In August, nearly 3000 rupees had been contributed, about a third of which sum was annual. 4937-Travancore, 14,787-Tellicherry, 420-Print- || has been circulated, inviting co-operation. ing Department, 840-Secretary's Office, 420: making a total of 32,086 Madras Rupees (somewhat more than 36007.) for the Ordinary Expenditure. The Extraordinary Expenditure of the year is calculated at 5250 Rupees for the erection of the Seminary at Madras, and the same sum for the payment of the Premises purchased for the Tinnevelly Mission; making an entire total of 42,586 Madras Rupees, or about 48007. Of the success of the Mission, the Corresponding Committee write At every Station the Committee see, with thankfulness, some progress making toward the moral and religious improvement of the people within the sphere of the several Missions. LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY. W. C. Loveless, C. Traveller, T. Nicholson, Missionaries. John Apavoo, Native Assistant. Mr. Edmund Crisp, with his wife, sailed from Portsmouth, on the 8th of November, in the Windsor Castle, for Madras. The Chapels in Black Town and at Vepery are numerously attended. John Apavoo, brought up under Dr. John at Tranquebar, and baptized at Madras in February 1819, has the charge of a Tamul Congregation. The Schools of the Mission are now 21.. WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 1817. James Lynch, Titus Close, Missionaries. The Missionaries have Five Services on Sundays, and Service on Five Evenings in the week, in English and Tamul, and at various places. A subscription of 1000 pagodas, or 8001. has been raised toward the erection of a New Chapel in Madras. There are two Schools-one at the Mission House, and a second about five miles distant. The number of Members is 105. An Auxiliary Society contributed 2201. from Feb. 1820 to June 1821. JEWS SOCIETY. The Corresponding Committee, which we mentioned under the head of Cochin, was formed on the 23d of February. The Archdeacon is a Member. An Address Mr. Thomas Jarrett, a Correspondent of the Society, had long interested himself, || in this part of India, for the Jewish People. The Committee wish a Clergyman, conversant with Hebrew, to be sent out to India as a Missionary to the Jews. A Town, 35 miles south-west of Calcutta. Prankrishna, Native Teacher. This Native accompanied a Gentleman, who is in the Civil Service of the Company, from Moorshedabad. They both labour to do good, and with considerable success. Ceylon. In the means which are now employed for evangelising this immense Island, Schools occupy a place more than usually prominent. It is the opinion of the most competent judges, that, under the peculiar circumstances of its popula tion, the School System is the best possible means of introducing Christianity; and that ultimately, notwithstanding all present discouragements, it will, with the Divine Blessing, lay the foundation of Christian Churches. These discouragements vary, in their degree, on different parts of the coast; but they are every where considerable. The poverty of many Parents, which renders the work of their Children necessary; the indifference of others; the ignorance, both in Parents and Children, of good and evil; their prejudices against Christian Instruction; the power of the prevailing superstitions; the residence of the Children with their Heathen Friends-these, and other causes which might be assigned, occasion an irregularity of attendance, in many instances, which renders it difficult to carry into full effect any plans of instruction: and they produce, moreover, a counteraction, unknown in Schools in Christian Countries. The average attendance of Scholars is, in some places, as 7 to 10; in others, scarcely one half. The Missionaries, therefore, wisely caution their friends, not to expect more from these Schools, nor more speedily, than the actual circumstances of the case will justify. "Schools in England," one writes, "and Schools in India, are very different things. We have not the means here of conducting Schools, in the way in which they are conducted at home; and yet have all the indolent habits and wretched customs of the country to struggle against. Whenever, therefore, I have spoken of the PROSPERITY of my Schools, it must be understood only comparatively, and not as what would be deemed Prosperity in England: but my hopes are placed on the power and grace of God !" Nor will these hopes be disappointed. The Divine Blessing on the vigorous and persevering prosecution of Christian Instruction will gradually lessen difficulties and increase means: they will augment intelligence, and raise the tone of feeling, in the whole mass of society. In the mean while, there is abundant reward for the labour bestowed, in the manifest influence of the grace of God on some of the Children, and in the happy departure of others to their Eternal Rest. Cingalese Division. COLOMBO. The Capital of the Island-Inhabitants, 50,000. BIBLE SOCIETY. 1812. In its Eighth Year, the Society issued an edition of 3500 copies of the Cingalese New Testament, in addition to the first of 3000; with 2000 copies of the Book of Psalms, and 1000 of that of Proverbs. The Pentateuch was getting ready for the press. The Society distributes Tracts as well as the Scriptures. The statement of its last Report, on the circulation of Books, is as follows: The Society had distributed, in the year preceding, 1343 Bibles and Testaments, in English, Dutch, Portuguese, Tamul, and Cingalese; 909 copies of and Tamul; 363 Tamul Prayer-Books; and 403 copies of Greene's Principles of Religion, in English and Cingalese. The Press has been four years under the The increased demand for the Scriptures, as evinced by the greater number of copies distributed in the preceding than in the former year; the establishment of an additional Auxiliary Society, in a quarter of the Island where such an Institution was peculiarly desirable; the improved skill of the Gentlemen employed in translating the Scriptures on the one hand, and on the other the rapid progress making by the Natives in acquiring a knowledge of the English Language, which is so obvious as to strike the most common observer, both equally tending to weaken the great barrier to matual and unreserved communication; the unceas ing and paternal protection of the Government of Ceylon; and, above all, the powerful support of the British and Foreign Bible Society-are, at once, strong incitements to additional exertions, and pledges that those exertions will not be fruitless.. CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY. Abundant supplies of Books have arrived from the Parent Society. Books of Education to the value of 100l. were among them, and proved highly acceptable. A number of Dutch and Portuguese Young Men, who are Clerks in Public Offices, and are anxious to perfect themselves in English, have received presents of these Books very thankfully, and are likely to make the best use of them. The Cingalese Version of the Book of Common Prayer has been completed, at fered the fairest prospects. Some of the an expense to the Society of 400l. Members, in public employments, are scattered all over the coast. There are Progress is made in collecting Adult Congregations in the country, though it is but slow. The Bishop of Calcutta, in his Lordship's late Visitation, was pleased, besides a hand-28 Teachers in this Circuit. some donation from himself, to give to the Committee the sum of 300l., which is granted to him by His Majesty, on any visit to the Island, for the support of Religious Institutions-the money to be applied in preparing and circulating the So-Schools, and an edition of the Liturgy in ciety's Tracts in the Native Languages. WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY. W. B. Fox, B. Clough, Missionaries. The Members exceed 300. In the Cin galese Division, comprehending an extent of 130 miles, there are 5 Stations, 65 The Printing Establishment, besides furnishing publications for the use of the Cingalese for the Native Congregations, has been kept in a state of great activity by the Bible Society. A View of the Mission Church and Dwelling House is given in the First Number of a series of Quarterly Papers, which are issued by the Society. NEGOMBO. Twenty miles north of Colombo-Inhabitants, WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY. The Members in this Circuit are 70, and the Teachers 14. Among the Members are 38 of the Scholars. The Congregations on Sundays have increased. At Rellegalle, a little within the borders of the Kandian Territory, and between 20 and 30 miles from the sea, a School was opened in 1818. Permission has been recently given by Government, to form another Station at Kornegalle, nearly 30 miles beyond Rellegalle, and between 20 and 30 short of Kandy: a fine piece of ground has been there assigned for the purpose: buildings were in preparation, and a School begun. KANDY. About 80 miles east-north-east of Colombe-conSchools, 3947 Scholars, and more than 120sists of one principal street, about two miles long, Teachers of different descriptions. The Tamul Division has 3 Stations, 19 Schools, 931 Scholars, and nearly 40 Teachers. This number of Schools and Scholars was stated in the last Survey: there has been no new Return since published. with many branches. CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 1818. S. Lambrick, T. Browning, Missionaries. Mr. Browning's arrival in Ceylon, in September 1820, was stated in the last Survey. Permission having been given him by Government to join Mr. Lambrick, he and Mrs. Browning lett Nellore on the 13th of October; and reached Kandy, by way of Negombo, on the 28th. The Archdeacon of Colombo writes, in reference to this measure Some of the Missionaries have assisted in the Translation of the Scriptures. Mr. Clough has a series of Sermons in the press, in Cingalese, to be read where the Missionaries cannot attend: he is also preparing a Cingalese and English Dictionary. School Dictionaries and Vocabularies, in Cingalese and English, and in The junction of Mr. Browning with Mr. LamCeylon-Portuguese and English, have been published by Mr. Fox and Mr. Cal-brick is most auspicious, and bears the appearance of a solid establishment of Church Missionaries laway. in Kandy. Colombo Station. In addition to two English Services on This Circuit seems always to have of the Sunday, Mr. Lambrick began a Cin galese Service on the 28th of Januarythe first time, probably, that the joyful sound of Salvation was ever proclaimed in this city in the Native Tongue: the hearers were very attentive, but they are yet few in number. WESLEY AN MISSIONARY SOCIETY. John M Kenny, Missionary. John Anthoniez, Assistant. There are here 16 Members, and in the Circuit 28 Teachers. The neighbourhood encouraged by the Native Headmen. is very populous. Missionary Efforts are On the 28th of January a New Church heard Sermons in four languages. was opened; when large Congregations lese Congregations are attentive: the CinThe English, Portuguese, and Cingagalese hearers have increased. There is less facility in Kandy for establishing Native Schools, than on the coast. Most of the inhabitants are not Native Kandians, but Strangers from the low countries and Moormen. The Strangers are unsettled in their habits, and the Moormen are prejudiced against Christians; while the proper Kandians are not only suspicious of Europeans, but have no secular motive to stimulate them to commit their Children to them for education. The Missionaries are, however, fully convinced, that it is by the means of Schools that they must, under all discouragements, endeavour to gain access to the minds of the people. A small beginning had been made toward a School for Native Boys and another for Girls. Three destitute Boys had been received, to be maintained and educated: the Mis-superior class by Christian Worship theresionaries say, on this subject We beg to be permitted to add Nine more to these Three, in the hope that they may be watered by the Holy Spirit, and become a little Nursery of Kandian Christians. Our Readers were apprised, at p. 525 of the last Volume, that the Society has re-opened its School Fund in behalf of Ceylon Children; and that some friends at Bristol have liberally taken the lead therein. The Cingalese of the Interior is pure and colloquial, unmixed with foreign terms. Mr. Lambrick's constant aim has been to acquire the style intelligible to the body of the people. The present Cingalese Version appears to have the same relation to the unmixed Cingalese, as Martyn's Hindoostance Testament has to the colloquial Hindee. The work on which Mr. Bowley has been so usefully employed, in reducing the mixed Hindoostance to the colloquial Hindee, must probably be imitated in the reduction of the Cingalese of the coast to the language of the Kandian Provinces. To a Grammar and Dictionary of the Cingalese, Mr. Lambrick hopes to add Exercises and Dialogues. Application was about to be made to Government for the grant of a piece of ground, for the formation of a Missionary Establishment. A Dwelling House, a School House, and a Printing Office were in contemplation. CALTURA. A village about 27 miles south of Colombo. Buddhism makes great efforts, in sere-establish its power. Devil Ceremonies, cret, in several parts of this district, to which are inconsistent with Buddhism, are more frequent than Ceremonies at the Buddhist Temples: nor does it appear that Buddhism maintains so commanding an influence as to venture to forbid or repress them. An evidence of the diffusion of light among these people may be traced, in Mr. M'Kenny's being called on to sanctify a new built native house of a in, instead of the owner having recourse to the Devil Worship customary on entering a new habitation. In March, the Seven Schools which had been formed had an average attendance of 159 Scholars: the number on the books, and who occasionally came under instruction, was nearly double. These Schools are on the National System, which seems learn with quickness, readily comprehend greatly to interest the Children: they their lessons, and will answer questions on what they learn from the Scriptures with remarkable correctness. Several of them have been observed to be much affected by the Truth. Some of the Girls attend with seriousness to what they are taught: one, who had married, sent for the || and intellect are, however, more strikingMissionaries on her dying bed; and, byly manifest in the Children of this Station, her testimony to the value of what she than in most other places. The Schools had been taught, greatly strengthened meet with little opposition. their hands. BATTICALOE. A Town on the east coast, about 60 miles from Joseph Roberts, Missionary. This Station, long vacant by the death of Mr. Ault, has been but recently re-ocThe Heathen Population is nu merous in the vicinity. This is, however, a dark and dreary region. The people are chiefly Protestant Christians by profession; but they have been so long without instruction, that they may with much more propriety be called Heathens. Some regard is now paid to the Sabbath, and idolatrous ceremonies are less frequent; but, at midnight, the Missionaries still hear the noise of their as-cupied. semblies, when, in the presence of the most frightful of the Devils, whom, through fear, these people worship, they present their offerings, and bind themselves by the most awful vows. Promising appearances in one or two Adults awakened hope concerning them; but they soon sunk back into the apathy and worldly-mindedness which characterize this people. gross darkness which hangs over them is, however, gradually dispersing; but patience must here have her perfect work, until the arm of the Lord be revealed. GALLE, The A Town 75 miles south of Colombo. WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY. J. Callaway, S. Allen, Missionaries. The Missionaries here agree with those Tamul Division. TRINCOMALEE. A Town on the north-east coast. WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY. Robert Carver, Missionary. A New Chapel was erecting. finished, there were to be regular Services in English, Portuguese, and Tamul. When The Members are 14, and the Teachers 4. The Scholars were orderly and improving. Instances of firm trust in Christ had appeared among Adults, in their dying hours. TILLIPALLY. at Baddagamme, in the character given of Daniel Poor, H. Woodward, Missionaries. the people. They state that the prejudices created by Devil Worship and Buddhism have operated to a great extent in this BATTICOTTA. 1817. district; and that the country to the north- B. C. Meigs, Jas. Richards, Missionaries. ward of Galle is perhaps the most deeply sunk in Devil Worship of any part of the Island. The Members are 18, and the Teachers 20. Divine power accompanies the Word. There are some causes of complaint in reference to a few of the Schools; but, on the whole, the progress of the Children is very encouraging. MATURA, A Village about 100 miles south-south-east of WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY. Alexander Hume, Missionary. 21. This Station is famous for Buddhism, Priests, Temples, and Cingalese Learning; though the Villages are remarkable for ignorance and superstition. Genius OODOOVILLE. 1820. Miron Winslow, Levi Spalding, Missionaries. PANDITERIPO. 1820. John Scudder, M. D. Missionary. AMERICAN BOARD OF MISSIONS. These four Stations are within a few miles of the Town of Jaffna. Two of them have been recently added-Mr. Winslow and Mr. Spalding settling at Oodooville in June 1820, and Dr. Scudder at Panditeripo in July: having pursued a course of study with reference to the Ministry, Dr. Scudder had been licensed to preach. Mr. James Garrett, a Printer, arrived in August 1820, from America, by way of Tranquebar. Not obtaining permission, however, to settle in the Island, he returned to Tranquebar in December, |