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Missionary Entelligence.

FOREIGN MISSIONS.

Mr. Editor,—Allow me to state a simple fact. Our devoted missionary in China, the Rev. W. C. Burns, has directed me to hand over to the Treasurer of our

College, thirty pounds; and to the "Presbyterian Messenger," fifteen pounds; and thus to balance his account with the

Foreign Missions for 1850,-the Synod allowance for that and the former year enabling him to do so; and not one shilling has he drawn, nor intends to draw, for 1851. By this, Mr. Burns makes us a donation of two hundred and

ninely-five pounds. Comment is not needed, unless to express our gratitude for being connected with such a man, and sorrow that so many of our congregations should deprive themselves of this privilege, they refuse to contribute to aid the good work; and I have generally found, that praying and giving go so much together, that we thus lose both, and they the blessing of having a share in missionary work.

I remain, Mr. Editor,

Yours, &c., JAMES NISBET, One of the Treasurers to the Mission. 21, Berners-street, Dec. 20, 1851.

CHINA.

In a letter to Mr. Matheson, dated Amoy, October 9th, 1851, Dr. Young

says:

"The only thing in the work which may be noticed as occurring since I last wrote, is the opening of the chapel in this house for public worship.

"The room, which will hold upwards of 100 people, after being nicely seated (through the kindness of Mr. Burns), we considered it our duty to place at the disposal of the missionaries of the London Society; on the ground, first, that they had been in expectation of having a new chapel built (being in great need of one), but were disappointed in this, as their Society thought that the chapel in this house, being provided at their expense, might serve in the meantime; and second, that in this way, another place of worship and of testimony would be kept well supplied with services, and be thus best

employed for the promotion of the Lord's work.

"The Rev. Messrs. Stronach and Young, who have both been long in the field, have two services here every Lord's-day, and one on Wednesdays. The first was on Sabbath, September 28.

"Mr. Burns has now got as much of this dialect as enables him to propose beginning week-day services in public. He intends commencing to morrow in this chapel."

CORFU.

REV. W. CHARTERIS, TO THE SECRETARY.

Corfu, Nov. 4, 1851. DEAR MADAM,-We have now been nearly six weeks in our new abode, and I am very thankful to be able to state that Mrs. C. has continued to improve in health up tion seems to do her much good. After a to this date, and that our fine, airy situalong drought we have at last had copious rains, which have come, however, too late to save the olive crop, which had rarely ever given such promise as it did this year, up to the month of September, when, owing to the long-continued drought and a worm having attacked the fruit, it has been almost entirely destroyed. The olive is to the Ionians what the potato is to the Irish. In good years they can export as much oil as brings them a return of the will this season be greatly straitened, necessaries of life, for which I fear they especially as this most precarious crop has, after frequent promise, created a long series of disappointments, so that the people have been gradually, both landlord and tenant, deteriorating in outward circumstances.

We commenced again our school, after a longer vacation than usual, on Monday, the 13th of October. We have at present thirty Jewesses and one Italian girl, the daughter of a refugee, who was too poor to send her where he would have been obliged to pay. As she is a very nice, active girl, of ten years of age, I thought it would be right to receive her into our school, until at least it should be thronged, as we shall expect it to be shortly. Her father was a Colonel in the Austrian, and then in the Venetian Republican service, and is much reduced in wealth. He and

his wife, as well as several other refugees here, are anxious to communicate in our form, and, D.v., I hope, in the course of a few weeks, to gratify them; but there must be some further preparation both on their part and on mine. I should wish to have the whole service so prepared as to tend, by the blessing of God, to edification, and to do this in a foreign language requires more time. We had our communion last Lord's-day in the Garrison Chapel. Alas! very few communicated in proportion to the number of my now large audience. I believe this is generally the case with military congregations.

Last night we resumed our Boys' Even- | ing-school for the winter, with twenty scholars, the majority of them very active and respectable boys-none of them above fourteen years of age. I regard this as a promising beginning. We shall henceforth have this school four evenings in the week, instead of three, as hereto- | fore; and we shall hold our prayermeeting on the Friday instead of the Tuesday night. Our weekly prayermeetings are beginning to be better attended, and I hope, during the winter months, to draw out a good number, and thus afford to the poor soldier a means of shunning for one evening at least the temptations of his profession, which are great. At these meetings I am lecturing on the Epistle to the Hebrews, having gone over the Gospels of Luke and John, and the Epistle to the Romans and 2 Peter, since I came to Corfu. I have also frequently spoken from a Psalm or a prophecy. I intend to preach at Vido, to the company of the 92d stationed there, every Lord's-day, weather permitting. Last Sunday the sea was so boisterous I could not cross. The channel is somewhat dangerous in rough weather, as there is a stormy current. In the beginning of September a sergeant of the 92d wagered that, with three of the Artillery, he would cross it during a high wind and heavy sea, by tacking only twice; but, alas! like too many foolhardy enterprises, it terminated fatally. Neither

men nor boat have since been seen nor

heard of. It is supposed that the boat filled and went down.

DR. DUFF AT LIVERPOOL. ON Wednesday evening, December 19, Dr. Duff delivered a lecture at the Collegiate Institution, on “India, in its physi

cal, social, and religious aspects." The audience was extremely numerous, and included many of the leading families of the town and neighbourhood. Among the most attentive and delighted listeners was the Rev. Chancellor Raikes, who had, no doubt, come specially from Chester for the purpose of hearing the important facts, and enjoying the heart-stirring eloquence by which the Rev. Doctor's addresses are so eminently characterised.

On the afternoon of the Sabbath previous, the Doctor preached to a crowded congregation in Canning-street Presbyterian Church, when a collection was made in aid of the Mission Buildings in Calcutta, amounting to 517. On the evening of the same day he preached in St. George's Presbyterian Church.

This large building was crowded in every part; the aisles, and even the stairs and vestry were thronged, whilst hundreds of persons were unable to get within hearing distance. The preacher selected for his text, Ephes. ii. 8: " By grace are ye saved through faith," and delivered a most earnest, able, and energetic discourse, which was listened to with profound attention. On Monday evening he addressed a Meeting at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Birkenhead; and on Thursday evening (December 18), a Public Meeting was held in the Philharmonic Hall, at which Dr. Duff gave an eloquent account of the missionary operations in India.

We have been informed, we trust on good grounds, that a wealthy and benevolent member of our Church, in Liverpool, has given the munificent donation of a thousand pounds towards the erection of the Mission Buildings in Calcutta.

The Committee of the Church Missionary Society have unanimously adopted and forwarded the following Resolution, expressive of their sense of the value of Dr. Duff's labours as a missionary, in promoting among the natives of India the diffusion of the Gospel of Christ :

"That the Committee of the Liverpool Church Missionary Auxiliary desires to record their regret that the Rev. Dr. Duff is precluded by the state of his health, and by his engagements, from accepting any public expression of their respect for his missionary services, as it would have af forded this Committee sincere gratification to testify publicly their sense of the value of Dr. Duff's labours as a missionary, in promoting among the natives of India the diffusion of Christ's Gospel."

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St. George's ditto
St. Peter's ditto

BIRKENHEAD.-Church Collection

MANCHESTER.-Grosvenor-sq.

St. Andrew's ditto....

Thomas Greig, Esq., annual 5

Trinity Church Collection

John Stuart, Esq., annual....

Ancoats, Chalmers' Church, Collection

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Mrs. Flukes, ditto....

COLLECTIONS AND DONATIONS.

COLLEGE FUND.

Amount already advertised

£5 14 6

BELFORD.-Ditto

ANCROFT MOOR.-Church Collection

LOWICK-Ditto..................................................

NORHAM.-Ditto.....

NORTH SUNDERLAND.-Ditto..

BIRMINGHAM.-Ditto ...... £16 10
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1 12

HARBOTTLE.- Ditto LONGFRAMLINGTON.-Ditto

THROPTON.-Ditto

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A Friend, per Mr. Gillespie, annual
A Friend, per Professor Campbell, don.
Rev. W. C. Burns, donation

The following sums have been collected by the General Secretary, Agent for the Schemes of the Church:-*

From James Adam, don. .. Ditto, annual

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Alexander Waddell, ditto..

James Kemp, ditto

Charles Stewart, ditto

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D. G. Fleming, annual
Richard Smith, ditto
David Miller, ditto
Thomas C. Morton, ditto....
Alexander Kelly, ditto.....
James Gilmour, ditto......
John Mc Nish, ditto........
James Mc Kean, ditto
Andrew Hay, ditto........
Robert McEwen, ditto
J. Douglas, ditto
Alexander Collie, ditto
H. Brodie, Jun., ditto
W. Mc Ferran, ditto...
John Lawson, donation
Wm. Thorburn

James Mc Laren, sen.,
John McKinnon, ditto
Alexander Carson, ditto
Wm. Menzies, ditto
Wm. Freeland, ditto

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It is particularly requested that all outstanding Subscriptions and Collections may be forthwith remitted, that same may appear in next "Messenger," and that the accounts of the year may be closed.

A. GILLESPIE, Treasurer. 38, Gordon-square, December 20, 1851.

BLYTH.-Ditto..................

GATESHEAD.-Ditto..

NEWCASTLE.-Trinity, ditto...
Groat Market ditto

SOUTH SHIELDS.-St. John's, ditto
NORTH SHIELDS.-Church Collection

WARK-AND-BOG.-Ditto
BAVINGTON.-Ditto

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BIRDHOPE CRAIG.-Ditto BRANTON.-Ditto

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Donation.-Wooler, for Missions in large towns.-Per Rev. J. A. Huie

*The sums received in Liverpool for the other Schemes will appear in the "Messenger "for February.

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FOREIGN MISSIONS.

November 25th.-Met at Berwick-onTweed. Present, seven ministers and two elders. A Petition from heads of

Amount acknowledged, Nov. 20 ...... £418 9 8 families, with a few others, residing in the

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Treasurers.

ANCROFT MOOR MANSE FUND
George Buchan, Esq., of Kelloe, per Rev.
Alexander Murdoch, Berwick ........ £2 0 0

COLLEGE LIBRARY.

THE College Committee gratefully acknowledge,

received

From John Johnstone, Esq., Edinburgh, per Miss

Parnell, Owen's Works, vols. i., ii., v., vi., viii., ix., xiv.

Presbyteries' Proceedings.

BERWICK PRESBYTERY.

village of Horncliffe and vicinity, and subscribed by upwards of ninety persons was read, praying for supply of religious 0 ordinances, with a view to having a conogregation organised there in connexion with the Presbytery, and under the Synod of the Presbyterian Church in England. Messrs. John Park, fisherman, and Wm. Carr, shoemaker, who had been appointed at a Public Meeting of the above to represent them as Commissioners in the Presbytery, were present to support the Petition, accompanied by Mr. Mark Thomson, who had acted as Chairman of the Public Meeting. These Commissioners were received and heard. It was then moved by Mr. Murdoch, and seconded by Mr. Frazer, that the prayer of the Petition be granted to the extent, that ordinances be supplied to the petitioners as requested, and that a Committee of arrangements be appointed to correspond with the Horncliffe people, or their committee of management. Appointed supplies accordingly till the 25th of January, 1852, and the following a committee of arrangements :—Mr. Ryder, Commissioner, with Messrs. Murdoch and Stewart, Ministers, and Mr. Wm. Tennant, Elder. The Home Mission Committees' letter anent North Sunderland, was taken up, and Mr. Munro heard. Unanimously agreed that there is no practicable means of carrying out the proposal in the letter. Remitted to the existing Committee the draft hymn book to embody the Presbytery's corrections, and have it transmitted to the Synod Committee's Convener. College collections were reported. Messrs. Fraser, Ryder, and Terras reported that, as appointed, they had examined Andrew Hislop and James Milne, teachers-elect for Norham and Lowick, and found them qualified. The young men expressed willingness to sign the Church's standards, and sustained their election. The quarterly accounts of

MET specially at Etal, October 7, on occasion of the decease of the Rev. David Aitkin, minister of Etal. Present, five ministers, and Mr. Huie, of Wooler, associated. In consideration of Mr. Aitkin's death, the Presbytery agreed to record their sense of the loss they have sustained by the removal from among them of the father of the Presbytery, and of the Presbyterian Church in England, in the terms following:-"The Presbytery regard this sad event with solemnity, being reminded thereby of the close of their own ministry, in the removal from office, and from this life, of one, who, during the long period of sixtythree years, filled that office with active labours, with consistency of character, and with respect from multitudes who now remember his ministrations with

Lowick, North Sunderland, and Tweedmouth were attested. Adjourned till 20th January, 1852, to meet at Tweedmouth.

ST. MARK'S CHURCH, GREENWICH. INDUCTION OF THE REV. GEO. J. C. DUNCAN. This most harmonious settlement took place on Tuesday, the 25th of November.

The resignation of the Rev. Adam Roxburgh, from indisposition, which is likely to put preaching henceforth beyond. his power, was laid before the Presbytery of London in June, 1851. A request was at the same time made to the Presbytery, by the Greenwich session, that the pastoral connexion between Mr. Roxburgh and the congregation might remain undisturbed for a time. This request, at once complied with by the Presbytery, had in view to avoid the evils of a protracted vacancy, and to secure Mr. Roxburgh's co-operation, as minister, with themselves and the congregation, in obtaining a fit successor.

Mr. Roxburgh was then asked to invite to the pulpit ministers of experience and devotedness, likely to give favourable consideration to an earnest and harmonious call.

The Rev. Geo. J. C. Duncan, of North Shields, the first thus brought before the congregation, was unanimously chosen by them on the 19th of August, as their future minister.

The Presbytery in September, finding the congregation in this satisfactory condition, accepted Mr. Roxburgh's resignation of his charge, and appointed a day for moderating in a call to his successor. The call to Mr. Duncan received one hundred and sixteen signatures.

On the evening of the induction (25th November), the Rev. Thomas Alexander, of Chelsea, preached, and in the name of the Presbytery admitted Mr. Duncan as minister of St. Mark's Church. Dr. Jas. Hamilton set forth the principles of Presbyterian Church government; and the Rev. William Chalmers, of Marylebone, concluded the services by charges to the minister and people. Mr. Duncan was then welcomed by his people in the heartiest manner, with the right hand of fellowship. The church was crowded.

The Sunday morning following, Mr. Duncan having been introduced by the Rev. A. Roxburgh in a brief address, commenced his very hopeful ministry.

We cannot help congratulating the session and congregation of this beautiful new church, on their proceedings throughout this matter, and on the successful result of their cordial and unanimous call to their new minister. We augur

from this, much of that compact action so needful in these days, and much vigorous and effective diligence in the wide field of Christian work that lies on every side of them.

on

Local Notices.

MARYPORT.The annual festival of the Sabbath-school in connexion with the Presbyterian Church, Maryport, was held One Wednesday, December 3d. hundred and thirty-eight children were regaled with tea and cake. During the evening they were examined, in presence of the audience, on portions of Scripture and Scripture geography, and they also recited a number of poetical pieces. Several pieces of sacred music were sung at intervals, with excellent effect. The answering of the children gave the utmost satisfaction, and reflected great credit on the excellent staff of teachers by whom the school is conducted. After a brief Address by the minister, in which he stated that the school continued in a prosperous condition, that a savings' bank had lately been established in connexion with it, and that, during the past year, an addition of nearly 100 volumes had been made to the library, which now contains 400 volumes, the Meeting separated, highly pleased with the exercises of the evening. Great credit is due to Mr. Dobbie, the Superintendent, for the labour he has bestowed in teaching the children singing; and also to Mr. Thomas Brown, Secretary, for his excellent management of his own department.

WHITEHAVEN. DR. DUFF.-On one of the Sabbaths of December, Dr. Duff, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, preached in the morning an eloquent and soulawakening sermon from 2 Cor. v. 21, to a large and respectable congregation; and in the evening the Rev. J. Glasgow, missionary from Bombay, gave a lengthened and interesting account of the missionary work in India. The discourse of Dr. Duff was a rich exhibition of Gospel truth, and was deeply felt by the breathless audience, that soon recognised the

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