sionary exertions, and many other things, you go far before us; but, GOD being our helper, we shall strive to follow on, and imitate your example. I must leave room for MRS. G. to add a few lines. Remember us at a Throne of Grace, and when you cannot be more profitably employed, write to your unworthy friends; for it will give us pleasure to hear of you and yours, and how the work of GoD prospers. "I am yours very affectionately, "FREEBORN GARRETSON. "REF. RICHARD REECE." "DEAR SIR, "We were truly grieved that you should have left our shores without casting a look at Rhinebeck; and have not yet got over our regrets but the children of the kingdom must not be cast down at the parting scenes of friendship. They are painful, but transient. Soon, soon shall we meet again, to part no more for ever; meet in the kingdom of glory, to unite in the triumphant song of the ransomed of the LORD. We shall then behold the Christians of Enrope, Asia, Africa, and America. O what bursts of joy! what ecstatic rap tures shall we feel, when JESUS shall smile and bid us welcome to his dearbought heaven! "Our race is almost run. We are looking forward to our eternal rest; but not impatiently. We stay, I trust, to be made more meet for the heavenly inheritance. Our lot has fallen in pleasant places, and we have cause to say, all the day long, Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name!' My daughter joins in affectionate remembrance to yourself, and MR. HANNAH, of whom we both regret to have seen so little. Farewell, dear Sir; believe me to be, with much esteem, your Friend and Sister, "CATHARINE GARRETSON." As soon as I have an opportunity of preparing a further account of our visit to America, you shall hear again from yours, &c. RICHARD REECE. PROTESTANT PLACES OF WORSHIP IN FRANCE. PARIS, ON Sunday, August 15th, was opened for divine worship, in the English language, a new Chapel, under the patronage of the British Ambassador. It has recently been erected in the Jardin Marbeuf, Rue de Chaillot, Champs Elysées. The forenoon service commenced at half past eleven o'clock, and was concluded with a sermon by the HON, and REV. GERARD NOEL; that in the afternoon began at three, when a sermon was preached by the REV. MR. HAWTREY. This commodious place of worship is elegantly fitted up, and, it is hoped, will be well attended. It is very cheering to a pious mind, to behold the Gospel thus following those who quit England, that land of privileges, and repeating in foreign lands its gracious offers of mercy and salvation to those by whom they have been too often disregarded, and too little prized or improved, To professors of religion, whose business may call them to Paris, the following information may be useful. The public services in that capital on a Sunday, in the English language, are,(1.) At the Ambassador's residence; where divine service is performed in his Excellency's chapel, at half past eleven in the forenoon-(2.) The REV. MR. FOSTER, Chaplain to the Embassy, also preaches at three o'clock in the afternoon, at L'Oratoire, the French Protestant Church, in the Rue St. Honoré.(3.) The REV. MARK WILKS preaches, under the patronage of the American Ambassador, at two o'clock in the afternoon, in the Sunday-School room of the Oratoire. At Charenton, about five miles from Paris, where a colony of British artizans are settled at some iron-works, divine worship is conducted by the Rev. WALTER OKE CROGGON, in English, twice every Sabbath. The French services of the Protestant Churches in Paris, are, at twelve o'clock, at the Oratoire, and in the Rue de Billeter; and at eleven o'clock in the Protestant Church, Rue St. Antoine. NEWFOUNDLAND. "THE First Annual Report of the Committee of the Society for Educating the Poor in Newfoundland," is just published. We hope to find room in our next Number for some extracts from this publication, and for an account of the excellent Institution whose proceedings it details. THE CORAL INSECT. THESE animals vary from the size of a pin's head, or even less, to somewhat more than the bulk of a pea; and by the persevering efforts of creatures so insignificant, working in myriads, and working through ages, enormous structures are erected. Enormous we may well call them, when the great Coral-Reef of New Holland alone is a thousand miles in length, and when its altitude, though yet scarcely fathomed in twenty places, cannot range to less than between one and two thousand feet! It is a mountain ridge that would reach almost three times from one extremity of England to the other, with the height of Ingleborough, or that of the ordinary and prevailing class of the Scottish mountains. And this is the work of insects, whose dimensions are less than those of a housefly. It is perfectly overwhelming. But what is even this? The whole of the Pacific Ocean is crowded with islands of the same architecture, the produce of the same insignificant architects. An animal barely possessing life, scarcely appearing to possess volition, tied down to its narrow cell, ephemeral in existence, is daily, hourly, creating the habitations of men, of animals, of plants. It is founding a new continent: it is constructing a new world. These are among the wonders of His mighty hand : such are among the means which He uses to forward His ends of benevolence. Yet man, vain man, pretends to look down on the myriads of beings equally insignificant in appearance, because he has not yet discovered the great offices which they hold, the duties which they fulfil, in the great order of Nature. If we have said that the Coral insect is creating a new continent, we have not said more than the truth. Navigators now know that the Great Southern Ocean is not only crowded with those islands, but that it is crowded with submarine rocks of the same nature, rapidly growing up to the surface, where, at length overtopping the ocean, they are destined to form new habitations for man to extend his dominion. They grow, they unite into circles and ridges, and, ultimately, they become extensive tracts. This process cannot cease while those animals exist and propagate. It must increase in an accelerating ratio; and the result will be, that, by the wider union of such islands, an extensive archipelago, and at length a continent, must be formed. Red Sea. It is daily becoming less and This process is equally visible in the less navigable, in consequence of the growth of its Coral rocks; and the day will unite the opposed shores of Egypt is to come, when, perhaps, one plain and Arabia. derful provision which is made, deep in eyes on the important facts which we SIR THOMAS STAMFORD RAFFLES. THIS Scientific and public-spirited individual has lately suffered an irreparable loss by fire at sea. He embarked with his family on the 2d of February, at Bencoolen, in the Fame, for England, after spending many years in the service of his country, richly loaded with the fruits of his ability and zeal. Of the evening of that day, SIR STAMFORD writes, "About twenty minutes past eight o'clock, an alarm was given that the ship was on fire; and in less than ten minutes she was in flames: there was not a soul on board at half past eight; and, in less than ten minutes afterwards, she was one grand mass of fire! The passengers and crew, in two small boats, pushed off from the ship with all possible haste, as she had gunpowder on board, and no less than two hundred and fifty tons of saltpetre. SIR STAMFORD writes, "She continued to burn till about midnight, when the saltpetre took fire, and sent up one of the most splendid and brilliant flames that was ever seen, illuminating the horizon in every direction, to an extent of not less than fifty miles, and casting that kind of blue light over us, which is, of all others, most luridly horrible. She burned and continued to flame in this style for an hour or two, when we lost sight of the object in a cloud of smoke." After hard labour during the night, the boats reached Bencoolen in the morning. SIR STAMFORD says, "About eight or nine o'clock we saw a ship standing to us from the roads: they had seen the flames on the shore, and had sent out vessels in all directions to our relief: and here certainly came a Minister of Providence, in the character of a Minister of the Gospel, for the person whom I recognised was one of our Missionaries. About two o'clock we landed; and no words of mine can do justice to the expression of feeling, sympathy, and kindness, with which we were hailed by every one. If any proof had been wanting that my administration had been satisfactory, here we had it unequivocally from all; there was not a dry eye; and as we drove back to our former home, loud was the cry of ' GOD be praised! Of the extent of the loss sustained, some judgment may be formed by the following statement: "The property which I have lost, on the most moderate estimate, cannot be less than £20,000, I may almost say £30,000. But the loss which I have to regret, beyond all, is my papers and drawings; all my papers, of every description, including my notes and observations, with memoirs and collections, sufficient for a full and ample history, not only of Sumatra, but of Borneo, and every other island in these seas; my intended account of the establishment of Singapore; the history of my own administration; grammars, dictionaries, and vocabularies; and last, not least, a grand map of Sumatra, on which I had been employed since my first arrival here, and on which, for the last six months, I had bestowed almost my whole undivided attention: this, however, was not all;-all my collections in natural history, and my splendid collection of drawings, upwards of a thousand in number, with all the valuable papers and notes of my friends ARNOLD and JACK: and, to conclude, I will merely notice, that there was scarce an unknown animal, bird, beast, or fish, or an interesting plant, which we had not on board. A living tapir, a new species of tiger, splendid pheasants, &c., &c., all domesticated for the voyage. We were, in short, in this respect, a perfect NOAH'S Ark. All, all has perished; but, thank GOD! our lives have been spared; and we do not repine." The Milton MANUSCRIPT. THE unpublished Manuscript of a theological work by MILTON, which was discovered some months ago, in one of the public offices belonging to Government, is now in the press. It will be published under the express sanction of his MAJESTY, in the original Latin, and with an English translation. The Manuscript consists of above 700 pages. The Literati are waiting with eager ex pectation for the appearance of this important document. Relating principally to the FOREIGN MISSIONS carried on under the direction of the METHODIST Conference. SOUTH INDIA MISSIONS. Extract from the Journal of MR. HOOLE,―(continued from page 554.) SEPT. 3d, 1823.-I found myself in the neighbourhood of the great temple of CONJEVERAM; a Brahmin soon appeared, and offered his services to conduct me through the whole. I was first shown a Mandabam standing at a short distance, but directly opposite the entrance of the temple: this is a new erection, not quite finished, which, they say, has cost fifteen thousand pagodas, or about £5000. The pillars which support the roof are each of one stone, and at least twenty feet high, sculptured on every side with the figures of some of the Hindoo male and female gods. On returning from the temple, I was accompanied by a considerable number of Brahmins, to the place where I intended to pass the day. I drew out some Tracts, and entered on my usual topic, the necessity of the atoning sacrifice of CHRIST to make reconciliation with GOD,and give a title to heaven; some were attentive; but most of them did not seem to like the subject, and, upon the whole, they did not form a very promising congregation; however, the news spread, and by the time I had taken breakfast, a company of people had assembled, and I immediately recommenced speaking and reading, which I continued till noon, when I was agreeably relieved by the arrival of a reader belonging to the Church Mission. gave away many Tracts, and, as at several other places, found it necessary to deny the request of many who were not content with one or two, but wished a specimen of each sort. In a dispute with one Brahmin, among other questions, I was asked,-" Is GoD a Spirit? How then did he create matter? Is the soul GOD or not? Is the soul immortal? Then it is eternal, for what has no end can have no beginning; but if the soul is created it must have a beginning, and is therefore perishable." Most of them prefer to speculate and converse on such subjects, to having their own state laid open, and God's will concerning them pointed out. 4th.-I passed the middle of this day at Cauvery Park, where I found little de sire among the people to hear the Word of GOD in their own language, even from a Enropean. In the evening I arrived at Arcot, where I was kindly received by MR. SMYTH, the Chaplain. 5th. I preached in the evening to a small, but attentive Tamul congregation. 7th. I preached to a native congregation, in the School-house belonging to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, and in the evening to a good English congregation in the same place. 8th.-I returned to Arcot, and preached to the same congregation as before. In Oct. 14th.-After travelling all night, I reached Tanjore about half past seven o'clock in the morning. This was the grand day of the Desserah feast. company with MR. KOLHOFF, I called upon several of the European inhabitants, and in the evening was present at the procession of the Rajah of Tanjore. Oct. 15th.-I went, in company with MR. KOLHOFF, to see the Mission-Establishment and other interesting objects. We first went to the heathen temple in the small fort, where there is an immense statue of a bull, of one solid stone; but no account can now be obtained how it came thither. Several natives fell down before the idol of the temple, which called forth a very appropriate and animated address from MR. KOLHOFF, when great numbers gathered round us, and attempted to defend the practice of their forefathers. We thence proceeded to the temple of the living GOD, where there is a handsome monument, erected by the Rajah, to the memory of the venerable SCHWARTZ. My feelings were peculiar while mounting the pulpit where this man of GoD had often dispensed the word of eternal life, and while visiting the several places of his abode and usefulness. The name of SCHWARTZ, whenever mentioned, secures the highest respect from both the Europeans and the natives. The next objects of our attention were, the MissionSchools in the large fort, one English, the other Tamul; both of which are well attended. Afterwards we visited a poor sick Christian woman, and were much pleased on the occasion. On our return, we visited the Schools on the Mission-Premises, and also the Mission-Library. I was pleased to find a School wholly composed of native girls; some of them read exceedingly well, and are taught also spinning, and other useful employments. We finished our morn ing's excursion by a visit to the small Church in which the remains of MR. SCHWARTZ, and of other saints of the MOST HIGH, are deposited, where we read the inscriptions of affection upon perishing marble, but reflected that they are had in everlasting remembrance, and shall shine as the stars for ever and ever. CEYLON MISSION. THE following are Extracts from MR. NEWSTEAD's report of the state of the Candian Mission, made upon his leaving that Station. It is dated Kornegalle, Jan. 7th, 1824. JUST on the eve of my departure from a station where it has pleased GOD to grant me many mercies through the course of three years, I feel pleasure in communicating to you an outline of the general state of our work here for the last quarter. When I wrote last on this occasion, I had the pleasure to advert to the spiritual change which it had pleased GOD to work in the minds of some of the detachment stationed here; there were others then coming forward, under similar impressions, to request admittance into our weekly meeting, as a preparatory measure to being formally received on trial. There were eight in all who requested admission; two of them afterwards declined, but six, in addition to the four old members, continue to adorn their profession, and meet together for mutual prayer. They are now in Kandy, and under the care, so far as he can exercise it, of an excellent man, who acts as ClassLeader to those of the pious soldiers who are in the interior. Our Schools have continued, with one exception, to give tolerable satisfaction, both as to attendance and progress. One was adverted to last quarter, under the impression that it must be given up: some indications of a better attendance have given hope that it may be renovated and continued, and some new arrangements, in relation to its government, will, we hope, be beneficial both to the school and the villagers. The Kornegalle School, which was very prosperous recently, is at present reduced in its average attendance, by the indications of another unfavourable season, which we trust, however, will be merely temporary; but an unusually long drought has had a very unfavourable effect on the place generally, some having suffered in their health, and others having removed we feel a hope that it will, in some instances, dispose the minds of the people more to receive spiritual instruction, and earnestly pray that they may be brought to inquire, under the failure of their outward comforts, after "THE ONLY TRUE GOD, and JESUS CHRIST whom he hath sent."-By the blessing of GOD I completed my second Transla tion of the New Testament on the 3d of this month. We have held our first Missionary Anniversary, and, considering our limited numbers in the interior, under very favourable circumstances. The Agent of Government took the Chair, and several neat speeches were delivered. We have succeeded in raising five hundred rix-dollars in the year, which will defray about two-thirds of our school expenditure for the same period. The Report, which will be immediately sent to the stations, will give every informa tion. Meanwhile it is pleasing to state, that the Board of Commissioners have fully recognized the effort, as well as aided it, by letters received since the meeting; and, in a very handsome official communication from His Excellency SIR JAMES CAMPBELL, acknowledging a vote of thanks which the Meeting passed to him, the Mission is assured, that our establishment in the interior "may justly reckon on the continued countenance of Government, while conducted on the principles it has hitherto been." At the particular recommendation of our unvarying friend, HENRY WRIGHT, Esq., a proposal is now before Government, to transfer the ground on which our Mission-premises stand in Kornegalle to our Mission, under the seal of the Island a measure to which, both in Colombo and Kandy, the Government has expressed, verbally and by letter, its ready assent; so that only the necessary forms have to be gone through, (which are in progress already,) and no hin |