Wardens, and Vestrymen of the said Church. By William White, D. D. Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. 1825. pp. 24. Philadelphia. William Stavely. MISCELLANEOUS. The Art of Epistolary Composition, or Models of Letters, Billets, Bilis of Exchange, Bills of Lading, Invoices, &c. with Preliminary Instructions and Notes. To which are added a collection of Fables intended as exercises for pupils learning the French Language; a series of Letters between a Cadet and his Father, describing the system pursued at the American Literary, Scientific, and Military Academy, at Middletown, Conn. With some account of that place; and a Discourse on Education, by Capt. Alden Partridge, Superintendent of the Academy. By Francis Peyre-ferry, Professor of the French Language in the Academy. Middletown, Conn. E. & H. Clark. Adam's Latin Grammar Abridged and arranged in a course of Practical Lessons, adapted to the capacity of Young Learners. To which is added Rules of Pronunciation in reading Latin. By William Russell. Second Edition, New Haven. A. H. Maltby & Co. Elements of Electricity, Magnetism, and Electro-Magnetism, embracing the late Discoveries and Improvements, digested into the form of a Treatise; being the Second Part of a Course of Natural Philosophy, compiled for the Use of the Students of the University at Cambridge, New England. By John Farrar, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. 8vo. pp. 395. Boston. Cummings, Hilliard, & Co. Elements of Eistory, Ancient and Modern: with Historical Charts. By J. E. Worcester. 1826. 12mo. pp. 324. Boston. Cummings, Hilliard, & Co. The American Speaker, or Exer cises in Rhetoric: being a Selection of Speeches, Dialogues, and Poetry, from the best American and English sources, suitable for Recitation. 1826. 12mo. pp. 444. Boston. Cummings, Hilliard, & Co. A Peep at the Pilgrims in Sixteen Hundred and Thirty-six; a Tale of Olden Times. By the Author of divers unfinished Manuscripts. 2 vols. 12mo. Second edition Boston. Well & Lilly. Miscellaneous Poems, selected from the United States Literary Gazette. 18mo pp. 172. Boston. Cummings, Hilliard, & Co. and Harrison Gray. History of a Voyage to the China Sea. By John White, Lieutenant in the United States Navy. Second Edition. 8vo. pp. 372. Boston. Wells & Lilly. The Last of the Mohicans; a Narrative of 1757. By the Author of the Spy," "Pilot," &c. 2 vols. 12mo. Philadelphia. Carey & Lea. Address, delivered at the Tenth Anniversary of the Massachusetts Peace Society, December 25, 18 5. By William Ladd, Esq. 8vo. pp. 31. Boston. A Concise View of the critical Situation and future Prospects of the Slaveholding ~tates, in relation to their Co loured Population. By Whitemarsh B. Seabrook. Read before the Agricultural Society of St. John's, Colleton, Charleston, S. C. on the 14th of September, 1825. 8vo. Charleston. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. IN one MISSIONARY ASSOCIATIONS CHARLESTON.-An Association, or more, and also a larger society, have lately been formed in Charleston, S. C. in aid of the American Board, on the plan latterly pursued by the Board in the organization of associations and societies in the northern states. The meeting assembled for this purpose was addressed by Elias Boudinot, the Cherokee, who had come to that city authorized by his countrymen to solicit funds for the purchase of a printing apparatus, and for the establishment of an Academy or public Seminary in the Cherokee country. He also wanted books for a library which has already been cominenced-robably by the Cherokee Literary Society, which we mentioned some time since. CHEROKEE ALPHABET.-Mr. Boudinot spoke of the new alphabet lately invented by a Mr. Guyst, or Guess, a countryman of his, from which he anticipated important benefits to the nation. This alphabet is a curiosity, considering the character of the inventor, but it is scarcely to be expected that among a people consisting of a tew thousands, with no literature, it should over avail itself very extensively of the art of printing. In their last report to the American Board, the Prudential Committee speak of the alphabet thus: others. It is the opinion of some of the mission.ries, that in the Bible were translated, and printed according to the plan here described, hundreds of adult Cherokees, who will never learn English, would be able to read it in a single month. Either Guess himself, or some other person, has discovered four other syllables; making all the known syllables of the Cherokee language eighty-six. This is a very curi ous fact; especially when it is considered that the language is very copious on some subjects, a single verb undergoing some thousands of inflections." CHOCTAW ACADEMY-The Board of Managers for the General Convention of the Baptist Denomination have established a missionary station for the religious instruction of the Choctaw youth, sent by the chiefs of that nation, to be educated in Scott county, Kentucky. The school is located at a place called the Blue Springs, about a mile from Great Crossings, and is called the Choctaw Academy. The Rev. Thomas Henderson is appointed missionary and teacher, and has already twenty-one Indian boys under his care. The expenses of this establishment are principally defrayed by the Indians themselves. In a treaty made by that nation with the United States, it was provided, that in consideration of lands ceded by them, a certain annual amount should be appropriated by the United States for twenty years, to be applied to the education of their youth. The Indians have selected this number, and sent them to Kentucky, for the purpose of receiving a better education than they could be expected to receive in their own nation, and to habituate them to the manners and customs of civilized society; and have expressed their wish to the government that this annual appropriation shall be applied to the expense of their maintenance and instruction. The number will probably be increased to about forty. "A form of alphabetical writing, invented by a Cherokee named George Guess, who does not speak English, and was never taught to read English books, is attracting great notice among the people generally. Having become acquainted with the principle of the alphabet; viz. that marks can be made the symbols of sounds; this uninstructed man conceived the notion that he could express all the syllables in the Cherokee language by separate marks, or characters. On collecting all the syllables, which, after long study and trial, he could recall to his memory, he found the number to be eighty-two. In order to express these, he took the letters of our alphabet for a part of them, and various modifications of our letters, with some characters of his own invention, for the rest. With these symbols he set about writing letters; and very soon a correspondence was actually maintained between the Cherokees in Wills Valley, and their countrymen beyond the Mississippi, 500 miles apart. This was done by individuals who could not speak English, and who had never learned any alphabet except this syllabic one, which Guess had invented, taught to others, and introduced into practice. The interest in this matter has been increasing for the last two years; till, at writing-arithmetic-surveying--gelength, young Cherokees travel a great distance to be instructed in this easy method of writing and reading. In three days they are able to commence letter-writing, and return home to their native villages prepared to teach The course of instruction is to be, the English language grammatically ography-history-natural philosophy -vocal music-and the principles of the Christian religion. Mr. Hender son is much devoted to the work in which he is engaged. He is authorized to receive into the school an equal SANDWICH ISLANDS.-" At an inquiry meeting held at Honoruru on the 28th of May last, about 30 individuals, several of them chiefs of the highest rank, expressed their desire to be considered candidates or baptism, to be administered as soon as the missionaries might deem it expedient. Although the latter were greatly encouraged and cheered by what they saw and heard, and could not but regard this desire to receive the ordinance as springing in most cases from a sincere love to God, yet it was thought best to proceed with great caution, and therefore the matter was for the time deferred. On the 28th, it was pleasing to notice several chiefs and others, expressing, in the most decisive manner, their scruple of conscience relative to the propriety of attending the scene of amusement on Saturday evening. On the 30th it appeared that at Honoruru alone no less than 13% individuals had enrolled their names as desirous to be fully taught the word of God, and to obey him so far as they might be enabled to know his will. At a meeting of the church and congregation on the 5th of June, after the regular services, ten persons, including several chiefs, made a public relation of their religious experience. It is represented to have been a most interesting and happy season One of these was Richard Karaaiulu, who was formerly connected with the Foreign Mission School at Cornwall, but left without giving evidence of conversion. In August nine chiefs were propounded for admission to the church: among whom were, Karuimoku, the Prime Minister, and Kaahumanu, the favorite queen of the late king Tamahamaha, and the most powerful woman on the Islands. At Honoruru, Karaimoku has commenced the erection of a spacious chapel, and intends to furnish it with a bell at his own expense.-The amount of printing done by the press at this station, at the latest date of the journal, was, BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCI ETY.-The General Committee, several months since, found themselves engaged in a serious debate respecting the books called Apocryphal. It is well known that these books are received by Roman Catholics as canoniical, and it was asserted that the Society's Bibles, which excluded these books, would not be received in Catholic countries. It became a question therefore whether the Society should send into those countries error associated with truth, knowing that the apocryphal books would be received as genuine, or be hindered in its operations in a field where its efforts were most needed. After a very earnest and almost painful debate the matter was referred to a special committee, who made their report, on the 21st of November, when the following resolution was adopted. "That the funds of the Society be applied to the printing and circulation of the Canonical Books of Scripture, to the exclusion of those books, and parts of books, which are usually termed Apocryphal : and that all copies printed, either entirely or in part, at the expense of the Society, and whether such copies consist of the whole or of any one or more of such books, be invariably issued bound, no other books whatever being bound with them. And, further, that all money grants, to societies or individuals, be made only in conformity with the principle of this regulation." DONATIONS TO RELIGIOUS AND CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS. In the month of January. To the American Bible Society, $1392. To the American Board, $5328.31. To the American Tract Society, $197..31. The receipts of the Hampshire Mis sionary Society for the year ending Aug. 16, 1825, were $1837. The receipts of the American Colonization Society since the 8th of March, 1825, amount to $10,000. ORDINATIONS AND INSTALLATIONS. Oct. 27.-The Rev. DANIEL PECK to the pastoral care of the Baptist church at Rodman, N. Y. Sermon by the Rev. Joshua Bradley. Dec. 12-Mr. WILLIAM D. CAIRNS, Mr. WILLIAM L. MARSHALL, and Mr. WILLIAM JONES, were admitted to the order of Deacons, by Bishop Moore, of Virginia. Dec. 23.-Mr. JOHN DAVIS, and Rev JAMES WARD (a coloured man) late of the Presbyterian church, were admitted to the order of Deacons, by Bishop White. Jan. 4.-Mr. CLOUD was admitted to the order of Deacons, at Hartford, by Bishop Brownell. Jan. 10.-The Rev. JAMES D. HINSHAW was installed Pastor of the Presbyterian church in New Providence. Jan. 11.-The Rev. SAMUEL G ORTON was ordained over the Congregational church in Sydney, N. Y. Serinon by the Rev. Elisha Wise, of Deposit. Jan. 12.-The Rev. JAMES V. HENRY, as Pastor of the Presbyterian church at Ballston, N. Y. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Monteith. Jan. 18-The Rev. ERASTUS MALTBY was installed Pastor of the Trinitarian church and Society in Taunton, Mass. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Wisner of Boston. Jan. 18.-The Rev. GEORGE COWLES, of New Hartford, Conn. was ordained at Taunton to preach as an Evangelist. Jan. 31.-The Rev. DANIEL WATERBURY,Over the Presbyte ian church and Congregation in Franklin, Delaware, Co. N. Y. Sermon by the Rev. A. Caldwell. Feb. 1.-The Rev. FRANCIS H. CASE to the pastoral care of the Congregational church in Goshen, Conn. Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Beecher. Feb. 2-The Rev. BENJAMin Dean, of Westmoreland, was ordained as an Evangelist. PUBLIC AFFAIRS. RUSSIA. The Emperor Alexander died suddenly, on the 1st of December, at Taganrock, a town on the sea of Azoph. The short interval which elapsed between the first vague report of this event and the official confirmation of it, was filled with a thousand rumours respecting the manner of the Emperor's death,-it being intimated that he was poisoned; and respecting the succession to the throne, it being asserted that it would be occupied by the Grand Duke Nicholas instead of the Grand Duke Constantine, who though he was entitled to the succession as being the eldest surviving brother of the emperor, had, it was said, relinquished his right, in favour of the younger brother, on certain conditions connected with his appointment as viceroy of Poland. Later accounts however, have put all these speculations to flight. Alexander died of indisposition, and Constantine has been, with due despatch and ceremony, proclaimed Autocrat of all the Russias. This event, so sudden and unexpected, has produced a great sensation throughout Europe, but especially in those countries which are more immediately within the sphere of Russian influence. In the words of a French writer," Providence has indeed struck a great blow. The crown has fallen from a head, yet young, and one which lately, since the fall of Bonaparte, aimed to preside over the destinies of Europe The sceptre has been broken in the hands of a monarch whose empire extended to three of the quarters of the globe, whose soldiers are assembled not far from the gates of Vienna, and not far from the great wall of China, whose fleets can at the same instant cover the Baltic, and burst the barriers of the Bosphorus." We have seen and heard many conjectures as to the effect of Alexander's death on the Holy Alliance, of which he was the founder and the director, and which, it is supposed, if it do not suffer actual dissolution, will have but of the following year, he married the Princess of Lowiez, but has no issue 2. The Grand Duke Nicholas, born July 2, 1796, and married July 13, 1817, to a Princess of Prussia, by whom he had one son and two daughters.-3. The Grand Duke Michael, born February 8, 1798.-The late Em. peror has also left two sisters, the ne married to the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Weimar, and the other to the Prince of Orange. 66 The law of succession, as publish. ed by the Emperor Paul, of Russia, in 1797, was declared the law of the em pire. By this law the crown belongs to the oldest son of the Emperor, and to all his male posterity. In default of male issue, the second son and his male issue are called to the throne: in defect of male issue, the female descendants have a right to it according to their proximity. If the heiress possess a foreign crown, she is compelled to renounce it before she can receive the crown of Russia. If she is not of the Greek religion, she is required to embrace it. On refusing to subscribe to these conditions, the crown passes to the next in succession. In case of a minority, the reigning monarch will name a Regent to his successor if he should not name one, the regency belongs to the mother of the young sovereign; or, in the event of there being no mother, to the nearest relation. The majority is fixed at 16 years of age." a nominel and odious existence without him and we have seen many portraits of Constantine, all of which represent him as inferior to his imperial brother in talents and in every amiable trait of character;-and many corjectures respecting the policy he will pursue, towards the Turkish dominions, which he is said to covet with hereditary ambition, and towards the Holy Alliance, which he is said to hate as interfering with the objects of that ambition. That the death of the autocrat of all the Russias, we had almost said of Europe, will produce important changes in the aspect of that hemisphere cannot but be anticipated; but for ourselves we confess that our knowledge of the agents by whom those changes will be effected is too imperfect to justify any very confident conjectures as to what, precisely, they will be. We leave all with Him in whose hands are the destinies of nations, grateful we hope that he has given us our existence where the death of no one personage can shed disastrous twilight' over a whole continent, and perplex millions with the fear of change.' Alexander had fulfilled his earthly destiny, and he who took him from his wide sphere of influence, would that that influence had continued to be exerted as it once was in favour of Christian principles and Christian institutions!-be who " appointed his bounds that he could not pass," will overrule the consequences of his removal, whatever they may be, for the advancement of his own glorious pur- GREECE.-The Egyptian squadron poses, and for the ultima te good, we had arrived near Missolonghi, and the trust, of this troubled world. 1 Greek fleet had retired at its approach. The troops brought by the Captain Pacha had been disembarked at Navarina. Previous to the arrival of this force, the besiegers of Missolonghi had retired a little, but it was expected that they would return with augmented forces, and that the fleet would co-operate with them for the reduction of the place. The Greek government were increasing and combining their forces, and making all possib e exer tions to avert the impending storm. · The present state of the imperia family, and the order of succession as established by Paul I., are thus given in the French papers. "His late Imperial Majesty was born December 23, 1777, ascended the throne of Russia March 4, 1801, and became King of Poland June 9, 1815; on the 9th October, 1793, he married Elizabeth Alexiewna, Princess of Baden, but has no issue. The Empress's mother, a Princess of Wirtemberg, widow of the En peror Paul I, is still living. His Majesty has left three brothers, namely-1. the Grand Duke Constantine, born May 8, 1779, and married February 26, 1796, to a Princess of Saxe Cobourg, from whom he was divorced in April, 1801. In May, |