Tennessee, West Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois, and the Presbyteries connected with the same, to correspond with each other, and endeavour to agree upon some plan for conducting Domestic Missions, in the Western States, and report the result of their correspondence to the next General Assembly. It being understood that the brethren in the West, be left to their freedom, to form any organization, which in their judgment may best promote the cause of missions in these States:-and, also, that all the Synods and Presbyteries in the Valley of the Mississippi may be embraced in this correspondence provided they desire it." There were delegates to the convention from the Synods of Pittsburgh, Ohio, Cincinnati, Kentucky, Indiana, and the Western Reserve. The Rev. James Blythe, D. D., was chosen moderator, and the Rev. Messrs. A. O. Patterson and S. Steel, clerks. The convention sat just one week; and although there was much earnest debate, it is stated that there was little or no acrimony, and that kind feelings were cherished amidst discordant views and wishes. The convention commenced its sitting's on the 23d of November, and rose on the 30th. The following minute contains the result of the whole. "Wednesday, nine o'clock, A. M. The Convention having been duly constituted, a motion was made by the Rev. Dr. Wilson, to postpone the whole business before the Convention, for the purpose of taking up a substitute, which was read. Two motions for amendment having been made and negatived, the motion for postponement was carried, and the substitute was adopted by a vote of 54 to 15, and is as follows: "Whereas, it appears from the report of the committee to receive and report all written communications to the Convention, that of the Presbyteries in the Valley of the Mississippi, fifteen, entitled to forty two votes, have not been heard from. That one entitled to two votes, is in favour of both Boards as they now exist-that one entitled to four votes, is in favour of the American Home Missionary Societythat two entitled to eight votes, are in favour of an Independent Western Society -that one entitled to two votes, is in favour of an ecclesiastical supervision, and opposed to voluntary associations-and that seven entitled to twenty-two votes, are in favour of the General Assembly's Board in its present organization; and whereas, twenty Presbyteries entitled to seventy votes, being actually present in the Convention, a plan for the establishment of a Western Board of Missions, under the care of the General Assembly, after a full discussion, has been rejected by a vote of forty-one to twenty-eight, and as it appears to the Convention from these facts, that no arrangement, into which we can possibly enter, is likely to reconcile conflicting views on this subject; that so far from healing divisions, or restoring peace to the churches by any new expedient, they would only tend to multiply the points of difference and increase the evil; therefore, resolved, that under these circumstances, they deem it inexpedient to propose any change in the General Assembly's mode of conducting Missions, as they fully approve of that now in such successful operation, and that the purity, peace, and prosperity of the Presbyterian church materially depend on the active and efficient aid, the sessions and Presbyteries under its care, may afford to the Assembly's Board." The Reporter contains reports, for the month, of 12 or 13 missionaries, whose services have been rendered in the States of N. York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama.-A statement is given of the whole number of missionaries (except twenty or thirty voluntary agents) who have been employed by the Board of Missions, since their last annual report was laid before the General Assembly, in the different States and Territories. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Michigan Territory, 40 4 "From this statement it appears, that 126, out of the 212 Missionaries of the Board, are located south of the Potomac river and west of the Alleghany mountains; and the fields occupied by 105 of them, are embraced in the Great Valley of the Mississippi. We mention these facts to show, that the Board have not been unmindful of the pledge given to the churches in the Valley in their last Annual Report, to "use their best endeavours, to supply, in the course of five years, every vacant Presbyterian congregation and destitute district, which may be disposed to receive aid from this Board, with a faithful and devoted minister of the Gospel of Christ." If a sufficient number of duly qualified Missionaries can be secured, we do not entertain a doubt, that this pledge will be fully redeemed, within the period specified-and from the animating prospects which are now opening before the Assembly's Board of Education, whose beneficiaries are all expected to engage in the service of our Board, for at least one year, immediately after their licensure, we have strong confidence that the men will not be wanting. We add the following notices, and hope they will receive due attention. Special Notice to Agents, Auxiliaries, and Annual Contributors. From the address of the Executive Committee, it will be perceived, that the Board of Missions are, at the present time, in great want of funds. We would, therefore, respectfully solicit, from all our Agents, from the Treasurers of Auxiliaries, and all others who may have funds in their hands, designed for the use of the Board, a prompt remittance of the same to our Treasurer, SOLOMON ALLEN, Esq. No. 117, Chesnut street, Philadelphia. Annual Contributors to the Board, would confer a special favour, if they would forward, as speedily as may suit their convenience, the amount of their benefactions. We would, respectfully, remind the Sessions, which are auxiliary to the Board, of the vast importance of diligence and punctuality, in making their annual collections, and in renewing their efforts to increase the number of members of Auxiliaries, and to obtain liberal subscriptions and donations, from wealthy and benevolent individuals. In accordance with the wishes of many of their friends, and with a view to the strictest economy, the Board have greatly diminished the number of their special agents, and having only three engaged in their service at the present time, they are under the necessity of depending almost entirely on the gratuitous efforts of those Ministers and Elders, who take a lively interest in their operations, for a large proportion of the pecuniary resources, which are indispensable to the successful prosecution of their work. It is the earnest desire of the Board, that a fair and extended experiment of the plan of raising funds by voluntary agencies, may now be made by Sessions and Presbyteries; in order that they may be enabled hereafter, if it should prove successful, to avoid the expense of all special Agencies. Notice to Applicants for Missionary Aid. Applications to the Board for Missionary appointments, and pecuniary aid; and ries, should always be made by the Elders also for the reappointment of Missionaof the Church, through the Corresponding Executive Committee of the Presbytery to which the Church applying for assistance belongs accompanied with a recommend ation from said committee of the Mission-. ary to be appointed, and a specifica on of the amount of aid, deemed indispensably necessary. If there be no Corresponding Executive Committee in the Presbytery, the appli cation must be fully sanctioned by two neighbouring Ministers, connected with the Presbytery to which the Church belongs. From the 1st to the 15th of December-a fortnight-there were made no less than 13 appointments and reappointments; 7 of the former and 6 of the latter. From the 20th of November to the 14th of December, 1831, the treasurer received $379 84. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE GENE RAL ASSEMBLY. We expected to make a statement somewhat in detail, in our present number, of the transactions and prospects of this Board, since the present Corresponding Secretary and General Agent entered on the duties of his office. He, indeed, had promised to furnish us, if practicable, with the materials for such a statement; but his pressing engagements and present absence from the city have prevented. We can, therefore, at present, only say in general, that the state and prospects of our Board of Education are of the most encouraging kind. In every part of the Presbyterian church the General Agent has not only been cordially received, but the countenance and co-operation of ecclesiastical bodies, of men of the greatest influence as individuals, and indeed of the people at large, have been afforded him. The Presbyterian church seems to be waking up, to the sacred duty of educating her own sons for the gospel ministry, under her own supervision by men appointed by herself, and by herself alone, for this purpose. For this happy result, the Presbyterian community are much indebted to the efficiency of the Executive Committee of the Board, and to the activity and prudence of the Corresponding Secretary and General Agent, who has travelled very extensively, and laboured with unwearied diligence, in the service in which he is employed. We state, for the information of the publick, that the Board is now in a condition to receive every well qualified and properly recommended beneficiary that may apply, and have resolved that none such shall be refused. We extract from the WESTERN LUMINARY a part-we have not space for the whole-of a very animated address to the publick, of the Executive Committee of the Presbyterian Education Society of Kentucky. It is as follows PRESBYTERIAN EDUCATION SOCIETY. Address of the Executive Committee of the Presbyterian Education Society of the State of Kentucky. Although the state of Kentucky was not so early in entering upon the work of Christian benevolence as some of the Atlantic states, yet the actual results which have followed efforts of but recent origin, show that our people are ready to appre ciate and sustain, enterprises designed to promote the interests of morality and religion. For several years, the Bible, Tract, and Sabbath School causes have been sustained, and in many instances, with great liberality and corresponding success. The importance of the ministerial office has been, at least in some places, appreefforts have been made by churches and ciated and occasional, and disconnected individuals, to increase the number of labourers for the field, which is wide, and whitening to the harvest. It was not, however, till 1828, that any ed to call forth the resources of the regular and systematick plan was adoptchurches to this object. In that year, through the instrumentality of a few friends of the cause in Danville, the Presbyterian Education Society of Kentucky was formed, and a constitution adopted, explaining the design, and expressing the principles of the association. Since its organization the Society has aided 55 young men in the different stages of their study. During the last session of Synod, the Society put itself under the care of Synod, and the Synod became auxiliary to the By this arrangement, while the general General Assembly's Board of Education. cause is strengthened by co-operation, the society has lost none of the privileges and advantages of a separate existence, and has obtained essential aid, as the agency is sustained by the Assembly's Board. Through the length and breadth of the land, the Presbyterian church, so long sinfully negligent in this cause, seems to be now, with great unanimity and zeal, coming up to the work. We trust that in our own state, this appeal will not be in vain, but that the churches through whose contributions we have heretofore been able to live, will answer it with redoubled effort and increased liberality. We ask them to enable us not only to live, but to MOVE FORWARD with a strength and efficiency proportioned to the GREATNESS OF THE WORK AND THE GLORY OF THE CAUSE. There are many destitute churches in our own state, where feeble and scattered flocks are praying for a pastor to gather them and feed them with the bread of life. And around our Zion there are many desolations, where moral darkness reigns, and thousands are going on unwarned, to the doom of the second death. We cannot remain inactive without sin; nor in this day, when the world and the church are in motion, and so many signs are indicating the approach of the "latter day glory," can we act feebly and coldly, without guilt and shame resting upon us? There is a voice from the waste places of Zion, and a voice in the Providence of God, and a voice from his word, saying unto us ARISE AND BUILD." We cannot believe that those who are cherishing the hope of Heaven through the Redemption of Jesus Christ, and to whom God has given much of this world's goods, can even desire to be excused from this work, when they consider the blessedness In full confidence upon Him who has promised that a knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea, we commit the success of our cause to the prayers and liberality of those who, we trust, are willing to labour with us that his kingdom may quickly come, and his will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. By order of the Committee, P. F. PHELPS, Agent. OBITUARY. Died on Sabbath evening, the 25th of December, after a short illness, the Rev. Joseph Sanford, pastor of the Second Presbyterian church in Philadelphia. His funeral obsequies were celebrated on the 28th, in the church in which he had been accustomed to minister, which, on this mournful occa sion, was thronged by the people We find it stated that, "at the earnest and affectionate request of the session of the church in Brooklyn, (N. Y.) of which Mr. Sanford was formerly pastor, his remains have been removed to Brooklyn, there to repose beside those of his first wife, until "the resurrection of the just." View of Publick Affairs. EUROPE. The latest European dates which we have seen are from Liverpool, of the 17th of November, from London of the 16th, from Havre of the 8th, and from Paris of the 7th, of the same month.-The agitated state of Europe remains much as it has been for a considerable time past; no important changes have taken place within the last month. BRITAIN. Under the latest London date, we perceive that a rumour was prevalent that a change in the ministry was about to take place. This, however, was discredited by the editor of the paper in which the rumour is mentioned. The probability seeins to be, that on account of his health, Lord Grey wishes to retire; but it fappears to us, that any material change in the ministry at this time, especially if the change were indicative of the relinquishment of the reform question, would throw the whole nation into confusion and insubordination. It is with great difficulty, as things now are, that the people can be held in any tolerable degree of quiet, till the next meeting of Parliament. The riot at Bristol was truly shocking. Most of the public buildings were burned, and many of the rioters were burned in them. For two days there was a kind of general plunder. Nor was any thing like order restored till the military fired on the mob. The loss of life was considerable. The citizens of Bristol, or a large number of them, have drawn up a memorial to the government, in which they express their opinion that Sir Charles Wetherell, whose public entrance into the city as Recorder, was the signal for the late riots, ought either immediately to surrender his judicial office, or to withdraw himself from the contested field of politics, as they are persuaded that, so long as he acts in the double capacity of judge and politician, the interests of justice in this city will be compromised, party spirit be rendered more violent and bitter, and the feelings of a large number of his most respectable fellow citizens be directly outraged and insulted.' Up to the date of the last accounts, no definite answer had been received from the government.-The conduct of the Bishops in the House of Lords on the Reform Bill, has given such offence, that the whole establishment is denounced. It seems probable that, ere long, the English hierarchy will be abolished, and no more Lords spiritual be seen in the House of Peers.- -It is no longer doubtful that the malignant Asiatic Cholera, technically denominated Cholera Spasmodica, has appeared in England. The United States consul at Hull, has found it his duty to make an official communication on this subject to our Secretary of State. Among other things, he says, "The physician sent from London by government, has declared the disease to be the Indian Cholera, and the board of health established there [Sunderland] has reported it to be the same." This frightful malady was confined to Sunderland, except that one equivocal case had appeared at Newcastle upon Tyne. The first five individuals who were taken with the disease, all died; and of all who are taken more than half have become its victims. It has hitherto chiefly, if not wholly, appeared among the poorest and most destitute portion of the community. But there is no reason to believe that it will be confined to them. A piece of flannel, worn as a belt round the loins and abdomen, is recommended as the best preventive. It is pronounced by those who have seen it both in India and Europe, not to be contagious; but is believed to be occasioned "by some peculiar and unknown change in the atmosphere, affecting the constitutions of all, more or less, and producing a disposition to the disease." If this be so, there is the more reason to fear that it will travel over the world, as we know the Influenza has done, in several instances. O that "while the judgments of God are abroad in the earth, the people may learn righteousness." The Reform Bill and the Cholera seem to have absorbed the attention of all classes in Britain-scarcely any thing else is mentioned. FRANCE, as well as Britain, is disquieted with fear of the prevalence of Cholera. Notwithstanding the decided opinion of physicians, and others who have been fami liar with this formidable disease, that it is not contagious, great care is taken to prevent its importation. A rigorous quarantine is established, and vessels from those parts of England where Cholera exists, or is suspected to exist, are to be put under quarantine in France-This measure is likely to limit not a little the intercourse between the two kingdoms. The manufacturing and commercial interests of France seem to be gradually reviving, and the publick funds have risen in value. The great political topick which now occupies the attention of the legislative Chambers and the political writers is the question of the Peerage-whether it shall be hereditary, or only for the life of each individual peer. The Chamber of Deputies have decided against a hereditary Peerage; but a whole month has passed without sending up the bill to the house of Peers. The minister, it is said, has been labouring, but as yet without success, to gain a majority in that house to sanction what has been done by the Deputies. The measure of creating a large number of new Peers, to insure the passage of the bill, is said to be disagreeable to the king; and that it is even difficult to find men who would accept the Peerage on the terms proposed-The issue will probably be known in a short time-The reorganization of the National Guards to a large extent, appears likely soon to take place. SPAIN. We find nothing of more importance relative to Spain, in the recent intelligence from Europe, than what is contained in the following short extract of a letter from Madrid, of the 31st of October-"The attention of our cabinet is much engaged by the reports respecting Portugal and Don Pedro's expedition. The politicians pretend that, but for this circumstance, the Ministry would have been modified in the spirit of the party which has ever opposed the anti-salique law." PORTUGAL.-It appears that a considerable force, naval and military, is being fitted out at Terceira, for the invasion of Portugal, with a view to dethrone the tyrant Don Miguel, and give the crown to his niece, to whom of right it belongs. To a well appointed expedition, the conquest of Miguel's army would seem not to be difficult, if the following article from a London paper states any thing like the truth." A letter from Lisbon states, that on the 29th of October, the anniversary of Don Miguel's birth-day, there was a review of the troops-6,000 of the line and 3,000 police; and although 400 milreas had been previously distributed to each regiment, in order to excite their enthusiasm, not a single viva could be drawn from them, even in the presence of Don Miguel himself; only a few were given by the rabble and vagabonds collected and paid for that purpose by the heads of the police. The Conde de Barbacona, Adjutant General, was completely dismayed, on observing the coldness of the troops in the presence of Don Miguel, and afterwards declared that in case of invasion by Don Pedro, unless Don Miguel possessed the courage to put himself at the head of the |