ceived on its den is due to the kind еnas Have alcu who have rendered assistance. I beg, therefore, in the first place, that you will allow me to make the cover of your periodical the medium of publishing the enclosed accounts for the years 1858 and 1854, and I shall be obliged by your posting, at my expense, a copy of the number in which they are inserted, to every individual in my list of contributors who is not among the regular subscribers to your magazine. Having thus disposed of the matter of accounts, perhaps a few words on the progress of the work in which I am engaged, may not be unacceptable to your readers. The Mission originated with a few pious officers and soldiers in the year 1847, one of whom provided a fund to meet preliminary expenses, and to supply whatever deficieney there might be in the current income during the first years of the Mission. The object these brethren had in view, in the first instance, was to secure a pastor for themselves; and the idea they appear to have entertained was, that a baptist church might be formed at Madras, of which they, and other soldiers in different regiments, might become members;-the minister acting as pastor of the whole, devoting his chief efforts to the members at Madras, but visiting the brethren at the out-stations as time and means would allow. Instead, however, of endeavouring to form one church having its head quarters at Madras, and its minister in the position of pastor-a plan which it would have been difficult to carry out without violating some of the principles of church-government laid down in the New Testament-it has been determined to aim to gather into distinct churches the several brethren at each of the principal military stations; devolving, as far as possible, the strictly pastoral duties on the older and more experienced members in each, and giving to my work a more directly evangelistic character. It is not, however, among the heathen that I am called to labour, though opportunities of doing ше танц, England, several have em have been excluded. Th nopoly has altogether pas circumstances, which, am to continual change; wil cause no surprise. En India must be like Indi full and the next empty stations where a few Eu dians reside who are mo employ-stations scarcel There have been alto baptisms, eight of which ing the last two years. The present number Madras is thirty-seven, eleven. Besides contribu the Madras church doe sustaining a native preac assisted by a few gentle am anxious to have establ with that church a scho lads. There is one par pied very extensively by poorer class, and I desire with all suitable applianc distribution, &c., planted But to do this we need larger than has hitherto b I not ask the readers of tist to render some help? It will be seen, by the ordinary income has nev expenditure, and that the we have had to fall back gone. We are now ver which either the curren some way, be increased, be given up. Which of will have to be adopted, n upon the Anglo-Indian b the Mission is emphatic originated with men of t aims at the good of thei It has no wealthy Home it, but is committed so liberality,-to which, in RELIGIOUS. PREACHING.-On Friday even, the Rev. Newman Hall, of 1, addressed a large number of , in a field adjoining the high-town; the Rev. Mr. White, of 1, having offered some introrks. The attention and conhearers was most pleasing and Mr. Hall has, for some weeks ted similar services at the kfriars-road, &c.; and, through nce of Lord Shaftesbury, Mr. er Mayne has instructed the case to interfere to prevent such o good (they having in one in30, when the people assembled Mr. Hall's right to proceed, and interfered to prevent it, a disould have resulted.) These ach the masses are most comThe multitude can be got at for n no other manner. The peoing and waiting to be taught, able instructors will teach them, encouraging sign of the times, ability and standing, and the blic generally, are beginning to the old formal routine work; that the masses will not come ary places of worship, are takel to them, meeting and reasonm on their own ground. It is nderstood that so long as the is not absolutely impeded, and ot provoked by attacking any , the authorities are disposed It is stated that Drury-lane Theatre been engaged for a continuous series such as attend no place of worship. T lectures, on Sundays, to working-men, a who will go to hear the Gospel at theatres a is the right manner to get at the peop on the highways, but not to church or chap Open-air preaching by the clergy has be recommenced in Nottingham by the incu minister of St. Paul's (the Rev. H. Coo bent of Trinity Church, while the officiati has intimated his intention to do the sa on Sunday afternoon, and afterwards on o evening during each week. T H In accordance with his published intim tion, the Rev. Dr. M'Neile made his appea ance on Sunday afternoon, upon the area the Liverpool Exchange, where from 6,0 to 7,000 persons were assembled. preacher stood and was heard with tolerab distinctness over most of the area. discourse was fervent, simple, and divest of all matter bordering upon the polemic or controversial. At the close of the servi the crowd quietly dispersed, and the ladi and gentlemen who had witnessed the som what unusual scene from the windows of th news-room overlooking the square, retire also. OPPOSITION TO OPEN-AIR PREACHING.The Rev. Newman Hall has been in the hab of delivering open-air addresses to work ing-men, on Monday and Thursday evening in Blackfriars-road. He was recently stoppe by a policeman, who, it appears, had receive his authority from a tavern keeper, whose in terest was suffering by Mr. Hall's influence The rev. gentleman appealed to the authori ties. Lord Shaftesbury kindly interested himself in the case, and wrote to Mr. Hal as follows:-"I saw Sir R. Mayne on Satur day. He spoke in high terms of open-ai preaching, and gave orders that you should not be interrupted by the police in any way You may safely resume your station and your work, and may God be with you in preaching the gospel to the poor!"-The Rev. Dr. M'Neile was deterred from street preaching in Liverpool, on Sunday, by a request from the head constable, with which he only complied under protest. on religious assemblies ought to be repealed; | in Paris, and not pla CHINA. It is rep the first native ev missions, died & preached on the prev A LADY MEMBER O one hundred years meeting of that body PERSECUTION OF PROTESTANTS-A reply to a memorial from the committee of the Protestant Alliance, relative to cases of persecution in Italy, Austria, and Spain, has been received from Lord Clarendon, dated July 10th. The Foreign Secretary states that he has already interceded with the Grand Duke of Tuscany on behalf of Cecclietti, who was imprisoned for holding worship in his house. Respecting John Borsinsky and Joachim Zezule, priests, who have been confined many years on a pretended allegation of lunacy, because they had become protestants, and Ubaldus Borsinsky, recently seized on a similar pretence, after he had written to the Pope, exposing the immoralities of the order to which he belonged, his lordship has instructed suitable representations to be made to the Austrian government. He has also directed the Charge-d'Affaires at Lisbon, to give what protection he could to Gomez, a converted priest. GEN THUNDER-STORM eight o'clock this thunderstorm, advan ranges over Balaklav burst on the valley o the southern portion beheld such incessa hours the sky was a fell like a great wa Not a drop descended but we could see it in cade, illuminated by all across the camp storm has done more have anticipated. ravines converted by watercourses, were ca tain torrents, and da beasts were swept aw borne to sea; huts floated out into th grounds near Balak and disclosed their in ghastly resurrecti shapes from out thei greatest calamity of various places disco broken down, so as our greatest need. SIGNOR GAVAZZI delivered on Wednesday night, July 11, in Exeter Hall, his fare well lecture, previous to his departure for America. Notwithstanding the weather, the hall was remarkably well filled. A great number of clergymen and dissenting ministers were present, and amongst the auditory was the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P. The oration, which for brilliancy, power, and effect, is described as equal to any of the lecturer's previous productions, had for its subject, "England on the Royal Road to Popery." It occupied an hour-and-a-half in delivery. His remarks were, throughout, received with repeated bursts of protracted applause; and as he retired from the platform, he was greeted by a round of cheers which must be considered long-continued and enthusiastic even for the place in which they were given. mobs for its instruments this wonderful book in Paris caused a gr icials. All of them have excitement as to the bible; but the Parisia r knowledge, and the respect in buying a copy were careful to ask if unctions by indiscriminate were "the real Uncle Tom's Bible!" y of slavery, but of the very we have seen, while they last, irremediable." DISTURBANCES IN HYDE PARK.-F several sabbath days last month crow assembled in the park to express the opposition to the Bill of Lord Grosven for the more strict observance of the sa bath. A collision took place between th police and the people, and many window of the rich were broken. The Bill w withdrawn. Emboldened by this succes the publicans and their customers are no demanding the repeal of the late Act fo restricting the sale of beer on the sabbath. R PREACHING.-Dr. Hall, in ùrnál, asserts that one great sia in ministers is eating too aching. For two or three of nervous energy has been gly towards the brain, and it enly turned toward the stommental effort has occasioned ntness or debility about the morbid appetite; and if food THE ZODIACAL LIGHT.-It is said tha largely, there is not the ner- one of the incidental results of the Japan quisite to effect its digestion, expedition is the discovery that the Zodiaca ill be running over the dis-light is a belt extending entirely round the earth, after the manner of Saturn's ring ENTHUSIAST, at Constanti- The matter has excited a good deal of init off two yards of the tele-terest among the astronomers, and President hich he brought to his house, Pierce, of Cambridge (U.S.), considers the being the first to know the fact established by the observations taken. taken up for the offence, he ct, and said that all he wans the fall of Sebastopol; as nsmitted by Government, he ve had discretion enough not d into them. Another Turk two in order to see if the llow. ntains, among other sects, nites, Bereans, Disunionists, llowers of Jesus, Reformed 1 Tunkards, Democratic Gos tes, Hesse Churchmen, Day c., numbering altogether no members. RESTING DISCOVERY has just Cavaliere Bolto, Professor of ophy in the University of sages may be transmitted by graph in different directions re. , as a general rule, run your very other word you have ave no idea what vigour it tyle.-Sydney Smith. THE CHURCH RATE ABOLITION BILL of Sir W. Clay has been burked for this session in the House of Commons, by the opponents of the measure talking against time on the motion for going into committee. To such shabby tricks are the supporters of coercion driven! But they will not avail. The abolition must come; and it will, and soon too, if Dissenters persevere resolutely. "TRUMAN, HANBURY, and BUXTON'S ENTIRE."- Brasenose College, Oxford -we presume, for a "consideration "—has made over the patronage of the rectory of Christ Church, Spitalfields, to Messrs. Truman, Hanbury, and Buxton, the brewers!-The Liberator. THE WHISTLE OF THE LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE has been heard at the antipodes. The Sydney and Paramatta Railway was approaching completion in April last, and an engine had been tried on the line. AMERICAN COTTON. In 1793, only 187,000 pounds weight of Cotton were exported; in 1852, one thousand one hundred millions of pounds. |