The Rev. J. MILLAR has Classes for GREEK and LATIN, auxiliary and subsidiary to the Curriculum prescribed by the Laws of the Church. Mr MILLAR'S Greek Classes, however, do not supersede attendance for one Session at a Greek Class at one of the Universities.

REPORT.

THE College Committee having been deprived of their Convener, by that most solemn and affecting dispensation of God's providence which has filled this Church with the deepest sorrow and sadness, and which is fitted to impress upon all of us such important lessons, are unable to lay before the Assembly any full or detailed Report. It is well known that our venerated father had made some progress in preparing a Report to be submitted to the Assembly, and that he intended to devote to the completion of it the morning of that day on which it was his Master's will that he should rest from his labours, and enter into the joy of his Lord. It was his intention, after briefly stating what the Committee had done during the past year, in the execution of their ordinary functions, to dwell at some length upon the necessity and importance of perpetuating and extending the system of bursaries or scholarships for the encouragement of promising students, as intimately connected with the prosperity of the College, and the full accomplishment of its great object, the training up of a pious and learned ministry. And it is hoped that the few pages which he had written upon this subject will yet be laid before the Church, as his dying testimony upon a subject in which he took the deepest interest, and will be felt, especially by the wealthier members of the Free Church, as a loud call to cultivate this important department of Christian usefulness.

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The Committee will now merely state, as briefly as possible, their principal proceedings during the past year.

The whole number of students that matriculated at the New College during the last session was 340, of whom 176 were regular theological students preparing for the ministry of the Free Church, above 30 were theological students of the Irish Presbyterian Church, and the rest, with the exception of about 20 general or non-professional students,

attended the classes of Logic and Moral Philosophy. The Logic class was opened in the beginning of December, and carried on till the termination of the session on the first week of April; and the Committee think it right to state, that this class, both in point of attendance and with respect to the manner in which its business was conducted, has been eminently successful.

In accordance with the deliverance of last Assembly upon the subject, the Committee entered into negociations with the Presbytery and Free Church congregation of St Andrews, and made arrangements with them as to the amount and remuneration of the work to be done by Dr Hetherington, in superintending and instructing the students there, in the event of a colleague being appointed; and though this arrangement has not yet been carried out, the students still continued to enjoy the valuable services of Dr Hetherington.

The Theological Seminary at Aberdeen, under Professor Maclagan, was attended last session by 21 students; and the Committee, in accordance with the directions of the Commission in August, made provision for their instruction in Hebrew, by appointing as Hebrew tutor there Mr Marcus Sachs, a converted Jew, who had gone through --a full theological curriculum in the New College, and whose labours, the Committee have learned on good authority, have been very successful, both in communicating a knowledge of Hebrew, and in inspiring much zeal in the study of that language. The Committee would recommend that, in the mean time, Mr Sachs should be continued as Hebrew tutor at Aberdeen.

A suggestion has been laid before the Committee by the Presbytery of Glasgow, about the appointment of a theological professor to superintend the education of students resident there. The Committee have not yet had an opportunity of deliberating on this suggestion, so as to give any opinion regarding it.

The Committee were also directed to take steps for ascertaining the mind of the Church as to the extension of theological education, especially at Aberdeen; and with this view, they addressed a list of queries to the Presbyteries of the different University seats, and after receiving answers to these queries, they prepared a digest or tabular view of the information which they contained. This digest was transmitted to all the Presbyteries of the Church, and is now in the hands of members of Assembly.

Only twenty returns have been received from Presbyteries in regard to the proposed change in the curriculum, recommended in the Report given in by the Committee to last Assembly; and though fifteen of these approve generally of the suggestions in the Report, the Com

mittee do not ask the Assembly to do more in the matter at present than to re-transmit the Report to Presbyteries for their opinions and suggestions, to be sent in to the College Committee before the 31st of March next, in order that next Assembly may, if it see cause, take some steps for carrying into effect those proposals which may meet with the general concurrence of the Church. There is one suggestion contained in the Report which has been disapproved of by several Presbyteries, and which the Committee would now recommend should be left out when the Report is re-transmitted, viz. that permission should be given to students, in certain circumstances, to take the Moral Philosophy class in the New College during the first year of their attendance at the Divinity Hall.