xample, p min & fee much redu othed in ger Wil fire was d his (Fri ms meet -room, fra O dollars i locality fr ase is a sad V. Joshua the in- vision of wn, and al attack lections £230. The cost is £8,350; towards have worked in reality we had a debt of £93 paid a large amount found it reduced to decrease in two years of the brethren burn, plause of the assembly We take courage fro determined to have al DORCHESTER.-The RETFORD, Notts.-We hear that a respected evangelical clergyman in the neigh-evening we had great bourhood is preparing a small volume of memoirs of the late pastor of the church at this place - Mr. W. Fogg -materials for which he will be glad to receive. Should any of our friends possess any incidents we The shall be happy to forward them. church at this place invited Mr. W. Hill, senior student at the Leicester college, to be their pastor; and he consented; but has since withdrawn from the engagement in order to go out to India. Mr. H. is now engaged to assist the pastor of the church at Stoney Street, Nottingham, for the next six months; and the church at Retford has invited Mr. Lee, of Whittlesea, to be their pastor, who has accepted the invitation, and enters on the engagement în April. ISLE OF ANGLESEA.-An intelligent correspondent at Holyhead says:-"You will be pleased to hear that the baptists are gaining ground in the island. Truth must prevail. The churches generally are making strenuous efforts to remove the burden of their debts. At Llanfachreth, seven miles from Holyhead, about a year ago, they resolved to clear off £80, and we believe they will accomplish their object within the year. Some time ago you published our desire to establish an English baptist cause at Holyhead. We have not given up the design. The Church of England people are making great efforts, having built a new church at a cost of £1000. We hope our English friends will aid us, for we need their help." MORCOTT AND BARROWDEN, Rutland.On removing to Louth, Mr. W. Orton, late pastor of this church, was presented by his friends with a silver inkstand, "as a token of affection and regard for his faithful services during the ten years he has laboured amongst them." I town was built in 1 £1,200-a heavy bu But they did not sit d do nothing, as the Encouraged by their tinued to work at the cox, a former minister successors Evans vigorously. The who purse of tar LYNN, Stepney Ch Dec., a public meeting room, R. Wherry, Esq in the chair, to comm of £370 debt on the s sum was raised princ exertion of the pasto friends took this opp their gratitude, by p silver coffee-pot, and grossed on vellum, ex abated confidence and years pastorate among NEWPORT, Monmo church, Commercial its pastor, Mr. Aitchi twenty guineas, as a t consideration of the ministers at the prese (Continued welcome reinforcement to the Mission. May GENERAL BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY. A NEW FIELD FOR MISSIONARY EFFORT. WHO WILL ENTER IT?-An experienced and judicious missionary, labouring for the American Board at Constantinople, has lately written to a friend in Boston in the following language:-" A new day is opening for the East. A Bulgarian gentleman, educated in Europe, a man of wealth and character, called yesterday to say that now is the time, and now the hour, to save the six millions of the Bulgarians. Russia has been so watchful in her protectorate, that to this time little could be effected. But now Russia is down; and, he says, Bulgaria lies at our feet. If we do not take it up Rome will; for the people have begun to hate the Greek Church, and show signs of revolt. I have long contended that the Bulgarians are CHINA. Several been presented to t pressing upon his L of securing to those teaching and preach tributing the Holy Sc promoting christian protection for life an leges of residence for lies, and liberty t molestation, their cl with the right of e chapels. The deput memorials were pre from the noble Foreig that, in the event o treaties, the subject s THE LYONS PROP Roman Catholic M founded at Lyons, Fr moving forward with its report for 1853, ceipts for that year dollars, which, with a ceding (jubilee) yes presented a disposab 1,000,000 dollars. Th ted to 850,000. Of th was expended in As America, 180,000 dol dollars in Oceanica, Africa. aptism near Preston-Mr. Compston ized as pastor of the baptist , Jan. 2, when Messrs Williams ton, Walters of Halifax, H. S. iverpool, engaged in the services About 400 friends sat down to hich a public meeting took place, e chair. Several other ministers nt and addressed the audience. is one of much spiritual enjoy. cative, it is hoped, of further n pastor and people. GN, Radnorshire. -On Wednes, Mr. T. L. Davies, late of the lege, Haverfordwest, was recogstor of the baptist church at this n Messrs. Ingham, Short, M. A., a; Blackmore, of Eardisland; Swansea, Mr. D.'s former pastor; ', B.A., of Leominster; and G. ok part in conducting the various proceedings of the day. RIDAN KNOWLES has been giving of lectures on elocution to the the General Baptist college, in y, Spa Place, Leicester. Mr. S. red three lectures on popery in erance Hall; and preached to ongregations in Archdeacon Lane RELIGIOUS. THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA AND THE I SOCIETY. At the annual meeting o Bible Society held recently in Edinb Lord Panmure, the chairman, suppl correction of Mr. Bright's Rochdale s anent the Emperor Nicholas and the E No mention of the name of Russia oce in the Society's report. Once, in Russia cherished and admitted the s tures: the Emperor Alexander countena the labours of the Foreign Bible Soc established one in Russia, and caused bible to be translated into Russ. Bright has said that the Emperor Nich is friendly to the circulation of the s tures: it is true he allowed the editio the translation permitted by the Emp to be exhausted; but he permitted further edition to be struck off, and further circulation of the bible in the ton of his countrymen; and he had done all could to limit the copies of the Gr Church, which looks up to him as its far These facts Lord Panm and its God. had ascertained through Mr. Robert H dane, the Secretary of the Society; they are the simple truth. A portion of Fins and cther inhabitants of Finland, GMELL'S, Pembrokeshire, -The the German Lutherans, have access to urch at Blaenywaun and its scriptures; but that was one of the c presented the pastor, Mr. J. P.ditions on which they yielded up th with a purse of £31 7s., on Dec. | country. But how had the Emperor trea V., during the twelve years of his the Moravians settled in the Crimea? Th went there to cultivate the soil and conv mas baptized nearly 600 believers. D. D. the Kalmucks; they made some way; Northamptonshire.- Mr. W. Sutwhen the harvest of the converts beg cognized as pastor of the baptist to thicken, the Greek Church with the this village, on Monday, Jan. 1. Emperor stepped in, and refused to all of Northampton, preached; and them to teach any further unless they wou ial tea the services were held, in teach the religion of the Greek Churc eral ministers took part, The consequence has been, that the Mor vians still cultivate the soil, but they ha ceased to make converts. COLLEGE. The contributions ect for the removal of this college dy reached £2000. A, Paradise Chapel. Mr. T. J. presented by his friends with a contents, after a social tea meetry 3. Mr. W. A. BLAKE, baptist minister, h been presented with a handsome watch an chain, in testimonial of his valuable service as honorary secretary of the "Soldier Friend Society." Cochdale spe Jews Russia occur Once, inde ted the sm countena Bible Socie nd caused t Russ Deror Nichels of the se the edition d the Emper permitted off, and t in the tong d done all f the Gree as its father ea? They with their to allow ey would Church he Mors hey have ..... 330 180,636 ....... appointed an old so teur, who sells Bibl small sums. He m sold 9,000 copies Swedenborgians Orthodox Congregationalists MR. CHOWN'S LECTURES TO THE WORKING CLASSES. We cannot forbear expressing a passing tribute of respect and gratitude to Mr. Chown, baptist minister, on the completion of his series of lectures to the working classes. We hold that any man who steps out of his ordinary sphere of duty to instruct and benefit his fellow-men is entitled to the public gratitude. Mr. Chown has done this, and has done it successfully. On twelve successive Tuesday nights he has stood forth to instruct more than a thousand people; he has spoken to them on a variety of topics-history, poetry, geography, politics, morals; and in doing so he has stored their minds with much useful knowledge, communicated to them many of his own beautiful thoughts, and impressed lessons of truth and virtue, which cannot fail in most cases to elevate and bless those who attended his lectures. Mr. Chown has made his lectures subserve the purposes of charity, as well as of instruction and entertainment. Giving them gratuitously, the receipts, after paying necessary expenses, have been han led to the Treasurer of the Infirmary; and it must be a proud thought to Mr. Chown that in this way he has been the means of contributing thirty-two pounds to this noble institution.-Bradford Observer. THE ROMISH CHURCH IN MEXICO consists of an archbishop, eight bishops, and about 10,000 inferior clergy of all sorts. It is the richest church established in the world; its landed property, mortgages, and rents, being estimated to be worth about 150,000,000 dollars, to say nothing of the untold millions invested in cathedrals and church edifices, which are of the most solid in so high favour general of the camp him to establish soldiers. One of the of formation; and the seven hundred subs month." THE BISHOP OF course of lectures Nottingham, to the rejoice to hear that t crowded on every oc GEN It THE CRIMEA, wh Russian empire, and the seat of the Tu peninsula, lying bet the Sea of Azof. towns, with an ag 90,395. Sebastopol inhabitants. The Sebastopol is compu pounds. The fortific than seven million p and naval stores ar INKERMANN, some Caverns, is a Russi vicinity the white ro of an extraordinary stances into chapels, These caverns, overl are by some suppose treat of early chris founded about 1790, DR. Cox, of New Y address on Ancient I Among some of the his audience, was person present coul hundred ancestors bimself and his par |