TELLICHERRY.

The Corresponding Committee report in reference to Tellicherry

The Committee had undertaken the support of the School, established at this Station by the Rev. Mr. Spring, with the view of maintaining alive, in some measure, the Missionary Schemes commenced by that Gentleman. T. H. Barber, Esq. one of the Provincial Judges of the Station, kindly looked after the School as long as he remained attached to that office; but it has been deprived of this advantage by his departure from the District. The Schoolmaster continues to carry on the plan of instruction established by Mr. Spring; and, by the last Report, the School contained 59 Children of various castes and classes.

NELLORE.

The arrival of Messrs. Beddy and S. Ridsdale, and the appointment of Mr. Ridsdale to Travancore, have been before stated: of the destination assigned to Mr. Beddy the Corresponding Committee thus speak :-

Availing themselves of the arrival of these Clergymen, the Committee resolved on the measure of establishing a Mission in a District north of the Presidency, where the Teloogoo or Gentoo Language is vernacular. The vast extent of country throughout which that language is spoken-the limited endeavours hitherto made to impart to the inhabitants the knowledge of Christianity-coupled with the circumstance of the Mission Press at Madras being now furnished with Teloogoo Types, and consequently capable of giving speedy circulation to School-books, Tracts, and Translations of the Scriptures and other works, in that language-all rendered the execution of this measure, in the judgment of the Committee, highly desirable.

The Nellore District, the nearest of the range in which the Telogoo Language prevails, was selected for the Mission; and, by the kindness of Edward Smalley, Esq., Collector of the District, the object has been so far accomplished, as to secure the advantageous settlement of the Rev. J. F. Beddy in the town of Nellore; whither he proceeded in the month of December, and where he immediately commenced the study of that language.

The Expenditure in this Mission, from the 1st of October 1823 to the 30th of September 1824,

amounted to 67,435 Madras Rupees, or about 59007. reckoning the rupee at 1s. 9d. which appears to have been its recent value. This total consisted of the following particulars:-Madras, 17287.-Poonamallee, 327.-Tranquebar, 6597.-Tinnevelly, 10317.Travancore, 14507.-Tellicherry, 257.-Vizagapatam, 247.-Printing Department, 2267.-Secretary's Office and Sundries, 677. These sums, together with 6587. due to the Treasurer at the beginning of the year (stated as 8367. at p. 157 of the last Report, because the amount of 7525 Madras Rupees, of which it consisted, was then calculated at 9 rupees in the pound sterling, but now at 1s. 9d. each) make the total of 59007.

This Expenditure was defrayed as follows:Local Contributions 3397.-Separate Fund for Madras Seminary, 1757.-Books sold, 527.-Produce of the Printing Press at Madras, 4217.-Bills on the Society, 40547.-Balance due to the Treasurer, 8597. The Treasurer remarks

The favourable course of Exchange renders the Expenditure less onerous on the Home Funds than it would otherwise have been.

At Nine Stations in this Mission there were employed, at the date of the last Despatches, 11 European Missionaries, and one is on his passage. The Returns of the Missionary Teachers and Assistants are here also, as in the case of the North-India Mission, not sufficiently full and accurate: but, from the best accounts that can be collected, it appears that there are 13 Europeans, of whom 11 are Females; and that there are 8 Native Teachers, with the Native Assistants, employed in 5 Seminaries, 117 Boys' Schools, and 2 Girls' Schools.

In these Seminaries and Schools, so far as can be collected from the Returns and Despatches, there were 157 Young Men, 4327 Boys, and 101 Girls under instruction-making a total of 4585 Scholars.

The Corresponding Committee close their Seventh

Report with the following view of the growth and present state of the South-India Mission.

It is now ten years, since the Church Missionary Society commenced its operations in this country. Beginning with the humble establishment of two Lutheran Clergymen, designated only for the charge of the Tranquebar SchoolEstablishment, it has gradually extended its plans until its Missions are established at Six Stations, where Clergymen are settled, besides several minor places under Native Superintendence.

After stating the number of Missionaries, Schools, and Scholars, the Committee proceed

The Society has Five Seminaries for the preparation of Natives of the country, by means of an enlarged system of education, and the personal religious instruction and moral control of the Missionaries at the respective places, for future labours among their countrymen. The number of persons composing the Congregations of the several Missions cannot be very accurately stated; but a reference to the details of this Report will convey some idea of them. Several of the Missionaries are engaged in Literary Works in the Native Languages, in Translations of the Scriptures and other Books, and the preparation of Tracts for the wider dissemination of Religious Knowledge. At every Station it has pleased Almighty God to grant to the Missionaries some measure of success in the conversion of souls: if this measure appears small, it is chiefly owing to the high standard of expectation adopted by those excellent men, short of which they themselves allow of no real success.

A great field of exertion is thus exhibited, with many measures in operation, from the eventual progress of which it would be irrational not to expect, in due time, under the blessing of the Divine Author and Finisher of our faith, results honourable to His Name, and inestimably beneficial to the people within the range of their influence.

It especially behoves Christians living in the midst of the Heathen to promote the success of these benevolent undertakings, for the present and eternal welfare of the benighted people, by their prayers and their liberality: and the cause of the Church Missionary Society in this quarter of its labours, is urgently commended to both.

BOMBAY AND WESTERN-INDIA MISSION.

Of the Schools under the care of the Rev. Richard Kenney, the Corresponding Committee report—

The children learn to read the Scriptures, and repeat various parts of them in the Mahratta Language. These Schools have been visited by different friends of the Society, and exhibit satisfactory proficiency.

Here, also, as in other parts of India, some of the elder Scholars give good promise of future usefulness among their countrymen. The Cominittee

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In addition to these Schools, in which from 100 to 150 boys are instructed, from fifteen to twenty Young Natives have, for nearly two years, attended at Mr. Kenney's residence; where they are regularly instructed in Mahratta and English, and read the Scriptures in both these languages. Four or five of these boys frequently attend Public Worship conducted by Mr. Kenney.

One of these Youths, in a Letter to Mrs. Kenney, which is entirely his own uncorrected composition, thus writes

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We have visited the two Mahratta Schools, Saturday Evening, and heard some of the children read Gospel, and say the Ten Commandments, perfectly well. We put them some questions, namely, Who God is? &c. They seemed quite ignorant of Him and His will: they answered, Sun, moon, sea, cow, and the trees &c. are the objects of their worship." We, being sorry for them, taught them that there is but One God, the Maker of Heaven and Earth: He ought to be worshipped. I employ my time very well in attending every Sunday, except few, with my companions, Divine Service, where we hear Mr. Kenney preaching, which I understand perfectly well, and find gladness in it.

On a tour by Mr. Kenney, in the Northern Concan, in company of one of the American Missionaries, the late Rev. John Nichols, the Corresponding Committee remark

They had opportunities of distributing Tracts, which were well received by natives of different descriptions. Mr. Kenney states, that a Missionary, stationed at any of the principal towns in that part of the Concan, might establish Schools and carry on the Missionary Work, with good prospect of success, in the surrounding villages. The natives were found uniformly civil and respectful.

After urging the Society to send out four additional Missionaries to this part of India, the Committee state

We should then be able to form two other Stations-one, probably, at Basseen, for the Northern Concan; the other at Ahmedabad, for the North of Guzarat. Both these Stations would possess advantages, as the Scriptures are already translated into the languages spoken in those populous districts.

At the end of October, Mr. Kenney writes from Poonah, that he had been at that place, experiencing the friendship and hospitality of the Chaplain, the Rev. Thomas Robinson, for the last two months, for the restoration of his health. He was carrying on his Translation of the Liturgy into Mahratta, and hoped to complete it in eight or ten months. On Sundays, he addressed about 100 of the blind, halt, and maimed, to whom Mr. Robinson was in the habit of distributing alms. No prospect appearing of the health of his wife and children allowing of their return to him, he expresses his conviction that it is become his duty to join them in this country.

The Branch Association, formed in 1821 by the Rev. Henry Davies, had collected, at the end of 1823, the sum of 5652 rupees that sum has been transferred to the funds of the Corresponding Committee, to be appropriated to the general purposes of the Society.

CEYLON MISSION.

The Rev. William Adley and Mrs. Adley have joined the Labourers in this Mission: they arrived at Trincomalee on the 10th of September, and would proceed to Nellore to assist Mr. and Mrs. Knight in their work. Mr. Knight was then absent, attending the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Missionaries, which was held at Cotta, from the 8th to the 16th of September.

At this Meeting, it was determined that Mrs. Bailey's state of health required her immediate removal to the Cape, and perhaps ultimately to Europe; and it was thought right, under some peculiar circumstances of the case, with reference