conducted by our worthy superintendent, Mr. Deacon, The united schools agreed to adopt two orphan children, a boy and girl, the boy to be named Samuel Deacon, and the girl, Catherine Kirkman.—H. I. ILKESTON.-On Lord's day, Sept. 12th, two sermons were preached in behalf of our Sabbath school, by the Rev. W. Shakespeare, of Belper. The collections were good. BRADFORD, First Church.-On Lord's day, August 22, three sermons were preached in behalf of our Sabbath schools, in the morning and evening by our own minister, and in the afternoon by the Rev. H. J. Betts, Particular Baptist. The congregations were excellent, and the collections amounted to £22 7s. 103d.— B. W. B. BARTON.-Our missionary services this year have been unusually interesting. The Rev. H. Wilkinson preached for us on Lord's day, Sept. 19, at Bosworth, Barton, and Congerstone. Mr. Wilkinson attended our meetings at Barton on Monday evening, Bagworth on Wednesday evening, and at Barlestone on Thursday evening; and, together with ministerial VALE CHAPEL PEOPLE'S COLLEGE, brethren in the neighbourhood, pleaded ToDMORDEN.-The anniversary of this Inthe cause of the heathen. The services stitution was celebrated on Saturday, the were well attended, and the collections 25th inst., by a social tea and an evening good. On the Friday evening following, meeting. The young men connected with we held our first juvenile missionary meet- it very tastefully decorated the room with ing at Barton. The scholars from our other evergreens, and above 100 of the friends schools, with their teachers and friends, had a happy and cheerful tea together. The took tea in the afternoon. At six o'clock evening was spent in singing, speeches, and we held our meeting in the chapel, when recitations. With unabated interest the the lower part was completely filled, and meeting was continued till ten o'clock, many were in the gallery. Mr. Wilkin-when, after various votes of thanks, the son was again with us, and very much interested and delighted our young friends. The meeting was likewise addressed by our pastors, and by brethren Norton, Hextall, Deacon, Wilkins, and the writer. At intervals several pieces, selected for the occasion, were sung by the children, | audience separated. The classes (which are always diminished during the summer months) will be immediately re-formed for the winter session, and with the assistance of two additional teachers, it is hoped that the institution will not only keep its ground, but increase in efficiency and power. MISCELLANEOUS. PRAED STREET, Paddington. Mr. J. Clifford, of the G. B. College, Nottingham, having received a very cordial invitation to become the pastor of the church, Praed-street, Paddington, commenced his ministerial labours by preaching the anniversary sermons, Oct. 17. In the morning the text was Psalm xvii. verse 16 (first part), and in the evening, 2 Corinthians, chap. v. verse 20. The congregations were good, and the collections amounted to £8. On Monday evening a tea and recognition meeting was held. The proceeds of the tea were £9. A public meeting was afterwards held in the school-room, which was tastefully decorated, the motto, "Welcome," being behind the chair. Mr. Clifford presided, and addresses were delivered by the Revs. J. Harcourt, D. Burns, and Messrs. Clarke (a student from the College), Colebrook, Chamberlain, and Dexter. Several ministers had promised to attend, but the unfavourable day pre vented them. The meeting altogether was large, animated, and interesting. TARPORLEY, Cheshire.-You have informed your readers of the death of Mr. Henry Smith, the esteemed pastor of the General Baptist Church, at this place, in July last, after long and severe suffering. Since then the pulpit has been supplied by various ministers. Being invited for two Sabbaths, I went, and was requested to stay over Monday evening, Sept. 13th. I did, and found they had arranged for a kind of family tea meeting of members and friends in the chapel. After tea, Mr. Joseph Aston took the chair, and our aged friend, David Gaythorpe, offered up an appropriate prayer. Mr. Aston then spoke on the design of the meeting, and was followed by brothers Dutton and Collins. The writer was then called upon to read a reply from the widow of the late minister in acknowledgment of the handsome sum of £51 5s. which had been presented privately to Mrs. Smith in the course of the afternoon. That HEPTONSTALL SLACK, Yorkshire. JUBILEE SERVICES.-It being now fifty years since the chapel here was erected, under the ministry of the late venerable James Taylor, the friends in this place thought well to hold public services in commemoration of the event. In order that this might be done with a becoming regard to the Lord's house, on this "Mount Zion," the whole of the interior was cleaned, painted, and stained. So efficiently was this work executed, at a cost of £90, that all the friends who visited the place on this occasion expressed their admiration at the improved appearance of the chapel. But for one circumstance the services would have been of a reply was as affecting as it was appropriate. | the Sabbath commenced with an early I may also be permitted to state, for it enhances prayer meeting, of a pleasing and solemn the liberality of the gift, that this church character. Public service was conducted only numbers 47 members, and this was at 10.30 by the Rev. J. Goadby, who the church which, at the Loughborough As- preached from "O taste and see that the sociation, deputed its late pastor to present Lord is good." In the afternoon, the Rev. £52 10s. in reduction of our Foreign Mis- J. Sutcliffe, of Staley bridge, delivered a sion debt, in addition to about the same discourse from "Call to remembrance the amount of regular annual contributions. It former days," in which the preacher, forwas whilst perusing a note to brother Bate, merly a member of this church, referred of Tarporley, in acknowledgment of £5 to with great feeling to one of its former the Berhampore Fire Fund that our late pastors, the late Rev. W. Butler, under venerable secretary was called to rest from whose ministry he was converted, and to his labours.-J. F. W., Leicester. whose kindness he was under great and lasting obligations. He also alluded to many excellent Christians he had once known here, but who are now removed to glory; and also to the various preaching places, prayer meetings, &c. in which he had been formerly delighted to meet with the friends. In the evening Mr. Goadby preached again, and closed the exercises of a day of holy emotion and spiritual enjoyment long to be remembered. The congregations were large, and deeply attentive. In the afternoon every space in the chapel was occupied. It was announced in the evening that the collections made that day, added to the previous subscriptions, had more than defrayed the expences incurred in beautifying the chapel. The weather on Wednesday, the 18th, was very wet and stormy. This, on the bleak mountains, of course prevented many from being present at a service held in the afternoon, when the Rev. R. Hardy, of Queenshead, delivered a suitable and useful discourse on the conditions of future prosperity. The tea meeting that afternoon, considering the weather, was well attended; and in the evening, spite of the storm and wind, a goodly number attended the public meeting. The Rev. J. Sutcliffe presided. The Rev. C. Springthorpe read a paper comprising the history of the church, and many of the chief incidents found in its records. The first pastor, the late Rev. J. Taylor, presided over them from 1807 until 1820. He was succeeded by the late Rev. R. Ingham (a native of this neighbourhood), whose labours continued until 1834. The late Rev. W. Butler followed, in the autumn of 1834, and continued until his declining health induced him to resign, in 1847. The Rev. E. Bott, now of Barton, removed hither in 1848, and resigned in 1852. Mr. Springthorpe, in his paper, paid a just tribute of respect to the excellence, talent, labours, and successes of each of the former pastors. The Revs. R. Hardy, J. Goadby, and several ministers from the neighbourhood delivered addresses, or engaged in devotional exercises. These interesting jubilee services concluded on Saturday, Oct. 23, truly jubilant character. The worthy pastor, Rev. C. Springthorpe, had been called to mourn over the sudden death of his only daughter, so that the funeral of the dear child on the Saturday afternoon, Oct. 16, seemed to cast a shade over the services that had been so much anticipated. This had the effect, however, not of destroying the sanctities of the various exercises, but of giving to them a more chastened tone and a deeper solemnity. The affectionate and universal sympathies of the multitudes who were assembled were commingled with their congratulations. That the younger part of the congregation might have a happy remembrance of this season, and might participate in its enjoyments, the jubilee began with them. On Saturday afternoon, Oct. 16, the Sunday scholars, teachers, and young friends were provided with an abundant supply of tea, buns, milk, and cakes, by the kindness of J. Sutcliffe, Esq., of "The Slack," after which they were gathered in the school-room (the former place of worship), and addresses were delivered to them by the Rev. J. Goadby, of Loughborough, C. Springthorpe, and several of the preachers and Sunday school teachers connected with the church. Select pieces of sacred music gave enlivenment to the evening. All, both young and old, retired interested, gratified, and refreshed. The morning of when the parents of the Sunday school | Gregory and Walklate each with a handchildren were kindly invited by the teachers to a gratuitous tea. About 130 parents were present. Mr. Wm. Sutcliffe, Slack Top, an old teacher and superintendent, was called upon to preside. The rules of the school having been read, the Rev. R. Ingham, of Halifax, some of the fathers of the children, and a number of the teachers gave very appropriate addresses. Thus the church, the school, and the home have participated in our rejoicings. May the Father of mercies crown the whole series of our services with his blessing. To Him be all the praise. WILLINGTON.-G. B. Chapel. On Tuesday evening, Oct. 12, the members and friends of the above chapel held a social tea meeting in the school-room. After tea, Mr. T. Chambers, (in behalf of the Baptist friends,) presented Messrs. some cup, with the following inscription: "Presented to (here the name was inserted) by the Baptist friends at Willington, as a sincere expression of their gratitude for his labour of love for more than thirty years." There were present on this occasion many friends, and several addresses were delivered. Mr. Josiah Pike occupied the chair. In the various addresses it was stated that chiefly through the strenuous and zealous labours of Mr. Gregory, the beautiful house of God was erected. Mr. Morris, of Willington, stated that he had known Mr. Gregory for many years as a faithful preacher of the gospel, and as regards the new chapel, he (Mr. Morris) had been in many chapels in London and different parts of England, but this, he thought, was the neatest chapel in England. May the friends of this place prosper abundantly. Notes of the Month. October 23. Our episcopal neighbours | are still agitated with the practice of confession. The Bishop of Winchester at a late visitation said, "He believed that the practice was attended with the greatest danger, -had been perverted to the vilest purposes, and was as repugnant to the spirit of the gospel as it was to the manly common sense and the independent mind of the great mass of the English people." The Bishop of Lincoln at a late visitation objected to "a registration of Churchmen and Dissenters in every parish as a means of finding out who should and who should not pay the rate. It would lead to endless bickering and strife," and lead some from avaricious motives to say they were dissenters! It is stated that Miss Coutts has offered £15,000 to endow a Bishoprick in British Columbia. The Congregational Union held its autumnal meeting at Halifax last week. Many ministers of the northern counties, several from the southern, and few from the midland, were present. We had the opportunity of attending some of its sittings. Dr. Alliot presided. Dr. Halley read an admirable paper on Oliver Heywood and early Nonconformists in Halifax and the neighbourhood. It is stated that £13,000 of the £20,000 fund for additional Missionaries for India. The Directors have had a thanksgiving meeting for the opening of China. The Unitarians, whose congregations are dying out, declare that they are changing their character and are likely to flourish by the aid of "the new philosophy," (German?) and to take hold of the masses! The Pope is said to be in raptures about the late visit of Dr. Wiseman (Cardinal) into Ireland. In several countries popery is giving trouble and provoking hostility. In Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Canada, and Ireland, too The Irish priests have presented a memorial to the Home-office for salaried gaol chaplains, and for other powers, and are appealing for support to the Irish members. Are we to have a second Established Church in Ireland? Three Wesleyan young ministers have been recently ordained as missionaries in India. The number of members "in society" is now 277,091. Twenty-two ministers have died last year. The lectures to working men by the young Baptist ministers have commenced for the winter months, under great promise. Mr. A. Mursell has thousands at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester. The Earl of Shaftesbury was recently among his hearers, and afterwards, in a public meeting, expressed his delight in what he saw and heard. Mr. W. Walters, at Halifax, Mr. Chown at Bradford, and Mr. Brown at Liverpool, are all doing good in the same way. The Baptists are being persecuted in Mecklenburg-Schwein. When will intolerance cease? Missionary Observer. LETTER FROM THE REV. J. BUCKLEY. Piplee, July 10th, 1858. sentiment which this translation conveys -that it is Christ who is gain to us, and He is this gain both in life and death. Another old English version renders it, advantage." Perhaps the Spirit of God designed that we should gather ALL these important ideas from this verse. Nothing seems worth a thought but to honor Christ on earth, and be prepared to live with Him for ever in heaven. DEAR BROTHER.-Last sabbath was a solemn and interesting day at Cuttack. Two were added to our number by baptism-one of them was from the Asylum, Sarah, the youngest surviving daughter" Christ is to me life, and death is to me of our late estimable brother Bonamallee -the other, Chintamuni, has recently renounced idolatry, and is from the district of Hurrihurpore, which has often been visited on Missionary journies. He is a young man unmarried, and is of the Mahantee or writer caste. He has for Christ's sake left a father, brother. and other relatives to whom he is as dead, according to Hindoo ideas. When he gave his mala or necklace to Brother Stubbins, he said Oh, Lord Jesus! Remembering thy name and thy love, I this day break the bonds in which satan has bound me, henceforth I am thine. May many-many more be gathered from the heathen wilderness into the fold of Christ. Three of our dear girls were married last Wednesday, and we hope now they have left the school for the Christian village, that the practical effect of the instruction which they have received will be manifested. You see from the heading of my letter that I am writing from Piplee. I am pleased to see your son looking so well. He is passing through the seasoning with less suffering than many have had. He is so far as I can learn making satisfactory progress in the language, and his pronunciation of it, which is an important matter, is good. We (i. e. Brother Taylor, your son, and myself,) leave this evening if God permit for Pooree, to attend the car festival. Mrs. Buckley, who is with me, will stay with Mrs. Taylor till our return. The attendance is likely to be very It has recently been an anxious and solemn time at Cuttack, especially in regard to the Boy's School, under the care of Brother and Sister Brooks. Small-pox in the confluent form has prevailed, and three deaths have occurred in the school in a week. This frightful disease has been lingering about our Christian village for more than four months; and we had in the Girls' School as many as thirty-small. seven cases, but happily all were of a mild form. We pray, if it be the Lord's will, that it may be removed from us, for in this country its ravages are often awful. And if it should attack any of us-but why do I write thus? Not a hair can fall from our heads without the permission of our Father in heaven. The "pale horse" will not be sent for us till we have finished our work, and when sent it will be to carry us home. Welcome life, or welcome death in whatever form it may appear. I have this morning been thinking of Philipp, i. 21., as expressed in three different English versions. I see India largely engages the attention of our legislators, and I have not, I assure you, been an indifferent observer of the strange complication and embarrassments of the last two or three months. It has seemed to me that God only can safely bring us through these difficulties, and feeling this I have looked to Him. I believe no English minister ever penned a despatch more rash, unpatriotic, and dangerous to our rule in India than Lord Ellenborough's. I do not pronounce a definitive opinion on the proclamation of the Governor-General, but so far as at present informed I must say, that I cannot join in the censures passed on it. I fully believe that it was the intention of Go We are familiar with the precious and important words, "To me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." But an earlier trans-vernment to act with justice and humalation has it, "Christ is to me, both in life and in death, advantage."* I like the nity to the landowners and people of Oude, and Mr. Montgomery, the Chief Commissioner, is a public officer in whom the fullest confidence is reposed. But a man who wishes to be master of the sub . ject should study the internal condition | difficult in these exciting times not to be of Oude for the last half-century, and the nature of the settlement made when the country was annexed two years and a half ago. Probably no country in the face of the earth has been more misgoverned then Oude by its former rulers. It seemed to me at the time it was annexed to be an act of mercy to end such intolerable tyranny, oppression, and anarchy. Our present difficulties are occasioned in a large measure by its former disorganized state; but I am getting political, and it is DEAR BROTHER,-I wrote last month | a few lines from Piplee, and the same night after despatching our English letters, we, i. e. Mr. Taylor, your son and myself, left for Pooree to attend the Ruth jattra there. Our native preachers, Damudar, and Kumbhoo had left a little earlier. We reached the shrine early on the sabbath morning, and in the evening went to preach in the principal street. Amid scenes of idolatrous revelry it was difficult to realize the calm and holy rest of the sabbath which thousands of God's dear children were then enjoying. Happy he who has a sabbath rest in his soul, and how sweet to think the rest and peace of our heavenly home as the keeping of a sabbath. You remember the reference in the original of Hebrews iv. 9, "There remaineth therefore a rest (literally the keeping of a sabbath) to the people of God." We witnessed for God before many of these idolators, and were heard on that as well as on subsequent occasions, with less opposition than has been usual at satan's head-quarters. Damudar had an opportunity of addressing the Rajah, who as Superintendent of the Temples, is high priest of Juggernat; but the plain and earnest remarks of the servant of Christ were not at all acceptable. The Rajah is subject to the Commissioner of Cuttack, and is correctly described by the late magistrate of Boree in an official document published by authority as "a feeble individual, who has little or no power, and who is not feared by any body." It is also said that his dreadful disease the leprosy, is increasing. On Monday morning at six o'clock, we were again in the principal street fighting with the wicked one; but a heavy fall of rain prevented our going out in the evening. On this day the idols were brought out, but the number of pilgrims was so. My confidence is in the Supreme Cuttack, August 16th, 1858. smaller than I have ever before seen. Happily we did not witness any of those heartrending scenes which are always exhibited when the dreaded cholera prevails; but on the following day a very melancholy accident occurred. Four men fell under the wheels of the car: two of them were killed at once, the other two were carried dreadfully bruised and bloody to the hospital where they soon after died. We were not in the street at the time the accident occurred, but the sight was said to be a most shocking one. The poor men lay in a pool of blood, and the cries for help of the two who were so frightfully bruised were agonizing, but no help was rendered till the European doctor reached the spot, which he quickly did. The Rajah was in a state of great anarchy and alarm, and implored the doctor to do all that he possibly could to save the lives of the two men, telling him that he (i. e. the doctor) was his father and mother, and that if he succeeded in saving their lives he should never forget the obligation. Not of course that he cared for the loss of a few lives: benevolent feeling is alien from the heart of a heathen, whether he be a rajah, or a ryot-haters of God, they are haters of each other; but he knew that he should be held responsible by the Government, and dreaded the infliction of a pecuniary fine. I hope that a fine will be inflicted; for there is no doubt, that there was culpable negligence in constructing the wheels of the car. On the Tuesday afternoon we went to the Atharanullah bridge, and distributed tracts and gospels to the returning pilgrims. Several addresses were also delivered. One of the first persons to whom I gave a tract, when I inquired how distant his village was said,-Oh I saw you and another Sahib with you a little while ago at Patamoondie, eighty miles from |