week and the Docks. A vessel has just left the East India Docks with a good supply of tracts, the steward of which is the bearer of communications to our beloved brethren in India. I have sent a years' Pilots' to a missionary in Jamaica. My last parcel from India contained some recent and very important intelligence relating to sailors. "Preaching on board, and general engagements.— Nothing very particular has arisen. The services are well attended, and as interesting as ever. I can truly say, that, to my own soul, some of the meetings have been peculiarly times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord.' The East India Docks have not been forgotten. The boarding-houses have been regularly visited by the kind friend who has, for some time past, engaged in that work; but, generally speaking, he cannot induce many sailors from this quarter to attend the means of grace. I beg to add, in conclusion, that the recent public meeting at Stepney has already produced a deep impression, in relation to the value and importance of the sailors' cause. It has been inquired (I think with great propriety) whether similar meetings might not advantageously be held in the Borough, and at the West End of the Town." The Rev. J. UPTON, in February, states:- In consequence of the state of the river, I have nothing to report, as services on board ship; yet good has been effected in other respects. I have only two Bibles left. The last I gave was to a youth just about to leave his home, in a ship bound for China. The demand for tracts has been very considerable. Several large ships are now preparing to move, which have on board a supply both of PILOTS and Tracts. The Lord grant, that the bread, thus cast upon the face of the waters,' may be found again, though it may not be till after many days.' "The back numbers of the magazine granted by the Committee, have been forwarded to the friend who is about to visit Bombay and China; and I feel the fullest confidence that he will make the best use of them in his power. He has also been furnished with Tracts for distribution amongst the sailors. Rev. E. CORBISHLEY's late tour in Wales, when he held meetings at Tenby, Pembroke, Pembroke Dock, Newport, and Swansea, and collected £19. 1s. 9§d. will be particularized next month. Maudesley, Sons, and Field ... Pattison, Mrs. Pattison, Miss.. Pattison, S. F., Esq. 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 Trueman, Hanbury, Messrs.& Co. 10 10 0 1 0 0 10 6 0 10 Barclay, Bevan, Messrs. & Co... 10 0 0 NORWICH, per Mr. R. Teasdel:-- Our Friend of Portsea in our next number. P. L. of Gloucester, will accept thanks for his favour, will appear. which Admiral Brenton's "Appeal to the British Nation, in behalf of her Sailors," will be noticed in the PILOT for April. The best thanks of the Directors are presented to Mr. RABSAN, for a quantity of Books, and Magazines, for the Sailors' Library; and to GEORGE WELCH, Esq., Islington, for one year's Evangelical Magazines. Maddox, Printer, Bermondsey, Southwark. The ADDRESS of One Hundred Bethel SeaCaptains, to the Pastors and Churches of Great Britain. CHRISTIAN BRETHREN, It has pleased God, in his rich mercy, to pour out an unusual measure of his Spirit's influence on our seafaring brethren during the past year ;-and believing that he is about to effect a great work among them,-but, at the same time, convinced, that the churches of this highly favoured land have not yet adequately considered their condition and claims,—we feel it a most solemn and imperative duty to lift up our voice on their behalf, and, with holy importunity, plead with the blood-bought followers of Christ, that they would, without delay, come forward, and exert themselves for the salvation of our brethren. There are TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY-THOUSAND of our British brother-seamen yet in moral darkness and death;-thousands of them are perishing every year in the deep, and all of them hastening to an unchanging eternity. But oh! their souls-their precious souls! What is their condition? What their prospects? What their destiny? Why is it that such a multitude of our brethren are yet in the gall of bitterness and the bond of iniquity? Have the churches done moral justice to the sailor? Has each Christian done his duty? Has each pastor and minister discharged his obligations to seamen? Oh! our hearts bleed over the lukewarmness and apathy which at present exist among the professing members and pastors of the churches of Christ in this land! It affects us to the inmost soul to think, that so many thousands of our brethren have still so much reason to take up the lamentation,—"No man careth for our souls!" How long is this to be continued? Are they still to be neglected ;-still allowed to perish in their sins;—and, finally to find themselves a wreck on the shores of a dark eternity? God forbid! Now is the time for action-prompt, persevering action. This is all that is required to secure the blessing-even life for evermore. We are aware, Christian brethren, that there exists the BRITISH AND FOREIGN SAILORS' SOCIETY, and that its operations are being actively carried on, so far as their means admit ;—but this is not enough. One hundred captains have entered into solemn covenant, to maintain the worship of God on board their respective vessels, and to make every possible exertion to bring sailors generally under the influence of Divine truth;— but this is not enough. It is indispensable, if seamen are to be evangelized, that the agencies should be |