As this is the first inroad which death has been suffered to make in our Missionary Circle in Travancore, it has produced a deep solemnity on all our minds; and, I trust, an increasing desire to spend the remainder of our allotted time in the more diligent discharge of our duties, and with an abiding sense of the frailty of our lives. Our gracious God has, we are assured, ordered this event in wisdom and love, but, at present, we see not the end of His dispensation. Of all the Females attached to the Mission in these parts, we may safely say that her round of duties seemed the most completely filled up. It had pleased our Blessed Master to entrust more to her care, than to any of our other Sisters: more were depending upon her diligence and instruction, and many have to mourn her loss as altogether irreparable. Her death was most peaceful. She literally slept in Jesus. Our afflicted Brother heard not her last breath, but discovered only that she had ceased breathing; and, for five hours after, a smile remained on her countenance, well becoming one who had for ever done with sin and all its sad attendants. At the request of Mr. Chapman, the Residency Surgeon, whom Colonel Newall kindly permitted to attend our departed Sister in her last illness, the body was opened, and an abscess has been found on the liver: it was, I understand, unusually large; so that her sufferings must have been, as we know they were, most acute. Her illness began some weeks ago: indeed she had suffered from a liver complaint more than once before. At the commencement of her last attack, she herself took a large dose of calomel and applied twenty leeches, which so completely removed the pain, that she and her friends imagined that all was going on well. But she became so excessively weak, as to excite Mr. Norton's fears; and, on Monday last, they determined upon going to Quilon, which they reached safely on the morning of Tuesday. The journey she enjoyed greatly, continually admiring the serene and brilliant ap pearance of the heavens; but, on arriving at Quilon, she was nearly exhausted. Mr. Chapman attended her, immediately on her arrival, but found her so agitated that it became necessary to compose her, and means were adopted for that purpose. About nine o'clock on Tuesday Night, she became somewhat delirious; but at one, or half-past, she fell into a placid sleep, which gave our Brother much hope; and he blessed God and prayed that it might not be soon disturbed, hoping that on awaking she would be much refreshed. He himself dozed for a quarter or half an hour; and on rousing up again and bending over his beloved Wife with all the anxiety of an affectionate Husband, he could not perceive that she breathed. On taking hold of the hand, he found that the pulse had ceased to beat, and that the chilliness of death was creeping over the frame. The spirit no longer occupied it, but was gone to join the blessed company of Apostles, Prophets, and Martyrs, and to antici pate, with a joy which we on earth can but faintly realize, the blessed period when God shall have "ac. complished the number of his elect, and hastened (perfected) His King dom." It was always the wish of our Sister that her remains might be interred at Allepie. The body was accordingly brought by boat to Allepie, and ar rived early on Thursday Morning. An express had been sent from Quilon to us at Cotym; but the afflicting intelligence did not reach us till eleven o'clock on Thursday Morning: it was accompanied with a request that Mr. Bailey would perform the last office over the corpse of our departed Sister. The Rev. Mr. Jeaffreson had just left us for Quilon when the intelligence arrived, but the boat was within call; and Mr. Bailey and myself, accompanied by our friend Mr. Jeaffreson, went direct to Allepie. We arrived there a little before sunset. Our dear Brother was nearly overwhelmed on seeing us: but soon recovered himself, and became quite composed; manifesting a mournful pleasure in recollecting and repeating the sayings of his departed Wife: the kind attention and Christian sympathy and converse of Mr. Jeaffreson were a great comfort to him. The Service was read by Mr. Bailey; and, as there was a large concourse of people as sembled, most of whom seldom enter the Church, I was requested to address them. Our departed Sister has left a most pleasing testimony behind her of the value and power of Christianity. Her memory will ever be highly cherished by us all. In her diligent attention to her household, in her strong affection for the female orphans and others under her roof, and in her growing desire for the salvation of souls and increased interest in her labours of love, she is a pattern worthy of our imitation. But it was in her devotional spirit, manifested in her growing attachment to her closet and the altar erected there, that our Sister deserves especial imitation. The notes which she was in the habit of writing almost daily to Cotym, and particularly those written latterly, have breathed the spirit of deep and genuine piety. I returned from Allepie last night, leaving Mr. Bailey there, who will stay over Sunday, and will then bring our afflicted Brother with him to Cotym. Christian sympathy is, indeed, sweet-mutually so; and we find it a true saying, that it is betterto go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting. We beg your prayers, Dear Sir, and those of all our friends, on behalf of our Brother, and also for ourselves. Our lives seem to hang more by a mere thread in India than in England, and our enjoyments to be more precious from their fewness. Our kindred and our father's home and the dear land of our birth, are all at so strange a distance, as to excite many a suspicion that we may not meet again in this world. There is, therefore, a greater tendency to cling to those "dear delights" which are permitted us; and though we daily make an offer of them all to our Heavenly Father, and try to possess them as though we possessed them not, we tremble lest, when the hour of separation arrive, it find us wanting. Proceedings and Entelligence. United Kingdom. BRITISH & FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY, Caution with respect to Legacies. THE Committee have circulated a Notice on the subject of Legacies, occasioned by the late change in the Public Funds, to which all benevolent persons, who have left or may intend to leave bequests to this or other Institutions, should pay attention, lest their designs should be frustrated. All persons who may have bequeathed to the British and Foreign Bible Society, Legacies payable out of the late Five per Cent. Bank Annuities, are hereby respectfully requested to provide a substitute in their Wills, or by Codicils thereto, out of some other part of their PERSONAL Estate. And further, that, in all bequests of Stock, there be superadded, that, in case there shall not be any or sufficient money in the Stock named in the Will or Codicil to pay the said Legacy, that the same be paid out of the residue of the Testator's Personal Estate. however satisfactory, derive additional value from the prudence and discretion which have, in a remarkable manner, characterized this Association, and contributed, under the Divine Blessing, to its success. The Coventry Association has been attended, under the blessing of God, with a degree of success, which I scarcely dared to anticipate. The results of only TEN DAYS' proceedings appear to be the Scripture, except as he borrowed it, having completed his Subscription for a Testament, continued to subscribe for one for each Child, saying, With God's blessing, his Children would, in reading it, obtain peace to their hearts, and then they would find their wants in this world to be very few. The Eleventh Report of the Huddersfield Auxiliary Society contains a striking instance, communicated by a Collector, of the benefit of the Scriptures in afflic1615 tion, and of anxiety that others should partake of the blessing : 1116 2731 Amount collected £.118. 12s. Od. Before the establishment of the Northampton Association, in 1817, it was asserted that the inhabitants of the town of Northampton were, with only two or three exceptions, supplied with Bibles; and that, consequently, so far as regarded the domestic department, no necessity existed for such an institution. The result, however, has demonstrated alike the fallacy of this opinion and the efficacy of the means adopted. The number of copies already distributed exceeds TWO THOUSAND, and more than 200 Subscribers remain to be supplied. The total amount collected is 1113. 178, 24d. Awakening of Zeal among the Poor for the good of others. The re-commencing of subscriptions for the Scriptures, for the benefit of others, after the Subscribers have supplied themselves, is a most satisfactory evidence of the benefits received from them. On this subject, it is stated in the Second Report of the Hull Ladies' Association- The Committee have particular pleasure in noticing the frequent instances of the poor RE-COMMENCING a Bible Subscription. A very poor Woman, having finished her subscription for a Bible for herself, is now subscribing for a Testament for each of her Seven Children, in succession. In one Association, five Bible Subscribers, having completed their subscriptions, renewed them for Bibles or Testaments for others in their families; and, in another, a poor Man, previously without a copy of T A Young Man, in May 1819, subif he had been careful, and attended to scribed for a Pocket Bible, saying, that the instruction received when young, he should not have had to procure one now, by small subscriptions. He had associated with some wild young men; but, feeling such company and conduct had come to obtain work at Huddersfield. wrong, he had left Knaresborough, and ceived a Five Shilling Bible; and then In a few weeks, he paid for and rehe continued to be, about a year, when requested to be a free Subscriber, which he was obliged to leave the town for heard of him till about five weeks ago, want of employment. Nothing was when I 'met with him again at his former lodgings. He expressed much pleasure in being now able to procure greatest trial he ever had to leave Hudwork here, and said that it was the dersfield; but he found that God was his friend wherever he went. "The comfort which my Bible has afforded me," he added, "is unspeakable. When laid on a bed of sickness, without a friend to visit me, it was my only comfort. In my Bible, I found promises which suited every want: it raised me above the fear of death, and enabled me to REJOICE in the prospect of it. It is treasure worth a thousand worlds. I have been a good deal out of work; and, when tired and wearied with going about, I have taken my Bible, and there always found something to refresh me. No one can conceive of what benefit it has been to me." He then gave me a paper. large, and I offered to open it; but he It looked said, "You need not open it now." When I left the house, I found not only the last week's penny, but one for every week since he left the town, a year and a half ago-six shillings and seven pence. CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. The First Anniversary of the Bedfordshire Association. Ox Sunday, the 30th of June, two Sermons were preached at St. Paul's Church, Bedford, by the Rev. James Scholefield, M. A. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. The Annual Meeting was held, on the following day, in the County Hall; the Rev. James Webster,B.D. President, in the Chair. Movers and Seconders. The Rev. Professors Lee and Farish, of Cambridge; Dr. John, of Bedford; and the Rev. Messrs. Beachcroft, Neeve, Clarkson, Wells, Crespin, and Cooper. Collections, 231. 3s. 11d. Formation of the Blackheath Association. A Ladies' Association at Blackheath has contributed, in little more than six years, upward of 800l. to the Society. It being intended to enlarge the Association, so as to include Gentlemen as well as Ladies, and to comprize both Blackheath and its Vicinity, an Address was circulated preparatory to the Meeting to be held for that purpose. The Meeting took place on Thursday the 15th of August, in the Large Room at the Green Man, Blackheath; the Right Hon. Nicolas Vansittart, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the Chair. Movers and Seconders. Sir John Webb, and the Secretary of the Parent Society-Rev. H. Dûring (from Sierra Leone), and Rev. Andrew Brandram, M. A.-Rev. T. White, M.A., and John Cator, Esq.-Rev. W. Dealtry, B. D., and Jasper Holmes, Esq. jun. -Rev. J. H. Stewart, M. A., and W. Jenney, Esq.-Professor Olinthus Gregory LL.D., and Rev. John Sheppard, M. A.- and Lancelot Loat, Esq., and Rev. W. Dealtry. The Right Honourable Chairman, on accepting the office of Pre sident of the Association, which was requested in one of the Resolutions, strongly expressed the pleasure which it gave him to promote the objects of the Society; and the satisfaction which he felt in the prospect that increasing years, by withdrawing him more from the scenes of public life, would afford him more opportunity of aiding those designs which have a direct reference to an Eternal World. The Contributions at the Meet ing, including Benefactions and Annual Subscriptions, amounted to upward of 1701. Two Sermons had been preached for the Ladies' Association, on the preceding Sunday, at Blackheath Chapel, by the Hon. and Rev. Gerard T. Noel, when the sum of 571. 1s. 4d. was collected. This Association will come in aid very effectually of the County of Kent Association, the formation of which was announced in our Number for July. We should have there stated, that a considerable sum in Benefactions and Subscriptions was received on that occasion, in addition to that collected at the door. President, Right Honourable the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Vice-Presidents, John Angerstein, Esq. Gen. Sir Anthony Harrington, Bart. Treasurer, Jasper Thomas Holmes, Esq. Rev. Andrew Brandram, M.A. Rev. John Sheppard, M.A. Fifth Anniversary of the Shropshire The Rev. William Spooner, of Elmdon, accompanied the Assistant Secretary in visiting this Asso ciation. The Assistant Secretary the evening-by the Assistant Sepreached on Sunday, the 11th of cretary. About 734. was collected. August, at Wellington, WrockwarSeventh Anniversary of the Bewdley dine, and Upton; on Tuesday, at Association. St. Chad's, Shrewsbury; and, on Thursday, at Pulverbatch. Mr. Spooner preached at Whittington, on Sunday; and at St. Chad's, on Thursday. The Annual Meeting was held in the Town Hall of Shrewsbury, on Tuesday the 13th; William Cludde, Esq. in the Chair. Movers and Seconders. Robert Burton, Esq. and the Assistant Secretary-Rev. T. Oswell, and Rev. Edward Williams-Rev. R. A. Pemberton, and Rev. John Richards-Rev. John Benson, and Rev. W. SpoonerRev. John Mayor, and Rev. John King -and Rev. Robert M'Ghee, and Rev. John Langley. The Rev. Brian Hill, and the Rev. Mr. Jones, also addressed the Meeting. The Anniversary of the Whittington Branch Association had been held on Monday the 12th; the Rev. Charles A. A. Lloyd, Rector, in the Chair: and that of the Shawbury took place on Thursday, the 15th; the Rev. JohnMayor, Vicar, in the Chair. TheCollections were nearly 1201., and the general funds of the Association are increasing. Second Anniversary of the Yoxall, ton, and Hamstall Association. The Meeting was held, in the the 19th of August; the Rev. John Sunday School-Room, on Monday Cawood, Minister, in the Chair. Movers and Seconders. Rev. Edward Whieldon, and the Assistant Secretary- Mr. J. A. Latrobe, and Rev. Edward Burn-Rev. Mr. Havergall, and the Assistant Secretaryand Mr. J. Hambleton, and Rev. E. Burn. The Assistant Secretary preached in the Evening. The collections were above 207. Eighth Anniversary of the Birmingham Sermons were preached, on Sunday the 18th of August, at St. Mary's in the morning, and at Moseley in the afternoon, by the Rev. G. Hodson; and on Wednesday Evening, the 21st, at St. Mary's, by the Assistant Secretary. A Meeting of the Collectors was held, in the School Room belonging to St. Mary's, on Tuesday Evening, and was addressed by the Assistant Secretary, and the Rev. H. Düring (from Sierra Leone); the Rev. E. Burn in the Chair. · The Annual Meeting of the AsBar-sociation was held, in the Large Room at the Hotel, on Wednesday the 21st; the Right Hon. Lord Calthorpe, the President, in the Chair. The room was completely filled. The Annual Meeting was held in the School Room, at Yoxall, on Saturday the 17th of August; the Rev. Edward Cooper, Rector, in the Chair. It was very respectably attended from the neighbouring towns and villages. The Meeting was addressed by the Assistant Secretary, the Rev. W. Spooner, the Rev. T. Gisborne, and the Chair man. Sermons were preached, on the following day-at Barton, in the morning; at Abbotts Bromley, in the afternoon; and at Hamstall, in Movers and Seconders. Rev. Francis Blick, and the Assistant Secretary-A. S. Lillingston, Esq. and Rev. Charles Townsend-Rev. W. Spooner, and Rev. John HowellsRev. B. Howell, and Rev. H. Palmer -Hon. and Rev. Littleton Powys, and Rev. E. Burn. The Rev. Henry Düring was introduced in the course of the Meeting, and stated various gratifying particulars respecting his station at Gloucester, in Sierra Leone; and |