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He proposes issuing it in Monthly Parts, the first of which will appear on the 1st of February. The Rev. Robert Simson, M.A., has nearly ready a work, entitled "the Parent's Guide to a Liberal and Comprehensive Education," consisting of a Copious Selection of Questions and Exercises on Mathematics, Algebra, and Natural Philosophy, with a Series of Interrogatories by the late Dr. Ritchie. General Entelligence. METROPOLIS CHURCHES' FUND. subscriptions up to the 20th of June, 1837, The first Report of the Metropolis which is rather within twelve months Churches' Fund has lately been issued, since the establishment of the fund, is The Committee have from which we learn, that the appeal made £117,422, 2s. 6d. by the Bishop of London in the month of the pleasure of announcing, that they have April, 1836, has been most promptly and contracted for the building of three liberally responded to. The amount of churches-one near Arbour Square, Com mercial Road; one at Mile-end; and one in Radcliffe; all in the parish of Stepney. Instructions have also been given to architects, to prepare plans for two other churches-one in Bunhill Row, St. Luke's, and one in St. Margaret's, Westminster. These have been undertaken directly by the Committee. But, in addition to these, they have pledged the fund to assist in building ten other churches or chapels of ease, where part of the expense is to be discharged by local subscriptions; viz. one in the parish of St. Bride's, Fleet Street, three in Lambeth, two in Rotherhithe, one in Chelsea, and three in Islington; making in all fifteen churches, either wholly, or in part, by means of this fund. However, the amount of contributions already received, large as it is, when viewed with reference to ordinary subscriptions, is very far from being sufficient to the complete attainment of the object for which the fund was instituted. Fifty new churches would not adequately supply the wants of the metropolis; the Committee do not yet possess the means of erecting twenty, supposing the whole charge to be defrayed by the fund. We trust that this enterprising and praiseworthy effort of the Bishop of London will not be permitted to come short of the object contemplated, for want of the necessary funds; but that the higher classes of the land will yet contribute to a much larger amount than has already been done. And is there not a call for still greater exertions by the various metropolitan parishes in this blessed undertaking? That of Islington has recently set them a noble example; finding that their six churches would not accommodate above one-fifth of the population of that extensive parish, they set to work and raised £3,571 within about nine months, which, with some assistance promised from the Metropolis Churches' Fund, they hope soon to be able to complete three more. And not only so, but they have also opened a small chapel in Highbury Vale; and a few days since, purchased a Wesleyan chapel in Norfolk Street, Lower Road, appending to them those useful institutionsInfant and Sunday schools-thus making in all eleven places of worship in that parish where the Gospel is faithfully and energetically preached. PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION. The first of a series of fortnightly meetings of this Society was held on Wednesday, December 6th, in the Committee Room at Exeter Hall. The object of these meetings, as stated by Captain Gordon, is to bring before the community the questions of Protestant grievances, Protestant persecutions, and Protestant disabilities. It was proposed to discuss at each meeting a certain and distinct subject, of sufficient importance to attract the notice, and call for the support, of the Protestants at large; and it would generally be announced at the previous meeting, what the question would be for discussion at the following. The second meeting was held on Wednesday, December 20th, when the following proposition was considered: "That the churches established in this country, form the main bulwark of Protestantism; and that it is the duty of the State, not only to support them as the nursing mother of the people; but to provide for the population of the empire instruction in the principles of the Christian religion, as maintained by those churches." APPRENTICESHIP SYSTEM IN THE BRITISH COLONIES. With a view of awakening the friends of humanity and justice throughout the country to a renewed and vigorous effort to obtain the total abolition of slavery, under which the negro still groans, notwithstanding the sum of twenty millions has been advanced by the British nation for their emancipation-a body of Delegates from the three kingdoms have recently met in London, and to carry out their views, they have appointed a CENTRAL NEGRO EMANCIPATION COMMITTEE. Their first and immediate object is, to obtain the extinction of the entire apprenticeship system, if not before, at the latest on the 1st of August, 1838. For this purpose, petitions are expected to be sent from all parts of the country. To facilitate the diffusion of knowledge, on this heart-rending subject, they have issued a stamped paper once a fortnight, under the name of the BRITISH EMANCIPATOR. Price 3d. The following reply has been received from the Colonial Office, to the Memorial presented by the body of Delegates on Nov. 18th: "Downing Street, November 27, 1837. "SIR,-I am directed by Lord Glenelg to acknowledge the receipt of the Memorial, dated the 17th instant, presented by you and other gentlemen to his Lordship on the 18th, expressing a desire that her Majesty's Government will take the earliest possible period for introducing a measure into parliament, to bring the system of Negro Apprenticeship in the Colonies to an end and further deprecating the ap pointment of any Committee of either House of Parliament for the purpose of inquiring into the working of the present system. "I am to acquaint you in reply, that Lord Glenelg, after an anxious and minute attention during the last two years and a half to the details of this subject, and, after a careful consideration of all the information respecting it to which his Lordship has had access, does not feel that there are sufficient grounds to justify her Majesty's Government in proposing to Parliament to make so essential an alteration in the Act of 1833 as that which is desired by the Memorialists. "His Lordship is further of opinion, that however desirable it might be that the apprenticeship should be terminated by Acts of Colonial Legislatures before the period now fixed by law for its expiration, the proposal by the Government to the British Parliament of a measure for its immediate abolition would, without tending to shorten the duration of the present system, have the effect of producing irritation, excitement, and disappointment, throughout the West India Colonies. It would thereby, in Lord Glenelg's judgment, present a serious obstacle to the success of the constant and unremitting endeavours of her Majesty's Government to secure to the apprenticed population the enjoyment of the immediate rights to which they are legally entitled, and to insure the ultimate termination of the apprenticeship under circumstances the most favourable to the full possession and exercise of unqualified freedom. In the prosecution of this object, her Majesty's Government will not hesitate, in case of necessity, to apply to Parliament for such additional powers as may be required to strengthen the hands of the Executive Government, in the discharge of the arduous and responsible duty with which they are intrusted. | mation which Parliament may require on At a meeting of the Central Emancipation Committee, held at 25, Tokenhouse Yard, on Friday, December 1, 1837, the following resolutions were passed: "The reply of Sir George Grey to the Memorial of the Delegates, presented to the Right Honourable Lord Glenelg, her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, having been read, the Committee unanimously resolved, That, from the purport of Lord Glenelg's reply to the Memorial of the Delegates, it is but too apparent that the Government are not disposed to accede to the prayer of that memorial:—and, That it is therefore the opinion of this Committee that without loss of time the voice of the country should be loudly raised in behalf of the suffering and sed Negroes. PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE BAY OF ISLANDS, We have been favoured with a private view of this Exhibition, at the Panorama, Leicester Square, which, for the limited dimensions of the view, presents a very interesting subject of contemplation. While looking at it, we could not help reflecting on the great change and improvement in the public taste, that, instead of battle plains and scenes of bloodshed, the location of a missionary establishment should be sufficiently popular and attractive to so large a portion of the public, as to warrant the outlay for such an exhibition. This is a feature in the signs of the times, in which every Christian and benevolent heart must sincerely rejoice. The Painting is by Robert Burford, from Drawings taken by Augustus Earle, Esq. "With respect to the desire expressed by the Memorialists, that Her Majesty's Government shouid resist any proposal for the appointment of a Committee of either House of Parliament, to inquire into the working of the present system, I am to inform you that her Majesty's Government have, in the two last sessions of Parliament assented to the appointment of a Committee of the House of Commons on this subject, on the motion of Mr. Buxton, and that the inquiries of the last Commitee having been interrupted by the unexpected termination of the session, a short Report was presented to the House of Commons, which ap- REV. ISAAC SAUNDERS.-A handsome pears to have been unanimously agreed to, monument has just been erected in the pain which it is recommended that a Select rish Church of St. Andrew, by the WardCommittee should be appointed to pursue robe, and St. Ann, Blackfriars, to the this inquiry in the next session of Parlia-memory of the late Rector, the Rev. On the ground of this recommen- Isaac Saunders, who died, on the 1st of dation, and of the admitted obligation on January, 1831, while in the act of preachthe Government to afford the fullest infor- ing in the pulpit. ment. QUAKERS.-The Quakers of Middles- | banns, notices of Divine service, or notices purely ecclesiastical. borough, in Yorkshire, have given £400 towards the erection of a church in the above rising town, where they are owners of considerable property. IRVINGISM. This sad delusion has recently received a shock at Milford, near Southampton, which may tend to undeceive some of its votaries. One of their prophets, a Mr. Ballard, for some years one of their chief supporters, went to their principal chapel, and declared to the congregation that they were all in a fatal error, and if they persevered in it they would all be lost. He ordered them to leave the chapel immediately, which they did with amazement; some of them he was actually obliged to force out. He then ordered a builder to raze the chapel to the ground; and he has also acted in a similar way in two different places of their assembling in adjoining parishes. DR. SLEATH.The Rev. Dr. Sleath, head master of St. Paul's School, has resigned that situation, which for many years he has conducted in a manner most honourable to himself, creditable to those in whose gift the appointment is vested, and advantageous to the youth placed under his care. St. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL will henceforward be gratuitously open, daily, from nine to eleven, and ftom three to four o'clock. The Tower of London is also to be seen in future at the charge of one shilling. CHATTERTON.-A monument to Chatterton is proposed at Bristol, and a Committee formed for erecting it, in the church of St. Mary, Radcliffe. NOTICES ON SUNDAYS.-An act to alter the mode of giving notices on Sundays, with respect to various matters. 1 Vic. c. 45.-1. It is enacted that notices of vestry, proclamations of outlawry, times for holding court-leets, &c., after the first of January, 1838, shall not be made in any church or chapel during or after Divine service, or at the door of any church or chapel. 2. Notices heretofore usually given during or after Divine service, &c. to be affixed to the church doors. 3. No notice of holding vestry to be affixed to doors, unless signed by the churchwarden, overseer, rector, vicar, or curate. 4. Decrees and citations of ecclesiastical courts not to be read in the churches. 5. This act not to extend to publication of A BRAHMIM BECOME A MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL.-On the 14th of June, 1837, Baboo Krishna Mohuna Banerjea was ordained at the chapel of the Bishop's College, by the Lord Bishop of Calcutta. The Baboo is well known as having been a member of a high caste Brahmin family. He received his education at the Hindoo College, and was in the first instance engaged as a teacher of Mr. Hare's school. While here he started The Enquirer, which he conducted for a number of years with great ability, He subsequently became a convert to Christianity, of which he has ever since been a staunch and devoted follower. During the last two or three months, he has been living at the Bishop's College, where his attention has been chiefly engaged in the study of languages. The Rev. Krishna Mohuna Banerjea will, in a few days, be settled in Calcutta, where he will use his best exertions for the promotion of Christianity. MUNIFICENT DONATION. Wm. Danvers, Esq. has signified his intention of granting a sum of no less than £10,000 towards the erection and endowment of an hospital in the town of Montrose, for the reception of aged and infirm persons, as well as orphans and deserted children, as a means of contributing not only to their personal comforts, but especially to their moral and religious benefit. LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY.- --The Rev. John Harris, author of Mammon, has been appointed by the Directors to preach one of the Anniversary Sermons in May, at Surrey Chapel. BAPTIST MISSION.-We are happy to find that a union has been formed between the Baptist Missionary Socety and the Society in aid of the Serampore Mission. MEDICAL STUDENTS.-Dr. Warneford, Rector of Bourton, Gloucestershire, has been long well known for his great liberality to medical characters. In the course of this autumn he has made two donations of £1000 each, one to King's College, London, and one to the Birmingham Hospital. His object is the same in both cases, namely, the founding prizes on religious subjects, to be written by the medical students belonging respectively to the schools of these institutions. They who know the present condition of medical students in many respects, will joyfully hail the announcement of a foundation which may tend to make them look a little beyond mere professional reading, and direct their minds to a careful consideration of the evidences of natural and revealed religion. TEMPERANCE SOCIETY.The new British and Foreign Temperance Society has offered a prize of 1001. for the best Essay on "The Benefits of Total Abstinence from all Intoxicating Drinks." To be forwarded to J. Meredeth, Esq. 3, Durham Place, Lambeth, before June 30, 1838. EDUCATION INQUIRY, SCOTLAND. smallest numbers in each half-year (208,384 and 189,266), whereby is produced an average of 236,325, or 9 2-3 per cent. on the population of Scotland, which 9.63 per cent. includes the estimated numbers additional to the numbers actually returned from the several parishes. The defective returns, which have occasioned, and indeed, required such estimated addition, must not be deemed evidence of inattention or negligence in the ministers of the several parishes to whom the questions were addressed. The nature of some of the questions, as requiring information beyond the minister's own knowledge, usually prevented him from obtaining a There has just been presented to Parlia- distinct answer to every one of them, inment a folio volume consisting of about somuch that some part of his return could 1,000 pages, and termed "Abstract of the not but be conjectural or defective; and Answers and Returns made pursuant to the latter alternative has frequently been an Address of the House of Commons, professed, especially with regard to the dated 9th July, 1834, relating to the questions less essential than others to the number of Schools, and Children taught main object of the inquiry. Under these therein, in the several parishes in Scot- circumstances, the summary of education land," the returns being made up to July in Scotland would appear to disadvantage, last, and abstracted under the superin- unless the defects wore supplied by calcutendence of Mr. J. Rickman, first clerk at lating estimate; and thus much it is nethe table of the House of Commons. Cu-cessary to premise in its justification. rious and valuable are the statistical details, The columns of augmented totals (obeven an outline of them is out of the ques-tained by the rule of proportion applied tion here; but the following "summary" to each county), as regarding all Scotland, (by "J. R."-John Rickman) may not be produce the grand totals mentioned in the without interest:-" Summary of Educa- remarks appended to the summary of action Returns, Scotland. Remarks--the tual returns. An inquiry into the amount total number of children attending daily of education in England and Wales was schools of all kinds in Scotland was greater made in the year 1833, when the resident in the winter half-year of 1833-34 than the population was estimated at 14,400,000; summer half-year of 1833, the returns of and the number of children attending the several parishes of the above winter daily schools at that time was 1,276,497, half-year, amounting to 222,453; and to or nine per cent. on the said population; the number of children therein specified besides which the number attending Sunmust be added an estimated number day schools was 1,548,890, or nearly 11 (64,345), obtained by the rule of propor- per cent. (10.7), on the population." So tion, to supply the defects in these re- that, after all that has been said about the tarns. Hence results a total of 286,798 increased means of education in Scotland children under education in Scotland, a over those in operation in England, the proportion of 11 per cent. upon the resi- per centage of education in England (Sundent population of Scotland, as estimated day schools included) is now greater than at 2,452,000 at Lady-day, 1834. In like that of Scotland. Let both countries manmer the actual returns of the preceding struggle for pre-eminence, but let facts be summer half-year produced a total of known. 211,397; and with similar supp0ment (49,456) a total of 260,853, or 1 cent. on the population of Scotland; but these estimated numbers and proportions are liable to deduction from the form of the question; which, by requiring return of the greatest number of scholars in any part of the respective half-years,' has doubtless produced return of a greater number than attended school at any specified time in the summer and winter halfyears respectively. But this kind of inaccuracy admits of correction, by combining with the greatest number in each half-year (287,798 and 260,853) the per THE LATE MR. RICHARD POOLE.Richard Poole, late of Gray's Inn Square, Solicitor, deceased, has, by his will, proved, in the month of November, 1837, in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, by Richard Vaughan Davis, Esq.; Rev. Charles Buck; and Philip Melville, Esq., the executors, bequeathed the following charitable legacies : British and Foreign Bible Society 50 50 |