Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-11-28


do. ely ,696-making in all, two hundred
and fifty three thousand FIVE hundred and
twenty-eight pounds sterling.
BR. S. MAe1NN1s, late of Portland
Me-, has accepted an appointment to the
proftssorship Of Biblical Theology in the
Hamilton Institution. On Tuesday he |
passed through Utica on his way to the
Institution, to erter upon the duties of his
new station Brother Maginnis holds a
| high reputation as a scholar and minister
of the gospel, and we are happy to say he
was selected to this important professor
ship, which has long been vacant, with
great harmony on The part Of the Board
and faculty. The Institution is now fur
nished with an admirable company of
teachers, so that every department, Iiiera-
ry and theological, will be well supplied,
and all that is requisite to give it proper
efficiency is the liberal contributions and
prayers of the churches Prayer is great
ly wanted, and money is greatly wanted ::
but where the former shall be generally
offered up in its behalf the latter will not
be withheld.-N Y. Baptis, Register
MISSION TO SYRIA AND THE HoLy
LAND,-The Rev. c. B. Whiting and la
dy, ofthe mission to Jerusalem, arrived at
this port from the Mediterranean in the
barque John A. Robb, on the 18th inst
They visit their native country, with the
advice of The mission, and oflhe prudential
committee, and also with the advice O.
medical men in the Levant, chiefly on &C
: count OF the long continued i'll health O
:. Mrs. Whiting. They hope to return t.
" Palestine as soon as the state of her health
Z. will permit.
By this arrival we have inteliqenc,
= from Beyroot to the Sd of Sept, at hicI
: time the mission families in Syria were il
" usual health. Mrs. Pease, of the missio,
- IN Cyprus, was not we'll The insurrec
y ton OF the Druzes in the district ofthe Lod
= Jah, near Damascus, had been queled b,
lbrahlm Pasha with difficulty, and tn
a country was againsq quiet. There had bee,
- some recent difficulties, of threa.enin,
y character, between the Egyptian and Con
. stanlinople governments; but it was not ex
! pected that there would actually be run
- ture at present.-Jourmal Of Commerce.
'e MISSIONARY INTELLIGENCE. lie,
re tiers have been received in PHILADELPHIA
le by the ship Usage, from Calcutta, from
ID the Missionaries who sailed from Phila
dell hia in October and December of las
p. year, for Northern India Mr. Morris
rs the Missionary printer, had been ill wit
n the cholera, but had recovered. Mr.:
it, Wilson was in feeble health. The othe
missionaries were in their usual health
r. They left Calcutta on the 18th of June
i'll for their respective stations. Mr.. and Mr.
,ir McEwen may be daily expected, as the
IL are passengers on board the ship Edward
n which sailed from Calcutta some ten c
nd twelve days before the Usage. They, n
y, doubt, will bring fuller particulars fro,
the Mission.-Presbytericn.
Extract of letter from the Rev. NJ
81 lngraham, an American missionary
yet the Island Of Jamaica, dated Kinesto
III Aug. 8th :-Ziows Watchman.
in lon the lst Of August, as YOU know
10 the chains fell from the apprentices in tn
~. Isle. o, it was blessed dav to the pe
al pie. Every house of worship was fllt
tn with smiling faces. | had a crowd, ar
,er in the afternoon formed TEMpERAsc
he SOCIETY OF 20 members. Most of II
h. people on the island, believe, sat I'd a
IS night, the night before the LIST of Angus
re to thank God for, and TO greet the day
b liberty. All things go aceH. | shall n
st say more, though should like to sa
I'll much about this blessed change. Ma
in God send that dayto my poor countryme
,.,t speedily .a.