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nouring delusions on the minds of the people. | figure does not extend below the bosom, and all
To the right, above the figures 5, 6, and 7, is the rest is a mere huge block of timber. Arms
placed the car of Jugurnath, with those of Bul- and feet they have professedly none; but these
lubhadra and Soobhudra, his brother and sister. appendages, made of gold, are supplied on state
These images, which are but partially visible in occasions.
the plate, are as ugly and monstrous in their ap-
pearance as any thing that can well be imagined.
Their very distant approximation to the human

weary and disgust our readers by a recital of the
These be thy gods, O India! We will not

ceremonies observed on these state occasions, persevering exertion in the cause of God and though they are copiously detailed in the article truth, and lead the disciples of Christ more earwhich has furnished the particulars already given.nestly to plead with him that he would, in the May the fact that these polluting and destructive exercise of his own power and mercy, take scenes are recurring year after year, and hurry-possession of his promised inheritance, vindicate ing thousands upon thousands to misery, disease, the insulted majesty of heaven, and utterly aboand death, operate as a powerful stimulus to lish all the gods of the heathen!

Home Proceedings.

RETURN OF THE REV. W. H. PEARCE TO CALCUTTA, WITH FOUR ADDITIONAL MISSIONARIES.

OUR much esteemed brother, the Rev. W. | H. Pearce, expects to embark about the middle of June, on the Plantagenet, Capt. Domett, for Calcutta. He will be accompanied, Providence permitting, by four additional missionaries, making, in the whole, eight out of the number for whose passage and equipment the Christian public have kindly provided in consequence of his

appeal. Of these four brethren, Mr. Phillips has been designated at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Mr. Morgan at Bristol. It is intended that the designation of the remaining two. Messrs. Tucker and Wenger, shall take place at Denmark Place Chapel, Camberwell, on Friday, June 7th. agreeably to the notice on the cover.

ARRIVAL OF THE REV. J. HARRIS, AT CEYLON.

MR. and Mrs. Harris and their family, arrived safely at Colombo, on the second of November, 1838. During their voyage from the Cape thither, the ship was struck by lightning, by

which all on board were placed in imminent danger, but the hand of God graciously protected them.

ARRIVAL OF THE REV. GEORGE B. PARSONS, AT CALCUTTA. THE "Moira," on which Mr. and Mrs. Parsons | shipping list, at that port in February, but we sailed for Calcutta, arrived, as we learn from the have as yet had no direct intelligence from Mr. P.

DESIGNATION OF ANOTHER MISSIONARY TO JAMAICA.

MR. E. J. Francies, appointed to Jamaica, was designated to his important work, at the Chapel in Waterloo Road, Lambeth, (occupied by the church and congregation under the pastoral care of his father, the Rev. George Francies,)

on Wednesday evening, May 15. Mr. F. it is expected, will take charge of the stations at Ebony Chapel in Vere, and Four Paths in Clarendon. He is expected, with Mrs. F., to sail very shortly.

LETTERS RECEIVED FROM MISSIONARIES, &c. EAST INDIES.-Calcutta, Rev. J. D. Ellis, Feb. 12. Serampore, Rev. John Mack, Feb. 9. Sewry, Rev. James Williamson, Oct. 19, 1838. Patna, Rev. H. Beddy, Feb. 1. Rev. Geo. B. Parsons, on board the Moira, Dec. 14, 1838.

Hutchins, Mar. 20. Falmouth, Rev. W. Knibb, Jan. 23, Feb. 27, Mar. 18. Bethtephil, Rev. Walter Dendy, Jan. 22, two, Jan. 25. Manchioneal, Rev. John Kingdon, Feb. 4. Mount Charles, Rev. W. Whitehorne, Jan. 29. Jericho, Rev. John Clarke, Jan. 28, Mar. 4. Spanish Town, Rev. J. M. Phillippo, no date, received Mar. 16, and another without date, received April 1. Kingston, Rev. Joshua Tinson, Jan. 23, Feb. 7, 21. Rev. Samuel Oughton, Feb. 25, (two letters). Saint Ann's Bay, Rev. T. F. JAVA.-Samarang, Rev. G. Bruckner, Jan. 1. Abbott, Feb. 5, 8, (two letters) 12. Rio Bueno,

CEYLON-Colombo, Rev. Joseph Harris, Nov. 13, Dec. 25, 1838, Jan. 18, 1839. Rev. Eben. Daniel, no date, received May 1.

Rev. B. B. Dexter, Feb. 18. Brown's Town, Rev. J. Clark, Feb. 15, Mar. 19. Old Harbour, Rev. H. C. Taylor, Feb. 22, Mar. 2. JAMAICA.-Savanna la mar, Rev. John Montego Bay, Rev. Thomas Burchell, Feb. 5, 18.

WEST INDIES.

Port Maria, Rev. D. Day, Mar. 13.
Bay, Rev. Josiah Barlow, Feb. 26.

Annotta Nov. 10, 1838. Feb. 11, 1839. Turks Island,
Rev. E. F. Quant, Jan. 13.

HONDURAS.-Belize, Rev. A. Henderson,

BAHAMAS.-Nassau, N.P. Rev. W. Maclure, Nov. 7, 1838. Rev. Thomas Leaver, Jan. 22.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

The thanks of the Committee are respectfully | Ripon, and to friends at Alcester, Woodstock, presented to the following:-viz., to friends at and Collingham, for boxes of useful and fancy Wincanton, for useful and fancy articles for articles, for the Rev. W. H. Pearce; to a friend, Jamaica Schools; to Misses Louisa A. and Emma Hayes, Chapel Hill House, near Margate, for a box of fancy articles for the Rev. W. H. Pearce, by the Rev. J. M. Cramp; to Mrs. Payne and friends, Chesham, for a box of useful and fancy articles for Mr. Dexter, Rio Bueno; to the Misses Simpson, Cambridge, for a parcel of Magazines; to Mr. R. Vears for 12 volumes of the Baptist Magazine in numbers; to friends at Hitchin, for a box of useful articles for Calcutta, by Miss Palmer; to friends at Harlow, for a box of useful articles for Mr. Burchell's schools; to Miss Harvey, Aylsham, for a box of fancy articles, for Mr. Phillippo's schools; to Mrs. Williams, Reading, for a box of useful and fancy articles, for Mr. Phillippo; to Mrs. Hall, Biggleswade, for a parcel containing the Tract Society's Commentary, &c.; to Mrs. Earle,

by Mrs. Ivatts, for 20 copies of the "Offering for the advancement of truth;" to the Rev. Bourne Hall Draper, Southampton, for 480 copies of "A Book for the Negro Scholar," for the Rev. Messrs. Knibb, Phillippo, Oughton, and Kingdon; to Mrs. Hull and friends, Watford, for two boxes of useful and fancy articles, for the Watford School, Montego Bay; to the ladies of the Rev. W. Robinson's congregation, and their friends, Kettering; to Mrs. Cliff, Bramley, and to Mrs. Freer and friends, Upton, for boxes of useful and fancy articles for the Rev. W. H. Pearce; to Mr. Woodbine, Maze Pond, for several years' numbers of the Evangelical Magazine; and to ladies of Cambridge, by Mrs. Roff, for two boxes for Rev. W. H. Pearce.

(May 17.)

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Our friends are earnestly requested to aid us as efficiently as possible, in the circulation of the "Herald," in its new and enlarged form. Many of the members of our Churches, not able to pay for a more expensive Magazine, will find the "Herald," a source of spiritual, as well as of general improvement. Orders for the "Herald," should be forwarded to the publisher, Mr. Wightman, 24, Paternoster Row, through a Country Bookseller.

The Annual Report of the Society, will be ready in a few days.

The Brief Account of the Society, with Lists of Stations, Missionaries, &c., is respectfully recommended for distribution. Our friends will be able to promote the interests of the Mission, by circulating it in various directions. It may be procured on application to Mr. Wightman, price ninepence per dozen, or six shillings per hundred.

The next Quarterly Paper of the Baptist Missionary Society, will be published on the 1st July.

CONTRIBUTIONS

Received on account of the Baptist Missionary Society from April 15th to May 15th, 1839.