public places, in reading and explaining the Word of God to Heathens, Mahomedans, and Roman Catholics. They are frequently sent to fixed places, where we may inspect them, and see whether they are faithful in the discharge of their duty; and, every evening, they have to deliver the report of the day. At Combaconum, Mr. Bärenbruck had great encouragement. A Missionary of another Society writes of his labours while there

In our walk through the town, which is large and respectable, I found that Mr. Bärenbruck and his character were well known to the people; and we met with many who were quite willing to hear and converse on religious subjects.

From the Native Prince of the District, the Rajah of Tanjore, Mr. Bärenbruck received much kindness; and so favourably were his labours regarded by many of the Heathen, that several of them offered to assist in the work by pecuniary contributions.

On the Assistants in the Mission the Corresponding Committee remark

The most favourable testimony continues to be borne by Mr. Bärenbruck to the industry and piety of his principal Native Assistant, John Devasagayam-to the fidelity of the inferior members of his establishment, in their respective stations and to the gradual improvement and promising qualities of the Youths attached to the Seminary for Catechists and Schoolmasters, under his immediate superintendence.

In reference to the SCHOOLS* the Corresponding Committee remark

Mr. Barenbruck's inspection of the various Schools under his charge was uninterrupted, and he has been enabled to introduce, in the course of the year, some further improvements in the system of instruction and superintendence, from which he reasonably expects material advantage to the Scholars. Better conducted Catechetical Instruction, and more exact inspection of the conduct of the Masters, are the chief points of progressive improvement alluded to in the system of the Schools.

The following account comprises the different classes of Scholars connected with 32 Schools :

* Further particulars respecting the Schools and the Mission generally have been given, since the Anniversary, from the Journal of Mr. Bärenbruck and the Native Assistant, at pp. 418-438 of the Missionary Register for September.

Reviewing the advantages resulting from the Society's Schools in this quarter, Mr. Bärenbruck observes

Since the establishment, upwards of SIX THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED CHILDREN have received in them Christian Instruction. Of this number, a considerable proportion passed through the Schools regularly, attending them for several years-others were there for a shorter time; and were, of course, less perfectly instructed.

When the advantages resulting from the acquirement of the elements of learning and some measure of religious instruction are considered, it cannot be doubted, that the benefits of an Establishment, which affords those advantages to so considerable a number of children, must well repay the expense of its maintenance and the benevolence of its supporters.

A subsequent Report of the Schools, in July of last year, gives the following number:

Protestant Christians, 70-Roman Catholics, 48-Christian Girls, 16-Brahmins, 132-Soodras, 1383-Mahomedans, 72. Making a total of 1721.

TINNEVELLY.

The Madras Corresponding Committee give the following satisfactory view, in their Seventh Report, of the state of this Mission:

The survey of the proceedings of the Tinnevelly Mission, during the past year, is calculated to afford pleasure to the Christian Philanthropist, to give encouragement to the individuals who are engaged in it to persevere in their benevolent exertions for the dissemination of Divine Truth, and to call forth renewed expressions of gratitude and praise to the Almighty, without whose blessing all human efforts for the good of mankind must fail of success.

With the view of extending Female Education in this Mission, and for the better conducting of its increasing concerns, some addition to the Society's Establishment at Palamcottah became necessary. An advantageous purchase of new premises has, in consequence, been effected by the Corresponding

Committee, of which Mr. Rhenius gives the following description:

The House and Grnoud are excellently suited to the object which we have in view: they are not too far from the present premises, yet distant enough to have the Male and Female Departments properly separated; while all may be assembled together, when occasion requires it, in two or three minutes. The public road passes between the two premises; and the situation of the new ground is much more convenient for building a Church than the old is: the new ground measures, on the north side, 375 feet; on the east, 580; on the south, 382; and, on the west, 552. The House is built, as most of the houses are here, of raw bricks, with burnt bricks in the upper and lower parts: it is 93 feet by 62: it contains a hall 26 feet by 18, six rooms, and four small verandahs, with two chambers: on the east side are the offices, consisting of a kitchen, three rooms, and six smaller for poultry &c.: on the west side, there are stables for five horses, a pigeon-house, a bathing-room with a small tank near it, and two small huts: the house and principal out-houses are tiled; and the rest are covered with ollas. There is a fruit and vegetable garden, with a number of cocoa-nut, mango, and other trees, and a grape pandal. There is, in the Compound, another small tank; but the garden is principally watered by a little stream, which passes close by the Compound.

In reference to the price paid for these premises, Mr. Rhenius thus writes to the Treasurer of the Corresponding Committee :

I have the pleasure to inform you, that, agreeably to the sanction of the Committee conveyed by your Letter of August the 4th, I have succeeded in purchasing the New Premises opposite the present Mission Garden, at a considerably lower rate than that first mentioned; viz. at 750 pagodas. I cannot but notice the liberality of Vengoo Moodeliar. The House and Ground cost him 850 pagodas; and considerable improvements have been since made by those who rented it of late: yet he relinquished 100 pagodas, in consequence of its being a concern of charity, for which I have expressed to him our cordial thanks.

Mr. Rhenius visited Madras in the former part of last year, chiefly in reference to his revision of the Tamul Scriptures. He left Palamcottah, with Mrs. Rhenius and two of their children (two others having been left in the charge of friends), on the 11th of February. Proceeding by way of Jaffna, in Ceylon,

they reached that place on the 25th: they staid till the 8th of March with Mr. Knight, in the Society's Mission at Nellore; and arrived at Madras, by way of Tranquebar, on the 30th. Nearly three months were spent at Madras: they left on the 18th of June; and reached Palamcottah, by land, on the 15th of July.

To the LABOURERS in this Mission, some addition has been made. Mrs. Schnarrè, Widow of the Society's late Missionary at Tranquebar, had continued at that place, with her son, under the protection of the Society, since the death of her excellent Husband: having expressed a wish to be employed in superintending Female Schools, she removed to Palamcottah in September; where she will be able to exepcise more particular and constant superintendence, than Mrs. Rhenius's care of her family has allowed her to do. Mr. Schmid has also, by his marriage, added an efficient helper in the Female Department of the Mission: he was on a visit, with the concurrence of the Madras Committee, to his brother the Rev. Deocar Schmid, at Calcutta, where he arrived on the 11th of October, having left Palamcottah on the 24th of August and Madras on the 29th of September: he was subsequently married to a Young Person who had assisted in the Female Orphan Asylum, and had greatly endeared herself therein to Mr. and Mrs. Schmid.

The Corresponding Committee thus report on the labours and success of the Missionaries in the exercise of their MINISTRY':

At Palamcottah, the seat of the Mission, the general attendance at the Chapel on Sundays was very satisfactory throughout the year. Persons had repaired to it from considerable distances, and had heard the Word of God with much attention. The Congregations had, indeed, been so numerous as to excite a wish, that the Building should be enlarged. In the course of the year, there were thirteen baptisms, one marriage, and one death.

The attendance on Divine Service at Tinnevelly, it is stated, was unusually encouraging. The Heathen, it would appear, have evinced attention to the subjects of Discourse, and have been led to frequent questions and discussions respecting them.

At Keelpatam, an aversion to Missionary Instruction has unhappily continued to be manifested by the Roman Catholics.

The Church planted at Tiroopoolangoody has continued steady in its profession, and has received a small accession to its Members.

At Arooloor, a small Christian Establishment has been formed, and a building for Prayer has been erected.

Pleasing appearances of the renunciation of Idolatry have presented themselves at Satangkoolam, where the truths of the Gospel have been preached to a large Congregation, and a satisfactory knowledge of the principles of Christianity has been acquired by persons of both sexes who are Candidates of Baptism.

Favourable symptoms of dissatisfaction with the prevailing system of Idolatry have also been observed at Amandavanakoody, Pandarapooram, and Secadivally.

Of these places, Mr. Rhenius thus speaks in a review of the progress of the Mission during the year :

All these places have been frequently visited by our two Native Assistants. They have been in the practice of staying in each place for some time, assembling the people for prayer, and instructing them in the Word of God. At other times the people instruct themselves-the most clever among them reading to the rest the New Testament or Tracts, and praying.

The number of people, who belong to the Mission, and are under religious instruction, is as follows:

At Mooroogenoorchy, the Chapel near the Compound, and in the two Seminaries, 117 Native Christians and 4 Candidates for Baptism-Tiroopoolangoody, 14 Native Christians and 5 Candidates for Baptism-Arooloor, 2 Native Christians and 39 Candidates for Baptism—and at Satangkoolam 185 Candidates for Baptism, at Amandavanakoody about 50, at Pandarapooram about 20, and at Secadivally about 30-making a Total of 416.

I will not be positive in determining the motive which has urged these people to renounce Idolatry, and put themselves under the Christian Ministry. Knowing the Native Character as I do, I always take much pains to find out their true motives. In the present cases, I cannot discover any other but the desire of being saved from sin, and instructed in the Word of God.

It began with some people in what we now call Arooloor. They could not have any design with respect to worldly advantages. While we ourselves and our Native Assistants were visiting them, and teaching them the Word of God, one of the Assistants, from a desire to communicate spiritual good to a number of people who had collected together at Satangkoolam, for the Market, went thither; and preached, and read Tracts, to a large number of them: on which, some Shanar Families came and requested to be instructed in the Word of God: they have now increased to 30 Families. They were visited and instructed by us, as the Journals will shew; and we have often large Congregations there, from 400 to 500 people. From thence it spread to the neighbouring places, and so the remaining Congregations arose. When once the heavenly flame is kindled, who will quench it? Or if the high and the rich harden their hearts against the Gospel, who will wonder when God selects a Church for Himself from among the poorest classes? All souls are mine, saith He, in his Holy Word.

As to the evidence of their being excited by proper motives, how ignorant soever they still are in religious matters, I think I may say this-they actually forsake idolatry: they acknowledge their sins: they learn and hear the Word of God with diligence: their behaviour is pleasing, so that even their enemies have not yet brought charges of lying, cheating, quarrelling, or any such thing against