ber 27, 1849, embodying the observations, during a visit to St. Augustine's, of one who has lately sailed for New Zealand in the true spirit of a Christian Missionary.

"The first requisite," writes C. J. A. to his friend, the Rev. Edward Coleridge, with whom, it is not too much to say, the grand idea of the College originated, and through whose exertions, aided by the munificence of Mr. Hope, it has been mainly established," to the successful conduct of such an institution is found there in the active, energetic, and fatherly care and superintendence of the Warden. Every one felt that he was under his watchful and considerate eye, and nothing seemed to escape him. From the servants upwards, he knew what each had to do, and saw that he did it. The studies, the amusements, the health, the spiritual welfare of the young men individually were objects of his interest and regard. From the tradesmen's bills to the cure of souls, he gave his mind to the least and greatest things in their due proportion. **** * Another most essential element is not lacking in the ruling body—and that is, a frank, hearty, and friendly sympathy with the young men. They know that they are treated as friends, and seem to respond to it, while still retaining their respect and deference. * * * * I had conversations with them about their present and future duties, and found nothing sentimental or merely enthusiastic about their views, but a stern common-sense yet devoted appreciation of their mission, which augurs well for themselves and the general tone of the College, as well as for those among whom they will labour."1

Such were the cheering prospects of the College, when it pleased God, in his inscrutable wisdom, to take the Right Reverend Warden unto Himself. He had returned to Salston for the Christmas vacation, apparently in perfect health, on St. Thomas's Eve, 1849. Early in the afternoon of the following day he was attacked with illness, while walking over his grounds, and conveyed to a farm-house hard by, where he drew three deep sighs, and expired (before medical aid could be procured), from the rupture of one of the vessels of the heart. He was buried at Thorverton, his native parish, on the Feast of the Holy Innocents, "by the grave of his father and of his mother."

No one could know Bishop Coleridge intimately, without admiring his habits of patient investigation, his practical mode

1 We take this opportunity of stating a fact which is not generally known, and which all who are interested in the Missions of the Church should bear in mind. The funds of this noble institution are far from adequate to the great purposes for which it is designed. A considerable increase in its vested capital is required before it can be carried out efficiently, even to the extent of its present limited accommodations.--ED.

of dealing with all questions which came before him, his straightforward honesty of purpose, his indomitable courage in facing difficulties, and his entire confidence in the strength of those principles by which his whole life was directed. Coupled with a keen sense of wrong, and an honest indignation at sophistry or injustice, his kindness and courtesy towards all men never forsook him. He was ever ready to put the most charitable construction on any doubtful word or deed. No harsh expression escaped his lips. It was his simple aim to do all the good he could to all men; and with a happy mixture of cheerful simplicity and (where the occasion called for it) of dignified reserve, he never forgot what was due to others, or to himself.

This distinguished Prelate's life was too much occupied with active duties to leave him time for the toils of authorship; and he published nothing but what seemed to arise naturally out of his office and circumstances. His charges and pastoral letters to his Clergy, his addresses to candidates for Holy Orders, and occasional sermons, abound in valuable advice and information touching the Ministerial Commission and its manifold responsibilities. They are deeply imbued with the spirit of the great masters of our Israel during the seventeeth century, in an intimate acquaintance with whose writings few theological scholars of the present day surpassed him. His extensive library was especially rich in that department; and he possessed a remarkable readiness of reference to his books, on all subjects about which his opinion or advice was desired.

It remains only to add that, both in the mother country and in the three West Indian dioceses, arrangements are in progress for testifying, in various ways, the high sense entertained of his important services. In addition to the erection of a tablet in every church in Barbados, a fund is being collected for the endowment of Coleridge Exhibitions in Codrington College; and his personal friends in England propose to raise a similar monument of their affection and veneration for his memory at St. Augustine's. They will thus add their united voices to the testimony of one whose opinion is on many accounts especially valuable: "I know too well (better than any but those who have witnessed them can understand) the immense services which Bishop Coleridge rendered to the cause of Christianity and the Church in the West Indies, by his untiring zeal and thoughtfulness for the various and wide-spread people committed to his care-by his support of his Clergy, and by his kindness and liberality to those of them who were poorto allow me to hesitate for a moment in helping to raise to his memory a tribute so appropriate as a Scholarship in a Missionary College.' S. W. C.

MISSION TO KURDISTAN IN 1842.'

ON Mr. Badger's arrival at Mosul, he transmitted the following Journal to England, containing an account of his journey from Constantinople to the modern Nineveh :

"On Sept. 30th, 1842, at one P. M., we embarked on board the Austrian steamer Prince Metternich, for Samsoon, accompanied by the Rev. H. Southgate, delegate from the American Episcopal Church, who has shown us every attention during our residence in Constantinople. To him I feel indebted for much valuable information concerning our route, which he has collected in two journies into Mesopotamia; and also for several hints about the Christians in those parts, which proved useful to us on our way; and since our arrival in Mosul Mr. S. has devoted much of his time in collecting information on the religious state of the Syrians, and I have lately heard from him, with much pleasure, that two other presbyters will soon be sent out by the American Church to labour exclusively for the improvement of this people. We took leave of our kind friend at Therapia, on the Bosphorus, and shortly after found ourselves on the troubled waters of the Euxine.

Oct. 2d, at six A. M., we reached Sinope, a small seaport town in Ancient Paphlagonia, where we remained but half an hour to disembark a few Turkish passengers. At one P. M. we cast anchor in the roadstead of Samsoon, and immediately went on shore. Notwithstanding that this is a place of growing importance, such is the neglect of the Ottoman Government, that it cannot boast of a quay or pier, and persons are disembarked there on the shoulders of men, who wade up to their middle in water to come at the boats. The remains of an old pier are visible on the beach, but, like most other things in this country, that which begins to decay is left to perish; nor does any thing but stern necessity drive the government to attempt any restoration. We were welcomed on landing by our Vice-consul, Mr. Stevens, to whom I had brought a letter from the ambassador. In a short time he had a Turkish house cleared out for our reception (a miserable habitation indeed, but one of the best which the town afforded), where we took up our lodgings for the night. In the meanwhile the Tatar made every arrangement, by hiring mules for the baggage, and horses for our party, taking in provisions, &c., that we might start on the morrow without any delay. I had been advised by persons who had travelled over our intended route, by no means to go unaccompanied by a Tatar; and now at the beginning, as throughout the whole

1 Continued from vol. iii. p. 414.

of the journey, we found the services of old Kusker Oghlu almost indispensable. After the bargain had been once. struck with him for our travelling expenses, it was his business to attend to the wants of the party without any further trouble on our part; and had he been a little more conscientious in discharging his engagement, we should have been spared some few inconveniences, and extra expenses, which his duplicity and avarice imposed upon us. But my own experience in Oriental travelling prevented any disappointment on this score, and I did not expect to accomplish this journey without very many inconveniences. Yet, after all, we had much cause to be thankful for the important services which our Tatar rendered us; without his assistance we should have frequently been obliged to remain without a lodging, more frequently without food, and still oftener should we have been imposed upon without any possibility of redress. His official or semiofficial character generally secured respect to our party throughout the journey, and added weight to the imperial firman which I had obtained before leaving Constantinople.

The population of Samsoon amounts to about 350 houses, or 1,750 souls, all Mohammedans. A crime committed by a member of the Greek Church some years ago, was considered a sufficient reason for the enactment of a law, which prevents any Christian from taking up his residence in the town. There is, however, a large village of 200 houses of the Greek communion, on the hills, about three hours from Samsoon; this village is reckoned within the diocese of the Bishop of Trebizond. The poor town of Samsoon, a seaport of ancient Pontus, is situated at the foot of a range of high hills, which line the shores of the Euxine from east to west, as far as the eye can reach. The hills are covered with a rank vegetation of shrubs and trees, and abound in fruit. The decay of so much vegetable matter renders Samsoon an unhealthy residence in Autumn.

Oct. 3d. After a hearty breakfast at the hospitable board of the Consul, we set off from Samsoon at a quarter past ten, A.M., our road lying over a hilly country well clothed with trees, particularly the stunted oak and several species of the acacia. In two and a half hours we left our baggage, turned out of the caravan road, and soon came to a refreshing spring of water. On leaving this resting place, we entered a wood, through which we rode for three hours, when a heavy shower coming on, obliged us to seek for shelter in a small Mussulman village of twenty huts, called Cagal Kioi, some distance from the main road. Here our accommodations were of the worst description, a sorry commencement for those of our party who had been unaccustomed to Eastern travelling. The Khan of the village

being full, and, moreover, open in every direction to the gathering storm, we were obliged one and all to take up our lodging in a hovel measuring about eleven feet by twelve; the floor of it was covered with piles of a small species of apple, which grows wild in the woods around. This fruit is gathered by the poor villagers, and sent in large quantities to Constantinople, and there used for culinary purposes. Besides the apples, a number of rustic implements, and huthold furniture of the most primitive description, were left to encumber the rooms of the poor tenants who had been dislodged to make way for our reception. Uncomfortable as we were under such circumstances, we found ourselves still more so during the night, from the annoyance of the almost innumerable fleas, which did not suffer one of our party to get any sleep until the morning dawn announced that the time was come to prepare for departure.

Oct. 4th.-Left Cagal Kioi at seven A.M. in a slight shower of rain, and in two hours and a half reached Cavak, where we changed horses at the Menzil Khaneh or post-house. Our journey hitherto lay through the continuation of the forest which we entered yesterday. The road was romantic in the extreme, but very uneven and rugged, and rendered worse by the rain which had fallen during the night, and which descended upon us all the way to Cavak. This village contains between thirty and forty mud and log huts, with a small mosque; the inhabitants are all Moslem.

At half-past ten we pursued our journey for some distance over a plain tolerably cultivated, and afterwards entered again a hilly district less abundantly covered with wood than that we had passed yesterday.

At half-past three P. M. we reached the small town of Ladik, romantically situated at the foot of a range of high hills, well covered with wood, which appeared to run S. E. and N.W. Here we were quartered in the house of an Armenian, where our entertainment was far better than yesterday. There are fifteen Armenian families in this place, who have a church and a priest. The Mohammedan population is calculated at 2,000 souls. Ladik contains two large and well-built mosques, about twenty smaller ones, and a convent or two of Dervishes. The minarets of the mosques, at a distance, reminded us of the spires of some village churches in our native land. Would that they were Christian temples! I observed that most of the Moslem here wore the green turban, a sign of their relationship to the family of the false prophet; and their being a privileged race accounts, I imagine, for the tolerable degree of comfort which reigned throughout the place. The houses here are better built, and the streets more cleanly and regular than those of any