severance, and much fortitude, as well as the most serious consideration, in every step that he takes. The eyes of the Christian World are upon him for good; the eyes of the ungodly for evil; and the eyes of the Heathen around are upon him, watching all his actions and words, to see what they can approve or disapprove. On these accounts it requires the utmost circumspection in him to keep in the path of duty; so that he may, on the one hand, faithfully propagate the Gospel of Christ, and, on the other hand, give due attention to secondary objects.

Labourers at the respective Stations. Rangihoua-Mr. John King, Mr. James Shepherd.

Kerikeri-The Rev. Alfred Nisbet Brown, Mr. Charles Baker.

Paihia - Rev. Henry Williams, Rev. William Williams, Mr. Thomas Chapman, Mr. William Fairburn, and Mr. William Puckey.

The Individuals whom it is intended to settle at Waimate are, the Rev. William Yate, Mr. Richard Davis, Mr. George Clarke, and Mr. James Hamlin.

Rangihoua.

Since the notice at p. 87 of the present Number-that Rangihoua was to be relinquished-went to press, intelligence has been received that the Chiefs were extremely averse to the Missionaries leaving them. Mr. Marsden states

They applied to me, to know whether the Missionaries were to be taken away or not, and demanded the reason. The head Chief, Wárepórka, asked Mr. King what they had done. "Have we robbed you? Have we injured you or your families? Tell us what we have done to you. If we have injured you in any way, you have a right to leave us; we will not blame you: but if you have nothing to allege against us, it will be a shame for you to leave us. When you are gone, no one shall touch your houses; but they shall stand empty, until they rot, and fall down and when any Europeans come on shore and inquire whose houses they are, we shall tell them, They belonged to the Missionaries, who left us without any cause; and they now stand as a monument of their disgrace.'

This affecting appeal was irresistible. Mr. Marsden promised that the Missionaries should not be removed until he had written to England and obtained an answer from the Committee, and with this reply they were satisfied. The Committee have, in consequence, directed Messrs. King and Shepherd to remain at Rangihoua.

The Society's Schooner, the ACTIVE.

Our Readers are already apprised that a Schooner, named the ACTIVE, had been sent out from this country to replace the HERALD, which was wrecked in entering the E'O'keánga. The ACTIVE arrived at Port Jackson on the 20th of June; and sailed from thence for New Zealand on the 19th of July, with the Rev. William Yate, Mr. Thomas Chapman, Mrs. Chapman, and James Smith, Printer, as Passengers, and a cargo of Supplies for the Mission. The ACTIVE arrived in the Bay of Islands July the 31st. Should that part of the object which was proposed by the formation of the Settlement at Waimate be attained, by adequately supplying the Mission with food, it is possible that the use of the ACTIVE may eventually be dispensed with. Mr. C. Davis, Mrs. Davis, and Mrs. Hart.

At p. 88 of the present Number, it was stated that serious apprehensions were entertained for the safety of the above-named friends. We regret to add, that at the date of advices since received from New Zealand no tidings had been heard of them. A vague report had been circulated, that the vessel had been seized by Convicts, who had secreted themselves on board, and had been carried into Valparaiso ; but we fear it is a mere rumour. In reference to this mysterious dispensation, Mr. Yate remarks, under date of the 2d of September last:

We deeply regret that we have it not in our power to announce to you the arrival of our friends, Mr. and Mrs. C. Davis and Mrs. Hart. Doubtless they have been removed from us for some wise pur

this man at that time. He lives at Waimate; and regularly on the Sabbath visits the Natives at their respective Villages, to converse with them on religious subjects. I believe in many villages about him they have given over work on the Sabbath. He appears very warm in the Cause, and will, I hope, be the means of doing good. I have no doubt, but that the Station inland will tend much to the furtherance of the great work, both in a temporal and spiritual sense. [Mr. J. Kemp. Since you left us I have been very busy with Mr. Hamlin and the Natives, in preparing Waimate. We have built

a good strong bridge over the Waitangi River, which I hope is secure from all floods: we have had several very heavy floods to try, but it is still secure the Natives are very much surprised at its strength and stability. The conduct of the Natives living in our Settlement is

to the Aborigines of New Holland. The completion of that design was delayed by those political changes which have transferred the Seals of the Colonial Department to Viscount Goderich. After receiving a full explanation of the plan, and of the methods which the Society proposed to adopt for carrying it into effect, Lord Goderich has adopted the measure projected by his immediate Predecessor in Office, and has communicated to the Committee the decision of His from the Revenue of New South Majesty's Government to appropriate Wales an annual sum, not exceeding 500l., for the support of the intended Mission. This subject was briefly noticed at p. 87 of this Number.

In the present state of the So

tion to baptize, on Sunday Week, several Adults, whose conduct up to the present time has been very consistent; and numbers more will, I hope, be added to the Church, of such as shall be saved. You will be pleased to hear that the Great Head of the Church still gives us peace, both among ourselves and with the poor Heathens; and the work of the Lord is, I hope, prospering in Settlement. every

[Mr. G. Clarke,

New South-Wales.

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

DURING the Rev. William Yate's late residence in New South-Wales, renewed exertions were made to promote the interests of the Society in the Colony. The following Sermons were preached, and Collections made in furtherance of its objects:St. Philip's, Sydney: by the L Ven. the Archdeacon and the Rev. W. Cowper St. James', Sydney: by the Rev. W. Yate

St John's Parramatta: by same,
Field of Mars: by the Rev. C.
P. N. Wilton, M.A.

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46 00 22 38

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2 15 0 106 18 8

Mission to the Aborigines of New Holland, Arrangements had been made, between Sir George Murray, when at the head of the Colonial Department, and the Society, for undertaking a Mission

would not have ventured to engage in such an undertaking as the present, except on the suggestion of His Majesty's Government, nor unless they had been relieved from the expenditure consequent upon this addition to their existing engageBut to an invitation proceeding from such high authority, and seconded by so liberal an offer, they could not have refused to aecede, without an abandonment of the most sacred duty.

ments.

Probable Views of Government with respect

to this Mission.

furnishes no other example. But this extraordinary advance of Colonization has been effected at the expense of the original inhabitants and proprietors of the soil: their lands have been occupied, both for pasturage and tillage, to an extent scarcely credible. In their conflicts with the intruders into their Native Country, they have invariably sustained defeat and loss: and the European Settlers amongst them, having been generally selected from the most ignorant and depraved part of the population of our great cities, have had little else to communicate but the vices of civilized society, with their attendant degradation and misery.

It may not unreasonably be believed that the Ministers of the Crown have felt, and are fully prepared to acknowledge, the claims which these circumstances have established on the justice and compassion of the People of Great Britain. Enjoying peculiar means of information, they are probably much more conversant than others with the real history of these transactions, and more sensible of the urgent necessity of some reparation being made for the injuries which we have inflicted on this unoffending part of the great family of Man. To such motives we venture to ascribe a resolution, to which considerations of economy might, at first sight, seem to have been opposed.

We rejoice, however, in the proof thus afforded us, that the Rulers of our country are not to be diverted by a timid parsimony, from performing the great duty of redressing the wrongs inflicted by British Policy on these barbarous and helpless Tribes. Even on the most sordid calculation of National Interest, it would not be difficult to shew that such an expense is wisely incurred for the protection of our Australian Settlements against the enmity of their uncultivated neighbours. But their claim to our care

and instruction rests on much firmer and less disputable grounds.

The Revenues of the Crown in New Holland are derived from the culture of lands of which the ancient proprietors have been deprived forcibly, and without compensation. The small sum abtracted from those Revenues for the benefit of that injured race is due to them, in the strictest sense, as a debt of justice. We have imparted to the Aborigines the knowledge and the practice of European Crimes. Having compelled them to taste such fruits of the Tree of Knowledge, could we, without the most gross injustice, neglect to give them access to the Tree of Life? Hitherto they have known us only as Conquerors and Usurpers. With what propriety could we call ourselves Christians, and yet take no means to embrace them in the bonds of Christian Fellowship? The history of Colonization amongst the Barbarous Nations is the deepest and most indelible reproach to the character of Christendom. Wherever civilized man has set his foot in America or in Southern Africa, it has been as a scourge, to desolate the regions over which he has advanced. The vast territories of New Holland, and its adjacent Islands, are the latest territorial acquisitions effected by the energy and science of Civilized Nations. Could any man who values the reputation of his Native Country, or any Government to whose care that reputation is confided, think, without abhorrence, of repeating on this new theatre the abominations by which the early European Settlements in the Antilles, in America, and in Southern Africa, were polluted.

We have thus ventured to suggest the views which may have induced Sir George Murray to propose, and his Noble Successor in office to adopt and sanction, the measure which has been taken for the conversion of the Natives of New

Holland. Far be it from us, how ever, to doubt that those eminent persons, and their colleagues in office, have been also actuated by yet higher considerations. On the contrary, we gladly yield to the conviction, that they recognise the duty, incumbent on every disciple of the Redeemer, to use his influence, however great or however small its amount, in extending the peaceful dominion of Christ throughout the world, and in collecting within the one fold of the one Shepherd all who are wandering from it. It is with no ordinary gratification that we have witnessed this common sentiment prevailing in the midst of the conflicts

of political life, and associating together in philanthropical exertions those who differ as to the mode in which the well-being of our own Nation may, in other respects, be most effectually secured. Aware, however, that the Government of this Country must necessarily consult those secular interests which it is one of their peculiar duties to protect, we have thought it not immaterial to notice the coincidence, which has probably occurred to themselves, between the temporal welfare of the State, and the spiritual good of those for whose more immediate benefit this appropriation of the public money has been made.

UNITED KINGDOM.

Church Miss. Soc.- The Committee having undertaken, at the instance of His Majesty's Government, a Mission to the Aborigines of New Holland, the Rev. John Christian Simon Handt, late of the German Mission at Liberia, embarked at Portsmouth for Port Jackson, on board the "Eleanor," Convict Ship, Captain Cook, on the 10th of February. The Convicts on board the "Eleanor" were sentenced to transportation under the late Special Commissions; and a passage in that vessel was readily granted to Mr. Handt by Viscount Goderich, with a view of providing religious instruction for these unhappy exiles during the voyage.

CONTINENT.

Reformation in France-It is stated that Religious Reformation has made rapid progress in France; and that Priests to the number of 2500 are united, throughout France, on a plan of separation from the Church of Rome, upon the following principles: No Popeno infallible Church-no Latin Mass-only two Sacraments-no Celibacy of Priests-no injunction to regular Confession-the Word of God as the only Rule of Faith. While such a great body of the priests become obedient to the faith, the Government, in destroying the influence of the Jesuits for the security of the political institutions of the country, is opening the way for the free propagation of the Gospel: the Catholic Missions, as they were called, have been suppressed by Royal Ordinance, and possession taken of the funds appropriated to this object; and all Holidays have been abolished, those excepted of Christmas, Easter, and Whiteuntide.

WESTERN AFRICA.

Church Miss. Soc.- The Rev. John Raban and his Companions (see p. 471 of our last Volume) landed at Freetown on the 23d of December. Mr. Raban thus speaks of a merciful deliverance which they experienced on the voyage:

On Sunday Evening, Nov. 21st, we experienced a most merciful deliverance, while off Praule Point. About 20 minutes after 7 P. M., as we were taking tea, an alarm was given that a ship was about to run down upon us. Nearly all hastened to the deck; and the greatness of the danger was then apparent to every one. The shock seemed inevitable; but, by the blessing of God, the prompt measures of the Captain were rendered effectual, and the ves. sel passed us without injury. Thus graciously has our Divine Protector again interposed on our behalf. The deliverance, indeed, was so manifestly the work of His hand, that even those who are but too backward to give honour to Him could not but acknowledge it as such. It is supposed, that had the Captain been a minute later in going on deck, we must have struck the vessel; and then, in all probability, from the rate at which we were then going, both would have sunk.

MEDITERRANEAN.

Church Miss. Soc.-The Rev. T. Mueller left Caïro, on a tour to Upper Egypt, on the 27th of September; and reached Caïro, on his return, on the 21st of November.

INDIA WITHIN THE GANGES. Church Miss. Soc.-The Rev. C. Blackman and Mrs. Blackman landed at Madras in June, and the Rev. Joseph Marsh on the 24th of August: see p. 45 of the Survey.

CEYLON.

Baptist Miss. Soc. - Mr. and Mrs. Daniel and their Family (see p. 285 of our last Volume) arrived in Colombo Roads on the 14th of August, after a voyage of 15 weeks.