Fuller, of Ottawa, plans which he has been enabled to carry out in three different places, at a very small cost, and towards which his poor little flocks have readily contributed; "they have done what they could." The churches are made of wood, and their sites and dimensions are as follows

St. Matthew's, Onslow, county of Tontiac; St. Mark's, Bristol, county of Tontiac; St. Luke's, Eardley, county of Ottawa, Upper Ottawa. Dimensions of each-Chancel, 21 × 16; nave, 36 × 20. Accommodation for 115. Cost by the people's work, time, and materials, about $350; cost by cash, about $500 each church.

A Missionary who in four or five years has been able to erect three such little churches as these are, and has gathered congregations for each, in a country hitherto unprovided with any of the ministrations of the Church, cannot be considered to have spent all his labours in vain.

EMIGRATION IN 1866.

THE number of emigrants who left the ports of the United Kingdom at which Government agents are stationed, in the year 1866, was 200,037: from other ports 4,845. Of the 204,882 emigrants, 58,856 were English, 12,307 Scotch, 98,890 Irish; and 26,691 foreigners: the origin of 8,138 not being distinguished.

In 1865 the total number of emigrants was 209,810, including 100,676 Irish.

In 1866, 161,000 emigrants sailed to the United States, of whom 86,594 were Irish: 13,255 to the North American colonies; 24,097 to the Australian colonies; and 6,530 to all other places. Out of the numbers bound for the United States 33,471 embarked at Cork.

In each of the three years 1860-2 the numbers emigrating to the United States, chiefly Irish, were 87,500, 49,764, and 58,706; while in each of the four years 1863-6 the numbers were 146,813, 147,042, 147,258, and 161,000. Of every 100 Irish emigrants the proportions that proceeded to each of the four general geographical divisions in each of the years 1865 and 1866 were as

follows:-To the United States, 81 and 87; British North America, 7 and 4; to Australasia, 11 and 8; to all other places 1 and 1.

More than half of the emigrants in 1866 were comprised under the following heads of occupation or condition, viz. :-General and agricultural labourers, 51,976; children under twelve years of age, 34,886; married women, 22,801; female domestic servants, farm servants, and nurses, 8,243; farmers, 6,517; miners and quarrymen, 6,429; gentlemen, professional men, and merchants, 5,749; carpenters, 2,053; tailors, 1,297; general smiths, 1,174; spinners and weavers, 627; and seamen, 363.

Out of the total number of emigrants 42,578 were married-viz.: 19,777 males, and 22,801 females: 119,609 were single adults, of whom 82,448 were males, and 37,161 females.

TREATY WITH MADAGASCAR:

THE treaty of peace, friendship, and commerce between Queen Victoria and Rasoherina Manjaka, Queen of Madagascar, has been laid before Parliament. The treaty was signed on the 27th of June, 1865, at Antananarivo, and ratifications were exchanged on the 5th of July, 1866.

Each Sovereign engages to receive an agent of the other, and to allow consuls to reside for the protection of trade. The trade between the two countries is to be perfectly free, subject to a tariff of duties not exceeding 10 per cent.; but munitions of war are to be imported by the Queen of Madagascar alone into her dominions, and timber and cows are forbidden by the laws of Madagascar to be exported. British subjects may occupy houses in Madagascar, and acquire property there; and if accused of crime are to be tried by the British consul. Disputes in Madagascar between British and Malagasy subjects are to be heard by the British consul, aided by an officer appointed by the Queen of Madagascar. British ships of war may freely enter the military ports of Madagascar and provide themselves with supplies; but no subject of the Queen of Madagascar is to be permitted to embark on board any British ship without a Malagash passport. British subjects in Madagascar are to have full liberty of trade.

They are to be allowed freely to exercise and teach the Christian

religion. The Queen of Madagascar, from her friendship for Her Britannic Majesty, promises to grant full religious liberty to all her subjects, and not to persecute or molest any subjects of Madagascar on account of their embracing or exercising the Christian religion; but should any of her subjects professing Christianity be found guilty any criminal offence, the action of the law of the land is not to be interfered with.

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The Queen of Madagascar engages to abolish trial by the ordeal of poison. She engages to do all in her power to prevent traffic in slaves, and to prohibit her subjects from taking any share in such trade; and no persons from beyond sea are to be landed, purchased, or sold as slaves in any part of Madagascar. British cruisers are to have the right of searching, even in the waters of Madagascar, Malagash or Arab vessels suspected of being engaged in the slave trade, and, if proved to be so engaged, they and their crews may be dealt with by the British cruisers as engaged in a piratical undertaking. If there should be war between Great Britain and Madagascar, prisoners who may be taken are to be kept for exchange, and not on any account to be made slaves or put to death. The treaty binds the Queen of Madagascar to use all means in her power for the suppression of piracy, and to allow British cruisers to enter the ports and rivers in order to capture vessels engaged in piracy, and to seize and reserve for the judgment of the proper authorities all persons offending against the two contracting Powers in this respect.

Puthiamputhur and Sawyerpuram Mission, Tinnevelly. "THE results of Missionary efforts are in proportion to the means employed." In such words, or words of like import, spoke, a few years ago, one who had been himself working zealously for the Mission cause for twenty years, in the largest field of direct Missionary enterprise occupied by the Church of England. His assertion was the result of experience, and of wide and careful observation. It supplies a practical answer to the reiterated objection that the results of Missionary exertion are inconsiderable. No one can say that the efforts of the English Church for the spread of the Gospel in heathen lands have been fairly in proportion to her means and opportunities-opportunities such as no other Church in the world

has ever enjoyed-means such as perhaps no other existing Church has at command. If, therefore, it can be said, as a matter of experience, that already results have been in proportion to exertion, how great and glorious might the issues be if the Church of England would rise up to her opportunities, if the great body of her children would give more freely of their substance and more earnestly of their prayers; if those of her members who are called by God's Spirit to the work of the ministry would offer themselves in larger numbers to the noble work of imparting to the heathen the unsearchable riches of CHRIST!

Southern India is the field in which for a century and a half the largest body of the Missionaries has been stationed, and if the results have not answered the sanguine expectations of those who have never experienced the difficulties which beset the evangelistic work among worshippers of devils, they have yet been far larger than elsewhere: in other words, they have been in proportion to the means employed.

And these results are not to be measured by mere numbers. At Edeyengoody the native Church, planted and tended by Dr. Caldwell, has for eight years been engaged in carrying the Gospel to its heathen neighbours. (See Mission Field, vol. xi. p. 146.) From Puthiamputhur the Rev. J. F. KEARNS reports the same cheering token of spiritual life. He tells, in his report for the year ending September 30, 1866, that the foundation of a self-supporting system has been laid; and that the first steps have been taken in the onward movement of the Gospel. The Tinnevelly Churches are being set in order, established, strengthened, settled. Larger numbers of the natives are under preparation for the ministry; and we may trust that the time is drawing on when the first founded of the Indian Churches, instead of drawing supplies from this country, will, under their own Bishops, priests, and deacons, become our fellowworkers in the evangelizing of the vast heathen population by which they are surrounded :

"Consolidation,' writes Mr. Kearns, "is the word more than any other that best describes the progress of the Church in these Missions during the past year. Although there have been accessions to the Church from the heathen world without her, her vitality is seen more clearly in the development of her power to impart stability to her organization. The past year will mark a bright era in the history of the Tinnevelly Church, as during it she proved to all that