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AND GENERAL REGISTER.
CONDUCTED  BY   THE   PENNSYLVANIA   AND  NEW   YORK   COLONIZATION   SOCIETIES
WHATSOEVER YE WOULD THAT MEN SHOULD DO TO YOU, DO YE EVEN SO TO THEM.
Vol. I.—NEW SERIES.
PHILADELPHIA,  WEDNESDAY, MAY  23,   I 8 S 8 .
I\rO.   21.
AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY.
Abstract ofthe Twenty-second Report.
i nized during the year, making the whole number of I to this enterprise—all good men express themselves
auxiliaries 1,133. most cordially in their behalf."    He draws a strong
lfj. ,,,.-..! Miscellaneous Tract Distribution.—-This duty is argument from the destitution of the ministry, in
t^ce^^fZ^mche^ £&E£2m\ 3-* uPon a11 christians — means <* usefulness,™ parts; and gives as does the Agent in New
Je r7i 1tadbeenadevoted servant of he so adaPte<1 to a» -l™* infinite variety of circumstances,' Jersey, cheering testimonies from clergymen of the
ciet   for nineteen  -ear-      Ue servant°» ™e so i _nd ^^ ^ ^_ ^^ b]egse.1#   The _d.»tn* a-ne-! blessing that has rested on these volumes as circulated
In the course of the year, 22 new auxiliary societies ' J* °^'jis mode of diffusing truth in issuing the writ
have been formed in the different states, making the   W*Jhn prophets, the gospels, the epistles, and in
present total about 000.    Some of these societies are
in a declining state and made no report the last year.
Others are highly prosperous.
The receipts of lhe year from all sources amount
to $H5,67G 83, being 4,902 less than those ofthe pre
The divine sane
in their congregations, and often by their own efficient
agency,
deed all paris ofthe inspired word in this form, is strik- I In Cincinnati the'Agent sold nearly 4,000 volumes,
in_rly and emphatically exhibited; as also the success-' including 100 sets of the Family Library—more than
ful adoption ofthe same means by the ancient chris- $200 worth having been sold in one (Protestant Epis-
tian fathers, by Wickliff and Luther—not to mention ; copal) congregation. In Dayton 1,000 volumes were
the infidels of France, who, it has been said, spent  sold, including 2T) sets of the library; in Columbus 30
cedm, year Th. is a 1^ ruction than wa antic - £900'<™ Pr™.* *f <™ Fre"ch -hvolut!°J' inf sets of l \e llbra7'and «*«?%£ ES^JrSS
pated, considering the pecuniary embarrassments of ??*»»»? ™d dispersing books to corrupt the minds of one gentleman have.ng sold 4W volumes; in Zanes-
the times.    Some  monies  collected  in distant parts  £££#"* prepare them tetantt•»;•»£«;  jJH^^^^^U^^s^Si^
of the country have not been remitted  to New York, I l.,,e tr-act ls a powerful instrumentality no less for good   to the amount of $408 ; in Madison, Indiana, 800 vo-
and could not have been, without a great loss on ex¬
change.
New stereotype plates have been prepared during
the past year for a French, a Spanish and a German Tes¬
tament. These books are now nearly ready for delive¬
ry. A new pocket Bible of diamond type is now in
press, and will be ready for delivery in the course of
two or three months.
Bibles and Testaments have been  imported  to the   when to .,._-,_ dlstribulion is added lhe well directed,
number of 975 copies, in  Portuguese, Italian, Welsh, | prnyerfu]> and persevering efforts of christians for the
salvation of men, the work receives, under the divine
blessing, a ten-fold efficiency.    The committee bless
than for evil; but it is issued in vain unless presented I lumes.    Through the personal efforts and influence of
by the hand of christian kindness, to those who often   the Rev. Mr. W , of N , 700 volumes
have no care to receive the heavenly message. Happy
illustrations are introduced of successful tract distribu¬
tion, in the varied circumstances in which christians
move.
Tract   Visitation.
Tracts alone are  a valuable instrumentality;
but
ear were, in all, 14.2,000 copies.   f-. ,,_°, ,.    „ _.     *
. j  .    ..hftifl       • '   ■   : bod that the conscience ot
amounted  to 158,208 copies, in   ,.._,   ■ . • f , ,,   . ________
rr,. ■ ,     .   , '     '       this subject, and that tens ol
i^ues.    I his number is less than    ;■ ,-.        i !i   .v.       _i    __
and other foreign tongues,
The number of Bibles and Testaments printed in
the course of the yea
The number issued a
eighteen different ton
that distributed last year by some thousands. In some
sections of the country, owing in part to lhe times,
very fevv orders have been made by the societies. The
Board cannot but hope that such societies will double
their diligence the coming year.
The entire scries of the Society's reports, from the
were sold; and by the pastor at B. and M. with the
co-operation of an officer of the church, 400. In a
Lutheran congregation, a judge offered to devote a
week to the distribution ; but so many others volun¬
teered their aid, that in two days the work vvas com¬
pleted. In about ten months upwards of 30,000 vo¬
lumes were sold in Ohio, includicg 600 sets of the
library.
THE FOREIGN FIELD.
The full and animating communications from abroad,
the church is waking on I the substance of which is embodied in the report, led
of thousands feel the respon-  the committee, about the first of January, to issue a
tures and tracts has increased the past year, and will I ry, which has long been a favorite object ofthe M ana-
doubtless continue to increase with every succeeding gers.
year. There is room for the Bible and Tract Societies The last edition of the catalogue being nearly ex-
to exercise their largest benevolence." In the revival hausted, a committee ofthe board have been industri-
there, especially in the seminary of young men, tracts onsly occupied in arranging one upon an improved
were found very useful in dispelling the mists of Pa-' plan, three thousand copies of which have been order-
ganism and introducing the knowledge of Christ led to be printed. These will be furnished to applicants
The affecting appeal from Madras for an immediate j lor books at a price sufficient todefray the expenses of
appropriation of at least $5,000 for their tract opera-; publication.
tions, has been recently spread before the Christian ! At the last annual meeting, our esteemed fellow
community. "Our wheels are stopped," they say. member, Frederick VV. Mayer, was elected secretary
" Will you not set them in motion ? Is the American to the company, and, ex-officio, a member of the Board
Tract Society coming up in earnest to our help! Are of Managers; it has now become our mournful duty to
you intending to do any thing commensurate with the l announce that in the inscrutable wisdom of Providence,
wants ofthe dying millions around us ! or do you in-• he has been removed by death from amongst us. We
tend to throw in your mite merely, and leave us with i murmur not at this dispensation, but, in the remem-
the thought that you have done all that God requires j brance of his urbanity and gentlemanly deportment,
of you? lam fully persuaded that you will answer' of his superior mental endowments, and of his zealous
the last part of this inquiry in such a manner as will! desire to promote the interests of the Institution, we
cheer us. O then make haste. Help us quickly. Time' feel sensibly that we have thus been deprived of the
flies.    Immortal souls, by millions, every year in this  important aid of an estimable associate.
eastern world, are having their eternal destinies sealed
for a place of torment."
Eighteen years have now elapsed since the organi¬
zation of the company—its benefits have been confer-
sibility, while thousands are daily attempting to per
form.the duty, and find it alike blessed to their own
souls, and the souls of others.
They also deeply regret, that there are any. who,
circular, stating the grounds of their determination to
appropriate for respective foreign stations $40,000 as
soon as the means could be obtained.
In the five months which have elapsed, they have
perhaps under the erroneous influence of first impres- j been enabled 'o remit only $10,000, which has been
sions, or merely because the name of a tract that can j paid over as follows:
bo bought for a  farthing is associated with it, still j     For Madras, $3,000; Burmah, $1,000 ;'China, Cey-
beginning, is now reprinting, and will be sold in one J .  attention from the duty of personal chris-   Ion, and Syria, $500 each; Western Africa, $200;
large volume at cost
The managers have caused
f tian effort forthe soulsof men,as if God had nevercall-1 mission in South Africa, $300; South African Female
careful collation of   ed ^ cl)ildren tf) be „ lhe ijghtof the world," and "the  Tract Society,$300; Baptist mission in Greece, $400;
their presen   Bible with the first edition of King James ,    ,     f   , ,   , ,.t     hin°e as ,j  ht8 in the WOrld," i Baptist mission in Hamburg, $600;   Lower Saxony
in 1011.    The departures are found to be of trivial ' ■    -
character, relating to punctuation, italic   word
not afieel ing the sense.    The collation has  increased,,     , , ,, ,,
_. _      cj ii i  i   r,   • lhat heareth, say come.
tb# confidence in our unparalleled version.
Distribution of the Bibles or Testamcn
made the past year, not only in all our diff
and territories, but in Canada, Texas, Mexico, New
Grenada, Brazil, at Havre in France, in Greece, and
at the Sandwich Islands. They have also been fur¬
nished (for use of the missionaries and mission schools,)
to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions, to the Protestant Episcopal Domestic and
Foreign Missionary Society, to the Baptist Board for
Foreign Missions, to the Methodist Episcopal Mission¬
ary Society, and to the Reformed Presbyterian Board
of Missions.
The managers have paid out $17,000 towards pub¬
lishing and circulating the Scriptures in Foreign coun¬
tries; namely, in Germany, Russia, Syria, Africa,
Bombay, Madras, Siam, Ceylon and the Sandwich Is¬
lands. They have appropriated $17,500, which they
have not yet been able to pay. They have requests
before them for a still larger amount than the latter,
for which no appropriation is made. It is earnestly de¬
sired thnt the auxiliaries may ponder these facts. Fifty
thousand dollars at least will be required for the foreign,
field next year.
The Board have now seven agents in the home
field, and one in Syria. They are earnestly entreat¬
ed to se_nd an agent to Texas, and one to Singapore.
Inquiries are instituted for a suitable man for each sta¬
tion.
In conclusion, they say that while their labors have
been temporarily retarded by the pecuniary embarrass¬
ment ofthe times, the friends ofthe Bible cause were
never more numerous, and the prospects for circulat-
idg the word of life at home and abroad were never
brighter. They call on the auxiliaries to assemble
their respective Boards as early as they can, to pros¬
ecute the work of supplying destitute families with
the Bible and children with the New Testament,
and also to contribute, os fur as they are able, the
coming year, towards the work of Foreign distribu¬
tion.
i ' holding forth the word of life."    As if he had never  Tract Society, Hamburg, $600 ; Barmen, $300; Calw
'  '"»' cried in the ears of all his redeemed people, " Let him  (Wurtemberg) Tract Society, $30t ; Basle Tract So-
As if christians, instead offciety, $200;   Holland, for temper ince publications,
Rule, Gib-
(for hymn
ousand dollars
that heareth, say come.      As it cnrisuans, insieau oi  cieiy, &zvu;   nonano, ior leinperince pi
"* ,    ,   .       I being " living epistles," might slumber on, belying the   $100; Belgium, $300; Spain, (Re/. Mr.
ts nave been i meggageg 0f tiie pulpit and the word of God, and yetjraltar,) $400; Chippevvay Indians, Janada,
nerent states | expect gou]g around t|.pm to be pressing into the king-  book)  $500—total, $10,000.    On<   thousa
dom of heaven. As if God had given to man no power
with his fel!ovv-men, or the influence of a man with
his neighbor pertained only to the blessings of this life,
or what shall speed his way to eternal death. As if
all the examples of apostolic days had nothing to do
with our own times, and the christian might as well
retire to the cloister, as adorn the Gospel of Christ be¬
fore men. As if, with all the light that now shines
upon the path of duty, he can live in its palpable ne¬
glect, and yet have the joys of salvation in his own
soul. As if them wptp mnsip to tfiR nnr in pvr.r.v
thing, save the praises of God from souls new born by
the work of the Holy Ghost: or the christian were
panting for every thing save the joy of meeting in
glory some ransomed spirit, brought there by a bless¬
ing on his own efforts, and prayers, and self-denial and
tears.
Did ever the dying christian mourn that ho had him¬
self personally and individually labored much for the
salvation of precious souls! Sit down by the dying
bed of a Page, a James Brainerd Taylor, a Martyn, or
a David Brainerd, and see.
The Report contains most cheering examples of a
blessing attending this department of christian effort,
which is now successfully progressing, especially in
the cities of New York and Brooklyn, Philadel¬
phia, Albany, Troy, and Rochester, and other places,
where attention and the labors of agents or other
devoted christians are concentrated upon it, and
where the effusions of the Holy Spirit have been en¬
joyed.
Volume Circulation.
To the importance and usefulness of no department
of the Society's labors has a more universal and de¬
cided testimony been given than its volume circula¬
tion, and none perhaps has received clearer evidences
To Orissa, embracing the site of the temple of Jug- red upon thousands, silently and unostentatiously
gernaut, Rev. Mr. Lacey has now returned from Eng-! Many of these are indebted mainly to your library for
land, with a press and apparatus for printing, binding, I the acquisition of knowledge which will be valuable
&.c. to commence a printing establishment at Cultack,' through life ; and, although we believe, that with ade-
to be under the charge of Rev. Mr. Sutton. jquate means at its disposal, the company might have
In Northern India, a most wide and interesting field ! been more extensively useful, and hope those means
is opening for tract operations. will not in future be withheld by a liberal and cnligbt-
But the press has perhaps no where received such ened public; yet we think the present condition ofthe
efficiency as in Burmah.    In the heart of the city of) company will justify a mutual  congratulation of its
Maulmein is a building of brick in the form of on L,
seventy-eight feet long each way, and  fifty-six wide,
two stories high;   containing a Tuft's  power press,
four hand presses, twenty-five cases of type, founts in
Burman, Karen and Peguan, and a type-fbundery for j B. E. Valentine, Secretary.
casting in each of these languages; a bindery com-       Philadelphia, 3d month (March) 1st, 1838,
members and that a retrospect of the past affords en¬
couragement for the future.
Signed by direction of the Board,
John Bouvier, Chairman.
plete, and twenty-five native
FIRST ATLANTIC STEAMEPv.
Five additional presses, with a large supply of paper,
vera sent out in October last; two presses are to be |     We find in the New London (Conn.) Gazette, the
located in Tayoy for printing for the Karens, one of] following particulars of thc first steam navigation of
them to be wholly run upon tracts. The missionaries
and a large body of native assistants are prosecuting
their work with untiring fidelity; and their journals
are filled with the most interesting narratives of tours
made in every direction, on the rivers and in the in¬
terior, for the purpose of tract distribution, conversa-
the Atlantic. They were communicated to the Ga¬
zette by Copt. Stephen Rogers, of Groton, who was
sailing-master of the ship Savannah, of which Mosea
Rogers, of Groten, vvas the commander.
She was seen from the telegraph station, at Cape
Clear, on the Southern coast of Ireland, and reported
designated last year for the miss n of the General
Assembly's Board at Smyrna, has 'ren transferred to
their mission in Northern India; ar 1 $200 designated
for temperance publications in Rus-ia, has been trans¬
ferred to Holland.
The Foreign Missionary institutions are increasing
the number of their presses, and a! lhe means of giv¬
ing to benighted millions the word of life on the print¬
ed page—not merely for the imme iate conversion of
individuals, but by the divine ble. ing to lay perma¬
nent   fniiu-tat inns  fhr  the  cstnhli*>l | __.____Qf ijip _tn_Dp]
among them—lo render them, in a word, what every
enlightened, evangelized protestant community is—
and what every community undor the dark, iron sway
of popery is not—a people having in their own hands
the means of lijiht, and themselves daily " searching
the Scriptures, whether these things are so."
Missionaries also enforce the appeal, and heathen
converts, in illustration of this very point, ask, " If I
direct a man to make me a door, shall I rebuke him
for bringing his adzes and his planes?" The little
Chinese church, collected by Rev. Mr. Dean, in Ban-
kok, appropriated the $11 02 ihey had contributed the
last year at iheir monthly concert, for " Christian books
to be sent by junks to China for circulation."
The Committee feel bound to urge every rflbit im¬
mediately to raise and remit the remaining thirty
thousand dollars; the items yet to be paid being as
follows:
For use'of mi-sions to China and Indian Archipelago,
$3,500; missions in Siam, $2,500; Shyans, $700;
Burman and Karen missions, $4,000; Northern India,
$2,500; Armenians in India, $500; Ori.csa, $500;
Teloogoos, $500; Madras and Southern India, $1,000;
Ceylon, $,2000; Mahrattas, $1,000 ; Sandwich Islands,
$2,000; Nestorians, $500; Asia Minor and Constan¬
tinople, $1,200 , missions in Greece, $1,800; Russia,
tion and preaching, to those who are yet ignorant nf)M a ship on fire.    The Admiral who lay in  the Cove
the great salvation.    1 our of their standard tracts have  0f Cork, despatched one of the king's cutters to her re-
been translated and printed in the Peguan, or as it is
called by the common people, Tailaing language.
In Siam, the two missions are efficiently progress¬
ing; and find "no difficulty in distributing as fast ■>!«_« was stopped, and the surpri
they can print." In an excursion made by Rev." Mr. mistake they had made, as well
Dean and the late lamented Mr. Reed to Yuthia, on
the river, about sixty miles north of Bankok, a point
never before reached by Protestant missionaries, taking
with them about 900 Siamese tracts, (all lhat could be
•»rl   *!__ _1      -
AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY.
Abstract of the Thirteenth Annual Report, presented
at New York, May 0th, 1838.
Though, in the prevailing pecuniary embarrassment
and alarm, the Society's receipts have been less than
of the divine blessing.     The fact, that during the  $2,000; Sweden, $800; Poland, $500; Berlin, $400;
year, almost 200,000 volumes have been circulated,  Hungary, $300; France, $900; Spain, $400; reserv-
chiefly on sale, and more than $9,000 contributed in
donations lo furnish a stock of volumes in the depos¬
itory, from which supplies may be drawn, gives evi¬
dence of a strong hold on the affections of the com¬
munity ;   and   every laborer   and co-adjutor   in pro'
in the previous year, it would be ingratitude to God, i moting   their  circulation   has  communicated some-
who has " graven Zion upon the palms of his hand," j thing to animate the society in this branch of their en
and will keep  her  as   "the apple of his eye," not;deavors.
to praise   him   for   richer evidences of his spiritual       " I reflect on no part of my life," says the Rev. Dr
"blessing, than  have   at any former time   been real¬
ized.
In Pagan lands, God   is giving the press an effi-
ed for new claims, $500,—total, $30,000.
There are now sustained by American Foreign M is-
sionary Institutions, (including six American misiona-
ries at Orissa,) 736 missionaries and assistants. They
have twenty printing stations, viz, in Greece; North¬
ern India; Orissa; Maulmein,Tavoy,Bankok, Sadiya;
West Africa, South Africa, Smyrna, Beyroot, Ooroo-
miah, Bombay, Ceylon, Bankok, Singapore, Canton,
Honolulu, Lahainaluna and Parkhill. At these sta¬
tions are forty-three printing presses; and these and
the various tract and other institutions aided by the
Society, issue publications in at least fifty-six different
languages, of which publications no less than 418 have
been approved by the publishing committee for circu¬
lation abroad.
In Spain, Rev. Mr. Rule is now printing Bogue's
Alexander, of Princeton, " with more satisfaction than
any little agency 1 have had in encouraging and pro¬
moting the Society's volume circulation.    I do con-
ciency wholly unknown before.   In our own land the I sider the success of this enterprise as intimately con-
; circulation of tho   Society's publications, especially ( nected vviUi the prosperity of vital, scriptural piety IB
its volumes, is nearly equal to that of the last, and ; our land."
largely in   advance of any preceding year;  a new I     By diffusing these standard works of Baxter, Bun-    ^ in apain, Key. ivir. tiuie is now printing Hogue's
sense of obligation to labor for the souls of men in ! yan, Doddridge, Alleine, Edwards, and others, the so-1 Essay on the Evidences of Christianity; and Nevins'
connection   with   Tract   distribution,   and   wherever I ciety is laboring to supplant novels and other injurious  Thoughts on Popery is translated, and soon  to  be
opportunity offers, seems to be pervading the chris-1 works—to warn the sinner of the error of his way, es-
tian community;   while   the Holy Spirit has richly i tablish the christian, and furnish spiritual aliment, by
descended, and rendered the various departments of! which all may be " nourished up," unto eternal life.
tlie Society's labors evidently effectual in the salva-   It is a great encouragement, that so many thousands in j documents ofthe American Temperance Society, and
tion of hundreds, not to say thousands, of immortal   every part of the land are found ready to purchase ; printed in French, has been also translated and print-
I and to read ; and there is some reason  to hope that a I ed in Dutch, in Holland ; in German, at Berlin ; and
printed ; both to be published at lhe Society's expense
The History of the Temperance Reformation, pre¬
pared by the Rev. Robert Baird, from the permanent
The committee conscientiously refrain from issu- amount of $275, including about twenty 6ets of the
■fng fiction as truth. The narrative Tracts may be Evangelical Family Library, in fifteen volumes—a
relied on as authentic, and no Tracts promise more , professor in the College having sold $35 worth in
•"extensive usefulness than narratives in the simplest j one district. In other towns of the county the suc-
Sly\c. j cess has been equal, and the evidences of the divine
Anion" the new volumes stereotyped are Edwards'} blessing have been most apparent.
History of Redemption; Elijah the Tishbile, by Dr. |     The Agent in  Connecticut, in selling 10,000 vo
In Russia 160,000 Tract* had been printed in the
last ten months, and the friends in St. Petersburgh had
never more encouragement or apparently more enter¬
prise in pushing their circulation in every accessible
portion of that immense empire, and wherever any ac¬
cess can be gained. The Censor commends the work,
noblemen engage in the distribution, and no peasant,
I , ,f  I   rmen ; and'the first I lames, states, that almost without exception the work j who can read, refuses a tract; the censorship having
volume of a series of Scripture .Biography, by Rev. i has been enteredinto with great cordiality by minis-   effectually secluded him from the poison of licentious
Mr Gallaudet; all which will soon be printed.    The ! ters and christians; and generally, on presenting the  and infidel publications,
interesting Memoir of Hannah Hobbie is now in cir-; object, as many members of the churches as were
culation. i needed, were ready voluntarily to engage for the sup-
There have been printed during the year, 2,831,500 ' ply of the respective districts. Christians of every evan-
publications, including 110,000 volumes.    Circulated,  gelical denomination have co-operated with great cor-
3 77° 619 copies, including 196,431 volumes, in all . diality. An aged christian in G sold 150 volumes,
66,179.6-J1 pages; making the total circulated since ! including five sets of the Library, recieving in cash for
the' Society's "formation, 46,940,825 copies, including   the same, $61.
,224 volumes; in all 798,250,229 pages. A physician in H
Rev. Dr. King has translated Abbott's Mother ,at
Home into modern Greek, presenting a copy elegantly
bound to the Queen and other distinguished individu¬
als. He distributed 20,271 school books and tracts,
from January 1st to July 1st, aid says: " If I had been
well supplied with tracts, I think I might have distri
buted twenty or thirty thousand more."    He is now
, New York, voluntarily sold j translating Baxter's Saints' Rest into modern Greek.
t, ions during the year, in 332   no less than 800 volumes;  and another physician.ini     At the Sandwich Islands 11,^06,429 pages were
■tinct grants of which 1,868,665 pages for foreign ' a smaller town, besides attending to his professional, printed the last year; and Rev. Br. Coan, of Hawaii,
ission station's and other   foreign pirts, 6,885,438  duties, sold in three weeks 500 volumes. says: " l.'s impossible to meet tie demand for want
(res.    Value, including 2.008,305 pages drawn by I     The Agent in New Jersey, by the efficeint co-opera-1 of a sufficient supply from the prtjss.    I have distribu-
embers and directors, $5,929 16
ion ofthe people of God, " 6old in 68 days, about 5,600 : ted many thousands this year, an| might have distri-
JR by ladies.     Received for publications sold, $54,-
[558 36— total receipts $91,732 10.
I7-4u.ri.iurics.—26 new societies have been rccog
state. ! sunrise till the stars appeared, with no other interrup-
Tbe General Agent in Virginia says, "In all my j tion than to eat a hasty meal."
lahoiB, I do not remember hearing a single objection |    In Ceylon, the mission say : "The call for the 6Crip
niiuioco f_a_>ia- -ih«uz_rin_?.pp_'le_L  linuj"
alter hour, to distribute from the boat to the multitudes
who thronged them. " It was deeply affecting," says
Mr. Reed, "to see the anxiety of these poor people for
the bread of life. As we departed, alter our supply
wosentirely exhausted, some boats rowed miles to over¬
take us," lhat they also might get some copies of the
books.
Besides the millions of China, the great Islands of
the Archipelago contain probably not far from fifty
millions, among whom the Chinese are widely dis¬
persed, and nothing bars access to them. The large
printing establishment at Singapore has eleven Chi¬
nese block cutters, and eight or ten printers actively
employed ; and not far from twenty Chinese tracts,
chiefly scriptural, having been lately prepared by Rev.
Mr. Gutzlaff, Mr. Medhurst, and others; the prepara¬
tion of metal moveable type is favourably progressing;
Mr. Gutzlaff continues his tours on lhe Chinese coast,
as opportunity presents; inroads are making, and some
footing gained at various pomteatnong the dark nations
and tribes ofthe vast Islands ofthe Archipelago; and
even the denial of an entrance by the ship Morrison to
Japan, caused the shipwrecked Japanese sailors she
carried to return, whe are now with Mr. Gutzlaff,aid¬
ing him in the translation ofthe New Testament into
that language. Thus the way ofthe Lord seems pre¬
paring in this populous and benighted portion of the
earth ; and in answer to the prayer of faith and a bless¬
ing on the self-denying and persevering labours of the
people of God, its millions shall yet own their alle¬
giance to the King of Zion.
The Report contains valuable documentary testimo¬
nials and statements on the various topics presented ;
REPORT
Of the   Apprentices'   Library Company, to  "The
Apprentices' Library Company of Philadelphia.
ief. But great was their inability with all sail in a
fast vessel, to come up with a ship under bare poles.
After several shots were fired from the cutter, the en-
ise of her crew at the
as their curiosity to
see the singular Yankee craft, can be easily imagined.
They as-ked permission to go on board, and were much
gratified by the inspection of this naval novelty. On
approaching Liverpool, hundreds of people came off in
ly^11* to see her. Sho "-<>_ rnmnellgd to lav outside
the bar, till the tide should serve tor her to go in.
During this time she had her colors all flying, when a
boat from a British sloop-of-war came along aide and
hailed.    The sailing-master was on deck at the time,
and answered.    The officer of the boat asked him	
" Where's your master 1"—to which he gave the la¬
conic reply—" I have no master, sir." " Where's
your Captain, then?" "He's below—do you wish to
see him ?"    " I do, sir."    The Captain, who was then
below, on  being called, asked  what he  wanted to
which he answered—" Why do you wear that penant,
sir!" " Because my country allows me to, sir." " My
commander thinks it was done to insult him, and if
you don't take it down, he will send a force lhat will
do it." Capt. Rogers then exclaimed to tbe Engineer
—""Oct the hot water engine ready." Although there
was no such machine on^board the vessel, iUiad the
desired effect, and John Bull was glad to paddle off as
last as possible. On approaching the city, the shipping
piers, arid roofs of houses were thronged with persons'
cheering the adventurous craft. Several naval officers
noblemen, and merchants from London, came down to
visit her, and were very curious to ascertain her speed
destination, &e. As it was soon after Jerome Bona¬
parte had offered a large reward to any one who would
succeed in taking his brother Napoleon from St. Hele¬
na, it was suspected thnt that was the object of the
Savannah. After remaining 25 days in Liverpool dur¬
ing which time she was visited by thousands of people
of all ranks, and her officers were treated with marked
attention, the left for Copenhagen, at which place she
arrived in safety—where she excited similar curiosity
She proceeded thence to Stockholm, in Sweden, where
many interesting details; and rich evidences of the she was visited by the Royal family, the foreign"min
Divine blessing on the Society's publications and the ;   ' --=--
several departments of its labours, both at home and
abroad.
isters, naval officers, nobility and others, who by invi¬
tation of Mr. Hughes, the American minister, dined
on board, and took an excursion among the neighbor¬
ing islands with which they were much delighted.
Lord Lyndoch, of England, who was then on a tour
through the North of Europe, by invitation of ourmin-
ter, took passage on board the Savannah, for St. Pe¬
tersburg, which place she reached in due time.  Here
n-i     ij      >     »• -,i ) she was visited by the invitation of our minifiierot »v._»
The Board of Managers, upon  retiring from their /   .1 i. ""uisier at that
__!• i _____ i -.i      . 11* .    . ' court, by several nob emen, mi i arv and naui.1 •»_*___
official station, in accordance with established usatre,!    ■      ,_.  .    .   . u ./ 7.     ,iaval omcers,
___•_. __.   m7, .    r...   • , b'! who a so tested her superior qua itv bv a »rin »« re¬
submit the following report of their proceedings: _-___, j_    u       cc i J,  J ,a ir,P to L-ron-
o c.     .u ■     i    .-     .l   \t r*    ,       I stadt.   Her officers received several valuahlo-.-oc^-.
Soon after their election the Managers met, and or-i   e  , ,     «..     p ,     _ . ,v"luaDle presents
ni«H fhom»lw_h» tho M,~i-o~f ,&-._,-- o^orwJ of plate, ttc. &c.,and we have now before us a
ganized themselves by the choice of officers, and adopt-       f,
Ia rnlos 6- tho,, „u,r, „„M,„mo„t „nri fx, ,ho "-!2.  I gold snuft box, presented to her sailing-master, Capt
Stephen Rogers, by Lord Lyndoch. She sailed fron
Si. Petersburg to Copenhagen,and thence to Arendal
ed rules for their own government, and for the govern- j sleDi
ment of the library.    The usual standing committees ' B,   D
were appointed ; and the members divided themse ves j :
__;_____•_.        c  ..     i        >, c i .l   /• /I in IVorvvav, whence she returned to Savannah  i.h»™
into "committees of attendance" for each month of the  „.-,„, .     l___-_, r.p„k^.f o-. a„.„.   u "av»'1"an, wnere,
after a passage of about 2o days, she arrived in safety
■o' .u       •    .        c .u ■.. c   .      i —being the first steam vessel that ever crossed thi
By the minutes ofthe committees of attendance,   __♦___.£    „„,. _.<-,„,. r.„_fr.-,v..„„n .. ,.,,Bsea l"e
gk have bcea produced ., to~^*Z\l^£^4^UX2g?,'m«*
™lly •ll'ueiroV t ;',e deP°"ment °' ** b°y' ge"e- i     ». used Liverpoo! coal^rjuel oAvhich *. tc.k
■/,e Liorarv „o„ cList, of upward, of Ten T.ou \ ETttttfrZ ££-_f_. *££
sand volumes, comprising a large number of standard : ,..° _ __,,   .,_, ,„ ___,    °h ' ,„._   - i      .   "cr engines
j       c i        i .i    & ■ mi . .    a       when not able to go at the rate ot four knots with u.
and useful works on the Sciences, Mechanic Arts, Ag-      ■.      t.„ t,    _£, firo •   _.„„„„„ , , WIUl her
i, i 11______   "   _*_j .i       sails.    Uy the great hre in feavannah her ovvnpra wo-~
nculture, and general literature; and great care has n__ __ .?.. _.__ 0_,   .     „ „ ,   u" "era were
,        . j      .       I    . .i u- u        i i   a-   i     i    ii     compelled to sell her, and she was purchased in m- -~
been taken to select those which would afford valuable  _ __1L_. _._. ,■ '.  _,_,„_, „„_, Z,   ^T I0 run as
•  c j i  j i ...   ,    ■ - _     a packet between that place and ISew York   „-i.;»i-
information, and to exclude such as were like y to be ' 0l„ ______ i,_„„j ,,_,}_., ,i,„ _r,„ p_-    . • *' wnutier
...... , * she was bound, under the charge of Captain N«fh__-_.i
either injurious or useless. u_m-_j__    -r..., m-0f«- ne o,^ i r-"» -L~~iname_
»r.L     t l i r- c       , i Holdredge—now master ot the Liverpool ■__■!___ _u-
The Library is kept open four evenings of each   tt„;.o,i «s_tr,_    ,„u„ _i,_ ,.,„_. i   ,^ Packet ship
i        i u     u i  i    •     .L . l United Stales—when she was lobt on thp -nmi, „:j
week, and has been used during the past year by an . .*• r ,.„„ i_.i-_ri souin side
l      c u      ->•£•/» l 171       .i    i   .        or ljong lsiana.
average number of about 760 boys,   r rom the last re- °
port it appears that 985 books were loaned out. With- „       ft,    \r  v r-      •
in the year, 350 volumes have been purchased and irom the "' *• Lourier a™ Enquirer.
placed upon the shelves; and 22 new members of the j   DEPARTURE  OF THE  GREAT WESTERN
company have been elected. FOR BRISTOL.
The legacy of One Thousand Doliars, bequeathed by |     Yesterday vvas a gala day for New York and      1
our late fellow citizen, Dr. Jonas Preston, has been re-  brated in a manner rarely equalled for splendour^ _1
ceived, and the greater part thereof invested in the : effect.    The weather, which for several days Dre '*
stock of the Schuylkill Navigation Company. ! had been cloudy and disagreeable, was wenial and'01*8
Application has been made to the executors of the  rene, and a bright spring sunshine looked down
late Dr. Blenen, for a part of the legacy bequeathed   ciously upon the busy movements ofthe pooul    ausP_"
to them for distribution amongst the charitable and be-  little past one, the current set down Broadw   a?e      a
neficial societies of Philadelphia; and we entertain a  the Battery, and before two o'clock the wl   L-T   rW?
hope that some addition to our limited income will be : beautiful arena was crowded with a dense™ &      rv
derived from this source. I man beiugs, extending from Whitehall to mass,?/"""
The Treasurer's report, herewith presented, will j North River. Calstle Garden was thron^p f"^ a *'
6how the 6tate ofthe funds; and it will thence be per- variegated dresses of tho ladies gave to th ' - the
ceived, that the company has not yet the means to pro-] rich and lively effect.   ~w picture a
cure a desirable and permanent location for the libra- [    The avenue leading to the Great Weate