cieties, three Catholic clergymen have government and the American people. published above 60,000 copies of the It is here worthy of remark that the German New Testament.--Electic officers of the Russian ships, and their Revier. numerous crews, who spent some time at this island; and Lord Byron, with SANDWICH ISLANDS-At the Novem- the officers and crew of his frigate, not ber Monthly Concert in Boston, the only treated the Missionaries with de corum, but with marked respect and Corresponding Secretary of the Amer kindness. ican Board communicated the follow- A letter received from Mr. Chaming. berlain mentions the annual examinaA joint letter had been received from tion of the schools of Honoruru. The Honoruru, dated March 10th, and a schools were assembled from within private letter from Mr. Richards, da- the distance of fourteen miles. The ted May 9. This last date is five number of schools was sixty-nine, namonths later than any received.—They tive teachers sixty-six, scholars 2409. say, in regard to their own mission, The improvement was pleasing. A that 20,000 persons are now in the isl- translation of Matthew had just been ands under a course of instruction of completed by Mr. Bingham, and ansome sort. Two thousand observe other by Mr. Richards. Karaimoku, family and private devotion; and many the chief an of the islands, and dispersons, among whom are a considera- tinguished benefactor of the Missionable number of the most powerful chiefs, ries, was very sick. He was for twenare apparently pious. The Mission- ty years prime minister to Tamehamaries mention, and promise a full ac eha, then filled the same place during count of a series of riots by the crew the reign of Rihoriho, and now is, by of the United States national schr. general consent, Regent and head of Dolphin, Capt. Percival, in which the the Government. He has been the lives of the Missionaries had been chief instrument in preserving quiet in threatened, their houses attacked, as the islands in times of danger. The well as the houses of the chiefs, and Prince, heir to the government, is repeated personal indignity offered, es- thirteen years, and the princess, his pecially to Mr. Bingham.' These bar- sister, twelve years of age. barities seem to have been worse, as they were longer continued, than those by the crew of the English merchant ship Daniel. They arose from the In October. To the American Board, $5,868 45. matter will, it is sincerely hoped, in due To the American Bible Society, $1,122 time be made to the Navy Depart. . 99. ment, when Capt. P. will have an To the American Education Society, opportunity to offer his defence, to the $477 16. a DONATIONS TO RELIGIOUS AND CHARITA BLE INSTITUTIONS. same cause. Ordinations and Xnstallations. Oct. 11.--The Rev. NATHANIEL Oct. 24.--The Rev. DAVID ABEL Miner was ordained to the work of was ordained as an Evangelist at Aththe ministry at Salem, Con. Sermon ens, N. Y. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. by the Rev. Salmon Cone. Bennet of Scodac. Oct. 16.–The Rev. GEORGE COAN Oct. 25.-The Rev. FOREST JEF. was installed Pastor of the Congrega- FERDS was ordained Pastor of the tional Church in Riga, N. Y. Sermon Congregational Church at Epping, N. by the Rev. Mr. James of Rochester. H. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Green Oct. 17.-The Rey. B. B. SMITA leaf, of Wells. was ordained at Harwinton as an Oct. 25.-The Rev FREEMAN P. Evangelist. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. HOWLAND was ordained Pastor of the Yale of New-Hartford. Congregational Church at Hanson, Mass. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Nov. 8.--The Rev. GEORGE RipHolmes, of New-Bedford. LEY was ordained Pastor of the Uni. Oct. 25.-The Rev. JOSEPH Ives tarian Congregational church in BosFoot was installed Pastor of the ton. Sermon by the Rev. President Church in Brookfield, Mass. Sermon Kirkland. by the Rev. Dr. Humphrey, of Am- Nov. 15.-The Rev. AARON Picker herst. was ordained over the second CongreOct. 26.—The Rev. CLARK H. gational church in Cohasset, Mass. GOODRICA was ordained over the Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Codman of church in Windham, N. Y. Sermon Dorchester. by the Rev. Dr. Porter of Catskill. Nov. 16.The Rev. PAUL Jewett Oct. 31.—The Rev. ELIAS W. was installed Pastor of the CongregaCRANE was installed Pastor of the tional church in Scituate, Mass. Ser. Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, L. I. mon by the Rev. Mr. Fay of CharlesSermon by the Rev. Gardiner Spring. town. Nov. 1.-The Rev. NATHANIEL Nov. 16.---The Rev. GARRY BISHOP BARKER was ordained over the Con- as an Evangelist at Lewiston. gregational church in Mendon, Mass. Noy. 16.-The Rev. BERIAH LEACH Sermon by the Rev. Benjamin Wood over the Baptist church in Shoreham, of Upton. Vt. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. SawNov. 3.-The Rev. THOMAS M. yer of Brandon. SMITH was installed Pastor of the Nov. 15.---The Rey. J.P. B. STORER first Congregational church at Fall was ordained Pastor of the Unitarian River, Mass. Sermon by the Rev. society in Walpole. Sermon by the Dr. Woods, of Andover. Rev. Dr. Nicols of Portland. Nov. 8.-The Rev. HANDEL G. Nov. 15.-The Rev. THOMAS ALNott was ordained over the first FRED WARNER was ordained at Cochurch in Dunstable, N. H. Sermon penhagen, N. Y. Sermon by the Rev. by the Rev. Samuel Green of Boston. J. Blodgett. Nov. 14.-The Rey. David D. Nov. 15.—The Rev. JAMES H. TAPPAN was ordained as an Evangel- STEWART was ordained in Philadelist at Durham N. H. Sermon by the phia as an Evangelist. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Burt of Durham. Rev. Mr. Scovel of Woodbury. Nov. 11.--The Rev. GEORGE AL- Oct. 25.-The Rev. WM. JENKS LEN was ordained Pastor of the Bap- was ordained Pastor of Green street tist Church in Burlington, N. J. Ser. church, Boston. Sermon by the Rev. mon by the Rev. James M. Challiss. Dr. Woods of Andover. Public affairs. ANTI-SLAVERY CONVENTION.-The Nathirty societies exist in North Carolina, tional Convention for Promoting the several in Virginia, five in Maryland, Abolition of Slavery in the United forty in Tennessee, and five in PennStates, held its annual meeting at Bal sylvania. timore, on the 25th October. Dele. The following preamble and resolugations appeared from North Caroli. tions were submitted, and the most na, Virginia, Tennessee, Maryland, important of them adopted by the ConDelaware, East Pennsylvania, West vention: Pennsylvania, and New-York; and Whereas it is represented by the communications were received from great body of the owners of slaves, that several societies in Massachusetts slavery is a grievous evil, and its conand Ohio. The information received tinuance and increase fraught with of the progress of the cause of eman. friends of emancipation are frequently appalling dangers: And whereas the cipation, was highly satisfactory. About called upon by the proprietors of slaves, 1826. No. 12. 84 to devise some adequate means to rid Resolved, That the Congress of the the country by a safe and gradual pro- United States be requested by this cess, of a population whose continu- convention, to pass laws prolubiting ance amongst us is so unnatural, and the domestic slave trade, as it is now whose rapid multiplication so alarm- carried on coast-wise from the waters ing: And whereas many of the free of the Chesapeake Bay to the more northern states have assisted in form. Southern states, and the states upon er times to entail this curse upon the the Mississippi river, and also to preland, by countenancing slavery them- vent the transportation of slaves by selves, and allowing their citizens to land, or in any other manner, from one participate in the African slave trade : state to another. And whereas the safety, prosperity, Resolved, That it be recommended and happiness of any one portion of to the Congress of the United States, these United States, is alike dear to all: to prohibit by law the rending asunder And whereas in the opinion of this con- of the family ties of slaves by the sepvention, it is expedient for the nation aration of husbands from their wives, to put forth its strength in a concen- wives from their husbands, and childtrated effort to free this happy coun- ren from their parents, (while under try from so great a calamity, without the age of - - years) by sales of parts a forcible interference with rights of of families into distant states and terproperty sanctioned indirectly at least, ritories. by the constitution: Therefore, Resolved, That it be recommended Resolved, That it be recommended by this convention to the Legislatures to the Congress of the United States, of the slave-holding states, or any of to provide without delay for the grad- them where the marriage of slaves is ual but certain extinguishment of not authorised or provided for by law, slavery, and the transportation of the to provide for such marriages, and whole coloured population now held in guard, protect, and enforce their conbondage, to the coast of Africa or the jugal rights and duties, by laws corisland of St. Domingo, if such an ar. responding with those which govern rangement can be made. the whites in all civilized and Christ. Resolved, That for the accomplish- ian countries. ment of this purpose, upon principles Resolved, That this Convention adof equity towards those who hold this dress a respectful memorial to Conspecies of property, the Congress of gress, embracing the several subjects the United States be requested to vote referred to in the preceding resolua fund of millions of dollars per tions, and also to the Legislatures of annum, to be applied to the purchase the several states, requesting their and transportation of slaves pursuant aid and co-operation in the measures to the foregoing resolution,-until our here proposed. soil shall no longer be polluted by the And whereas, in the opinion of this foot of a slave,-Provided that the convention, as a general rule, ignoslaves so to be purchased, shall consist rance and vice are inseparable comas nearly as possible of an equal num• panions, and the best way to make ber of both sexes, between the ages of good servants is to enlighten their sixteen and forty-five. understandings, and improve their Resolved, That as a portion of the hearts by wholesome, moral and refund so to be created, this convention ligious instruction : And whereas, it most cordially approves of the proposi- is admitted on all hands, that sooner tion heretofore submitted to Congress, or later the work of emancipation must to appropriate the avails of the public be undertaken and prosecuted to its lands for that purpose. completion : Therefore, and in order Resolved, That the Congress of the that the slaves may be the better fitted United States be requested to com- to appreciate and enjoy the blessings mence the great work of emancipation, of freedomby immediately abolishing slavery with- Resolved, That it be recommended in the District of Columbia, and caus- by this convention to the Legislatures ing the persons set at liberty to be of the several states where personal transported to Hayti, or to the West- slavery exists, to repeal all laws in any ern coast of Africa, or either which manner prohibiting the moral and rethoý may choose for a residence. ligious instruction of the slaves. Resolved, That the proprietors of and the right to appoint and employ on slaves in the United States be respect those premises any number of factors and fully requested by this convention, to traders. 4. The Chiefs of Cape Mount agree to encourage by all possible means the instruction of their slaves in reading, build, in the first instance, a large and and the rudiments of a common Eng secure factory for the Colony at Cape Mount, for a reasonable compensation ; lish education, together with the lead to guarantee the safety of persons and ing doctrines of Christianity, by Sun property belonging to the said factory : day schools, and such other means as to exact no tribute or custom of it, or any may be within their power. person resorting to it, forever; and to encourage the free transmission of all the TEXAS-It is stated in the Arkansas trade of the interior to the said factory. papers, that the Mexican government 5. They also stipulate expressly, never have recently passed a law for the to sell their country, or any right of occuemancipation of all the slaves in the pancy in it, to any Europeans or other Province of Texas, and that orders foreigners, under 'whatever circumstanhad been received for carrying it into ces : Also, never to permit any Englishimmediate effect. Great consterna man, Frenchman, Spaniard, or other than the colonists of Liberia to estalish a faction was produced among the slave holders; many of whom were hurrying slaves or produce; but oblige them al tory or trading house ashore, either for off their slaves in great numbers into ways to trade from their vessels. Louisiania and Arkansas. 6. They also stipulate that prices shall be mutually adjusted by public authority, LIBERIA.— The following extract from and revised by the same parties every the agent's letters to the Board of four months-and, fixed, shall never be Managers of the American Coloniza- departed from, except by mutual consent, and a mutual understanding first had by tion Society, gives an account of ne- the same parties. gociations which have been entered 7. The Cape Mount and Cape Mesuinto with the chiefs of Cape Mount, friends and members of one common fam. rado people shall treat each other as which promise us a strong hold upon ily, and endeavour to obtain, deserve, and that important point of the African keep each other's confidence.” Such is the outline. The arrangement coast. The outline of the treaty is as is important in itself: the ultimate confollows: sequence can hardly fail, under good 1. The Colony cedes to the Governor management, of being much more so. of Cape Mount the right of establishing a The trade of Cape Mount is worth at a trading house at Cape Mesurado, and for moderate computation, $50,000 per an num. The exclusion of Europeans we the present permits this establishment to be made on Perseverance Island. regard as tantamount, its present effects 2. And cedes also the right of employ on our colony considered, to the acquisiing a commercial agent from among the tion of the property of the soil : to which settlers, it may be expected to lead as soon as the 3. To the Colony is ceded the right of growth of our population shall demand the exclusive use of a piece of land situat its comprehension within our territorial ed contiguous to the land of Cape Mount; limits. To Correspondents. N. N.; the Address over ihe grave of M. de Saint Laurent ; Pope Leo the First; a translation from Muenscher's Manual of Dogmatic History; and one or two other communications, have been received. To the errata in the last Number the following should have been added : namely, at page 456, line 39, in the article on Eccles. xii., erase the word their :-in the review of memoirs of Jane Taylor, at page 593, line 23, for effect, read effort: at p. 595, last line but one, for quarrelled, read guarded : at p. 602, 1. 35, read, her character as a daughter and sister demands, &e. INDEX TO THE ESSAYS, INTELLIGENCE, &c., OF THE CHRISTIAN SPECTATOR, FOR 1326. ABDOOL MESSEE, 548 British mission in India, 545 Brutal Amusements, 241 Burial of the king and queen of the Sandwich Islands, 49 Burmah, 167, 374, 440 Calcutta, 546 Cathedral at York, 242 Catholic intolerance, 474 Ceylon, 485, 493 Chaldeans, 271 Cherokee alphabet, 163 Quarterly Review, 660 Chrysostom's homily on Eutropius, 553 18, 73, 131, 238, 305, 345, 393, 466, Circulation of the blood, 44 City of Mexico, 431 Collegiate Record, 541, 603 Colombia, 439 Comets, Olber's theory of, 489 Communion Sermon, 614 Complaining, 137 Congress, 224, 278 Memorabilia of, 307 Connexion between the closet and the pulpit, 441 between spiritual understand- ing and the interpretation of the scrip- tures, 5 Crime, inadequacy of criminal laws for for the prevention of, 192 Cuba, 168 Death of Alexander, 165 - of Mr. Fisk, 219 of Missionaries, 267 Deaths of children, 261 Denmark, 262, 608 Dissenters in England, 243 Dogmatism, 78 607, 664 |