perish; who was not the representative of a borough, or a county merely, or even of a continent, as his Rev. Friend had said, but of the whole human race. He felt that he was addressing many who not only had witnessed his splendid career, but who remembered him among them, when As yet unconscious of that eloquence, a youth, With which, when rous'd by Afric's wrongs, and fir'd Of cursed gold, was wiped, thanks be to God! We ought, however, not to forget, that although we bad abolished the Slave Trade, yet we had entailed on Africa a host of evils, and that the utmost efforts to atone for our crimes were justly demanded of us. This the present Society offered the means of doing and the proposed ship would be an instrument in their hands. They all remembered the predictions of the opponents of the Abolition that Africa was incapable of maintaining any trade. He would therefore beg to mention one fact, which might not be uninteresting to a mercantile audience, and as a set-off to the destruction of Bashia Settlement; that before the Abolition the imports from Africa were estimated at 70,000/-in the first year after it they rose to 374,000l., and were now at 535,000/The exports were formerly 50,000l. and had gone on increasing to from 7 to 800,000 per annum. These were small sums in the mighty commerce of Britain, but as honest gains from intercourse with a country on which we had inflicted so many miseries, they would not be esteemed by that assembly as a mere drop in the ocean. -The motion had his most cordial support. Mr. Isaac Wilson very happily touched on some topics of deep interest to the Parent Society. A Reverend Gentleman (he said) had called the attention of the Meeting to what was the state of this country eighteen centuries ago. Perhaps one of the most interesting uses of history was to enable us to trace the progress of society, and mark its different gradations; but at this distance of time it was difficult to realize adequate ideas of the obstacles encountered by those who first planted Christianity in this country; whether the Apostle Paul, as had been recently maintained by an eminent dignitary of the Church, or Augustin, whom his Rev. Friend (Mr. Dikes) had just mentioned. The Missionary Register, which had been before spoken of, was highly interesting in this point of view. In the various trials in which the Society's Missionaries in Africa were exposed, and the obstacles they had to encounter, from the (superstitions, the sorceries, and the bloody and inhuman practices of the natives, we might form some conception of what the first preachers of Christianity in Britain had to undergo, from our barbarous and idolatrous forefathers. The journal of Abdool Messee would, in like manner, instruct us in the nature of their trials, in a subsequent and more civilized era. And the whole ought to excite our gratitude for the labours and sacrifices in our behalf, and for the blessings which we now in consequence peacefully enjoy.. One of the preceding speakers had alluded to the children now educating under the Society's auspices, in Africa, and expressed his hopes that many Missionaries would be found among them. He trusted that every one of those children, in fact, would be found a Missionary. Missionary Labours were not confined to those who took upon them that title. Every person who endeavoured by his precepts and example to spread the knowledge of religion was in fact so far a Missionary. The prospect of doing good to Africa, through the instrumentality of this Society, was indeed truly gratifying; and he trusted the time was fast approaching, when, in that quarter of the globe where the true religion once flourished, the Cross would supersede the Crescent-that fit emblem of the faint and reflected light from the sun of Christianity, which yet forms all that irradiates the superstitions of Mahometanism. In the extracts which we have thus offered we have chiefly confined ourselves to points in which the Society is, at present, deeply interested. We regret that our limits will not allow us to follow R Mr. Dikes and Mr. Scott, who addressed the Meeting with their accustomed intelligence and effect; nor to record the eloquent appeals of other Gentlemen who took a share in the proceedings of the day. 1 The following Collections were made in Hull and its Vicinity. May 26. St. Mary's, Cottingham: by Rev. St. John's, Beverley: by Rev. W. 29. All-Saints, North Ferriby: by Rev. W. 30. St. Peter's, Barton: by Rev. W. Jowett, M. A. (Rev. W. Uppleby, M. A. Vicar) June 1. St. John's, Hull: hy Rev. H. J. Maddock, M. A. (Rev. Thomas Dikes, Minister) 2. St. James's, Sutton: by Rev. W. Jowett, 6. St. John's, Hull: by Rev. W. Jowett, M. A. (Rev. T. Dikes, L. L. B. Minister) for West-African Missionary Ship, “ William Wilberforce" 7. St. Peter's, Drypool: by Rev. W. Jowett, M. A. (Rev. John Foster, Minister) 11. All-Saints, Hessle: by Rev. H. J. Maddock, M. A. (Rev. Richard Mawhood, M. A. Curate) 15 16 1 39 0 4 17 9 3 8 8 1 21 0 0 48 0 11 11 2 25 15 6 18 1 11 11 1 6 62 11 1 15 10 8 28 8 1 JEWS' SOCIETY. Auxiliary Society at Bristol. THE Conscientious objections of many of the Clergy and other Members of the Church at Bristol, to co-operate actively with the "London Society for promoting Christianity among the Jews," grounded on its original constitution, having been removed by its recent change, an Institution in support of the Society has been this month formed in that city. It was late in the season; and the calls on the liberality of Bristol had been numerous, and all answered with alacrity: but no good cause can be well pleaded in vain in that munificent city. On Thursday the 8th instant, a Meeting was held in the Guildhall, the Right Worshipful the Mayor in the Chair, when it was unanimously resolved by a numerous and most respectable Assembly, that a Society should be formed in Bristol, in aid of "The London Society for promoting Christianity among the Jews." The Meeting was attended by Lewis Way, Esq. one of the Vice-Presidents of the Parent Society, by its three Secretaries, and by the Rev. Messrs. Simeon, Marsh, and Grimshaw, who communicated much interesting information, and excited a very lively feeling in behalf of the ancient people of God. There were also present nearly forty of the Established Clergy of Bristol and its vicinity. Sermons were preached at different churches, The collections, together with donations and subscriptions, amount to between 6001. and 7001. On the following Tuesday, a Ladies' Society was formed, principally with a view to promote smaller Weekly and Monthly Contributions. The money raised by their exertions will be applied to the education and protection of Jewish Children and Females, and the forwarding of the Hebrew Translation of the New Testament. (LONDON) MISSIONARY SOCIETY. FROM the Twenty-first Report, which has just appeared, we extract the following articles which respect the Home Proceedings of the Society. We shall furnish, as soon as practicable, a complete abstract of such of its Foreign Intelligence as may not have already appeared in our pages. Lascars and Chinese. In connection with our Report of Missions in Asia, it may be proper here to notice the proceedings of a Committee in union with this Society, for the commendable purpose of communicating Christian Knowledge to the Lascars and Chinese, who in large numbers visit this country as navigators of vessels from the East. By the assistance of some of these foreigners, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Hutman, Mr. Eldred, and others, have attained such a knowledge of the languages of India ́and China, as to render them useful to many; and not to foreigners only, but to some of our own Missionaries, by initiating them in the Hindostanee and Malay Tongues. Many of the Lascars have been induced to attend at different places of worship in London, and at the Society's House, where the Scriptures have been read to them in their own languages. Portuguese and Mussulmans have also attended to read the Scriptures for themselves, and to hear Golam Alley (a Lascar) read and explain the word of life. Of the conversion of this man, the Committee have no doubt; and he will shortly be baptized. Another person, named Abdallah (formerly in the service of Sir Gore Quseley, in Persia,) has been useful in teaching the Hindostanee, Persic, and Arabic Languages, and in reading the Scriptures in those |