to the missionaries, and in part also to their Esquimaux. It is very uncertain, too, whether our brethren there will meet with a safe opportunity for transmitting their letters and reports to us; whilst the lateness of the season forbids our making a new attempt to bring them assistance. "That they will be exposed to actual want of the necessities of life, there is happily no reason to believe; as they seem to have a sufficient stock in advance, of the more important articles of consumption, to furnish food for another year. But they can hardly fail to be subjected to hardships and privations of various kinds, and to the loss of not a few personal comforts to which they have been long habituated, and which assist to render bearable their life and service on that cold and cheerless and inhospitable shore. The letters and reports for which they are wont to look out so eagerly, we hope they have duly received this year also, it being the practice, to send these forward to the more distant settlements, by post-kayaks, as soon as the Harmony arrives at Hopedale."-Extract from Letter of P. La Trobe, Sec'y of Brn's. Society for the Furtherance of the Gospel to the Editors of the Moravian Magazine. 7. Br. and Sr. Edward Seidel, who, after a voyage of four weeks, arrived at Barbadoes on the 29th of June, have been stationed as missionaries at Sharon. The single brother Andrew Kremser died of yellow fever at Niesky, St. Thomas, on the 8th of Au, gust. 8. Br. and Sr. Juergensen and Sr. Gloeckler, arrived safe at Bluefields on the Mosquito Coast, on the 26th of July. 9. The widowed Sr. Mary Ann Collins in Fairfield has been appointed Laboress of the Widows' Choir at Fulneck. Sr. Elizabeth Garve was introduced to the single sisters' choir at Berlin, on August 16th, as laboress in place of Sr. Elizabeth Lemmertz, who wishes to devote herself entirely to the manage, ment of the large girls' school there. 10. Br. Charles Wm. Fliegel, co-minister to Br. Jæschke at Gnadau, has undertaken the whole of the ministerial duties of that congregation; but Br. Jeschke will continue to fill the offices of congregation-helper, Laborer of the married choir and Inspector of the school. 11. On the 20th of August, the congregation at Gnadenfrey experienced a providential preservation; a malicious incendiary attempt having been discovered before the flames got a-head. Å meeting was held in the evening in which the congregation thanked the Lord for his merciful protection. 12. Br. Theodore Reichelt, teacher in the boys' school at Kleinwelke, has been called to Fulneck in the same capacity. 13. Br. Frederick Fisher, who, on account of the ill-health of himself and his wife, has retired from the diaspora work in which he was engaged at Tuddelm in Esthonia, and taken up his residence at Gnadau, had an interview with the U. E. C. on the 2d of August. Br. Schopman from South Africa had a like interview on the 6th of August. The single Br. Christian G. Amende of Herrnhut has received a call as diaspora laborer to Ebersdorf. Br. Mohne from Christiania in Norway, and Br. Kramer from Locle in Switzerland, had interviews with the U. E. C. regarding the state of their respective societies: the former on the 1st, the latter on the 10th of September. Br. John Frederick Gneist, diaspora-laborer at Brieg, has been called to the same situation at Stettin, where our diaspora laborer, the single Br. John Gottlob Krause had been called home on the 23d of August, after a short illness in the 59th year of his age. 14. On the 14th of September, a deputation from our congregation at Zeyst waited on the King of the Netherlands, on occasion of his visit in Utrecht, and met with a gracious reception from his majesty. 15. The Church diet (Kirchentag) held in Berlin from the 20th to the 23d of September, was attended by the brethren Ernst Reichel and Croger, as deputies of the Unity's Elders' Conference, as also by some other brethren belonging to our congregations. Br. Reichel gave in a report of the proceedings on the 29th of September. We rejoice in the new life of the Protestant Church to which this assembly bears testimony, and pray that the fire may kindle and spread in everlasting circles. 16. Br. Schordan's Report of his visit, at the end of August, to the Unity's schools at Niesky was submitted to the U. E. C., on the 24th of September. The Pædagogium numbered 50, and the boys' school 95 pupils. The following youths have left for the seminary at Gnadenfeld: Christian Jensen, Herman Oscar Gruhl, Otto Leopold Garve, Otto Uttendorfer, Leonard Kessler, and Conrad Beck. 17. Married: On the 24th of July, at Kleinwelke, the single brother John Henry Lewis Miller, Warden of the congregation in Berlin, to the single sister Ottelia Schammer, teacher in the Gnadenfrey girls' school. On the 2nd of August, in Gnadau, the single brother Emil Herman Plitt, inspector of the seminary at Gnadenfeld, to the single sister Pauline Valentini, teacher of the girls' school at Gnadau.-On Sept. 18th, the single brother Jonathan F. Kramer, diaspora-laborer at Locle, in Switzerland, to the single sister Cecilia Malvina Schmidt, at Niesky. On the 20th he was ordained a Deacon by Br. Daniel Frederick Gambs. 18. Departed this life : At Herrnhut, on the 27th of July, the married Br. John Juergen Frederick Stein, in the 70th year of his age. He formerly was engaged in the mission in South Africa. At Herrnhut, September 11th, the married sister Fredericka Paulina Roederer, (m. n. Schneider,) in her 54th year. At Berthelsdorf, October 4th, the married Br. Christian Andrew Wuergatsch, in his 70th year, after faithfully filling the post of servant to the U. E. C. for 30 years. At Neusalz, October 2d, the widowed sr. Anna Dorothy Jahr, (m. n. Paulich,) who with her late husband was engaged in the diaspora-service in the Warthe and Netzbruch. Her age was 80 years. ARCTIC EXPEDITION. (From "Periodical Accounts.") AFTER an interval of nearly three years we have at length the pleasure to announce the receipt of tidings from our dear br. Miertsching. The anxiety for his safety, so long and so naturally entertained by his family, his friends, and his brethren both at home and abroad, is thus exchanged for gratitude and praise for the protecting care, and the delivering grace which he has experienced at the hand of his Gracious and Almighty Lord. His letter, written in great haste, on the night previous to the departure of Lieut. Creswell, the bearer of Capt. M'Clure's despatches to the Admiralty, is dated on the 4th of May, from Dealy Island, near the south coast of Melville Island. An extract from its contents is herewith subjoined. It will be found to present a correct and comprehensive outline, however hastily drawn, of the interesting occurrences and transactions, which took place between the 2nd of August, 1850, the time of the Investigator being last spoken with in Wainwright's Inlet, and the arrival of the sledge-party to which br. Miertsching himself was attached, at Dealy Island, on the 2nd of May last. The details of this eventful period, as given in the admirable despatches of Capt. M'Clure, will by this time be in the hands, or within the reach of all our readers; it is therefore quite unnecessary, to do more than make a simple reference to two facts which they disclose: The one is, the value of br. Miertsching's services, as interpreter to the expedition; the other, the manifest interposition of Divine Providence, by which a berth was assigned to him, in the first instance, on board the Investigator, and his intended transfer to the Enterprise, the vessel of Capt. Collinson, was subsequently rendered impracticable. He was thus brought into contact with the various tribes of Esquimaux, whom Capt. M'Clure discovered on the shores of the Polar Sea, and with whom there would have been otherwise no means of certain or direct com munication. Whether Capt. Collinson has met with any, is more than doubtful. As there can be little hope of the Investigator reaching England at the present advanced season of the year, br. Miertsching will in all probability have to spend a fourth winter in the arctic regions: in the prospect of which, he is again fervently commended to the faithful remembrance and intercession of all our brethren and sisters and christian friends. Dear Brethren : DEALY ISLAND, near the South Coast of It gives me much pleasure, to be able, after the lapse of three years, to send some further account of myself, however brief, and to inform you, that I am still in the land of the living, and enjoying very good health. Time and circumstances do not permit me to furnish a detailed report at this moment, which I regret the less, as I venture to indulge the pleasing hope of seeing you again in the course of the year. Meanwhile, I desire cordially to salute the dear brethren of the Unity's Elders' Conference, and of the Society for the Furtherance of the Gospel. It was in August, 1850, that we spoke Captain Kellett, of the Herald, in Behring's Straits, and sent letters to Europe by him. Thence we passed Point Barrow, and, on August the 8th, met some Esquimaux on the Colville river. On August 20th, we reached the Mackenzie river, and, passing Cape Bathurst, we arrived in Franklin's Bay on September the 1st, 1850. As often as circumstances permitted, we went on shore and conversed with the Esquimaux, whose language I found to be the very same as that spoken by our people on the coast of Labrador. Near Cape Bathurst we met with a great number of Esquimaux, with whom we had much intercourse. From Cape Parry, in Franklin's Bay, we sailed towards the North, surrounded by heavy masses of ice, and discovered land on the 7th of September, to which the name of Baring's Island was given. Passing through a channel of moderate width, named Prince of Wales' Strait, between that Island and Prince Albert's Land to the eastward, our ship was frozen in, on Septem-. ber 24th, 1850. On October 6th the British flag was hoisted on Prince Albert's Land. On October 26th, the North-west passage was discovered by our respected Captain M'Clure. The first winter passed very quickly and agreeably. We were much occupied in hunting, and shot several musk oxen, whose flesh supplied us with fresh meat. In April, 1851, three parties were sent out on, sledges; the first, towards the South, to Wollaston Land; the sec ond, to the North-west, to Banks' Land; and the third, towards the North-east, in the direction of Cape Walker. In May, 1851, I accompanied Captain M'Clure to Wollaston Land, where we found many Esquimaux. In July, 1851, the ice broke up; and in August, we sailed into Barrow Straits; but the ice prevented us from reaching Melville Island. On the 18th of August, 1851, we returned through Prince of Wales Strait, and, pursuing our voyage round the coast of Baring's Island, we reached the northern district called Banks' Land, in the beginning of October. Here we were frozen in on the day after our arrival in the Bay of Mercy, and thus began our second winter. In clear weather we could see from this bay Cape Dundas, on Melville Island. Numerous herds of reindeer are seen on this coast all the year through. We shot 112 of these animals, and two musk-oxen, besides many hares and ptarmigans, and thus obtained a temporary supply of fresh meat. In April, 1852, Captain M'Clure paid a visit, with a sledgeparty, to Winter Harbour, in Melville Island. With longing we waited for the breaking up of the ice, hoping to reach England in the autumn of 1852; but the short summer passed away, and the ice never moved. Thus we were under the painful necessity of spending a second winter, in the very same spot where we passed the preceding one. Captain M'Clure having ascertained that our provisions would not last till November, 1853, resolved to send twenty-six men, on sledges, to Port Leopold; and eight men, myself included, to the Mackenzie river, from whence we were to try to make our way through the wilds of North America, to New York. The 15th of April was the day appointed for our departure. Our sledges, clothes, &c., were all in readiness, when, most unexpectedly, joyful news was brought us, which made our arrangements unnecessary. On April the 10th, only five days before our intended departure, the Lord mercifully interposed for our deliverance. Lieutenant Pim, and party, from the Resolute, Captain Kellett, arrived on sledges, bringing the good tidings, that two ships were waiting to receive us. On April 15th, 1853, we left the Investigator, and, on May the 2nd, reached the Resolute and Intrepid. Our party consisted of twenty-nine men, occupying four sledges, each carrying a tent. For about two years, our daily allowance, on board the Investigator, was only two-thirds of the usual rations, so that we feel truly thankful, once again, to have a sufficiency of food. To-day, Captain Kellett is sending twelve men to Cape Spencer, to the North Star, and as soon as the sick and infirm of our ship's company are somewhat recovered, they are to follow. I am to remain here for the present. I enjoy the kindest attentions, and the best treatment from our respected Captain Kellett. To-morrow, the doctor is to accompany a sledge party to the Bay of Mercy to ascertain the state of health of the remainder of the Investigator's crew, and, in all probability, to bring them all hither. The health of the crew of the Investigator has been very good till quite recently, when scurvy began to shew itself. In three years we have lost only three men by death. I myself have enjoyed uninterrupted |