this station. These, together with several from the Alleghany reservation, enlarged our number of Indian children to forty-eight, which has been the stated number through the summer, thirty-two Boys, and sixteen Girls. All of them live in our family, and are fed and clothed at the expense of the Society, excepting some provision furnished by the Indians. They have progressed in their studies and in the acquisition of the English language, in the proportion to the time they have been in school. Several of them are beginning to speak the English very well. At the Quarterly examination yesterday, two classes of fifteen boys and eight girls, read in the Testament. Another class of eight boys, in reading lessons. All of these three classes spelt out of the book from various tables in Webster's spelling-book without missing but two or three words. Eight of the best readers were selected for reading in Murray's English Reader, and answered a few questions in grammar and geography, to which studies they have attended but a short time. About twenty have made considerable proficiency in writing, some of whom can write a handsome hand. Fourteen boys have commenced and made some progress in arithmetic. The other children have more recently entered the school, but have made good progress in spelling and writing on slates. The boys, when out of school, are employed, as circumstances require, in the various business of the farm or family. In addition to common school learning, the girls are taught sewing, spinning, knitting, and other domestic employments, in which branches they have made desirable proficiency. On the whole the progress of the school is as great as could be reasonably expected, and our prospects are encouraging. We have every inducement to persevere in our labours, knowing that in due time we shall reap if we faint not. For the want of the means of support we have refused several interesting children who were anxious to be admitted to the privileges of the school. The opposition of the Pagans is gradually subsiding, so that they begin to offer us their children. Considerable improvement has been made among the Indians. Some of them have become quite industrious, and have well cultivated farms. The expenses of the Mission family from its commencement to Oct. 1823, amounted to $ 1626 62 The current expenses of the mis- 1725 52 Building log barn and clearing land Lot of 59 1-2 acres of land. 1060 00 130 88 240 50 4783 52 These persons have engaged in the work, from motives of benevolence, and receive no other compensation than their board and clothing. It is their hearts' desire to be instrumental, in the hands of God, of promoting the interests of these Indians, and of raising them from their present state of degradation to the enjoyment of religion and the blessings of civilized life. Limited as we are in our operations for the want of funds, considering the embarrassed state of the society and the expense of our buildings, we respectfully submit to the consideration of the executive, whether any appropriation may be made from government towards defraying the expense of buildings, aiding in the benevolent work of educating these Heathen children, and bestowing the benefits of civilization upon a long neglected people. HAYTIAN MISSION. In our last, it was mentioned, that the managers of the United Foreign Missionary Society had appointed Mr. PENNINGTON, a coloured minister of the gospel, as a missionary to the American emigrants in the island of Hayti, and that he sailed, on the 14th of October, for his destined residence. We have now to add, that the Board have since appointed Mr. HUGHES, of Philadelphia, as superintendent of the Haytian Mission. Mr. Hughes, although a native of one of the West India islands, has resided a number of years in Philadelphia, and has, for some time, sustained the pastoral charge of a coloured congregation in that city. He received his theological education under the care of the Philadelphia Presbytery, and by that body was regularly licensed and ordained. He is represented as highly respectable in point of talents and discretion as well as piety; and as being well qualified for the station to which he has been appointed. He is now preparing for his voyage, and will probably take his departure early in the present month. Many coloured people have already sailed from the ports of New-York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore; and should the tide of emigration continue, several thousands will have arrived at Hayti before the next spring, and will have formed an extensive and important field for missionary laboor. Foreign Entelligence. ENGLAND. BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY. Opposition of Papists to the free Circulation of the Scriptures. [From the London Missionary Register.] We shall quote two documents in proof of the increasing alarm, which is felt by the adherents of the Roman See at the progress of the Society. At a Meeting of the Bible Society of Clonakilty in the south of Ireland, after the Report had been read, and the usual resolutions brought forward, Mr. Sheahan, a Roman Catholic then present, proposed the following Counter Resolutions 1. That, though we piously believe in all the statements of the Old Testament, we do still conceive that many of those statements deserve to be admired rather as the genuine records of a SENSUAL people, than as the daily lessons of a Christian and SPIRITUAL generation. 2. That we could particularize many of those statements; but that a sense of public decency, and a regard for the young, the weak, and the unenlightened of this meeting, peremptorily forbid it. 3. That, though we firmly believe in every line of the New Testament, we do still consider that there are many passages contained therein DIFFICULT OF COMPREHENSION-that as the WORD WHEN SPOKEN, was misunderstood by the Jew, so, WHEN WRITTEN, it may be misconceived by the Christian--and that the indiscriminate use of either the New or the Old Testament, without reference to age or sex, note, or comment, may but lead to fanaticism and infidelity. 4. That, in England, the centre of Biblical operations and the test of their utility, fanaticism and infidelity have increased with the indiscriminate use of the Scriptures-the people of that country are now more incontinent than ever-dishonesty is spreading rapidly among the lower orders-the state of the criminal calendar in many places has been horribly appalling-and fanaticism has found the Bible there for its prop, and infidelity for its parent. 5. From the foregoing considerations, that, ·while we revere the Sacred Scriptures as a valuable deposite in the church of God, and because we so revere them, we do entirely discountenance their indiscriminate circulation, as theoretically wrong and practically injurious. The other document to which we refer is a Circular Letter of the new Pope, dated on the 3d of May, from which we extract the following passages What shall I say more? The iniquity of our enemies has so increased, that, besides the deluge of pernicious books contrary to the Faith, it even goes so far as to convert to the detriment of religion, the Holy Scrip. tures, which have been given us from above for the general edification. You are not ignorant, Venerable Brethren, ciety, audaciously spreads itself over the that a society, vulgarly called the Bible Sowhole earth: and that, in contempt of the traditions of the Holy Fathers and contrary to the Decree of the Council of Trent, it exerts all its efforts and every means to translate, or rather to corrupt, the Holy Scriptures into the vulgar tongue of all nations which gives just cause to fear that it may happen in all the other translations, as in those already known-namely, that we shall find in them a bad interpretation-instead of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Gospel of Man! or, rather, the Gospel of the Devil! Behold, Venerable Brethren, whither this Society tends; which, besides, omits nothing to accomplish its impious wishes: for it glories, not only in printing its translations, but even in going about in the towns and distributing them among the people; and, to seduce the simple, sometimes it sells them, and sometimes with perfidious liberality gives them away. Were an enemy to Popery, resolutely but secretly bent on the destruction of its tyranny over the minds of avowed Christians, to recommend the course most likely to hasten that desired consummation, he might well be the prompter of those councils which now seem to guide the Church of Rome. A more infatuated course could not well be adopted. It now wages open war against the authority and sufficiency of the Scriptures, for though in the Pope's Circular it seems intended to disguise, by a studied ambiguity of ex-, pression, his real hostility to the free circulation of the genuine Scriptures, by invectives against the translations, as perverting the "Gospel of Jesus Christ," not merely into the "Gospel of man," but into the "Cospel of the Devil !"-yet this is all pretext, designed to cover the real enmity of the Roman See to the pure Scriptures. For it is sufficiently known, that Protestant Bible Societies freely circulate, where their own better Translations would not be received, the Vulgate of the Latin Church, or Versions conformed to the Vulgate-under the full conviction, that the worst translation among them promulgates the Truths necessary to salvation. The Pope will let the world have the Holy Scriptures, which were revealed for the salvation of all, only on condition that he shall point out what parts are to be read, and how those parts are to be understood! His Devotee, Mr. Sheahau, comes boldly forward with this claim. And on this daring assumption, the Scriptures themselves, and the whole Christian Church out of the pale of the Roman Nor can we pass over in silence another class of subscribers, who will no doubt awaken a lively interest in their behalf; we mean the pupils attached to our Protestant Schools and Institutions. We more particularly allude to those belonging to the Churches of Bourdeaux, Nismes, Asnières, Chatillon sur Loire, the obscure villages of Sulzern in the Upper Rhine, and to various establishments in this capital. The donations of these dear children will be regarded by you as doubly precious, when considered as affording a speaking proof of the excellent sentiments which animate the rising generation, and as announcing the dawn of a new life and godly zeal among all the Protestant Churches of France. May the Lord vouchsafe His blessing to these generous children; and preserve in their hearts a holy ardour for distributing the Word of Life, and for every thing which is good and well Division of it, are now at issue with this pretended pleasing unto God! Infallible Guide. With adventurous audacity, the Old Testament is denounced as dangerous, though our Lord himself, referring to this portion of the Sacred Word, commands all to search the Scriptures, and St. Paul, with the same portion of the Divine Records in his eye, declares that all Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is able to make wise unto salvation. The New Testament is decried as unintelligible and likely to mislead, though St. Peter himself, whose successors in authority the Popes allege themselves to be, urges on all the study of even its most difficult portions, notwithstanding there are things hard to be understood, and which the unstable would wrest to their own destruction. But all this proceeds on ignorance or neglect of the awful method of the Divine Proceedure-He, who is indifferent or hostile to Truth, shall find, as his judicial punishment, abundant occasions of objection, while the humble and anxious inquirer will receive it, and be saved. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear! The blasphemous insinuation in Mr. Sheahan's fourth Resolution may well furnish to him cause of shame and contrition as long as he lives. You will likewise learn, with great satisfaction, that the Associations established in the capital have already produced the sum of 1222 francs by subscriptions, 625 francs by the sale of Bibles. The number of copies delivered out of the warehouse during the Fourth Year was 9823: those so delivered, during the last year amounted to 12,254; showing an increase of 2531, and making the aggregate number of volumes circulated by the Committee since its first establishment to be 42,129, without taking into account copies which the Auxiliary Societies may have obtained from other sources. Nor do we conceive the calculation to be overrated, when we estimate the number of Bibles and New Testaments issued by the different Bible Societies in France at 50,000; while, at the same time, we must freely confess it as our opinion, that, but for the establishment of these Societies, scarcely a tenth part of that number would have found its way into the hands of the faithful. Yet, great as this number may appear, we cannot refrain from joining in the remark of one of the most zealous advocates for the cause of the Bible in the South of France-"What has hitherto been done, is but trifling, when compared with what still remains to do;" for, how much soever we may be inclined to under rate the Protestant Population of France, we are far, very far, from having satisfied all the wants of our religious brethren in this country. ÍSLAND OF OTAHEITE. [From the Paris Moniteur of Sept. 1, 1824.] vette Coquille, dated Bay of Matavai, Island of Taheite, 15th of May, 1823. On the 3d of May, at sunrise, the sky cleared up, the dark fogs which had for several days confined our horizon dispersed, and all at once the Island of Taheite offered to our view the rich and tempting productions, which nature brings forth so abundantly upon its soil. At four o'clock in the afternoon, we anchored in the bay of Matavai; without having a single sick person on board, notwithstanding the dangerous passage which we had experienced. When Wallis, Bougainville, Cook, and Vancouver formerly approached this island, they were boarded by a great number of ca noes. We were, therefore, very much surprised, at not beholding a single one coming towards us. We soon learned the cause. All were then gone to Public Worship: but, the next morning, the islanders, in great numbers, brought us provisions of every kind. The Missionaries every year convoke the whole population, which consists of 7000 souls, in the Church of Papahoa. This happened to be the time of the annual convocation. They discuss the several articles of a code of Laws, proposed by the Mission; and the Taheitan Chiefs ascend the tribunal, and speak with much vehemence for hours together. The Island of Taheite, about two months ago, declared itself independent. The English Flag, which had waved upon the island since the voyage of Wallis, is exchanged for a red flag, upon which we remark a white star in the upper angle. The Missionaries, for whom the Natives preserve a great veneration, have nevertheless maintained their influence. We were most cordially received; and the inhabitants furnished us with provisions in abundance, and gave us many curious objects in exchange for a few trifles. The Island of Taheite is now very dif ferent from what it was in the time of Cook. The Missionaries of the Royal* Society of London have totally changed the manners and the customs of the inhabitants. Idolatry no longer exists among them, and they universally profess the Christian Religion. The women no longer abide on board the ships; they even manifest an extreme reserve, when we meet them on shore. Marriages are celebrated among them, as in Europe; and the King has subjected himself to one wife. The women are admitted to the tables of their husbands. The abominable prostitution formerly practised among them no longer exists. The bloody wars in which they engaged, and The London Missionary Society. the human sacrifices which they offered, have ceased since 1816. The Natives can all read and write; they have religious books in their hands, translated into their language, and printed at Taheite or Eimeo. Fine Churches have been erected; and the people all resort to them twice in the week, with great devotion, to hear preaching. Several individuals take notes of the most interesting passages of the Discourse. This letter was copied into the "Archive du Christianisme" for the Month of June, and accompanied with the following editorial remarks— Such is the Christianity of Otaheite, which some fear not to denominate a vitiated Christianity-such are the fruits, which certain acquainted with the actual state of Evanpersons, embued with prejudice, and little gelical Missions, call fruits of intolerance and superstition! We pray God from the bottom of our hearts, to multiply these fruits -to cause this tree of life to grow and prosper more and more, which has been transplanted by magnanimous Brethren, filled with zeal, into distant regions. We congratulate those Brethren, that they have afforded the friends of this glorious and holy cause an undeniable testimony to the labours and success of PROTESTANT Missionaries, from a CATHOLIC, in an authentic despatch, sent to a CAHTHOLIC Government. We admire the ways of Providence, which furnish us, through our Political Journals, with a better answer to imprudent friends, who do not perceive that they injure the cause which they think to serve: and, without pretending to find in Missions among Pagans a perfection incompatible with every work performed by human instruments, we bless those Christians who devote themselves with a faith, zeal, and self-denial, so admirable; and we call upon all the friends of the Gospel to second their labours by their contributions and their prayers. We wish to refute vague objections and unfounded allegations only by facts. The Letter which we have just transcribed speaks more than volumes. TRAVANCORE. COTYM. Church Missionary Society. From the Sixth Report of the Madras committee we extract the latest accounts of the mission among the Syrians. State of the Schools. In the course of this year, the committee were induced, on an urgent application from the superintendent, to double the allowance granted for the Parochial schools connected with this mission, the expense of which is now 400 rupees per quarter. How well this extension of the society's bounty was bestowed will be judged by the following Report of the present state of the schools from the Rev. Mr. Baker. "On an examination of the boys in the grammar-school there is abundant cause for gratitude and praise to God, for the blessing which He continues to bestow on the in structions given them. The improvement during the last year has been considerable, and not at all less than what was anticipated at this season of the former year. Two only of the boys who were then present have left us; and this was owing solely to ill health while several others have come; and caused us joy, by their diligent application to study, and by the exertions which they have made and are still making to overtake the younger boys who came before them and still rank above them. The present number of pupils is 43; most of whom are learning English and Sancrit, as well as Malayalim. The first class are translating fables and short stories from English into Malayalim; they have a tolerably good knowledge of English grammar, and are reading parts of the Bible which they readily understand; and this is the more interesting to them, as they have no Bible in their own language. The second class are parsing the sentences of Murray's grammar, which they are on the eve of finishing; and are committing the words of a small vocabulary to memory. The rest are merely learning to read and spell from the cards and school-books used in Dr. Bell's schools. The report which the Sanscrit teacher gives of their progress, under his instructions, is likewise favourable. "We have just completed the number of Parochial schools which we think at present called for among the Syrians. There is not, strictly speaking, a school to every parish; but there is not a place where 15 children can be brought together to which a schoolmaster has not been appointed. These schools are 51 in number; and contain, according to the latest returns, 1333 children." Syrian College. The committee regret to state, that the Rev. Mr. Fenn, whose valuable services in the superintendence of this important institution have been so often acknowledged, has suffered severely in his health during the current year. It is impossible not to connect this circumstance with his unassisted and indefatigable exertions in the various duties of the college and mission, and the afflictive occurrences that have befallen the college in the events which are noticed in the following report lately received of his department of the mission. The corresponding committee lament exceedingly, that the non-arrival of additional missionaries from England renders it impracticable for them to afford to the excellent men engaged in this most interesting and important sphere of missionary labour, the assistance which the extent of their work and the debilitated state of the health of two of them render so urgently necessary. The college now consists of 45 students. Their attendance is punctual; allowing of interruption, only by their own illness, or the illness and decease of near relatives. Their application, since the last report, has, upon the whole, been good and deserving of praise. Their progress, generally, has been slower than was anticipated. The principal cause is the want of proper instruction. As long as the college continues in its present destitute condition, the progress of the students must continue sadly deficient. Besides this constant hinderance to the success of the college, it met with another drawback in the months of December and January last, when I was necessarily absent at Quilon, on account of Mrs. Fenn's illness: and, in the month of May, an afflictive providence occurred, which deprived the college of its most efficient aid; I mean the death of Thomas Woodroffe, who died by the bite of a snake. He was a youth of no ordinary talents; which were accompanied by great perseverance and energy. He had the complete direction of the studies of students under me. Excepting Marcus and the first Latin class, the rest I intrusted entirely to him. He had been attached to the mission a little more than three years; during which time he had acquired a very grammatical and thorough knowledge of his own language, in which he had read Robertson's Histories, Locke's smaller Essay on the Conduct of the Understanding, Barrow's Lectures on Belles Lettres and Logic, a consi-· derable part of bishop Hopkins's works, Cowper, and Milton, besides many smaller works: he had also made himself a very fair Latin scholar, and had just begun Greek, and was reading Esop's Fables in the Græca Minora, translating them into Latin and English he had read Algebra, as far as Quadratic Equations; and a few of the problems of the First Book of Euclid. With his conduct while with me, I have abundant cause to be satisfied. I believe him to have been a strictly upright and conscientious youth, and under the decided influence of the love and fear of God. Marcus now fills his place; but, in some things, as for instance in English Literature, is, of course, much inferior in other respects he has the advantage of him: as, thank God, his mortal course is not yet terminated, I would say no more than that he grows in my affection and esteem daily. That I have been, in any way, contributory to the comfort of two such youths, is one of the highest pleasures which I enjoy. : The committee will, I hope, excuse me for mentioning once again, that the college at Cotym is the only establishment of the kind |