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Shore-by James Grattan, Esq. M. P., and the Rev. G. Clayton – by the Hon. and Rev. G. T. Noel, and J. E. Gordon, Esq. and by Robert Shapland Carew, Esq. M.P. and Sir Edward O'Brien, Bart.M.P.

Mr. Robert Steven and Mr. Wilberforce also addressed the Meeting: Mr. Steven entered, at some length, into the detail of his last visit to Ireland.

The Collection amounted 1831. 8s. 8d.

Receipts of the Year.

Auxiliaries and Collections.

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Annual Subscriptions...

597 3 0

2051 7 11

Legacies...

95 0 0

Collecting Boxes and Sale of Jewellery

37 11 7

Contributions in Ireland..

1190 6 10

Contributions from Parents of

Scholars......

921 17 3

Dividends on Stock

68 7 6

Ditto for Building Fund... Ditto for Foreign Schools and Missions....

Sale of Books & other Sources, 526 14

SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION.

THIS Society was established in the year 1803. Its objects are thus stated:

1. To stimulate and encourage those who are engaged as Sunday-School Teachers to greater exertions, in the education and religious instruction of nications to improve the methods of the ignorant. 2. By mutual commutuition. 3. To enlarge existing Schools, to ascertain those situations in London and its vicinity where Sunday Schools are most wanted, and to endeavour to establish them. 4. To supply Books and Stationery suited for Sunday Schools at reduced prices. 5. To correspond with Ministers and other persons, in the United Kingdom and Abroad, relative to Sunday Schools; and to afford them

such assistance, in the formation of Sunday-School and Sunday-School Unions, as the funds will permit: but in carrying these objects into effect, this Society shall not, in any way, interfere with the PRIVATE concerns of Sunday Schools.

The Annual Meeting took place on Wednesday Morning, the 7th of May, at Six o'Clock, at the City-ofLondon Tavern, Joseph Butterworth, Esq. M. P. in the Chair. Motions were made and seconded, respectively-by the Rev. Dr. Winter, and the Rev. Mr. Scott--by the Rev. Mr. Marshall, and the Rev. Frederic Monod-by the Rev. F. A. Cox, and the Rev. J. A. Coombs-by the Rev. Dr. J. P. Smith, and the Rev. Joseph Ivimey-by the Rev. Mr. Hillyard, and the Rev. Mr. Wood and by Mr. W. F. Lloyd, and

Mr. H. Althans.

Summary of Returns of Sunday-Schools. These returns have been received from the different Unions and Re

Tuesday the 7th of May, at the King's Concert Room, in the Haymarket, Admiral Lord Gambier in the Chair.

Major Close, one of the Secretalutions were moved and seconded as ries, having read the Report, Resofollows:-by Mr. Wilberforce; and Captain Peckett, of the Bengal Engineers-by Major Stratton, Commandant of the Oxfordshire Yeomanry; and Captain Pearson, R. N.

lain and Head Master of the Royal by the Rev. W. Terrot, ChapNaval Asylum; and the Rev. James Stratton - by Captain Hercules Robinson, R. N.; and Captain Bell, R. A.-by the Rev. Thomas Webster; and Lieutenant White, late of the 36th Regiment-and by Major-General Pritzler; and Rear Admiral Sir Josias Rowley, Bart. K.C.B.

with the Institution.

Receipts of the Year.

Unions in Wales.

Sabbath-School Union for Scotland....

Sunday-School Society for

Ireland......

Additions reported since

4,908 53,398 2567 32,766 296,041 173 10,58 93,017

181 12 6

101 3 0

Legacy..

5 18 2

Auxiliaries

and Bible So.

Sales, and Contributions in return for Bibles and Testaments...

434 1 5

£. S. d.

Total........ £.2040 4 2

Payments of the Year.

1621 12 1

1358 5 5

Payments of the Year.

Publications......

Grants to Schools andSocieties, Sundries...

72 4 9 101 11 7

Total........ £.1532 1 9

ports...

99 3 6

Salaries, Poundage, & Travelling Expenses

336 0 5

Sundries..

188 1 6

Total........ £.2065 10 8

LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

NAVAL AND MILITARY BIBLE SOCIETY,,

FORTY-SECOND ANNIVERSARY.

TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY.

THE following Sermons were

nesday Morning, the 8th of May, at Surrey Chapel, by the Rev. Dr. S. Hanna, of Belfast, from John xxi. 17-the same Evening, at the Tabernacle, by the Rev. Timothy East, of Birmingham,from Deut. xxxii.31. -on Thursday Evening, the 9th, at Tottenham-Court Chapel, by the Rev. W. Wilkins, of Abingdon, from Isaiah xxvii. 13-and on Friday Morning, at St. Anne's Church, Blackfriars, by the Rev. J. A. Stephenson, M. A. Rector of Lympsham, Somerset, from Luke xi. 2. Thy Kingdom come. A Sermon was also preached, in French, by the Rev. Cæsar Malan, of Geneva, on Tuesday, May 7th, at the Poultry Chapel, from Acts xvi. 9, 10; and two in Welsh, at Gate-Street Chapel, on Tuesday Evening, May the 14th, one by the Rev. Mr. Davies, from Rom. viii. 19-21, and the other by the Rev. Mr. Owen, from Ezek. xxxvii. 1-10.

At the Annual Meeting, held at Surrey Chapel, on Thursday Morning, W.Alers Hankey, Esq. the Treasurer,in the Chair, Prayer having been offered, the Report was read by the Senior Secretary, the Rev. G. Burder, when Resolutions were moved and seconded as follows:-by the Rev. Dr. Bogue, and the Rev. Joseph Hughes-by Major-General Pritzler, and the Rev. J. Leifchild-by Lord Gambier, and Mr. Wilberforce -by the Rev. Timothy East, and the Rev. Cæsar Malan (in French) -by the Rev. Dr. Collyer, and the Rev. J.A.Coombs-by the Rev. Mr. Robertson, and the Rev. Jabez Bunting by the Rev. John Campbell, and Lieutenant Jacobs-by C. James Metcalf, Esq., and the Rev. Dr. Waugh and by B. Shaw, Esq., and the Rev. Dr. Winter.

The following were the principal Resolutions :

-That the Report, of which an Abstract has now been read, be received and printed: and that the Society, now convened, desires to offer its most devout and grateful acknowledgments to

the Supreme Head of the Church, for enabling it, in obedience to the manifest calls of His Providence, to extend its efforts during the past year, especially to the large and interesting Island of Madagascar.

That this Society is most gratefully sensible of the obligations which it is under to the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, the Right Honourable the Secretaries of State, and other Mem

bers of His Majesty's Government, for the favours uniformly and readily afforded to its Directors in their Missionary Operations. Thanks are also sincerely tendered to the various Representatives of His Majesty's Government in the British Possessions abroad, for the

protection and encouragement granted to its Missionaries. The Society offers, at the same time, its grateful acknowledgments to the Court of Directors of the Honourable East-India Company, for the many facilities afforded by that Court to the Society.

-That the Society, deeply affected by the condescension and generosity of the Emperor of all the Russias, humbly entreats His Imperial Majesty to accept the interest which he was pleased to mathis expression of cordial gratitude, for nifest, when the greatly enlarged expenditure of the Society was made known to him, through the medium of His Excellency Prince Alexander Galitzin, in graciously ordering a Donation of Seven Thousand Rubles to be given in aid of its Funds. The Society also begs leave to embrace this opportunity His Imperial Majesty, for the numerous of tendering its most grateful thanks to favours previously conferred by His Majesty and his Government on the Missionaries of the Society, since the

establishment of the Missions in His

Majesty's Siberian Dominions.

Meeting be given to all the Ministers and Congregations, and to all the Officers and Members of Auxiliary Societies and Associations in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, who, by their personal labours and pecuniary contributions, have so essentially promoted the interests of this Society. In this Vote of Thanks to its numerous Benefactors, this Meeting wishes especially to include the President of the Tahitian Auxiliary Society, King Pomare, with the Chiefs of that and other Islands of the South

That the cordial thanks of this

This

Beas, and all the other Members of that Society, for their liberal Contribution (in addition to a former one) of the productions of their Country, amounting in its gross value to 18771. 3s. 7d. Meeting further recognises in this Vote its obligations to the Auxiliary Societies and Contributors in the East Indies; in the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope; in the Islands of Mauritius and St. Helena; in Demarara, Berbice, and the Island of Bermuda. The Thanks of the Society are also due to the Contributors in Russia, France, Switzerland, and other parts of the European Continent -to those also, who, in consequence of the Treasurer's Address in the Missionary Chronicle for January last, have made extraordinary Donations to the Society. The Society also returns thanks to all the Contributors in England, or elsewhere, toward the AngloChinese College at Malacca, the Missionary Chapel, &c. at Cape Town, the support of Native Teachers, and the Education of Native Females in India.

That this Assembly, fully aware that the annually enlarging operations of the Society necessarily require a proportionate increase of its funds, and earnestly desiring that it may be enabled to meet the future calls of Divine Providence for the Establishment of New Missions-does resolve and pledge itself, and recommend to its friends in the country, to use the most strenuous endeavours to augment the Society's Funds, especially by the formation of Congregational Associations (including Female and Juvenile) and Auxiliary So

cieties, in the several forms of which they are susceptible. And this Meeting earnestly recommends to the friends of the Society throughout the country, to employ their influence in establishing such Societies, wherever it may be practicable; and also to inform the Directors, in London, of those places in which such Auxiliaries may be formed.

-That this Meeting desires to express its most cordial and affectionate wishes for the prosperity of every kindred Institution throughout the world; and rejoices in the Christian Harmony which prevails among all the Societies and their Missionaries, both at home and abroad.

-That the Society, in concluding its present Meeting, humbly and earnestly commits the Officers, Directors, and Missionaries of the Society, with all its May, 1829.

important interests, to the care, guidance, and blessing of the Great Head of the Church; and being deeply conscious of the inefficacy of all human means to accomplish the great object contemplated (the Conversion of the World) does most affectionately entreat all the Members of this Society to abound in fervent and incessant prayer for a more copious effusion of the Holy Spirit, on all engaged in the work, that so the ensuing year may be more prosperous than the past, and more productive of Glory to God in the Salvation of immortal souls.

The Lord's Supper was administered on Friday Evening, at Sion, Orange-Street, Silver-Street, and Tonbridge Chapels.

The Collections at the different

places amounted to the following

While, however, the Directors cannot but feel that the state of their pecuniary

affairs is such, as to occasion anxiety, and to call forth the utmost energy in enlarging their funds, on their own part and that of the friends of the Society throughout the country, they encourage the assurance, that the disclosure of the threatened danger will prove the means of its prevention, by adding that STIMULUS TO EXERTION, which a conviction of its absolute necessity, acting upon the still higher motives which the Cause itself supplies, cannot fail to afford.

RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY.
TWENTY-THIRD ANNIVERSARY.

On Friday Morning, the 10th of May, the Annual Meeting was held at the City-of-London Tavern, at Seven o'clock; Joseph Reyner, Esq., the Treasurer, in the Chair. Resolutions were moved and seconded as follows:-by the Rev. John Clayton, Jun.; and the Rev. Mr. Roberts, of Tralee-by the Rev. J. Hillyard; and the Rev. James Marshall, of Glasgow-by the Rev. Frederic Monod, of Paris; and the Rev. Legh Richmond-by the Rev. Mark Wilks; and the Rev. G. Clayton-by the Rev. Peter Treschow; and the Rev. Mr. Thodey, of Cambridge.

It appeared from the Report, that the Tracts issued during the year had amounted to 5,222.470; being an increase of 388,700 on the number of the preceding year. Since the formation of the Society in 1799, the issues amount FORTY-FIVE MILLIONS, besides others printed abroad.

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The Rev. John Clayton, in moving the reception of the Report, adverted to a measure recently adopted by the Committee, of printing what are called the "Dying Speeches" of the unhappy malefactors who suffer the extreme sentence of the law. By this means, instead of the trash hawked about under this title, they are enabled to put into extensive circulation, together with an instructive account of the criminal, a variety of seasonable and salutary remarks. On a recent occasion, not less than 24,000 copies of one of these papers were circulated within the compass of a few hours.

Mr. Clayton related the following striking anecdote :

when the snow was falling heavily, a Some years ago, on a winter night, poor Woman, with five children, reached a village in Essex, just as a farmer's lad was closing a barn. She requested him to ask his master's permission, that they might pass the night in the barn. The lad did so; and the master, who was a humane man, ordered him to take a bundle of straw, and make them a comfortable bed. The poor woman felt grateful; and, wishing to show her thankfulness, asked the lad if he liked to hear a song: hoping it might prove one of a licentious she and her children sang one of Dr. description, he replied, Yes; upon which, Watts's Hymns. The lad felt interested. She asked him if he had ever prayed to God, and thanked him for the mercies which he enjoyed; and said that she was going to pray with her children, and he might stay if he pleased: the lad remainfor the mercies which she enjoyed, and ed while she offered up a grateful prayer intreated the divine blessing for him. He then retired, but could not sleep: what he had heard remained on his mind. After passing a thoughtful night, he resolved on going again to the barn to converse further with the woman: she was gone; but, from that day, he be came an altered character.

This account was brought to light on occasion of his applying for admission to a congregation of which he is now a member.

In illustration of the benefits which may be derived from intimations such as those conveyed by