its present and actual results. He hails the establishment in its vicinity of the Clergy Orphan's School, which would naturally be so likely to contribute recruits to a Missionary College. He urges the desirability of District Associations, which should undertake to support some particular student during his term of residence. And he laments over the trifling and the partial supply of labourers that St. Augustine's has hitherto been able to send into the Missionary field. The fifteen students who have left its walls, are all, it seems, labouring in our more settled Colonial dioceses, and not one in any heathen country. "To Labrador," he complains he has sent "none; to Vancouver's Island, none; to the district of Lake Huron, none; to the Hottentots of Capetown, none; to the Kaffirs of Grahamstown, none; to the Zulus of Natal, none; to the Mauritius, none; to India, multitudinous India, none; to Pegu, none; to Borneo, none; to New Zealand, none; to China, none." Pray ye, therefore, the Lord of the harvest, that He will send forth labourers into His harvest."

The Volume for 1854 of the Monthly Record of Church Missions in connexion with the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, is now complete. It contains accounts of the Society's Missions in India and Ceylon, which are preceded by a History of the early Christian Missions in India. The volumes of this series would be found very useful by a Clergyman who wished to give to his people lectures on the Missionary work of the Church.

We have received the Magazine for the Young for 1854. We are glad that the editor of this good book for children has given us an excuse for noticing it. There are some interesting extracts in it from Bishop Chase's Reminiscences, and from the Journal of a Lady, the wife of a Missionary in South Africa.

We have received The Educational Register and Family Almanac, (J. H. Parker,) for 1855. It contains a great variety of useful information on educational matters in England. There are also lists in it of the Educational establishments and public Libraries of Germany, and an account of National Education in Sweden. There is also a list of the Colleges and Theological Schools in the United States. In the list of the Colonial Bishops the establishment of the See of Borneo and the Consecration of Dr. M‘Dougall are assigned to the year 1851. The date is too early by four years, but as the Queen has given the Royal consent to the Consecration of Dr. M'Dougall to the See of Labuan,

an island belonging to Great Britain, and adjacent to Borneo, we may confidently reckon on this one new Bishopric at least being founded in the year 1855.

We have only time to announce the publication of Four Sermons, The Work of Christ in the Church, preached by the Bishop of New Zealand before the University of Cambridge.

Colonial, Foreign, and Home News.

SUMMARY.

THE Bishop of NEWFOUNDLAND has published a letter "To his flock and friends, and to all the friends of the poor in Newfoundland," in reference to a proposed House of Charity, or asylum for the poor widows and fatherless children, at St. John's, whose number has been increased to a most distressing extent by the late scourge of cholera. On Sunday, December 20th, being the Fourth Sunday in Advent, the Bishop held an Ordination in the cathedral church, when the Rev. J. F. Phelps, Vice-Principal of the College, and the Rev. J. B. Freer, Curate of St. John's, (both formerly students of St. Augustine's College, at Canterbury,) were admitted to the priesthood. -On Thursday, December 21st, the churchwardens of the Cathedral Church presented the Venerable Archdeacon Bridge with a purse of 100 sovereigns, in testimony of the admiration and gratitude generally felt by his congregation and many others, for his zealous and unremitting attention to the poor sufferers and their families in the late visitation.

Bishop Potter, Provisional Bishop of NEW YORK, has published a long and most interesting Address to the Clergy and Laity of his diocese. Bishop Hopkins, of Vermont, has lately published a Refutation of Milner's "End of Controversy," in a series of letters addressed to the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore.

ALL SAINTS' CHAPEL, at Briar Cliff, near Sing Sing, has lately been opened for Divine Service. Circumstances which will soon be removed, interfered with the Consecration. The building was commenced by the late DR. OGILBY, Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the General Theological Seminary at New York. It has been completed at the expense of HENRY MCFARLAN, Esq. of New Jersey. "All the windows are of stained glass by Gibson of Philadelphia, that in the chancel being very beautiful. It was intended as a memorial window of Dr. Ogilby. At the base of the window is the inscription, In Memoriam Fundatoris. This window is the gift of A. BERESFORD HOPE, Esq., a warm friend of Dr. Ogilby."

Mr. Lambert McKenzie, a negro student, who has passed through his course at St. Augustine's College, and has been approved by the Board of Examiners of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, sailed for Guiana on the 17th of January, in the ship Atrata.

We are happy to be able to state that the health of PRINCIPAL RAWLE, though not completely re-established, is so far improved that he intends to return to CODRINGTON COLLEGE in the course of the present month.

The Bishop of NATAL is engaged in preparing and printing an Elementary Zulu-Kafir Grammar, and in reprinting in an improved form the translation of St. Matthew in Zulu, made by the American Missionaries. The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge have printed for the Bishop the first Zulu-English Dictionary, of which the MS. was given to his Lordship by a gentleman at Maritzburg. The Missionary party during the ten weeks of sailing will be able to study the language, and to land in Natal with some knowledge of it. The Bishop hopes to sail before the end of the month. The Missionary party will number 37 of all classes, Clergy, Catechists, ladies, mechanics, and labourers, (including children,) who, with 26 already despatched (including farmers, &c.), will make 63 souls to be provided for.-The Rev. C. F. Mackenzie, M.A. Fellow of Caius College, Cambridge, is appointed Archdeacon of Maritzburg, not of Natal, as stated in the newspapers.-The Bishop's Journal is in the press, and will probably be published during the present month.

Before these pages appear, the Bishop of NEW ZEALAND will probably have left England. The vessel which is to bear him back to his diocese is the Southern Cross, a little schooner of scarce 100 tons burden. The stern forms a roomy and comfortable cabin for the Bishop and Mr. Selwyn, whilst the centre of the vessel is intended to serve as a school and home for the native boys whom the Bishop may select from the islands of his diocese, to train as future ministers and schoolmasters amongst their heathen countrymen.

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE.-The Treasurers have made a report on the finances of the Society, which was laid before the Meeting held Jan. 2. The very great demands made on the resources of the Society by the increase of the home population and the extension of the Colonial Church, have greatly reduced its funds. After providing for the grants already made, there will be less than 2,000l. available for the purposes of the Society; so that unless the resources of the Society can be largely increased, a great diminution must be made in the grants, and the usefulness of the Society proportionally reduced. We earnestly hope that the Society's appeal for increased support will be abundantly successful.

SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS.-At the Monthly Meeting in January, the Secretary read a letter from the Bishop of Capetown, an extract from which will be found elsewhere. A grant was made for the expenses of the passage to Guiana of Mr. Lambert McKenzie, a negro student from St. Augustine's. He will be the first clergyman of his race in the Diocese. The Report of the Home Organization Committee was read. It contained many details, and concluded with an animated appeal to the Incorporated Members to use every effort to increase the Society's funds. There was a short but interesting debate on a Mission

to Vancouver's Land, which we much regret that the Society in the present state of its finances is unable to undertake.

THE REV. DR. Warneford.—We are unwilling to allow such a man as Dr. Warneford to pass from this world without making a respectful mention of his name. We hope to give a more extended notice of him in our next number. He died on the 11th of January, at the age of ninety-two years. He was rich in good works, always "ready to distribute, willing to communicate." There are few charitable institutions connected with the Church which have not been fostered by him. Not long since he gave, in all, 13,000l. for the Clergy Orphan School. He has left 2,000l. each to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. He is now, we trust, at rest. "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord; for they rest from their labours; and their works do follow them."

ANTIGUA. The same solemn doctrine which is likely to be brought into open discussion in England, has disturbed the Church in this Diocese. A clergyman was charged by some of his parishioners "with teaching unsound doctrine concerning the Holy Communion." The Bishop cited five clergymen to act as his assessors in the matter. They have declared, after careful consideration, that they do not find that there is any justification of the charge alleged, and that they perceive no ground for the adoption of further proceedings in the case.

CARIBS OF BRITISH GUIANA.—(Abridged from the Voice of Pity for South America.)-A few scattered remnants of the Caribs are still found in British Guiana. A warm friend has been raised up to them in the Rev. William Austin, Rector of St. John's, Essequibo; who has been labouring for more than twenty-five years among planters and plantation people, numbering 7,000, and scattered over a parish thirty miles long and hundreds of miles deep. This servant of Christ has sought out the Caribs with such zeal and success as to have brought together 230 to form a congregation. On the Saturday the Indians assemble from their hunting grounds-tarry on the Sunday on his premises, where they have erected convenient lodges, and receive Christian instruction from him. The Lord has so blessed Mr. Austin's labours, that 50 Caribs are communicants. His daughters share their father's zeal. They have learnt the Caribbese language, and have under them a boarding school of 30 girls, several being orphans. These are maintained in food by the Christian Caribs. The Misses Austin are their gratuitous instructors in Christian doctrine, reading, writing, reckoning, and sewing. They have this year the help of an Indian woman.

NEW ZEALAND.-The following is an extract from a letter to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge from Archdeacon Abraham.. "You asked about the deacon-schoolmaster system adopted here. As long as we can get the person to work the system heartily, it answers admirably. The people like it, and it is the only mode of procuring a livelihood for the clergyman,-unless

(as is too much the case) he abandons the work for private tuition of a higher kind. It has never been fairly tried here; as in every case the work has been thrown up for the more lucrative and less irksome work of higher education. But the error is a great one, as the steadfast adherence to the parish-school would have trained up a body of parishioners who, in a few years, would be the staunch friends of the Church and clergyman. I have at this present an application from a small community near here (which I cannot supply, and which the Bishop will, I hope, meet) for a deacon-schoolmaster, to whom they will pay 457. per annum for clerical ministrations, and about 30% per annum more for schooling. This, with a small grant from the Church funds, will be better than many an English curacy; but certainly worse than most clerks or labourers in the colony receive. I do not know whether it is a thing to be deplored or not (perhaps I incline to the negative), that the clergy are the worst paid people in the community; and that men perfectly ignorant of the primary elements of education receive double their salaries. Yet the difficulty of getting men cannot be denied, or unfelt. In England I never understood what now so fearfully presses upon us all, the need of that command, Matt. ix. 37, 38, and of obedience to it."

CAPETOWN. (Extract from a Letter of Bishop of Capetown, dated 3d Nov. 1854.)-"The Namaqua copper-mines are near the mouth of the Orange River. There is every reason to believe that the whole country on each side of the river is full of a very rich ore. Several companies have already been formed for working it; some of these intend to work mines on the north side of the river, beyond the limits of the colony. There is already a considerable population there, utterly without means of grace; and it is sure to increase very rapidly, so soon as the means of communication by railroad with the sea can be established. At present, the ore is brought over a very sandy country in ox-wagons.

"The moral and religious condition of the country is described as shocking. The Government are about to send a Civil Commissioner there. Along with the civil establishment there ought to go the ministers of religion. I hope the Society may be able to do something for the district. There will probably, before many years are over, be thousands there. It is useless to send out any one who is not prepared to endure hardness."

EGYPT.-The English Church at Alexandria, the foundation stone of which was laid in 1839, was opened for Divine Service on Christmas-day, to the great joy of the English inhabitants. The Rev. E. Winder, the Chaplain, officiated. His sermon will soon be published, at the request of the congregation.

SOUTH-AMERICA.-Patagonian, or South American Missionary Society. The following extracts are taken from a letter from the Rev. G. P. Despard, Secretary to the Patagonian Missionary Society.'

1 See Colonial Church Chronicle for October, 1854, page 156.