number. The Tract Magazine has also been transferred to that Society, though copies are secured to the aux iliaries of this Society, in the same manner as before this transfer was made.

The Committee cannot but reflect, with the highest gratification, on the amicable, and, as they hope, beneficial connexion which has taken place between this Society and the American Tract Society instituted last year at New-York. The superior facilities which that city possesses over every other in this country, for holding direct and easy communication with all parts of our own land, and with every commercial nation of the world, render it peculiarly adapted to be the seat of a great national institution; and the promptitude and liberality, with which its conductors and friends in that vicinity have contributed to its growth and efficiency, give the most animating promise, that its ultimate usefulness will correspond with the pious wishes, the extensive views, and the spirited enterprise of those who devised it.

The present Report embraces the time which is included between the 29th of September, 1824, and the 29th of May, 1826, a period of one year and eight months.

During this time 78 new Beneficiaries have been received under the patronage of the Society. The sum expended in grants amounts to near $16,000.

The Board have the satisfaction of assuring the Society, that except in a very few instances, no improper conduct of their Beneficiaries has come to their knowledge during the time embraced in this Report.

The testimony of those who are conversant with the Beneficiaries, is almost uniformly in their favour. Letters from the Presidents of several of our Colleges speak in strong language of their diligence in study, and their correct Christian deportment. In several instances, they have been instruments in the hands of God of promoting revi

vals of religion. And their general influence on the moral state of the Colleges and Academies in which they are located, we know to be decidedly favorable to religion.

On the whole, it is our decided opinion, that an equal number of Christian youth, so variously selected and placed in circumstances so trying, cannot be found, of a character so consistent and praise-worthy.

It is a source of the liveliest satisfaction to us, that while we cannot impart to our object the excitements which attend Missionary operations, in which intelligence novel and important is brought from distant lands to awaken interest in the churches, we can yet feel that our operations are a double blessing;-a blessing when the final object is accomplished, and a qualified ministry is given to the world, and a blessing before in the amount of good our Beneficiaries effect while passing through the different stages of their education;-an amount which, though it may be despicable in the eyes of worldly men, is not so in the eyes of Him who died for sinners, nor of those, who with better means of judging than we possess, rejoice in Heaven over one sinner that repenteth.

We cannot but look with the most devout pleasure, on what this Society riod of its existence. The whole numhas accomplished during the short pe

ber of those who have been received as Beneficiaries is 545. And although we have so recently commenced our labours, a considerable number of our Beneficiaries have already become ordained ministers, and missionaries; others are in the employ of charitable Societies; others are licensed candidates for the ministry. More than 200 are now members of Colleges and Academies. Of those who have been graduated, many are employed, for a time, as instructors of youth, or are pursuing theological studies. From the fact that this Society has been in operation only ten years, a period barely sufficient to complete a regular course of liberal education, it is obvious that only a few of its Beneficiaries can actually have entered on the du ties of the ministry, and of course that the utility of its efforts cannot in any degree be estimated by the number already engaged in professional labours. Indeed, it can be fully disclosed only by future ages and the eternal world

Many of the ministers it has educated, and will educate, will we doubt not, be instruments of converting many sinners; some of their converts will become ministers in their turn, and thus continue the effects, which under God originated with us, as long as the sun and moon shall endure. If this Society continues to prosper till the whole number who have already been under your patronage, shall become pastors, 545,000 persons, according to the common estimate, will be supplied with the preaching of the Gospel.And if among those whom, in process of time, we hope to educate, should be found, as we trust there will be, many a Leland, Campbell, and Paley, who shall defend Christianity against the attacks of infidelity; and many a Carey, Martyn, and Fisk, who shall proclaim the news of salvation to millions that have never known it; and many an Edwards and Fuller, who by their writings shall ably support the faith once delivered to the saints; and many a Storr and Knapp, whose learned and critical labours shall contribute to the elucidation of the sacred volume; generations yet unborn will bless you for your liberality, and thank God that he put it into your hearts to devise this excellent charity.

At this meeting of the Society, an important alteration was made in their Constitution. The sections providing for the admission of persons as members on the payment of $5, of clergymen as life-members on the payment of $40, and of laymen as life-members on the payment of $100, were so altered that no person can hereafter become an acting member except by election. Clergymen paying $40, and laymen $100 each, will henceforth be considered as honorary members-possessing the privilege of attending the deliberations of the Society, but not entitled to vote.

DONATIONS TO RELIGIOUS AND CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS.

To the American Board, $4,724 14. To the American Sunday School Union, during the year ending May 22, $16,222.

To the United Foreign Missionary Society from March 16, to April 30, $2,300 17.

To the Auxiliary Foreign Missionary Society of Boston and vicinity, for the year past, $3,678 52.

March 8.--The Rev.LORING BREWSTER was ordained as an Evangelist at Addison, Vt. Sermon by Rev. Josiah Hopkins.

May 10.-The Rev. LEONARD JOHNSON, at Wethersfield, Vt. as an Evangelist. Sermon by the Rev. W. Chapin of Woodstock.

May 10.-The Rev. CHARLES BOYTER at Sharon, Mass. as an Evangelist. Sermon by the Rev. Ebenezer Burgess, of Dedham.

May 10.-Messrs. Wм. M. KING, and SAMUEL K. SNEAD, were ordain ed as Evangelists, at Middletown, Jefferson Co. Kentucky. Sermon by the Rev. A. A. Shannon, Shelbyville.

May 17.-Mr. SUTHERLAND DOUGLASS, of the General Theological Seminary, New-York, and Mr. BENJAMIN

C. PARKER, of Boston, Mass, were admitted to the holy order of Deacons at St. Michael's Church, Bristol, R. I., by the Rt. Rev. Alexander V. Griswold, D. D.

May 31.-The Rev. DANIEL DANA, D. D. was installed as pastor of the second Presbyterian Church and Society at Newburyport, Mass.

June 7.-Mr. ELEAZER P. Wells, and Mr. THOMAS W. COIT, were admitted to the holy order of Deacons, in Trinity Church, Newtown, by the Rt. Rev. T. C. Brownell, D. D. LL. D.

June 7.-The Rev. HENRY WOOD, was ordained over the the church and congregation in Goffstown, N. H., and the Rev. JACOB LITTLE of Boscawen, as an Evangelist. Sermon by the Rev. E. P. Bradford, of New Boston.

June 13.-The Rev. JOSEPH FREEMAN, as an Evangelist, at Ludlow, Vt. Sermon by Elder Aaron Leland, of Chester.

June 20.-The Rev. AARON PICKET, as an Evangelist, at Boston. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Fay of Charles

town.

FOREIGN.

GREAT BRITAIN.-The distresses which existed a few months since in England, in consequence of numerous bankruptcies which happened, have been succeeded by serious disturbances in the manufacturing districts, great numbers of the workmen having become riotous for want of employment. Large subscriptions have been raised among the wealthy for their relief, and they appear now to have become quiet.

GREECE.-Missolonghi fell into the hands of its enemies on the 23d of April, unable to sustain the increasing pressure of seige and famine longer. The destruction of life was indiscriminate and very great. This event has added another page of terror to the history of Greece, and another shade of guilt, we fear, to the apathy with which the Christian powers of Europe regard this ruthless war.

BURMAH.-Official accounts state that the Burmese war is terminated. The conditions of peace are said to be the cessation of several provinces, and the payment of a suin of money to the British. The Burmese appear to have been subdued rather by disease, cholera morbus, than by battle; their enemies, it is said, in a march of more than a hundred miles, with little opposition, through a country fortified with stockacees, found the earth burthened with the victims of this destructive malady, in graves of twenty and forty. Few wars have been waged in modern times of which as to their origin and history, so little has been communicated to the world as that in Burmah.

AFRICA.—An interesting document, exhibiting a detailed statement respecting the Colony at Montserado, has

lately been forwarded to this country by Mr. Ashmun, the resident agent, the substance of which is given in the following summary by the editors of the New-York Observer.

The most perfect health, we are informed, exists at the Colony, excepting a few cases of chronic casualties, and a species of troublesome, but not dangerous, scorbutic affections. From the 17th of June, to the 1st of January, only five deaths occurred, two of which were small children. The children and young persons, above three years in the Colony, appear to be, in every respect, as healthy, muscular, and vigorous, as the natives of the Coast. Adults, who have been the same time in Africa, acquire a predilection for the climate, and enjoy equal

health with those in America.

The system of government adopted in August, 1824, and since sanctioned by the Board, has undergone no material alteration. It has proved itself entirely sufficient; for the civil gov ernment of the Colony possesses much of the Republican character. The constitution and laws appear to be the pride of all. Every attempt to impede the movements of government awakens general indignation.

One hundred and twenty sections of plantation lands have been surveyed, and allotted to as many different families; but, with the exception of ten sections, given to the settlers on the St. Paul's river, all these lands are but ill adapted, as respects their soil Their and location, to cultivation. ability to obtain a subsistence by other pursuits has induced the settlers, too generally, without intending to abandon the cultivation of their lands, to defer this labour to a future period. The last year's crops succeeded extremely well, until nearly harvest time, but were then, in a great measure, destroyed by the animals and insects of

the country. By clearing the lands, this will hereafter be prevented. The St. Paul's territory appears to possess great fertility, and every advantage for agricultural improvements. "Nothing (says Mr. Ashmun) but disasters of the most extraordinary nature can prevent the settlement of sturdy farmers now happily seated on it, from making their way directly to respectability and abundance."

The Colonists generally live in a style of neatness and comfort, approaching to elegance in many instances, unknown before their arrival in Africa. A family twelve months in the Colony, without the means of furnishing a comfortable table, is unknown; and an individual, of whatever age or sex, without an ample supply of decent apparel, cannot be found. All are successfully building houses, and improving their premises. Every family has the means of employing from four to six native labourers, at an expense of from four to six dollars per month. On urgent occasions, individual settlers have advanced, repeatedly, for the public service, produce to the amount of from 300 to 600 dollars. Mechanics receive for wages $2 per day, and common labourers from 75 cents to $1 75 cents. Their services are in great demand. A surplus quantity of rice is at present raised by the natives, and may be cheaply purchased. Several hundred tons of camwood annually pass through the hands of settlers. The amount of Ivory bought and sold during a year is estimated at from five to eight thousand dollars. Domestic animals, though not numerous, are on the increase. Fish are excellent and abundant. By a few drafts in the morning, a thousand pounds may be obtained weekly. On a given quantity of ground, the crop of rice is found to be double that of an ordinary wheat crop, and obtained with half the labour.

Fort Stockton has been entirely rebuilt, and in a very improved style.The new Agency house is nearly completed, and only waits to be finished with American materials. The government house, at the St. Paul's will soon be finished. A telegraphic communication is to be established between the two settlements, by means of signals from the cupola of this house and the flag-staff of Fort Stockton.

A schooner of ten tons has been constructed by nine blacks, under the direction of the Colonial Agent, which visits, once a fortnight, Rio Sisters and Grand Bassa; and freighted both ways, generally carries and brings merchandize and produce to the amount of from four to eight hundred dollars per trip. Two small churches have been erected, under circumstances of a most gratifying nature.

Five schools, exclusive of Sunday Schools, have been supported during the year, and still continue in operation. The children give evidence that they possess good mental powers.Should emigration cease, for a few months, to throw little ignorants into the colony, the phenomenon of a child of five years unable to read, would not, it is believed, exist in the Colony.

The militia are organized into two corps; the artillery, of fifty, and the infantry, of forty men, on several trying occasions, have shown their soldier-like conduct. There belongs to the establishment 15 large carriage and 3 small pivot guns, all fit for service. The Agent proposes to open a double battery on the height of Thomsontown, for the protection of vessels in the roadstead.

The religious character of the Colonists is too flattering, says Mr. Ashmun, to the hopes of the pious friends of the Colony, not to be admitted without hesitation. The Sabbath is observed with strictness. The Sunday schools both for settlers and natives, are well sustained and attended, and productive of the happiest fruits; and several charitable societies, particularly for the tuition and bringing up of the native children, appear to have been undertaken in a truly Christian spirit. "During the latter half of the year, two commodious and beautiful chapels have been erected, each sufficient to contain several hundred worshippers. They stand on the confines of a once gloomy forest consecrated to the demon worship of the natives; and while they are beheld by Christians as new and joyful landmarks of the widening empire of the Son of God, are regarded by the neighbouring tribes as monuments of the incipient overthrow of their superstitions, and as prophetic beacons of its hastening dissolution." More than fifty persons have in the fif

teen months past, embracing nearly the whole young adult population, become the serious and devout professors of Christianity. "The Colony," says Mr. Ashmun, "is, in deed and reality, a Christian community. The Faith of the Everlasting Gospel, has become the animating spring of action, the daily rule of life, and the source of ineffable hope and enjoyment, to a large proportion of the Colonists. I have seen," he adds, "the proudest and profanest foreigners that ever visited the Colony, trembling with amazement and conviction, and almost literally in the descriptive language of Paul, "Find the secrets of their hearts made manifest, and falling down upon their faces, worship God, and report that God was with this people of a truth."

Except for military offences, not a single individual of the Colonists has suffered imprisonment for period of twenty-two months-profane swearing is held in abhorrence. Mr. Ashmun, however, expresses his regret that there has been too little punctuality in the payment of debts, and the moral force of a contract has been too little felt.

The St. Paul's Territory has already become the residence of a number of families. A cession of country has been made to the Colony by King Freeman of Young Sestus, and a factory established there for the purchase of rice. A similar cession of territory has

been made by the Chief of Grand Bassa. It is thought that settlements may be commenced at both these places.Thus, the Society has jurisdiction along more than one hundred miles of coast, and this obtained at a trifling expense.

The just, humane, and benevolent policy pursued by the Colonists in all their intercourse with the native tribes, has given a great and increasing influence over them. We have practically taught them, says Mr. Ashmun, in the spirit of the parent institution, that one end of our settlement in their country, is to do them good. We have adopted sixty of their children, and are bringing them up as the other children, and have shown a tender concern for their happiness, and a sacred regard to their rights, and have thus given them a new and surprising view of the character of civilized man. Our influence over them, he adds, is unbounded. Thieves and other malefactors have, in too many instances to be recited, been voluntarily given up to the Colony for punishment. One of the most obvious effects of the Colony, has been to check the Slave Trade. We have, says Mr. Ashmun, I think I may confidently say, banished it from this district of the coast. Perhaps it is yet to be seen that the most barbarous of practices may be undermined by an influence as silent and unpretending as the persuasive power of Christian example.

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