ments, and to produce in their minds bumility and attachment. They object still farther, "Comparatively few require instruction in the Irish language." You have stated that 1,500,000 can receive moral and religious instruction only through Irish-Who can deny this, aud on what grounds? It must be granted, that a gentleman in travelling through Ireland is generally addressed in English at the inns where he alights: this, however, arises from the policy of the landlord, in taking care that no one approach the stranger but those who speak English; but were he to hear the master conversing with his servants, or the servants with each other, he would be led to conclude that they could speak only their native tongue; and I venture to assert, that in the majority of those inns, almost every member understands Irish; indeed, the servants in many families, and the principal part of the inhabitants of some counties, are unacquainted with English; hence the great necessity for an interpreter in suits at law. I have seen the court in Londonderry idle for several hours for want of an interpreter; and I have myself acted in that capacity in the Protestant counties in the north; viz. Londonderry, Donegal, and Fermanagh. How necessary, then, must they be in the counties of Cork, Limerick, Galway, Sligo, Mayo, and many others, where Irish is almost solely spoken? | Protestant town of Bandon, provisions. are sold in the markets, and cried in the streets, in Irish. Must the Gospel of the Son of God be denied to all this people, because it is acceptable to them only in the ancient and beloved language of their fathers? SUNDAY SCHOOL SOCIETY FOR IRELAND. PATRON, His Royal Highness the DUKE PRESIDENT, The Right Hon. and Right The Most Noble the Marquis and Mar. ville, Earl and Countess of Meath, Earl of Bandon, Earl of Gosford, Vicountess Powerscourt, Viscountess Lifford, Viscount and Viscountess Lorton, Viscount and Viscountess De Vesci, Mrs. P. La Touche, Mrs. Shaw, Mrs. Armstrong, Hon. and Right Rev. Bishop of Ferns, Bishop of Elphin, Bishop of Dromore, Bishop of Cloyne, Hon. Count De Salis, Right Hon. W. W. Pole, Right Hon. Robert Peel, John D. La Touche, P. La Touche, J. Goff, T. Parnell, Esqrs. and James D. La Touche, Esq. Secretary to the So ciety, In many parts of Ireland I have travelled frequently twenty miles without being able to obtain directions on my way, except in Irish. From Sligo to TUE Committee of the Sunday School Roscommon, through the plains of May Society for Ireland, having, by upwards and Galway, and around Loch Coirib, of nine years experience, proved the im along the extensive banks of the Shan-portance and efficacy of their Institution, non, around the wild mountains of (for proof of which they refer to their Kinturk, by ancient Innbhirsgeine to Annual Reports,) and perceiving that Bantry, and through all the country of their Funds do not increase by any means Brendin, from Mount Gabriel at Ban-in proportion with the demands upon try Bay, to Mount Brandon on the Shannon mouth, with vast tracts of country in the north which are too numerous to name, Irish is not only the favourite language, but the only one the inhabitants in general can speak, or through which they can receive instruction. On the western borders of North Thomond, (anciently a kingdom,) where the inhabitants are as numerous as the fowl on its sea-beaten rocks, English is scarcely known. I need not dwell on the Catholic counties, Cork and Kerry, where even the few Protestants speak their native tongue; in it religious obligations are made, and in it the children are taught the principles of their faith. In some of the largest southern towns, including Cork, Kinsale, and even the them, from the rapidly augmenting num ber of Sunday Schools throughout the Country, deem it a duty to lay their claims before the British Public. The unfavourable circumstances of Ireland, arising from the diversity of opinions existing among the mass of its population, together with the habitual non-residence of many of its richest proprietors, render the public institutions of this country the more dependent upon British assistance. The principles of this Society are, that it shall promote the establishment of Sunday Schools in Ireland, by circulating approved plans for conducting them, by supplying them gratuitously, or at re duced prices, with Spelling Books and copies of the Sacred Scriptures, and extracts from them, without note or comment, (the only books of religious instruction which it disseminates among them,) and sometimes by grants of money; but without interfering in their internal arrangements otherwise than by kind admonition and advice. It appears from the Report made at the Annual Meeting on the 21st of April last, that since the establishment of this Society in November, 1809, 806 Schools, containing 84,174 scholars, have received gratuitous assistance from it: out of which number, 44 Schools, containing 3,060 scholars have failed. It also appears, from the statements sent into this Society, that during sixteen years preceding its formation, only 57 Sunday Schools, of those in connexion with it, were established; while within the ten succeeding years 749 have been established. During the last year the business of this Society has increased in a proportion nearly double to that of the preceding year, as it respects the addition of new Schools, the increase of scholars, and the issue of books. The Committee would humbly presume that the progress of this Society has been marked by the blessing of the Almighty, and as his cause they would commit it to his people, in the confident hope that they will afford assistance to a Society which exerts itself in dispelling mental and moral ignorance, by the diffusion of religious instruction throughout a most interesting portion of the United Kingdom. Subscriptions in aid of the Funds of this Society, will be received by Messrs. Puget, Bainbridge, and Co. WarwickJane, London; by Messrs. Robert Raikes and Co. Hull; by Samuel Hope, Esq. Liverpool; by Messrs. George La Touche and Co. Dublin, and at the Depository, No. 16, Upper Sackville-street, Dublin. 2d June, 1819. Dublin," from the consideration of the extreme scarcity of cheap religious books in that country, and the abundance of ludicrous pamphlets which are circulated among the poor. One of them is now before the writer, entitled, "The Pilgrimage to Lough Dergh. Approved and written by B. D." It has a rude woodcut, consists of 24 pages, and is said to have been " Printed in the present year.” The concluding paragraph is a specimen of the kind of religious instruction it affords. "Therefore, my brother, after leaving this lough [lake] give thanks to God, singing gloriously a new song of praise. Suffer temptations, thirst and hunger, and obey God: Fear not the sons of Anak, though great and strong, viz. your great and irregular passions, for by the grace of God, you will overcome them, with Og and Sikon, i. e. the devil and the world. And weaken the Amalekites, viz. your corporal senses, or lustful desires. "And Jesus being your captain, by Jordan, or good life, you will enter the land of promise, which is eternal life, (though highly walled with lofty virtues,) which God grant me and pilgrims by the intercession of the blessed Virgin Mary, and all the saints, especially St. Patrick, our holy patron. Amen." From this specimen it will appear how necessary it is that this vile trash should be counteracted, and, if possible, superseded, by the circulation of cheap publications, containing a scriptural answer to the most important question that can be proposed by a guilty sinner, What shall I do to be saved?-We wish success most cordially to a Dublin Tract Society, and are happy to find that the Committee of the Religious Tract Society_in_London has agreed to send tracts to Dublin upon credit, to the amount of £1,000. The Fifth Annual Report of the Society, with the Appendix, List of Subscriptions, &c. is now printed, and will be soon forwarded, so far as practicable, to the subscribers. IT affords sincere gratification to the conductors of the Baptist Irish Society, to mark the progress of those measures which have been employed to bestow a scriptural education, and the means of religious instruction, upon the rising generation in Ireland. Amongst the Societies that have been formed for this pur-cretary, 20, Harpur-street, London. pose, the "Sunday School Society for Ireland" stands pre-eminent; and we are happy to find, from some of their recent publications, that their field for labour is much widened. A zealous individual of that Society has lately visited London, for the purpose of proposing a union of effort in Ireland and England for establishing a Religious Tract Depository in Any other person wishing to assist the Society, who is desirous of procuring a copy of the Report may be supplied either at the Publishers of the Magazine; by Wm. Burls, Esq. Treasurer, 56, Lothbury; or the Rev. Joseph Ivimey, Se 66 FROM a Ladies' Association at Hammersmith, EIGHT POUNDS have been received towards a Hammersmith Female School in Ireland, by the hands of Miss Salter. This is principally the produce of some Pasteboard CASTLES, placed by the Ladies on their side-boards, and is to be continued annually. Missionary Herald. BAPTIST MISSION. SERAMPORE. pees for the support of the Benevolent Institution there. We are preparing a fount of small Nagree, similar to the small Bengalee: when it is finished, Dr. DR. Carey, in a letter from Se-Carey will print a complete edition of rampore, dated the 19th of January, says, THE Wuch New Testament will be finished in two months, and the Assamese will not be long after it. Our new plan for schools, I mean the Copy Book plan, has received the most unqualified appro bation from Mr. T. Mr. I. &c. and all are going to act upon it. Brother Chamberlain has left us: I am afraid for him. Our brethren at Calcutta have taken a piece of ground at Chitpore, for 200 rupees a year, and intend to live there alternately a month at a time among the natives. I like this. Brother Adam has been married to Miss Phebe Grant. the whole Bible in Sungskrit, in a large octavo size. The Bengalee Bible, in one volume octavo, goes on well; and will proceed more rapidly after the Pilgrim's Progress and the History of England, in Bengalee, are finished at press. From Mr. Randall to Mr. Saffery, January 23, 1819., SINCE Mr. Ward left us, I have buried a member of the church, named Toonoo whose death rejoiced me much. I visited him the morning before he died, and asked him where his hope was? With tears, he said, "In Jesus Christ." I inquired if he feared death? With a smile he replied, "He hoped Christ had taken We further hear from Seram- it away: that he had no desire to live pore, as follows: longer, he wanted the happiness of hea ven." We have also buried another, member, whose name was Ono. She has been a follower of the Saviour many Dr. Marshman is returned from Malda. years, and died in the same happy state. While absent, he preached much, and baptized eight persons at Dinagepore. Captain W. from Chittagong, is with us. Though they have no stated preacher, the Mug converts increase. BROTHER Marshman left us on the 27th of December, and we expect him home this evening, (January 21.) He has visited Malda and Dinagepore.At the latter place he preached in Mr. Fernandez's house, before the Judge, the Collector, the Circuit Judge, the Surgeon, &c. After service, be baptized eight natives, in the presence of those persons, who attended with great seriousness. Work proceeds with great rapidity. We are pushing on the Translations with all speed. While Dr. Carey's precious life is spared, we ought to use, and shall use, all diligence. Several are waiting for baptism at Cutwa. The Copy Book plan has given great satisfaction, and will be adopted by the School Society. Our subscription to the native schools has hitherto gone on well: 3000 rupees have been raised in Calcutta, and the subscription is not yet closed. General O. has subscribed 500 rupees to the College, and Mr. M. 1000. Mr. Peacock has raised at Chittagong, a subscription of 285 ru VOL. XI. CHITTAGONG. IN our Number for August, p. 337, we inserted a farewell letter from Mr. Ward, to the converts at this station. The following is their reply, as translated by Mr. F. Carey: THE Mug brethren to their much es teemed and honoured elder brother at 3 S Serampore, send greeting, and their thou- | sand, and ten thousand salams. We are extremely happy to inform you, that all the brethren who live at Harboung are enabled without molestation to make known the glad tidings of our Saviour Jesus Christ to many. On the other hand, we are sorry to tell you, that the distresses of the brethren living at Cox's Bazar continue much in the same state they were when you were here. The preaching of the word also meets with much opposition from the persons who are well known to you. Notwithstanding, we preach and talk about the truths of the Gospel in private houses, and many come to hear. The letter you left with us for our instruction, Gnu-lha and Soo-ba-oung have also copied, and have distributed many of them among their Christian brethren. The boy who wished to come with you, but was prevented by his mother, now wishes to come, and she is willing to part with him; we intend sending him by the first opportunity. After the receipt of this letter, we pray you will favour us with a reply as soon as convenient. Thus much we have to say to our much esteemed teacher in Christ. DACCA. THE following communication from the friend presiding at this station, to the brethren at Serampore, bears date July 10, 1818. It is with much pleasureI am enabled to inform you, that all our schools go on prosperously, especially the Christian school. My exact number is thirty, twenty-five of whom were present this morning, and the remainder have been absent in consequence of the heavy rains. My monthly account, which left this yesterday, will shew the present state of the Persian and Bengalee schools and I shall merely add, that the scriptures are freely read in the whole of them. We united two of the disciples of the Sut gooroo in marriage a few days ago, and hope to see four or five of them come forward for baptism in a short time. We have taken no more than one piece of land for them as yet, the ground rent of which is two rupees a year, but we will take spots here and there, according as we find it suit our design. We endeavour to keep up a constant communication with them, (although some of them live at a considerable distance from Dacca,) by sending Rama-Prisad out amongst them once a month, when he generally brings some of them with him, who remain in our place three or four days at a time for instruction. Indeed we are seldom without a party of them, male and female, who all appear anxious to hear the word of life, evincing a warm affection for us, and expressing themselves only happy when amongst us. Numbers of them who visit us have never seen a European face before mine, through which I appear as great a wonder to them, as an elephant would to some of the wild Irish that I can call to remembrance. In short, it appears as if the Lord had brought us to a knowledge of this people, to keep our hopes alive in these dreary parts. JESSORE. FROM the subjoined petition, addressed to the Judge and Magistrate of the district of Jessore, by several native Christians, residing there, some idea may be formed of the various inconveniences to which these converts are exposed, in consequence of their embracing the Gospel. The application, we are happy to add, received prompt and effectual attention. YOUR Petitioners beg leave to lay the following circumstances before you, and to solicit your kind attention to their case. Ever since they were converted to Christianity, the barbers, though offered the usual payment, have refused to attend upon them, and the midwives upon their wives: this has been more especially the case in the following villages: Bakuspola, Vishoo-huree, Chougacha, Badpookhur, Vusi-poora, Ounit-poora, and Hingulpara. The pretext for this refusal is, that the persons thus serving the Christians will be deprived of their cast, which is by no means the case, for these persons attend upon native Portuguese and European Christians without hesitation, and fear no loss of cast, Hindoo, barbers also shave Musulmans without losing cast, and Hin doo midwives do not refuse to attend a Musulman mother when she is in child birth. But this refusal is attended in the danger, both to the mother and the in case of our lying-in women with great fant. In some late instances some of your petitioners, after the birth of the child, were obliged to go and fetch a midwife from a distant village to do the offices necessary at those times; so that on these alarming occasions your poor petitioners have been brought into the greatest distress. Your petitioners also, unless they go to some distant town, are compelled to remain unshaved for weeks, and even months together, to their great annoyance. In large towns the barbers are ready to shave all casts without inquiry. Your petitioners have no doubt but that the barbers, &c. would do their duty, if not kept in terror by the rich, who thus exercise a petty tyranny over villages without any lawful authority, or the countenance of any law whatsoever. Your petitioners therefore humbly im. plore, that their case may be graciously noticed, and that they may be delivered from an oppression which the voice of the Magistrate can remove in a moment, affording, without the shadow of injury to any, substantial relief to those whose only crime is, their having embraced the religion of their governors; and who having the strongest attachment to the English Government, hope to share in the blessings it diffuses through the whole of their country. people may soon join this little church by baptism into the death of Christ. August 10.-Akbur Sha, the son of Akmani Sha, came to me, and said that he had been to Serampore, and had much talk with the Reverend Mr. Marshman; he wants to know from the Pastors, if he, and one or two hundred if his disciples, come to be instructed in the religion of Christ, how they are to be maintained while under instruction. He also asked for a complete set of the Old and New Testament, but I was not able to comply with his request: I therefore hope that you will send me two sets of the Old and New Testament; one set for my use, and another for Akbur Sha. BEERBHOOM. From Mr. Hart to Mr. Ward, dated You will no doubt be glad to hear of brahmun who has thrown away cast, and has embraced the true religion. He has an ardent desire to receive baptism; he has brought with him his Radha and Krishna, the latter a black image covered with jewels, as well as his shastras. (These And your petitioners, as in duty bound, are the Bhaguvut-Geeta,-Vishnoo-shasshall ever pray. Journal of Mr. Thomas. JULY 5. This afternoon we held a church meeting, when Haro gave an account of his conversion, and was received for baptism. After this, we went to the pond opposite my house, where a great number of Hindoos and Musulmans were collected to see the baptism; I was enabled to preach to them, and afterward we went into the water, and I baptized Haro. In the evening we held our usual prayer meeting, for the spread of the gospel, when we agreed that brethren Huridas, Ramsoondura, Didhera, and Tristee Dhura, should go and preach the gospel to the heathen and Mahometans at Deb-nugura, about three days journey from Chougacha. 16th.-Shakur muhumud, a hopeful Musulman, sent a Bengalee letter to me this evening by a brahmun, who expressed a wish to join us; he has lost cast by eating with us, and Shakur muhumud has promised to join us with his family, and to bring 500 or more friends of his way of thinking, to join us. My dear Pastors, pray to the Lord of the harvest, that these tra-nam, Juyu-deva, and the Panduva- This brahman has since been baptized at erampore. BENARES. From Mr. Smith, dated July 2, 1818. On the 28th ult. I baptized RamaDasa, a brahmun, at Pruhlad-ghat, in the presence of many persons, and in the At the request of Juya-Narayuna-Ghosal, evening administered the Lord's supper. I have established two Hindee schools, one in my yard, and another at Kutvapoora, about 400 paces from my house. In the former are twelve children, and in the latter thirty. The expense of both schools is seven rupees per month, which |