tion of hands by those already in office.

13. They believe that the fellowship of every Christian church should be so liberal as to admit to communion in the Lord's Supper, all whose faith and godliness are, on the whole, undoubted, though conscientiously differing in points of minor importance; and that this outward sign of fraternity in Christ should be co-extensive with the fraternity itself, though without involving any compliances which conscience would deem to be sinful.

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, MILL

HILL, MIDDLESEX.

Several years ago, a church was formed at the village of Mill Hill, in connection with the Dissenters' Grammar School there. On the appointment of the Rev. W. Clayton early in 1831, to the chaplaincy of that valuable establishment, he was invited by the few surviving members, to take the oversight of them, which he accepted, and the number of communicants is now between 30 and 40.

The Grammar School Chapel in which they were permitted to worship, being in a state not at all in accordance with the elegance of the School itself, has been superseded by the erection of a chaste and commodious chapel, 60 feet by 40, which accords with the original design of the whole edifice.

This chapel was opened for divine worship on Lord's Day, June 24th, when the Rev. W. Clayton preached in the morning from Haggai ii. 19; "From this day will I bless you."

The Rev. Henry Lea Berry, M. A. (the first classical master) preached in the afternoon, from Phil. iii. 8. "Yea, doubtless and I count all things," &c. and the Rev. George Clayton, of Walbrook, preached in the evening, from Haggai ii. 9. "The glory of this latter house,"

&c.

A handsome gallery is appropriated to the use of the pupils and the other gentlemen of the establishment, and the area of the chapel is fitted up with convenient pews for the accommodation of residents in the neighbourhood. The attendance at the above services was respectable, and the collections exceeded £30.

INTENDED REMOVAL OF WYMONDLEY

COLLEGE.

THE College as Wymondley, Herts, which is managed by the Trustees of Mr. Coward's property, is about to be removed to the immediate vicinity of the London University, it being intended that the Students shall receive their Humanity and Philosophical Education in that establishment, but reside together in one academical family, under the presidency of their much valued theological tutor, the Rev. Thomas Morell.

We cannot but express our hope that this public spirited measure may be crowned with the greatest success that the esteemed trustees can desire-for it is most unquestionable, that if our denomination is to retain and increase its influence in society, its ministers must receive a much more finished education than they have generally possessed.

NEW CHAPEL, WINDSOR, BERKSHIRE. THE present Independent place of worship having become too small to accommodate the congregation, they have determined to provide a more commodious house of prayer, and we have now the pleasure to state that, the first stone of a new Chapel to be 68 feet by 46, exclusive of the vestry, and in a more desirable situation than the old one, was laid on Wednesday, May 16th, in the presence of a numerous and respectable assembly.

The order of the service was as follows: Rev. G. Redford, M.A. of Worcester, gave out part of the 132d Psalm, and read a portion of Scripture; Rev. A. Redford, the venerable pastor of the church, offered a short prayer. The stone was laid by Thomas Wilson, Esq. of Highbury, and a brass plate and some coins deposited. which Rev. J. Leifchild, of London, The 118th Psalm was sung, after delivered an appropriate address, stating the origin of the Dissenting in

terest in Windsor, the circumstances which had led to the intended erection of a new building, and the doctrines of the Gospel which will be proclaimed in it; the 117th Psalm was then sung, and Rev. J.A. James,

of Birmingham, concluded with solemn prayer and the benediction.

ORDINATIONS.

On Tuesday, May 22d, the Rev. John Harrison, late of the Independent College, Rotherham, was ordained as co-pastor, with the Rev. W. L. Prattman, over the Independent Church, assembling in Newgate Street Chapel, Barnard Castle, Durham; when the following ministers took part in the sacred solemnity.

The Rev. R. Gibbs, of Darlington, commenced the service of the day by prayer and the reading of the Scriptures; the Rev. J. Matheson, of Durham, delivered the introductory discourse, which an most able, full,

and candid statement of our reasons for dissent; the Rev. J. Jackson, of Green Hammerton, asked the usual questions, and, with much fervour and solemnity, offered the ordination prayer; the Rev. T. Smith, A.M., of Rotherham College, gave the charge to the minister, which was distinguished by great affection, pertinence, and practical utility; and the Rev. W. L. Prattman concluded the service with prayer.

In the evening, in the Wesleyan Chapel, which was kindly offered for the purpose, after prayer by the Rev. T. Smith, A.M., the Rev. James Parsons, of York, with great faithfulness and impression, addressed the church and congregation from Acts ix. 31, and then concluded with prayer.

The services of the day, as was manifest by the countenances of the crowded audiences by which they were attended, were deeply interesting and affecting, and have produced an impression which it is hoped will prove both useful and lasting.

At the close of the morning service the ministers and friends dined together; after which a very interesting account of the progress of religion in Barnard Castle and its neighbourhood was given by the Rev. W. L. Prattman, and the subject of the proposed congregational union was very ably discussed.

The ordination of the Rev. John Hoxley over the Independent church at Sherborne, in the county of Dorset, took place on Wednesday, 6th June.

The Rev. Robert Halley, classical and resident tutor of Highbury College, delivered the introductory discourse, exhibiting a vigorous and masterly analysis of the structure and privileges of a Christian church.

The Rev. John Jukes, of Yeovil, proposed the usual questions to the candidate, to which pertinent and satisfactory replies were given.

The ordination prayer was offered by the Rev. Alfred Bishop, of Beaminster; and the charge, comprising a series of faithful and affecting admonitions, founded on Col. iv. 17, was given by the Rev. Thomas Durant, of Poole.

In the evening, the usual sermon to the people was delivered by the Rev. Richard Keynes, of Blandford, from Gal. vi. 6, to a large and attentive congregation.

The meetings of the day were numerously attended, and were marked by unusual feelings and expressions of interest.

On Wednesday the 20th June, the ordination of Rev. Ebenezer Prout, of Highbury College, over the Independent church at Oundle, Northamptonshire, took place, when Rev. D. Parkins, of Aldwinkle, commenced the services of the morning by reading the Scriptures and prayer; Rev. R. Halley, classical tutor at Highbury College, delivered the introductory discourse; Rev. T. Haynes, of Boston, asked the usual questions; Rev. T. Toller, of Kettering, offered the ordination prayer; Rev. J. Blackburn, of London, gave the charge; and the Rev. C. T. Sevier, of Wellingborough, concluded with prayer.

In the evening, the Rev. E. Prust, of Northampton, read and prayed; Rev. J. Robertson, of Wellingborough, preached to the people; and Rev. C. J. Hyatt, of Northampton, closed the solemn and interesting services of the day by prayer.

On Wednesday, June 20th, 1832, the Rev. S. J. Breeze was ordained pastor of the Independent church at Queenborough, Kent. The Rev. S. Stennett, Mill Town, Sheerness, commenced the service by reading the Scriptures and prayer.

The Rev. John Moreland, of Milton next Sittingbourn, delivered a

succinct and scriptural introductory discourse; the Rev. H. J. Rook, of Faversham, asked the usual questions; the Rev. Joseph Slatterie, of Chatham, offered the ordination prayer; the charge was given by the Rev. James Prankard, of Sheerness; and the Rev. Thomas Bastard, of Minster, concluded.

In the evening, the service was commenced by reading and prayer, by the Rev. G. W. Moulson, of Mile Town, Sheerness. The sermon to the church and congregation was preached in his usual kind and appropriate manner by the Rev Joseph Slatterie, of Chatham. The services of this peculiarly interesting day were closed by the Rev. S. J. Breeze, the newly ordained pastor.

REMOVALS.

We understand, that the Rev. N. M. Harry, of Banbury, has accepted the pastoral charge of the ancient Congregational church, New Broad Street,

London, vacant by the removal of the Rev. Mr. Dobson to Orange Street Chapel, and that he will commence his labours on the first Sabbath in August, when the meeting-house will be reopened after considerable repairs.

NOTICE.

Congregational School for Yorkshire and Lancashire, SilcoatesHouse, near Wakefield. The Annual Meeting of the Subscribers and Friends to this Institution is fixed for Wednesday, July 4th. The public examination of the pupils will commence at nine o'clock in the morning; the meeting of the subscribers, for the transaction of business, will be held at twelve o'clock. It is expected that a proposition will be submitted to the meeting to extend the benefits of the school beyond the limits of Yorkshire and Lancashire, in favour of the sons of ministers in the adjoining counties.

SIERRA LEONE.

The following particulars are extracted from letters which have recently been received from Mrs. Kilham, an aged member of the Society of Friends, who, it will be recollected by many of our readers, sailed for that colony in October 1830, to promote by Christian instruction the spiritual and temporal improvement of the Africans. There is something touching and heart-stirring in the correspondence of this devoted woman. is not an every-day sight to behold a solitary widow of threescore years and ten, leaving, under a strong impression of duty, her country and friends, and energetically pursuing missionary operations in perhaps the worst climate under the sun. We are sure that she will have the prayers and sympathies of every Christian.

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the longest days. Our Piazza is so deep, we can sit here often when the rain is falling very fast, and are the more invited to do so, at times, as the sitting room is dark when we cannot have all the doors open; it reminds me, together with the high surrounding mountains, of some of the descriptions of French monasteries. The rains have been thus far very light, perhaps no one day clear of rain in this or the last month; but excepting the week before last, we have had some bright weather during a part of almost every day. The changes are great beyond description, and sometimes very sudden, from bright fine sky one hour, and the next general fog and clondiness, and peeling rain; still there are intimations of coming showers, so that if needful we may prepare against them. Some of our English friends, if they could be brought suddenly from London to Charlotte, would not at all imagine themselves in the dissolving country they had heard described, but surrounded by a cool air, and more the appearance of a wild common, associated with ideas of solitude and cold, than with what the mind had pictured of bright and luxuriant vegetation;

for with all its powers of production, if well directed, this country has a look of great barrenness and wildness when compared with England.

"There is a great lack of foresight, and also intelligence, in the cultivation of the land, so that a person with one or two farms, as they are called, will yet be at one season of the year destitute of any food from them, although with care they might have produce every month.

6th Month, 17th, 1831. I am now, through divine favour, quite restored to health, and though we have rain every day more or less, I do not suffer from the state of the weather; indeed, a great part of the day is sometimes fair, and the mornings especially, not unfrequently beautifully fine for a few hours; at other times the morning dawn is accompanied by so heavy a fog that the mountains are completely covered, at other times fog does not come on till nine or ten o'clock, and then, after remaining some time, disperses. We consider the Tornado season as now over, and have had very little high wind this month, but to-day, since noon, the wind has risen so much, that I have shut all the doors in the house but one, and if that was shut, I should want a lamp or candle by which to write. This is really a Tornado, though accompanied with but little thunder, but the wind is very strong, and the rain falls fast. In the middle of the rainy season we had not any heat, that, to me felt more than pleasant, nor any of that relaxing effect which is often experienced from the heat of the dry season, so that here, as in England, there are some things to enjoy as well as some to suffer in every season. State of the Native School in Charlotte. "The school-house is detached from our dwelling, and on the opposite side of the yard, but near enough for me to speak to the children at the door from our Piazza, and as they have no clock or watch, I have to give the signal of a bell, when they should sit down to write or work, when they should rise to read, and when break up the school.

"My time is very fully occupied; and I wish to give attention to the teachers and monitors by having them here apart, in two classes to instruct, one of teachers and one of monitors; I try to do a little when I can, and feel great interest in it. "I have felt very little difficulty with regard to the training of my dear flock of liberated African children, yet had I the constant care of them out of school, the difficulty would, I doubt not, have been felt.

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teresting subjects for instruction, a few in particular, whom I have selected as monitors, and teach them a little in my own room, or in the Piazza apart from the rest. It is deeply interesting to find that they now receive many things which I tell them in easy English from Scripture history, and some important truths in Scripture sentences, which they repeat with me to keep up their attention. I have had, since writing last, very comforting evidence of the advancement of my children in their school instruction, and I am anxious to complete for them, as soon as I can, all that I have had in prospect in undertaking this charge. Our first or highest scholars read very nicely several of the Scripture card lessons, both from the very large and smaller type; they can read, I think, the whole of the large, and several of the smaller, and can write their lessons on slates, either from the printed sheets or from dictation.

"The children repeat, every morning before school commences, the simple yet expressive lines of A. Gilbert's hymn, 'Lord I would own thy tender care,' (the whole hymn) in one voice, this they do quite well, and have nearly learned several others in the way of repeating after a monitor, until they can repeat it alone. We have some children with very fine countenances, at least so they appear to me, affectionate, intelligent, and susceptible of improvement.

"Every day they hear some simple and impressive passages of Scripture read, and sometimes they answer a few questions upon what they have heard; I am very glad to have had the opportunity which this school gives me, to try a simple and practical plan of instruction in teaching to read, and write, and think; I should much like to see the same plan acted upon in a school in England or Ireland, where the language of the lessons is the native language of the pupils. I am now prepared to give to these children some farther opportunities than they have yet had, for learning to know the meaning of what they read, through their own native words.

Appeal for more Labourers in Africa. "I cannot even yet withhold the desire, that when divine wisdom and goodness shall put it into the hearts of any of the sincere disciples of our Lord, to come to Africa, to the help of the people, whether for a longer or a shorter time, that attraction may not be repressed, either by themselves or by others. The Spirit of Him, who seeing the multitudes, had compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, 3 M

as sheep having no shepherd.' That spirit is greatly needed in this land; let it not be quenched by any cold and worldly considerations; what is life-what is climate-when compared with service claimed towards immortal beings?

"O when we see the state of these poor children, and the lack of agents for their education, how can one but earnestly desire that more Christian labourers, both male and female, may be sent into this harvest, for truly it is great, and the labourers very few. I cannot think that I do wrong in desiring an increase of labourers. I cannot say I will just fulfil what appears to be my own duty, and leave others without attempting to disturb their rest in more inviting scenes. I do not point out the duty of individuals, but yet see and deeply feel that more labourers are wanted here, and I long greatly to hear that many are willing to go wherever divine wisdom be pleased to lead them, without regarding whether the path be rough or smooth, hazardous or easy, painful to nature, or inviting as to pleasurable feelings. Christ is all in all, strength to the weak, riches to the poor, and the soul's delighting consolation and rest, even to the solitary. Still I believe that to follow our beneficent Redeemer's example in sending out labourers from among His disciples two and two, would be generally better than for one to stand alone in a state of so much variety of change and engagement as a missionary Pray ye the Lord of the harvest that he will send forth more labourers into his harvest,' and my heart is still bound to the belief that our heavenly Father would not have incited so much desire for the good of this land, if there were not a harvest to his eternal praise finally to be reaped here.

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"May my heart be directed to God, in the humble trust that He may be pleased to carry on, by such agents as His providence shall appoint to the work of Christian instruction in the native languages of Africa, whatever may be in his own will and permission, as to the feeble and unworthy instrument, now attempting the very lowest rudiments of the work in this little African family, for little indeed even a family of fifty may seem, in comparison of the very wide sphere through which this cause may be promoted; and should my life not be much prolonged, and the desire of my heart not be permitted, during that little remaining span, I will yet hope that in other hands this sacred cause of Christian instruction, through the native languages of Africa, may one day be encouraged and carried forward in England, without omitting or

contravening any good design to which duty may lead individuals to enter upon on the coast of Africa.

Usefulness of the Wesleyan Missionaries.

"A second missionary from the Wesleyan Society, arrived here a few days since, to the great joy of his colleague, who has been alone more than twelve months; one also, with his wife, came out at the same time to the Gambia, to take the place of the late estimable missionary, Richard Marshall. I am truly glad that a companion has arrived for the Missionary Keightly here; he was nearly overpowered with labour, and is now well, and cheerful, and rejoicing in the com fort of having society at home, and feeling much united to his fellow labourer. The Wesleyan Missionaries here, whom I have seen, have had the strength and consolation of unity and affection with one another, and have displayed before the people an example of humility and Christian devotedness, that has spoken in strong language to the hearts of observers, even among those who walked not with them. They are about to commence a school in their chapel in Free Town, on first day afternoons, and have applied to me for lessons; the boards they give themselves from their own individual resources; there is no other Sabbath school in Free Town, and they hope thus to provide for the instruction of the apprentices, as well as others, of various ages, who have not other opportunity for instruction: their predecessors had a first day school, but when only one was here, it could not be continued; they rejoice now in the thought of resuming it. The Wesleyans have six chapels in the colony, three stone and three grass houses.”

GRATITUDE FOR THE REFORM BILL. To the Editors.-There are but few of your readers, I apprehend, who will not agree with me in thinking, that the forbearance and kindness of God towards our country of late, have been peculiarly great.

Some months ago, when I entreated them, through the medium of one of your numbers, to observe religiously a day of humiliation and prayer, we were apparently in danger of being subjected to the two great scourges of pestilence and civil discord. How lightly has the former of these been felt; and from the latter, although we would not forget our constant dependance upon God, we do trust we are in less danger than ever, in consequence of that great measure of Reform, which has at length become law. Our gratitude to divine providence is