The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-08-14 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1866,

Original Literature.

ADVENTURES IN NEW ZEALAND.

We have bees favoured hy Albert Walker, Esq.,

who is at present on a viait in this vicinity, after
having adventurously traversed some halklosem of
the wildtst and most wonderful of our colonial settle.
meets, and ia, we believe, on the eve of returning to
New Zeeland as the scene he most prefer., with the
use of his M.S. journal.% illindnited by drawings
done ••• ren... i.•. 1 b.. o 1...•
by bill •I i• • 1.0 to • Wa ri h-•i„
with f• r.a anti t• ot 1•• I •••. • !..1•i
bare Jrr.i,lj aoposred in the Loiofon
we can of course do nothing ; but as ...Like
the f ollowing extrema from the M.... which we feel
confident must interest all who either Lane titan's
in the colony, or 21 II lurk/Oa to io:,t,•41l1 OLD/110116C in-
telligence regarding it :

sluice N 4 w Z slOShl became a settlement of the
Crown. oh., west coast if the middle Woad haa
Nen to the many it terra iraeuvntla; few caring to
exelore aerial foreets ; cross ate rapid threes ; and,
in lac% combat with the many oletaeles and danger.
thrown in thole at by Nature. Now and then, oue
air twe eilventurin• spirit, have crowed the backbone of
the Wan.' ; penetrat. .1 as far as the west corwt ; and
even gon • come little distaurn southwards, till, their
provirnros foiling, they were forced to beat • precipitete
and mek• fooled marches, until they had
re-croms.l the island's v• Otter', and returned ones
, t. the society of their fellow men, and • land of
plenty. FT sortie time my brother end Pelf bad con-
t.-1.1.1"a ejl.eitee,e of exideration to this inhoepitehle
cant ; partly for the purpose of looking for sheep or
rattor.,l roehtri and Pertly to unveil the most. ry
erliteh hitherto hangover this part of the inland.
Tee-4 .y, February 3rJ, 1863.—Te1-day we reale our
short tri•or Imulde Corners, thirty-floe miles to the
north-west if Corieteldirch. I Our party consi•ta of iny
brother. Mr. F—, and self; three in number--three
being. for on rage dition if this sort—as good • party as
regard• number, as could potaibly be. We did net go
far relay, I, vies started late. Our previdoi.s are ell
racked it, a peek.borise ; this horse we intend to take as
far an Mr. Teylor's station, which Is situated about
twenty-five railer from the piss or settle, over which
we shall have to di. I will pass over our journey to the
saddle. •uflicing to mention • very curlew' looking hill
which we sow above e mountain gorge, called the gorge
of the. Wintohi. This hill, • sketch of which I aide,
hari at its top an immune mass of boulder arol reek,
giving it the appearance of the Peter Botta mountain.
Arriving at the saddle, which is an uncommonly low one,
being shout 3.loaft. above t before leysl, we found that •
Governniert stir relies party, condumed by Mr. Hewitt,
wore je-t co:unmoving • road or track suitable for pack
animals only. We here stopped th• night. seeping in
Mr. liochiLe tent, which was large and crinsmodieus;
that eight it rained hsrd, and lucky we thought our-
selves; to have er good a shelter over our heads as this
strongly made canvas tent. The rain continued pouring
dean iii torrents for three days; indeed, seldom have I
seen ouch heavy rain. During this time we amused
our-elre, with being on our Nieto, talking and sleeping
—.l very lively state of affairs—and I thinly it about the
moot rheuml three days I ever remember to have spent.
Febreary Litli.—On the morning of the fourth day
the ran seemed to have spent it. strength, and here
soil there, • plead patch of bright blue appeared in
the rnmewhat cloudy oky shove. Ho. ,we made
op .iur minds to stirt, rain or no rain; and having
packed up we oheuldered our traps, and were ones
more on tire track, determined to make up for so
much lost time. Our ptovisions consisted ef the fol-
lowing :-80 lbs. of flour, 40Ibo. oatmeal, 10ibs, rice,
lolbe. sugar, 31b.. tea, 21ge. chocolate, I bottle ef carry,
and a few other little eteeteraa, such as salt and pepper.
These, added to our blanket., an extra pair of trousers
each, an extra shirt and diurnal waistcoat, socks, and
numerous other little articles, brought the weight up
to about 70th.. each ; which weight we were obliged to
make up into swings and Carry Upon our backs, Howitt's
tent had been p itched about a mile on the east side of
the sadrii.e, and I think that this one mile—the tem*
over the saddle not then being completed—war; about
the most fatiguing that we walked throughout the
whole of our journey; the vegetation being se rank,
each quantities 44 ferns, musses, £c., and the ground
being of 1.0011 a swampy character. that it really Was,
with such hea•y loads on our backs, quite an exertion
to take each step. On arriving at the summit, great
wax our climpimintineut at het being able to saw the
Teraroakau river; this bring the river whose course we
were to follow till it took us to the western sea. We
were the more dimppointed, inasmuch that we had
previously flattered ourselver that we should see its
serpentine windings, perhaps even getting a glimpse of
the sea it•elf ; but mountain top upon mountain top—
eati one crivered with its curtain of mist anal fog—in-
terposed to etop our view. A mile down the west vide
of the volley of the Ternmiskau. or at least • small
part of it, for it twists and turns no much that it is im-
poosilde to get every extended aiew of it, m'ght be
awn below. The ranges that enclose each tide of the
valley, are covered with dense fore.te, extending
from near their summits down to the valley level.
Here and there among its varied hoes troy be disoo-
vered patch.. ef the newt hellbent ircarlet ; these are
tie nook-runs and beautiful Totted trees in bloom : and
truly s:ew Z eland, in this instance, may boast of
having ene if the mint beautiful as well as graceful of
:onot oleo. The Totard grow, about the height of
the iml.nary English elm; the Tetrad differing from
the litter in having a very bushy top, resembling as
nearly on pomade a dome in shape—this dome being one
ars.e. rif leer ly scarlet blosemak_
. . _

I,lPlay. 13th.— horsed several places fo.day where the
mountain. receded for come little distance, formiog
acuri•circle.; out .1 these there generally issued imps-to-
otle torrents, tributaries of the main stream. Our track
is very ba,l, loving over immense boulders, sharp and
angular ; and rim several places that we passed we had
gr. at mluselller of broken rock to pass over, broken up
so .rnall that they had all the appearance of being
broken by the hammer, in fact, they reminded as
of the heaps of stones that one sees at home
ready broken to be @pored on the roads. With
all this our t fling is necessarily very blow.
Saw Wise pigeons to-day, shot one with a revolver,
spitted and cooked it Maori faihion. Noticed a very
curious shrub, about 4 feet high, with elongated serrated
leaves, which smelt esactly like the 1en...-
scented geranium; this no doubt would be • very
welcome addition to our gardeners at borne.

Saturday, 14th—Started immediately after break.
hot ; the said breakfast being some porridge. The
valley is widening every step we take, the stream also
is getting very much larger and deeper, and in crossing
it there I. great danger of being swept away • we fear
that ten miles or so below, it will have increased so that
we shall be up to the aroi•pita in endeavouring to mesa.
Rut sail is impossible to cross auch a rapid stream so
deep as that, it will necessitate us building some sort of
raft to float down it. Pureed a great many gaps in the
mountains to lay : conjectures were rife among our
small party es to whether they led to any less moun-
tainous or level country beyond. Through each of these
gaps, redline, tumultuous, streams run to join the
parent river, rejoicing, as it were, to add their mite to
oil Father Ocean. Saw some crows today. In shape
they resemble our English inegpie ; their colour M
bleck, with two pear-shaped fleshy excrescences hanging
from each aide .1 the lower eisnilible, the part nearest
the juw being ultramarine in colour, the rest a brilliant
vermillion ; this gives them a moat singular appearance,
and looks just like • led collar. They are the very
reverse of their Eriglish name-sakes, being the most
ridiculously stupid bird that flies. They will allow you
to approach quite close to them, and dsliberately place
• flax noose (at the end of a etick live or six feet long)
over their beads; capital additions they proved to our
victualling departmerit. The simplicity and almost
incredulous stupidity of all the New Zealand birds is
most refreshing. When you camp at night, or even sit
down to take a few minutes rest, you are sure to have
• welts or wood hen, • bird about four or five pounds in
weight, conic stalking slowly up to take a look at you.
approaching as close as five or six feet of you. The
',Mowing is the curious but simple Maori mode of catch•
leg them, and will illustrate what little fear the wood.
hen, in conjunction with other New Zealand birds, hu
for inns. You first knock down a New Zealand robin,
• thing easily done, then procure two sticks about eight
bet lon;:. at the end of the one hang the dead robin,
attach • flax noose to the end of the other, then hold
the stick with the robin in your left band. slowly
staking the robin op and down ; place the flax noose
before the robin, holding the stick in the right hand,
the woodhen will hob at the robin • few instants, and
then mob, ...midden dart, putting her heed right through
the noose, and thus the poor wood-hen falls • victim to
her own stupidity; and the Maori and the white man
also, are thus often kept from starving by the fearless-
nese and stupidity of this bird.
Sunday, lA.—Determined to rest a day. We pitched
our tent inn mo‘t picturesque part of the river. close to
a mill wood ; right and left of um rue vast mountains,
their sides being for • great height clothed with tercets,
then came trees and shrubs of smeller growth, and after
that the snow line. Saw to-day, for the first time,
some fern tree., noticed one over 25 feet in height ;
what • beautiful tree it is Caught four Grows, had
them for supper. They are very good; not unlike •
partridge in flavour. The wood or bush here is very
thick. Saw some trees over no feet in beigtt ; saw
some beech trees to-day, the first we have seen.
Monday, 11. —Start, d early, intending to make a good
day's travel, but the track is so stony and bad that we
found it impossible to make much progress. At first
starting we had to cross the river, which is melted
lmow•water, four or five times in the *ourse of the first
belf.hour. 1 think we have already crossed the
Teraniakau more than forty times since we left the
'saddle," sometimes being immersed over our middles;
It is vert demurrals work; one is coonstantly in danger f
beinx 'meet away. The Teranisikau here makes a great
ninny burl, and ieviats, each "no averaging from three-
rioarters .4 • mile to a mile in length; the mood at each
of these corners or heeds runs down to the very weter's
edge. We got • long glimpse ahead to-day, after
hiving walked many miles and left the
windingpart of
the stream behind Sr. Several large mountains- appear
to run across the valley, blocking It up, but no doubt
the stream takes • bend either right or left. These
mountains form a vast semi-circular amphitheatre.
having a truly magnificent appearance. The bet even-
lag or two we have had magnificent sunsets; the sun
setting right in our line of march, the mountains on
bee being thrown into shadow, those at oar hooks or
.tward being grandly illuminated by the last depart-
ing rays of the sun, the mat eleareM/e forming one of the
most enchanting sights It is porible to imagi
Notued soday two or three trees which are sew to PS.
one In particular being about 15 or 20 feet high, throw-
ing out long slender horizontal Armlet., ; from rule of
these branehes hung long pendant pieces of silky-looking
moos, at least, they appeared so to us, en beautifully
fine and delicate were they. But on nearer inspection
they proved to be An* leaves;tbearse, no doubt, being
some sort of the above weeks. Had an accident to
night which proved very unfortunate to us, and why*
might very probably have ended fatally to one or all of
us. About midnight I was awoke from a sound sleep
by hearing a dreadful stream • jumping up Immediately,
I found that the opposite ski: of Use tent was in dames.
The fire had first reached Mr. F— who was in amend
sleep. It caught his fain, burning and scorching it
dreadfully ; this, of course, made him swam out, and
most providentially swot* us. Mr. F—. was sleeping
r:eer the entranee, my brother in the middle, and I my.

self near the cud of the tent. Mr. F— made his
eeetPe, my brother made • dive through the side, and I
pulled the end of the canvas up, thus also making my
escape. Turning round, what was my horror and
anxiety, to see my brother at the diatanos of a few
yards. rushing madly along at full speed with the
remainder of the tent entangled in a most inexplicable
manner round his heed, • long stream of risme biasing
behind him Increasing in size by the draught which he
augmented by running, and rapidly approaching his
bead; be, all the while, making desperive and fatal.
endesvours to disentangle himself. Starting after at
once, I shouted with •Il my might to hint "stop," but
it was no one, sral seeing that ill n. 4 immettat ly
tel. uvula to reel, I iii, op, h.. att.u..l It. tit.. I
tura,. I nsloulded by, Not.; j.ut at th a usoment, I
isdioed th tI. iliverg.il a li•tle to the tuft, el-re, at
about ten pods in front him, th.ee was e tbo p and
rapid ninon, Oli I how I wi.hi,d and thought that he
stoght go head gist into that deep and co-ding stream.
I loot no fear of his drowning, or any such like mita.
hop4e, he swim. ea well. At last, torn, great relief, I
ho (.11 Inati foremost over * lug, and next instant
41 ire I on the spot just in Mena to poll the burning I
meta., off hia head; in falling, he cut hie foot so
severely that we teem obliged to stop thrre or four days.
Thim we were left without • tent in an unknown and
rainy climate, and during the greatcr part of Biz weeks
we were obliged to Kluep it, the open air, many a time
also in the pouring rain.

WEYMOUTH TOWN COUNCIL MEETING.
A quarterly meeting of the COLIDCiI was bold on Wed-
nesday, August S. The tnenabeis present were :—The
Mayor, and Coning Hors Drew. Buck, Pothecary, Bun-
ton, Munn, Vertu., Thomas, Devenish, and Roberts.
Mr. ANDIIIIWIS, the treasurer, said the Board of
Health account had been couiderably overdrawn, and
more too. ey was wanted.
The cuma said that the collector had • mull balance
in hand. It visa therefore ordered that the collector be
recueced to psy over the money.
The TIMAIWRIII complained o' 10 irregularity in the
Harbour Muter's accounts. Hitherto, be had been in
the lishit of taking the usual shanss• on the vescds, de-
ducting the men's wages out of the aunt, and paying in
the balance. Ile was ordered in future to pay all
monis. into the hands of the treasurer, and apply for •
cheque for the wave,
Mr. THOMAS called attentici to the dilapidated
stets of the rsilings round the King's statue and pro-
posed that they ghoul! be taken sway. Ile thought
their removal would improve the appearince of the
statue.

The MATOg apprehended that the gentlemen present
had read the eritieianis in the papers with reference to
the unsightly appearance of the pedestal. At a former
meeting ha presented a plan of • new pedestal which
he considered would be a great improvement. Nor was
he singular in that opinion. Several gentlemen who
had called and seen the drawing hail expressed their
great approval of the alteration being effected, lie
trusted, therefore, the Corporation would reconsider
their former decision ea to allowing the present
pe.les•il to remain,

Mr. POTHICAIIIT said he, too, walked about the town
and heard the opinions of the inhabitante on the subject
and that while he had not heard haltrodozen egpreas
approval of the Mayor's suggestion, he had heard many
doz,na nest, they disapproved H. He should, therefore,
feel himself compelled to aftin oppose the project if
wain brought
._ _

Mr. Dituw said whets the Russian gun was presented to
the Corporation, it was suggested that if a large block of
Portland stone could be obtained it should be ;shoed in
front of the statue and the gun placed upon it. It was
thought that it would take off the unsighthns as of the
pedestal, and add to the appearance of the statue. If
he remembered correctly Mr. Weston promised to give
them rich a block as sac required, but the thing had
be. n ninon lost sight of.

The N•T011 Jae re4d a letter from Mr. Ifawkina,
florist, recommending that lb* pedestal of the statue
should remain iotaet, sal that it. unsightliness should
he got rid of by the erretisn of rook-wear, planted with
flowav, ka, which might be improved by the addition
of. fountain.

After some dissuasion, Mr. Thomas's motion was
adopted, leaving all further additions to future con-
sideration.

Mr. Dam pelt proposed the adjournment of that
meeting to 11.mday week, in order to consider the sub-
ject of releaaing the property of the Corporation.

sANITART comonnos or THE TOWN.

At the cloa of the Town Council business, the Marna
said that he had invited the whole of the medical men of
the town to'attend that hall in order that they might lay
before the members their oplisions,acoording to their own
*aperient,e in their professional practice,,, to the sanitary
condition of !beaten. It was most desirable the public
should be made acquainted with the correct state o
affairs—which he understood were highly satisfactory—
and he thought no better mans add be adopted for
obtaining each informatics, than by calling upon the
medical men to give their experience. He thought,
likewise, that it was highly neoseary they should con-
sult with them, in ease cholera should unfortunately
break out in the town, as to what steps should be taken
to cheek its progress ; and also, what other precaut
measures should be devised than those already adopted.
He trusted that the awful visitation would not rem&
Weymouth, and at present there was every reason to
hope that it would not, as from all that he had been able
to gather. both from the medial men and the com-
mittees@ who hail made from house to house visitations
during the past week, the town was never more healthy
than at the present time. The medical gentlemen who
were then called iota the room were Dis. Smith, Moor.
head, Brown, Fos, Rhode., Litligow, sod Mord, and
11. sari. Simpson, Griffin, Samson, Nathan and Pridhana.
Mr. Griffin, on being celled on by the thyor, said
that as the Union medial officer of Weymouth parish,
he could state that his district wae most satisfactory ; he
did not recollect that it bad eser been more healthy.
At this time of year, diarthrea was by no mane
unusual, and he had four or five oases last week, but in
by no means • bad form. In the whole of these oases
she parties said they had no water but what they fetched
from the pump at BodwelL Now, in his opinion, and
that of his medical brethren, the water in this well,
situated so near to • cesspool, the pond into which ran
the washings of the road, eould not be good, and he had
ordserd in two cow% that the relieving officer 'apply
pure water. He had since seen that a chain had been
placed roundlthe Rod well pump. But the poor were very
awkwardly circumstanced. Unless they did get water
from that source theyleould get none for use, which was
a very serious matter.
. . . . _

The MATOB here exclaimed that the Rodwell pump
bad been locked up by his orders, to prevent the impure
water being used, end that the poor were now all being
supplied with the pure water of the Weymouth Water
Company. . . .

Sa. CIRIFTIN then continued He hall seen by the
paper that at their previous meeting the Mayor suggested
that in the event of the visitation of the cholera the
tows should be divided into districts, and the medical
men thould be mated to prescribe gratuitously, the Baird
of Health paying for the medicine. Now he thought it
would be moat unjast to ask the medical men to 'vs
their services gratuitously, as theirs was • ous
calling, and many of them had fallen victims to it. He
was in hopes that the medical men would have been
earlier milled together to consult with the Baud of
Health what should be done, but as such was not the
case, a meeting of the medical men was held at the
Infirmary on Monday last, when they pissed the follow-
ing resolution.—That in oast of aaiatic cholera making
its appearance in toe borough, it is desirable that the
town should be divided into districts, and that one or
more medical men should be entrusted with the care of
all the poor ruffeling from symptoms of that disease; the
medical men to be remunerated by the Local
Board of Health for their services In 1849, when the
cholera broke out here, the medical men sent in their
accounts and were paid. In some places they were paid
two guineas a day, and during the present visitation at
Southampton, eleven medical men were paid by the
Local Board of Health at the rate of El lbs. per day.
In that place the Board had sated most nobly. The
streets had been watered with carbolic acid, and there
was a lull in the disease, lie had no doubt that the
cold weather had contributed to check it, but • great
deal of good had resulted by the free use of carbolic
acid, seized with the water timid for watering the streets.
And be advised that this plan should be adopted here,
not only for watering the streets but also for flushing
the drains. Another resolution passed by the medical
men st the meeting already alluded to, was : - "That
all medicine supplied by the &amide, according to the
prescriptions written by the appointed nadical men and
taken by them to the poor, be paid for by the Local
Board of Health."

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The MATOIR said that if it had been published in the
papers that be advised that the borough be divord into
districts, and usedioal men appointed to give their
services gratuitously in case the cholera breaking out,
the reporters must have misunderstood him. He simply
read a note from Mr. Greases, who said that was what
was done in 180.
Dr. Fox said that Mr. ()reeves most have mistaken
the dates. It was in 1837 when this was done. 1. 1849
the medical men—at least some of them—sent in their
accounts. _ .

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Mr. Ogirrig then proceeded to point out what be
thought ,hold be done. In the last three or four years
the Board of Health had done much in a sanitary point
of view, but they bad not done half enough. The town
ought te be thoroughly drained, and the sewage pre-
vented running into the Backwater unless below low
water mark. A person could not pass along by the
Backwater when the tide was a little down without
being annoyed with the bad smell which prevailed.
In his opinion the whole of the sewers running into the
back water should be intercepted, either by a drain rune.
ing inside the backwater wall, or by an iron pipe outside,
and the whole of the sewage carried into deep water at
Ferry's corner. This drain would want occasional flash-
ing', and if thus were done, in his opinion no nuisance
would arise from the backwater. He strongly condemned
the oeaspools made •t the corner of the streets by the
late yor, Mr. Lowman, and which, he regretted to
say, found so much favour with the present surveyor.
They were the greatest earn the Board could confer on
the town, as it was impossible to prevent their throwing
off effluvia most prejudicial to health. They ought at
ones to be got rid of, as they were contrary to all sani-
tary science. Should cholera make its appearance, the
Board would have to spend some £4OO or 000 to got rid
of it, and they had now better spend that sum in en•
deavouring to prevent its making its appearance.
Dr. TIZA.RD, the medical officer for Melcombe Regis,
gave • very favourable report of his district. He had
never known so little sickness as now existed. He fully
endorsed what Mr. Griffin had said about the free meal
carbolic amid in watering the striate and flushing the
sewers_

Mr. Saweow, the medical akar of Wylie Regis parish
and the union workhouse, meld that during the twenty
years of has experienee in this capitally he had never
known his district so free from disease. lie bad not •
angle case in the house Such • Mate of things, he
thought, was well calculated to give confidence to the
public, 'ad disarm them other.
Mr. PRIDIIIaI mid that his district waa small and the
poeml health was good. He had bad no ease approach-
ir.g Asiatic cholera, although be had had in one row of
homes a few muss of diarrhma Is hie opinion if cholera
or lever visited the town, it would be owing to the state
of the backwater, and eanteetly exhorted the Board of
health to give the gabled their best mad most undone
attestion. All other animism as compered with the
backwater were es gnatscompared with camels.
Yr. NATHAN also spoke to tha preseat %ria,*
01 ',smith of the town. He agreed with Mr. 0 a that

car•b3lio scid:should be freely used, end eluded to a
nuisance in Cere•row, which should be immediately
attended to.

Mr. Getrnw expressed an opinion that the ashes and
refuse from the houses should be more frequently re.
moved. His own sometimes remained for • mouth
without
.being res.:rend.

...
The MATOR Paid the carte went round DOW regularly
three times a wick.

Mr. PuTHECAM : It la quite evident that Dr.
Griffin had rendered himself liable toe heavy penalty
allowing nuisances on hi. own premise.. The mart. go
roma] three limes a week, and every one tlat do c not
.11 w 1:i• echl, -1, le•liCeel in liii., he fin...l. The
.t f tor .ie !it: tim. r CieiVer•tant the in. ilie•l men
wi I drew, a 41 iie! Aar., or and loswector if
ii.o.net erre T i Mayor aisrv,i it. ti.ir
held. the loveral rei or,n of the itentli-men who hint
in: the boom: to home vietationa, and the Alters
received a strict hint', tints to remove every eminence
there ',hubd to as far anti an efficientiv an posaible.
The meting then separated, highly gratified with the
faneurnhl • ',Tort that 100 l been given ail to the rn, al
he kit of the town anti ilotriet.

FOREIGN MISSIONS : DIOCEEId W ANN 1 VER.
fidRY MEETING.
The diocesan annivenary IA the Society for the Pro-
motion of Christian Knowledge and far the Propagation
of the Gospel in Foreign Parts we. held last Thursday.
The proceedings inoluded service at the Cathedral in the
morning, and in the evening • public msetirg in Salisbury
Council Chamber. There nag a very large attendance
at the Cathedral, ins:audios not only many of the rin-
e'. al inhabitants of the city, but visitors from various
ports of the diocese, in addition to • very large gather.
tog of clergy.
T„c pennon can pttnnht.l by the intol flihop of
;10. ace I. I Plid 8r cli. st:l Lie less I Cc.
so. —" flat Goal to., low all iI ni

AL i4AV-141 ev..eing there sets a
v. ir 1.0 14014001 altol 14 11 .4-111.131 11400 ificot tilC (fiend.
0ut41.1.11.100.41111 110 I 4,0 4.0.1.04 in tho Council Chamber.
The Riorop of rislidiury presided, nod muringst others
pr, sent w..re the Bohm, of Otford, the Bi•hop of
Mour-.l.'er and Bristol, the Bishop of North C.TOIOIII,
aid the Soh up of Itrishaue ; the Ven. Archdeacon
11•110,,, Von. Archdeacon tianctoary ; the IL:vds. Gown
Fisher, l'rebentlary Soot, Prebendary !Woke. N. 0.
tireene, Sir J. E. T. N. Pi.Plips, F.
Oodfard, H. B. Wulliame, Hon. IL S. Rios, E.
lhake, Talbot Baker, Prr header, &mewl, F.
A. Baker, W. B. Watson F. Fisher, A. Smith,
Prebendary Peyoe, W. It. J.M.4 OrmrlM Stal-
lard, T. H. Tooke. Sob-dean Byre, It. it. Hutchins,
/par, J. S. Woodford, Javph Higgins (a
missionary front Smith Indio), F. Hell (a chaplain just
returoed hum India), Ito. Loral Nelson occupied a seat
oil the platform.
"

The praceolings were odened with prayer by the
Bishop of Salisbury, atter w-a.la
- • • - -

The Crilolanda said be need not remind them what
the special obj, cti •cre for witch they were wet
together. Any meting* there on bihalf of moaners
generally rnet with a guest nepotist, but he was glad to
my that that nesting certainly betokened, if anything,
an hormone] intereet in the greet object which were
before them- -(hear, hear, and applause). lie was not
surprised at ie, because the queatiou of the Colonial
! (literati, which was, of course, • very special object for
which they were met together, had been of late bronchi
most prumineutly bolero then.. Ile would only rep.at
what ill, hod oonstantly aaid there, that he did out think
In the Wider, of the Cliiirch any stauegling young Church
ever &nerved the sympethy, the prayers, the alms, the
advice, mil everything that thiridais• in England could
give, more than the Church in Africa at the present day !
-(mar, hear), lie woe quite sure thet to • peat ,
! extent that large meeting betokeuee their entire agree-
ment with him in that view- (beer, hear, and applsese).
H'. lordship then etated the order of the proceedings.
The Rev, V. MINSKYr then reed the report, in which
it wee stated that the income of the seamy for the year
ending 31st December, 1843, sea as Celows:-General
fund subscriptions, ke., 1:67,1M1 3.. 2-1.;
leper ea 03,311 18s. 2.1.• dividends. £4,551 16s. 91.;
aprepriated funds, 11:14124 19e. 31.; special fends,
'£7,285 13a. 11d.; total, £91,257 Ile. 3d., of which
£2,1e28 lilt. 3d. was from the diocese of Salisbury. This
own falls below the 'femme of 1861 by 01,744.1; a
difference which is almost wholly accounted for by the
legacies, which in 1864 amounted to 1.7.260 more than
in 1865. Meet of all, the item of collections and sub-
scriptions is watched with the strongest anxiety as
affording the best test of the sympathy felt with the
society and its miostionarica Ureter this head there has
indeed been • decrease of £ll3 as compared with the
oorrespotiding amount to 1864. But the importance of
this decrease is diminished if it be considered that that
amount mu itself an increase of £5,616 on the year
1863; and that the cattle plague had the effect of
diminishing contributions in 1865. There has been •
gradual Macao' of associations connected with the
society. 1. 1863 there were 15,739 churches in Great
Britain and Ireland, from 6,732 of which contributions
were received; in 1864, when the number of &umbel;
had increased to 15,807. aontribtations were received
from 7,337. It is hoped that the etatisties of 1865,
whieli are not yet complete, will show • still farther
inareaae. Eight clergymen have been sent out dueing
the you., and sixteen lay teachers, for mission work in
the colouies and among the heathen. The number of
missionaries now maintained wholly or in part by the
society is 516, about one-fourth of the whole number of
clergymen in the colonies.
Earl BELIoN, in moving the adoption of the report,
Mil he would first say something on the subject which
had been touched upon by their bishop, namely, the
condition of the Colonial Church. Of course they all
looked to the Church of Africa, lie did not refer to the
cm of that unhappy mao who had been the origin of
the troubles there, because as they expected. as they
feared, having gone front the truth, he would go atill
further from it, and the lust news of him was that •
hymn book had been put out by hint, in which it was
noted that the name of our bleated Lord hardly ever, if
ever, occurred. The answer which it was understood be
made to that was that on looking to the book he found
It was too true' that in oat tense it was not intentional
but in another it was. That was to say, he had excluded
from his book all hymns that had • direct address
to the second person of the Holy Trinity. Therefore,
he need not point out that they feared nothing from
him, because his errors were made re manifest that
all must have their eyes open to them. But
there was • danger which might happen to them from the
fears which might arise in many minds from theposition
of the Colonial Church. It was clear by the do:liaise in Ids
case that that Church was separated from the State more
than many were prep to expect, and there were
good Church people-men and women, and he referred
especially to Miss Burdett Cotitt. - who bail done much
for the Church, and who had been frightened at that, and
hail thought the union of the Colonial churches with the
Church at home would be damaged thereby. lie wished to
ensure them that they need have no fear whatever on
that core; the union of our Colonial Church with the
mother Church of England was based upon doctrine.
Is would continue on that amount, and 'mold
have nothing to do with the actual worldly
position of these churches. If he needed a
proof of that, he had only to point that de, to tbie rs
preoentative of the Liescopai Church of America, which
wait not united to the State, and who were, therefore.
quite WI mush cut off from the State of England as our
Colonial Churches could ever be, but whose union with
the Church of England was as entire as they could wish
the union of Christian churches to be-(hear, hear, and
applaose). And now only one word as to the present
position of the society. The deficit in the annual sub.
scriptions was some £3OO, and it ought to have been,
and they all hoped it would have been, • very
large increase. It ought to have been, and he
might say it must he, and therefore they must all do
their best. They mast all pray earnestly to God on
such occasion, that Ile would stir up the hearts of the
people of the Church of England to do their duty. It
ought to be mate, and must be more, because their
effective Indian motions, which had been itiereased aince
the grant to the Indian mutiny fund, and which went
to the annual expenditure of something like £lO,OOO a
year would fall entirely next year upon the general fund.
He proceeded to state that the mission committee,
appoteited for reviewing the whole state of Christendom
and tee heathen world, pointed out to them fine certain
applications which had been made begging the society to
mike a grant; neat, certain points in different parts of
the world where new work was urgently require I. To
meet them &meads their funds were at the.lowest ebb,
they were only able this year to meet the demands in
• very temporary manner, leaving untouched the new
openings reported, lie then spoke of • proposition of the
Millliolll committee to extend their operations in India,
and of the requirements of the newly started and most
Promising mission of Madagascar. He was quite *Bruin
that if any of them read the accounts published in the
report with reference to Um snoops of the Madagascar
mission and other missions in India, their minds would
be stirred up to do something if not for the general fund
at least to enable the 'moiety to go into those new fields,
where they were clearly and manifestly called by God to
do something. He hoped the subject would really
take • deep roqt in their minds, and that they
would really consider that it was no tilting thing.
The Bishop of GLOCCIESTILR an BRISTOL confirmed
frilly and entirely upon all point, what Lord Nelson
had mid. He hoped they would all steely somewhat
carefully the report of the Missions Committee as soon
as it was publiehed. It was indeed very painful to see
how many cases were recommended by the committee
that they amid in no way do more for than was done in
the small annual grant. He entreated them to believe
that all Churchmen of England were very much put
upon their trioL Judging from what one heard said
in the world, he believed there was a feeling in • great
many minds that, comparatively speaking, the exten-
sion of the episcopate was failing. Alas I there were
many (the number, might be growing) that took •
delight in putting forward opinions about the strap
ales and difficulties which hail happened, and it because
them than the more, if there were any of those difficul-
ties that they had beard so much of, it became their
duty the more earnestly to come forward now to show
that they all of them had • true and vital belief
in the modes adopted by their venerable society-(hear,
hear) -that they were animated by the same feelinp
that animated apostolic men when they went from place
to place. Now was more than ever the time for Christian
men and Christian women to come boldly forward and
say, " We have • faith in that which the Master and his
apostles net forth as the mode of spreading and propa-
gating His 0&010"—(hear, hear). The Colonial Church
might have ita difficulties, bet those difficulties bad
come from • faithleos bishop abroad, and it might be
somewhat cold hearts at home. Now, if ever, the time
for cold hearts was over. By all the urgent necessities
of the African Church, by the lingering in our appoint-
ment of bishops ready to be appointed, by our lacking
biahoprica in India-a bishopne or two had been reconi•
mended, but they had not been filled-by all those claims
on behalf of the Colonial Church, he would ask them-
and he knew he was asking willing ones, for their
diocese' and he believed thia portion of it especially
Hood high indeed in the list of that venerable society -
no be might call upon willing people to bear in mind the
great difficulties, Let them not shrink from viewing
the difficulties and stores-clouds that surrounded the
Colonial Church, but feel confident that the sun would
wise in hi. strength and that all would be dissiprit,d.
On them lay the great obligation. By their unity, by
prayer; by their contributions, let them so for make
themselves fellow workers with God, and if they did no
he had no doubt as to the result--(hear, hear, and ap-
plause).

The Rev. JOBllll 1110011111,& niissionan from South
India, said: India we. often canal the brightest jewel in
the British crown; but if they considered bow little
England had done for India during the long years she
had had ponsiaion of that empire, well might India be
considered as the blackest stain in all England's lAstory.
There were throe feats which be wished to bring before
the meeting. The lint was that though we had had
possession of India for quite 250 yearn, it had been only
from the beginning of the meant century that
there bad been anytting like organised or systematic
missionary efforte in India Before that period
it was the policy of the East India Company to
shut out Christianity from the land as much aa
possible. The monad fact was that when, very
late in the day England waa roused to • mum of
datT, and when they wished to send missionaries into
Intim, to the shams of Englishmen be it spoken, the
first missionaries wen not Englishmen, but Germans,
Dane., Swedes, Prissians, and of almost every nation ex-
cept England, which alone held the country. The last
full be would mention was that even now, when it
did appear that they win stsiving to do something for
India, their effort., wen very inadequate, for in India
there were 200,000,000 of seals, and if all the miesiou-
arise sent out by the great Church of England, the first
Christian Chunk in Me world, were to be reckoned

together, they would hardly number 200 men. That
was to may, 200 men were sent out in order to meet
with, to cope with, and struggle against 200,000,000
people. Now as long as that was the case very crest
results could not he expected. The rev. gentlemen
then gave a sketch of sonic of his own missionary labours
in South India, and concluded by saying idolatry was
dead in India, but if we did not strive to do • groat deal
more than we had ever done to bring the people to
Chrietianity. then we should have to contend not against
the power of idolatry, but against the more subtle power
of deism.
The Bishop of Noses CAROLINA sold the American
Episcopal Chinch owed everything to the Chorea of
England ; it owed its origin, it used its order, its
sot onity, it. cried, ite liturgy, and an the pp face to
their Prayer 11.ok gratefully psi I, "It owed to it un-
nomberal obligations for nursing care during the Puled
of its helpless infancy "--(laear, bear, and applause).
And there woo the profoundest sympathy at. the part
of the church in the United States with the interest
and fortunes of the Church of Engiand—(epplanse).
They were very far from being what they ought to he,
, m they most deeply felt; they were very far from being
I whet they hoped to he—(hear, hear, and applause)—
but at the same time he conceived it was indisputable
—their enemies oven being the judges—that they were
• vigorous shoot from the old and honoured tree, the
Church of England -(hear, hear, and great applause).
They owed unspeakable thanks to the Society for the
Propagetion of the Gospel in Foreign Parts for the benefits
shied' they had received from Isar. They did not feel—
perhaps they might be unjust - but they did not think
they were, and they thought they knew their own condi-
tion—tley did not feel prefoundly grateful to the British
Goverumrat—(hear, bear, and laughter)—for its nurs-
ing osre of them during their early days— (laughter).
They knew that it was the strongest desire on the part
Ili churchmen generally in the colonies, while they were
' colonies, to have the Church of England sent to them
in its entireness. Applications were continually made
for bishops to be sent to the church in the United
States, and those applications very frequently received
the countenance of the most authoritative persons in
the Church of England ; but the British Government
always saw fit to refuse them, be thought from unwor-
thy motives. The result was that they never had a
thoroughly episcopal thumb in the United States until
' after their revolutionary war. Au episcopal church
without a bithop was a monstrosity—(bsar, heir)--it
VMS • body without • head; it had no power of self.
government; no capacity to enforce discipline, and eon-
meg uently there was no discipline in the episeopal
churches of the colonies anterior to the involution, and
that it was which had been their greatest difficulty
in the propagation of the principles of the Church
since the revolution. The episcopal church did not
flourish until the generation which had witnessed
those things had passed away ; it did not begin to
flourish till about 1810 ; and see how that affected the
condition both of Englrati and the United States. The
people of the agonies had their affections averted from
Englend, and unqu.stionably the want of • kindly feel-
id between the two countries was one great cause of
that war which consolidated their independence. If
the feeling of the two countries had been kindly, there
would have been no war. The Independence on.
doubiedly must have come; it was impossible that more
than 30,000,000 of usen—active, energetic, and —AI they
flattered themselves—not inferior in intelligence to
other civilised nations of the world—(hear, hear, and
laueliter)—should be dependent upon any country
3,000 miles away—(htar, hear). It was a matter of
necrasity, but it might have been peaceably obtained,
and then England would have escaped that heavy
portion of the national debt under which she groaned;
for the largest portion of that debt, anterior to the
French revolution, was produced by the American
revolutionary war. He thought, however, that the
United States suffered still more in the severance of all
the traditions which connected that country with
England—(heer, hem I—and he might say, although
• citizyn of the United States, in the diminution
of that muse of rightful authority which was in-
dispensable to the highest happiness and he believed
to the true liberty of any people—(hem, hear,
and applause). The feeling of difference for
authority had been weakened, as he oonceivel, in the
United States, by the circumstances under which their
separation from the United Kingdom took place—(hear,
hear).—They did not feel profoundly grateful to the
British Government then, but they did feel exceedingly
grateful to the society for the Propagation of the
Gospel. That society did its duty nobly; it established
missionaries in various parts of the United States.
Their work seemed for • while to have been altogether
In vain, for immediately after the revolution, the anti-
pathies of the easels to everything connected with the
mother country extended to the church of the mother
country, and consequently that generation had to pass
away before they could accomplish • great deed. But
toe seed, although it was buried, was not dead. As
favourable circumstances acted upon it, it soon began to
spring up in the greenness of the blade, and was
now bringing forth fruit in the abundance of
the ear. That church, he might say, wan
the only religious body in the United Stales
with the exespsion of the Roman Catholics (which
derived their Messes of population malady from Ireland
and Germany, while the Episcopal Church derived very
little ingress) of their numbers from foreign *Gantries)
—which increased more rapidly than the population of
the United States—(bem, hem.) And it was not merely
in that point of view that the church was advancing,
but in the infinenee it was exerting upon the sentiments,
upon the social feelings of the country. It was remarked
by one of the greatest statesmen, anterior to the Lite
war, that the Episcopal Church was one of the last
bonds that connected together the different parts of the
country; that it was not severed =Mil after the political
revelation marred, and it was then severed without the
slightest feeling of unkindness on either side. They
parted with the host of feelings, and just as soon as an
opportunity for re-union was afforded, that re-union was
efirecited—(liear, hear, and applause). That very cir-
cumstance had tended to give them very great additional
strength; because theirs was the only religious body
that had united since the termination of that most dread-
ful struggle. It proved that there wan something, what-
ever it might be, whether it we, • delusion or • truth,
there was something tending to union which did not
exist elsewhere—(hear, hear. and great applause.) Un-
questionably all men of Conservative feeling, all men
who &aired to prevent the onward rush of those infra.
enoes that disorganised a community, necessarily had
their attention directed to that. He therefore believed
that the prospects of the Church in the United States
were very far better now than they were anterior to the
war. Its growth even Was much more rapid—so rapid
as even to astonish themselves. He then spoke of the
rapid Increase at Bishops, and concluded by saving
he conceived it was • levee to the people of England,
if he might take the liberty of saying to, with regard
to the way in whir& they should manage their present
intensive colonies for the futurc—(hear, hear.) They
ought to take warning by the mistake committed in
reseed to the colonies in America, and they ought to
provide for (lie welfare and extension of the Church in
those colonies by all means that • merciful and boun-
tiful Providence had placed in their power—(bear,
hear, and great applause.)
The 1t.., F. Grid., recently a chaplain in India, said
he Mood before them to represent 12,000.000 of people,
for they were aware that be belonged to the presidency
of Bombay. He enlarged at some length upon the
nature and operations of the tubsionary enterprise in
India, urging that the large numbers of the lowest
&ass ef the British people introdnoed there not only
did damage to the social condition of the people, but
showed Christianity under the moat unfavourable aspect.
What, then, was the argument which that society could
draw frost those premiss.? Surely that their work was
necessary amongst the lowest class in Bombay, and their
mioionaries, he was able to ray, were hard at work.
The Bishop of BalaBANl said: When they re-
membered the object of the society, surely there was
no one of them who would not be prepared to aeknow.
ledge that it had a deep claim upon the eympethies of
every truethearted member of the Church of England.
At Oa fast Institution the society coneisted of One
clergyman and fear excellent laymen, whilst at the pre.
lent moment it consisted of 6,616 clerical subscribers
and 3,831 layman,—two clergymen now to one layman,
wharves at its institution there were four laymen to one
clergymen. In the year 1837 the income of the Society
for Promoting Christian Knowledge was £13,064 16i. 5c1.,
and in 1865 it was £14,772 2s. 64., having increased
only one thousand and a few odd pounds in the course
of that long period of time. In the year 1439 the in-
come of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
was £16,557, whilst in the year 1864 it was £21,703.
His lordship suggested that it would be well if the
clew in their respective parishes Mought before the
members of their churches the claims of the Society for
Promoting Christian Knowledge, and having for ten
yews seen the working of the society, he could bear his
testimony to the great good which IVY being dose by
that society. The right rev, prelate illustrated in re-
ference to his own diocese the good work of the society
in lending well-timed help where it was much needed,
and concluded his address by an earnest appeal for in-
creased sympathy and support for the societies on whose
behalf they were assembled.

The Bishop of OXFORD, who was received with ap-
plause, after referring to the report, and observing that
he did not think there was any very great reason for
melancholy in it, said he did not deny that the great
work which they were gathered together to support was
In one of those crises which from time to time marked
all great endeavours to spread the Kingdom of God, and
he thought it was best to look it in the face. The dilli-
culty in this ease was a real one. The question was,
how there should be maintained • real, living unity
between too branches of • Clinch, the one of them being
established and the other not established. It involved
• great many points of nicety and difficulty, for let them
observe what the real meaning of having an established
church was. It was not that the State gave endow-
ments to the church of &gland, though the State had
given • great deal, and it was no use to attempt to abut
our eyes to it. An established church meant that •
eonaon, having,
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particular
that it had, a re
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lusectofprofeuilnigns
prof
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ssing
ligionists to be the instructors of the people in religion,
and the exponents of its own religion. That was the
meaning of an established church, and from that 0.010 a
v.st number of consequences. The position, for instance,
of the bishops of the Church of England. The social
and legal position of the bishops of that Church did
not arise from their descent from the Apostles of our
Lord. Nis Right Rev, brother from America, the
Bishop of North Carolina, was just sils-VI a
deseendaat and representative of the old kat
body as the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the reason
why one had • social status and • legal position which
the other had not was that in Engl%nd there was
an Established Church, while in the United States of
America there was not. For • body, theo, to remain
in union when at home there was still an Established
Chords, when there the nation adopted it as the
exponent of its religion, and when through • widespread
set of colonies there wise no established church, but the
self same body, holding, however, • different set of
relations to the common nationality, that was new; it
was • difficult and perplexing matter for us to have to
arrange. But if the Church looked the difficulty in the
fuse, it need not be afraid of it—(applause) For
him-
self, he had not the least fear whit the result would be.
He would not enter into the quetiou whether it was
better or worse that the Church in the colonies should
not be established. It was, fact, and Englishman, in their
wisdom, acoeipted fade, inetud of sPoewlagog how
things might have been if sub sod such an event had
not ocourred. What they wanted to know was the fact,
end then to deal with the fast, God helping them, as
true, honest, believing owas..thew: wow Was the
fact—it had only OOIDO to light IsAely, Dui it was an
undoubted fact, that in • great part Cl the colonies there

was no established Church—that the great body which
was established at boom was nneetsblkhed there. Im-
mediately upon this discovery mark what happened.
In the first place • number of very excellent good
people—the old Church and State people—ran
about just in the way that domestic, animals in •
farm y•rd ran about in • thitioder storm—
(laughter). They fancied that the storm was sent on
Pupae to deatroy them, and aceordiogly they went
rushing about exclaiming, "Oh 1 good Heavens, what is
not doing to happen? e Church and State are going
to be broken up ; We must take away everything we
have given to the bishops; we must put them down;
dew me, we are dreadfully frightened"- (laughter).
n
There was • little thunder-storm, and the domestic fowl
ran about dreadfully frightened; but he saw not the
smallest nec.l in the world for such an apprebention.
Ile would may, "My dear Church and State friend, if
there exista such • person in the room, let me calm the
perturbation of your distnrbed spirit —(lanighter). The
Church was one before there was any established church.
When it went forth from Jerusalem, from Antiodi, horn
all the different Denton from which it spread itself in
the world, it was wholly and entirely uneitabliseed, dear
Church and State friend, and yet it remained in unity.
It remained in unity because it had one creed, one
spostelia descent, one Bible, the same sacraments, and
all these untrue' in and leading op to the one urns
divine Lord reigning in and over his otiureh"—(applaus4
And so, he thanked God, it was now. Those colonies,
and one Church in them, might it was discovered, be no
longer connected with the State, and might no longer
enjoy State advantages, but they had with a "one
faith, one Lord, one baptism r" they were knit together
into that indissoluble union which the Church of
Christ alone could afford—which scold overstep oceans,
which could bind together Celt and Saxon, which could
unite men under different forms of government, and
with altogether different interests, because it addressed
itself to • deep underlying redeemed humanity of which
, these other differences, great as they Deemed, were but
external aooomp•nimenta—(hese, bear). Therefore, be
had not himself the slightest fear. Ile believed that if
we wire only true and faithful to the tenth which God
had given us, instead of an injury, God's providence
would bring some great benefits out of thou things
which amused such apprehension to no many. He was
not cast down even at the darker aloud which over-
shadowed one particular portion of the colonial church.
It had been the history of the church from the beginning
that its faith had been tried by such adverse circum-
stances. It was hardly launched before even apostolic
lips exclaimed. "Demise bath forsaker' roe ; he bath
loved this present world." It was upon the dueling
snow field that the very sliahtrat black showed Basil,
and the very indignation and seal which to • great
extent had been stirred up ia the English church by that
to which ho had referred, me • prod to him that amidst
abounding ee'relree the heart of that church was yet
true to the faith of the Lord—(applause). Therefore,
he was not afraid. They all knew that there
were some people who would ran abroad at =eh a
moment as this, saying, "See how all these attempts
have (Ulu!! ! People have been attempting to
build op English bishoprics abroad, and see—the
whole thing has exploded. They have been talking
about converting the heathen, of having but one great
branch cannoned with the English Ohara, and see hew
it has all come to an end." And what did all this
mean' Why it meant this—that thou people had
always hated the missionary work. (Hear, hear.) It
meant that they had never been with it in heart. They
did not dare to speak out at the first, but in the day, as
they thought, of rebuke, they utt:red out the blasphemy
of their unbelieving hearts. That was what it meant,
and it bad been so from the very first moment. In the
natural world, the moment • thing broke, what •
number of men there were who discovered that there
was no strength in it. If a great nation were defeated,
the very man who had previously told them it would be
sure t.) crush its enemy, came out in a calm pleasant
way, and said, " ith ! I always knew it would be
beaten"--(laughter). Oh I thou wise after-event
prophets, they were indeed the diagra.se of themselves
and of those who listened to them ; but they never
broke down an army, and they would not break down
the army of the faithful. No ! the only dueler what-
ever, the only one single danger was this—that we who
believed in Christ should ame lukewarm in the
matter. There woe no other fear depend upon it. But
let them mark that this lukewarinnees might some in
two different ways, both of them fatal in the result. In
the first place lukewarmoess made men careless of
self-denial, and therefore of other necessary exertions
to spread the galosh Why was the mission work of the
last century almost call Barnum it was • lukewarm
time in the Church of England; because it was • time
when sermons were reed by numbers, admired by =al-
titudes, in whish the name of the Lord Jesus was
warmly mentioned, and in which the love of the luau-
otos was never inculcated. Those men could make no
great effort to spread that which bad so very &mall a
hold upon their own hearts and souls, and ao the cause
languished. And could we altogether wipe off from
ourselves this day the same reproach! Let them remem-
ber what they had heard since they came into that room
--that the allowance of missionaries in India, after all
the time we had held the country was what'—one
missionary to a million of souls ! Let them just for a
moment try that by what they knew at home. The
diocese of Salisbury, he had jut learnt, contained
000,000 unls—just above hails-million. Now give to
the diocese of Salisbury the allowance they gave to the
people of India. What would they get? Just one
half clergyman for the whole diocese! What would
that allowance do? Even with all the existing Christian
feeling, what would be that bar clergyman to keep up
the standard of Christianity in the dioceses of Salisbury!
What if Wiltshire and Dasetshire were full of heathen;
if ol 1 systems and superstitions were entwined with
the habits of the people; if the depraved appetites of
poor fallen humanity were connected with great and
gorgeous displays, and those, too, connected with a
hierarchy which lived in abundance upon the will
huginetions of the people, end they were to send
half a man to try to convert those poor heathen to
Christianity, what would th-y get? A very half and
half result, depend upon it. And yet that was the
measure by which they had doled out our missionary
men whom we had sent hitherto to convert the multi-
tech* of India! Therefore, he asked, had we not cause
—though, thank God, there had been great improve-
ment—to condemn ourselves still for great remissness
and half-heartedness amongst vs? Net that they were
not sign* of good. He thanked God there were. '
Their oven beloved bishop had just been summoned to
take part in the caneeciration of three more colonial
bishops. He meld not say what joy the announcement
gave to him. This extension of the colonial episcopate
teemed to him like the Romans wiling by auction •
bit of ground that was in posseeeion of their enemies.
In the day of rebuke, when people were saying that the
colonial church had failed, the Church of England was ,
sending out bishops to three newly consecrated sees, to
take up the work which men said had utterly pawed
away. (Applause.) Ile as well so others, was full of
hope and confidenoe, but at the same tone lie aw
• great deal of Inkewarmaess to get rid of before
we could rise to the real cause of God. He said
this even upon the lower mechanical ground but
there was yet another working of lukewariuness
far more deeply to be feared than the one to which
he had referred. Did God ever do anything yet by luke-
warm men? Had a lukewarm church ever yet exalted
His same or subdued the earth? Did • lukewarm man
ever convert his brethren! Did he not rather sink him-
self into the pattern of • dull Melees respectability ?
Did not nature teach us a lesson? Could we do anything
really mighty, even with natural agents, unless thou
agents were gathered up into some intensity and rigour ?
If they took from the fire • lukewarm coal, could they
carry the burning to another pile! If the iron taken from
the fire to heat the water were lukewarm instead of hot.
would it convey heat to the mass around it! Would it
not lose He little warmth in the lukewarm element
that surrounded it? India itself taught us this
lemon. 4 caw of Wenhate Lake ins, in which we so
much delighted in hot weather, was sent out to India,
but it melted because it bad not been frozen down to •
sufficiently low temperature to hold its OWn. Nature
must be concentrated in its essential workings, if we
meant even in nature to do anything great with natural
agents. Art told us the same thing. What was the
meaning of the revolution that was now paring over
the army and navy, excerpt the necessity of concentrat-
ing force in every aria—that even our ballade should
not go lukewarmly out of Brown Bess any more, but
be sent wining out of the mouth of the rifle. He
saw a cannon on Souther& beach the previous day
minable of throwing • shot of 8001 b. It was to go
whizzing out of the cannon to seed a ship down.
Art it would he seen, must concentrate
itself into • superlative degree of vigour if it meant
to do anytbino —lf it meant not to be lukewarm in
sending its bullets and balls naiad an enemy. And
the law was universal. They might depend upon it
that it pervadod the realm of grace as it ruled in the
realm of nature and of art. If they would look closely
into the history of the spreading of the gospel they would
find this the universal rule that God used instruments
of every shape and of every earthly them. The fisherman
of the lake, the publican at his seat of traffic, the lawyer
taught at the doctor's feet, the beloved physician taken
from his art, they differed in every respect save this--that
the Boni of every one was fall of the love of Christ,
he knew in whom he had believed, and therefore, for
very love's sake, he mutt witness to his brethren of
that which he had himself found. Yee! from the
beginning to the present time it had always been the
same St. Paul was • mighty instrument in God's
hand, because he loved his Lord with such an abundance
of affection; and if, as the enemy said, our mimeos
had not outmoded as much as they ought, there
was • le-son for us which we might learn out
of their months. Christ's gospel could not have
lost its power; the Lord's aim could not have been
shortened; the apostolic office, becalm it was of Ostia,
could not in itself wear out with time, for time was not
as to the instrumentsof the Lord. If, therefore, there
had been less moms in our foreign missions then there
ought to have been, the cause must be found in the
lower love of the Church at home, where something, at
least, of the heedlessness or lakewermness had come
upon its love, so that it ceased to wield that one mighty
power with which God had ever beaten down the re-
sistance of the world. Then let them take home
the lesson. Their dear bishop gathered these
meetings together for the very purpose. Ile
got as he had that day, from America, from
India, from Australia, thaw who came to speak
to them words of truth and soberness; he gathered his
right rev. brethren from their dioceses, and why! It
was that from than who heard them, as from • living
heart in this diocese there might shoot out into every
pariah, into every district, living streanas of that all-per-
vading lie, which alone could mae us blamed at home,
which alone could make us fruitful abroad. God, in His
merry, gr not tint such might be the fruit of that night',
gathering; more prayer, without which all was vain ;
more labiming and giving, without which prayer wits
hypocrisy. Might God grant it, for depend upon it the
day was closing. By every sign the Lord had given, "the
night ameth when no man can work"- the night, but
with it the true day. Let them think of lihrt who
should come &IWO. SS lie Was Seen to mend into
1:1 ; let them use the remaining hours in winning
the ungathered souls ; and let every one of them cherish
up the Master's words, " Blessed is that servant whom
ihen his Lord cometh, lie shall find SO mg— do. "
(applause).

Bishop Heber's well-known missionary hymn, "From
Oreelaad's iey moantains," wee song, after which the
Bishop of North Carolina pronounced the blessing,
and the proosedings terminated.

A oodeetion sras— made at the doors, amounting to
£24 15s. The collection after Use Cathedral service in
the morning amounted to £ll2 18s. 10d., which will be
divided between the two societies.