were generally complied with, the list of subscribers would soon be augmented to one thousand, a number necessary to give the Journal stability, and to add, in a desirable degree, to its efficiency and to the excellence of its execution. All beyond this, would go to the account of forming such an establishment, as would not fail of continuance, when the present editor shall have ceased from his labours." Jahn's Introduction to the Old Testament. This work is proposed to be translated, from the Latin and German, by Professor Turner of the Episcopal Theological Seminary, NewYork, assisted by William R. Whittingham, an Alumnus of the Seminary. The work is to consist of one volume of about fifty pages 8vo, and is not to cost more than $3 in boards. G. and C. Carvill, publishers. American Quarterly Review.-Proposals have appeared in Philadelphia for the establishment of a work with this title, to be conducted by Robert Walsh, Esq. EGYPT.-The viceroy has founded a college at Boulah, in the palace which was inhabited by his son Ismael.One hundred pupils, from nine to thirty-five years of age, are there maintained at his expense, and learn, under skilful masters, Chemistry, Mathematics, Drawing, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Turkish, Persian, and most of the languages of modern Europe. It appears that the higher employments of the administration are reserved for the young people who issue from this college. Cairo, a botanic garden, which will be The viceroy designs to plant near an adjunct to the school of medicine and surgery, which he intends to create, and which he has confided to the direction of European officers. A vast library, composed of the most remarkable books, in the different languages of Europe, on all the branches of med ical science, is attached to this establishment. He has ordered, in London, an apparatus for gas illumination, for the use of his palace at Cairo, and the place in which it is situated.-Revue Encyc. Jan. 1826.-From the Amer ican Journal of Science. List of New Publications. RELIGIOUS. The High Churchman vindicated: in a fourth Charge to the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of New York, at the opening of the Convention of the said Church, in Trinity Church, in the city of New-York, on Thursday, Oct, 17, 1826. By John Henry Hobart, D. D. Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of New-York. New-York: T. & J. Swords. Questions on the Bible, for the use of Bible Classes. By Alexander M. Cowan, A. M. Auburn: pp. 299, 18mo. The Agency of God illustrated in the achievment of the Independence of the United States: a Sermon, delivered at New-Preston, Conn., July 4, 1826; being a religious celebration of that day. By Charles A. Boardman, Pastor of the Congregational Church of Christ in that place. NewHaven: Treadway & Adams. A Treatise on the Union, Affinity, and Consanguinity between Christ and his Church. Sermons, by Thomas Wetherell and Elias Hicks. The Christian's Instructer; containing a summary Explanation and Defence of the Doctrines and Duties of the Christian Religion. By Josiah Hopkins, A. M. The Christian Armour; A Sermon, delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. John Billing, Pastor of the Church of Christ in Addison, July 12, 1826. By Daniel Merrill, A.M. Waterville, Me. Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto according to thy Word. A Sermon preached in the Chapel of Nassau Hall, August 13, 1826. By Archibald Alexander. Philadelphia. The Four Ages of Life, a gift for every Age; translated from the French of the Count de Segur. New York. An Essay on Terms of Communion, by the Rev. Charles Brooks of Goshen, N. H.; being an Examination into the Propriety of the Doctrine held by Baptists, of preventing all such participating in the Sacrament as have not been immersed. Historical Account of the first Pres byterian Church and Society in Newburyport, Mass. Addressed to the Congregation worshipping in Federal Street, July 9, 1826. By Samuel P. Williams. Saratoga Springs. 8vo. A Memoir of the French Protestants, who settled at Oxford, in Massachusetts, A.D. 1686. With a Sketch of the entire History of the Protestants of France. By Abiel Holmes, D. D. Cambridge. 8vo. Religious Entelligence. RELIGION IN VERMONT.--Looking over the minutes of the General Convention of Congregational and Presbyterian Ministers in Vermont, we notice more than thirty towns which have been blessed with revivals during the past year. RELIGION IN KENTUCKY.-The late Report of the Synod of Kentucky contains some interesting statements respecting the progress of religion in that state. Calling to mind their mourning in former years, that their churches were unfavoured with those effusions of the Holy Spirit which have so remarkably blessed the eastern sections of the country, the Synod rejoice that now the fact is otherwise. A work of grace which commenced in Danville, and which has added one hundred to the church in that place, has extended to several other places. It deserves particular attention (the Report says) that this revival commenced in Centre College. Twentythree of its students have become subjects of it; and unless we greatly err and misconstrue the ways of Providence, a seal has been affixed to the plans already adopted, and an answer given to those prayers which have arisen before the throne of God, for this infant institution of learning. The religious public, generally, will also learn with much satisfaction, that several pupils of the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, are among the num In common ber originally quoted. with the friends of humanity, we rejoice in those institutions of modern times by which the bereavements of this class of our community, have been so greatly alleviated; but we stand on higher ground, and feel the thrilling of nobler pleasure, in hailing some of them as the children of God, and anticipating the period when, in the entire possession of every sense, they shall be before the throne of God, and serve Him day and night in his temple." Happily the work has not been confined to Danville. To the churches of Harrodsburg and New Providence, upwards of ninety have been addedto the United Churches of Silver Creek and Paint Lick nearly fifty; and to the Buffalo Spring Church, where the prospect of further increase is very flattering, fifteen. In several other churches in this vicinity, and in some few at a distance, there is an increased and increasing thirst for gospel ordinances. Oh brethren, this intelligence has cheered the despondency of the past, and shall, we trust, give a continued and vigorous impulse to the efforts of the future. We have great pleasure in stating that measures have been adopted by the Synod for the endowment of a Professorship in Centre College. Our anxiety for its prosperity, and our confidence in receiving your support, induced us to obligate ourselves to pay the sum of $10,000. It is a gratifying thought that the church with which we are connected has uniformly been disposed to connect the light of sci ence with the truth of God; and as to this institution we fondly contemplate it as the germ of some mighty tree, whose healthful shade will at length overspread our land. The Synod would call your attention to the subject of catechetical and biblical instruction. Efforts to instil into the minds of youth, the doctrines and duties of God's word never have been, nor can we believe they ever will be entirely fruitless. We specify two instances which have occurred during the past year. In a bible class within the bounds of Muhlenburg Presbytery, all the members except two have connected themselves with the church. In a similar class in Transylvania Presbytery there is but one solitary exception. Nor have the benefits been confined to the members of the classes. Within the town of Lexington twelve of the Sabbath School teachers, we have reason to believe, have been taught of God. We have ascertained that increasing attention is paid to the instruction of coloured people. For their benefit fifteen Sabbath Schools are in operation. From one of these schools there have been several persons recently in troduced into the kingdom of Jesus Christ. We hope that those to whom this solemn trust is committed, will be hence encouraged to act in view of their awful accountability to Almighty God. NEW-ORLEANS.-The Rev. William Shedd, who has ardently attached himself to the religious interests of NewOrleans, was lately at the North endeavouring to raise subscriptions for the erection of a mariner's church in that city. From a communication by him made public through the NewYork Observer, we quote the following paragraphs: This Church is to be so located as to accommodate the seamen who visit that port, supposed to be about ten thousand yearly, and also the boatmen, who are there in great numbers from the western states. It is also designed that the same building shall be a depository for bibles and tracts. In this latter view, as well as the former, the measure is exceedingly important. No spot in our country presents facili ties for the circulation of the scriptures through so large a portion of the Southern and Western States as New-Orleans. The American Bible Society is the centre of many hopes, the object of many prayers. But something more is necessary than to raise money, and procure types and paper, and print the word of life. In the Southern part of our country, particularly in New-Orleans, depositories must be established, and agents must be employed, whose express business it shall be to sell and distribute the scriptures. I speak from knowedge when I say, that if this is not the only way, it is the only probable way in which much good can be done. The men of business in New-Orleans, during the business season, are deeply engrossed with cares-and there are no men of leisure there. Next to New-York, NewOrleans is the point from which sacred influences should go out to heal and to save the nation. It is the pass, the Thermopyle, which has had one Leonidas in a Larned-but where are the six hundred soldiers of the cross, that have fought and fallen at his side? An offcer maintained in the presence of Sir S. Smith, that he could not assault a particular post, because it was unat tackable. "Sir," said the gallant chief, "that word is not English; still less Let every pious is it Christian." American remember this and act a cordingly. AMERICAN SUNDAY SCHOOL UNIONThe following article lately appeared in the New-York Observer, under the name of the Rev. Howard Malcom, general agent of the American Sunday School Union: it shows at once the labours and the wants of that impor tant institution. The American Sunday School Union is suffering perplexities of the most trying kind, from the magnitude of its operations and the scantiness of its means. Weak unions and new schools in various parts of the continent look to it for aid, which can be rendered only to a partial extent. Orders for books, with the money, cannot always be expected promptly, from the insufficiency of the stock in the Depository. The Board labour with great assidu ty, to keep pace with the necessities of INDIAN CONVERTS.-The Methodists the schools; and the actual rate of reckon the following numbers as printing is now 70,000 pages 18mo. members of their church among the per day! Contributions are earnestly Indians. Of the Mohawks and Missolicited. Only fifteen ministers have sisaugahs, Canada Conference, 250; been made life-members, by the pay- Wyandots, Ohio Conference, 258; ment of thirty dollars or upwards.- Cherokees, Tennessee Conference, The city in which the society is loca- 283; Creeks, S. Carolina Conference, ted has thus far sustained it almost 16-total, 807. alone. From the last Report (in May 1826) it appears that only about two hundred and fifty dollars have been received from individuals in any other part of the country! Bible and Tract Societies can never do all their work, unless Sunday Schools teach multitudes to read, to whom otherwise the Bible is a sealed book. Coloured adults have generally no other means of instruction than Sunday Schools. The very stability of our free institutions depends on the virtue of the populace, and to maintain this there is no other effective system of means in operation. A mere fraction of the sum expended annually on works of defence would do more to secure the permanence and prosperity of the nation, than any bulwarks that art can rear. This suffering society appeals to every patriot, to every man who wishes to see our African population prepared for emigration to their own continent, to every lover of good morals, to every respecter of the Sabbath, to every friend of the church. AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY.-The New-York Observer states, that in the two months ending November 20, 432,000 tracts were issued by this Society, and nearly an equal amount actually put into circulation. The receipts, from September 26th, to November 20th, were $3.982 81; the whole of which has been expended for paper, printing, &c. leaving the Treasury now empty. The Society has in fact no adequate resources for supplying the General Depository with tracts, sufficient to meet the demand. More than one fourth part of the Tracts which have been issued, are now nearly or entirely out of print. The Society depends on the donations of the benevelent for the means of supplying these deficiencies. METHODIST MINISTERS.-In the U. States and a part of Canada, are 1406 travelling preachers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and nearly 4000 local preachers. LANGUAGE INSTITUTION.-The Language Institution of Great Britiah, formed in London a little more than a year since for the purpose of teaching, in that country, the languages of the heathen, has made its first aunual Report. From this it appears, that in the course of the past year thirteen students have availed themselves of the privileges of the Institution, four of whom are devoted to the propagation of the Gospel in the Indian Archipelago, and two are about to sail to Malacca as missionaries to the Chinese. Among other exercises of the Institution the past year, an interesting series of lectures on the language of China, were gratuitously given by the Rev. Dr. Robinson, and another on the Bengalee language, by the Rev. Henry Townley, formerly missionary to India. The latter gentleman still continues to afford instruction, as his own convenience and that of the students admits.-N. Y. Obs. BIBLE SOCIETIES ON THE CONTINENT. These are fifty-two in number. The first in order of institution is the Basle Bible Society, founded in 1804, which has circulated, with the aid of the British and Foreign Bible Society, no fewer than 146,670 copies of the Bible or the New Testament. The Wur temburg Bible Society, instituted at Stuttgardt in 1812, has circulated 135,941 Bibles or Testaments. The Ratisbon Bible Society has circulated 65,000 Testaments; the Frankfort, 69,700; the Hanover, (since 1804,) 35,000 German Bibles; the Prussian Bible Society, 200,000 Bibles and Testaments; the Saxon,instituted in 1815, 105,500; the Russian, 705,831; the Swedish, 223,870; the Danish, 86,000; the Sleswig-Holstein, 64,000; the Paris, 61,400. Altogether, the fifty-two European Societies are known to have circulated considerably above 2,302,274 copies of the New Testament, with or without the Old Testament, In addition to these exertions of So cieties, three Catholic clergymen have published above 60,000 copies of the German New Testament.-Electic Review. SANDWICH ISLANDS--At the November Monthly Concert in Boston, the Corresponding Secretary of the Amer ican Board communicated the following. A joint letter had been received from Honoruru, dated March 10th, and a private letter from Mr. Richards, dated May 9. This last date is five months later than any received.-They say, in regard to their own mission, that 20,000 persons are now in the islands under a course of instruction of some sort. Two thousand observe family and private devotion; and many persons, among whom are a considerable number of the most powerful chiefs, are apparently pious. The Missionaries mention, and promise a full account of a series of riots by the crew of the United States national schr. Dolphin, Capt. Percival, in which the lives of the Missionaries had been threatened, their houses attacked, as well as the houses of the chiefs, and repeated personal indignity offered, especially to Mr. Bingham. These barbarities seem to have been worse, as they were longer continued, than those by the crew of the English merchant ship Daniel. They arose from the same cause. A representation of the matter will, it is sincerely hoped, in due time be made to the Navy Department, when Capt. P. will have an opportunity to offer his defence, to the A letter received from Mr. Chamberlain mentions the annual examination of the schools of Honoruru. The schools were assembled from within the distance of fourteen miles. The number of schools was sixty-nine, native teachers sixty-six, scholars 2409. The improvement was pleasing. A translation of Matthew had just been completed by Mr. Bingham, and another by Mr. Richards. Karaimoku, the chief man of the islands, and distinguished benefactor of the Missionaries, was very sick. He was for twenty years prime minister to Tamehameha, then filled the same place during the reign of Rihoriho, and now is, by general consent, Regent and head of the Government.-He has been the chief instrument in preserving quiet in the islands in times of danger. The Prince, heir to the government, i thirteen years, and the princess, his sister, twelve years of age. Ordinations and Enstallations. Oct. 11.--The Rev. NATHANIEL MINER was ordained to the work of the ministry at Salem, Con. Sermon by the Rev. Salmon Cone. Oct. 16.-The Rev. GEORGE COAN was installed Pastor of the Congregational Church in Riga, N. Y. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. James of Rochester. Oct. 17.-The Rev. B. B. SMITH was ordained at Harwinton as an Evangelist. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Yale of New-Hartford. Oct. 24.-The Rev. DAVID Abel was ordained as an Evangelist at Athens, N. Y. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Bennet of Scodac. Oct. 25.-The Rev. FOREST JEF-· FERDS was ordained Pastor of the Congregational Church at Epping, N. H. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Greenleaf, of Wells. Oct. 25.-The Rev FREEMAN P. HOWLAND was or lam d Pastor of the Congregational Church at Hanson. |