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tained a severe loss-the Rev. Dr. Morrison, and Messrs. Lyman and Munson. The former, who may be called the Father of Protestant Missions in China, died on the 1st of August last. The following short account of this good and great man we give from the Samachar Darpan.

"Our private letters from Canton mention the death of the Rev. Dr. Morrison, the first Protestant Missionary who ever resided in China. In him the cause of missions and of literature has lost a labourer, whose place it will be impossible immediately to supply. He proceeded to China in the year 1807, laboured there with indefatigable zeal for almost twenty-seven years, and expired on the 1st of August last, at the age of fifty-three, exhausted by debility produced by the climate. He translated the Sacred Scriptures into Chinese, compiled and printed a copious and very valuable Dictionary of that language, and was the founder of the College at Malacca; an institution, which although it has not flourished to the extent of his wishes, owing to the general opposition which such institutions meet with from the religious bodies in England, sufficiently attests the large views, the great liberality, and the ardent zeal of its founder. He was a faithful and indefatigable labourer, and a sincere and cordial friend.

"Dr. Morrison's eminent qualifications in the Chinese language, led to his being appointed interpreter to the English Factory there; a situation which, as we under stand, he subsequently resigned in favor of his son."

The following particulars regarding the affecting death of Messrs. Lyman and Munson, are extracted from the Singapore Chronicle.

It is with sincere regret that we have to announce the following melancholy intelligence, received per Sarah, conveyed in a letter from the Rev. Mr. Medhurst to a brother Missionary here.

"Batavia, Sept. 6, 1834.

"It is with the greatest grief that I write to inform you, that we have just received the melancholy intelligence of the inhuman murder of both the brethren, Lyman and Munson, in the Battak country, on the 28th June. According to a report sent in to the Resident of Padang, by the Post-holder of Tappanuly, the brethren arrived at that place on the 17th of June from Nias; and after remaining there several days to make the necessary inquiries and preparations, they set off on the 23rd, accompanied by an interpreter, a guide, ten kulís, and two servants. On the 30th of the same month the kulís, interpreter, guide and one of the servants returned, saying, that after having proceeded four days' journey into the interior, they stopped at the house of a Battak rájáh, who received them hospitably and respectfully, but strongly advised them not to proceed onwards to Tobah, as there were disturbances in that part of the country, and their lives would be in danger. They replied, that they came to visit the Battak country, not as enemies but as friends, and therefore had nothing to fear. On the 28th they accordingly set forward, and were met about midday by five armed Battaks, who entreated them not to proceed, as evil was before them; they replied, they saw no appearance of danger, and told the Battaks to go back and inform the rájáh that they were coming with friendly intentions, and trusted they would be so received. Again they pushed on, and about four o'clock found themselves suddenly surrounded by about 200 armed Battaks, who showed a disposition to injure them. The kulís immediately threw their burdens and fled into the woods, with the guide and interpreter. The brethren being thus left alone, endeavoured to pacify them by presents of tobacco and cloth, which they took without being satisfied. The brethren then delivered up their pistols to shew their peaceable intentions, and the Battaks demanded the musket which Mr. Lyman's servant carried. The man refused to deliver it up to any but his master-his master then requested it, and delivered it to the Battaks; when immediately he received a shot in the breast and fell. Mr. Munson was then run through the body, and their cook, who had on a European jacket, had both his arms chopped off. The remaining servant then fled, and in two days arrived at Tappanuly. This servant is now in Batavia Roads.

"Those who escaped say, that they heard Mr. Lyman and his servant were devour. ed the same night, and Mr. Munson the following morning."

Messrs. Lyman and Munson were two enterprising and devoted American Missionaries, who had been deputed by the American Board of Missions to visit several portions of the Malayan Archipelago. They had visited Pulo Nias, celebrated for its slave trade, and were entering the Battak country, in Sumatra, when they were most inhumanly murdered by the cannibal inhabitants of that country. They have left disconsolate widows, (and one a helpless orphan,) whose agonised feelings can better be imagined than described.

BURMAH.

AVA.

From the following short extract from a letter recently received, it will be seen, that the Lord has been rejoicing the hearts of his servants in this interesting field of Missionary enterprise, by giving them to see the blessed fruits of their labours; several persons having lately made a public profession of their faith in Christ, and others being stirred up to make inquiries respecting the way of salvation. On the other hand, trials have been experienced, especially in the death of one of the female members of the Mission. May this dispensation be graciously sanctified.

"As the vessel sails this morning, I must be brief. I left brother and sister Kincaid well at Ava. Seven precious souls have, we trust, been redeemed within the past year, and have publicly been baptized by Mr. Kincaid within a short distance of the Golden Palace' of the Royal city of Ava.' Many are investigating the subject, and some, we trust, are genuine disciples, but secretly for fear of the rulers. The press was put up, and the first printing ever executed in that great capital was a tract entitled the Ship of Grace," edition 3000. I will send you a copy by and bye.

"You will probably hear from other sources of the death of our dear sister Cummings. She died in Moulmein Lord's-day morning, Aug. 3rd, of jungle fever, having been seized with it in the Karen jungle about a fortnight previous. She was an eminently devoted Christian, and one who lived near to God, and was ever anxious to do His will. But she has gone, and will be with us no more, and her happy spirit is doubtless mingling before the throne of God and the Lamb. Pray that this affliction may be sanctified to us all."

EUROPE.

Our readers are aware, that in London, in the months of May and June, are held the Anniversary Meetings of those noble Institutions for the spread of the Gospel, which are the glory of our native country. Among many we should rejoice to notice, we are able this month only to transfer to our pages the following.

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

On Tuesday, May 6th, the thirty-fourth anniversary of this much-honoured Missionary Society was celebrated, at Exeter Hall; the Marquis of Cholmondeley in the chair. Long before the hour of meeting the Great Hall was crowded to excess. Rev. Mr. Jowett opened the meeting by reading a form of prayer. The report contained much gratifying intelligence, though it opened with a note of lamentation over the decease of some of the earliest and most devoted of the friends of the Society-such as Lord Teignmouth, Lord Galway, Mrs. Hannah More, and Mr. Wilberforce. It then stated the income of the Society last year to be £52,922 1s. 9d., a sum exceeding that of the former year by £3,572. The legacies left during the past year have been £3,700. The entire expenditure of the year, including a sum of £2,000 to the disabled Missionaries' fund, has reached the amount of income, leaving only £934 in the hands of the trea

surer.

During the past year the Society, by the kind aid of divine providence, has been enabled to enlarge its operations in the Mediterranean, in Ceylon, and in the South Sea Islands. In Western Africa the mission seems to languish. In Sierra Leone the prospects of usefulness increase. In Greece and Smyrna the labours of the Society are greatly honoured of God. A Turkish school has been opened for boys; and though the school-master has been imprisoned by the authorities, yet such is the thirst for the instruction of their children among the Turks, that it is hoped that present difficulties will, in due time, be surmounted. In Egypt and Abyssinia the work of the Lord advances. In Calcutta, though a spirit of infidelity has been in active operation, the mission is there proceeding hopefully. At Madras a native female convert has shown a constancy in the faith of Christ worthy of primitive times. In New Holland the Gospel is making way; but the degraded state of the population, and the awful condition of domestic life, present great barriers to the triumph of truth, In New-Zealand a glorious work is advancing, and Sabbath attendances on the word would, in many instances, shame the inhabitants of Great Britain. A printing-press has been sent to that place for the use of the mission. In the West Indies the Society has felt the stimulus which all other missions have done, in connexion with the late measure of Government for the emancipation of slaves. Upon the whole, the report is very encouraging.

The meeting was much edified by enlightened speeches from the Bishop of Winchester, Colonel Phipps, the Earl of Chichester, the Rev. J. W. Cunningham, J. P. Plumptre, Esq. M. P., the Rev. H. Stowell, the Rev. Professor Scholefield, the Rev. J. H. Stewart, Sir Oswald Mosley, Bart., M. P., and the Rev. E. Bickersteth. The spirit of the meeting was in a high degree Christian, and displayed nothing whatever of a sectarian virus.

LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

The annual meeting of this noble institution was held at Exeter Hall, on Thurs. day, the 15th of May. The attendance was, if possible, greater than on any preceding occasion. The large hall was totally inadequate to accommodate those who sought admission; the lower room was then opened, and in a few minutes, crowded to excess, and hundreds were obliged to retire. At ten o'clock, Thomas Fowell Buxton, Esq., M. P. appeared on the platform, accompanied by several of the directors, and was received with enthusiastic cheering.

A part of the 65th missionary hymn was sung, after which the Rev. John Leifchild offered up prayer.

T. F. Buxton, Esq., on taking the chair, said, that it afforded him much unfeigned satisfaction to witness so large an assembly on the present occasion. But while he saw so magnificent a meeting, he could not but remember that at former anniversaries of that Society they had had a gratification of which they were now deprived. He remembered that when, on one occasion, he was urging the claims of the negro, his voice was drowned by acclamations of satisfaction at the unexpected arrival of Mr. Wilberforce. He (Mr. B.) would not speak of his (Mr. W.'s) wit or his eloquence: those were but the adjuncts to a heart abounding in love to man, and filled with the grace of God. How heartily did he (Mr. B.) respond to that passage in the prayer which they had just heard, thanking God for some who had left them, who had loved them so long, who had laboured so abundantly, who had finished so well, and who had died so happy. He had not the satisfaction of seeing Mr. Wilberforce at his last short visit to London, for an intimation was conveyed to him, by those who watched over him with unceasing solicitude, that a conversation with him, turning as it was sure to do upon the all-absorbing question of negro emancipation, might be too much for his feeble strength. But as he was almost approaching the agonies of death, he lifted up his emaciated hands, and said, "Oh! that I should have lived to see the day in which the country will give twenty millions of money for the emancipation of the slaves!" It was a singular fact, showing the hand of Providence, that on the very night on which they were successfully engaged in the House of Commons in passing the words, the most important ever used- Be it enacted, that all and every the persons who on the said first day of August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery within any such British colony as aforesaid, shall upon, and from and after, the said first day of August, 1834, become and be to all intents and purposes free, and discharged of and from all manner of slavery, and shall be absolutely and for ever manumitted; and that the children thereafter to be born to any such persons, and the offspring of such children, shall in like manner be free from their birth; and that from and after the first day of August, 1834, slavery be and is hereby utterly and for ever abolished, and declared unlawful throughout the British colonies, plantations, and possessions abroad"-about the time these words were carried, his spirit left the world. The day that saw the termi nation of his labours saw also the termination of his life. But let it not be supposed by any one that they gave the praise to Mr. Wilberforce, or to one whom they must call his worthy equal in the cause, Zachary Macauley, or to any man, the obligations which they owed them, but the voice of the Christian people of England was the instrument of victory: its Author, however, was not of human race, but infinite in power; and what his mercy devised, his fiat effected. On the first of August next what a change would be effected in one day! To-day a man would be a slave, to-morrow a freeman; to-day a chattel, to-morrow a man; to-day a slave, vile in his own eyes, and vile in the eyes of others, who must bow and tremble and look upon a fellow-being as a man of a superior order, to-morrow his equal; to-day no law but the whip and the will of the master, to-morrow the whole authority of Great Britain pledged to defend the smallest injury. Between the rising and the setting of the sun that glorious transformation would be effected.

He knew

W. A. Hankey, Esq., Mr. Baines, M. P., Rev. Dr. Heugh, of Glasgow, David Abeel, American Missionary to China, James Hill, of Calcutta, R. Knill, Dr. Burns, of Paisley, T. Lessey, and J. A. James, echoed the sentiments of the worthy chairman, and powerfully advocated the claims of the Society.

Letters were read from Lord Morpeth and Lord Bexley, stating their intention of being present at the meeting, and expressing their regret at their inability to realize it. The letter of the latter inclosed a check of £20 towards the Chinese mission.

SEPT.

DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES.

[Where the place is not mentioned, Calcutta is to be understood.]

MARRIAGES.

6. At Poona, Lorenza Moor, Esq. 5th Madras Cavalry, to Elizabeth, daughter of J. Bodington, Esq. Kenilworth Chase, Warwickshire.

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At Serampore, Mr. W. C. Barclay, to Miss Jane Bryden.
Mr. George Burnett, to Mrs. Frances Perry.

Mr. Joseph Chaplin, Watch-maker, to Miss Armstrong.

At the Circular Road Chapel, by Rev. W. Yates, Rev. J. Thomas, of Howrah, to Miss Butler, of Broseley, Shropshire.

4. Mr. William C. Breen, to Miss Maria Frances Paterson.

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7.

8.

10.

13.

Mr. H. Andrews, to Miss Mary Wittenbaker.

Mr. E. Bonais, to Mrs. Mary Crawley.

At Chunar, John Flemming, to Elizabeth, only daughter of Mr. Patman.
Mr. W. Jones, to Miss Jane Jones.

Mr. James Daniel, to Miss Amelia Macneelance.

Mr. John Wallace, to Miss Priscilla Dyer.

James T. Bush, Esq., 24th Regt. N. I., to Rose, eldest daughter of the late

Major McQuhae, of the Bengal Artillery.

15. Mr. J. M. Conell, to Miss E. S. Coles.

16. Mr. J. C. Pyle, to Miss Margaret King.

21.

Rev. R. B. Boswell, to Susan Anne, second daughter of the late Major-General Carnegie.

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1. At Jhossie, near Kurnaul, Mrs. Woodward, of a son.

5. At Chicacole, the lady of Major H. Sergent, commanding 41st Regt. N. I., of a still-born daughter.

9. At Jaunpore, the lady of Gavin Turnbull, Esq. Surgeon, of a son.

10. Mrs. F. Hutchinson, of a son.

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At Bombay, the wife of Mr. Francis Leggett, of a son.

19. At Sultanpore, the lady of Col. Smith, 3rd Light Cavalry, of a daughter. At Eleshpore, the lady of Capt. C. T. John Grant, 3rd Regt. Nizam's Infan

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At Meerzapore, the lady of Captain Spens, 74th Regt. N. I., of a son.
At Gazeepore, the lady of E. Peploe Smith, Esq. C. S., of a son.
At Goruckpore, Mrs. Augustine, of a son.

At Allahabad, the lady of Flemming Dick, Esq. C. S., of a son.

At Dum-Dum, the wife of Serjeant-Major Conner, Ord. Dept., of a son.

At Dinapore, Mrs. James Mackie, of a daughter.

At Moonghyr, the lady of Charles Steer, Esq., of a daughter.

At Allahabad, Mrs. L. L. Grant, of a daughter,

At Meergunge, Mrs. Allen Colquhoun Dunlop, of a son.

28. The wife of Mrs. Conductor Murphy, of a son.

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At Buxar, the lady of Lieutenant George Moylee, of a son.

1. At Chandernagore, the lady of T. A. Terraneau, Esq., of a son. At Allahabad, the lady of W. Lambert, Esq. C. S., of a son. Mrs. G. A. Perroux, of a daughter.

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At Sulkea, the lady of James Mackenzie, Esq., of a daughter.
Mrs. Delanougerede, of a daughter.

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At Commillah, the lady of James Shaw, Esq. C. S., of a daughter. 8. Mrs. Mary Carrow, wife of Mr. J. L. Carrow, of a daughter.

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The lady of Captain B. Trevel Phillips, 7th Light Cavalry, of a son.
Mrs. W. Greenway, of a daughter.

The lady of Captain R. Edwards, of a son.

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Mrs. D. Ross, of a daughter.

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The lady of Charles Hutchinson, Esq., of a son.

At Fort William, the lady of Major Digby Coxe, of a son.

17. The lady of the Rev. James Charles, of a son.

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11.

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At Chandernagore, the lady of C. A. Richy, Esq. Judge, of a son.

DEATHS.

At Canton, the Rev. Dr. Morrison, aged 53 years.

At Sholapore, Lieutenant W. Kirkpatrick, aged 22 years.

1. At Cawnpore, Eliza Mary, infant daughter of Lieut. Forbes, 15th Regt. N. I. 5. Henry Francis, infant son of Captain Thos. Polwhele, aged 1 year and 12 days,

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11.

At Neemuch, Augusta Anne, infant daughter of Captain N. Doveton.
While proceeding up the river, Captain T. L. Egerton, of the Inv. Est.
14. At Poona, Laura Charlotte, infant daughter of Captain Willoughby.
At Jaunpore, Isabella, the lady of Gavin Turnbull, Esq.

16. At Nusseerabad, John Nichols, Esq. Surgeon, 17th Regt. N. I. At Dacca, George Barnett, aged 11th months.

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At Bombay, James Morley, Esq., Advocate of the Supreme Court. 19. Lieutenant John Henry Taylor, of the 32nd Regt. N. I.

21.

At Agra, Mr. William Joyce, aged 27 years and 20 days.

At Lucknow, Mr. R. B. Middleton, late Jeweller.

22. Mr. G. Moor.

25.

At Secrora, Oude, Mr. Assistant Surgeon T. Clemishaw.
Jane, wife of Rev. W. O. Ruspini.

26. George, son of J. H. Mathews, Esq., Paymaster H. M. 31st Foot, aged 1 year and 11 days.

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Charles Henry Williamson, infant son of Duncan Williamson.

28. J. James Schank, Esq., son of Henry Schank, Esq. of the India Directors, aged 19 years.

30. At Mynpoorie, the infant son of T. R. Davidson, Esq., aged 4 months.

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Louisa Maria Trower, infant daughter of Charles Hogg, Esq., aged 7 months and 10 days.

At Bowanypore, John Dickson, Esq. aged 35 years 5 months and 2 days. 2. At Tettyghur, Mrs. Maria Dickens, lady of Theodore Dickens, Esq., Barrister at Law.

Miss Mary Margaret Brown, daughter of the late Mr. W. Brown, aged 14 years and 3 days.

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At Dinapore, the infant daughter of James Mackie, Esq.

6. Mr. J. Witchlow, aged 22 years 1 month and 25 days.

7. Mrs. Ann Statham, aged 29 years and 9 days.

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Mr. Charles Phillips.

9. Mr. William Mathews, aged 30 years.

11. Clarence St. Leger, the infant son of Mr. J. D. M. Sinaes.

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At Kedgeree, Mr. J. F. Smith, Officiating Deputy Post-Master, aged 24 years 9 months and 9 days.

Mrs. Elizabeth Sarah DaCosta, wife of Mr. J. S. DaCosta, aged 45 years.
Infant son of Mr. J. Harris, aged 3 months and 5 days.

16. Miss Jane Slinger, aged 23 years.

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28. Africa, Skelton, from London 23rd April and Madras 21st September. Passenger.-Mr. W. H. Rough.

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Mavis, Scott, from Hobart Town 24th March and Malacca 29th August. Passengers.-Mrs. Scott, Messrs. J. Thompson, E. Thompson, C. Thompson, Thompson, and Mr. Abbot.

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