excited, when none should exist. A little reflection should serve to convince every one, that the fact is directly the reverse. Nothing would so effectually tend to create an aristocracy of learning, as the total annihilation of Colleges. The rich have the means, and will at any expense give their children a liberal education. If they cannot obtain it at home, they will be sent abroad and will return with sentiments and feelings imbibed from those who may be alien to our institutions and unfriendly to our practical equality." In another place this same Committee observe: There are many considerations why it is desirable that Transyl; vania University should be fostered and sustained. It is at present under the superintendence of an able, enlightened and pious President, who gives universal satisfaction. He has succeeded beyond the most sanguine expectations of his friends; and the University is in a prosperous and flourishing condition."" THE BAPTIST GENERAL TRACT SOCIETY, At Philadelphia, is capable, by proper encouragement and patronage from the churches, to be a most powerful auxiliary in extending the light of truth. Only a very small portion of the American Baptists have yet been awakened to the efforts which are necessary to its ultimate success. How many churches have made their ministers life members? We urge on those who have omitted this pleasing expression of regard to their pas tors and patronage to the Society, immediately to render the desirable service, and thus enlarge the means of the Society. New Tracts are constantly added to the series. Two new Nos. extracted from the Church Member's Guide, now enrich the selection, and No. 93, on Salvation by Grace, is particularly recommended. A constant supply is on hand at the Boston Depository, Lincoln & Edmands' store, 59 Washington-Street. tist General Tract Society have in"The Board of Directors of the Bapstructed their publishing Committee, to issue in the form of a periodical publication, as many copies of each of ed for, at the rate of 300 pages annualtheir future tracts, as shall be subscribly for 50cts. payable in advance. The object of this arrangement is to enable many, especially in distant and interior parts of the country, who canthe Agents of our Depositories, to obnot conveniently get tracts through tain them by mail, without incurring too great expense. The postage on tracts, or (pamphlets not periodical, is 6 cents for 24 pages, or one sheet, over 100 miles. The charge for the periodical is 2 and a half cents, We same number of pages in a monthly shall begin with No. 93, 24 pages, On Salvation by Grace, for May. This tract is the first of volume V. The June number will contain the Martyrdom of Bishop Hooper, The Pious Apprentice, and others. We shall continue to publish a sheet monthly, containing one tract or more; and a sheet and a half, in some one month, so as to make 300 pages a receive tracts by mail, may obtain the year. Those who do not choose to same from our Agents, by waiting long enough for them to be forwarded in the usual way. We hope that the circulation of tracts through the Depositories will be greatly increased by this measure, because that thereby the character of our publications will become more extensively known. both ministers and others, to make an "We urge the friends of the Society, immediate and generous effort to obtain subscribers for tracts on this plan. "Any person remitting the pay of gratis, so long as ten continue to pay ten subscribers, will receive one copy through him. "Orders with the money enclosed, should be adderessed to N. Davis, Society, Philadelphia. Agent of the Baptist General Tract it, we will republish the whole of our "NOTE. Should the demand justify series in periodical form. "Editors of Baptist Periodicals will please give this a few insertions in aid of the design." [Tract Mag. Middlesex and Norfolk Missionary This Society held its fourth Anniversary at Framingham, on Wednesday, April 14th. The annual sermon was delivered by Rev. W. Leverett, of Roxbury, from 2 Chron. xv. 7. "Be strong, therefore, and let not your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded." After the sermon, the business of the Society was transacted, and its officers for the ensuing year, elected. The Society will hold its next Annual Meeting in the Vestry of the First Baptist Church in Cambridge, on the second Wednesday in April, 1831. Rev. C. Train, of Framingham, was appointed first, and Rev. H. Jackson, of Charlestown, second preacher. PHYSICIAN'S DONATION. Account of Monies received by the Treasurer of the Newton Theological Institution. The Treasurer of the Baptist For- Feb. 14. Cash from Rev. O. Traeign Mission Society, has received a cy, Claremont N. H. donation from a physician, it being in Mar. 1. A friend, by Rev. J. D. part the avails of business done on the Lord's day. If all, whose professional duties require them to spend a part of the Sabbath, occasionally, in business, would consider the avails of business on that day as belonging to the Lord, it would consecrate hours, which now in a measusre become secularized, and tend to advance the cause of Christian benevolence. 10. Apr. 20. $4,88 10,00 Knowles, Boston, by Rev. W. Leverett, 100,00 S. Davis, Newton, be ing his annual subscrip tion for 1828-9, 12,00 Henry Crafts, Newton, 3,00 LEVI FARWELL, Treas. Cambridge, May 17, 1830. DESIGNATION OF MISSIONARIES. On Lord's day evening, May 23d, Rev. Francis Mason was ordained, and with Rev. Eugenio Kincaid, was publickly designated to the Burman Mission, in the Second Baptist Meeting-house, Boston. Mr. Jacobs read select portions of Scripture; Mr. Grosvenor, of the First Baptist Church, offered the Introductory Prayer; Mr. Kincaid, one of the Missionaries, preached on the occasion; Professor Chase offered the Ordaining Prayer; Dr. Bolles, the Cor. Sec. delivered the Charge; Mr. Knowles, of the Second Church, presented the Right Hand of Fellowship, and Mr. Jackson of Charlestown, offered the Concluding Prayer. Mr. Mason's destination is Tavoy, and Mr. Kincaid's is Maulmein. The spacious house was crowded to overflowing, and presented a pleasing and impressive spectacle, while the immense congregation listened with deep interest to the sacred services. It is hoped the impressions made on the occasion may be indelible, and lead many to feel the importance of religion for themselves. On the following morning, a Prayer Meeting was held at the First Baptist Meeting-house, at 5 o'clock, which was crowded with a deeply interested assembly. The Missionaries about to depart, addressed the congregation, and a very deep sensation was produced. At 6 o'clock, the friends repaired to the ship, where the 225th Hymn in Winchell's Selection was sung, and prayers offered by the Corresponding Secretary; after which the Missionaries with their wives entered on board the Martha, and the vessel left the wharf, accompanied with benedictions, and fervent supplications for their safety and success. In consequence of the Treasurer's absence, the Account of Moneys received for the Mission is deferred to the next Number. Numerous donations have been received, and among them 50 dollars from the Hartford church, towards 1000 dollars lately proposed; and we solicit the donations of our friends to complete the 1000 dollars, before the first July, as the increase of the number of Missionaries, will of course demand increased funds. "Missionaries," on the Indian Question, is received. NOTICE. To the Journal of Education and Monthly Lyceum we shall hereafter append an advertising sheet, which will be called the Monthly Literary Advertiser,' and we trust it will prove a convenient vehicle for advertising such books as are adapted to general circulation, and for anything relating to the subject of Education. CARTER & HENDEE. THE JOURNAL OF EDUCATION, AND MONTHLY LYCEUM. SINCE the commencement of the Journal of Education, both the improvements and the wants of instructers have rapidly increased. It is at present, as it ever has been, the prominent object of this work to advance the one and supply the other. The importance of maternal instruction is coming every day to be more sensibly felt, and is fast assuming the dignified character, which belongs to its high responsibility. To the interest of mothers, therefore, the Journal will appropriate a portion of its pages. Infant Schools are forming a new era in the history of education, and they give a fairer promise than the prison or the gibbet, to rid the world of crime, as well as to fill it with knowledge. The wants of these public nurseries of virtue and knowledge, it will be the earnest aim of the conductors of this work promptly to meet. Instructers of Common Schools are every day rising in their qualifications, and of course in their character and influence. The wants of this numerous and interesting class of the community, the Journal will hereafter spare no efforts to supply, and make it the interest and the pleasure of every one to keep it upon his table. Instruction in Academies is assuming a more practical, and more elevated character. It will be the aim of these sheets to be worthy of the names of the instructers of these institutions, both among the subscribers and contributors. The American Lyceum will receive the attention which its great and increasing importance demands. The numerous branches of this popular institution require a common channel of intelligence; the Journal of Education is designed in its present form to suit this purpose. It is the design of the conductors of the Journal of Education and Monthly Lyceum, to make increased efforts to meet the wants and advance the interests of popular or common educa 2 tion, and by the patronage of parents, of the instructers and managers of infant schools, of teachers of common schools, of the conductors and members of Lyceums, and of preceptors and professors of academies and higher seminaries of learning they will be animated with the hope of making it, more extensively than it has been, a vehicle for useful knowledge, and rational and moral improvement. TERMS.-The numbers of the Journal will be issued the first of every month, each containing from forty to fifty pages octavo, at $3 a year, if paid on or before the delivery of the second number; otherwise, $3,50. Any person becoming responsible for four copies, will have the fifth gratis. CARTER & HENDEE. SCIENTIFIC TRACTS. To THE friends and promoters of virtue and of vice, of religion and infidelity, have alike resorted to "Tracts,' as the most direct and efficient instruments, to effect their distinct and opposite purposes. the cause of science and general intelligence, these instruments have not been so often, or so efficiently applied, as the nature of the subject admits or demands. By the frequent and urgent calls for information of a familiar practical character, fitted to the wants of the great mass of the community, and especially the industrious classes, both the expediency and necessity of a series of Scientific Tracts, designed to answer these calls, are clearly demonstrated. Under these impressions, arrangements are made for commencing, immediately, such a series, designed for the instruction and entertainment of Schools, Lyceums, and Families. It is a particular and prominent object of those who are about to commence this undertaking, to select such subjects, and to present them in such a form, as to render them pleasant companions at the firesides of the Farmer and Mechanic, at the same time that they hope to develope, explain and apply the works and laws of nature, to such an extent, as not to place them beneath the dignity of the accomplished Philosopher, or of the elevated Hall of Science. The subjects to be embraced in the proposed publications cannot at this time be very minutely defined; but the Physical and Natural Sciences, with their applications to the common purposes of life, and moral improvement, will occupy a portion of the pages, which will also be open to essays upon any subjects of useful knowledge, from the friends of Popular Education and rational improvement. The proposed Tracts will be published by Messrs CARTER & HENDEE, Boston, and conducted by JOSIAH HOLBROOK, with the aid of several other gentlemen who have engaged to contribute their efforts to the cause. Not less than twentyfour numbers, of a 12mo size, containing 24 pages each, will be published in a year, at $1,50 payable in ad vance. APPARATUS FOR SCHOOLS, ACADEMIES, AND LYCEUMS. To forward the operations of rational, pleasing, and practical instruction, one set of apparatus is prepared for common schools and another for Academies and Lyceums, under the direction of Mr Holbrook. The common school apparatus consists of an arithmometer, to illustrate to young minds the first principles and combinations of numbers; an arithmeticon, a printed sheet, designed for familiar illustrations in arithmetic, and also in geometry; a sheet of geometrical diagrams and one of manuscript letters, both useful in the first attempts of children at writing and drawing, and twentysix solids, five transposing frames, to change one figure into another, fifteen small cards to illustrate geometrical figures, with a small manual to explain the whole; a small globe to illustrate clearly and prominently to the minds of children the shape, motions, and a few of the great divisions of the earth, two skeleton maps, one of the world, the other of the United States; and a simple orrery to represent the comparative size, distances, and motions of the planets, with several moons. Price $10. The Lyceum apparatus consists of the mechanical powers, such as levers, simple and compound pullies, single and multiplied, wheel and axle, wedge, screw, and inclined plane, weights, and a hydrostatic bellows. $15. For Astronomy, are an orrery, more complete than the school orrery, a tide dial, an instrument for showing the cause of the antilunar tide, several for eclipses and change of seasons, and one to illustrate the flattening of the earth at the poles. $15. For Chemistry, are a pneumatic cistern, compound blow pipe, pyrometer, colopile, flexible and glass tubes, an iron cylinder, lamp stand, flasks, and retorts. $25. ECONOMY OF APPARATUS. THE general importance of ocular demonstration and illustration, in the business of instruction, is acknowledged by every one. But, to many, the expense is an objection. This objection is groundless. Instruction may be communicated, by the aid of apparatus, with one tenth part of the expense as with books. Apparatus is generally of such a character, that one set is sufficient for a school, while each pupil must be furnished with a book. Apparatus is durable and will last for a course of years, while books are perishable, and need frequent replenishing. Apparatus enables the student to comprehend a subject at a glance of the eye. Books require a long course of patient study, and then fail, in many cases, of giving |