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Dec. 10, 1844 Co it &oaf. TO VETERINARY SURGEONS. cons equence -EXT EN SIVE PRACTICE IN LIVEPOOL. the eath of the late Pro R prietor, Mr. JA MES FAGAN, fV.S., d the UNEXPIRED LEASE of house, F orge, the PREMISES occupied by him, consisting of Dwelling • Surgery, Loose Boxes, and Stables, with the extensive and well-established .PRACTICE attached thereto, will be DISPOSED OF on liberal terms. _Every informati on w il l b e afforded on application to Pool. . LUCAS and Co., G rea t Ch ar l otte-street, Liver- MO be SOL D, at Burns's Stables, Oldham-street, an TO excellent Brown GELDING, six years old, 15 hands eel le inches high, warranted sound, a good Hunter, and ex nt roadster ; also, a Rso oan ONY, 4ix years old, 13 hands 3 inches high, warrantedund, a good roadster, and goea well in harness. TO be SOL D by PRIVATE TREATY, a desirable Free hold -a • and M o d ern- b uilt VILLA, replete with every accommodation for a respectable family, pleasantly situ ated in Beech -lane Aigburth, about th ree an d a half miles from Liverpo o l, and two minute s wa lk t o th e O mn ibus, which runs almost every half hour during the day. The premises are partic u l ar l y we l l drained, and occupy a space of about 3,500 y ar d s of land, with an abundant supply of spg and ra i n Water, and Force-pump to the upper cis n. If required by a Purchaser, m ore Land adjoining will be di sposed of at a moderate price. For particulars apply t o M r . W ILLIAM C IILSHAW , Arc hitect, kumf Ld-pl ....... ace, Liverpool. ................. Oro be `Let nNE or with Ne w,O GENTLEMEN c an be accommodated B OARD, q yF uieurnisbed RTMENTS- and ALF 410 ARD, in a t Family ' where there are no Chi H ldren, and a h ealthy part of the town ; or a YOUTH, to BOFor ARD with the Family. Terms moderate. address apply at the Standard-office. FURNISHED HOUSE. TO be LET, that b 'fully-situated HOUSE, on neatlyiiOzto-hill, Cheshire , now occupied by Mrs. Mackrill, Family. FUGI„ ,ISHED, with ' every article requisite for a small a term' . immediate Possession may 1m had, and for such as may be agreed on. Satisfactory reference will be required. APPIy 00 the Premises. TO_be ET, in th e v ill age o f W a l ton - on -th e -Hill, Houlaee miles from the Exchange, a good modern lour and Garden, containing Two Cellars, Two ar s,„' and Six Bed-rootns, Kitchen, Scallery, Pantry, wash-house. Omnibuses pass several t rnes a day. Inquire of DANIEL "sl`Gu.Euott Esq., Walton School, or Mi s _ p re CLARK s, Ladies Boarding' School, on the °uses, or of Wm. HUGHES, 22, Brunswick-street, corner of Drury-lane Liverpool. grtu Ifittbitrations. ust hed, A A LETTER TO J RAI P LWA ubIis YND CANAL DI ,-, R ECTORS. EXAMINING THE FORCE AND it'.-2NASONS.SISTENCYBy O JAMES SHIP I ON, G F B. 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ITOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a GENERAL - 1 - 1 1 MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of the NORTH BRITISH INSURANCE COMPANY is to be held, in the Company's Office, No. 64, Prince's-street, on Fat DAY, the 20th day of December current, at Twelve o'clock, Noon, for the purpose (Ist) of CONSIDERING the EXPEDIENCY of an APPLICATION to PAR. LIAM ENT for an EXTENSION of the COMPANY'S POWERS ; and (2d) of DISPOSING of a PROPOSAL to be submitted by the Directors, to the effect of giving the PARTICIPATING POLICIES a LARGER SHARE of the SURPLUS or PROFITS than hitherto. JAMES BORTHWICK, Manager. Edinburgh, 2d Dec., 1844. WM. DOUGLAS, Secretary, 1, India-buildings, Liverpool. MARINERS' AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE Alt COMPANY, For 11. " - STREET EAST, LONDON-BRIDGE, xe,Aesrdsr? eerances on Lives and Survivor,ships, Granting Annuities, Effecting Endowments, Purcha aitg Rev ers i ons, Making Loans, and Receiving Depo sits. SPECIALLY EMPOWERED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT. en Per Cent, of the Profits are set aside as a Fund for Destitute and Disabled Mariners. TRUSTEES. Admiral Sir Philip Henderson Durham, G.C.B. Joseph Somes Esq. Vice -Admiral Sir William Hall Gage, G.C.B. DIRECTORS. 'ht Right Hon. Capt. Lord Viscount Ingestre, R.N., C. 8., M. P. C i ot aP .e t .p . h Th ß o i s sii D op ic . k E in ,q so . n, R.N. Sir George Rich. John Warrick, Esq. b l4l3 L a e ic e e , r k E sq s . cl. Edmund Turner Watts, 4n eo lli r Esq. ueor ge m ann, Esq. I John Willis, Esq. AUDITORS. Donald Wltae, Esq., B. Fooks, Esq. PHYSICIAN. Sir James Eglinton Anderson, M.D., M.R.1.A., 11, New Burlington-street. SOLICITOR. John llayward, Eso.. 2, Adelaide-place, London-bridge, and Dartford, Kent. BANKERS.—Bank of England. SURGEON. Charles Ilderton Croft, Esq., 22, Laurence Pountney lane. RESIDENT MANAGER.—John Dawson, Esq. ADVANTAGES ON Life Policies, half the premiums may remain un paid for Seven Years, and then be continued as a permanent loan, if required. Thus a Policy is obtained at half the usual rate, and May be dropped, at any time, at halt the usual sacrifice, or Continued without fresh certificates, although the health be impaired. LIFE Policies may all be made WHOLE GLOBE ones. To those insuring the lives of others this is often of conse quence. seeing that the person whose life is insured may go out of Europe and cause a forfeiture of the policy. Interest is admitted in all policies on the lives of others. Every MARINER way now, if he will, derive advantage Life t his Institution, either by an Insurance upon his ; the purchase of an annuity to formcoence at a pet iod 'te n age or incapacity unfits him sea; the Endow t of Children ; by a Loan ; by depositing spare moneys Tisi.:htier,est ;. by means of a fund expressly for destitute or bled Mariners. The word MARINER comprehends individuale of every rank and grade, whether of the Royal Or Mercantile Navy, Members of the Coast Guard, Fish ermen, Pilots, or Boatnzen of Great Britain and Ireland. ritut livsußA.NcEs at this office are not confined to Ma- INDIVID da ngerous oing voyages, or intending to their lives distant or parts of the globe may insure Tin "' lives ; as MILITARY MEN, MEDICAL PRACTI- Sh o tt, S, and CIVILIANS : SO ALL PERSONS, residing on Tl e ' I n England, or any where in Europe, are eligible. CalcutEs OF ,PnEsitums for every kind of risk have been co ro ula ted, and the rates made as low, in each case, as are safety with the particular risk and the ,pecuniary T4 o / f ) Paries. d--- • .reltiurns on Policies to cover Voyages of every . tiTicirlPtion and service, in every part of the globe, viz., reigrmission to go any and every where without for serLiF are lower than have ever hitherto been taken. e. Assurances and Deferred Annuities deserve the otaftkeenus consideration of all. How often does death over rnaen in the midst even of health and hope. How rents, r:etlliose most dear to them, wives, children, pa- Folio P rospectusestbotertrheela London, or ors' thus deprived of all support. A rray be bad at the Chief Offices, in Agent s to the Company. Pemberton- C. P. HAYES and Co., buildin s Fenwick-street, Liverpool, A P !°,l)Pil:ILSEteNte ti HOTEL —The walls blazed with rows . of Pans, highly burnished ; ranging, in f nice fs l t i°ns of size, from comfortable elbow-room or a o boil in, whole, down to the guage you would 5e ,,,..._5) doh ne fritter. Among these hung here and there ap Ze a l i a i. implements of a more contorted shape, and to is til th 3',Ptie mea ning —culinary slembics,.prohahly CI .. e finer fl ay .. nine s * , _ .. ours portentous e ngines and strange to rt ._ ‘,Pplied when deep and obstinate essences are to be Nvitk` l 'ea forth for princely degustation. They filled me , s __ tin re sPect for the chef do cosine ; a meagre, thoughtful al a ti ; el " in pure white from bead to foot, like to some . dariclue hierarch, sur liced for sacrificial rites. He, with big ,7 4 h and, had set P a -going seventeen simultaneous pans, fa;ta."biless with the fate of seventeen separate break d°a'n---.4l"ng the m hi s v i g il an t eye wandered, up and haste active. Yet serene; like Goalie's planet, ` withput teade''_,l with out rest." S ome o f t h e pans were simmering tod er 7 ; some frizzled in a louder key ins rumbled had it e e "er ; some, lidless, bubbled full view. Each cooti e crisis, and doubtful turning-points—its speci a l Plieategencies of failure and success. Yet all these corn 13verlo iss ues his c l ear m i nd kept apart, and severally ( ion s °ice& I noted w ith d e li ght the nice discrimina tate :f h is arti s ti c torches—so fine, and yet so decisive. Anothe of Pan str he let f a ll one single drop from the cruet. th ree sor heired with a spoon ; frowned, and cast . in 4 .4thil e rt lof spice. One little one he tasted, and, with g e tflY Aid back the Ed.—Hood's 211apazitte, MODEST.—A gentleman advertises in a New York pa per for board in a quiet, genteel family, where there are two or three beautiful and accomplished young ladies, and where his society " will be deemed a sufficiency for board, lodging, washing, and other etceteras." Four of the largest locomotives ever constructed are about to be built for the Sheffield and Manchester Rail way. The cylinders are to be eighteen inches, the stroke two feet, the wheels, six of them, four and a quarter feet diameter, and all six coupled. The weight of the engine alone, when loaded with fuel and water, is twenty-four tons. It is calculated that on a level they will draw sepa rately from 1,000 to 2,000 tons. A "FAIR" PUN.--I remember (says Lord Eldon) I was coming away from the Quern's drawing-room in my full dress as King's Counsel (Lord Clarendon, then Mr. Villiers, was with me), and we came into the room where the milliners were collected to see the fashions. Said I, " Why, Villiers, I think that all the prettiest women are here." One of the girls, and a most amazingly beautiful creature she was, stood up, and said to another, " I am sure that gentleman is a " Judge.' " A TOWN WITHOUT A BRICKLAYER OR A TAILOR.— It is somewhat singular that the " occupation abstract" assigns neither bricklayers nor tailors to Burnley. The former are, certainly, not much wanted in a town built of stone ; but the absence of the latter it is more difficult to account for. It is the custom of large numbers of men of this trade to remain only a few weeks in a town, and then move on in search of employ.—Chavlanz's Report on the House of Correction. • CRISIS OF THE AFFGRAN TRAGEDY.—The next scene was one of murder and treachery; of fanatical trust and neglect ; and many felt, but spoke not the forebodings that arose within them. But there were some whose case was harder than the rest, for they bad wives and children in the city, and these knew what might b..t their fate; yet the husband went out daily to battle, and returned as oft, wondering that another day's strife had left him alive. He looked upon his wife, whom to-morrow he night leave without a protector; and as he twined his fingers among her disordered hair, and told who lived and who had fallen that day, the little boy at her knee, finding somewhat of pleasure even in that hour, lifted from the ground his fa ther's clattering scabbard, and the blade fell out. " Pah ! return it, boy :" it ran with gore,—there were human brains upon it.. Lucky was he who fell in any of these va lorous chatges ; many of those who did not were after wards picked off, unable to defend themselves, by a skulking marksman. The force was ordered forth to the sacrifice remained, so it obe!ed. The gate of Cabool closed immediately behind, the passes lay before, and two feet of snow upon the Huft-Kotul. The well-knit sepoy, soon becoming unable to grasp his musket, abandoned it; kept on a little longer, and then gave his throat to be cut, in accordance with his notions of predestination. The camp-follower threw from his tattoo the boxes of supplies and stock in trade, and trusted to the animal for his own life. That night the army occupied the side of the Huft rfoourp darkness, K tui g a the sa f s e n g o u w ar , d a ; nd b g u r t at t e h f e ul ke f e o n r blast of the mountain aided the foe, and many fell asleep s tha c t ro w uc a h s e e d ve i n n who ne'er woke again. No tents were pitched; lying in heaps upon the ground, the owners slept beneath them. Day by day, and hour by hour, the miseries of all accu mulated ; it was pitiable. The army was melting away like the snows of the Huft-Kotul in summer; the daugh ters of a white race were surrendered, and the remnant pushed on to fulfil its fate. Taze..en ! Koord Cabool!! Jugdullock's barrier !! ! and Gundamuck's hill, clad with corpses !! ! ! But many fell worthily at these. Was not he a gallant soldier who, 'mid a heap of Moslem slain, and when a bullet aimed by one (himself in safety) passed through his neck, could still take three Affghan lives ? That was near the last. They fell with uplifted swords. The tragedy was consummated.—Asi tic Journal. ADVANCING CIVILIZATION, AND COMPARATIVELY INADEQUATE ELEVATION OF NATIONAL TASTE AND PURSUITS.—We are perpetuallyt speaking of the march o' intellect, the vast spread of intelligence, the advancing civilization of the world ; and in some respects our boasts are well founded. Certainly, in one particular, society has made a mighty step in advance. The abolition of domestic slavery has emancipated the millions who for merly toiled in bondage ; the art of printing has multiplied al hundredfold the reading and thinking world. Our op portunities, therefore, have been prodigiously enlarged ; our means of elevation are tenfold what they were in an cient times. But has our elevation itself kept pace with these enlarged means ? Has the increased direction of the popular mind to lofty and spiritual objects, the more complete subjugation of sense, the enlarged perception of the useful and the beautiful, been in proportion to the ex tended facilities given to the great body of the people Alas ! the fact is just the reverse. Balbec was a mere station in the desert, without territory, harbour, or sub jects—maintained solely by the commerce of the East with Europe which flowed through its walls. Yet Balbec raised, in less than a century, a more glorious pile of structures devoted to religious and lofty objects, than London, Paris, and St. Petersburg united can now boast. The Decapolis was a small and remote district of Pales tine, not larger in proportion to the Roman than Moray shire is in proportion to the British empire; yet it con tained, as its name indicates, and as the remains still att 'st, ten cities, the least considerable of which, Gebora, contains, as Buckingham tells us in his " Travels beyond the Jordan," the ruins of more sumptuous edifices than any city in the British islands, London itself not excepted, can now boast. It was the same all over the East, and in all the southern provinces of the Roman empire. Whence has arisen this astonishing disproportion between the great things done by the citizens in ancient and in modern times, when in the latter the means of enlarged cultivation have been so immeasurably extended ? It is in vain to say, it is because we have more social and domestic hap piness, and our wealth is devoted to these objects, not external embellishment. Social and domestic happiness are in the direct, not in the inverse ratio of general re finement and the spread of intellectual intelligence. The domestic duties are better nourished in the temple than in the ginshoji : the admirers of sculpture will make better fathers and husbands than the lovers of whisky. Is it that we want funds for such undertakings ? Why, London is richer than ever Rome was ; the commerce of the world, not of the eastern caravans, flows through its bosom. The sums annually squandered in Manchester and Glas gow on intoxicating liquors, would soon make them rival the eternal structures of Tadmor and Palmyra. Is it that the great bulk of our people are unavoidably chained by their character and climate to gross and degrading enjoy ments ? Is it that the spreading of knowledge, intelli gence, and free institutions, only confirms the sway of sensual gratification, and that a pure and spiritual religion tends only to strengthen the fetters of passion and slfish ness ? Is it that the inherent depravity of the human heart appears the more clearly as man is emancipated from the fetters of authority ? Must we go back to early ages for noble and elevated motives of action : is the spread of freedom but another word for the extension of brutality ? God forbid that so melancholy a doctrine should have a I foundation in human nature ! We mention the facts, and leave it to future ages to discover their solution : content ing ourselves with pointing out to our self-applauding countrymen how much they have to do before they attain the level of their advantages, or justify the boundless blessings which Providence has bestowed upon thew.— Biackicood's Magazine. Mutteb. WANTED, in a Gentleman's Family, an active IRISH WOMAN, as HOUSEMAID, and to assist with Children. She must have a twelve months' character from her last place. Apply at the Standard-office. CLERK WANTED. WANTED, in an Attorney's Office, a YOUTH, be tween fourteen and sixteen years old, who can write a good hand, and has been accustomed to a Solici tor's Office ; a small progressive salary will be given. Apply A. 8., Standard-Office. AGENTLEMAN of respectable connections, and well conversant with most of the leading Articles of Ina port (particularly East India produce), is desirous to connect himself with some first-rate. House, as an AS SISTANT or PARTNER, where his knowledge and connections might be valuable. Apply to D. D., Standard-office. Nv - ANTE D, a PARTNER, with £3OO or £4OO, in a Wholesale Manufacturing Business, where the returns are quick and the profits good. A Person who could give the whole of his attention would be preferred. The above offers an excellent opportunity to any young man of thorough business habits. Address by letter, with real name and address, G. Y., Standard-office. TWO HOUSES WANTED. IXTANTED to PURCHASE, Two COTTAGE V HOUSES, or Two adjoining Houses, forming a Detached Villa, not more than two miles from the Ex change, and either on the West Derby rir the Aigburth road, or in Cheshire, in the neighbourhood of Birkenhead. The same to be Freehold or Copyhold, of the value of about £7OO, and to yield abdut 7 per Cent. Communications b be addressed to H. WORKMAN, Accountant, Jubilee-buildings, Lord-street. Liverpool, 9111 December, 1844. - TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. TN a highly select Establishment, a YOUNG LADY can be received as ARTICLED PUPIL. Advan tages of no common kind are offered in Music, Singing. and French, with a first-rate English Education. F r en c h taught by a resident Parisian. As the Young Lady could be placed on an equal footing in every respect with her companions, the opportunity is worthy ihe, attention of . Professional and otlvr Gentlemen desirous of securing superior advantages to their Children at a very moderate premium. References to Clergymen and Gentlemen of the highest respectability. Address, V. Z., Mr. CANNELL'S, Stationer, Castle street, Liverpool. AMERICAN ADVERTISEMENT. A FOREIGN and DOMESTIC COMMISSION and Xi SHIPPING HOUSE, well established, in the City of New York. United States, having an extensive corre spondence in every part of the Union, wish to increase their connexions in Great Britain, for the Sale of its Manufactures, for the Purchase and Sale of Stocks, the Negotiation and Settlement of Accounts, and the Ship ment of Produce, of which the Advertisers can influence large quantities, as well as Orders for the Purchase and Forwarding of Gonds. References will be made to the first Banking Houses in London for whom the Advertisers are now acting. Address, Bog 555, Branch Postoffice, New York City, U.S. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. CHURCH MISSIONARARY SOCIETY. A public meeting of the members and friends of the Liverpool Auxiliary to the Church Missionary Society was held last night, at half-past six o'clock, in the Music Hall, Bold-street, for the purpose of receiving informa tion concerning the operations of the society in several of the British dependencies abroad. There was a crowded attendance : upon the platform, besides other friends of the society, we noticed the Rev. Messrs. W. W. Ew bank, Thomas Nolan, Henry Carpenter, B. A. Mar shall, W. It. Hunt, C. W. Lawrence, H. Hainpton, Hugh M`Neile, R. Davies, &c. &c. ; Messrs. T. B. Horsfall, A. Hodgson, Jobn Howard, W. Ravett, Tho mas Forsyth, Charles Cotesworth, P. 0. Cooper, R. A. Payne, George Jones, George Groom, William Maples, Lord Bangor, &c. &c. The chair was taken by Mr. ADAM HoncsoN, who (after prayer had been offered by the Rev. H. Carpenter) said he regarded the numerous attendance at this meeting as an evidence of the interest felt in the cause. It was with a view of deepening this interest, and of keeping alive our sympathy for the great object of Christian mis sions, that it had been deemed expedient not to limit these meetings to the anniversary meetings, but to have occasional supplementary meetings at which to give testi mony with regard to the different branches of missionary labours. It had been the particular desire of the com mittee that the proceedings should not be protracted to any great length, and accordingly they would be confined to two addresses, in relation to two different missions, and he had no doubt their observations would be found to interest the meeting, The Rev. W. W. EWBANK then came forward, amidst much applause. The Chairman, he said, had well ob served that the object of these supplementary meetings was to deepen our interest in the sacred cause of missions, not only in the common way of meetings, but especially by attempting to impress more particularly upon our minds the geography of missions, in order that by direct ing attention to one or two special portions of the world, where it had pleased God to bless our missionary exertions, our minds might be able to rest more definitely upon those portions of the missionary subject. Our blessed Saviour himself, in his own history, gave us a specimen of this feeling; his heart was always deeply engaged for men ; it was to save nien that he came down from heaven; and yet we found that upon special occasions his sympathy was particularly called firth. For instance, it was when he saw Jerusalem, and had that city extended before him, that he wept for its coming destruction ; it was when be actually stood upon the grave of Lazarus that he wept for the loss of his friend ; and it was just upon this principle that the committee were anxious to impress the public mind, if possible, with some particular portions of neces sary enterprise. The subject assigned to him was an ex ceedingly large one ; and he Might just say in the com mencement, that it would be utterly impossible for him to mention even the various status which it had pleased God to plant for the dissemintion of the Gospel in Northern India: but he would simply attempt to do his best, in order to give some general view of what had been done in that important portion of the world. We could scarcely mention India without having our imagination excited by the re mem b rance of i ts past history.We re membered that that ancient history was connected with the name of one of theigreatest conquerors in the world, Alexander the Great, who, just before he reached the Ganges, was obliged, by the rebellion of his soldiers, to return into Europe. Long after that time, we found th a t Ghengis Kh an overrun a great portion of, that country ; and after that the Malocriedans, under Mahomet the First, issued from the mountain fortress of Ghuznee— the name of which had now become well known to us— and occupied almost the whole of Northern India, fixing their capital at Delhi, which was now. though not exactly a missionary station, included in one of the principal missionary stations of the Church Missionary Society. To come down to more recent times, and more interest ing for the especial purpose in view, it was not till the year 1599 that a small company of British merchants asked and obtained permission from Elizabeth, the Queen of England, to undertake a trade in India. A royal charter was obtained, and this was the beginning of that East India Company which now ruled over nearly two hundred mil lions of British subjects in India, The first proceeding of this Company was to build a factory near a very cele brated idol templ e , ca ll e d " Caligoot, the meaning of which Ilindostanee term was "the landing place of one of the principal divinities of Hindostan." Its modern ized name was- Calcutta. We must of course pass Over all the exertions of other societies, and other c:asses of christians to evangelize Northen India; very little, how ever, bad been done by any body of christians till the year 1812, in which year we first forced a notice of the claims of India in the reports of the Church Missonary Society. There was then given a lengthened consideration of its claims ; and it was said " At a time when the mer chants of England are pressing forward to obtain the ad vantages of trade, surely the servants of Christ ought not to be behind them in asking for an entrance for the gospel into that benighted region, where there are hun dreds of millions of idolators living without hope and without God in the world." The first step which was taken following that, was in the latter part of 1813, when a requisition was sent to the Rev. Josiah Pratt, then se cretary to the Church Missionary Society (who died very lately), to call a meeting of the society. Mr. Willerfare was in the chair, and it Was agreed to send a d eputation to her Malesty's ministers. This deputation was alto gether unsuccessful, her Majesty's ministers had deter mined, at that time, to create en ecclesiastical establish ment for India; it was determined that one bishop and two archdeacons should be sent out, and they positively, at the time, refused to give leave to any missionary to proceed to India except under the permission of the di rectors of the East India Company. But in consequence of the excitement which was produced—a religious and proper excitement—by this refusal, a petition was after wards addressed to the houses of parliament, and a reso lution was passed by the Home of Commons with consi ;lnertia it Missionary& m ed the f d o e u r a n b d l a e t i d o i n ffl o c f u l t t h y . , p w r o h e i c f d n e g w . o o u f d t h r e e a c d Society in Northern India :—" It is the opinion of this committee rnmittee that it is the duty of this country to p romote the interests and happiness of the natives of the British dominions in India, and that Juch measur es oug h t to be adopted as may tend to the ifitroduction among them of useful knowledge, and religious and moral improvement; and, in the furtherance of that object, every facility should be afforded by law to persons desirous of going out and sending in India for the purpose of accomp li sh i ng those benevolent designs. This resolution, simple and natu ral though it appeared, was passed with very considerable difficulty; it was passed by a very small majority', and it was stated by Lord Miltown, who supported the resolution, that "it was quite a sufficient proof of the necessity of missionaries going to India, to hear the sentiments which were uttered in parliament by no minal Christians who had just returned from India." The resolution, however, was passed ; and this was the foundation of the Church 'Missionary Society's future proceedings. The first station they bad in England was at Calcutta. They had there, for two or three years, a corresponding committee, the object of which was to look out for opportunities of usefulness througlicut the whole of northern India. But let him for a short time en gage attention with the difficulties which the missionaries expected toencounter when they entered upon their arduous work. First, there were the immense numbers in northern India, it being calculated that in the whole of that pen insular there were now about 150 millions of idolators, including the Mahometans, who might be computed at one-tenth. Then there was the religious system of the Hindoos—which the reverend gentleman explained in a popular manner—the consequence of which upon the minds of the inhabitants was that they had not the slightest knowledge of the difference between right and wrong ; their consciences werzt, in fact, completely asleep, and one of the grea.ctt difficulties which the missionary experienced was to awaken the conscience. , How, indded, could we expect it to be otherwise, when we find that the God's were continually represented to them as being guilty of the grossest crimes ' and the most dis gusting immoralities? Th en look at their religious books. These books were of incalculable size; and it was computed that it would be utterly impossible for any man to read them through in the whole course of his life. They were divided by Oriental scholars into 18 diuisions ; and though a portion of them seemed to be de rived from ancient philosophy, and contained many beau tiful descriptions of abstract virtue, we found them filled as we might suppose them to be filled, with the most dis gusti7g narrations of their Gods. It was to attack such a n idolatry of and hu wickedness Church mon Missionary that Societythe g b mo y ass t p h se e lo af strength of God; and he would now attempt to show what had been the general result of, and what had been the mode of proceeding by, the Church Missionary Society in India. They had built chapels and churches in all the places they had been enabled to occupy. Those chapels and churches were of the simplest formation ; but the missionaries went forth and preached during the idol feasts, in the large fairs, and in places of conti nued resort. One of the most useful modes in which they disseminated the gospel was by itinerating ex peditions on elephants (some of which were described) and on these occasions it was surprising how anxious the lower orders of the people were to have copies of the word of God. Here the rev. gentleman narrated an anec dote of a Sirdan, who actually seized a missionary, and retained him in a strong grasp until he gave him a copy of the new testament. " There was, he added, a remarkable story of a fakir, one of the order of individuals who think they will obtain holiness by practising certain ascetical absurdities. This person had been for seven or eight years perambulating the whole of India in order to get rid of his sins; and at the end of the last year of his perambulations he met, accidentally, or rather provi dentially, with a Christian native. This native told him in the simplest manner that all his observances would be of no use, but that if he would believe on the Lord Jesus Christ he would find rest to his soul. The word of God fonnd entrance into his heart ; he at once determined to embrace the religion of Christ ; and it was reported as having been a most affecting sight to see him strip himself of his fakir dress—first the ring that was bound round his neck, and then the large iron chain that was fastened round his waist. Mr. Ewbank then described the positions of the various stations of the Church Missionary Society in Northern India at the pre sent time ; following the course of that famous river, the river Ganges, which had its source in the north-western part of India, in the Himmalayan Mountains, the course of which was from north-west to south-east. Beginning at Calcutta, which was situated upon the river Hoogley, G tw e e n n g t e y s . , fi t v h e er t e were eaehe five stations, ts.Atßurd three e n,tomis sionaries,ro s ta then o d f Calcutta, there were two stations, two sfounded missionaries, fourteen Lieutenant Stewart. teachers. The Following h miss ion here te a course of the Hocgley, and proceeding towards the east there was a very interesting sphere of Christian labour, the district of Krishnagaz, (of which he narrated the well-known history,) containing five stations, five missionaries, and sixty-three teachers. The next prin cipal station was upon the banks of the Ganges itself, in the city of Benares, which had been well called the Athens of Hindostan, in the immediate neighbourhood of which there were three stations, Manpore, Baxar, and Chunar, giving four stations, four missionaries, and twenty-seven teachers. Proceeding north-west, and leav ing the banks of the Ganges, we came to Agra, in the kingdom of Oude, where there was one station, four missionaries, and eight teachers. Then returning to the Ganges, we find another station called Meerat. which contained one station, no missionaries at present, and three teachers. We had now almost arrived at the north of the Ganges, and one of the last and most interesting proceedings of the society had been the foundation of another mission in the Hemimalagan mountains at Simla, concerning which he gave several attractive details. He had thus attempted to give only a sketch of the pro ceedings of the society in northern India ; but after all what had the society, or rather what had we done ? How many Hindoos did we think were allotted to the exertions of a single missionary ? Why, if we calculated the popu lation of northern India at forty millions (which was less than the reality) there would be only one missionary, counting all the various stets, to about one million of idolaters ! How could we expect the religion of Christ to make much progress when we did so little to assist its progress? And yet.how much had been done ! Rather than be disappointed because none had not been done, we ought to wonder that so much had been effected. We ought to look upon northern India as a most decidedproof that it is not by might or by power, bat by the spirit of the Lord of Hosts that the gospel had already produced such effects, and that idolatry was actually wailing before the son of righteousness ; then we considered the times which were coming, and looked what India might become, speaking of the improvements which were continually go ing on in science, in the course of a few years,—when we remembered that from Calcutta it took not many days to proceed to China,—when we look at the advantages of communication India must shortly possess, and recol lected that our last act had been to occupy a station in Gimla, which was the highwap to the plains of Taatary, and the whoje interior of that great empire, —what might We not ezpect in the providence of God in the course of a very few years. The most judicious mis sionaries—and he had conversed with one who was not inclined to take the highest view of affairs, who thought, as they thought - , tharnot many - years would elapse before idolatry would be actually overthrown in India. Therefore if God would lalers us in our exertions for a few years longer, we might expect to see a wonderful change in that country. There was a remarkable tree in India, called the banyan fig -tree. The characteaistic of this tree, said Mr. Evebank, is, that while the mother root remains in the earth, the tree is continually extending branches which again drop their branches to the ground, and they take root, so that the tree at least covers an im mense tract of country. This tree has been in some re spects well compared to the proceedings of the Church Missionary Society; but there is one point in which it will be deficient. It is, I believe, a fact, that while the young branches are taking root in the ground, decay at last seizes upon the mother of a 1 this progeny. I trust that this will never be the case here—(hear, hear, and cheers);—that while influenced by the love of God, and while anxious to send forth the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the most distant regions, the Church of Eng land will exert herself still more, and with increased energy year by year—that she herself shall by the blessings of God propagate her avengelical party; and that while she is reaping the harvest of thankfulness from the re ports of distant missionaries, she shall find among her own members an increasing knowledge of the religon of Jesus Christ, and that God's blessing shall be more widely spread upon all the members within her own pale. (Loud cheers.) • The 'Rev. THOMAS NOLAN, whose rising was greeted with very great applause, addressed the meeting as fol lows :—As theopening observations of my friend and brother who has preceded me have obviated the necessity, so like wise the wholesome regulation, according to whica we must close this meeting by nine o'clock, precludes the possibility of prefatory observations; therefore, without any further delay, I proceed at once, Mr. Chairman, to say, what is equally well known to most of those assembled as to myself, that the name of New Zealand belongs to two islands in the great S. Pacific ocean, lying between 34 and 48 degrees of south latitude, and 160 to 180 de grees of longitude east from London, about six or eight days' sail east from New Holland, and thus lying at the very opposi e extremity of the globe, the very Antipodes of e v England. out And thankfulness here, is there our gracious not God, matter that humble at l and d assembly of Englishmen is met together to listen with deep interest to the spiritual condition of that remote region, that, during this dispensation, England seems ofraised u e p, sr th and : kept h e u r p e , t e o e b t e for s eeje salvationth something u in thisnt o h reflectiont e e nd s calculated to prompt from every English heart the tender earnest prayer for England's Church and England's self, " Destroy her not, for a blessing is in her." There is reason for supposing that New Zealand may have been visited by Juan Fernandez, in the year 1576; but we are certain tfiat it was so by Abel Jansen Tasman, the enter prising re eeptireception u h t e c h e x n p a e v r i i e g a n t e o e r d , a i in t l h 6 e 42, ha a e n d d s t e h f e t c h h e a r a a a e t t i e v r e s o f tn t h e y e be inferred from the name be gave to the only place he au e r defr Newers . " Zealand From — n o " authenticTh The Bay accountofA l o a , in when our own celebra ed countryman, thecm taetepe timemtt as p i untes Cook, t l ol of oTklapTsu6: nta,ten e in sight of it on the 6th of October. His first experience of the disposition of the natives to wards foreigners was any thing but prepossessing; and the communications of the natives with him subsequently, in 1774 and 1777, left the conviction on his mind, that previously to his first visit, an European ship must have put in to New Zealand ; and, as nothing was ever heard of her afterwards, that she must have been destroced, with all her crew, by the savage islanders. This is confirmed by the evidence detailed in Captain 'Cruise's journal. About this time also a French vessel, the St. Jean Baptiste, under the command of M. de Sur ville, came in sight of the same part of New Zealand as that visited by Cook. The accounts preserved in the narrative of Abbe Rochon of de Surville's voyage, and that of his countryman, Marion du Fresne, of the Mas carin, who sent a boat ashore near the Bay of Islands on the 3rd of May, 1771, afford a sad picture alike of the disposition of the natives, as of the character of the treat ment they met for the most part at that time, and for years after it, at the hands of the Europeans that visited them. Du Fresne, after living upon terms of the utmost confidence, and interchanging acts of the utmost kind ness with the natives for a space of five weeks, was, with a boat's crew of sixteen, including four superior officers, suddenly set upon, barbarously murdered, and their bodies devoured, after being brutally mangled, by the infuriate savages. This led, of course, to a sad and severe repri sal : whole villages were burnt, and the enusquetry of the enraged marines dealt ample vengeance for the blood of their butchered countrymen. Apologists and exagge rators will be found, as might be expected, on both sides of the question ; some imputing the blame of these un happy deeds to the cruelty and injustice practised by Europeans towards the natives ; others, again, ascribing it all, to the ferocity and bloodthirstiness of the natives themselves: happily, however, we arc not required t 3 decide the point on either side ; ours is to come to the chronicle of more pleasing events ; but it was necessary that these facts should be stated, in order that a proper estimate might be formed of the difficulties by which we were surrounded. It will at once be felt and admitted how far the blessing of God hath been with us, in ena bling us to surmount them, when it is known that the scene of the tragedy just referred to, and called in conse quence by Crozet (du Fresne's first officer, in whose nar. rative the account is given), " the Bay of Treachery," is no other than the "Bay of Islands" of the Church Missionary Society. "Not unto us, 0 Lord, but to thy name, give the glory for thy mercy an,i for thy truth's sake."—Amen. It is not until the tenth report of the society's operations that the account meets us of the in tended settlement at New Zealand. In the appendix to that report there is given an important letter from the Rev. Samuel Marsden, principal chaplain of New South Wales, a name that must for ever remain gloriously associated with the first efforts to erect the banner of the cross above the wastes of heathenism, and to pour in the light of the gospel upon the darkness of New Zealand. This devoted servant of Christ was returning to Port Jackson in the summer of 1809, and took along with him William Hall and John King, the first christian settlers bound for New Zealand. It so happened that on board the same ship was also a young New Zealander, Duaterra, related to some of the most influential chiefs, between whom and the chaplain, and settlers, a close intimacy was contracted, the result of which was fou d afterwards greatly to promote the in. terests of the settlement. All seemed to promise well for the immediate and successful commencement of the work of God. The letter of instructions from the Rev. Josiah Pratt, in the name of the Committee of the Church Mis sionary Society, abounds with exhortations to holy con. versation such as becometh the gospel—to discreet and cautious intercouse with the natives—animating them to prudent zeal in the great work they had undertaken—and susteining them with the powet and sympathy of fervent prayer, to be strong and of good courage in the Lord and in the power of his might. From Quaterra, Mr. Mars den received information, regarding the habits, prejudices, eawfech:hlheetd.ihernfcrreghclooehNasumhuewfseoi causes, Nevertheless s eshßtre i hto n ai eul d nehrd i scidd s eerot p resuous e trseoehe n t traditions, and gods of his countrymen, of the utmost im portance, not allowed that the work should commence so soon. A k .plui t atret t n)e h et i adh s teb p Ne e yvx r a i tc o hne d egp at t i inr h oef e nau melancholy infuriated theeeitt el natives, ltt.ew lf ti e s'i Captainr a c sh workingeTi d s d sp u as r de i e n : g v leer intnsht the joined osoissynaeaegngdeeet borne r a o o m t N e p a o r Zealand chief,y who Wales. a s e difficulties that are always in the way of every great or good undertaking, caused nearly five years to elapse be fore the attempt could be made with any prospect of suc cess of settling permanently in the country ; and so it was not till Marcb, 1814, that the missionaries of this society, the most effectual pioneers of civiliza tion, sailed from Port Jackson, in the ship Active, purchased by Mr. Marsden for the purposes of the missionary settlement. Duaterra, the young chief, had previously returned to his own country from New South Wales, and to him Mr. Marsden, whose name was even then familiar and beloved in New Zealand, gave letters to the missionaries, as also to another chief, by whom they were kindly received. The first attempt was to teach the natives the value of the Christian sab• bath : accordingly, while the " Active" remained in the Bay of Islands, divine service was duly performed on her deck; and by degrees several of the chiefs were brought to attend it : and in fine some of them returned in the ship to Port Jackson, to obtain further information as to the habits and skill of our countrymen, with which already they had become so favourably impressed. This visit was one of trial, and so far under God it was abundantly successful. I dwell with perhaps tedious minuteness upon the early history of this important mission, even though by doing so I must be compelled to pass with great rapidity over succeeding years until we come to the actual state of things now existing in New Zealand. The effect of this visit was to encourage the settlers to banish their fears, and to make them thenceforth eager to be settled, and to commence vigorously their first work. Mr. Mars den, with the sanction of Governor Macquarrie, to whose kind and judicious co-operation he was all along much indebted, sailed with the Messrs. Kendall, Hall and King, in November of the same year, for the purpose of aiding in their final settlement in the place of their destination. The account in his journal- of this voyage, and his first visit to the land for which he had so long been anxious, and which occupied so large a place in his heart and prayers, is deeply interesting, especially of his first sab bath sermon. The day was also Christmas day, and he preached to them from.the 2nd chapter of St. Luke's Gospel, " Behold, I bring you alad tidings of great joy." Through the happy authority of his friend I)uaterra, there intelligent congregation a numerous and orderly, thou g h n ot yet very congregation : but the chief informed them what he had been savitig was very good: that be (the chief) would explain it to them by and bye, and that they should soon be able to understand it for themselves. "In this man ner (Mr. Marsden proceeds) has the Gospel beenintro duced into New Zealand, and I• fervently pray that the glory of it may never depart from its inhabitants till time shall be no more." Before Mr. Marsden returned to New South Wales he completed the legal purchase of about 200 acres of land near to the adjoining town of Raughee Hoo, and left the infant mission, comprising in all twenty-five Europeans, including men, women, and children. Their first care was wisely directed to the es tablishnient of schools for child;en and adults; mean while there was a growing respect and confidence on the part of the natives towards the new settlers. The value of their improvements, their skill as missionaries and bus headmen was duly appreciated, and, more than all, their disinterested care and attention to the children in their schools rapidly gained on the affections of this people, so long regarded with hopeless dismay. The chief hindrance now experienced to the progress of the work, and the chief atrocities by which the island was disgraced, were on the part of the European ship s ' crews t owar d s suc h natives as happened to be in their power. The accounts of them are shocking, and enough to make-a Christian's heart bleed at the thought of the frauds and cruelties practised upon benighted heathens by persons bearing the aspect of men, and calling themselves by the name of Christian. In 1819 Mr. Marsden- made his second visit to New -Zealand, along with Mr. Butler and his associates. He succeeded now also in making a second settlement, having pur chased Irons a leading chief, Shunghee, 13,000 acres, for 48 axes, situate near the fortified native town of Kiddekeddee. This settlement of the society has been named Gloucester. Very soon ground was measured for a church and schools, and as Mr. Butler writes to the society, " many parents have been with me seeking admission for their children to the school before a plank is prepared for its erection ; the cry for missiona ries was great, and the anxiety to receive them throughout the entire of that district. But it was hardly to be ex pected that such a work could continue very long, or pro ceed very far, without experiencing hindrances and inter ruptions. Tee disposition of the Chief Shunghee, acting upon the warlike character of his misguided followers, proved a serious impediment frcm time to time, and exhi bited itself under different foams, to the success of the set tlers. The great desire of the natives was to become pos sessed of fire arms tied gunpowder: these the missiona ries refused to supply : hence proceeded estrangement and , annoyance, under the plea of retaliation, for a native New Zealander never forgave or forgot an injury, real or imagi nary. In this state of things the indefatigable Mr. Mars den made his fourth visit to that country, in 1823, accom painied by the Rev. M. Williams, who ultimately esta blished a third missionary settlement at Pyhea; a very fa , ' vourable situation in every respect, lying about 16 miles to the south of the Bay of Islands. Although we are ready to believe that all hindrances and difficulties have been and shall ultimately be overruled to the furtherance of the gospel, yet we cannot but lament, when the hin drances arise from the infirmities or even the unfaithful ness of the labourers in the cause, who ought to be en samples as well as teachers : from this hindrance also the work in New Zealand was not exempt; but still the Lord left not himself without a witness. Although the progress for a time was slow, and though little or no fruit appear ed. yet the work was advancing, the moral soil was gra dually being broken up, and prepared for the reception of the good seed, that ere very long was destined to take root, and bring forth some thirty, some sixty, some an hundred fold. The reports about this period of the New Zealand mission acknowledge the kind and Christian co-operation of the Wesleyan missionaries settled at Whangaroa. The whole course of the mission at this period, and for years subse quent, was such as to demand the exercise of implicit trust in the goodness of their God, and the blessedness of their work : they walked by faith, indeed, for little was as yet vouchsafed to them over which sight could rejoice. It is not simply that the number of their converts was not as numerous as ardent minds might have looked for, nor yet the backsliding of some who bad made profession of the Gospel ; but they were actually in peril of their lives and property, and actually harassed sometimes with ap prehensions that they should be compelled to abandon their mighty undertaking altogether. When in 1826 the commotions in the northern part of the island were so great, owing to the wars and deadly feuds of Shunghee with some of the neighbouring chiefs, that the Wesleyan settlement, atWhangaroa, was completely destroyed, they had little other expectations but that the savage tribes, in the transport of victory, would descend upon our settle ment also at Kiddee Kiddee. Nevertheless, several from the Church Missionary settlement, accompanied by a band of friendly natives, went to the aid of the West.yan brethren ; and in reference to that sad event, the Wes leyan missionary notices for that month contain the fol lowing announcement :—" By divine goodness, our brethren and their companions have been preservedfrom personal it jury, and brought safely sender the protection of their kind and hospitable friends of the Church Mis sionary Establishment." But it is most true that no dis pensation so dark bath ever been allotted to any child or work of God out of which light may not be found to arise at last. An instance of God's overruling Providence and care for his people was discovered in thisalso : fifteen months after it was felt and acknowledged how -.i,e hand of the Lord unseen was guiding and controlling so that all things were working for good to them that love God and put their trust in his promise—" Fear not, I am with you, be not dismayed lam thy God." Shanghee, the powerful chief of all the district in which Kiddee Kiddee (afterwards Keri Keri) was situate, though he never embraced or professed the gospel, yet tacitly countenanced the missions, principally for the sake of the civilization that he observed to follow in their train : he was dangerously wounded just before the sacking of the Wesleyan settlement, at Whangaroa, his death was hourly expected, the tidings of which, they knew would be the signal for a general uprising of the natives against them : but this was mercifully delayed for a space of fifteen months, dating which period the excitement was allayed, the missionaries were more firmly established, and their influence so far prevailed that even the barba rous sacrifice of slaves, usual on the death of a great chief, was now for the first time in such a case dispensed with. About this time also another incident took place which is worth relating, as illustrating the habits of the country and the benign effect of the gospel in subduing the savage passions of the human heart. A chief of tr.e Bay of Islands was shot in an encounter with the tribes of some rival neighbour: and among the natives, nothing but blood could wash out the stain incurred by the loss of their chief: the missionaries were under the dread of a bloody and desolating war ; but it pleased the Lord otherwise and in compliance with some of the chiefs themselves, Rev. H. Williams, with Messrs. Kemp, Clarke, and Davis, accompanied them on an embassage of peace. The account is touchingly interesting ; the negi,tiations were opened on a Saturday, and, at the solicitation of the mis sionaries, could not be concluded until Monday. The sac sacred to a bb natives ath .vas bothsp spent sides h t the men h e of God in blessings on oft ie G preach ingos- pc! ; they had a congregation of five hundred ; they prayed with them, and contrasted with their own bloody . habits, the glorious triumphs of the Prince of peace. In this way, one of them writes, "We went our Sabbath in the midst of an army of savages without the. least fear or apprehension." On the next day the white flag of peace was hoisted. Peace was solemnly ratified on both sides, and much carnage and bloodshed thus mercifully obviated, under God's blessing, by the happy intervention of his faithful and intrepid servants. Amid such scenes, and by such mean s as t h ese , h ave our dear brethren been animated and reserved. They moved to and fro amongst the savage tribes like Daniel among the lions, not holding their lives dear unto them, but still pre served unhurt. Going forth in tears bearing the good seed, but the time was n ow approaching when they should come agai,i with joy bearing their sheaves with them. A' an exami nation held at Pyhea (Pachia) in December, 1831 there were 172 men,and boys, and 9 2 f emales. The word of G:-d was being translated into the native language, and eagerly sought after by the inhabitants; and whenever the missionaries were able to make a tour through the villages adjoining their respeetiv stations. they were kindly welcomed and eage:ly followed while they examined. The years 1832 and lean ar remarkable for the sending out a consular agent, Mr. James Busby, who took up his abode on the northern part of the island. The trade in timber and flax had increased sufficiently to demand supenn tendence ; and the further object of his mission (to the shame of professing Christians t , e it spoken) was. to prevent the out rages and wrongs hitherto perpetrated by the British subjects to a frightful extent. How different this. the establishment of an agent, from the state of things fifteen years before, when th e settlers went to explore. and examine, and feel their way. Truly might they say, "The Lord halls done great things f or us, whereof we are glad." Frdm this time the work went on rapidly increasinr. The next year four new stations were formed south of the Bay of Islands, and more missionaries were stationed among the people. I'y the help of a printing press, and of copes printed in England, and a magnifi cen t d o . nation of the New Testament , in the native language, from th e British and Foreign Bible Society, !he mis s i onar i e , were able, to some extent, to satis'y the growing desire of the natives to become possessed of a copy of the word of life. Many of the natives were now able to read, and rejoiced in teaching their fellows; and so it happened that freque n tly some of our mis sionaries, on visiting, for the first time, a remote tribe or dis trict, found many of them able to read, and only anxious to he supplied with a copy of the word of G o d, " so mightily grew the word of God, and prevailed." Each static n now became, more and more. the centre of an influence that was felt upon the surrounding districts, when congregations used to assemble of from 201 to 400 ; the congregation regularly assembling at Kaitaia at this period was estimated at 600. The Christian sees here encouragement not to despise the day of small things: though the bl e ssing tarry, wait for it ; it will come. and not tarry. Though time presses, and much remains still unsaid, I cannot pass without notice the death of the Rev. Samuel Marsden, so often mcntionedas the wise and zealous friend of New Zealand, and the father and originator of the mission that now began to bear much fruit to the glory of God. He had deeply at heart the spread of his master's kingdom in the islands of the Pacific ; for a period of forty-five years he held the arduous position of chaplain of New South Wales ; and, during the last twenty-five of them, he watched with parental tenderness and anxiety over the spiritual destinies of New Zealand. He visited the island five times during that period; the account of his last visit in 1836 two years before he w as ca ll e d to h i s rest and his reward, is , deeply interesting and touchi ng i n t h e extreme. (Herethe rev. gentleman gentleman read some extracts, f or w hi ch, we regret, we cannot makeroom.) Thisyear,lB3B, isalsomarkedbythevisitofthe Bishop of Australia to New Zealand, and thevery gratifying testimony he bears, hi a letter to the society, to the character of the missitm aries, the numbers of their converts, and the work generally of the mission ; in this year as well, the question of the coloniza tion of New Zealand was taken up by the British parliament, and it is not c aiming too much for the mission to that country to ascr be to it, under God, the first step in the movement to wards that grand and available tract of country, and towards the civilization ,nd improvement in every way of the noblest and finest race of men to be met with in the annals of heathen ism. But, in the next year, we find a Romish settlement making its appearance, consisting of a bishop and eight priests, and a French ship was expected to bring ten more ; but there is com fort in the reflection that, before their arrival, the New Testa 'tent was in rather extensive circulation amongst such of the natives as could read, and the history of the mission at that 1 period spews us that the delusions of Romanism make but slow progress, when it was brought in contact with the word of God; verifying the wise saying of one of our bishops, that " the - best book of controversy ever written against the church of Rome was the New Testament." The report of 1840 gives an account of 12 stations, 233 communicants, 8760 attendants On pub'ic worship, 72 schools, containing a total of 170 scholars under Christian instruction. Each successive year adds to the im portance of this colony, for such it is and has been since 1840, when Lieutenant-Governor Hobson assumed the sovereignty of both islands in the name of England's Queen. His testimony to the help and Christian kindness he experienced at the hands of our soc.ety's missionaries, and especially his grateful acknow ledgments to Mr. Davis are as honourable to the Governor, as they are creditable to him who deserved and received them; and the confidence he reposed in the character and trust-wor thiness of the mission generally, is evidenced by his appoint ment of Mr. Clarke, for sixteen years the faithful and la borious catechrist of the Mission, - to the responsible and im-, portant office of Protector of the Aborigines. The rapid growth of the colony in every respect of late years is so fami liar to most of you that a I assing allusion will be sufficient to some of the leading events and circumstances of the present condition of this wondrous mission. The number of sta tions, clergy, converts, schools, &c., rendered Episcopal Super intendence not only desirable but necessary : and accordingly Dr. Selwyn, consecrated Bishop of New Zealand, sailed for his remote diocese in December 1311, and landed in Aukland, on the western side of the northern Island MaylB42, and his early letters, no less than subsequent accounts, lead us to anticipate great things on the future, to " thank God and take courage " It was found necessary to divide the society's stations into districts: there are four dis tricts tie Northern comprising seven stations, amongst them Tepuna (to which tie first station of Rhagee Hoo has been trans nrred) superintended by Mr. John King; the society's oldest labourer, and who has been in the mission from its very com mencement. Waimate the nrinciple station of that district : where there were in 1841 381 native communicants, 24 schools with 781 scholars, and during the preceding year there were 252 adult, and 99 infant baptisms; and Paihia, under the Rev. Henry Williams. The Middle district containing ,fire stations. The Eastern dis trict, under the sole care of Rev. Win. Williams, the only European for two years in charge of this immense district. Its geographical extent is 161) miles on the map, but from the difficulties of the road it takes twelve or fourteen days to pass thiough it. And yet, "it is not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit saith the Lord of .hosts," the progress is wonderful. The number of worshippers on the Lord's day amounts to 8,000: there are 1,400 candidates for baptism under weekly instruction : 878 adult native Christians, and 363 children— Western district, the establishment of which origi nated in a request, about the year 183-3, from the Chief of Belau, an island in Cook's Skraits, to establish missionaries amongst them : the request could not becomplied with at the time; about six years after two sons of the Chief ca%e a voyage of 500 miles to the Bay of Is lands to repeat the request of their father Ranparatan, it was found that those young chiefs could read well ; nay more, it appeared that in many of those villages the Lord's-day was observed, public wor ship was held, and so forth. And all this was owing, under God, to the labours of a native named Matahan, who had formerly lived with the Rev. H. Williams at Paihia, and subsequently proceeded to the neighbourhood of K ipiti, where he continued to be actively employed in diffusing a knowledge of the Gospel. Many incidents preserved in the society's reports attest the spread of r;tal truth, amongst the natives, and the deep desire they entertain to be pos. sessed of copies of the Word of God. Within four years the num ber of professing Christians 'advanced from 2,000 to 35,C00 'Cha pels and churches and schools are in progress, and the wilderness is gradually beginning to look glad, and the desert to blossom and bloom as the rose. It is needful, however, to be active both at honie and abroad: the emissaries of Rome are on the alert, though as yet, thank God, without much success. I must content myself with repeating the numbers of our schools and stations, as presented in the last annual report, viz.:-22 stations, 2,851 communicants, 283 schools, 15.431 scholars, Brethren, recal to your minds now the unpromising aspect of this mission for many a tedious year after its first commencement. Would even the sainted and heroic Mars den himself have ventured to anticipate a state of things so full of bright promise for a blessed future? And shall not our hearts beat high in the hope of greater and better things yet in reserve ? Mis sionary work more than any other tries the faith and patience of those engaged in it. Brethren, be instant in prayer for our dear brethren employed in the Lord's work afar, that His word may have free course and be glorified. " Prove me now," saith the Lord, " if I will not open the windows of heavers, and pour you out a blessing till there be no room to receive it." We shall reap if we faint not. We have enough to encourage us. The command is still in force, "Go to all the world and preach the Gospel"; and the promise is still unrecalled, " Lo I am with you always, even to the end of the world." And now, sir, I have done I perceive, from the indulgent tone of the meeting, that I have their sympathy in the arduous task of compressing the history of more than thirty years within the compass of an hour. If I have beets enabled to do it in any degree worthy of its importance, I have done as I would, wish; but if I have fallen far short, I have done it at least to the best of my ability. If I could suppose that you, sir, and this meet ing would derive as much profit from my address, as I myself ex perienced delight in the labour of preparing it, then I would enjoy the happy conviction that you would no more think your patience, than Ido my pains, misapplied. The rev, gentleman resumed his seat after this admirable address, (the preparation of which must have cost him inconceivable labour and research,) amidst tumul tuous demonstrations of the meeting's gratification. The CHAIRMAN said he was quite sure the meeting must feel deeply thankful to tire two reverend gentlemen for their most able and interesting addresses. They had, themselves, proved the utility of these supplementary Meetings. The hymn "All hail the-powers of Jean's name" was then sang ; and the proceedings terminated a few minutes before nine o'clock. DIOCESAN CHURCH BUILDING SOCIETY..—tip Mon_ day, the 2nd instant, a meeting was held on behalf of the Diocesan Church Building Society, at Bolton, established by the Lord Bishop of Chester, about eight years ago. The Right Rev. Prelatetook the chair, and explained the objects of the society, which, he said, since its commencement, had expen.led £33,000 in assisting in the erection of fifty five churches in tne dio.tese. CASE OF STABBING.—At the Town-hall, Ashton under-Lyne, on Wednesday last, a man named Thomas Moss was brought before the magistrates, and committed to the Liverpool assizes; for having stabbed another man, named James Forfay, on the Saturday previous. Front the evidence of complainant, who was assisted into court and supplied with a chair while he was giving his evi dence, it appeared the wound had been inflicted in a "repeal" row. FATAL ACCIDENTS.—On Thursday an inquest was held on the body of Thomas Horrocks, aged seventeen, a sailor on board the ship Washington, whose thigh was accidentally !crushed by the jib-boom against the side of the vessel ; and being removed to the South Hospital, mortificati-n, and caused his death. Also, on view of the body of George Brooks, publican, opposite Duke's Dock ; the deceased was a blacksmith, and being a very strong man, he attempted, by himself, to lift a quantity of iron plates. which he raised as high as his breast, when the weight over-balanced him, and the iron falling upon his chest, killed him upon the chest, killed him upon the spot. The melancholy accident which took place on Friday morning in the drift mine formed between the north end of Scotland-street and Canal-street, Edinburgh, in the line of the Edinburgh, Gra - Iton, and Leith Railway, cast a gloom over the city, and tended to excite alarm in the minds of many persons resident in the vicinity of the works. In another part of this day's paper will be found a report by Mr. Grainger, civil engineer, which establishes satisfactorily that the company are blameless, and that there are no grounds for uneasiness as to the future. We understand that a subscription has been set on foot on behalf of the families of the unfortunate sufferers, who are in destitute circumstances. £3O has already been attest ed; and we shall be happy to receive contributions, how ever small, in aid of this charitable object. ANTIQUITIES AT EVERTON.—A few weeks ago, during the operations which have been going on in connection with the new park at Everton-brow, two relics cf mili tary warfare were found in the earth, about a foot from the surface. One of them, the remains 9f a large sword, or sabre, was taken up in a garden belonging to Mr. Hal liday, at the back of a small house known as Prince Rupert's Cottage ; the other, which is a portion of a fire lock, was discovered near the church ; both are very much corroded by the action of the weather, and a part of the sword appears to hive been broken off. The most probah:e conjecture is, that they have been embedded in the soil since the period when Liverpool was besieged by Prince Rupert in 1644. They are now in the possession of Mr. William Halliday, of the Everton Coffee-house. NEW STEAM-SUIT CANIBRIA.—This fine vessel, just fitted out by Mr. Robert Napier, made her first trial-trip on Tuesday, from Greenock to beyond the Cumbraes, and back again, and proved to be quite successful. The stroke of her pistons is seven feet and a half, and the revolutions of the paddle were in number seventeen per minute; giving the vessel a speed of needs fourteen miles per hour. This vessel is a counterpart of the Hibernia, built about a year ago, which is considered the perfection of transatlantic steamers ; and now completes the fleet of the British and North American Royal Mail Steam- Packet Company. She left the tail of the bink on Wed nesday for Liverpool, and will arrived here at eleven o'clock on Thursday morning after a passage of fifteen hours. After she had anchored in the Sloyne, she was visited by Sir William Stanley, Bart., the Hon. Mr. Baring, one of the Lords of the Treasury, the Hon: J. Stanley, of Alderley, and John Stanley, Esq., who ex pressed theiradmiration with her machinery and accommo dations. The Cambria is next on turn for America. SCENERY IN EGYPT.—Frequently the pyramids of Sakkarah, Abousir, and Dushour became visible in the distance towards the south ; but though they are many in number, I could discover no more than seven. The ap pearance of the country continued exceedingly fine; and the rocks and gray sand-hills of the desert, which bounded our view towards the west, seemed only to enhance by contrast the splendour of the intervening landscape. It would appear to be mere prejudice to suppose that a fine level country like Egypt contemplated through an atmos phere of extraordinary purity, with a surface diversified by all the accidents of wood and water, rustle. architecture, flocks and herds, and hemmed in by rocks and sands eter nally barren, must necessarily be insipid and unpictu resquc. The landscape now before me was beautiful ; and there are artists in England who, from such materials, and without overstepping the modesty of nature, could create pictures to rival the softest scene among the words of Claude. The date-palm itself is a lovely object, far more lovely than I have ever seen it represented by the pencil; and when beheld in its native country, relieved against a deep blue sky. or against the yellow sands of the desert, with a herd of buffalos, a long string of laden camels, or a troop of Bedouins passing under it, lance in hand, it constitutes a perfect picture. But when we have before us whole forests of these trees, of all sizes, from ten to one hundred feet in height, intermingled with mimosas. acacius, tamarisks, and Egyptian sycamores, more noble, if possible, than the oak, disposed in arched echoing walks, with long green vistas, glimpses of cool shady lakes, villages, mosques, pyramids, the whole over-cano pied by a sky of stainless splendour, and glowing beneath the pencil of that arch-painter, the pun, nothing seems to be wanting but genius to discover the elements of the most magnificent landscapes.—Library of Travel. .§lOO O :EIZS, 10th , ant, at JO' hairs , l ir of Cable, Case , cents, H ill 17th ton'