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are embarrassed by a depreciation in the prices of sugar and molasses. On this ground a resolution was brought forward, recommending that the government should allow spirits to be made by the planters under certain restrictions. It came yesterday under consideration, and occupied nearly the whole day. The discussion was conducted with much courtesy and calmness on both sides, before a full and interesting house. The friends of temperance, as you may imagine, rallied their strength. The discussion assumed the character of a thorough-going temperance debate; and the temperance cause came off quite triumphantly. The final decision showed only three or four votes in favour of the resolution; and to the honour of the planters it should be said that nearly all were in the majority. I need not say that we feel greatly cheered by this result. An important advance has been made. We have beard many fears that the distillery would be let loose among us; but the danger is now over, at least for years to come. And not only so, the discussion will have its influence on public sentiment, in promoting the cause of temperance throughout the community." In Jan., 1850, when the census of the population of the seven islands was taken, it was found to amount to 4,35. They contained 5 English schools, with 488 pupils; 4 high schools, with 202 pupils; and 540 primary and common schools, with 15,620 pupils; in all, 549 schools and 16,260 pupils. Of those schools 437 were protestant, and the rest Romanist: these last having 2,359 pupils. Owhyhee had 25,864 inhabitants; Oahu, 25,410; Maui, 21,047; Kaui, 6,956; Molokai, 3,540; Niihua, 714; and Lanai, 604.

BENGAL.-Church Missionary Society's Mission. Of the six missionaries sent into this important field during the year 1850, two have been appointed to the new Missionary College at Agra, and one has been sent into the Punjaub. At the end of the year the total number of labourers employed by the society was ordained missionaries in active service, 34; European and Indian-born lay assistants, 18; and native lay assistants and schoolmasters, 279; making a total of 331. They are distributed among 25 stations. During the year there were baptized 79 adults and 405 children. The number of communicants was 1,072. The number of seminaries and schools was 93, and the individuals attending them were 5,289. The aggregate of native Christians connected with the mission was 6,200, of whom in Calcutta 1,119, Burdwan 704, and Krishnagur 1,517. The hindrances which lay across the path, both of the missionaries and the converts in India, may be inferred from a solitary fact related by the rev. Mr. Hassell in a recent communication: "One of the three converts from Dum-Dum, who were baptized in 1848, and were pupils in the English school, was absent from his class for several days without leave; and it was found upon inquiry that he had been to visit his heathen relatives. When he returned, his countenance was changed, his eyes were inflamed and glistening, with now and then a vacant, rolling motion; his whole system seemed agitated; he spoke but little, and either sat sullenly by himself in his class, or paced the room violently. Mr. Sandys (the head of the school) having had experience in such cases before, gave

him powerful medicine, and, under the divine blessing, in a few days he recovered. When he came to his senses, the secret was soon divulged; he had eaten sweetmeats with a relative, and in the tempting morsel they had hidden a poisonous drug. This was the second time that similar effects had been produced upon this lad by similar causes. The Hindoos, even though enjoying the benefits of an English education, would rather a son or a brother should pine away as a maniac than bring disgrace upon the family by being a Christian."

PAPAL MISSIONS.-The central association for propagating the gospel, which is not the gospel of the Lord Jesus, is established at Lyons. Its receipts from all quarters of the globe, according to the latest report, amounted for the year to £120,184 only. More than seven-tenths of this amount was derived from France herself, viz., £74.382. The whole of Italy, including Savoy, yielded but £15,920; and out of the empire of Great Britain, inclusive of its colonies, but £4,934; of which £3,191 was extracted from oppressed Íreland. The expenditure of the society amounted to £129,565, the particulars of which are as follows in Europe, £20,087; in Asia, £40,786; in Africa, £10,528; in America, £30,291, and in Oceanica, which comprehends New Zealand, Australia, the Sandwich Islands, &c., £16,002.

SYRIA. The papal patriarch has taken up his residence in Jerusalem, and opened a hospital under the management of the so-called sisters of St. Joseph: it makes up two and twenty beds, and is supported by voluntary contributions. The individuals admitted are Romanists, Greeks, Copts, and Mussulmans. The in-patients from Nov. 1 to Dec. 1 last were 18, and the outpatients prescribed for, 427, among whom were some Bedouins of the desert. The Propaganda in Rome lays, however, the greatest stress upon the establishment of a school or seminary for native boys, and has commended this point to the patriarch's particular attention. An experienced French missionary in these parts, of the name of Dequevouvillier, has been appointed his chancellor. There are twelve candidates for orders in training at Gazir, on the Lebanon. The sisters of St. Joseph are active bodies; three of them are giving instruction to 120 girls at Jerusalem, among whom there are 20 Greeks and 10 Copts: three others of this order have a school at Jaffa, which is attended by 65 girls; and others are located in the island of Cyprus, where they are engaged in attending to the sick and educating the young. The number of Romanist establishments in the Holy Land is 65; namely, 21 monasteries and convents, 10 schools, 28 churches, and 11 hospitals-at least according to papal returns, which state also that there are 102 priests, 67 lay-brothers, 12,122 Romanists, and 694 children educating in Palestine, where they have 16 parish-districts. All these establishments are maintained by external resources, the amount of which has much fallen off; for Spain, which used to contribute £12,000 yearly, does not now send £600 to £800; and Portugal, which formerly supplied £8,000, has ceased to help them with any funds whatever. France, Austria, and Bavaria, however, continue to make liberal contributions. Of Mr. Valuga, the Latin patriarch, the rev. J.

C. Reichardt writes, on his arrival at Jerusalem, after being five weeks on his voyage from England: "Our fellow-passengers happened to be the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem and several ecclesiastics, who accompanied him from Italy. As we glided along, with mounts Lebanon, Carmel, the mountains of Galilee, Samaria, and Judea full in view, I had now and then a friendly conversation with our fellow-travellers, who manifested a great interest in all they saw; and I asked the patriarch whether he believed these countries would ever again be inhabited by the Jews. He replied in the negative, as he thought the prophecies referring to Israel's restoration had been fulfilled in their return from Babylon. This led to an amicable discussion on the subject, in which all the priests took a lively part, while my English bible, in the hands of the patriarch, was the law and testimony to which we referred as our authority." With regard to the state of the English mission in the Holy City, Mr. R. observes, "There is no reason to feel disappointment. The work indeed is difficult, and we must not at once expect great results: but I have already conversed with many Jews, either in Hebrew, German, or English, and found them friendly and reasonable. I stood by them to-day (Nov. 28), near the western wall, where they wail and pray; I felt and sympathized with them, and they listened to my words, addressed to them in Hebrew, with great attention, because they felt that I spoke to them sincerely, and with concern for their best interests. They said to me, All the words you have uttered are words of truth.' I have also visited all the members of our little community, both Jewish and Gentile Christians, and am glad to find there is a nice spirit among them, which, by God's grace, may be cultivated. All are much attached to the bishop and Mr. Nicholayson; and the attendance on Sundays, both morning and afternoon, shows that they take a delight in going to the Lord's house on his holy day."

THE ORIENTAL CHURCHES.-The whole review of the protestant missions at Constantinople and in Asia Minor exhibits the most decided marks of divine interposition; and the entire field stands out to view as one of the most hopeful and interesting which the world is now presenting for missionary cultivation. Besides important tours made by the members of the mission, the many visits of the native helpers, as well as the widespread communion of native converts with the people, have all been made an important means of diffusing extensively evangelical influence and interests. Ten distinct protestant churches have been formed..... Temperance has become the distinctive mark of a protestant; and with the first serious attention to the gospel there is renunciation of all intoxicating drinks. The people are learning to venerate gospel truth.

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the knowledge and truth that we suffer trouble for; and begin to repent that ever we began to favour or embrace the truth; and wish also that we had used ourselves as other men did; and then, to have suffered with other men the common lot and fortune of the world, and not thus to have been given to a singular knowledge of God's word, which bringeth with it a singular hatred and punishment in this world. Such is our nature, if we be by afflictions and troubles but for a day's space made like unto Christ, we think it too long; but if we be by sin for all our lifetime made like unto the devil, we think the time too short, and wish longer to live, because we would longer work and delight in sin and abomination. Great and heinous is well-doing we judge too long; and all time spent in our offence in this respect for a little time spent in evil-doing we judge too short. All labours and pains be too little, if they be bestowed in worldly things; but if they be appointed to heavenly things (be they never so few and slender) we think them too much. There is not sea nor land, with all the perils within them, but men dare adventure both their goods and their lives to win increase of worldly goods; but to win towards God and godliness scarce one of a great many without danger will labour or take pains to gain it. So doth the prophet say in this place, that "he had cleansed his heart in vain ;" because he saw cleanliness and virtue persecuted, and filth with iniquity honoured and exalted. Christ, in the gospel of St. John, perceiving that, when virtue and well-doing should be troubled, men would wax weary of welldoing and virtue, he said unto his disciples, " Remember, when they come, that I spake of them, and warned you before."-Bp. Hooper.

Poetry.

SACRED SONNETS.

No. XXXII.

BY MRS. PENDEREL LLEWELYN.

(For the Church of England Magazine.) "Heaviness may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning."-Ps. xxx. 5.

FADETH the grey mist in the early light:
Pale stars drop one by one away :
The glorious sun breaks out with cheerful ray,
And heaven's own choristers' melodious flight
Filleth the air with warblings of delight.

Sorrow and gloom no more the spirit sway:
Their darkness lessens with the approach of day:
Faith gleams around in purity most bright,
And hope, with heavenly aspect, sheweth where
All earth-born vapours fade, before the sun

Of that almighty love, boundless and high, That ransomed man, and bade the soul prepare To meet his searching and all-healing eye, With countless hosts before Jehovah's throne. Llangynwyd Vicarage.

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MAN'S ESTIMATE OF TRUTH.-We be admonished that our nature is to be offended by and by with troubles for the glory of God. And even as we be unquiet with the troubles, so be we inconstant and unstable in

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DEATHS OF EMINENT CHRISTIANS.

No. XIX.

BISHOP ANDREWS".

(Died 1626, aged 71).

LANCELOT Andrews was bishop of Winchester. By his learning and devotion the church of Christ was much blessed.

Having faithfully served his generation, let us now see him dying. He was not often ill, and but once (till his last sickness) in thirty years before the time he died, which was at Downham, in the Isle of Ely, the air of that place not agreeing with the constitution of his body. But there he seemed to be prepared for his dissolution, saying oftentimes in the sickness, "It must come once, and why not here?" and at other times, before and since, he would say, "The days must come, when, whether we will or nill, we shall say with the preacher, I have no pleasure in them" (Eccles. xii. 1). Of his death he himself seemed From "Last Hours of Christian Men; or an Account of the Deaths of some eminent Members of the Church of England;" by the rev. H. Clissold, M.A. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.

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to presage a year before he died, and therefore prepared his oil, that he might be admitted in due time to the bride chamber. That of qualis vita, &c., was truly verified in him; for, as he lived, so died he. As his fidelity in his health was great, so increased the strength of his faith in his sickness. His gratitude to man was now changed into his thankfulness to God; his affability to incessant and devout prayer and speech with his Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier; his laborious studies to his restless groans, sighs, cries, and tears; his hands labouring, his eyes lifted up, and his heart beating and panting to see the living God, even to the last of his breath.

Of this reverend prelate, I may say, his was a life of prayer: a great part of five hours every day he spent in prayer and devotion to God. After the death of his brother, Thomas Andrews, whom he loved dearly, he began to reckon of his own, which he said would be in the end of summer or the beginning of winter. And, when his brother, Nicholas Andrews, died, he took that as a certain warning of his own death; and from that time till the hour of his dissolution he spent all his time in prayer. In his last sickness he continued when awake to pray audibly, till his strength failed, and then, by lifting up his eyes and hands,