hills all round are covered with the finest oak; and the glens, making up from the main meadow, or, as we call them, bottom lands, are thickly overgrown with black and white walnut, and the fine and thrifty sugar-tree: these trees are from a foot-and-a-half to three feet in diameter; and there is a loftiness in their appearance, as they interlace their limbs above and leave the open deep shade clear from brush below, which is amazingly solemn. Who can enter these glens, without thinking of the power and goodness of Him who maketh the wilderness and solitary place glad by His presence and the sense of His power?

Immediately round the College, on descending ground, there are lofty and aged trees, with about a double number of younger growth: these last it is our wish to cherish, that there never may be wanting the great ornament of a wide and extensive shade round about our College. Amidst these trees our great building is seen, as you approach from the south and east. It raises its stately walls, its strong roof, and its lofty spire surmounted with a glittering vane, amidst and above all these surrounding trees; calling continually to mind the Divine Favour so far beyond our deservings, especially in the kindness shewn me in England.

Between 500 and 600 acres of the South or College Section are cleared, fenced, and in a state of good cultivation: these will be sowed with grass seed, and reserved for meadow and pasture grounds: several fields are already brought into this condition, and the others will all be so in the course of this summer. The result of this plan will be our ability to sustain, besides our other animals, more than 100 milch cows; which, in the support of our Young Students, both of the Grammar School and College, will form an item of essential importance: it will save us one-half the expense of board; and this in so great a number of Students (intended to go as far as 500) will largely increase the ability of the College to do good.

To the north of the College, the open grounds, studded with clumps of thriving trees, terminate in that favourite spot whereon is the site of our Church, and which has been denominated by us Bexley Square. A few trees, which have withstood the press of winds and storms, surround the hallowed ground marked out for our Church and Burial-ground:

under these, unless I die in a distant clime, it is my wish to rest in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life.

The centre building of the College is reared: the wings will be built when God shall be pleased to enable us. It is 40 feet in height to the eaves: thence it is 12 feet to the ridge of the roof, 12 more to the top of the tower, and 50 more to the vane; so that the whole height from the foundation to the top of the spire is 114 feet. There are 36 rooms ready, beside the basement: when the College is finished, it will be immediately filled; and if we had ten times more room, it would all be occupied.

But it is a yet more pleasing task to record the moral and religious state of the College. A great proportion of our Students are pious men; and, of the remainder, there are but few whose conduct is in the least exceptionable. The result of this is, a great desire to do good to others: and wide is the field and abundant are the means to gratify their wishes. Except what the College has afforded, scarcely an efficient Sunday School was to be found for many miles. Very many families had not a Bible in their houses; and where they had Bibles, the children could not read them. Of this ignorance, vice, in all its forms, was the natural offspring. Blessed be God! the face of things is now changed. Sunday Schools, and Bible Classes, and Bible Societies are the means-and our Scholars are the instruments of bringing these means into action and God crowns the whole! Could your Lordship behold, on Sunday Mornings, our faithful pupils snatching, like primitive Believers, their frugal meal at break of day, and sallying forth through different paths to seek in the wilderness their little flocks, the lambs of Christ's fold-could you see them journeying, while others are yet asleep, six or seven miles through lonely bye-paths, to enter in season on their heavenly work-could you see them returning, with equal zeal, to the Service of the Church among their fellow-students-could your Lordship see all this done, without ostentation, in silent obedience to the dictates of our Holy Faith, and then view the happy consequences-the wilderness, so lately barren, is glad for them, and the desert blossoms with the rose-you would not regret that you favoured once an outcast being under your hospitable roofthat you listened to his plea-that you embraced his cause, and gave your influ.

ence to promote contributions in behalf of Ohio.

The Bishop's application to Congress (see pp. 358, 359 of our last Volume) for support to the College was not successful in reference to this, he states, in the Letter just quoted

I came from Washington in June. Since that period I have known scarcely an hour of rest. I could not have gone on at all, after my disappointment in Congress, but for the little donations resulting from a small Pamphlet which I circulated. God be praised for once more stirring up the hearts of friends in my own country! When I arrived in Ohio, I found the afairs of our Institution under great depression. The walls of the College were only about half a story above the basement story: the temporary houses for the Students, which, with one for a dining-hall, are six in number, were scarcely raised; and yet the Students, about 70 in number, were to be

immediately removed from Worthington. Our saw-mill was built, and at work; but the race was to be deepened two feet, being 20 feet wide and 100 rods long Our flour-mill, though the frame was reared, was yet to be covered, roof and sides and ends; and the whole machinery thereof was to be made and fitted. Our lime for the great building was to be dug out of our banks, and burnt and drawn ; and the same with respect to the sand. Add to all this, that a vast quantity of stone remained to be quarried, prepared, and drawn to the College, and laid into the great building; and that the roof and steeple timbers were yet in the trees of the forest. Besides this, a large house for the drying and seasoning of our plank was to be erected. All this, with the care of 700 acres of cleared land, mostly to be newly fenced and cultivated, was before me, when I returned.

Had I possessed men of fidelity, well acquainted with their several spheres of business, such as may be found in old and thickly-inhabited countries, and had I possessed money to command their services, like the excellent Bishop Burgess in Wales, I might have committed my cares to others. But this was not my lot. Necessity compelled me to see to every thing myself to lay all plansto make all calculations-to give all orders to attempt the remedying of all difficulties, the supply of all deficiencies, and the settling of all disputes-and to

require every man, however he might be situated, to do his duty. My days were consumed in this labour and my nights were spent, either in death-like sleep, seizing on my frame with irresistible power as soon as my work was exausted, their watches were passed in done; or, when nature was too much restless tossings or in disturbed dreams. Such, however, was the impression on my mind of the necessity and duty of struggling to the last to get the College up and covered in before the coming on of another winter, that, during the long days in summer, not a day passed but found me on the ground even at the dawn; and when, in the autumn and winter, the days were shorter, the rule of the College Family was, to rise at four o'clock, to go through the duty of Prayer and to finish breakfast by six, and then every one to his work-the Students to their books, and the workmen (from 50 to 70) to their allotted employ.

Of the manner in which the Bishop appointment in Congress he thus was helped forward after his disspeaks

which I wrote. This I printed at New York, as I was returning from Washing ton. I sent copies to all my youthful friends, and to such as had been my pupils; and, blessed be He in whose hands are the hearts of all men! there were sent to me about 1200 dollars in

I have mentioned a little Pamphlet

money; with which, and by the help of goods advanced to me by friends at New York, I continued to struggle on, though constantly, for the want of Faith, greatly distressed; yet-knowing the goodness of God, who can feed by ravens in the wilderness as well as spread tables for kings in palaces-unreasonably, ungratefully, and sinfully so. Yes! this is the source of my greatest misery-that, while God is so good and gracious to me, and is constantly answering my prayers beyond all stretch of thought, I am so faithless; so often distressed under present difficulties, and in fear of the future success of this great work so evidently begun and continued by His guidance

and under His favour. I tremble at the

thought of ingratitude and sin in this respect; and beg the prayers of the Faithful, lest, after having preached to others so often on this very subject, I should become a cast-away.

On the 14th of February the Bishop writes

The steeple was completed, and the building covered in, a few days ago: since which happy event, my feelings and the perturbation of our affairs have, like the fluctuations of the ocean after a mighty storm, been gradually subsiding into rest.

The first thing which I do, in this new state of affairs, is, to look up with gratitude to God, and to implore His forgiveness of past sins, and the grace of His Holy Spirit for future trials; and, then, to think of" Dear Old England," and the many friends who THERE have been praying for the mercies which I have HERE been receiving: I think in deed of them; and, unworthy as I am, pour out my heart in prayer to God for

them.

What I am to do as a next effort to replenish our exhausted funds, I know not; except it be, to lay off a town on the North Section, and sell the lots to the highest bidder, without reference to the qualities, good or bad, of the purchaser.

I was in hopes to dispose of the whole of the North Section to the select Irish Colony; but am inclined to believe that it is my duty to rely on this no longer. I have, therefore, come to the determination of selling the North-east corner of the North Section, to the extent of 1000 acres. At that distance from the College, between three and four miles, it will not be inconsistent with the features of our original plan to lay off a town; and, by selling the lots to our friends, not only to obtain present funds to a considerable amount, but enhance the value of the remaining three-fourths of the Section.

We should hope, from this state

ment, that the Bishop's intention of selling his own Farm and Dwelling in order to relieve him in his difficulties, which was noticed by us at P. 630 of our last Volume, was obviated by the liberal intervention of friends.

We cannot omit the Bishop's testimony to his beloved Associate in his cares and labours; of whose faith as a Christian we had striking proof, in the manner in which her letters sustained the Bishop's mind, while he was struggling with difficulties when in England

This family amounts to nearly 100 persons. My Wife (God bless her now and ever!) is the mainspring of the whole of this immense domestic machine: so that "How could if it be asked in future ages, this College in the woods, and in the want of so many ordinary means and facilities, ever succeed?" let it be replied, "There was an humble Female, who, though surrounded by the cares of her own little children, stood at the helm, as a Mother in the Israel of God-advising the doubtful, encouraging the timid, smiling on the obedient, frowning on the refractory, soothing the sorrowful, comforting the afflicted, and administering to the sick; and, in an uncommon degree, causing all to look to her for example, especially in deprivations and sufferings; and all this with such unostentatious deportment and unperceived effort, as to appear, except to those who carefully observed her, no more than any other.

The Bishop of Calcutta sailed from Portsmouth, on the 15th of July, in the Pallas Frigate, Captain Fitzclarence, for Calcutta. The Earl of Dalhousie, appointed Commander-in-chief of the Forces in the East Indies, was also on board.

Baptist Miss. Soc.-The Rev. James Chater embarked at Colombo on Christmas Day, to proceed to England, in the hope that a visit home might re-invigorate his wasted frame, worne down by the unremitting labour of two-and-twenty years in a tropical climate. But disease had made fatal progress; and, after being on board only eight days, he expired on the 2d of January, before the ship had reached the Isle of France.

Church Miss. Soc.-When our last Number went to press, Mrs. Jowett, who, as our Readers are aware, has been for some time, with Mr. Jowett and their family, on a visit

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home from Malta, was labouring under an attack of apoplexy, superinduced on a consumptive complaint which had been for a considerable period gradually wasting her frame. This attack, which terminated her life, after six-and-thirty hours, near midnight of the 24th of June, relieved her from what would have probably been a long course of bodily suffering. Though unable otherwise to express her meaning than by signs, she retained full consciousness to the last; and gave abundant evidence that the Good Shepherd was with her, and enabled her to walk through the valley of the shadow of death fearing no evil. A Memoir and Obituary of this excellent Woman will probably appear in our next.

WESTERN AFRICA.

Church Miss. Soc.-The Rev. W. K. Betts was married to Mrs. Taylor, by the Rev. Thomas Davey, at the Church at Bathurst, on the 20th of February.

SOUTH AFRICA.

Chaka, the sanguinary Chief who lately threatened the Colony, was assassinated by two of his brothers on the 23d of September; in consequence, it appears, of his having pretended that he had dreamt of a plot against himself in which their father was concerned, and which pretended dreams were always preparatory to the murder of the victims thus marked out by him. He had been so in. fatuated as to tell this dream to Boper, a confidential domestic, who was himself to be one of the victims; and, the same evening, just as the sun was sinking in the horizon, Dingaan, the younger brother of Chaka, said to him, "You shall never see the sun set again," and, as he uttered the words, thrust his assagai into Chaka's back: this act was followed up by Umslangan, another brother, and by the servant Boper, until they despatched him.

MEDITERRANEAN.

Church Miss. Soc.-Three Sons of Mr. Vassali, the lately-deceased Maltese Translator to the Society, are under the care of the Missionaries. Mr. Schlienz writes in reference to them

The three Boys promise to surpass our expectations-willing and able to learn whatever we have hitherto given them. A strong attachment to us, and a love for the Word of God, characterize them. INDIA WITHIN THE GANGES. Church Miss. Soc.- The Rev. Charles Friend has been stationed, for the present, at Chunar, with the view of perfecting himself in the Native Languages. As Mr. Bowley's health is very precarious, Mr. Friend will render such relief to him in his labours as he may be able, while he will avail himself of Mr. Bowley's experience in preparing for his own future work. Mr. Eteson continues at Benares.

CEYLON.

The Rev. Andrew Armour, one of the Colonial Chaplains, and Minister of St. Paul's Church at Colombo, died at that place on the 30th of November. The Rev. Joseph Bailey, Church Missionary at Cotta, supplies the vacancy till a successor shall be appointed.

UNITED STATES.

Missionaries to Greece-It will be seen

from the following extract from the New-York Observer, that an addition is about to be made to the American Labourers in Greece whom we have before mentioned.

Our country is beginning to remember the moral, as well as the physical, necessities of Greece. The Rev. Jonas King is already there, distributing Bibles, and in various ways promoting the interests of education and religion: Mr. Anderson, Assistant Secretary of the American Board, has gone, in an official capacity, to ascertain the moral wants of the people: the Rev. J. J. Robertson sailed lately from Boston, as an Episcopal Missionary to that country and the Boston Recorder informs us, that the Rev. Mr. Proudfit, of Newbury-port, is appointed to a similar service by the Presbyterian Board of Missions. We presume that the Rev. Josiah Brewer is expected soon to resume his labours; and it is at least a subject of inquiry, whe ther the large Printing Establishment at Malta, under the care of the American Board, ought not to be transferred to that inviting field.

Protestant Episcopal Miss. Soc.- An Institution has been formed, in connection with this Society, for the support of an African Mission School. The exigencies of Africa are such, and the demand for Missionaries so great, that it has been deemed expedient to establish this School for the education of suitable Persons of African Extraction, in order to their becoming Missionaries, Catechists, or Schoolmasters in Africa, under the direction of the Society.

Protestant Episcopal Clergy-Sword's Almanac, for the present year, makes the number of Clergy 507. Namely-Maine 5New-Hampshire 8-Massachusetts 29-Vermont 7-Rhode Island 7-Connecticut 56New-York 122-New-Jersey 16-Pennsylvania 70-Delaware 6-Maryland 55-Virginia 47-North Carolina 10-South Carolina 35-Georgia 3—Ohio 14-Mississippi 5 -Kentucky 3-Tennessee 2-Louisiana 1Michigan 2-Arkansas 1-Missouri 1-Florida 2. Of the above, ten are Bishops.

Religious Periodicals-We have seen a list of 22 of these Publications issued by different Denominations: of these, 2 are printed at Washington, 4 at Philadelphia, 3 at New York, and 4 at Boston, and the rest at 9 several places.

Of the earlier part of Mrs. Jowett's life, I am not able to say much; not having known her till the year preceding our marriage. Partly, however, from the members of her family, and partly from herself, I have learned a few particulars, sufficient to shew how Providence had long been preparing her for the work to which she was afterward called, and in which she was for several years spared to labour.

Decided and permanent religious impressions on her mind may probably be dated from about the year 1804. On coming home from a boarding-school, where, in addition to much useful knowledge, she had imbibed not a little youth ful vanity, she found her Elder Sister teaching a Sunday School of poor children of the village. At this she, at first, took offence; thinking that she was giving herself very unnecessary trouble: but, in the course of a little time, through her Sister's mild persuasions and exemplary perseverance, she was herself brought to labour with earnestness for the instruction and salvation of these very children.

'The mutual love of these two sisters, Mary and Martha, nearly equal in age and now become similar in their religious feelings and employments, from this period constantly increased. In conducting Sunday Schools, in visiting the sick, in assisting their Mother in training up the younger branches of the family and in household affairs, and in promoting a Bible and Missionary Association in the parish where they dwelt, they were of one heart and one mind. It was a painful separation, more especially to the elder, when her younger sister quitted England, to accompany me August, 1829.

in my Mission to the Mediterranean: and a no less painful stroke was it to my Wife, five years after, to hear, on her first returning to England, that her beloved Sister had been called to her eternal home only a few weeks before our arrival in our native country. But all these wounds of their affectionate hearts are now healed: they have met again, where they will never more know the pangs of separation, and where nothing will separate them from the love of Christ.

At School, though many vain thoughts had ensnared her heart, yet my dear Wife had diligently improved her time and opportunity, during her youth, for the cultivation of her mind. She was well acquainted with French, which proved a good step toward her employments in after life. She also, before my acquaintance with her, began, by herself, to learn Hebrew; but this she did not find it necessary afterward to resume it must, however, have had its use in preparing her mind for the Maltese, which is altogether an Oriental Dialect.

On June 26th, 1815, we were united in marriage. From this period, an entirely new scene opened upon us. We were going to a foreign land, scarcely knowing whither we went; upon an untried Mission, and with very uncertain views as to what might be the course proper to be adopted. Since that period, as many as Fifty Missionaries have tra versed the waves of the Mediterranean; but, on our arrival in Malta, November 1st. of that year, we were alone: we had, indeed, Christian Friends, but not one Missionary Brother or Sister with whom to take counsel. During this most trying period, I must ever regard 2 X