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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 llindoos 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 sects, 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 more had not been
done, we ought to wonder that so much had been
effected. We ought to look upon northern India as
a most decided proof that it is not by might or by
power, but 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 ; when we considered the times which
were coming, and looked to 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 highway to the plains of Tartary,
and the whole interior of that great empire,—what might
we not expect 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,
thought, as they thought, that not many years would
elapse before idolatry would be actually overthrown in
India. Therefore if God would bless us in our exertions
for a fear 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 characteristic of
this tree, said Mr. Enlsnk, is, that while the motherroot
remains in the earth, the tree is continually extending
branches which again drop their brunches to the ground,
and they take root, so that the tree at last 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 stip upon the mother of a 1 this progeny. I trust
that ellti 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 evangelical truth; and tbat 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 religion 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 rny 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 England. And here, is there not matter of humble
and devout thankfulness to our gracious God, that an
assembly of Englishmen is met together to listen wilh
deep interest to the spiritual condition of that remote
region, that, during this dispensation, England seems
raised up, and kept up, to be for salvation unto the ends
of the earth : is there not something in this reflection
calculated to prompt from every English heart the tender
earnest prayer for England's Church and E ngland'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 that it was so by Abel Jansen Tasman, the enter-
prising Dutch navigator, in 1642, and the character of the
reception he experienced at the hands of the natives may
be inferred from the Dame lie gave to the only place he
New "
Zealand FromFrom
taitlteetmimpteedoftoTaprusatiainn—no"
alu'hteheßntaiye
aocfcoNulnutrdoefrNeres
meets us till 1769, when our own celebra ed countryman,
Captain Cook, came in sight of it on the 6th of Octobe;e
11 is 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
destrored, 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 hisfountryman, 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 musquetry of the
enraged marines dealt ample vengeance for the bluod 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 are not requited to
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 bath 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,"
tss
eonendieoetdyother than the " Bay of Islands" of the Church
sins Missionary sir e
Av yemSociety,
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ton
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t:euhuaytinct account
Zealand.i
mercy
eutuhrncset,y
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ntttohdrofuei
xtttiihihnt,yoe:
operations
settlement
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 fur 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
sustaining them with the power and sympathy of fervent
prayer, to be strong and of good courage in the Lord and
in the power of his might. From Duaterra, Mr. Mars-
den received information, regarding the habits, prejudices,
traditions, and gods of his countrymen, of the utmost im-
portance, the previous knowledge of which was indispen-
sible to their conversion and civilization. Nevertheless it
was not allowed that the work should commence so soon.
At this period the melancholy affair of the ship Boyd took
place at Wangaroa ; the crew was treacherously murdered
with the exception of eight persons, and the ship herself
burned by the infuriated natives, in revenge for the cruel-
ties practised during the voyage from Port Jackson, by
Captain Thompson, on the son of a New Zealand chief,
who was working his passage borne from New South
Wales. This sad event, joined to other causes, and the
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 March, 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 rhirf, 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 Wands, divine service was duly performed on her
drck, and by degrees several of the chiefs were brought
to attend it t and in fine some of them returned in tht
ship to Port Jackson, to obtain further information as to
the habits and skill of our countrymen, with which already
they bad become ao 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 1
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-
bheatphresaecrimleodnt.3
thTemhefrdoamy wtheas2anldsociCmhprtiestt.mofassdt.aLy,ukaen,da
Gospel, " Behold, I bring you glad tidings of great joy."
Through the happy authority of his friend Duaterra, there
in
telligent
congregation a numerous and orderly, though not yet very
congregation : but the chief informed them what be had
been- saying was very good: that he (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-
ne
e w
Zealand, proceeds)
a ndl has thefe r v
entls: Gospel
praybeen
that
intro-
duced t
ther -
glory of it may never depart from its inhabitants till time
huarcl d
b e no more." Before Mr. Marsden returned to Marsden
(Mr.
into
New South Wales he completed the legal purchase of
dsle
about 200 acres of land near to the adjoining town of
R
and
Europeans,th eincluding infant
comprisingwom n in
alland
children.
Their first care was wisely directed to the es-
tablishment of schools for children and adults ; mean-
while there was a growing respect and confidence on the
twenty-five
part of the natives towards the new settlers. The value
of their improvements, their skill as missionaries and hill-
bandmen was duly appreciated, and, more than all, their
disinterested care and attention to the children. 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 ships' crews towards such 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 from 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
church and schools, and as Mr. Butler writes
to the zooiety, " 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. Toe disposition of the Chief Shunghee, acting
upon the warlike character of his misguided followers,
proved a serious impediment from time to time, and exhi-
bited itself under different forms, to the success of the set-
tlers. The great desire of the natives was to become pos-
sessed of fire arms and 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 Pybea, 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 ot' 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 imi licit
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 had 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. at Whangaroa, 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 Wesleyan
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 preserved from
personal injury, and brought safely under 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 the 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 I am 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, during 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
pa
ss
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of
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en
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.A
chief
n subduingaftteß a h
Bay
tofesay alslandsge
etealwashone chief
and in
shotfhdi
),uahoserinhn:nloa,aliunnisatsdeni
otnchnaceeraoaua,isnientttshageiv,rn,stehworieneni ticuleinunarodttrhfeei
verdtehtatibe,rl
eiynb
cod: s of some rival
dsb
v,uo,tafsbbtlheOieonidgr
ofth
themselves,
voedsy,
and desolating war; but it pleased the Lord otherwise;
Rev. H. Williams, with Messrs. Kemp, Clarke, and
Davis, accompanied them on an embassage of peace. The
account is touchingly interesting ; the negotiations were
opened on a Saturday, and, at the solicitation of the mis-
sionaries, could not be concluded until Monday. The
sacred Sabbath was spent by the men of God in preach-
ing to natives on both sides the blessings of the Gos-
pel; 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 spent 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
brethren
niurotecneitlrsbv.rsenecnnoettni
boehesnoe,londafi
nnandgni
tmbf:aaeiti ter! idulfeiuvai
sadmnderdeeaasnriesnrutasvnreetdpot
.iildtehsseeTern,rhvhaabynvutetms .osotuivrlAel
ddmeatido
pre-
served
abal
7gnu2atdimt,hiterewnoui
with
nnt:hi:ouo:v
otbag:esss
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nas v.t tribesea r
when
like
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e they
h e
shouldagmo oodn geo tmhee,
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mTilewithed
waont traidiehtrilmieeoleeiafan.rdsglGgoe4,lsotyan
followed exami-
nation
were
er; ae a
n(kPdi an cwdhl
whenever
ae )nue.i
evnlecrDetheeemmbiesrs,iotnsa3rli,esthweerree were
e
btsrtyaaittisholena translated into dtai
hnbaett
inhabitants;
the native language, and eagerly ought after
to make a tour through the villages adjoining their respective
while they examined. The years 1832 and 1833 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 bad increased sufficiently to demand superin-
tendence ; and the further object of his mission (to the shame
of professing Christians to 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 the
settlers went to explore, and examine, and feel their way.
Truly might they say, "The Lord bath done great things for
us, whereof we are glad." From this time the work went on
rapidly increasing. The next year four new stations were
formed south of the Bay of Islands, and more missionaries
were stationed among the people. By the help of a printing
press, and of copes printed in England. and a magnificent do-
nation of the New Testament, in the native language, from the
British and Foreign Bible Society, the missionaries 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 frequently 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 God, " so mightily grew the
word of God, and prevailed." Each station now became, more
and more, the centre of an influence that was felt upon the
surrounding districts, when congregations used to assemble of
from 200 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
blessing tarry. wait for it; it w.ll 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
mentionedas 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
Iris
regret,
last
visit
sx .i
it n
cannot
sv3r
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
fiog
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ne ttlithem,gentleman
as hed during
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the spiritual destinies of New Zealand. He visited the island
two years before he was called to his rest and his reward, is,
deeply interesting and touching in the extreme. (Here the rev.

make room.) This year, 1838, is also marked by the visit ofthe Bishop
ofAustralia to New Zealand, and thevery gratifying testimony he
bears, in a letter to the society, to the character of the mission-
aries, the numbers of their converts, and the work generally of
the mission; in this year as well, the question of the colonize-
tion of New Zealand was taken up by the British parliament,
and it is not ealming 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 and 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, consistieg 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-
ment was in rather extensive circulation amongst such of the
natives as could read, and the history of the mission at that
period shews 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 public
worship, 72 schools, containing a total of 1796 scholars under
Christian instructon. 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 society'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, tto the responsible and im-
portent 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 rassing allusion will be sufficient
to some of the leading events and eircumAances 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 1841, and landed in Aukland, on the western
side of the northern Island May 1542, and his early letters, no less
than subsequent accounts, lead us toknficipate great things on the
future, to " thank God and take courfige " It was found necessary
to divide the society's stations into districts : there are four dis-
tricts the Northern comprising seven stations, amongst them
Tepuna (to which the first station of Rhagee Hoo has been trans-
ferred) superintended by Mr. John King. the society's oldest
labourer, and who has been in the mission from its very com-
mencement. Waimate the principle 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, anti
99 infant baptisms ; and Paihia, under the Rev. Henry Williams.
The Middle district containing ,free statwns. 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 r eur-aphical
extent is 180 miles on the map, but from the dig' eulti?,s of the
road it takes twelve or fourteen days to pass through so and yet,
1 " 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 1833, from the Chief of Kevin,
an island in Cook's Straits, to establish missionaries amongst them
the request could not hecomplied with at the time; about six years
after two sons of the Chief ca•Le a voyage of 500 miles to the Bay of Is-
lands to repeat the request of their father Banparatan, 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 Kapiti, 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 vital 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 35,000 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 home
and abroad: the emissaries of Home are on the alert, though as yet,
thank God, without mush 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 HOW 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 heaven, and pour you
erofaminitseniost.still: We have g,,bLtoo
lenameouwraigthe
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aTlwhaeycso,inevinenantdc,
out a blessing till there be no room to receive it." We shall reap
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perceive,
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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 been enabled to
do it in any degree worthy of its importance, I have done as I would
wish; hut 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 tins 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 the 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 Jesu's name" was
then sang ; and the proceedings terminated a few minutes
before nine o'clock.

DIOCESAN CHURCH BUILDING SOCIETY.-00 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 y 'ars ago. The
Right Rev. Prelatetook the chair, and explained the objects
of the society, which, he said, since its commencement, had
expended £33,000 in assisting in the erection of fifty-
five churches in tne dicLese.

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. From
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,
mortification, and caused his deatb. 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 hieh as his breast, when
the weight over-balanced him, and the iron falling upon
hiq chest, killed him upon the chest, killed him upon the
f pot.

Tae 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, Granton, and Leith Railway, cast
a gloom over the city, and tended to excite alarm in the
minds of many persona 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 of mili-
tary warfare were found in the earth, about a foot front
the surface. One of them, the remains of 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 have been broken off. The most
probable 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-Stile CAMBRIA.—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 he 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 need) 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 Biitish and North American Royal Mail Steam-
Packet Company. She left the tail of the bank 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, sbe 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 their admiration 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, rustic architecture,
flocks and herds, and hemmed in by rocks and sands eter-
nally barren, must necessarily be insipid and unpictu-
resque. 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.
acacias, 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 sun, nothing seems to
be wanting but genius to discover the elements of the
most magnificent landscapee.—Library of Travel.

ilarraturr.

NOTICES.

The Law Rrview anti Quarto-1y Journal of British and
- Foreign Jurisprudence. London : Owen Richards,

191, F.teet•street.
This is the first number of a publication which weirs
to us to be excellent in its design, and calculated to be of
extensive usefulness not only to the profession brit to the
public at la,ge. The articles are ably written, and ei-
brace a number of highly interesting subjects, amongst
which we may mention one on the Joint Stock Companies
Regulation Acts, one on Legal Education, and an article
styled " aecent Regulations ►n Gonveyanc►ng Forms."
The sketch of the career of Baron Abinger is well
written, and does ju,tice, and no•more,. to the eminent
lawyer in question. This publication should be extensively
circulated.

Fisher's Colonial Magazine. London : F:slic.'r, Son, and

Co:, /i,wgate-street.
Contains several highly interesting articles, amongst
which the best are those on " Indian Emiaratinn" and
" The Systom of Colonial Crown Ltd Granting." The
proprietors &serve infinite credit with every friend of
colonial interests for the liberality and pains with which
they provide them with information, and advocate UAL'
.and the country's best interests..

Chambers's E linlurgh Journal. New Series.
This pubt:cdtion, of which the numbers for November
are before us, supports the character of its predecessors.

.New Sporting Magazine. London : Office, 24, Norfolk-
street, Strand ; It. Ackerman, 191, Regent-street.
An excellent number, full of information upon sporting
matters and amnsimr matter for the general reader. The
two engravings are quite gems.

'The New Monthly Belle Assemble. 24, Norfolk-street,

London

Contains its usual in tereAlny, variety of light literature,
poetry, &c., with the fashionp of the season, and a beau-
tifully executed frontispiece.

Abbotsford Edition of Waverley ; Part 69. Robert
Cadell, Edinburgh ; Houston and Stoneman, London.
The present part continues the novel of Peveral of the
Peek, and contains in the frontispiece a beietitil steel en-
graving of W. Leitch, of Pell: Castle, Derbyshire. The
wood illustrations are of a high ,ardor of merit, and the
type, paper, and general getting up of the number, fully
maintain the standard of those previously published.

The Dublin University Magazine. Dublin : Curry and

Cu. ; Loudon : W; Orr and Co„

Contains some articles of a very high order of excel-
lence, amongst which we notice particularly one on the
English and Irish Universities, from which some extracts
will be found bel,w ; an examination of the lectures of
Father Cooper, wlr.se fallacies and dishonesty are well ex-
posed, and a critical notice of Eugene Sue's writings—the
latter beautifully written, and containing sentiments of
great truth and justice. Mr. Lever's story, the Nevilles
of Garretstown, is continued, and increases in interest.
By the bye, -ve are happy to observe that this admired
writer is about to reenter the field of authorship with a
new serial tale, to appear monthly, with the magazines.

The Medical Times. Carpae, London.
Through the politeness of the editor, the second part
has been sent to us for our notice. Its t,.chnical objects,
as being medicine, and t•:e elaborate discussion of the
various subjects relative thereto, will not he apt to com-
mend themselves anywise to the general reader, except
to the curious in such matters. In the eyes of the regu-
lar professionals, its-ability of conduct and valuable mine
of current notices of scientific discoveries, as well as its
temperate articles, are now, we'believe and hear, largely
appreciated, and our public opinion in physic cannot
have great weight in adding to the reputation of its pages.
But the convenient readable shape (being brought out in
4to, like the Atheneum, and in close columns) makes it
attractive in garb. The editor is anxious to add a new
fact to ophio oyy, which ere this will have been revised,
no doubt. We consider it like a phrenological organ
batched since Spnrzheim could affix his imp, imatis, voted
by the lesser lights as "unestablished." In the article
of Saturday, 30th November, it says, "As the boa con-
strictor sounds his rattle," &c., " so does Brodie pub-
licly apprise us of danger by a confidential communica-
tion." Only imagine the boa and the crotalus horridus
contending like children for the ratle—
" Pleased with a 'little,
Tickled with a straw."

The Mysteries of Paris. London : Chapman and -Hall.
We have received Part VI. of the "only English edi-
tion authorised by M. Eugene Sue," of this extraordinary
work. The story is continued not only with unabated but
with increas'ng interest. The characters, including the
good and the vicious. are vividly drawn, and the. reader is
held in delightful anticipation and suspense of the denoue-
ment of the mystery that hangs about them, and which
shall reward the one, and shall deal retributive punish-
ment to the other. The author is evidently gifted with
strong powers of imagination ; and it is his highest merit
that in drawing from the resources of fiction, so natural
are his portraitures that we feel convinced that such things
may be, and that he has wroeght up a narrative of proba-
tions, sufferings, virtues, and crimes, that are stamped
with the vraisemblance of real Parisian and French life.
There are humorous illustrations interspersed throughout
the work, designed by French artists, with so much taste,
boldness of-outline, and keeping, that the several charac-
ters, in varied situations and guises, are throughout readi-
ly recognised. This translation, we should add, has been
carefully revised by the author, and all that can possibly
be deemed unacceptable to the most delicate English
reader has been rejected, while the intense interest which
has given the work such universal popularity in Europe
and America is preserved. The typographical depart.
ment is, moreover, accomplished in the clearest and hest
style of the art.

The Library of Travel. Chapman and Hall, London.
Part VIII. of this truly interesting, and, in many points,
useful work, has just app ared. and in the judicious selec •
tions and condensations fr,m the coritinits of distinguished
„travellers, British as w:11 as foreign, fully bears out all
that was announced in the prospectus, in reality " fusing
together their multifarious narratives, carefully ;:.reserving
the general spirit of the originals, and at the same time re-
'jecting their many repetitions and superfluities, and using,
as well as they may be able, a wholesome discretion, to
the exclusion of whatever seems trivial, false in substance
or in colouring, or otherwise objectionable." The present
number is in continuation of " Egypt and Nubia," and is
by J. A. St. John, Esq., the celebrated "author of works
on Egypt and Greece. There is a fearful and painfully
.interesting account of the mass=acre of the Merolocks ; an
"excursion to the pyramids, with a full description of those
extraordinary and stupendous monuments of antiquity,
.together with a narrative of a perilous adventure in explo-
ring the interior chambers of one of them. The celebrated
-Sphinx is also described, with accompanying illustrations.
A. journey across the desert to Fayoum is also graphically
.portrayed, followed by a visit to the vast fnd wonderful
(because artificial) lake, or rather s?a, of Aleeris. We
have elsewhere quoted a few passages from this number.

The Polytechnic Review. Mortimer. London.

The number of this literary and scientific work for the
present month is, on the whole, one of the most interes -
ing we hare yet perused of the series, though we venture
to suggest that more variety could be imparted, were the
several articles on proximate topics scattered over several
numbers, in place of occupying so many pages of
one publication. We have here, for instance, a
communication on the Parlhy and Congreve Rockets,
by Major Parlby himself; another (in centhaustion)
'on projectle Weapons of War end Explosive Com-
pounds, and asother on Concus-ion Shells—all good in
themselves, but to the general reader presenting a degree
of sameness of subject that renders each less inviting.
The recent experiments, however, of Captain Warner,
and his high assumption of the destructibility and range
of his marine projectile, and the exorbitance of his de-
mend from the goternment for his secret, if they will pur-
chase it—have excited so much public attention to explo-
sions, that our objection will, perhaps, net begenerallysub-
scribed to. In Dr. Scofferns paper (the second enume-
rated) there is a sketch of the history of gunpowder, with
.an elaborate exposition of its manufacture—from saltpetre,
:sulphur, and charcoal—the purifying of these several in-
gredients, their admixture, &c., to the operation of
" graining,''. and finally to glazing. Tables are also. given
of the exact composition of gunpoWder—miners, fine
shooting, and common shooting ponder. There is an ar-
•ticle on railway improvements, comprising an account of
•Kollman's Patent Locomotive Engine, in which a great
desideratum appears to be attanid in ascending inclines,
and passing along curves with ease and safety. The sug-
gestions for a new Safety Lamp, in lieu of Davy's, (not
.always to be depended on,) will be read with interest by
.those connected with mining operations. An article on
the drama, by James iiime, M.A., evinces much taste
.and talent in dramatic literature. Amongst the reviews,
there is a paper explanatory of the monster telescope,
. erected by the Earl of Rosse, explaining the ingenious
manner in which his lordship accomplished the successful
casting and polishing of his speculum—the largest in the
world. By this instrument he has been enabled to see ap-
pearances in the moon, which were before invisible. A
notice is also given of an apparatus (with diagrams) of a
self-registering wind and rain guage. The present num-
ber concludes the volume for the half-year. We give a
'few extracts elsewhere.