for the zeal they have manifested in promoting their own civilization and happiness, notwithstanding the opposition of the other party to their measures; exhorting them to prosecute those measures; and assuring them that as long as they pursue this wise course they will always receive the countenance and support of government. Another was a communication to the agent, including instructions, quite favourable to the increase of schools and improvements generally. The last was a letter addressed chiefly to the pagan party, containing a severe reprimand for the determined opposition and unwarranted hostilities which they have lately manifested towards teachers and missionaries, contrary to the wishes of the government and their own best interests. "We have viewed," say they, "the conduct of the party among the Six-nations, called 'The Pagan party,' with marked disapprobation. The institutions in the Six-nations having been established with the consent of a number of the principal chiefs, and with the approbation of government, a continuance of the violent measures, which they have lately manifested towards them, and in particular any attempts to remove them against the wish of so many of their own people and that of the government, will be considered as highly unjust to the former, and disrespectful and offensive to the latter." These communications, so favourable to our cause, greatly embarrassed the opposite party. Our hope is, that it may have this effect, if no other; to open a door of peaceful residence to our brother missionaries, on the Indian land. We do believe that the Lord will still grant, that the remnants of these scattered tribes may be blest with the means of salvation. Let the people praise thee, O Lord: Let all the people praise

thee.

Sabbath, September 22.-The congregation met for worship as usual. The exercises were attended with due punctuality, and with serious attention. The services of the afternoon were conducted at the Mission House, for the purpose of attending a funeral, when a number of strangers were present. We trust the Lord was with us by his Spirit, animating our hearts and giving efficacy to his truth. An unusual solemnity and depth of feeling seemed to pervade the whole assembly, which gave much interest to our meeting.

Interesting Interview.

Wednesday, September 25.-Six of the natives met this afternoon, according to previous appointment, for social prayer, and mutual conference on the state of

their souls. These seasons are often most refreshing. It was truly delightful, as well as calculated to excite our praise to Almighty God, to see one of our most respectable chiefs who had lately been brought near to death, while relating his feelings during the time, affected to weeping. But a short time ago, this man knew but little of the importance of prepara tion for death. The gross darkness of paganism had long covered his soul. He now appears to think of his former course only with disgust, and we humbly hope, with genuine repentance. The whole expressed a determination, that, by the grace of God, they would seek the Sa viour's face, till they might know and believe that he lived in them of a truth.

Another Disturbance in the School.

Tuesday, Sept. 24.—We were grieved to-day to see all the girls of our School running home without permission. One of the smaller girls had been quite troublesome lately; so much so as to receive reproof from one of the sisters. She did better for a while, but again trespassed. We told her father. He conversed with his child, but probably did not reprove her. She has since conducted worse. She endeavoured to induce others to run away; and they have all manifested a disposition more or less to go. To-day, however, a couple of women came and conversed with them, and they immediately went home. We expect that among other things they were told to come and assist their parents in gathering their corn harvest, without consulting us. Thus are we tried with this ignorant inconsiderate people. They are anxious, at times, to have their children educated, and complain at the shadow of neglect towards them; and on the most trifling occasion they will teach them to disobey us. The Lord convince us of the need of patience; and them, of the folly of such measures.

Deputation of the Chiefs.

Saturday, Sept. 28.-The Chiefs having been previously informed of the conduct of the children, sent a deputation today to converse with us on the subject. They had much fault to find with our me. thod of conducting the school and the establishment generally. The teacher was blamed for not being more confined to his particular department; for not treating the children in a more tender and persuasive manner; and for not using more caution and forbearance in his attempts to correct them: and all this evidently for the sake of palliating the conduct of the children. They did not think it best to correct the children with the rod, on any account. The best way was to use per

suasive measures, and coax them into obedience. They were then asked, what was to be done in case such a plan should not have the desired effect, as their children had long been accustomed to have their own way, and could not always be coaxed? Why, then, tell the parents, and let them tell the children their duty. Well, suppose this utterly fails, and the child grows worse? The only alternative then was, if both parties failed, to consider the child as a poor, worthless being, and so cast him out. They concluded by saying that the children should all come back in due time; and they finally thought more would come soon, especially of the women, to attend upon the work-school, which had been necessarily suspended during the summer, for want of proper assistance in teaching. Among these they supposed would be a number of young women of the opposite party, who, they were well assured, wished to come, and were only waiting an invitation on our part. They were told that this department would be put into operation as soon as a female teacher could be procured by the Board. We then parted, with mutual expressions of good will, and the usual tokens of friendship.

Visit from an Agent of the Board. Friday, Oct. 4.-We were this day visited by our dear Brother Kanouse, agent of the Board. We hope our hearts have been refreshed, and our drooping spirits raised, by this valued brother. May the Lord bless our friend in his attempts to recommend the cause of missions to the charities of the churches in this vicinity. May his heart be encouraged and his hands strengthened by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob!

Monday, Oct. 6.-To day being the monthly concert of prayer, a goodly number attended. After the exercises of the evening, Brother Kanouse held a talk with the chiefs of the Christian party, respecting the progress of the school department. Our Brother affectionately told them his disappointment in not seeing more of their children under the superintendence of the mission family; and held up to their view the disposition so generally prevalent among our red brothers at the South, to encourage the hearts of their missionaries by causing the children to show a prompt as well as obedient attendance upon their instruction. They attempted to palliate the matter, but appear

Means of rendering Wood, Linen, &c. &c. incombustible.-Mr. Benjamin Cook, of Baskerville House, Birmingham, in his experiments on the alkalies, has discovered that all linen, cottons, muslins, &c. &c. when dipped in a solution of the pure vegetable alkali at a gravity of from 124 to 130, taking water at the gravity of 100, become incombustible. That all timbers become incombustible when saturated with a solution of alkali at the gravity of 140 to 150. He has two methods of saturating timber, first by letting the timber in the plank lie in the solution for several weeks, until the alkali has perfectly filled up the pores of the wood-but the method he prefers, is the use of a powerful machine, by which he extracts or forces out the sap, and then forces the alkali through the whole tree, thus filling up all the pores and rendering the tree incombustible; this he proposes to do as soon as the tree is felled, and before the bark is taken off. When the bark is in its best state he peforms this operation in a few hours, which, while it renders the wood incombustible, completely prevents dry rot.

The solution of pure vegetable alkali which Mr. Cook prepares for securing from fire muslins, cottons, &c. &c. is as pure as the clearest spring water, per fectly free from smell, and will not discolour the finest cambrics or muslins. When so many dreadful accidents are continually happening from ladies' dresses taking fire, from bed and window curtains being set on fire either by accident or carelessness of servants, we cannot but consider this discovery as one of great importance to society.

For ship timbers, its value is inestimable, and not less so for all timber for houses and publick buildings.

Sierra Leone papers have been received at the office of the Boston Centinel, via St. Jago. The British cruisers had been very active and successful in suppressing the slave trade, but had not been seconded in their efforts by the French cruisers, who were restricted by their instructions. The British ship Driver, Captain Wooldridge, had captured off the river Bonny, a Spanish schooner of about 90 tons, with 250 slaves, and a Portuguese brig, of 250 tons and 270 slaves. The former had arrived at Sierra Leone.

The Christian population of the colony, exceeded 10,000, mostly blacks; who

were principally engaged in agricultural pursuits. The commerce of the colony appeared to be thriving, and the exports of gold dust, elephants' teeth, beeswax, hides, and timber, very considerable. Vaccination had been successfully introduced on the coast by the British commanders.

Income for the last year of some of the principal religious institutions in England: Bible Society, £103,853; Christian Knowledge, £50,802; Church Missionary, £52,975; London Missionary, £29,427; Wesleyan, £26,888; Baptist Foreign Missions, £11,600; Jews, ₤11,220; Religious Tract, £9,261; Moravian, £7,193; Hibernian, £5,372; Prayer Book and Homily, £2,057; Naval Bible, ₤2,040; Baptist Irish, £2,000; Sunday School Union, £1,762; African, £1,154; Baptist Home Mission, £930.

At Valparaiso, in Chili, a subscription is raising for the purpose of building a pantheon, or burying place for Protestants, and a considerable sum has already been collected. Schools on the Lancasterian system are now establishing at Mendoza, at the foot of the Andes mountains.

One of the most interesting establishments at Lubeck is an institution of a very novel description, which owed its origin to the following circumstance: Dr. Leithof, an eminent physician, having a child born a cripple, was induced to direct his researches towards remedying the defect,and, by dint of much study, assisted by unremitted patience and attention, succeeded completely in six years. This success induced him to commence an establishment for the reception of females and male infants similarly affected, which at present contains twenty patients. The dormitories, which are on the ground floor-to admit, I suppose, of immediate communication with the spacious court in the rear-are elegantly fitted up. Several of the patients had been carried into the court for the benefit of the fresh air, as the evening was very fine. I was unable to ascertain exactly the mode of treatment, but was informed that pressure applied to the diseased part is of prime importance. The beds are of a curious and commodious construction: at the head of each there is a system of pulleys on which

a catgut string is wound,-which is passed through two holes in the wood, and communicates with the body of the patient. This string admits of different degrees of tension, like those of a musical instrument, and regulates the pressure of the bandages with which the part affected is swathed. The hands of the cripples were free, and they were employed-some with toys, others with books or work. They receive instruction two hours every evening from a master, who goes the rounds of the several dormitories. None of them ever leave their beds or change their posture, but lie continually on the back until the cure be nearly completed. There is a bath for the use of those convalescents, for whom bathing is considered beneficial.

German Universities.-Great sensation has been excited in Germany by a work bearing the following title:

"On the disgraceful Proceedings in German Universities, Gymnasiums, and Lyceums; or History of the Academical Conspiracy against Royalty, Christianity, and Property. By K. M. E. Fabricius, Librarian at Bruchsal."

This work, of about 200 pages, is dedi cated to all the Founders and German Members of the Holy Alliance, their Ministers and Ambassadors to the Diet; and tells them things that make the hair stand on end. Men such as Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Campe, Löffler Paulus, Krug, and a long et cetera of names, to the number of 60,000 writers, are here denounced as corrupters and seducers of youth, blasphemers, liars, incendiaries; who have formed, directly and indirectly, an association by which all thrones are threatened, and from which all the revolutions we have witnessed proceeded.

A work has just appeared at Paris, which produced an extraordinary interest in the literary world. It is a philosophical history of the Roman Emperors, from Cæsar to Constantine, by M. Thoulotte, formerly sub-prefect. The judicious observations, accurate delineations, and dignified style of the author are said to be universally applauded. The work is de dicated to MM. Constant, and D'Argenson, and is expected to appear in English and German.

Soon will be published, the Political and Private Life of the Marquis of Londonderry; including most important and authentic particulars of his last moments and death; with numerous anecdotes and reflections. One volume 8vo.

The celebrated Lexicon of Photius, of which an edition was published at Leipsic, from a faulty manuscript, in 1808, is now for the first time printed under the auspices of the Society of Trinity College, Cambridge, from the celebrated Codex Galeanus, made with his own hand, by the late Professor Porson. Mr. Dobree, the editor, has collated the MS. and noted all the varieties and corrections; and by way of appendix, has subjoined a fiagment of a Rhetoric Lexicon from a MS. in the University Library.

W. Rae Wilson, Esq. of Lanarkshire, has in the press an Account of his Travels in the Holy Land and Egypt. It will form a handsome octavo volume, and will be illustrated with many interesting views. The great object of this traveller was to compare the customs and manners of the countries he visited with the accounts in Scripture.

In the London press-"Travels in the Northern States of America, particularly those of New England and New York." By Timothy Dwight, LL.D. late President of Yale College; author of " A System of Theology," &c. Reprinted from the American edition, with illustrative Maps.

Mr. Barbier, one of the most distinguished bibliographers of France, is about to publish a work entitled the "Dictionary of Anonymous Authors." It is the fruit of forty years of research, the object of which was to discover the names of the writers who, since the invention of the art of printing, have published works of any importance anonymously.

We have to announce the death of the pious, learned, and venerable John Heckewelder, of Bethlehem. He died on Friday last, the 31st of January, at six o'clock in the morning, at the advanced age of seventy-nine years. Had he lived until next month, he would have attained the age of eighty.

The Rev. John Heckewelder, having spent the greater part of his life among the Indian nations, was little known in this country, until our lamented Dr. Wistar, who was an excellent judge of merit, persuaded him to communicate to the world the immense fund of information that he

possessed respecting the history, manners, and customs of the aborigines of our land. Wistar did not live to see that work pub. lished, which has placed Heckewelder among the most interesting writers that this country has produced, but by means of its publication, its author became more generally known, and endeared himself to all who had the happiness of his acquaintauce, not only by the knowledge that he

possessed, and which he freely communicated to all who were desirous of it, but by all those excellent qualities of the heart which command love, esteem, veneration, and respect. His religion was solid, his piety sincere, his modesty unassumed, and his benevolence unbounded. His loss will be felt and regretted by the country at large, whose literary fame he largely con

tributed to extend; but to those who were admitted to the intimacy of his friendship, and to that religious society of which he was the ornament, that loss is a misfortune which no words can sufficiently express.

We understand that Mr. Heckewelder has left some posthumous works, which will be published in due time.

By a vessel, which left Liverpool on the first of January, we have received intelligence of an interesting character, and in a more official form than that alluded to in our January number.

The French ministry have not been united in their opinions in regard to Spain. The Duke de Montmorency and the majority of the Council recommended a message to be sent to the Spanish government of an imperative, warlike natureand this was understood to be in accordance with the wishes of Austria, Prussia, and Russia. M. de Villele proposed, as a substitute, a note of a less decided, or less offensive character; which having been approved by the king, the Duke de Montmorency resigned his office. His note is not published. That of M. de Villele is printed at length.-It is addressed to the French minister at Madrid, and directs him to inform the Spanish Court of the views of France. It states that in consequence of the successful employment of force in producing alterations in the form of government in Spain, "each dissatisfied Spaniard thinks himself authorized to seek by the same means, the establishment of an order of things more in harmony with his opinions and principles," and hence that Spain is become the seat of civil war --and is dangerous to her neighbours. The minister is directed to declare to Spain that France is closely united with the other governments in the firm resolution to repel by every mcans, revolutionary principles and movements-but that she is desirous that the Spanish nation should itself find a remedy for these evils. If such a remedy be not found, more efficacious measures will be used by France. If it be found, the assistance of France is promised to Spain-for what purpose is not mentioned; some of the English politicians say it is to reconquer a part of Spanish America-and perhaps to place a Bourbon in the seat of the Emperor Iturbide.

The English papers presume that the threats of this note will certainly be acted upon-as there is no probability of a sur

render by the Spanish patriots of their constitution--the only means of preventing war offered by the French government. It is stated in the note of M. de Villele, that notes similar to his would be simultaneously presented to the Spanish court, by Russia, Austria, and Prussia.

We have but little news from Greece. That little however is gratifying. The same intrepid captain-his name is Canaris-that destroyed the Turkish Pacha on the coast of Scio has, it appears, succeeded in burning another admiral's ship in the bay of Tenedos; and twelve Turkish brigs and four frigates beside. This information seems to be more authentick than much that we receive from that quarter.

We submit, with great reluctance, to the difficulty of acquiring correct information in relation to the southern part of our own hemisphere. It is an evil necessarily attendant upon the unsettled state of society. Ministers have been appointed to Mexico, Buenos Ayres, Colombia, and Chili, by our government. We have nei ther leisure nor space for the expression of many anticipations-but it is interesting to imagine the vast change that will, in a few years, probably take place, in the relative importance to our merchants and politicians, of the old and new worlds.

We know of nothing in the proceedings of Congress of more than ordinary interest-nor have we found any thing remark. able in the proceedings of the State Legislatures. We live in a most eventful period of time. But at all times it is the high privilege of the Christian believer to say, "The Lord reigneth, let the earth rejoice."

TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS.

An obituary notice of the Rev. Jonathan Freeman, late of Bridgeton, New Jersey; and a Memoir of Mrs. Mary Stille, of Philadelphia, lately deceased, will appear in our next number.-PHILALETHES, A. B. & R. are received.