and that they will in future be able to obtain a more free access to them. They have already extended their sphere of usefulness; and have obtained much accurate and important information respecting the moral and temporal condition of the Jews in the South of Europe. Christian Friends have been found to co-operate with them in districts which they themselves have not visited; and copies of the Sacred Volume and of Scriptural Tracts have, through their means, found their way among the Jews of the Barbary States, on the opposite shores of the Medi terranean. Of the demand for the Scriptures, the Committee say— During the year, there has been a great demand for copies of the Old Testament, especially among the Jews of the Levant: an unusual number of copies of the entire Scriptures have likewise been purchased. Dr. Naudi particularly mentions the pressing applications which he has had from Mr. Lowndes, of Corfu; from Mr. Nicolayson, your Missionary at Beyrout; and from the Jews at Safet: in all these cases, Hebrew Bibles were required for sale among the Jews. Your Committee having received many representations of the importance of publishing the Scriptures and Tracts in the SpanishHebrew, and having corresponded with the Malta Committee on the subject, are now taking measures to carry their recommendation into effect, by which means they hope to gain access to a very large division of the Jewish Nation. Of the occasion of the late excitement among the Jews at Constantinople the Committee give the following account It appears that Mr. Wolff was by no means aware of the result, with which it had pleased God to bless his labours at Jerusalem, until his arrival at Constantinople; when, on presenting himself to the Rabbies assembled in their College for teaching the Law, they imprecated curses upon his name and his memory on his inquiring the cause, he was told that he had been disseminating his errors at Jerusalem; and that certain Jews had written down his arguments, and had come to Constantinople, where they had already turned away many of their brethren from the ancient faith: they informed him, that there were about 300 Jews, who were more or less affected with his errors. The zealous Missionary, rejoiced to receive such unexpected testimony to the power of the Gospel from the lips of unbelieving Jews, immediately replied, "I am delighted to hear it! and I hope that I shall soon add you to the number." In the Jewish Expositor for January are printed some simple and affecting Letters from John Baptist, one of the Jewish Converts, to Mr. Leeves. The younger Convert, John, suffered much from sickness in prison. It is stated in the Report Your Committee are anxiously looking out for a duly-qualified Missionary-a man of warm piety and sound discretion, whom they might send to Constantinople, to strengthen the hands of Jewish Believers, and to prosecuet the good work thus happily begun. Mr. Nicolayson was left in the last Survey proceeding from Beyrout to join Dr. Dalton at Jerusalem, where he arrived on the 3d of January 1826. After the death of Dr. Dalton in the Holy City on the 25th of that month, Mr. Nicolayson returned to Beyrout: from the 25th of February to the 1st of August, he there devoted himself to the study of Arabic, and to intercourse with the Jews. He afterward visited various places, residing chiefly at Beyrout or at Safet. His proceedings in connection with the Church Missionaries have been already stated. At Beyrout, he found leaves of the Hebrew New-Testament, which had been torne out of the Bibles sold by him to Jews, used for common purposes in the shops of the town: he remarks hereon Hitherto I have scarcely been able to prevail on any Jew to receive the New Testament by itself, or Tracts. Indeed, patience is a grace which is constantly called into exercise, in our endeavours to do good among the unbelieving sons of faithful Abraham. LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY. S. Sheridan Wilson, Missionary. The Ministerial Labours of Mr. Wilson continue to be attended with spiritual benefit: the English Congregation and the Sunday School prosper : the Weekly Service in Italian is attended with encouragement, as regards both Maltese and Greeks. The Society's Press is in active operation: 3000 of Mr. Wilson's Greek Spelling-book, and from 8000 to 10,000 Tracts in Modern Greek and Italian, have been printed: these Books and Tracts have been put into extensive circulation. Burder's Village Sermons, in Modern Greek, were in the press. CORFU. 1819. Isaac Lowndes, Missionary. The attendance on the English Services and the state of the Sunday School improve: on the approach of winter, the Greek Lecture was resumed with encouragement: the Greek Sunday-School has still about 40 Scholars. In another tour through the island, Mr. Lowndes preached to the natives; on one occasion, to more than 300. The printing of the English and Modern-Greek Lexicon is finished; and that of the Greek and Albanian Testament carried as far as Jude: the translation of Scott's Essays into Greek is completed, and that of Bickersteth on Prayer is begun. Supplies of publications for distribution have been furnished from Malta, by Mr. Wilson and Mr. Jowett. Mr. Lowndes has again visited Cefalonia and Zante, and made provision for a regular and extensive circulation of publications in those islands: the fall of Missolonghi closed an important channel for the distribution of Books in Greece, but access through it has latterly been again obtained. RELIGIOUS-TRACT SOCIETY. The Committee have remitted nearly 1007. during the year to different Labourers in these Seas; and 13,000 Tracts have been sent to various quarters: the following Tracts have been printed at the Society's expense; the first six by Mr. Lowndes, the last six by Mr. Wilson Modern-Greek: Christian Indeed-Cure of Naaman-Poor Joseph-Consolation to the Afflicted-Sin no Trifle-Great Question Answered. Albanian: Golden Rule- James Covey-John the Baptist-Doctrine of the Cross-Great Question Answered-Progress of Grace. It is stated by the Committee It appears that the Italian Publications printed at Malta cannot be circulated in that island; but the same restriction does not apply to those published in England. The Committee have recently published, in Italian-The Novelty of Popery-Summary of the Bible-Brazen Serpent-Friendly Advice -Subjects for Consideration - Progress of Sin-Way to Heaven. Large editions of these have been printed, and will be circulated as opportunities may offer. A number of copies of the Tract first mentioned, "The Novelty of Popery," having been sent to Malta, Mr. Wilson writes One Gentleman, to whom a respectable Italian sent a copy, returned it, torne to ribbons, and enclosed in a blank cover. I am making arrangements for putting one into the hands of all the most respectable persons in the island. Nothing makes Popery tremble more than Bible Light; for God's Truth and Popish Principles must ever clash and make a noisy effervescence, because they cannot agree together. I find a Tract by Bossuet, (that, I think, which he wrote against Claude,) is making its appearance in Malta, in Italian, printed by a Society at Rome. When Popish Tract-Institutions, in London and at Rome, are struggling against God's determination to destroy the Man of Sin by the breath of His mouth, it seems a louder call on British and all Protestant Believers in Apostolic and Catholic Truth to lay themselves out for yet greater usefulness: we cannot expect that Popery will give way to the increasing light of Scriptural Truth without a desperate resist ance. Persecution has ever been sweet to Rome, when in power if God be so merciful to His Church, as to forbid the gratification of that her evil propensity, still she will do her utmost to oppose. God forbid that I should bear false witness against my neighbour; but this is not theory-it is HISTORY. that the Tract "Andrew Dunn" was in The Rev. John Hartley had stated great request among Roman Catholics: the Committee remark This is an encouraging fact, particularly when the Committee have heard that poor "Andrew Dunn" is now to be found in the Index Expurgatorius of the Church of Rome. SCOTTISH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. James Galloway, W. Glen, Missionaries. The following view of the Mission is given by the Directors in the last Report During the past year, Messrs. Dickson and Mitchell returned from Russia: Messrs. Galloway and Glen are now the only Missionaries in connection with the Society who remain in that country. Mr. Galloway, sometimes alone, and sometimes in company with Mr. Lang, one of the Bâsle Missionaries, continues to itinerate among the neighbouring villages with that zeal and diligence for which he has long been particularly distinguished, and he likewise occasionally pays visits to those at a greater distance. In the neighbouring villages, things have much the same aspect as they have had for a long time past: the attention of individuals is in general secured for the time they are spoken to; but, in regard to any remarkable impression having been made, nothing further can be said than that numbers have obtained some knowledge of the doctrines of the New Testament, and can point out the difference between them and Mahomedanism, which they sometimes do in our presence to strangers; but they make it a matter of speculation only, and their hearts do not appear affected by it, so as to have any influence on naries, "felt disappointed in the case of inditheir conduct. "We have," say the Missioviduals, whom we have frequently mentioned by name; and shall continue to be so, till they be really converted to Christ as their only Saviour and Lord: to this time, their worldly circumstances and connections appear to operate more powerfully on their hearts, than the great blessings exhibited in the Gospel." In the more distant villages of the Jambuluk and Jetzan Tartars on the Usha Collack, the reception which they met with was, in general, by no means discouraging: many listened with attention to the reading and preaching of the Word; and copies of the New Testament and of the Psalms and Tracts were received by those who could read: from some of the Effendis they, as usual, met with opposition; which consisted chiefly in speaking against the doctrines of the Gospel, in a taunting manner, rather than in any attempt to oppose them by force of argument: Mr. Glen himself was afterward seized with the same kind of fever, and was so ill that there was no hope of his recovery; but, after being brought to the gates of death, he was mercifully brought up again and restored to health. If he has not already returned to Astrachan, it is probable he will soon do so, as he has the prospect of there obtaining the assistance of Mir Abu Talib, the Persian who along with him translated the Psalms into Persic. in some instances, this had the effect of di- | he, to their deep regret, breathed his last. spersing the common people; in others, their scorning appeared to fall on their own heads, and they retreated back with shame: by individuals, here and there, serious inquiry was made, so as to afford considerable encouragement to hope that the Word was not declared in vain. The Tartars who reside on the Kulish were likewise visited and spoken to, as opportunity offered, either in their own houses or without doors: a number of Books, especially Tracts, were dispersed among them; particularly among those who had not before received any: there are individuals, who, from time to time, have shewn some degree of thoughtfulness in regard to the state of their souls; but, to this time, so far as is known, the offers made of a Saviour appear to them but a small matter. The Students among the Tartars are frequently removing from one place to another; partly for the sake of changing their teachers, which they suppose to be advantageous to their studies; and partly that they may not be too burdensome to any one village, as they are principally supported by the inhabitants of the village in which they are taught for the time: from this, as well as other causes, the Missionaries have frequent opportunities of distributing books in villages which it might be thought were sufficiently supplied formerly. For a number of months past, Mr. Glen, whose ordinary residence is Astrachan, has been at Karass; with the view of adopting those measures which might be deemed necessary for effecting the transfer of that Colony to the Bâsle Missionary Society. Having taken with him his Persian Moonshee, Agha Sayed Muhsin, he, with his assistance, proceeded with the translation of the Old Testament into Persic, which he is carrying on for the British and Foreign Bible Society, and finished the Book of Proverbs: but, in November last, the Moonshee was attacked by a fever; and, after an illness of ten days, SELENGINSK. With respect to the transfer of the Colony of Karass to the Bâsle Missionary Society, nothing as yet has been settled: unexpected obstacles have been thrown in the way of that measure: what may be the ultimate decision of the Russian Government relative to it, it is impossible to say. The Directors have also adopted measures for the sale of the Mission House at Astrachan. WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY. Stations and Missionaries. Mr. Rule has left the Malta Mission, Siberia. A Military Station south-east of Irkutsk and Lake Baikal-about 160 miles from Irkutsk-Inhabitants about 3000, exclusive of those of several villages in the centre of all the Buriats, on the east side of the Baikal. Toward the close of the past year, Mr. Swan visited a tribe of Buriats who inhabit that part of the country which lies along the shores of the Baikal, near the mouths of the Selenga. He conversed with the Taisha and principal people, endeavoured to direct their minds to the importance of education, and informed them of the existence of the Seminary at Selenginsk. They were fully aware of the importance of learning to read and write Russ, and several of them seemed inclined to send their children to the Seminary; but were prevented on finding that the Missionaries seek no remuneration for the in-. DOING GOOD DISINTERESTEDLY, they regard structions which they impart a plan of as justly liable to suspicion. Mr. In March and April of last year, Mr. Swan resided at Ōna, the out-station mentioned in the last Survey: Stally brass had, in the preceding year, spent two months in visiting this Station. Mr. Yuille, also, has taken various journeys among the Buriats. The number of Youths in the Seminary is six they make good progress. The number admitted since the commencement is 14. CANTON. The Mongolian Translation of the New Testament is completed, and considerable progress made in that of the Old. Mrs. Yuille died on the 2d of July, of typhus fever; departing in peace. China. LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY. Robert Morrison, D.D. Missionary. Dr. Morrison's arrival, on his return Morrison on Obscurities in Translations to his Station, on the 19th of October ed in their labours, by the common objections They add, in reference to Dr. Morri son So fully persuaded is Dr. Morrison of the importance and utility of Comments on the Scriptures, in reference to converted and inquiring Heathens, that, while the present obstacles to preaching the Gospel in China continue, he conceives that he cannot more profitably employ his time than in composing Explanatory Notes on the Chinese Bible. We quoted, at p. 374 of our last Volume, some very sensible remarks of Dr. evidence, that, to such a reader, there is much in Holy Scripture that he CAN understand. When I left China, I presented to the Superior of a large Buddhu Temple, containing 200 Priests, a copy of the Bible, and a Chinese Version of the English Prayers for Morning and Evening Worship: I have seen him since my return: he has read these books, and praised them to me. A Native Christian, converted to the faith by the late Dr. Milne, has shewn the Sacred Writings to many persons; among others, to some learned graduates: these, when they have read awhile, have said, "There is, in that book, much that it is easy to understand: there are also inverted phrases; and there are parts in which we do not understand the subject treated of." The Native Christian says the same: but he has read the whole several times; and finds that the Old and New Testaments reciprocally elucidate each other. The careless, profligate, and proud, in every land, will despise the Bible: but the inquiring mind and the anxious spirit, the young convert and the aged Christian, will esteem it as a pearl of great price. With it, may it be your happiness to enrich all nations! Endia beyond the Ganges. THE Deputation of the London Missionary Society to the South Seas visited, in their return, its Stations in China and India. Having been detained nearly ten months in New South-Wales, they embarked on the 12th of June 1825, and arrived at Batavia on the 17th of July: on the 7th of September they sailed, and reached Singapore on the 14th: leaving that place on the 1st of October, they landed at Macao on the 14th; and, having continued there nearly three weeks, proceeded to Canton and arrived there on the 5th of November: leaving Canton on the 5th of December, they returned to Singapore, and landed on the 24th: on the 11th of January 1826, they sailed for Malacca, which they reached on the 15th; and, leaving on the 6th of February, arrived at Pinang on the 9th: here they continued till the 11th of March; when they sailed for Calcutta, which they reached on the 16th of April. Everywhere the Deputation met with great kindness from the Officers and Gentlemen connected with the East-India Company; and they acknowledge, with gratitude, the gracious protection of Divine Providence in several cases of imminent danger. > SINGAPORE. A British Island, at the southern extremity of the Peninsula of Malacca, between 80 and 90 miles in circumference-rapidly advancing in population and commerce: inhabitants, at the end of 1824, stated at 11,851; and, in the Singapore Chronicle of March 1. 1827, at 13,732. LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 1819. Claudius H. Thomsen, Sam. Dyer, Mr. and Mrs. Dyer, having made considerable progress in Chinese, embarked in April, to assist in that branch of the Mission, which has long languished for want of aid: they reached Madras on the 17th of July; and proceeded in the Waterloo, one of the Company's Ships, for Singapore. The Directors state act, for a time, as Chaplain to the Settlement. Of the labours among the Natives the Directors say- The Chinese Services continue to be performed, every morning and evening, in the College-Hall; when all the Students attend: on the Sabbath, beside three short Lectures, there are other Religious Exercises, adapted to imbue the mind with truth and to impress it upon the conscience. The Missionaries continue to itinerate in the interior, for the purpose of preaching to the Chinese; on which occasions they are uniformly accompanied by some of the Students belonging to the AngloChinese College. Mr. Kidd employs a portion of his time in going out among the people: to such as are able to read, he gives Tracts; to such as are not, he explains a portion of some suitable book. The Deputation state One of the Malay Services has been, for the present, suspended, in consequence of the dispersion of the people of the place Many Chinese men are employed in the where it was held, by a fire that consumed interior as cultivators of pepper, at the distance nearly 200 houses: the Services at the Chapel of eight or ten miles from the town: these are continued as formerly; but the attend-plantations are occasionally visited by our ance seldom exceeds 20 of these, however, some make good progress in Christian Knowledge. A Malay Female, who formerly shared in the benefit of the school, after a suitable term of probation, has been baptized: she is the first adult native who has, in this way, manifested her desire to put on the yoke of Christ. The number of publications in Chinese, Malay, and English, put into circulation during the year, was upward of 6500. About 25,000 Malay Tracts were printed, of which part have been sent, for distribution, to Malacca, Pinang, and Batavia, The population, as above stated, in the early part of 1827, consisted of the following classes Males, 10,307-Females, 3425: of this number, 87 were Europeans, 19 Armenians, 188 Native Christians, 6088 Chinese, 4790 Malays, 1242 Bugis, and 1318 other Natives: of the Chinese only 341 were female. MALACCA. The Chief Town of the Peninsula of Malacca- James Humphries, David Collie, S. Kidd, Maria Newell, Assistant. Mr. Kidd, in February 1826, returned from Pinang; where he had, for some months, relieved Mr. Beighton, who was indisposed. Mr. and Mrs. Smith arrived, by way of Madras, on the 22d of October of that year; and Mr. Tomlin, by way of Calcutta, early in 1827. Miss Newell sailed, with Mr. and Mrs. Dyer, in April last she had made considerable progress in Chinese, and is to assist in the education of Native Females. Mrs.Humphries died on the 29th of last May. The foundation-stone of the New Chapel, mentioned in the last Survey, was laid by the Deputation of the Society. Mr. Humphries had been appointed to brethren, for the purpose of distributing among the people Chinese Tracts on religious subjects: these men are retired in their habits, and have much time for reading. We accompanied our friends several times; and found that, in general, the Chinese received the books with apparent pleasure: some, which had been distributed on former occasions, are pasted up in their houses; with remarks written upon them, expressive of approbation, though all these papers are replete with evangelical sentiments. On the Schools the Directors report The number of Chinese Schools is 7, containing from 240 to 250 Boys: they are all conducted on decidedly Christian Principles: the Deputation visited and inspected each of them; and, so far as they were able to judge, were satisfied both with the progress of the boys and the principles on which the schools are conducted. The Local Government has engaged to support two Native Schools, one Malayan and the other Tamul: a Free School, to be supported by the inbabitants, has also been opened: it contains about 170 Malay Boys, who are instructed in the principles of Christianity: these Three Schools are under the superintendence of Mr. Humphries, who has the charge of the Malay Branch of the Mission, and whose attainments in Malayan qualify him for preaching therein the Malay Inhabitants of Malacca are supposed to exceed 10,000. The Deputation state, that, in their opinion, a prominent object in Schools, established in Heathen Countries, should be, the trainingup of the Elder Boys to be Schoolmasters; it being reasonable to suppose, that those, who have been so educated, will feel much less attachment to idolatry, and be better fitted, both intellectually and morally, for promoting the object of the Missionaries, than the pre sent Native Schoolmasters are. In reference to the Press they state- ral Sermons on the leading doctrines of Chris- |