about four years, have, alas! been eleven-a loud warning to those who survive. The progress of the Calcutta Additional Clergy Society has been most gratifying. In 1845 we had only one clergyman in the field of labour; we have now four, and hope soon to have five or six, as our funds allow of their increase. An anonymous benefactor, under the name of Cranmer, has paid his promised donation of 5000 Company's rupees, upon a clergyman being fixed above Allahabad. The Calcutta Church-building Fund has been pursuing its pious way. In 1814 there were scarcely any churches in the diocese except the two in Calcutta; now there are ninety-two, to forty-five of which aid has been rendered by the fund. Grants have been made towards the erection or improvement of twelve churches since the biennial report in 1847. To complete the circle of auxiliary plans, a fund has just been raised at Calcutta for the support of Scripture readers, which I would earnestly recommend to the bishops and clergy of other dioceses. I come now to the state of our missions. In Calcutta they are full of hope. There is no great movement at present, but a steady progress. The Mohammedan mission in Calcutta itself is now in full operation under the Propagation Society; the church of St. Saviour's is consecrated, and numerous Mussulmans attend the instructions of the reverend missionary. The crescent is fast waning in Bengal, as it is generally in every part of the world."

The following is his account of the diocese of Madras :—

"An Additional Clergy Society has been formed. The urgency here is extreme. There are upwards of sixty stations where no permanent provision has been made for a resident minister. When I was at Cochin, which is a part of this diocese, I found a flock of 380 Protestants, with about fifty communicants and 140 children in the school, which is merely visited once a month by a chaplain from a distance of about one hundred miles. In contrast with this destitution, there are ten Romish churches and twenty priests, within three miles of Cochin, labouring to seduce our people. In the diocese of Madras, I may truly say that the Missions are the honour of India and the glory of Christ.’

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tent of them overwhelms the mind. They comprehend forty-three districts, with 693 villages and forty-six ordained ministers. The number of the baptized, and persons under instruction, is 47,099 ; communicants, 6806; school children, 13,087; permanent churches, 122; temporary buildings for public worship, 320. To God be the glory of this wonderful seed-plot of good."

The bishop adverts also, in terms of satisfaction, to the two other dioceses of Bombay and Colombo, and to the mission at Cottayam under the Rev. J. Bayley, who is about to retire after thirty years' missionary labour.

Diocese of Madras.-From the recent Report of the Madras Diocesan Committee of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, it appears that new rules for its government have been framed, with the full consent of the Parent Society in England. The due prerogatives of the bishop are preserved in their integrity; whilst the committee is

invested with sufficient power and responsibility to call forth the energetic co-operation of its members. The committee is to be elected every year by the subscribers at a general meeting. A scale of salaries has been agreed upon for the clergymen in connexion with the Society, distinguishing between natives, Europeans born in India, and Europeans fresh from England. Travelling allowances have also been adjusted to the various conditions of the missionaries. Clergymen, so long as they are unacquainted with the native tongue, are to be considered only as assistant missionaries.

The Missionary Seminary, formerly located in Vepery, is to be revived. Eight scholarships are attached to the seminary, four for Europeans, and four for natives. The Rev. A. R. Symonds, the secretary of the committee, is to be principal. The seminary at Sawyerpooram, under the Rev. G. U. Pope, now contains about 140. youths, aged from seven to eighteen. The sister institution at Vediapooram, under the Rev. H. Bower, has about fifty. Both are reported to be in a highly satisfactory state. The mission of Combaconum has been subdivided into two missions; and the same change is about to be made in other districts. A higher rate of pay for native agents is about to be introduced, so as to bring forward a superior class of men.

From the returns for the year 1848, printed in the Appendix, it appears that there are now in the various stations in connexion with the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, in the diocese, 15,599 baptized converts, and 4486 yet unbaptized; and that the number of baptisms during the last six months was 519. Nearly 5000 children are brought up in the schools.

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JAMAICA. Visitation of the Diocese. Bishop of Jamaica has returned from the visitation of Middlesex and Cornwall, having thus completed his second general visitation of the diocese. An address from the clergy was presented to him on this occasion, to which the bishop returned an answer replete with valuable statistical facts, from which the following are extracts :-" Under the teaching of the several pastors throughout the diocese, not fewer than 10,000 persons have been presented to me in my second visitation to be confirmed; sixteen new churches and as many burial-grounds have been consecrated. Within the six years that have passed since my translation to the See of Jamaica, the clergy have been increased by nearly a fifth of their number, whilst the general population, according to the census, has sustained a small diminution. The present ecclesiastical establishment consists of four archdeacons, twenty-seven rectors, fifty island (or perpetual) curates, three colonial chaplains, and twentynine stipendiary curates or missionaries, all residing and ministering at their several stations in the diocese. Our schools are 110 in number, and afford instruction, commonly on the national system, and everywhere under the vigilant superintendence of the clergy, to 7500 pupils, principally the children of the poor. The want of any college.

or seminary in this large and once opulent colony is universally admitted and deplored."

ST. HELENA.-Primary Episcopal Visitation.-This island has received its first visit from any Christian bishop in the spring of this year, when the Bishop of Capetown held a visitation in this remote part of his diocese. On Palm Sunday, Mr. Fry, formerly a missionary of the German Church, was admitted to the order of deacon; on the following Wednesday the bishop consecrated the church, "in memory of St. James," and four adjacent burial-grounds. On Easter Eve, 327 persons received confirmation.

On the 10th of April, a special general meeting of the Church Society was held at the bishop's request, the governor in the chair, when the bishop proposed certain amendments in the constitution of the society, which were adopted without a dissentient voice. The objects of the society, as defined by the new constitution, are, 1. provision for additional clergy; 2. the erection of more churches; 3. the dissemination of the Bible and of religious books; 4. missions to the heathen; 5. the education of natives with a view to Holy Orders. Great exertions are being made for the erection of a new church in the upper part of James' town; but there is little hope of success without extraneous aid.

UNITED STATES.-New Diocese of Indiana.-Another new diocese has been formed in the American Church, being the diocese of Indiana. The convention met at Indianopolis on June 29th, and elected for their first bishop the Rev. G. Upfold, D.D. The new diocese presents an arduous field for truly missionary labour. In a population of 1,000,000 souls the Church numbers less than 700 communicants.

Annual Meeting of the Board of Missions.-The inefficient manner in which the missionaries of the American Church have latterly been supported, having led to difficulties and complaints in various quarters, and among others to the resignation of Bishop Southgate, and the abandonment of his interesting mission at Constantinople, the state of the missionary work was taken into serious consideration at the annual meeting of the Board of Missions, held at New York, on the 20th of June, when the following resolutions were adopted :

"Resolved, that the grievous inconveniences to which the missionaries and missionary bishops are subjected, through delay in the transmission of funds, impose a solemn duty on the Churches to make their annual contributions at the earliest period, that thus the domestic and foreign committees may be enabled to fulfil their engagements.

"Resolved, that Advent Sunday be recommended as the appropriate time for receiving contributions for domestic missions."

On the important subject of Bishop Southgate's resignation, the prevailing opinion was, that it was a matter which could only be settled by the General Convention, and the following resolution was adopted :

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"Resolved, that it is not expedient for the Board, at this time, to act in respect to the tendered resignation of Bishop Southgate."

Bishop Doane of New Jersey.-We adverted in our last 1 to the abortive attempt made in the diocese of New Jersey to impeach the character of Bishop Doane, on the ground of the liabilities he had incurred for the institutions of his diocese. It is with great pleasure that we now give an abstract from a sketch of the history of that excellent prelate, which appears in the Colonial Church Chronicle. The following is the account which the bishop himself gives of the condition and progress of his diocese under his government :—

"It is now (March, 1849) more than sixteen years since the undersigned left home and friends, for service in a poor and feeble diocese. He has given himself unreservedly to the work. The Lord hath blessed it in his hands. The fourteen clergymen who were present at his election, have been more than four times multiplied. The little church of which he took the pastoral care has increased its capacity fourfold, and is yet too small. A noble structure is far advanced towards completion: the portion which is done is paid for; and the property of the parish is equal in value to three or four times the amount required to finish it. Thirty-three churches have been built, and ten repaired and improved. Ten parsonages have been added. Thirty-five deacons have been ordained, and thirty-three priests. Three thousand one hundred and seventy persons have been confirmed. These results are chiefly due, through God's blessing, to the confidence and influence which the two institutions have created; and they have but begun their work, but they are well established. They are most extensively and favourably known. Pupils from the elder of them are dispersed through the whole land, every where, as samples and commendations of the Church-work here."

Dr. Doane was rector of Trinity Church, Boston, at the time of his election to the see of New Jersey. In 1833, he accepted the rectory of Burlington, which fell vacant just as he was deliberating where to fix his residence. The income of the rectory (in addition to a parsonagehouse) was raised to 700 dollars; more than half of which sum the bishop has regularly paid for the necessary assistance of others. The annual income of the see, including travelling expenses, &c., averages 241 dollars. The bishop's own official income, therefore, has not exceeded 500 dollars.

With these slender resources he hesitated not to enter upon plans from which a man of ordinary caution would have shrunk. His diocese was in a feeble state, from which he hoped to raise it by means of Christian education. The proprietor of a female seminary in Burlington wished to dispose of his establishment; he became its purchaset, and opened it, May 1, 1837, under the name of "St. Mary's Hall, for Female Education on Church Principles."

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A loan of 25,000 dollars, for endowment, enabled the bishop to do this. But, before he had obtained subscriptions enough to cover twothirds of that sum, a season of commercial distress came on, and he was left alone to supply the deficiency. The same cause also affected the fund for promoting the annual cost of maintenance, several of the children receiving a free education. The establishment increased with rapidity, and the bishop was compelled to merge his whole resources and credit in the work. In 1845 he added a similar establishment for boys, under the name of Burlington College, with only the assistance of a subscription of 8000 dollars; with which, in addition to an enlargement of his own personal responsibility, he built and furnished an institution, in which 127 boys receive their education, under a competent staff of teachers.

At the end of last year, the bishop found himself the proprietor of two flourishing institutions, the gross annual receipts of which amount to 70,000 dollars, but encumbered with an unmanageable debt. Under these circumstances, he made an assignment of all his property of every kind; and the institutions, for which he has made such generous sacrifices, are still carried on, as heretofore, under his own personal conduct and supervision, but on the financial responsibility of others.

The Council of Baltimore.-The Synod of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States, the assembling of which at Baltimore we briefly noticed in our last', has issued a synodal letter, addressed to the faithful of their dioceses by the Archbishops and Bishops of the United States gathered together in the Seventh Provincial Council of Baltimore." It adverts, in the first instance, to the more complete organisation of their hierarchy, undertaken by the council at the express desire of Pius IX., which is to be made known so soon as the decrees of the council on the subject shall have received the necessary papal sanction. The letter then takes occasion to advert to the Roman revolution, and the attempt to deprive Pius IX. of his temporal sovereignty. In speaking of this, the synod records its "conviction that the temporal principality over the Roman States has, in the order of Providence, been conducive to the free and unsuspected exercise of the spiritual functions of the papacy, and to the furtherance of religious interests, by contributing to the maintenance of scientific and charitable institutions. If the Bishop of Rome were the subject of a political sovereign, or the citizen of a republic, there would be reason to fear that he might not always enjoy that freedom of action which is necessary in order to insure for his decrees and measures respect at the hands of the faithful throughout the world."

After this strong assertion of the necessity of a temporal dominion to the efficient working of the papal system, the synodal letter guards itself against the conclusions that might be deduced from it, in the event of Pius IX. losing his temporal sovereignty, by the assertion that "the pontifical office is of divine institution, and wholly independent of

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