200,000, or $40,000.-The whole expense of the establishment, including annuities to the infirm clergy, is estimated at 25,650,000 francs, or $5,130,000!

Protestant Clergy.--The Calvinists have three pasters, who receive yearly each 3000 francs; 28 who receive each 2000; 69 who receive each 1500; and lastly 195 pastors, each 1000-total Calvinist ministers, 295

There are 2 Lutheran pastors, each receiving 3000 francs; 25, each 2000; 21, each 1500; and 175 pastors, each 1000-total, 220 Lutheran ministers. Sum total paid to the Protestant clergy, 623,000 francs, ($124,600) 24,000 francs allowed for their colleges, and 50,000 for their place of worship-sum total for the Protestant religion, $139,400. This sum is paid by the French government; but it must also be remarked, that there are many Protestant clergy in France, who do not receive any stipend from the government, it being a regulation not to make any grant where the Protestant population does not amount to a thousand.

Gigantic Tree-A tree of prodigious size has lately been felled in Berks county, in this state. It was 117 feet in height, and 64 from the butt to the first branch, and its greatest circumference was 20 feet 7 inches. It was perfectly sound, and from the concentric circles at the end of the trunk, was estimated to be 300 years old.

LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. United States Institution for the Treatment of Cases of Defective Utterance, such as partial Speechlessness, Stuttering, Stammering, Hesitancy, Weakness of Voice, Mis-enunciation, Lisping, &c. &c. Conducted by Mr. & Mrs. Chapman, No. 187, Pine street, Philadelphia.

An Address from the Managers of the House of Refuge to their Fellow Citizens. Philadelphia.

Northern Regions; or, Uncle Richard's Relation of Captain Parry's Voyages for the Discovery of a North-West Passage, and Franklin and Cochrane's overland Journeys to other parts of the World. Boston; Munroe & Francis.

History of Roman Literature, from its earliest Period to the Augustine Age. By John Dunlop, author of "The History of

Fiction."

The Gospel the Wisdom of God-a Sermon preached at Salem, Feb. 14, 1827, at the ordination of the Rev. John P. Cleaveland, as Pastor of the Tabernacle Church. By William Sprague, Pastor of the First Church in West Springfield. Sa. lem. Whipple & Lawrence. 1827.

Righteousness the Safeguard and Glory of a Nation. A Sermon preached in the Representative Hall of Indianapolis, Indiana: Dec. 31st, 1826, by Baynard R. Hall, Principal of the State Seminary, Bloomington. Published by request. Smith & Bolton, printers.

A Discourse on Popular Education, delivered in the Church at Princeton the evening before the Annual Commence. ment of the College of New Jersey, Sept. 26, 1826. By Charles Fenton Mercer. Published at the request of the American Whig and Cliosophic Societies Prince. ton Press. Printed for the Societies by D. A. Borrenstein.

The Knowledge and Belief of Scriptural Doctrine necessary to True Religion. Being the substance of two Sermons deli. vered before the Associate Reformed Con

gregation in Chillicothe, Sept. 24, 1826, and published at their request. By Joseph Claybaugh, Minister of the Gospel. Chillicothe, printed by John Bailhache, pp. 16..

An Account of the Visit of General La Fayette to the United States, from his arrival in August, 1824, to his embarkation on board the Brandywine frigate, return to France, reception and retirement to La Grange. Philadelphia.

A Treatise on the Physical and Medical Treatment of Children. Second edition.

By W. P. Dewees, M. D.

The Supreme and Exclusive Authority of the Lord Jesus Christ in Religious Matters maintained; and the Rights, Liberties, and Privileges of the Children of God, established from the Sacred Scriptures, in opposition to the assumed power of Ecclesiasticks. Pittsburgh.

Youth's Friend and Scholar's Magazine, for February, 1827. By American Sunday School Union. Philadelphia.

Elements of Descriptive Geometry, with their application to Spherical Trigonometry, Spherical Projection, and Warped Surfaces. By Charles Davies, Professor of Mathematics in the Military Academy, West Point.

The American Journal of Education, No. 12.

Letters on the General Structure, Government, Laws and Discipline of the Church; embracing some Remarks on Creeds and Confessions of Faith; addressed to the people of his charge. By David Elliott, A. M.; Pastor of the congregation of Upper West Conococheague, Mercersburg, Pennsylvania.

Letters on the Atonement; first published in the Christian Advocate. By Jacob J. Janeway, D.D. Philadelphia. Printed by Clark & Raser. 18mo. pp. 252.

GENERAL VIEW OF MISSIONS, under the direction of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

(Concluded from page 92.)

Willstown:-." The influence of this station has been felt, in a great reformation of morals among the people who inhabit Wills Valley. When the first missionary came here to reside, only three years ago, the intemperate use of ardent spirits was almost universal. Now that pernicious article is entirely disused by the great majority of the people; and riotous assemblages for the purpose of drinking, are unknown."

"The little church, gathered here in the wilderness, continues to shed forth the cheering light of a holy example. Fourteen Cherokees and one black man, have been worthy members, so far as the human eye can discern. Quite recently, one of this number, a young woman, died in a very happy manner, leaving an excellent character, having given most gratifying evidence of piety.

"The man, who is now employed part of the time as a native teacher, and who received the name of John Huss at his baptism, stands high as a consistent Christian, both in the judgment of the missionaries, and in the estimation of his countrymen, Apt to acquire knowledge, and happy in his talent of communicating it, he is very acceptable as a speaker. He seems to apprehend the great doctrines of the gospel clearly, and to be capable of presenting them clearly to others. He studies passages in the New Testament as translated, and transcribes them to be read by his friends and neighbours. His zeal and publick spirit, in the work of enlightening his people, are worthy of high commendation."

General Remark.-"The experience of another year enables the committee to say, that the transforming efficacy of the Christian religion, both upon individuals and upon neighbourhoods, is now seen in different parts of the Cherokee nation. If the same efficacy should pervade every part, a most lovely branch of the church universal would here unfold its flowers and dispense its fruit. Still there are powerful counteracting causes. The most obvious are the ease, with which intoxicating liquor is brought to the doors of the people, and the eagerness, with which a large portion of them yield to its pernicious influence."

VOL. V.-Ch. Adv.

IV. The Choctaws.

A tribe of Indians, residing between the Tombigbee and the Mississippi rivers, almost wholly within the chartered limits of Mississippi, with but a small part in Alabama. Population about 20,000.

Commenced in 1818. Stations at Elliot, Mayhew, Bethel, Emmaus, Goshen, Aiik-hun-nuh, Hachah, Boke-e-tun-nuh, and one other at a Mr. Juzon's.

ELLIOT. Within the chartered limits of Mississippi on the Yalobusha creek, in latitude 33 and a half, about 50 miles east of the Mississippi river. 1818.',

John Smith, Farmer and Superintend ent of Secular Concerns, Joel Wood, Teacher, Zechariah Howes, Farmer; and their wives.

MAYHEW.-Ninety miles east of Elliot, and about 25 miles west of the line, which separates Mississippi from Alabama, and near Ooktibbeha creek, one of the western branches of the Tombeckbee. 1820.

Rev. Cyrus Kingsbury, Missionary, and Superintendent of the Choctaw Mission, Calvin Cushman, Farmer; and their wives; William Hooper, Teacher; Anna Burnham, Teacher.

BETHEL On the Natchez road, about 60 miles S. W. of Mayhew and nearly the same distance S. S. E. of Elliot. 1821.

Stephen B. Macomber, Teacher, Mrs. Macomber; Adin C. Gibbs, Teacher; Philena Thatcher, Teacher.

EMMAUS.-About 110 miles N. N. W. of Mobile, and 130 S. S. E. of Mayhew, within two miles of the southern limit of the Choctaw country. 1822.

Moses Jewell, Assistant Missionary, Mrs. Jewell; David Gage, Teacher, Mrs. Gage.

GOSHEN.-About 50 miles W. N. W. of Emmaus, 115 S. S. W. of Mayhew, and 8 S. E. of the Military road. 1824.

Reverend Alfred Wright, Missionary, Mrs. Wright; Elijah Bardwell, Teacher, Mrs. Bardwell; Ebenezer Bliss, Farmer; Eliza Buer.

AI-IK-HUN-NUH.-Near the Natchez road, about 85 miles W. of Mayhew, and

60 E. S. E. of Elliot. 1824.

Rev. Cyrus Byington, Missionary; David Wright, Teacher, Mrs. Wright; Mrs. Sarah C. Moseley.

HACHAH.-About 50 N. W. of Goshen, and a mile E. of Pearl river. 1824.

Mr. Anson Gleason, Teacher, Mrs. Glea

SCHOOL AT MR. JUZON's. About 85 miles S. S. E. of Mayhew, on the old Mobile road. 1823.

This school was without a teacher, at the time the Board held its annual meeting.

"It is believed that the discouragements, which have gathered around this mission in some periods of its history, are diminishing. The advantages of education are more justly appreciated by a part of the people, than they were formerly. The more thinking and intelligent perceive, that civilization or extinction must be the lot of all the Indian tribes within our borders."

V. The Cherokees of the Arkansas. Cherokees, who, from the year 1804 to the present time, have removed from their residence E. of the Mississippi, to a tract of country on the N. bank of the Arkansaw river, between longitude 94 and 95 W. Population about 5,000. The greater part of this emigration took place

between 1816 and 1820.

DWIGHT.-Situated on the north side of the Arkansas river, about three miles up Illinois creek, and very near latitude 35. The Mississippi river, at the nearest point, is probably somewhat less than 200 miles distant. 1820.

Rev. Alfred Finney and Rev. Cephas Washburn, Missionaries, Gcorge L. Weed, M. D. Teacher and Physician, Jacob Hitchcock, Steward, James Orr, Farmer, Samuel Wisner, and Asa Hitchcock, Mechanics, and their wives; Ellen Stetson and Cynthia Thrall, Teachers.

It is probable that a station has been formed by Mr. Finney, at SPADRE CREEK. "Mr. John Brown, the father of Catherine and David, continues to exhibit a bright example of piety and benevolence. He and some others are extremely desirous, that the offers of salvation should be embraced by the people generally. It would seem, however, that the prospects of this part of the tribe are not so good, as those of the Cherokees on the east of the Mississippi; and, so far as experience in their case is entitled to consideration, it would not seem desirable that the Indians should be removed from the land of their fathers."

VI. The Osages.

A tribe of Indians in the Arkansas and Missouri Territories. Population about 8,000. Missions at Union, Hopefield, Harmony, and Neosho.

UNION.-Among the Osages of the Arkansas, on the west bank of Grand river, about 25 miles north of its entrance into the Arkansas. Commenced in 1820.

Rev. William F. Vaill, Missionary, Mrs. Vaill; Marcus Palmer, Physician and Li

censed Preacher, Mrs. Palmer; John M. Spaulding, Teacher; Stephen Fuller, Farmer, Mrs. Fuller; Abraham Redfield, and Alexander Woodruff, Mechanics and their wives; George Requa and, George Douglass, Assistants, Mrs. Requa.

HOPEFIELD.-About three miles from Union. 1822.

Rev. William B. Montgomery, Missionary; Wm.C. Requa, Assistant, Mrs. Requa. HARMONY.-Among the Osages of the Missouri, on the north bank of the Marias de Cein, about six miles above its entrance into the Osage river, and about eighty miles southwest of Fort Osage.

Rev. Nathaniel B. Dodge, Missionary, Mrs. Dodge; Amasa Jones, Licensed Preacher, Mrs. Jones; Otis Sprague, Farmer, Mrs. Sprague; Miss Woolley, and Miss Etris.

NEOSHO. On a river of that name, about 80 miles southwest of Harmony. 1824. Rev. Benton Pixley, Missionary, Mrs. Pixley; Samuel B. Bright, Farmer, Mrs. Bright.

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VII. Indians in New York. The remains of the Six Nations. tions at Tuscarora, Seneca and Cataraugus.

TUSCARORA.-About four miles east of Lewistown, Niagara county. Transferred to the U. F. M. S. in 1821; established by the New York Missionary Society about 20 years before.

Rev. Joseph Lane, Missionary, and Mrs. Lane, have an appointment for this station.

SENECA. About four or five miles from Buffalo, near the outlet of Lake Erie.— Commenced by the New York Miss. Soc. in 1811; transferred in 1821.

Rev. Thomson S. Harris, Missionary, Mrs. Harris; Gilman Clark, and Harvey Bradley, Assistants, Mrs. Clark; Miss Henderson, and Miss Selden.

CATARAUGUS.-A few miles east of the shore of Lake Erie, and about 30 miles from Buffalo. 1822.

Wm. A. Thayer, Teacher, Mrs. Thayer. VIII. Indians in the Michigan Territory.

MACKINAW. In the Michigan Territory, on the island of Michilimackinack, 1823.

Rev. William M. Ferry, Missionary, Mrs. Ferry; John S. Hudson and Martin Heydenburk, Assistants, Mrs. Hudson; Delia Cook. Eunice Osmar, Elizabeth M'Farland, and

IX. Indians in Ohio. MAUMEE.-On a river of that name, near Fort Meigs, Wood county.

Isaac Van Tassel, Licensed Preacher, Mrs. Van Tassel; Mr. Sacket, Farmer, Mrs. Sacket.

X. Hayti.

HAYTI.-Among the coloured people who had removed from the United States. This mission was instituted by the U. F. M. S. in 1824, and the Rev. B. F. Hughes and Rev. William G. Penington, coloured men, were employed as missionaries. The former was recalled, a year and a half since; and the latter, we believe, is now in this country. Mr. P. supported himself and family by his own industry.

General Remarks on the Stations, from Union to the one last named inclusive.

The survey of these stations, with one or two exceptions, is founded on a document received from the U. F. M. S. last summer. Some changes may have since occurred, of which we have not been apprized. The number of children in several of the schools, may be estimated as follows:-At Union, 35; Harmony, 25; Seneca, 40; Cataraugus, 43; Mackinaw, 110; Maumee, 31. Among the Tuscaroras is a church of 17 members. Future surveys of these stations may be expected to contain more ample intelligence respecting them.

XI. The Sandwich Islands.

A group of islands in the Pacifick Ocean, between 18 deg. 55 and 20 deg. 20 north latitude, and 154 deg. 55 and 160° 15 west longitude from Greenwich. They are extended in a direction W.N.W. and E.S. E., Hawaii' [Owhyee] being the southeastern island.

Stations at Honoruru, Waimea, Lahaina, Kairua, Waiakea (now Byron's Bay,) and Kaavaroa.

HONORURU.-On the island of Oahu.

1820.

Rev. Hiram Bingham, Missionary, Elisha Loomis, Printer, Abraham Blatcheley, M. D. Physician; and their wives; Levi Chamberlain, Superintendent of Secular Concerns.

WAIMEA.-On the island of Tauai. 1820. Samuel Whitney, Licensed Preacher, Mrs. Whitney; Samuel Ruggles, Teacher and Catechist, Mrs. Ruggles.

LAHAINA.-On the island of Maui. 1823. Rev. William Richards, Missionary, Mrs. Richards; Stephen Pupuhi, Native Assistant.

KAIRUA.-On the western side of Hawaii. 1824.

Rev. Asa Thurston and Rev. Artemas Bishop, Missionaries, and their wives. WAIKEA, or BYRON'S BAY.-On the north-eastern side of Hawaii. 1824.

Joseph Goodrich, Licensed Preacher, Mrs. Goodrich, John Honorii, Native Assistant.

KAAVAROA.-Sixteen miles south of Kairua. 1824.

Rev. James Ely, Missionary, Mrs. Ely; Thomas Hopu, Native Assistant.

The Rev. Charles S. Stewart, noted in the last survey in connexion with the station at Lahaina, found it necessary to return to his native land, in the course of the last year, on account of the dangerous illness of his wife. Since his arrival in this country, he has been employed in visiting different parts of the country, for the purpose of describing in publick meetings, the state and progress of the Sandwich Island mission.-During the fourteen months previous to March last, nearly eighty thousand tracts were issued from the mission press, amounting to 1,367,000 pages. A selection of other interesting facts in relation to this mission, will be found in the retrospective view of the year, at the end of this survey.

XII. Malta.

An island in the Mediterranean, 20 miles long, 12 broad, and 60 in circumference. It is about 50 miles from Sicily. On this island, anciently called Melita, the Apostle Paul was shipwrecked, while on his way to Rome. Commenced in 1821.

Rev. Daniel Temple, Missionary, Mrs. Temple; Rev. Eli Smith, Missionary;

Homan Hallock, Printer.

The Printing Establishment at this station has two presses in operation. Nearly three millions and a half of pages of important religious matter, have been issued, in the space of four years.

XIII. Syria.

Syria is said, by writers on geography, to be the whole space lying between Alexandretta or Scanderoon on the north, and Gaza, on the borders of the Arabian de. sert; and is bounded S. E. and S. by the desert of Arabia, and W. by the Mediterranean. Its north-eastern and eastern limits are not well defined. In this larger sense it includes Palestine.

BEYROOT.-A sea-port town, at the foot of Mount Lebanon, in the Pashallic of Acre. E. long. 35 deg. 55, N. lat. 33 deg. 49. Population not less than 5000,

Rev. William Goodell, and Rev. Isaac Bird, Missionaries, and their wives.

"The principal employment of the missionaries is still the acquisition of languages, and the preparation of helps for future labourers. Conversations are held, books are distributed, a Christian example is set forth, and schools are organized; and while these means of usefulness are in operation, a knowledge of the country is obtained, avenues for the transmission of evangelical influence are discovered,

and higher qualifications for intercourse with all classes of people are sought." Another part of this number will contain some important facts respecting this branch of the Mediterranean Mission.

XIV. Palestine, or the Holy Land.

Including all the territory anciently possessed by the Israelites.

JERUSALEM.-The capital of Palestine. Population estimated at from 15,000 to 20,000.

The Rev. Jonas King, who had engaged in this mission for a limited time, took an affectionate leave of his brethren in September, 1825, the time of his engagement having expired. He did not depart from Asia, however, till the last summer. The Rev. Pliny Fisk, who, with Mr. King, was noted in the last survey in connexion with this station, died at Beyroot, on the 23d of October, 1825, greatly lamented by his brethren, and by the churches of this country. Jerusalem is not now the residence of any Protestant missionary.

The Rev. Elnathan Gridley and the Rev. Josiah Brewer, Missionaries, are now on their way to this field of missionary enterprise.

XV. Spanish America.

The Rev. Theophilus Parvin went to Buenos Ayres, in the summer of 1823, under the patronage of the Board, where he still remains. His connexion with the Board, however, has been dissolved, on account of the peculiar circumstances of that country, which render it expedient, that Mr. Parvin should labour unconnected with any missionary society. He bas lately been made a Professor in the University of Buenos Ayres.

The Rev. John C. Brigham has completed his exploring tour under the patronage of the Board. He crossed the continent from Buenos Ayres to Chili.From thence he proceeded to Peru, Colombia, and Mexico, and returned to the United States in the early part of last year. His report of the religious state of the southern republicks was inserted in the Missionary Herald for October and November, and some part of his journal appeared in previous numbers. A particular account of his whole tour is preparing for publication in a se. parate volume.-Mr. Brigham, since his return, has been made Assistant Secretary to the American Bible Society.

XVI. Africa.

"At the last annual meeting of the Board, it was recommended to the Prudential Committee to establish a mission in Africa, as soon as they shall find it

practicable. In compliance with this recommendation, the late Mr, Sessions, on his embarking for the colony of Liberia, was requested to make proper inquiries, respecting the neighbourhood of that colony, as a field for missionary labour. He cheerfully consented to do so; but his untimely death, on the homeward passage, deprived the Committee of any informa tion which he might have obtained. An open correspondence, however, between Dr. Blumhardt, of Basle, Switzerland, and Mr. Ashmun, of the colony, has passed through our hands; and from this it appears that a mission might immediately be established in the Bassa country, with encouraging prospects, if properly quali fied missionaries were at hand.

"As a residence on the African coast is so fatal to white men, Providence would seem to indicate, that descendants of Africans should be sought, who have been exposed to the damps of a warm climate, and who would probably live to the ordinary age of man, if sent as missionaries to the land of their ancestors. Inquiries have been made in the southern states, with reference to this subject; and appa rently the greatest obstacle in the way of sending black men, who would be com petent to the work, is the want of a tried and approved method of imparting to them a suitable education. The minds of some of our most enlightened citizens are intent upon the claims of the African race; and we may expect that God will bless their investigations, and their efforts, and open wide channels for the communication of his own goodness, through the instrumentality of his servants."

Foreign Mission School.

This school, situated in Cornwall, Con. has been suspended by the Board. The reasons for this measure, which has been some time under consideration, will be given in a subsequent part of this number.

Greek Youths.

Eleven Greek youths have been sent to the United States, by the missionaries of the Board, and, under its patronage, are pursuing their studies, preparatory to future usefulness among their country. men. Two are now members of Yale College; three of Amherst College. Four are in the Academy at Amherst, and two in the Academy at Monson, Mass.

The Missionary Herald.

"The Missionary Herald is the property of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; is published on terms which they regard as just and pro