, in Amboyna-and Jungmichel, in Ternate: we have since been able to ascertain very little of their proceedings. On the 4th of November, Five Missionaries of the Society were ordained at Rotterdam-Baer, Vonk, and Knecht, for the Indian Archipelago; and Trion and Winkler for the Coast of Coromandel. The Netherlands' Bible Society is zealously engaged in supplying the Scriptures for these Islands. Its measures for this end were stated at p. 472 of our last Volume. SUMATRA. The most westerly of the Sunda Isles-1050 miles long, by 165 average breadth-Inhabitants 3,000,000. BIBLE SOCIETY. In reference to this Society, it is stated in the last Report of the British and Foreign Bible Society: : The two great difficulties with which this Society has hitherto contended, arise from the general inability to read prevailing among the inhabitants of the island, and the want of the Malay Bible in Arabic characters. These obstacles, will, it is hoped, be in a great measure removed by the means adopted. In the zeal manifested for the establishment of Schools, the Society has found the most effectual co-operation; and the progress of the Malay Bible, in Arabic characters, will soon provide the necessary instrument for cultivating the field prepared for its reception. BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY. BENCOOLEN. Or Fort Marlborough-on the south-west coast- Rich. Burton, Nath. M. Ward, W. Robinson, Missionaries, Mr. Robinson, having found it expedient to leave Batavia where he had long laboured, arrived at Bencoolen, with Mrs. Robinson and their family, July, 3, 1821. Mr. Ward was not then returned from Calcutta, but arrived in the course of the month. The probability of Mr. Burton's settling at the island of Pulo Nias was stated in the last Survey: having visited that place, however, from Natal, in October 1821, he was confirmed in the opinion which Mr. Prince had previously given him at Natal, from a further knowledge of the people, that it would be imprudent at present to settle among them. Mr. Burton passed on to Tapanooly: before he left Natal, he had spent about ten days in a journey to Mora Summa, a Station inland lately chosen by Mr. Prince, in which excursion he had passed several days among the Battas: renewing his intercourse with other Battas at Tapanooly, and finding circumstances very promising, he detertion, the Chiefs having given a piece of mined on that place as a Missionary Staground for the purpose. An account of the Religion of the Battas by Mr. Prince, was printed at pp. 530 and 531 of our last Volume. Of the proceedings at Bencoolen, the Committee thus speak : Mr. Ward manages the press, which bids fair to be an efficient auxiliary in spreading the Gospel, as well as to afford considerable assistance in the support of the Mission. Schools to a considerable extent have been formed in the surrounding vil lages; and the inhabitants, generally, appear desirous that their children should receive instruction. The operations, in this department, are materially aided by the extensive acquaintance of Mr. Robinson with the Malay Language, in which he has composed a number of elementary books; and preaches with a degree of fluency, which excites the astonishment and admiration of the Natives. The Missionaries thus speak of the Schools : The Schools, we think, are better attended than might be expected: upward of 100 are daily present at those about the Settlement, and we already ob serve a growing disposition duly to appreciate education. As this advances, of course the number will increase; and we have reason to hope, that, at no very distant period, the bulk of the rising generation will be able to read, and will be supplied with books by ourselves. We have lately received a petition from six villages, at a distance. for Schools, to which the Natives promise to send near 200 children. These we are now commencing!; and hope. in the course of time, to extend the system as far as thirty miles round us. PADANG. A Dutch Settlement, about 300 miles north-west Charles Evans, Missionary. The Report states in reference to Padang This Station has not been without its difficulties; were raised by local contributions. Chinese Worship is held, on Sunday Afternoons and Wednesday Evenings, in the School Rooms: from 25 to 35 Chinese attend. Mr. Slater preaches both in Malay and Chinese; and in one of the provincial dialects, also, of the Chinese. and the continuance of Mr. Evans will probably depend upon the light in which his intentions and proposals are regarded by the superior authorities at Batavia, to whom they have been referred. Whoever considers the importance of the Station in a Missionary point of view, will unite with us in earnestly desiring that the decision may be favourable; and that this door of hope may not be closed upon the myriads in that populous district, who are sitting in darkness and the shadow of death. Mr. Evans had received no answer at the beginning of May. The Capital of the Island-Inhabitants, in 1815, in- BAPTIST MISSION ARY SOCIETY. Diering, Missionary. SAMARANG. A Town on the north-east coast of the Island. BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 1816. Gottlob Bruckner, Missionary. Mr. Bruckner continues to labour dili gently among a people sunk in apathy and indifference. Many obstacles oppose the progress of Divine Truth in this quarter; but a blessing may be confidently expected where that spirit prevails, which is discovered in the following extract of one of his Letters: There appears, for the present, no great prospect of usefulness in Java. But times may alter: after a cold winter season, may come a quickening spring; and a barren wilderness may become a fruitful land, according to the very promises of the Mr. Robinson's removal from Batavia has been mentioned. The reasons of this measure are thus stated by the Com-Lord. I am confident that he will hear our prayers, mittee : Although the labours of Mr. Robinson, for the eight years of his residence in that city, had not been wholly unproductive; yet they have long "been impeded by such restrictions, as greatly to diminish the hope of future usefulness. Expectations were reasonably entertained, that, in consequence of the application made to the King of the Netherlands, by a Deputation from the Committee in 1818, these obstacles would have been removed; but the event did not answer our anticipations. Still Mr. Robinson patiently persevered in his Missionary work; hoping that, in due time, Divine Providence would either remove the discouraging impediments by which he was surrounded, or direct him to some other Station in which he might more effectually serve his generation by the will of God. In the latter of these ways, reliet has been afforded him. Soon after the arrival of Messrs. Burton and Evans at Bencooien, they conceived that a much fairer field for his exertions presented itself at that Station, than at Batavia; attended, too, by this peculiar advantage, that it would allow hun ample opportunity of communicating with the friends left at his former Station, and of attempting, by the distribution of Tracts, &c. to benefit the Malay Population of Java. They, accordingly, invited him to remove; and their invitation was kindly seconded by his Excellency the Governor, by whom Mr. Robinson was well known. LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY, 1814-revived 1819. John Slater, Missionary. With a view to assist Mr. Slater in the enlarging concerns of this Mission, Dr Milne had sent two Chinese Teachers from Malacca, one of whom had studied in the Anglo-Chinese College; and by recent advices it appears, that Mr. Medburst arrived, in January, from Penang, to take a share in the Chinese Branch of the Mission. A small Chapel has been built for Engfish and Malay Worship, at a cost of about 2001., more than three-fourths of which Jan. 1823. in his own due time, respecting this Eastern Archipelago. The Brethren in Bencoolen bave agreed with me, to spend every week an hour in prayer, especially for the success of the Gospel in these Malay Islands. Pray, and ye shall receive, is the promise of the Lord. May there be raised many more in England who help us to pray, Thy kingdom come! Of Translations and Printing, he writes I have finished the Translation of the New Testament in the Javan Language: it remains now for me to revise it. I have also translated some Tracts and short Systems of the Christian Doctrines; some of which I have given to the Natives. which they seemed to like. I wish very much the printing of them could be effected. Many of the Natives would like to read both the New Testa ment and other things. It appears to me, that Lithography will be bes adapted to printing in Javanese and I am indeed very happy to hear that Mr. Ward of Bencoolen understands that art; and he will undoubtedly apply it to Javanese Printing. AMBOYNA. A Dutch Island, lying off the south-west coast of Ceram-32 miles by 10-in 1796, the Inhabitants were 45,252; of whom 17.813 were Protestants, and the rest chiefly Mahomedans. BIBLE SOCIETY. The Rev. Joseph Kam, as Vice-Presi dent of this Society, writes to the British and Foreign Bible Society The large supply of the New Testament, in Malay, has proved the instrument, in the hand of God, of bringing many benighted sinners from the greatest darkness to the marvellous light of the truth as it is in Jesus. A cheering proof of this I had lately, in travelling along the southern Coast of the Island of Ceram, inhabited by a people called Alvoer: a man pointed out to me the place by the sea shore, where he had burnt a great number of idols in the presence of many witnesses: I had supplied this district in 1819, with New Testaments. A similar instance took place in a neighbouring island, where a woman had concealed her idols for scienos, until she had publicly destroyed them. a considerable time, but had no rest in her con K 66 SURVEY OF MISSIONARY STATIONS. As often as I look at a New Testament, I remember your labour of love; but I trust we shall soon be supplied with the Old Testament also: it will be particularly acceptable to the Mahomedans in this Colony. I hope they will find Christ in it, as we do. Mr. Kam has received from the King of one of the Sangir Islands, a Letter expressive of great thankfulness for the copies of the Malay New Testament sent by the British and Foreign Bible Society, admiring "this great gift of God from such a distant country." LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY, 1814. Joseph Kam, Missionary. Mr. Kam had opened, as stated in the Survey for 1821, a Seminary for the purpose of preparing Schoolmasters: these are placed, as wanted, in Amboyna and the surrounding Islands. Of a Second Seminary, the Directors thus speak :-→→ In January 1821, he opened another Seminary for training up Young Men, as Native Teachers, to assist the Missionaries sent out by the Netherlands' Missionary Society. Of those who had received [JAN. instructions with this view, three have been sent to the assistance of Mr. Le Bruun, in the island of Timor; and one to the island of Aroo, the inhabitants of which were anxious to receive Christian Instruction. About Fifteen more Young Men were under preparation for the same work. The Directors state, in reference to the Press Mr. Kam finds the Printing-Press sent out by the Society of incalculable utility; and requests the Directors to send out another, for which also he expects to have ample employment. The number of Catechists and Tracts, in Malay, which had been printed, amounted to about 7000. Mr. Kam has commenced a translation into Malay of the Rev. Mr. Burder's "Village Sermons," of which he purposed to print an edition of 2000 or 3000 copies: the first volume was completed. Mr. Kam intends these Sermons for the use of Congregations in the several Molucca Islands, which amount, according to his statement, to about one hundred; almost all of them being without the blessing of a regular Christian Pastor. He conceives, also, that the European Missionaries will derive from them very essential assistance, until they are able to compose their own Discourses in Malay. On the 9th of January, a Missionary Society was formed, for the purpose of aiding the objects of the Netherlands' and London Missionary Societies in those seas. Australasia. B FROM the Journal of the Rev. Samuel Marsden, while in New Zealand, printed in the Fourteenth Appendix to the Twenty-first Report of the Church Missionary Society, we quote a passage in which he very strikingly combines the Colony of New-South Wales with the Missions in the Islands of the South Sea, as necessary to the existence and support of those Missions : What means has Infinite Wisdom adopted to accomplish the Divine Purposes! Did it please God to send an army of pious Christians to prepare His way in this Wilderness? Did He establish a Colony in New-South Wales, for the advancement of His glory, and the Salvation of the Heathen Nations in these distant parts of the Globe, from men of character and of principle? On the contrary, He takes men from the dregs of society-the sweepings of the gaols, hulks, and prisons-men, who had forfeited their lives to the laws of the country-He gives them their lives for a prey, and sends them forth to make a way for His servants; for them that should bring glad tidings-that should publish peace to the Heathen World-that should say unto them, in the name of the Lord, Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth! for I am God, and there is none else. Well may we exclaim, with the Apostle, How unsearchable are His judgements, and His ways past finding out! New South Wales. CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. The Committee remark, in reference to the Society's concerns in the Colony The arrival of his Excellency Sir Thomas Brisbane at the seat of his Government, is an event which promises much advantage to all exertions for the moral and religious benefit of the Colony and the countless islands to which it is a medium of access. His Excellency landed on the 7th of November, 1821. Mr.Marsden had an interview with him the same day; when he renewed the assurances of his countenance and support of the Society's undertakings, which he had made to its Deputation in London. The Seminary, at Parramatta, for New-Zealan. ders, has been, for the present, suspended; the change of habits and climate being found injurious to the health of the Natives, and to require a de-gree of attention to them which under present circumstances could not be paid. WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY. ! W.Walker, Missionary to the Black Natives. Mr. Walker arrived Sept. 16, 1821; and entered on his labours among the Black Natives of the Colony in a tribe who speak English, and through whom he is endeavouring to acquire the Native Language. The Committee say The commencement of an attempt, which, by many, may be regarded as hopeless, to raise this degraded people, at once, to the rank of human beings and to a perception of the excellence and necessity of Christianity, has been encouraging. The very circumstance of a Missionary being ap pointed expressly for their instruction, has im pressed them with surprise, and conciliated their regard. They recognize the Missionary as their property; and the Chief, on that ground, enforces on his people the duty of attending to his instructions. New Zealand. Two large Islands, east of New Holland-the northern, about 600 miles by an average breadth of 150; and the southern nearly as large. RANGHEEHOO. 67 at Port Jackson, on their return, the greater part of the clothing and ironmongery, with which the Society had furnished them at a large expense, and purchased arms and ammunition. They landed on the 11th of July, 1821, at the Bay of A Native Town, on the north side of the Bay of Islands, furnished, by these means, to a for Islands. CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 1815. KIDDEEKIDDEE, midable extent, with the instruments of revenge and devastation. With his mind embittered, from some quarter, against the Society, notwithstand A Native Hippah, or Fortified Place, on a Rivering the kindness which had been shewn to which falls into the Bay of Islands, on the west side; and near which is a Settlement of the Society, which has been named Gloucester. CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 1819. Our Readers have been apprised of the distressing circumstances in which this Mission has been placed, since the arrival of the Chiefs who visited England. The copious abstract which we gave in our last Volume (pp. 247-257, 386-396, and 432-446) of Mr. Marsden's Journals on his Second and Third Visits to New Zealand, must have awakened deep regret to find a sphere of labour so promising, exposed to the difficulties and dangers stated at pp. 528-530 of that Volume. The Labourers now in connection with the Society in reference to this Mission are ten-the Rev. John Butler, the Rev. Henry Williams, and Messrs. Samuel Butler, George Clarke, John Cowell, Wm. Hall, Francis Hall, James Kemp, John King, and James Shepherd. Mr. Cowell embarked at Port Jackson, at the end of January, with his Wife; he having married again in July preceding. Mr. and Mrs. Clarke sailed on the 28th of April from Gravesend, and were at Rio Janeiro on the 20th of June. The Rev. Henry Williams, with Mrs. Williams and their Children, sailed from the Downs on the 15th of September. him, Shunghee, on landing, manifested a hostile spirit toward the Settlers who had remained at New Zealand, which the Natives of his party soon imbibed; and the scene of peace and friendship was changed into one of turbulence and insult. The On the 5th of September, 1821, after the most formidable preparations, the largest party of Natives which ever left the Bay set forward to the Thames, with Shunghee at its head, to murder and ravage without pity. On the 21st of December they returned, after the destruction, it is said, of a thousand of their comparatively defenceless countrymen, three hundred of whose bodies they feasted on upon the field! Settlers had the pain to see them return home, loaded with the relics of their horrible cruelty, and to witness the murder in cold blood and the devouring of their prisoners. At such times, the mildest dispositions seem to be absolutely brutalized by a ferocious superstition; and even little children would take a savage part in murdering other children who were prisonersof-war. On the 28th of February of last year, Shunghee and his party again left the Bay, a thousand strong, to gather more at every village, on another expedition, in which they determined to sweep the country with the besom of destruction Of Rangheehoo, one of the Settlers writes, in January In the last passage of our preceding While these scenes were passing before Volume above referred to, we quoted, from the eyes of the Settlers, the earth was the Twenty-second Report, an affecting yielding her produce; and repaying abunstatement of the recent difficulties of the dantly the toil to which they had submitMission, arising from the violent proceed-ted, in order to shew her inhabitants the ings of Shunghee and his party, and the rewards of peaceful labour. unfavourable change in the temper and conduct of the Natives connected with him. The Report itself and its Sixteenth Ap-reaping a fine crop of wheat. I have built a new pendix contain other particulars, which barn, and have got all the wheat in; and, with the cannot be read without deep regret. Jour- blessing of God, it will serve my family the year nals and Letters of the Settlers carry the round, and supply seed for the next sowing. intelligence to the month of April. Of the state of things at the last dates, we shall now give a brief abstract. I desire to be thankful, that I have just finished Of Kiddeekiddee, the other Settlement, it is said, in February We have gathered in an excellent harvest. We have, at this time, Twelve Natives at work, and it the produce of their own country and labour, with which to feed them. The great object of the Chiefs, as it has gives us great pleasure in having a Wheaten Loaf, since appeared, in coming to England, was to procure arms and ammunition. To augment the stores, which by some means they had obtained when in England, they sold, it In the midst of these distressing tidings, is refreshing to find, that the grace of |