Gospel among the Heathen." The first Committee were the Rev. Messrs. John Rayland, Reynold Hogg, William Carey, John Sutcliff, and Andrew Fuller. The Rev. Reynold Hogg was Treasurer, and the Rev. Andrew Fuller, Secretary.

The officers of the Society, for 1830, were John Broadley Wilson, Esq., Treasurer; Rev. John Dyer, Secretary; and a General Committee of 42 clergymen and 14 laymen. The amount of funds subscribed when the Society was formed, was £13 2s. 6d.. Receipts and expenditures for 1830, about £19,000. The first missionaries sent out were Rev. William Carey, and Mr. Thomas, a pious surgeon. They went, in March, 1793, and in 1796 were joined by Mr. Fountain, who was succeeded in 1799 by the Rev. Messrs. Marshman, Grant, and Brunsdow, with their wives, and Mr. Ward and Miss Field, who were unmarried. After about 13 years labor, they baptized Kristnoo, their first convert. This was Dec. 28, 1800.-This particular mission is now no longer supported by the Society, but by Drs. Carey and Marshman; it having, long since, become rich and increased in goods, through the income from its schools, college, &c.*

The Missions under the care of the Society are,-on the continent of India, 8; among the Asiatic Islands, 4; in the West Indies, 25; in South America, 1. Members in church fellowship, 10,000. The number of Baptist churches in England, in 1828, was 900.

The London Missionary Society was formed Sept. 22, 1795, and is wholly catholic in its character, not being confined to any one sect or denomination of Christians, but open alike for evangelical Dissenters, as well as Churchmen, who may choose to be connected with it, holding infant baptism. The Rev. David Bogue, D. D. took a very active part in its formation, and prepared for publication its first Address. The business of the Society is in the hands of four Directors, and its officers are a Home Secretary, an Assistant Secretary, a Treasurer, and a Collector. The Society has Missions in the South Seas, Ultra Ganges, East Indies, Russian Empire, Mediterranean Isles, Africa, and South America; viz. in the South Seas, at the Georgian, Society, and Hervey Islands; at Astral, at Navigators, and at the Marquesas; in China and Malacca; at Singapore, Pi

*See Baptist Magazine and Missionary Register for Nov. 1831. Also, "Letters on the Serampore Controversy," London, 1831.

nang and Java; in the East Indies,-Calcutta District, 6; -Madras, 9; South Travancore, 3; in the Russian Empire, 7; in the Mediterranean Islands, 2; in South Africa, 18; in the African Islands, 2; and in South America, 3 ;—in all, 77. Contributions to the Society for the year ending May, 1831, £41,590 3s. 6d. Officers of the Society, William Alers Hankey, Esq., Treasurer; Rev. John Arundel, Home Secretary; Mr. George Hodson, Assistant Secretary; and Thomas Adams, Collector.

The Scottish Missionary Society was formed in 1796, and has stations at Karas and Astrakan in Russia-at Bankote, Hurnee, and Bombay in the East Indies, and—at Hampden, Port Maria, Lucea and Cornwall on the Island of Jamaica in the West Indies. In the West Indies particularly the missions are prosperous, the number of communicants being between 300 and 400. The receipts of the Society for the year ending March 1831 were £7487 4s. 6d. seat of the Society's operations is at Edinburgh.

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The Church Missionary Society of the Established Church in England was formed in 1800, and according to its plan of organization, its business is conducted by a Geneneral Committee, consisting of Governors and a Treasurer, and 24 other members, of whom not less than 12 must be of the Established Church. The General Committee elect from their number a Committee of Correspondence, and a Committee of Accounts. They meet also for business the first Monday in every month. The first Governors of the Society were Vice Admiral Gambier, Charles Grant, Esq., Sir Richard Hill, Bart. M. P., Henry Hoare, Esq., Edward Parry, Esq., Samuel Thornton, Esq., M. P., and William Wilberforce, Esq. M. P., Henry Thornton, Esq. M. P., Treasurer, Rev. Thomas Scott, Secretary. The Missions of the Society are the West African Mission, the Mediterranean, the India, Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay Mission, the Ceylon, the Australasia, the New Zealand, the West Indian, and the North West American Mission. The communicants in Africa 674,-children in the schools, 1351 boys, and 778 girls. Youth and adults 231; 476 able to read the Scriptures. In the Mediterranean Mission, from July 1, 1829, to Dec. 31, 1830, they printed at Malta 57,900 copies of books and tracts in the Italian, Greek, Arabic and Maltese Languages. This Mission has stations in Greece and in

Egypt.-Besides its Missions, the Society has a Mission Literary and Theological Institution under its care at Islington, where its Missionaries are many of them educated. The income of the Society for the year 1831, was £46,584 16s. 7d.

The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions was formed June, 1810, at Bradford, Mass., and owes its origin to the circumstance, that at the meeting at that time in Bradford of the General Association of Congregational Ministers in Massachusetts, several young men about to engage in the ministry, but in whose breasts the spirit of Missions, had now for some time glowed with an intense heat, made known their state of mind to their brethren and fathers, asking counsel and advice. At first the Association were in doubt what to do. To repress so becoming a spirit in the young men they could not, and yet to encourage it, seemed unwarrantable. No society existed in the country, under whose patronage they could go out. The Association itself could not sustain them, and what might be the response of the churches to the proposal to engage in Missions, or how benevolent individuals of wealth might feel on the subject, they could not tell. After prayer and deliberation, however, faith and hope prevailed, and the Association ventured on the enterprize in a resolution to institute a Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missionsto the salvation of how many souls, who can tell? The first meeting of the Board was at Farmington, Ct., Sept. 1810, and its first officers were the Hon. John Treadwell, LL. D. President; the Rev. Samuel Worcester, D. D., Corresponding Secretary; Jeremiah Evarts, Esq. Treasur er; and the Rev. Calvin Chapin, D. D. Recording Secreta ries. The Board was incorporated June, 1812, by the Legislature of Massachusetts. ;-and its principal executive organ is the Prudential Committee. The present officers are the Hon. John Cotton Smith, L L. D. President; the Rev. Calvin Chapin, D. D. Recording Secretary; the Rev. B. B. Wisner, D. D., the Rev. Rufus Anderson, and Mr. David Green, Secretaries; Henry Hill, Esq., Treasurer; John Tappan, Esq., William J. Hubbard, Esq. Auditors. The Prudential Committee are the Hon. William Reed, the Rev. Leonard Woods, D. D., Hon. Samuel Hubbard, LL. D.. Rev. Warren Fay, D. D., Hon. Samuel T. Armstrong, the Rev. B. B. Wisner, D. D., and Mr.

Charles Stoddard. The board have Missions in Southeastern Asia, at Bombay and Ceylon, in the countries around the Mediterranean, at the Sandwich Islands, and among the Indians of North America. The whole number of sta. tions in these Missions is 55, and the whole number of laborers connected with them 253. Of these 75 are ordained, 4 physicians not ordained, 4 printers, 18 teachers, 20 farmers and mechanics, and 139 females, married and single. There are also 4 native preachers, and 30 native assistants. The number of churches is 36, connected with which there are about 1800 members.

The number of schools is 1275, and of scholars 59,824. The number of pages printed at the different printing presses among the Stations is in all 61,000,000. Of these more than 14,000,000 were printed during the year 1831—2. The number of languages in which printing has been done is 12. The receipts of the Board for the year ending, August 31, 1832, were $130,574, 12, and the expenditures, $123,896, 48. The number of churches by which the operations of the Board are supported is from 2300 to 2500. This includes only the Congregational and Presbyterian Churches.

The General Convention of the Baptist denomination in the United States for Foreign Missions, and other important objects relating to the Redeemer's kingdom, owes its origin to the interest awakened among the Baptists in this country by the accession to their denomination of two of the missionaries, (Messrs. Judson and Rice,) who were sent out to India with Mr. Newell and others, in 1812, by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. It was formed at Philadelphia, April, 1814. It holds its sessions triennially, and is composed of delegates from missionary societies, associations and other religious bodies, and of individual annual contributors to its funds, of a sum not less than $100. An additional representation and vote are allowed for every additional $100, which any individual may contribute. The officers of the Board are a President, eight Vice Presidents, a Corresponding and a Recording Secretary, a Treasurer, and an Assistant Treasurer, and forty Managers. The Board of Managers have an annual meeting for mutual advice, and a monthly meeting at their Missionary Rooms in Boston, for the transaction of business requiring immediate attention. At the annual

meeting, eleven constitute a quorum, and at the monthly meetings, five. The Board has missions under its care at Rangoon, Maulmien, and Savoy in Burmah,-at Liberia in West Africa, and-among the North American Indians. Two exploring agents have been sent out to France. The whole number of laborers under the care of the Board is between fifty and sixty; and from 600 to 700 are reported as having become Christians. The number of churches by which the several missions are sustained, is from 3,500 to 4000. The receipts of the Board for the year ending May, 1832, were $22,600, and the expenditures, $28,591. For the present year, (1833) the officers of the Board are, the Rev. Jesse Mercer, President, the Rev. Lucius Bolles, D. D. Corresponding Secretary, and the Hon. Heman Lincoln, Treasurer.

The American Methodist Episcopal Church has had a Missionary Society, or has sustained missionary operations since 1819. They have been confined, however, to this country, and principally to the Indians in Canada, and to the Indians and colored people in the United States. They have been discontinued at a number of stations. of annual expenditure from $10,000 to $12,000.

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The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, was formed in 1820, and according to the Report of the Society for the year 1832, sustains laborers-in the Domestic department, in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, Delaware, Michigan, and at Green Bay :-In the Foreign department, it has two stations under its care, one in Africa, and the other in Greece.-The receipts for the last year are reported to have been $16,000. Its officers are the Rev. F. L. Hawkes, and the Rev. B. B. Smith, Secretaries, and Jacob Lex, Esq. Treasurer.

(a.) The following tariff of the prices of absolution for certain crimes, has been published at Rome, and shows the proportional degree of their moral turpitude as estimated by the Catholics :

£ s. d.

050

"Pardon for a layman who shall strike a priest, without effusion of blood, may be obtained for For one layman who shall take the life of another layman, 0 3 3