the communication. The cut, we understand, will be from twelve to four teen English miles in length, and will be navigable for ships of large burthen. It is gratifying to perceive that a work of this kind, from which the commerce of the world must derive such important advantages, is likely to yield an ample recompence to the exertions of its spirited promoters. The government of Guatamala, aware of the great value of such a communication in a political, as well as a commercial point of view, have met the proposals of the Company in the most liberal manner, and granted them very extensive privileges. Amongst other advantages, we understand, they have obtained for a

term of forty years, the exclusive right of carrying on a steam navigation in the river San Juan, and on the lake Nicaragua. Besides the immense profits of the trade on this line, the Company are to have two-thirds of all tolls, paid. by vessels passing from one ocean to the other by the New Canal. Government retains for itself the remaining third, out of which it undertakes to form a fund for repaying the capital laid out in this work.

An eminent engineer is about to proceed forthwith to Guatamala for the purpose of making the necessary surveys; and other measures are in active preparation for carrying the plan into immediate effect.

RELIGIOUS.

The Discriminating Preacher: a Sermon, preached in the North Church, in the city of Hartford, Dec. 1, 1824, at the Ordination and Installation of the Rev. Carlos Wilcox, as Pastor of said Church. By Gardiner Spring, Pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church in the city of New-York. Hartford.

A Sermon on the Death of the Rev. Abel Flint, D. D. who died at Hartford, March 7th, 1825, in the sixtieth year of his age; preached at his Funeral. By Thomas Robbins, Minister of the Gospel in East-Windsor. Hartford.

The Song of Ascent: a Sermon, preached on the third of April, 1925; being the fourteenth Anniversary of the Dedication of the second Presbyterian Church in Charleston, S. C. By T. Charlton Henry, D. D. Pastor of said Church. Published by request of the Corporation.

The Duties of an American Citizen. Two Discourses, delivered in the first Baptist Meeting-house in Boston, on Thursday, April 7, 1825, the Day of Public Fast. By Francis Wayland, jun. Pastor of the First Baptist Church in Boston. Published by request of the Society, pp 52, 8vo. Boston.

The Social and Civil Influence of the Christian Ministry. A Sermon preached at the 6th Anniversary of the AuxVOL. VII. No. 6.

iliary Education Society of the Young Men of Boston, Feb. 6, 1825. By Leonard Bacon, pp. 30.

The Church Perfect and Entire; a Sermon, by Rev. Francis H. Cuming, Rector of St. Luke's Church, Rochester, N. Y.

Christian Communion; a Sermon by Justin Edwards, Pastor of the South Church, Andover. Third Edition, enlarged. M. Newman.

Elements of Interpretation, translated from the Latin of J. A. Ernesti, and accompanied by Notes, with an Appendix, containing Extracts from Morus, Beck, and Keil. By Moses Stuart, Associate Professor of Sacred Literature in the Theological Seminary at Andover. Second Edition.

The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; in which the Text of the Common Version is divided into Paragraphs; the Punctuation in many cases altered, and some words, not in the original, expunged. 12mo. pp. 297. Boston.

Extracts from the Minutes of the Synod and Ministerium of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the State of New-York and adjacent parts; convened at Brunswick, New-York, October 1824. 8vo. pp. 40. New-York.

Dialogues on Atonement. Price 25 cents. Philadelphia.

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The Doctrine of Atonement explain

AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY.-The minth anniversary of this Society was celebrated in New-York on the 12th of May. From an account of the proceedings on that occasion published in the N. Y. Daily Advertiser, we make the following abstract.

On the preceding day, the Managers held an adjourned meeting of the Board for the purpose of receiving Delegates from Auxiliary Societies, and hearing from them the situation and circumstances of the institutions which they severally represented. A large number of delegates, from various parts of the Union were present, and the Meeting was rendered peculiarly interesting by the statements which were made of the feelings and exertions of many of the Societies, and the deep and increasing interest in the great cause which they, Fre in connexion with the Parent Society, are endeavouring to promote.

On Thursday, the Managers, Officers, and Directors of the Society, with the representatives of Auxiliary Societies, and those who were expected to take part in the exercises of the day, met at 9 o'clock in the morning at the Society's House in Nassau-street, where Col. Richard Varick, one of the Vice-Presidents of the Society took the chair, and the meeting was opened by reading the 42d chapter of Isaiah.

At a quarter before 10, the Managers &c. moved in procession to the City Hotel in Broadway, where his Excellency De Witt Clinton, Governor of the State, and one of the Vice-Presidents of the Society, took the chair, assisted by Col. Varick, the Hon. Smith Thompson, of the Supreme Court of the U. S. John Bolton, Esq. and Col. R. Troup; and the meeting was opened precisely at 10 o'clock. The 103d Psalm was read by the Rev. Dr. Porter, of Catskill; when the acting Vice-President addressed the meeting in a short, but interesting speech, in which he paid an eloquent tribute to the memory and character of the late Gen. Clarkson, in all the public and private relations of life which he had sustained, and particularly as the presiding officer of the Board of Managers and the acting VicePresident of the Society. The effect of

the address upon the audience was solemn and impressive, and corresponded with the general feeling at the loss of that most amiable and estimable man.

After the reading of letters apologizing for necessary absence from the meeting, from John Quincy Adams, President of the United States, and other Vice-Presidents of the Society;

William W. Woolsey, Esq. Treasurer of the Society, read his annual report of the state of the Society's property and funds, and of the receipts and expenditures for the past year. By this report it appears, that the income of the Society for the present year exceeds that of the preceding $4,589-Included in this is a munificent legacy of $2000, left the Society by Matthew Van Benschoten, Esq. of Fishkill, N. Y. which has been paid into the treasury.

The report of the Managers for the 9th year was then read by the Rev. Dr. M'Auley, one of the Secretaries of the Society for Domestic Correspondence, by whom it was prepared.-We regret that we have not room for a more particular account of the contents of this able and interesting document. A few things only can be mentioned, and those in a slight and superficial manner. The report states, that uninterrupted harmony has attended the labours and proceedings of the Managers-that its affairs are prosperous, but notwithstanding the excess of receipts into the treasury, the income is still greatly inadequate to the wants of the country. There have been printed at the Depository during the year, 48,550 Bibles and Testaments, including 2000 Spanish Bibles;-making a total in the nine years of the Society's existence, of 451,902 Bibles and Testaments, and parts of the latter, printed, or otherwise obtained by the Society. Stereotype plates for a Pocket Bible are casting, and are expected to be completed by the ensuing autumn. There have been issued from the Depository in the course of the year, 63,851 Bibles and Testaments, and the Gospels in the Mohawk language; making a total since the establishment of the Society of 372,913 Bibles and Testaments, and parts of the

latter, exclusive of the number issued by the Kentucky Bible Society. The Managers have been recently engaged in contributing to the supply of penitentiaries and prisons with the Scriptures; and the troops stationed at remote posts of the United States; the army and navy both being now furnished with Bibles from the same source. The Managers have granted $500 to assist in the translation and publication of the Scriptures in some of the languages of the native tribes of Peru; one of which tribes contains a million of people. Gratuitous donations of the Scriptures for distribution, principally in the new States and Territories of the Union, have been made during the year, to the value of $10,447-Still, the wants in many places are great and pressing, and the requests for supplies are constant and importunate. The number of new Auxiliaries, recognised during the year, has been 45-making in the whole 452. Many of the Auxiliaries have been actively and zealously engaged during the year, in promoting the objects of the Parent Institution, and in supplying the destitute in their several districts with the Holy Scriptures. Among them, the Society in the county of Monroe, in the State of NewYork, deserves particular notice. By an unexampled effort of zeal and activity in the members of that Society, measures have been adopted, and in a great degree carried into effect, by which every family in the county will, in a short time, be supplied with at least one copy of the Bible.

After reading the report, the following resolutions were unanimously passed:

On motion of the Rev. Dr. Gunn, of the Dutch Church in this city, seconded by George Griffin, Esq.

1. Resolved, That the Report of the managers, parts of which have been now read, be approved and adopted, and that it be printed under their direction.

On motion of Hon. Samuel M. Hopkins, of Albany, seconded by the Rev. B. Mortimer, of the Moravian Church in this city,

2. Resolved, That the thanks of the Society be given to the managers, for their services during the past year.

On motion of President Carnahan, of Princeton College, seconded by Isaac C. Bates, Esq. of Northampton, Mass.

3. Resolved, That the thanks of the

Society be given to the Presidents and Vice-Presidents for the continuance of their patronage and support.

On motion of the Rev. Mr. M'Ilvaine, Episcopal Chaplain to the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, seconded by Geo. Suckley Esq.

4. Resolved, That this Society return their thanks to the Secretaries and Treasurer, for their many and faithful services, gratuitously rendered.

This resolution was replied to on the part of the Secretaries and Treasurer, by the Rev. W. Somers, one of the Secretaries.

On motion of Col. R. Varick, seconded by the Hon. James Kent, late Chancellor of the state of New-York,

5. Resolved, That while this Society with humble submission to the will of God Almighty, regret the death of their Vice-President, General Matthew Clarkson, they will cherish the most affectionate remembrance of his ardent piety, his essential services, and his firm attachment to the great cause of the Bible Society.

On motion of the Rev. Mr. Davis, of Augusta, Georgia, seconded by John Griscom, L.L. D. of the Society of Friends,

6. Resolved, That the thanks of the Society be given to the Auxiliaries, for their zeal. activity, efficiency, and cooperation.

On motion of Theodore Dwight, Esq. seconded by Isaac Carow, Esq.

7. Resolved, That this Society rejoice in the success of kindred institutions throughout the world, in which so many multitudes are engaged to promote translations of the Holy Scriptures, and their wider circulation; and that they will prosecute their labours, relying on the Divine Blessing, with a constant regard to the Glory of God, and the highest interests of their fellow-men.

We have neither room nor time for many remarks on this interesting subject. The day was fine, and the assembly the most numerous that has ever before convened on this anniversary, and of the most respectable character. Of the various addresses, it will not be proper for us to make par ticular remarks, as the Society requested copies of them for publication. We therefore will only say, that on no former similar occasion do we think the cause of Bible Societies has been more

feelingly or powerfully pleaded, nor finer specimens of exalted eloquence displayed. Among other topics, the death of the late acting Vice-President, was repeatedly and feelingly noticed. Upon moving the 7th resolution, the Rev. Dr. Milnor introduced to the Society, the Rev. Eustace Carey, a member of the Baptist Missionary family, at Serampore, in the East Indies, who made a most impressive and feeling address to the meeting; and at its close, the Rev. Dr. Woodhull introduced the Rev. Mr. Ellis, a missionary from a Society in London to the South Sea Islands, from whom the Society received with much satisfaction a highly interesting statement of facts that had fallen under his own observation, during his residence at those islands.

The present anniversary furnished the most satisfactory evidence, that the Society is increasing in strength, extending its operations, enlarging its usefulness, and becoming more and more the object of attention, of respect, and of confidence with the public in all parts of the Union, and that it is considered to be in reality, what it professes to be, a truly national institution. As such, we have no doubt, it will continue to be cherished by the friends of Christianity with warmer feelings, and more liberal patronage. That it merits such patronage we most sincerely and firmly believe. If any good man doubts it, let him take the pains to examine into the wants of our destitute fellowcountrymen in the new states and territories, let him listen to their importunate claims for the scriptures, and his hesitation will vanish, and a conviction of the importance of the labours of the Society for the best and highest interests of mankind, will force itself irresistibly upon his mind and his conscience.

AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY.-A meeting of Delegates from Tract Societies in different parts of the United States was held in New-York, on Tuesday, the 10th of May. Letters from the American Tract Society, and the Evangelical Tract Society, at Boston, stated, that as those Societies did not meet till after the convention of delegates, no delegates were sent. On Wednesday the convention met according to adjournment, and proceeded to the City Hotel when, after prayer by the Rev.

Archibald Maclay, of the Baptist Church and an address by S. V. S. Wil der, Esq. President of the Society, the following constitution was unanimously adopted.

Article 1.-This Society shall be denominated the American tract Society; the object of which shall be to diffuse a knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ as the Redeemer of sinners, and to promote the interests of vital godliness and sound morality, by the circulation of Religious Tracts, calculated to receive the approbation of all Evangelical Christians.

Article 2.-Each subscriber of two dollars annually, shall be a Member; and each subscriber of twenty dollars at one time, shall be a Member for Life. Each subscriber of five dollars, anuually shall be a Director; and each subscriber of fifty dollars at one time, or who shall, by one additional payment, increase his original subscription to fifty dollars, shall be a Director for Life.

Article 3.-Members of the Society shall be entitled to Tracts annually, to the value of one dollar, and Directors to the value of two dollars; or, if preferred, they may receive Tracts at any one time, to the value of half the sum given.

Article 4.-The Society shall meet annually on Wednesday immediately preceding the second Thursday in May, when the proceedings of the foregoing year shall be reported, and a Board, consisting of a President, Vice-Presidents, a Corresponding Secretary, a Recording Secretary, a Treasurer, and thirty-six Directors, shall be chosen.

Article 5.-The Board of Directors shall annually elect, by ballot, a Publishing, a Distributing, and a Finance Committee, each consisting of not less than three nor more than six members; the members of which three Committees shall constitute an Executive Committee to conduct the business of the Society, and shall be, ex officio, members of the Board. The Board shall have power to enact the Societies' ByLaws, and to appoint Honorary VicePresidents, Directors, or Members. Twelve shall constitute a quorum.

Article 6.-To promote in the highest degree the objects of this Society, its Officers and Directors shall be elected from different denominations of Christians; the Publishing Committee shall contain no two members from the