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The New York Recorder of July 18th says, "The total number of deaths in our city last week was 991-a greater number than ever before-against 284 in the corresponding week of last year. Of these only 484 are reported as by cholera, though it must be evident that of the enormous remainder (which nearly doubles the whole number of deaths in the corresponding week of last year) many must have been caused by the influences that produce the cholera.

"On the whole we are compelled to say that the disease appears to be gradually increasing. It, however, finds the vast majority of its victims among the poor, and we suppose we may say, among the vicious. Of the 1600 or 1700 victims, probably not fifty were known beyond the circle of their personal associates. Some individuals of the most temperate habits, and excellent characters in every way, have fallen, and no man can feel that he is entirely exempt from danger. Like the lightning, the disease often strikes where least expected."

The prevalence of disease in this part of the United States appears to be attended by incessant heat and drought. "On Friday the 13th inst., at four o'clock, P.M., Delatour's thermometer, in Wall street, denoted a temperature of 96 degrees. This was the highest point the mercury has attained since the 13th July, 1845, when it went up to 99, In the at a quarter past three o'clock, P.M. upper part of the city it was still warmer. At half-past nine, A.M., the mercury stood at 96 in the shade, and at two, P.M., at 97 degrees. On the same day it rose to 102 in Philadelphia; and at the Observatory at Cambridge, Mass., a thermometer placed in the ground, in the sun, with the bulb barely covered with earth, rose to 152, and the two instruments used for the determination of the temperature of the air, placed on different sides of the building, to 98 and 100. An agreeable change, however, set in on Saturday, a little past noon, with a few drops of rain; and since then the temperature has been agreeably cool, and a fresh northerly breeze has kept the atmosphere in constant motion. At Albany they had a heavy shower as early as seven, A.M., and at Boston in the course of the forenoon, the long drought was broken,

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The Philadelphia Christian Chronicle of the same date, July 18th, says, "The hopes which we entertained at the time of making up our last paper have been disappointed. The number of cases of cholera rapidly increased. From Tuesday until Saturday they average about eighty per day, and about thirty deaths. On Saturday our city was visited by a fine storm with thunder and lightning. The thermometer, which had been very high, fell rapidly. The temperature since has been comparatively cool. Sunday a decrease in the number of cases was manifest. There were 24 cases, and 32 deaths on Saturday, while on Sunday the Board of Health reported only 54 cases, and 16 deaths. The total number of cases reported for the week ending on Sunday was 469, of deaths 171.

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"From St. Louis and Cincinnati we still receive very painful accounts. The number of deaths on Friday in St. Louis was 190, in Cincinnati 113. The number of cases is not given. These two cities have been visited more severely than any in our country, perhaps than any in the world. The population of St. Louis is supposed to be about 70,000. Nearly 200 deaths daily from such a population is a very large number comparatively. A like proportion of deaths in our city would swell our reports to 1000 per day."

CANADA BAPTIST UNION.

The Report of the Executive Committee of the Canada Baptist Union, presented at the sixth annual meeting of the body, held at Kingston, Canada West, on the 28th of June, 1849, speaks thus of public affairs in that country:-" In our own province events have been of a mixed character. Our rulers have sought, amidst much unreasonable and factious opposition, to introduce and carry through measures long and loudly demanded by the country. Thus the confidence of the country has not been misplaced, nor have the reasonable expectations of the people been disappointed. Had the unhappy course pursued by the factious both within and without the legislature been avoided, other measures, involving much good to the country, Out of this might have been matured. opposition and its results one advantage of incalculable amount springs, not only are the

principles of responsible government conceded to Canada by the imperial parliament, but they are honestly carried out by our present noble-minded and patriotic governorgeneral. Everything, therefore, now depends upon the people being faithful to themselves and the principles of self-government, whether this shall be a great and prosperous colony, with free institutions and just laws."

MONTREAL REGISTER.

Unless some efforts adequate to meet the case by the annual meeting be made, the printer of the Register declares that he must discontinue to issue it. Many assurances of deep interest in the periodical and of its great utility are received from various parts of the province. The committee feel assured that much evil will arise to our denomination and the sacred cause of religious freedom, if the alternative of giving up the publication of the Register be adopted. To continue it, however, unless there be prompt payments, an increase of subscribers, or a sufficient guarantee to meet the expenses of printing, is utterly impossible. Dr. Cramp having resigned the editorship, Dr. Davies very kindly at the request of your committee consented to accept the office, pro tem.

NOVA SCOTIA.

The Rev. C. Spurden, Principal of the seminary at Fredericton, N. B., has given an interesting account of the recent public meetings among our brethren in Nova Scotia. Very many of our readers will rejoice in the tidings brings respecting the prosperity of the denomination in that province, and the progress it has made within the last fifty years. It now embraces about 10,000 communicants, and is supported by at least onefifth of the whole population. "A little one has become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation."—Montreal Register.

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"Some pains have been taken the present year to ascertain pretty correctly the number of Christians in the Tenasserim and Arracan provinces, and in Burmah Proper, I mean among the Karens. It is found that in the Tenasserim provinces there are about 1600 baptized believers, in Arracan and in Burmah Proper 4341. Besides these, there are in Burmah Proper, of true and tried Christians who have lacked opportunity of baptism, 5124. In all, therefore, baptized and unbaptized Christians, 11,065! and these 11,065

are without the Bible or New Testament."

EUROPE.

SWEDEN.

A correspondent in New York says, "The Rev. Mr. Nelson, now pastor of the first baptist church in Sweden, is sustained in part by the Baptist Mariners' church in this city. The New York Baptist Association at their late session raised a subscription of about forty dollars to furnish him with a library. The books were purchased and sent to him last week in charge of a licentiate of the said Baptist Mariners' church, who goes out as a colporteur. He is a Dane and was converted about four years ago, and has since been educated in the school of affliction. He now

feels as if the Lord had called him to go and preach the gospel to his countrymen. He has been offered a free passage by Captain Haldon of memorable fame, who was baptized by Dr. A. Judson in Burmah some years ago. His ship has sailed for Gottenburgh, and takes out this Danish missionary and the library for Mr. Nelson in Sweden. Mr. Nelson was formerly a missionary of the Seamen's Friend Society, but through the influence of a Mr. Schoeden, a member of the Baptist Mariners' church, was led to examine and to adopt baptist views; was baptized, and has been the means of organizing the first baptist church in Sweden, an event, as he says in a letter to Mr. Steward, pastor of the Baptist Mariners' church of this city, in French revolution. These sailor-missionaries, his estimation more auspicious than the service in our baptist ranks. as Mr. L calls them, are doing good

PRUSSIA,

The German correspondent of The Christian Times, writing from the banks of the Saale, after discussing the state of parties in Northern Germany, and the causes of the opposition to the separation of the church from the state, says,—

"The baptists are, strictly speaking, the only free church in Germany, and it is remarkable, and at the same time very charac

teristical, that their worship in their new church in Neander-strasse, Berlin, was inaugurated under the cannonade of the 19th March of the last year, when, perhaps, no service was held in any other church. When I was in Berlin last summer, my soul' cleaving unto the dust of politics,' was quickened and refreshed in this place by a sermon ofa watchmaker! A few weeks before our famous Krummacher had preached in a national church, from 'Hold that which thou hast, that no man take thy crown,' and analyzed or resolved this text into the exhortations to hold, 1st, Prussia (das Preussenthum') 2nd, Germany (das Deutschthum'); 3rd, Churchdom (das Kirchenthum '); and 4th, Christendom (das Christenthum'). Of no less political tendency, but even fanatical and highly reactionary, was the sermon I heard the same year in Halle at a missionary meeting. The preacher applied the words of the second Psalm, Why do the heathen rage? The rulers take counsel together against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us;' literally and without the least colouring to the Frankfort and Berlin parliaments. And, being at Breslau in the month of November, whenduring the most violent struggles between the so called Rump Parliament and the ministry of Brandenburgh-the proclaiming of the republic was every day expected, a dear brother and a divine, as much distinguished by piety as by learning, very earnestly maintained that in that case every Christian minister would be obliged to resign, and thus identified the kingdom of Prussia with that of God-politics and Christendom! If this is the judgment of those men, can we be surprised at the lamentable state of political and ecclesiastical babyism' of the masses ?"

CANTON DE VAUD.

A new decree has been adopted by the Council of State, respecting which M. Baup, the correspondent of Evangelical Christendom, says, "There has been, indeed, an advance made in legalized persecution, inasmuch as the decree of January 22, 1848, forbade only such religious, or rather politico-religious meetings as should be found an occasion of disturbance; and which permitted the policecourt and the tribunal of the Canton to pass over the offence in many cases. The present decree admits of but one interpretation, it is perfectly clear, with the exception of domestic worship in private houses, conducted by members of the family,' all religious meetings held without the national churches are declared illegal."

ANNUAL MEETINGS.

BAPTIST BUILDING FUND.

At the general meeting held in the Mission House, Moorgate Street, on Tuesday, July 10, 1849, Joseph Fletcher, Esq, in the chair, the following report was read :—

"Every revolving year returns a season when the subscribers to institutions depend. ent on public support, expect and are entitled to receive a statement of the proceedings and expenditure. Such annual exhibitions are often accompanied by expressions of regret that more ample bounty has not been extended, that the contributions have been reduced, or that what has been accomplished has exhausted the fund; while various causes are assigned for these privations, operating together to create serious alarm and to justify complaint.

"The Committee of the Baptist Building Fund have also experienced the pressure of the times, and with others they have suffered depression by change of circumstances; but, it nevertheless is the privilege of your committee to announce with feelings of grateful satisfaction, that an all-wise Benefactor has permitted the establishment of an institution, differing indeed from all others, but well adapted to its purpose, capable of any extension, and based upon principles which, so long as they are carried out, will secure its perpetuity. Your committee rejoice that being entrusted with the charge of a fund created by the legacy of the late Dr. William Newman, to the Baptist Building Fund, the subscribers at their half-yearly meeting sanctioned the application of that legacy, and of all future subscriptions and donations, to the granting of loans without interest for the payment of chapel debts, to baptist churches which should be willing to give approved security for repayment of the principal in ten years, by twenty half-yearly equal instalments-and your committee have to state the following result:

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with loans-their debts, to the amount of Twenty-four churches have been assisted £2350, with an annual interest payable

thereon of £112, are annihilated.

instalments amount to £118; that amount, "Upon this loan of £2350-the half-yearly when received at Lady-day and Michaelmas, is added to the general stock, and is immediately re-invested by loan to some other church or churches next in rotation upon the list of approved applications; thus the instalments discharge another debt, create a further saving of interest, become another channel society's revolving capital, secured as an enof benefit, and still constitute a part of the during fund, for a source of perpetual advantage. Such are the foundation and superstructure of the stability and usefulness of the Baptist Building Fund, and such they

advocacy of the families of the pastors, who themselves must suffer in silence while they sustain the privation.

"Your committee feel that if every member of the denomination would give liberally once, the future freedom of the churches from debt, and the redemption of our pastors from its withering effect, would be permanently established.

"Another feature in the constitution of the society is, that an enlargement of its fund would not increase the expenses of its management.

"No poundage is paid upon donations--all services but those of the collector are gratuitous; and, finally, your committee respectfully suggest that bequests to this institution would be most appropriate and useful. Legacies are usually funded, and the interest only is applied to the appointed purpose; but in this case the whole amount left is vested in security, and the whole, however large, is at all times thereafter in full operation for the purpose intended by the donor."

will remain should no further sum be added to the capital, the perpctuity of the institution is to that extent established; the only risk is the failure of the instalments; some may perhaps, but they will not all, fail; and it may, without presumption, be expected that considerable additions will be made to the capital as progressive utility shall confirm the character of the Building Fund. The security given for each separate loan is the note of hand of four persons belonging to or interested in the church assisted, each of whom is responsible for the whole amount. They undertake to remit the instalments regularly at the appointed time without expense, and hitherto they have been punctual, not one has failed. Your committee respectfully and urgently apply to the denomination for a large increase of the sum now vested as a loan fund in perpetuity, they observe with truth that donations and annual subscriptions are not, as they are in other cases, expended and lost; in this institution they are treasured. A guinea once deposited here will be in action many years to come, and, having paid off twenty times its amount of debt, will continue an entirety in the hands of a future committee for distant and extending good. Your committee are emboldened to be importunate that a fund may be raised in some degree commensurate to the increasing demand of the denomination the security is ample and abiding, Joseph Fletcher, Esq., Union Dock, Limehouse. however large the amount, it will not be concentrated, but spread over numerous churches-one twentieth part of the whole is all that can ever be in hand, and that for a short time. The applications for assistance, when approved, are supplied by rotation; and there will ever be a sufficient number ready to absorb whatever may be in hand, and to carry on its circulation through succeeding generations.

"The committee feel justified in congratu lating the subscribers and contributors on their abundant and unexpected successthey now appeal to the judgment of those who doubted the soundness or the working of Mr. Bowser's calculations, if past experience has not removed their scruples; and to their generosity they also appeal, that they may now assist and co-operate upon conviction.

"The committee offer to the general consideration of the baptist denomination the very large amount of unliquidated debt, and the numerous applications for assistance. They name the injurious influence that debt exerts, by the oppressive interest thereon which must be paid, and in naming it they cannot omit the painful observation, that the demand for interest is to a large extent unavoidably met by a corresponding deduction from the remuneration of the pastors, especially where the members are poor, and where that deduction is the most oppressive.

"Your committee raise their voice in

It was then moved by the Rev. F. Trestrail, and seconded by Mr. J. L. Benham:

"I. That the report now read be adopted, printed, and circulated under the direction of the committee, and that the following be the committee and officers for the year ensuing:Treasurer.

Secretary.

Mr. JOHN EASTTY, 2, Victoria Terrace, Upper
Grange Road, London.

Committee.

Mr. BARNES.
Mr. G. BAILEY.
Mr. J. L. BENHAM.
Mr. W. Bowser.
Mr. A. T. BOWSER.
Mr. JOHN DANFORD.

Mr. R. S. DIXON.
Mr. N. EASTTY.
Mr. JOHN HADDON.
Mr. THOMAS MERRETT.
Mr. G. MOORE.
Mr. JAMES OLIVER.
Mr. JOHN PENNY.

S. M. PETO, Esq., M.P.
Mr. STEPHEN PEWTRESS.
Mr. M. PoOLE.

Rev. I. M. SOULE.
Mr. SPURDEN.
Mr. W. SWINSTEAD.
Rev. F. TRESTRAIL.
Mr. J. WARMINGTON.
Mr. R. WILLIAMS.
Mr. B. C. WILMSHURST.
Mr. J. C. WOOLLACOTT.

Auditors.

Messrs. W. BOWSER and N. EASTTY.

Collector.

Rev. C. WOOLLACOTT, 4, Compton St. East.,
Brunswick Square.

Solicitor.

W. H. WATSON, Esq., Bouverie Street, Fleet St."

Moved by Mr. W. H. Watson, and seconded by Mr. Haddon:

"II. That instead of Rule 3, the following be substituted :-That all ministers of the denomination who are annual subscribers, or whose churches make an annual collection for its funds, be entitled to attend and vote at all meetings of the committee."

Moved by Mr. W. Bowser, and seconded by Mr. J. C. Woollacott:

"III. That this meeting viewing with much satisfaction the assistance given to the churches by means of the grants and loans from this society, earnestly commends the Fund to the more liberal support of the denomination."

Moved by Mr. Warmington, and seconded by the Rev. C. Woollacott.

"IV. That the thanks of this meeting are due, and are hereby presented to Mr. John Eastty for his services as the gratuitous secretary of this society."

Moved by Mr. John Eastty, and seconded by Mr. Barnes :

"V. That the thanks of this meeting be presented to Joseph Fletcher, Esq., Treasurer, for the warm interest he has invariably taken in the prosperity of the Baptist Building Fund, and for his kindness in presiding on this occasion."

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THE BAPTIST UNION OF SCOTLAND.

On Tuesday, August 7th, at 11 A.M., the meeting was opened with prayer, after which the business of the Union was proceeded with. Brother Landels, pastor of the church, presided at the different conferences.

In order to a definite understanding as to the relation of "The Evangelist" to the

Union, it was moved by brother Duncan, seconded by brother Taylor, and unanimously resolved

"That from January, 1849, The Evangelist be taken under the sanction and management of the Union, and that from that time it be considered as the organ of the Union."

It was then moved by brother Johnston, that brethren Taylor, Landels, and Milner, be appointed to arrange for the publication of the Magazine under its new form, which was agreed to.

Churches relieved by Loan since the last the pressure of his labours on his health, to Brother Taylor finding it necessary, from report :

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resign the editorship of The Evangelist with the completion of the present volume, it was moved by brother Thomson of Dunfermline, seconded by brother Milner, and resolved unanimously

"That on accepting the resignation of brother Taylor as editor of The Evangelist, the Union tender him its warmest thanks for his long-continued and arduous services on behalf of the magazine, and express its sympathy with him in the present state of his health, and an earnest wish that it may be speedily recruited, and he long spared to labour in the gospel."

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"That brother Landels be appointed editor of The Evangelist."

Brother Landels agreed to accept the appointment, after which the brethren adjourned till Wednesday morning.

On Wednesday, at 10 A.M., the meeting was resumed with prayer, when letters were read from the following churches applying for aid: St. Andrew's, Airdrie, Galashiels, and Leith. To three of these grants were made, and the other was referred to the Executive Committee. Previous to this decision, the treasurer's report was read, showing a balance on hand of £81 6s. 8d.

The question of an evangelist being employed by the Union being brought before the meeting, it was cordially resolved, on the motion of brother Lamont, seconded by brother Duncan

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