but the intelligence and opportunity were confined to this Bay only.

On Monday, July 31, the Bishop proceeded in a boat to L'Anse à Mort, and visited a highly respectable family named Davies. The head of the family, an Englishman, had lived in this neighbourhood nearly thirty years, and in all that time had never seen a Clergyman of his own Church. He was on the point of removing to Nova Scotia, for the purpose of educating his children. They were all received into the Church, and one daughter married. The Bishop walked from thence to L'Anse à Loup, where Mr. Stabb has a fishing establishment, employing through the summer one hundred and thirty hands.

The Church ship left Forteau on Thursday, and reached Battle Harbour the following afternoon. Here, in a small Tickle, were congregated between ninety and one hundred vessels from different parts of Newfoundland, and all busily engaged in the fishery. It is said that all the crews together bring home two thousand quintals of fish in a day. No Clergyman of our Church had ever visited this settlement, which is the most populous and most frequented of all on the Labrador. Mr. Bush Bendell (Messrs. Slade's agent,) kindly furnished a store for Divine service, and paid every attention to the Bishop's requirements and wants. The store was not large enough to receive all who desired to attend, though three hundred persons were accommodated, or crowded in, at each service. On the Sunday morning (August 6th) the Bishop consecrated a grave-yard on Great Battle Island, and the next day another on Carabou Island. Services were also performed on the Monday and Tuesday in the store, and great numbers of children received into the Church.

On Tuesday, August 8, the ship sailed for S. Francis Harbour, and here the Bishop and his friends were welcomed with much Christian kindness by Mr. and Mrs. Sanders. Mr. Sanders has been many years agent of Messrs. Hunt and Co. Here again a store was provided, and the salmon boxes afforded very good seats for a congregation, consisting in part of Esquimaux Indians. Several of them were baptized, and some couples married. The Bishop preached twice, and administered the Holy Communion-the first time it is presumed, by any clergyman of our Church on the Labrador. He gave much instruction and exhortation to the Esquimaux on the subject of baptism. On Friday, August 11, a grave-yard was consecrated.

The Church ship could not leave the harbour in consequence of a heavy swell; and as the delay was productive of great inconvenience, the Bishop determined to proceed to the Venison Islands, twenty-four miles, in a boat. Mr. Hoyles accompanied his lordship, and they fortunately reached the harbour that even

ing (August 11th.) Mr. Howe, (Messrs. Slade's agent) very kindly received and entertained the Bishop and his chaplain, in his own little dwelling. The next day Mr. Hoyles visited many neighbouring settlements in a boat. On Sunday, August 11, the usual services were celebrated in a store, and many children baptized and received into the Church. The mothers, in some instances, were mountaineers, but generally Esquimaux. The head of one family, an old Englishman, told the Bishop that he had been married to a sort of half Indian. He has a large family of children, two of whom, he said, had been baptized by Archdeacon Wix, (as he expressed it "by the head man of S. John's,") in the year 1831. He could not remember the head man's name : but the Archdeacon had kindly left behind a Testament and Prayer Book, in which he had written his own name and title, and the names of the children he baptized. It may be a gratification to that indefatigable pioneer of the Church to learn that the Bishop read a chapter to the poor man and his family from the Testament thus presented seventeen years ago. The whole family, it is feared, are in a deplorable state of ignorance. It did not appear that the Archdeacon had visited any other settlement on the Labrador.

The good Church ship made her appearance on Monday morning, having with some difficulty escaped from S. Francis Harbour on the preceding evening, after the Rev. Mr. Harvey had twice celebrated public service in the store.

The next day she sailed to the Seal Islands; where the only settled inhabitants are Esquimaux Indians or rather Anglo-Esquimaux, the head of the family being in many cases an Englishman. But here, as in every other harbour on the shore, were numerous vessels from Brigus, Harbour-Grace, &c. A crew of Englishmen also remain in this harbour, as in many others, through the winter, to kill seals in the month of December, after which they go into the woods to get furs or cut timber for boats, &c. Several couples of Indians and half-Indians were married by the clergy, and their children baptized. Other parties were visited in the neighbouring coves and harbours.

The Seal Islands were left on Thursday (August 17), and Sandwich Bay was reached the following day. Here the Messrs. Hunt have a considerable establishment occupied in the salmon fishery, or rather in preserving and exporting the salmon caught by the Esquimaux. They also deal in furs purchased here, and in Esquimaux Bay, about fifty miles farther north. Mr. Goodridge, the much-respected agent, resides in Dumpling Island in the summer, but returns to England every fall. Here the population, which is large, is almost entirely Esquimaux or AngloEsquimaux. Many of them speak only their own language, and several can both read and write it. These have been instructed

by the Moravian missionaries resident at Nain and three other establishments on this coast. Nain, the nearest of them, is about three hundred miles from Sandwich Bay. In a store provided by Mr. Goodridge, the full service of our Church was celebrated, with the Holy Sacrament, for the first time, on Sunday, August 20, and in the afternoon many were baptized and admitted into the Church. The Bishop himself received six adults who could answer for themselves. Three of these were Esquimaux. All of them made the proper answers seriously and intelligently and not the least so the poor Indians. The Chaplains then received into the Church those who had godfathers and godmothers. The Bishop addressed them, as in other places, chiefly on baptism and baptismal privileges and responsibilities. The day was beautifully fine, and GOD appeared to look down graciously on the first administration of His life-giving ordinances in Sandwich Bay. The afternoon service, which commenced soon after three o'clock, was not concluded till nearly seven.

On Monday and Tuesday mornings marriages were celebrated; and the usual morning service, with baptisms, &c.

On Monday, after the Church prayers, several Esquimaux read portions of the service they use at the Moravian stations. It is, of course, in the Esquimaux language, and appeared to be a Litany used at their public worship, commencing with the LORD's Prayer. One led, and was, in most parts, followed by others, who seemed to know their parts very perfectly. There were frequent Antiphons, or short hymns, which they all sung in unison in a clear and pleasing tone.

On Tuesday, the 22nd of August, after morning service in the store, the Bishop and his Chaplains, with great numbers of the inhabitants, male and female, proceeded in three boats across the bay, a distance of four miles, to consecrate the grave-yard. The spot chosen had been long used for that purpose by the traders and settlers, but the Esquimaux, till within a few years, had continued the practice of laying their dead in the clefts of rocks, and protecting them with large stones, rather than bury them in the ground. They had been accustomed also to place with the dead bodies food and other necessaries for a journey. Now, however, since their comparative civilization, and conversion to Christianity, they follow the Christian mode of burial, and desire to have the prayers said at the grave. They were not the least interested and devout of the spectators of the service of Consecration this day. There is no occasion to give them credit for any great degree of reflection, to believe that, looking back only a few years, they must have wondered at the contrast of the events now taking place, and of their condition and prospects, both worldly and religious, as compared with those of their fathers.

The Church ship had now coasted along nearly two hundred and fifty miles of the Labrador shore, and touched at the principal settlements occupied, or visited, by the Newfoundland or English traders and fishermen; and as the season was getting far advanced, and many missions in Newfoundland were expecting the Bishop's promised visit, it was not thought prudent to proceed any farther to the north. Accordingly, on the 23rd of August, orders were given to return, and the Church ship was again in Forteau Bay on the 25th, stopping only a few hours at the little settlement of S. Modeste, where some children were baptized. Both in going and returning, the ice-islands were very numerous and massive, and great caution was necessary to avoid them: particularly in the latter part of the season, when they are broken into smaller fragments, which, though hardly discernible above water, are quite large enough to cause serious damage by sudden collision.

On Saturday, August 26, the Church ship passed across the Straits to Anchor Point, on the opposite coast of Newfoundland, and remained in the Bay of S. Barbe three days. On Sunday the usual services were celebrated, and in the afternoon children were admitted into the Church: on the following day two couples were married, and a grave-yard consecrated. It was remarked by the mother of the settlement that she had lived thirty-three years in that neighbourhood, and had never seen any Clergyman, but a French Priest, on the shore. The long-cherished desire of her heart was at length gratified, and she declared that the day of the Bishop's visit was the happiest of her life. The land in this neighbourhood appears excellent, and game of all sorts is abundant. In the winter seals are killed in large numbers, and the fishery is always good. No part of Newfoundland seems to make a surer or better return to industry.

Leaving Anchor Point on Wednesday, August 30th, the Church ship encountered one of the heavy gales so common at this season in the Straits of Belle Isle. This was succeeded by calms, and in consequence, the attempt to reach La Poele by the first Sunday in September, (the last of two Sundays named for the Consecration of the new Church, and for a Confirmation) was defeated. On that Sunday the Church ship was beating against a head wind the whole day, in sight of La Poele, and it was with difficulty that Divine service could be celebrated on board. A fearful night followed: heavy rain and frequent lightning at intervals, with violent gusts of wind and a tremendous sea. It was an occasion of great thankfulness that the ship at daybreak was found just off the Bay; and of greater, when at six o'clock on Monday morning she was safely moored in the harbour. The new Church, which is

exceedingly well built and commodious, was consecrated on Tuesday morning, and the confirmation celebrated in the afternoon. The ship was detained by contrary winds and calms till the following Monday, September 11th, and Divine Service was celebrated in the Church twice every day during the Bishop's stay. Great and blessed indeed is the progress in this settlement since the Bishop's first visit, three years ago-a Church duly consecrated and regularly served by a resident Clergyman, where before that period, all was darkness, darkness which could be and was indeed felt.

"THERE'S A GOOD TIME COMING."

[The following lines, forwarded to us by a Correspondent, for the popular air of "There's a Good Time Coming," may, perhaps, be more in accordance with the feelings of our readers than the original words.-ED. C. C.]