Notes of the Month-Ecclesiastical. 269 SAWLEY.-On Lord's-day, June | mittance. On the following day the 14th, 1863, two sermons were children of the Sabbath and day preached on behalf of the Sabbath- schools had their annual treat. Tea school, by the Rev. Giles Hester, of | was afterwards provided for friends Loughborough, the congregations to which nearly 150 sat down. Colwere exceedingly good, many in the lections, including profits from tea, evening were not able to obtain ad- £12 10s. C. T. Notes of the Month. ECCLESIASTICAL. held its annual meeting in the evening of the same day, in KingsWe have occasionally given 'notes' gate chapel. The balance sheet in which no reference was made to showed that the income had covered, the operations of Baptists. This within a few pounds, the total exmonth we shall reverse the plan, penditure-£1,819 11s. 4d. This and devote our review exclusively Society has now been in existence to a summary of the annual meet- twenty-three years. The works ings of various Baptist Societies. carried through the press during First in importance stands the Bap- the past year were portions of the tist Missionary Society. Like our Scriptures in Hindustani, Bengali, own, it has not succeeded in keeping and Sanscrit. Mr. Buckley had out of debt. According to the completed his revised edition of the abstract of the report read by Oriya New Testament; Mr. Carter Sir Morton Peto at the annual has finished his revised edition of meeting, held at Exeter Hall, April | the Singhalese of the Old Testament, 30, the expenditure altogether and is now employed, during his had been over £32,000, which residence in this country, in revising but for a balance last year of the New Testament in the same nearly £4,000, and the kind language. Mr. Parsons is condonations of £600 of some friends tinuing his revision of the Hindi of the Society, would have left a New Testament. Mr. Saker has deficiency of £1,176 10s. 5d. The completed his version of the New actual debt, is however, little over Testament in Dualla, a language £500. Joseph Tritton, Esq., was spoken by 30,000 people living about in the chair, and the speakers were, the mouth of the Cameroons; and this, Revs. John Sale, of Calcutta; R. with Genesis, Exodus, the Psalms, W. Dale, of Birmingham; J. H. and three of the minor prophets, Millard, of Maze-pond; and J. has been printed. The Rev. Joshua Makepeace, of Luton. At the close Russell was chairman, and the of the meeting the secretary an- speakers were, Revs. W. W. Evans, nounced that friends present had the secretary, F. Trestrail, C. Carter, contributed towards the deficiency of Ceylon, T. Goadby, and J. Make£520.--The Bible Translation Society peace.-The Baptist Home Mission ary Society held its annual meeting | had been commenced since January, at the Metropolitan Tabernacle on 1861, with sittings for 67,555 Monday, April 27, J. C. Marshman, persons; that the total amount Esq.,in the chair. The secretary, Rev. actually raised since that time for S. J. Davis, read the report, from building and enlarging chapels, which it appeared that of central was £114,725; and that £96,172 stations there were 66, and of sub- was required to complete the stations 62; that 457 persons had been proposed chapels. The Young added by baptism; that there were Men's Missionary Association in 60 schools, 607 teachers, and 4,584 aid of the Baptist Missionary scholars. The total income for the Society, was held in the Metropolitan year was £1,700. The deficiency- Tabernacle on Thursday, April 30, £200-would have been greater but Charles Reed, Esq., in the chair. for a very liberal donation. The The Treasurer was deficient some speakers were, Rev. R. P. Mac- £24. masters, of Bristol, Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel, the secretary in place of the Rev. John Graham, absent through illness, and C. Stovel.-The Baptist Irish Society held its annual meeting at the Metropolitan Tabernacle on Tuesday, April 28, Mr. Alderman Abbiss in the chair. The speakers were, Revs. W. L. Giles, of Dublin, N. Haycroft, of Bristol, J. A. Spurgeon, of Southampton, and W. Heaton, Esq., of London.The Baptist Building Fund held its thirty-eighth annual meeting at the Baptist Library, Moorgate-street, on Wednesday, April 22. After tea, Rev. W. Brock presided. From the report it appeared that this Society had made three loans of £200, eight of £100, and three of smaller amount during the past year. Five applications had been declined because the trust-deeds were not correct, and numerous applications were still before the Committee. The ordinary income of the Society does not exceed £1,600. There was a balance in hand, however, of £45. From some statistics prepared by Mr. Bonser it appeared that 138 Baptist chapels The speakers were, Revs. A. Hannay, (Independent,) W. Brock, jun., N. Haycroft, and S. Coley.The Baptist Union held its annual session on Friday, April 27, in the Library, Moorgate-street, Rev. J. H. Hinton in the chair. His address was on the aspect of the Baptist Denomination in relation to union. After referring to the legal and moral obstacles in the way of union, Mr. Hinton shrewdly said in effect, that before there could be any amalgamation of the two bodies, the Particular Baptists must be more united among themselves. Among the topics brought before the notice of the union were, the resignation of the venerable secretary Mr. Hinton, denominational statistics, the Lancashire distress, the Baptist Library, Ministerial Provident Society, endowed schools, augmentation of beneficies, burying in churchyards, &c. It was agreed to hold an autumnal meeting of the union in some provincial town, and, if a suitable opportunity should arise, to hold one during the present year. The following resolution was also adopted: That the attention of the Committee be called to the Notes of the Month-General. GENERAL. 271 list of Baptist ministers who are The Prince and Princess of Wales accredited members of the Union, have done little else since their and that they be requested to con- marriage than attend entertainments sider whether any alteration in the in their honour. By far the grandest principle on which their names are was the one given at the beginning inserted in the list, or removed from of June in the Guildhall. Marvellous it, can be made with a view to the changes in the way of decorations increased efficiency of the Union.' were effected through the skill and taste of Mr. Grace. Upwards of 2,500 guests were present. Later in the month Oxford became the 'host' of the royal pair. In regard to this last, part of the programme was the conferring of the honorary degree of D.C.L. on the Prince and several illustrious visitors. Rev. C. Kingsley was set down for one, but through the narrowness of Drs. Pusey and Mansell at the Hebdomadal Board the Regius Professor of Modern History in the sister University had his as THE two discoverers of the source of the Nile, the potomalogical puzzle of centuries, have arrived in England --Captains Speke and Grant. Captain Speke has already been known to fame as the companion of Lieutenant Burton in his exploration of Zanzibar, where he was in imminent danger of losing his life. Captain Grant was wounded in the hand at the siege at Lucknow. They are both described as sun-dried and gaunt as grey hounds, with their long and wearisome travel, and speak of the fearful effects of the slave trade in the districts through which they passed.-The Parliament seems little busier than last session, and gives increasing proofs of its indisposition to agree to any decidedly liberal or progressive measures. Lord Chelmsford has again, in the House of Peers, shown his puny spitefulness toward Dissenters, and -thanks to the tenacity of the Duke of Newcastle,-has been defeated. The ig-'noble' Lord opposed the clause in the Bill for the management of the Duchy of Cornwall which granted permission to the Prince of Wales to sell land for Dissenting chapels, or minister's houses. He also objected to Dissenting ministers being called in the Bill 'spiritual persons,' a phrase legally applicable toChurch clergymen alone name The struck out. The undergraduates by the good news from Mexico. Puebla, after more than a month's siege, is in the hands of the French. The three powers-England, France, and Austria, have sent a joint-note to Russia on the condition of affairs in Poland. We fear but little practical good will come of it. Meanwhile the insurrection, or revolution, struggles on-the eye of some being strained with vain looking toward France for material help. The American conflict is still devouring thousands of lives. Vicksburg has not been taken by the Federals, and President Lincoln has had to undo the arbitrary acts of General Burnside at Detroit. The celebrated preacher - Ward Beecher, is now on his way to Europe for several months' furlough. His bitter speeches about England and English policy will greatly alter the reception which will be awarded him. Perhaps to those who think they are most patriotic when endorsing every slander against their own country — his presence will be wondrously welcome. But the man who says that America will never forget the Trent outrage, and will take an early opportunity of repaying it-can scarcely expect that Englishmen should give him the most cordial and national of greetings. Marriages and Deaths. MARRIAGES. June 4, at Camden-road chapel, London, by Rev. C. Bailhache, of Watford, Mr. Samuel Hield, of Leeds, to Mary, second daughter of the late Mr. John Heaton, publisher, Leeds. June 8, at the Baptist chapel, Princes Risborough, Bucks., by Rev. J. J. Owen, Mr. F. Percival, Upper Clapton, London, to Maria, youngest daughter of Mr. Samuel Adcock. June 9, at Dover-street chapel, Leicester, Mr. William Fowkes, to Miss Barbara Ann Reeve. June 11, at St. Andrew's-street chapel, Cambridge, W. S. Aldis, Esq., of Trinity College, to Mary, eldest daughter of Rev. W. Robinson. DEATHS. October 22, 1862, at Burton-onTrent, aged 67, Mr. Thomas Norton, the senior deacon, and one of the first members, in 1824, of the General Baptist church in that town. Our departed friend was much beloved, and having lived to see the desire of his life accomplished in the erection of a handsome chapel and the prosperity of the church, he died in faith and peace. March 23, at Heathfield, Halifax, Mary Ibbotson, last surviving daughter of the late Samuel Ibbotson, Esq., of Lower Spring Head, Clayton, aged 75. June 2, at Southampton, a few days after his return from Madeira, Mr. Wilberforce Cox, aged 30, youngest son of the late Dr. F. A. Cox. June 6, at Wolverhampton, aged 32, Rev. David Lawson Matheson, B.A. June 10, at Loughborough, aged 74, Alfred Elliott. His end was peace. June 13, at Llangollen, Mary, the beloved wife of Thomas Hughes, Esq., and only daughter of Rev. J. Pritchard, D.D. Fell asleep in Jesus.' Missionary Observer. EXTRACTS FROM THE FORTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT. Ir is a matter for devout thankfulness to Almighty God that at Cuttack, the first and principal station of your Society, no less than thirty members have during the year been added to the Church by baptism, while the local subscriptions for various objects connected with the Mission are said to be larger than in any previous year, amounting to nearly £400. At your other stations, encouragement is to be found not so much in the numbers added to the Church, as in sundry little incidents that have come to the knowledge of the brethren, which show that the light of divine truth is really spreading among the heathen, that the christian literature which you have introduced is being extensively read and pondered by the people, that many have ceased to worship idols, and are convinced of the truth of christianity, while here and there may be found individuals who secretly offer prayer and praise to Christ. sion. Your valued native brother Thoma, having honourably passed the usual period of probation, was on January 1st of the present year publicly set apart to the work of preaching the gospel. The service was held at Cuttack during the sittings of the Annual Conference. Thoma, on this occasion witnessed a good confesThe particulars which he gave of his early history from the time when a little child only four year's old, he went with his father and mother to Cuttack, and entered Mr. Sutton's school-of his boyish indifference to true religion and his subsequent conversion-of his first attempts to make known the gospel, his call to the ministry, and his purposes in relation to the important work, were alike interesting and satisfactory. BERHAMPORE. In accordance with the recommendation of the recent Conference at Cuttack, Messrs. J. O. Goadby and Thomas Bailey have removed from Berhampore to Russell Condah, and Mr. W. Hill has returned to his former sphere, after a residence of three years at Cuttack, where he had efficiently conducted the affairs of the Printing Office during Mr. Brooks's absence in England. Mr. Bailey writes,— At our last church meeting three candidates were proposed for baptism and three or four for restoration. а Berhampore for some time past has been getting smaller as European station; in fact we have not half the Europeans in the district that there were formerly. There will, we hope, be a slight change for the better, as the Civil Court for the district is to be placed here. Mr. Hill and myself have had something to do with this. We hope the change will in more ways than one be for the good of the Mission. We have been improving our chapel lately, and this week a friend sent us a small harmonium, for the English service, a very nice toned instrument. Miss Packer will play it. I have had to be precentor on all occasions, and when one has to preach as well, it is rather hard work, especially in the hot season. India, though the land of poetry is certainly not the land for much English singing. GIRLS' ASYLUM. Miss Packer says,-The past has been to us a year of great mercy, for we have not had asingle case of death or serious illness; in fact the children have enjoyed almost uninterrupted health throughout the whole of the year. Two of the elder girls have |