the remaining two working days to the cultivation of their own provision grounds, and to making a journey to Kingstown (about twenty miles distant), where they purchase supplies of imported salt-fish, pork, rice, &c., to defray the cost of which their head-load of nativegrown yams and plantains more than suffices.

A total absence of resident medical practitioners renders indispensable to a mountain Clergyman a well-supplied medicine chest and some knowledge of administering, as in cases of sickness reference for treatment, and even nourishment, is invariably made to 'parson.'

The system of 'estates' doctors' and 'hot-houses,' or hospitals, during slavery, at the proprietor's expense, has led to gross improvidence, since emancipation, in those particulars; and dispensaries, benevolent societies, and other district charities, must be the work of time on the mountains of Jamaica-where, however, the poor are comparatively few in number."

MISSIONS OF THE AMERICAN CHURCH.

Baltimore, Oct. 31, 1854.

SIR,-Though some time has passed since the Meeting of our Board of Missions at Hartford, I cannot forbear to report a few gratifying facts concerning it to our English brethren, through your pages. First, I wish to say, that the blessed results of the impulse given to our Church last year by the Convention, and in great part by those features of it which were owing to the Delegation from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, were most apparent, and were acknowledged by all. A replenishing treasury was one speaking proof of the revival of a right spirit among us. A larger sum than has ever before been received in any one year was reported by both branches of the Board of Missions (Domestic and Foreign), amounting in all to more than $100,000-say 20,000l. Our first year gave only $2,000 twenty years ago. It was also evident that the adoption of many of the practical suggestions of the Delegation from England had worked well; e. g. in the matter of publications for children and others on an enlarged plan. It is intended still further to appropriate measures for operating on the mind and heart of the Church, which have been found in the experience of our English brethren useful and effective. In the next place, let me add, that it was a most agreeable peculiarity of this Meeting that the labours of our English brethren, both in the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and the Church Missionary Society, were more freely and familiarly referred to than ever before. We no longer talk of you as working apart from us, but we seem to enter into your work as part and parcel of one great operation, whose original is GOD, in which we are co-workers in an humble degree. We feel the stimulus of the example, perhaps the aid of your prayers, in a new and most invigorating

manner.

The transfer of Mr. Syle from the service of the Chinese in China, to the same work in California, was one of the most marked events of the year. That a Missionary to the Chinese should remain such, and yet be transferred to a domestic station, under the jurisdiction of Bishop Kip, is a fact which it would have been impossible to anticipate a few years ago. I have little doubt that this is a most promising measure, and that it will be the best way of aiding Bishop Boone in the issue. Our African Mission seems to be our most flourishing foreign work, and Mr. Crummell, for whom we have to thank Cambridge, is proving a most valuable auxiliary in that important field.

But it was truly painful to hear of fields white to the harvest, which we have no means of supplying with labourers. In New Granada and Brazil, among the Romish populace, all things are ready for reform. In many places, even the churches are offered for our services in the Spanish language, if we will take them and use them. Why sleep we when we have such a call? A Clergyman of New York is organizing a congregation among the Cubans and South Americans of that port who have abjured Popery, and desire to hear in their own tongue the message of a pure Gospel. In Baltimore I have discovered a few French families who have desired my services in the same way; and I am only awaiting the receipt of some French Prayer-books from New York to begin the work. Everywhere the door is open to Anglican Christians, if we will but recognise the call of God, and do what we can.

The loss of Bishop Wainwright is profoundly felt; but a feeling of the most elevated brotherly love seemed to be diffused over our assembly by its impressive effect upon every individual. A profound sense of the shortness and uncertainty of life, and of the greatness of the work to be done ere the night cometh, seemed to forbid the "springing up of any root of bitterness" to defile and trouble us.

Three Bishops elect were present, viz. Lee, of Iowa, (since consecrated, on St. Luke's day, at Rochester, New York,) Clark, of Rhode's Island, and Potter, of New York. These all are able men, and well fitted for their several posts. The election of Dr. Potter is especially to be marked, in my opinion, as the harbinger of good to his diocese, and to the Church at large. He is a zealous and sound divine, who, as a Presbyter, has long enjoyed the regard of all parties for his unaffected piety and worth. I happened to be present in Convention during the election, and I could not but rejoice in the contrast it presented, as compared with the painful and protracted struggles, which were supposed to be suspended, rather than determined, by the elec tion of Dr. Wainwright.

We observe all that goes on in England with intense interest, not to say anxiety. Oh! on what a large scale you are living and doing in your Church! Reflect, I beseech you, at all times that your measures, good and evil, are life or death to thousands of whom you know little and think less, in the remotest lands.

A. C. C.

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Reviews and Notices.

WE continue to receive the Church Review (Newhaven, Conn.), a most creditable quarterly organ of the Church in America; the last number, however, of which contains an article on American Slavery, which would grate upon every English sympathy. The writer does not scruple to profess his opinion that " Slavery at the South, so far from being the horrible, wicked, barbarous state of cruelty which its enemies represent it, is a state of society where the kindliest relations exist between the master and his slave; where nothing but time is needed to Christianise the whole population; where many devoted Clergymen and laymen of our own Church not only have this matter amply at heart, but are making steady and vigorous exertions to effect this object; where the institution is so intimately blended in all the ramifications of society, that to intermeddle with it would not only seriously endanger the safety of our union, but produce a division in our own Church." It is fair to say that the Editor does not profess "to endorse every part of the argument;" but the admission of the article is significant of the field of labour upon which the Church is now preparing to enter among the coloured population of the Southern States, and the terms upon which she is content to labour.

In Bishop Hopkin's Address before the Convocation of Trinity College, Hartford, we have some honest and plain-spoken words of reproof for the unruliness and worldliness of American society; and we rejoice to see the Bishop of souls not afraid to denounce the display of fierce passion which every session disgraces the meetings of Congress, or the venality which pervades (he says) every profession and trade. Of the position and prospects of the Episcopal Church he speaks hopefully :

"If we look to our advance in the United States, under the weighty disadvantages of the Revolutionary war, which placed us for many years under a cloud of political odium, we find that we have grown from a very humble beginning, up to thirty-five acting Bishops, and 1,650 Clergymen while every state and territory is partially supplied, and we have extended our work to Africa and China. Our numbers, indeed, are still far below those of several Christian sects, but our ratio of increase has gone greatly beyond them. The character of our people stands in the highest rank for position and intelligence. Witness the fact that out of the thirteen Presidents of the United States, Washington, Monroe, Madison, Harrison, Tyler, and Taylor were Episcopalians. Witness the fact that Calhoun, Clay, and Webster were the same, to say nothing of the numerous living lights of the nation. It is also certain that our services are the most accept

able, because they are the best adapted, to the army and the navy. And the movements of our Church are regarded with much more general interest throughout the land, than those of any other."

Those of our readers who recollect the advantage which Mrs. Woodrow found at Natal from the employment of religious prints in the instruction of the Zulus, will be glad to have their attention called to a series of 12, lately published by J. H. Parker. They are very tasteful and very cheap,--but a penny apiece, and would be very well calculated for distribution or sale in our Missionary dioceses.

But still greater claim for notice in our pages belongs to a periodical which has reached us from Jersey, “L'Ami de la Religion," (Gosset, Jersey; Masters, London,) which our readers must not confound with its Gallican namesake. It is a cheap quarterly, but four-pence a number, conducted with very great ability, established for the purpose of spreading sound Church principles in the Channel Islands, and which might circulate to advantage among our French-speaking population in the North American Provinces, which are connected by so many ties with the commerce and the inhabitants of Jersey. The numbers before us contain a translation of the "Old Man's' Home," and the "Dark River," in successive parts; "St. Chrysostom on the Lord's Prayer," Sermons and quotations from our best divines, Ecclesiastical and Missionary intelligence from every branch of the Church. We commend it most earnestly to the notice of all Jerseymen in Newfoundland and New Brunswick.

Colonial, Foreign, and Home News.

SUMMARY.

OUR brethren in NOVA SCOTIA are to be congratulated on the success of their first regular deliberative assembly. On October 11th. 59 clergymen and 38 lay delegates were gathered together in Halifax to hear their Bishop's Charge, and again on the next day to decide on the policy of periodically meeting to deliberate on the affairs of the diocese. The expediency of such a step was, after a day spent in friendly discussion, affirmed by a majority of 37 clergy against 9, and 28 laity against 10. A counter proposal was brought forward by the lay delegates from Halifax, and rejected. The apparent feeling of the people of the chief city was shown also in a remarkably thin attendance at Divine Service during the Visitation. Perhaps this may be explained by the fact that the Churchmen of Halifax number less than a quarter, and including most of the wealthy of the inhabitants of Halifax. A committee of the Bishop, five clergymen, and five laymen, were appointed to prepare a Constitution, and frame the necessary regulations for the Synod, which is to meet next year.

The Canadian Legislature is engaged in effecting the secularization of the Clergy Reserves. The second reading of the Bill has been carried by a large majority, who reject any amendment proposed by those who would show any favour to the Church in the hour of her spoliation. The same mail brings tidings of an occurrence of far better omen to the Church, namely, the meeting on October 25 of the Diocesan Synod of TORONTO. The Bishop, in an opening address, proposed four subjects for the consideration of the assembled clergy and lay delegates, viz. regulations for the future guidance of the Synod, the establishment of a clerical sustentation fund, the means of obtaining separate schools, the present crisis of Church property in the Clergy Reserves. A plan for the regulation of future, Synods, prefaced by a declaration of attachment to the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England, resulted from the deliberations on this subject; and a very laudable desire was expressed to secure the concurrence and cooperation of the other dioceses of British North America in the same line of action. We have observed with pleasure a long letter in the Toronto Church from Mr. James Chance, a catechist, detailing his labours among the Ogybwas at Garden River. Let the Canadians of the present generation bear in mind that it is their sacred and peculiar responsibility to offer spiritual riches to these ancient owners of the land.

The American Church appears to be gradually occupying the ground in its newly-formed and remote dioceses; and the great extent to which local resources are developed, encourages a hope that the work will be permanent as well as rapid. The veteran Missionary, Bishop Kemper, is heard of from time to time, exploring new fields in WISCONSIN: he has just laid the corner-stone of the fifth church in MINNESOTA, a territory which will soon have ten clergymen, and now has in training at Nashotah three students, one of whom, an Ottawa Indian, comes 1,000 miles to procure his education. In OREGON the Bishop has just concluded his first journey across his diocese by an energetic appeal for at least six additional clergymen to occupy promising stations. The scattered Missionaries in TEXAS are reported to be inadequate to the work which is open to them. The Bishop of CALIFORNIA repeats the same appeal for men to help in his great work, with "an empire growing up around" him. Rev. E. W. Syle, late Missionary in China, has been appointed to begin the work of evangelising the 50,000 Chinese who have settled in California.

The

The Cathedral of Christ Church, COLOMBO, was consecrated on St. Matthew's-day, 21st September, an epoch in the annals of this diocese. The Bi-weekly Examiner praises the beauty and appropriate character of the architecture, which are mainly due to Corporal Moore, of the 15th regiment, the resident architect. The chancel arch 32 feet high, with a span of 171⁄2 feet, is said to be the largest pointed arch east of the Cape. The Bishop, in an eloquent sermon, adverted to the threefold object of the edifice, which is to serve as a college-chapel, a mission-church for the district, and a