lieve me,' he added, if you admit Christian teachers into your island, you will find your negroes soon become affectionate and faithful servants to you." SANDWICH ISLANDS:-Burial of the late King and Queen.-Mr. Whitney, in a letter dated June 24th to the Secretary of the American Board, thus speaks of this occasion. "On the sixth of last month, the Blonde frigate arrived at Woahoo, with the bodies of the late King and Queen. The minds of the people were, in a measure, prepared for the distressing scene, having had about two months notice of their death. Their remains were interred with many tears and much solemnity. On the day of the ship's arrival, the survivors who returned from England, together with the chiefs and many people, proceeded to the church, where divine service was attended: after which Boka, the chief who accompanied the King, called the attention the assembly to what his majesty, the King of England, had told him: viz. to return to his country; to seek instruction and religion himself; and to enlighten and reform the people." Advice so congenial to the minds and interests of all present, and from one whose word they consider law, could not but make a deep impression. A new impulse has been given to our work. Schools are establishing, in every district of all the Islands. The chiefs are taking decided measures for the suppression of vice. Our churches are crowded with attentive hearers : and I am happy to add, that an increasing number are inquiring with solicitude, What shall we do to be saved ? BOMBAY MISSION:-Mortality among the children of the Missionaries. The wife of Mr. Hall, missionary at Bombay, arrived at Salem on the 18th of November. Mrs. Hall took this voyage, with the concurrence of all the missionaries, in the hope of preserving the lives of her children. Two had already fallen victims to the climate. The elder of the remaining two had been so ill as to be despaired of, and did not finally reach America. It was the hope of Mr. and Mrs. H. that she might arrive safe with the objects of their tender solicitude, and that after providing a suitable place for them in this country, she might return to join her husband. In respect to the mortality which has prevailed among their children, the missionaries at Bombay have been 'pierced with many sorrows.' Mr. and Mrs. Graves had lost four, and were left childless; Mr. and Mrs. Garrett had just buried a little daughter; and the only surviving child of Mrs. Nichols died the day before Mrs. H. sailed. In reference to these and other afflictive dispensations towards this mission, the Editor of the Missionary Herald remarks, that "they are such as should call forth the tender sympathies of Christians at home with reference to their brethren and sisters, who have borne the burden and heat of the day, in that arduous field. Unceasing prayer should be offered, that the afflictions and disappointments, which the missionaries have felt, may be the precursors of great spiritual blessings. How long it may be the pleasure of our Heavenly Father to withhold the influences of his Spirit from the labours of his servants, it is not within the reach of human faculties to predict. We know, however, that no instance of faithful, self-denying labour, performed from Christian principle, will pass unnoticed and unrewarded by the Lord of missions; and we have much reason to believe that there is always a real connexion, though it may not always be easily discerned, between the plain preaching of the gospel and the ulti mate salvation of some who hear it." SERAMPORE TRANSLATIONS. At the the late anniversary of the English Baptist Missionary Society, the Rev. Joseph Kinghorn vindicated the translations of the missionaries of that Society, in a very satisfactory manner. We hope that the Abbé Dubois, Mr. Adam, and our Unitarian friends, will, for their better information, re-examine the subject. LONDON HIBERNIAN SOCIETY.-This Society has no less than eleven hundred and forty-seven schools, containing 94,262 scholars, of whom above 50,000 are children of Roman Catholic parents. The scholars are instructed in either the Irish or the English Languages, or in both, according to cire cumstances. The reading lessons of the lower classes are extracted from the scriptures; and every child who is admitted into the schools, must, at the end of twelve months, be able to enter the New Testament class. Such is the deinand for education among the poor of Ireland, that the Society is called upon on every side, to extend its schools to a degree far exceeding the funds at present placed at its disposal. PROGRESS OF THE MISSIONARY SPIBIT IN BRITAIN. -Some idea of the rapid progress of the Missionary spirit in Great Britain, may be formed by the following short sketch of the progress of the Church Missionary Society, instituted in the year 1800. During the first ten years, that Society had but one mission; it has now nine missions. The clergy who were supporters of its objects were, during the first year, 50; at the end of the first ten years, 260; they are now about 1500. The whole income for the first ten years, was £15,000; for the last year alone it was above £40,000. There were none, or very few, converts who were communicants at the end of the first ten years; there are now above 1000. There were then few hearers; there are now several thousands. Then it had but 4 schools, and 200 scholars; now it has 231 schools, and 13,200 scholars. RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE IN CANADA. -A writer in the New York Observer communicates the following particulars respecting the state of things in Canada. With the substance of the communication our readers are perhaps already acquainted. The provincial law requires that all churches, congregations, and religious communities, shall keep a duplicate register of baptisms, marriages, and funerals; one to be retained by the congregation, the other to be annually deposited in the office of the clerk of the Superior Court, which registers must be authenticated by the signature of one of the judges on each leaf or page. All those persons who are non-conformists to the established church of England, except the Presbyterians of the established Kirk of Scotland, are deprived of this privilege, by a construclion of the act equally novel and curiIt has been adjudicated in the highest court of law, that the term Protestant includes only persons of the state church, and consequently the different ministers of the Congregational, American Presbyterian, and the Methodist Societies, can neither administer baptism, celebrate marriage, or atfend a funeral with security; and their ous. registers, not being signed by a judge, would be refused as evidence, either of a child's legitimacy, the nuptial contract, or of a a person's death. This is an intolerable nuisance, politically consi dered, and in a religious point of view is a grievous impediment to the progress of the gospel. One circumstance connected with it is very striking and anomalous-the Catholics are all in favour of granting to the various societies their rights, or rather, of interpreting the law without restriction: while the ecclesiastics of the state church are decidedly inimical to granting the other denominations the evangelical right to have their children baptized according to their own consciences, or the melancholy pleasure of interring their friends in their own way. WALDENSES.-The following account of this interesting people is from an English Magazine. There are now living in the valleys of Piedmont, called Luzenda, Perosa, and San Martino, about eighteen thousand Vaudois, the remainder of the Waldenses and Albigenses, who have in the midst of Popish darkness, enjoyed the light of truth, and, though surrounded by the demons of persecution, have nobly defied all their rage and cruelty. These, like the famed 7000 of Old Testament record, have never bowed the knee to Baal; and among them have been numbers who have united the Protestant faith with a corresponding walk and conversation. From France and Sardinia they have endured thirtytwo persecutions, in which the furnace seemed to have been heated with a design to extirpate their whole race; and nothing has saved them from their fury, but the almost miraculous care of the Almighty, connected with their own union and courage in their mountainous, intricate, and impregnable fastnesses, whither they have fled for shelter.Thousands of them have suffered martyrdom, and shown their inflexible attachment to the cause of the Redeemer; while, like him, these peaceable people invoked with their dying breath forgiveness for their enemies. When Piedmont was under the late government of France, the Vaudois were put in full possession of all the privileges common to other subjects; but on the restoration of the Bourbons, in the year 1814, they were again united to Sardinia; and, though they never maram, they are subjected to the most grievous restrictions. They cannot, for instance, purchase lands out of the confined limits assigned them; they are obliged to desist from work, under the penalty of fine or imprisonment, on the Roman Catholic festivals, which are almost perpetual; they are forbidden to exercise the professions of physician, surgeon, or lawyer; and these people, together with their ministers, are compelled to serve as private soldiers, without the possibility of advancement. All religious books are prohibited, except the Bible, which is subject to such a high duty as almost to place it beyond their reach. Schools are, indeed, allowed on the old system; but on Bell's and Lancaster's system they are prohibited. The scriptures and catechisms have sometimes been circulated among the Vaudois leaf by leaf, as the only means of obtaining a perusal of their pages. They are not allowed to multiply their places of worship, though they may rebuild and enlarge their old ones. In the time of Oliver Cromwell, collections were made throughout England, on behalf of the Vaudois, amounting to 38,2411. 10s. 6d.; which after affording them considerable relief, left a fund of 16,333l. 10s. 3d.; which Charles the second, on his restoration, used for his own purposes, assigning as a reason, that he was not bound by any of the engagements of a usurper and a tyrant. William and Mary restored the pension; but during the reign of Napoleon, the British Government, from political motives withheld it, and the Vaudois pastors (thirteen in number) are for the most part living in a state of poverty. Efforts are now making to recover this lost aid, and thereby enable the pastors to surmount their difficulties, to assist in the establishment of schools, and the education of their ministers, and especially in building a hospital among them. His Majesty George the Fourth has presented them with 100 guineas. Several of the Protestant States on the continent are interesting themselves for these suffering people: and it is hoped that a favourable moment has arrived for the relief of the oppressed Vaudois. The valleys have lately been visited by some English clergymen, who have taken a lively interest in the fate of their inhabitants. A highly respectable committee has been formed in London, to promote subscriptions for the Waldenses, and to manage the fund raising for them in the United Kingdom. PROTESTANTS IN FRANCE.-At a late monthly concert in Boston, the Rev. Sereno E. Dwight, recently returned from Europe, gave some account of the religious condition of France, a sketch of which was published in the Recorder and Telegraph. Most of our readers may have seen this sketch, yet as it is interesting, for the facts it embodies, and valuable for reference, we shall preserve the substance of it on our pages. " In Paris," says Mr. D., " there are four places, where public worship is held on the Sabbath in the English language:-1. The Chapel of the British Ambassador, where the chaplain of the embassy preaches every Sabbath morning. 2. The French Protestant church in the Rue St. Honora in which the same gentleman officiates in the afternoon. 3. The American church; so called because an American resident in Paris [who has since returned to this country] procured, through the medium of Mr. Gallatin, our minister at the French Court, the consent of the government for its establishment. It is a small circular hall in the upper story of the church last mentioned. The present minister is the Rev. Mark Wilks, a most valuable and pious man. 4. The fourth place of worship in English, is in the Chateau Marboeuf in the Champs Elysees, a building purchased by the Rev. Lewis Way, at an expense of 10,000l. sterling. Mr. Way is possessed of a very large fortune, and is a man eminently devoted to the prosperity of religion. He himself opened this place of worship, and preached there regularly until his health failed, which was some time in the month of May last. When Mr. D. attended, the house was filled; almost all the hearers being English residents in Paris, of which description there are said to be usually not less than 20,000. Of French Protestant churches in Paris-either Reformed or Lutheranthere are four or five. Some of the clergy, who formerly embraced the Unitarian sentiments, appear to have renounced them. Yet their preaching, even now, is not remarkably discriminating. Among other things, the long contest with Popery seems to have had unfavourable influence. Those, however, who have witnessed the pro. an gress of evangelical religion in that metropolis, are greatly encouraged; and Mr. D. was assured by Rev. Mr. Wilks and other clergymen, that nothing was wanting but houses of worship and faithful ministers, to induce many thousands of the people to unite themselves to Protestant congregations. The existing churches for French Protest ants are very much crowded. A French Bible Society, Missionary Society, and Tract Society, are strange names-yet such societies have recently been formed, and are every year gaining strength. There is also in Paris a Theological Institution, under the charge of the Rev. Prof. Galland, a man of high attainments and great excellence, who was called to that station from his pastoral labours in Berne. Two or three professors are connected with him in the management of the Institution, all of whom are regarded as men of piety. The students, of whom there is a considerable number, are generally poor, and are aided by the liberality of English Christians. The character of these young men is excellent. Though France is a Catholic country, yet with the exception of a few periods of short duration in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, dissent from the established religion has not been wholly prevented, as it has been in Spain and Italy. The Protestants were very numerous before the massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve, and again before the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The late emperor, though he established a Catholic Church, was an avowed enemy to religious persecution, and a decided friend to the Protestant church, to which he gave many important privileges. As such, his memory is cherished with gratitude by all the Protestants of France. The charter given by the late king, Louis XVIIIth, owing probably to the very difficult circumstances in which he was placed on ascending the throne, was favourable to their civil and religious liberty. It acknowledged and secured the rights of the Protestant church. Yet in the early part of his reign, in 1815, 16, and 17, very violent persecutions existed in the south of France against the Protestants, and a considerable number of them are said to have suffered death from the hands of violence. If the government did not directly sanction this violence, it is regarded by the Protes tants as having winked at it; yet they appear to suppose that Louis XVIIIth himself was opposed to it, and was not unfriendly to their cause. The present king is far less favourable to the Protestant religion than his predeces sor. He has been through life, an open profligate, and most notorious libertine : and now, to make his peace with heaven, he has commenced the furious bigot, and readily consents to any measures, however oppressive, which are proposed by the Catholic party against the Protestants and their religion. Far the larger number of the Protestants are in the south of France.There they have many large congregations, furnished with respectable clergymen, and in many of the departments constitute the majority of the population. Since the persecutions of 1815, they have increased very rapidly in that part of the kingdom. They are very numerous, also, on the borders of Switzerland, and on the Rhine; in the two Departments of the Upper and Lower Rhine, far more so than the Catholics. There the Lutheran clergy are more numerous than those of the Reformed Church; and too many of both have imbibed the Unitarianism and Neologism of Germany, with effects equally undesirable upon the religious character of the people. Though the government is thus hostile to the Protestants, and inclined to exercise severity towards them, yet so long as the charter of Louis XVIIIth is permitted to continue in force, they will retain no small degree of religious freedom, as by it they are permitted to circulate books, and, on application to the constituted authorities, to establish churches. The general Intelligence which exists in France, the freedom of the press, the unpopularity of the French king, and the prevalence of infidelity, all afford a sort of security to religious freedom. The Bible is very rarely to be found in France, either in families or in the booksellers' shops. Except in the few shops kept by Protestants, it is not for sale in Paris. The Catholics are almost without exception, extremely ignorant of its contents. It is indeed very rare to find either a layman or a clergyman of this denomination, who appears to have any knowledge of it except what is derived from a compilation often to be met with, made up of ex 1826] tracts from the histories of the Old and New Testaments, the Apocrypha, and the Lives of the Saints. The number of Protestants in France was estimated in 1807 at 2,000,000; and probably may now amount to 2,500,000 or 3,000,000, scattered extensively throughout the kingdom.This dispersion, if they can be united, will give them far greater influence.And many circumstances now conspire to promote union and co-operationparticularly the persecutions of the government, the liberty of the press, the establishment of a Bible Society, a Tract Society, a Missionary Society, and the Theological Seminary at Paris. British Christians, also, particularly in the labours of the British and Foreign Bible Society, and the Continental Society, are exerting a powerful influence in uniting the hearts and concentrating the efforts of the Protestants of France. Extracts from the Reports and Correspondence of the British Religious Charitable Societies are regularly published. Attempts at persecution are immediately exposed in the English newspa pers; and, since the abolition of the DONATIONS TO RELIGIOUS AND CHARI- In the month of November. To the American Bible Society, $4,497.12. To the American Board, $5,178.49; exclusive of $215 in legacies, $127 to the permanent fund, and $40 to the Missionary College in Ceylon. To the American Tract Society, $1,879.43. The treasurer of the Baptist General Convention acknowledges the receipt of $916.88, from Oct. 5, to Nov. 2, inclusive. ORDINATIONS AND INSTALLATIONS. Sept. 25. The. Rev. BENJAMIN C. Sept, 28.-The Rev. THOMAS HALL, Oct. 12.-The Rev. WASHINGTON Oct. 16.-The Rev. C. C. BRAIN- Oct. 17. The Rev. HENRY WHITE, Nov. 9.-The Rev. OREN TRACY, as Pastor of the Baptist Church in Randolph, Mass. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Putnam. Nov. 15. The Rev. JOHΝ Η. ΚΕΝNEDY, to the pastoral care of the sixth Presbyterian Church (late Dr. Neill's) of Philadelphia. Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Janeway. place the Rev. Mr. SMITH, as Pastor of a Church gathered by him in the Northern Liberties. At the same time and Nov. 23.-The Rev. ROBERT DILWORTH, at Greensburgh, Penn. as an Evangelist, by the Presbytery of Hartford. Sermon by the Rev. William Maclean. Nov. 23. Mr. AMOS REED, to the work of the Ministry, by the Presbytery of Ohio. Sermon by the Rev. Tho mas D. Baird. Dec. 1.-The Rev. BENJAMIN F. STAUNTON, over the Congregational Church in Bethlem, Con. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Griswold, of Watertown. Dec. 6. The Rev. JOHN CHAMBERS was ordained, at New Haven, Con., to |