"These schools, now in the second year of their institution, are more prosperous than ever. They were re-opened in the early part of October: vocal music is introduced, and, even after paying a singing master, the whole system is entirely self-supporting.

"An important and most satisfactory feature in the plan is, the thorough approval it meets with from all classes. At Parish A, the school is most efficiently conducted by a private gentleman, to whom the author will ever feel most gratefully indebted; and his own occasional presence is not a matter of necessity, but a source of pleasure and satisfaction.

"At Parish B, in which the author is resident, another friend to the cause has come forward as a regular instructor, and the author's labours have been much lightened by the assistance of volunteers. Of thesethe employers of the pupils-more would be happy to aid were their assistance really needed."—pp. 15, 16.

W ehave to notice the "Family Almanac" for 1851 (J. H. Parker), as containing a great deal of information about Foundation and Grammar Schools; "The Calendar of St. Augustine's College" (Rivingtons), an interesting volume; a "Sermon," by Rev. T. Woodward, at the Consecration of the Bishop of Meath, very able and sound; a "List of all the Sees of the Eastern Church," by Rev. J. M. Neale; "Scripture Politics," a Sermon by Rev. C. Girdlestone (Rivingtons), advocating Christian principle as the only true guide in politics; "The Naturalist," a cheap Monthly Magazine, on subjects referring to natural history, edited by Dr. Morris (Groombridge), and apparently very well executed; "Parochial Papers on Missions" (J. H. Parker), containing suggestions for establishing parochial associations for missionary purposes; "The Church patient in her mode of dealing with Controversies," a Sermon, by Rev. A. W. Haddan (J. H. Parker); "The Pew Question " (Masters), relating the successful issue of an attempt to make a church free; "God is Love," a Sermon, by Rev. H. M. Wagner, relating to the refusal to make a Churchrate at Brighton; "Substance of Speeches at Bridgend and Newport" (J. W. Parker), containing most interesting accounts of the state of religion in South Wales, and the exertions now being made to meet the destitution so prevalent there; "Two Sermons," by Rev. Osmond Fisher (Rivingtons), very sound and excellent discourses in reference to the Papal Aggression, and pointing out the necessity for the revival of synodal action.

Foreign and Colonial Intelligence.

AFRICA.-Diocese of Cape Town.-Visit of the Bishop to a Kaffir Chief. The Bishop of Cape Town paid a visit, in August last, to a Kaffir chief, named Umhala, of the T'Zalambie tribe, at his kraal, on the Groubic, near Fort Waterloo. Having encamped at a short distance from the kraal, the Bishop, accompanied by the Rev. F. Fleming, who carried a blanket, and some beads and knives, as presents, and by Mr. G. Shepstone, the interpreter to the T'Zalambie Commissioner, proceeded on foot to the Kaffir camp. He was received by Umhala in his hut, in the presence of his counsellors, sons, and wives, amounting in all to forty or fifty souls. The hut was large and spacious, built on a circle of poles, about seven or eight feet high. In the centre was a wood-fire, the smoke from which, with the fumes of tobacco, filled the atmosphere. The Bishop sat near the door of the hut on the ground, on a skin, with Mr. Shepstone and Mr. Fleming on either side of him. Umhala sat opposite, in the middle. The Bishop opened the interview by asking Umhala, through the interpreter, if he knew him, and where he had seen him. He replied, "Yes, I know you, you are the inkosi enkulu' (great chief) of the Christians, and I saw you with Smith at the great meeting at King William's Town." The Bishop then informed him that he was come to see him, and converse with him about sending him a missionary, or teacher, to instruct him and his people in the ways of God. Umhala expressed at some length, and with warmth, his obligations for the visit, and thanked the Bishop for his offer of a teacher, saying, he would treat him very kindly when he came, and listen to him. The Bishop then informed him, that he brought him a present of a blanket, at which he seemed much pleased, received it from Mr. Fleming, and then rose, and shaking hands with the Bishop, thanked him very warmly. The Bishop next asked Umhala, if the Archdeacon had not lately paid him a visit? He replied, "Yes, and he liked him very much," adding, " if you send me teachers for my people he must be one of them." The Bishop explained that he could not spare the Archdeacon, as he was a chief among the Christians. "Of that I am aware," replied Umhala, "but I am a chief among my people the T'Zalambies, and a chief ought to be taught by a chief. You, the great chief, I know cannot come to me, as you have to travel far, I hear, but he must come." The Bishop again tried to explain that he could not spare the Archdeacon for missionary work; but the old chief, though assenting to all the Bishop said, invariably returned to his point, "that he must have the Archdeacon as his teacher." The Bishop asked

him, “why he was so anxious for him in particular?" To which he replied, "that he liked him-he was a fine fellow- —a chief—and ought to teach a chief." The Bishop told him " that a young man, the son of one of our greatest chiefs over the seas, had offered to come and be his teacher." Umhala replied, "he was very much obliged to him; he might come, and he would be glad to have him, but the Archdeacon must come too."

The Bishop then in a few words explained to them what their missionaries, when they arrived, would teach them. They all listened, some most attentively. Having ended his discourse, the Bishop proceeded to distribute, through Mr. Fleming, presents to the chief's children and counsellors, &c., consisting of beads and knives; after which he partook of some curded milk offered him by way of refreshment. The Bishop took particular notice of the children, as one by one they were presented to receive their string of beads-Umhala all the while enumerating his family, consisting in all of eight wives and twenty-six children. After a lengthened interview, the Bishop took his leave, and returned to his own encampment. The next morning at breakfast-time the chief appeared, attended by his eight wives, and reminded the Bishop that he had forgotten to give presents to them the night before. His Lordship promised each of them a handkerchief, which seemed to please them much, and after giving them some breakfast, took leave of the old chief, who, at parting, presented the Bishop with his assagai, as a token that there was peace between them.

Liberia.-The American Mission.-The Mission of the American Church to Liberia is in a most promising condition. The Rev. John Payne, D.D., the long-tried and faithful Missionary at Cape Palmas, who, at the last meeting of the triennial Convention, at Cincinnati, was elected Bishop for the Mission in West Africa, is about to return from Liberia to the United States, for the purpose of being consecrated. The Rev. C. C. Hoffman sailed from Baltimore for Cape Palmas, on the 21st of Dec. At this station multitudes of the natives, with their children, regularly attend divine service, and the various schools established by the Missionaries. A long line of coast, however, about 700 miles, between them and Sierra Leone, yet remains unoccupied by Episcopal Missions. There is a large tribe of natives anxious for instruction, at Bassa Cove, about midway between Cape Palmas and Sierra Leone; and a plan has long been in contemplation for erecting there a Missionary church, schools, and, eventually, a theological seminary, for the colonists and native tribes. The territory of Liberia, within which no slavery is tolerated, now extends for 500 miles along the coast, from the Sherbro to the San Pedro. The form of government resembles that of the United States. The immigrant population amounts to about 7000: the natives to about 250,000 souls. The former are mostly liberated slaves, dependent on Christian nations for the means of erecting churches, chapels, and schools. Bishop Smith, of Kentucky, has established a theological seminary for training up blacks as Missionaries. In the island of Barbados, also, considerable interest is taken in the cause of VOL. XV.-NO. XXIX.-MARCH, 1851.

African Missions, and a general meeting of the Barbados Church Society was specially convened at Bridgetown, in November, with the view of originating a Church Mission from the West Indies to Western Africa.

AUSTRALIA.-Meeting of the Bishops at Sydney.-A conference of Australasian Bishops met on the 1st of Oct. last, at the Cathedral, at Sydney. Six Bishops, the Metropolitan of Sydney, the Bishops of Newcastle, Melbourne, Adelaide, Tasmania, and New Zealand, and sixteen clergymen, with others, received the Holy Communion together on the occasion. Touching the subjects discussed in the conference nothing has transpired. There was a public meeting held on the 29th of Oct., for the purpose of supporting the Bishop of New Zealand's mission to several islands within his diocese. An immediate subscription was proposed for providing the Bishop with a suitable vessel for visiting those islands, as his present vessel of twenty tons is considered unsafe. The Episcopal Conference, which broke up on the 31st of Oct., caused a great sensation at Sydney, and there is reason to hope that it will produce a beneficial and lasting effect both upon the population of Sydney, and upon the whole of our Colonial possessions in that part of the world.

Diocese of Newcastle.-Statistics.-The following account is given, by the Bishop of Newcastle, of the subdivision of his diocese into districts, under date of Aug. 3, 1850, and of the state of the Church at the different stations:- "1. Newcastle. Now laying out 500l. on the church, and building an excellent school. Forming plans also for a superior church grammar-school.-2. Hexham. New school, and master's house.-3. Raymond Terrace. New school. Enlarging church.4. Hexton, or Hunter. Nice pretty church just finished.-5. Donjoy. Admirable school. Very nice church building; and parsonage agreed for.-6. Morpeth. Church beautifying. Master's house building. Admirable model-school built in stone.-7. East Maitland. The church to be new roofed and pewed.-8. West Maitland. The church enlarged and new pewed, or rather seated. Two excellent schools building.9. Singleton. Admirable stone church just finishing; to be consecrated in about two months. Good school building.-10. Jerry's Plains. A beautiful stone church just finished in this district; to be consecrated in about three months. Two others building, one of stone and one of brick.-11. Wollambi. Stone church, finished and consecrated. Parsonage building.-12. Muswell Brook. Very handsome chancel added to the church. New church at Merton, just finished. Small new church, wooden, at Meriwa. New school at Cassilis; to be used temporarily as a church.-13. Scone. Tower building to church; school building at Wurrurmdi (also temporarily as a church).-14. Tamworth. Parsonage just built. School building. Plans making for a church.-15. Armidale. Very pretty church just finished and consecrated. Parsonage and schoolmaster's house building.-16. Clarence River. Parsonage building.-17. Darling Downs.

Parsonage building. School building. To be used temporarily as a church.-18. Ipswich. Parsonage building; admirable school building. -19. Brisbane, Moreton Bay. A beautiful parsonage building; and church.-20. Strand. Parsonage, church, school.-21. Port Macquarie. Parsonage, church, school; parsonage now building.-22. Paterson. Parsonage and church.-23. Brisbane Water. Parsonage and temporary church.—These, at present, are my districts, or parishes, as they would be called in England; or rather counties (for some are 12 miles in length, by 80 or 100 in breadth). Two of these I have formed afresh, pushing out after the enterprising squatters, and being the first to supply their spiritual wants."

Melbourne Diocese.-Mission to the Bush.-The Rev. S. L. Chase, accompanied by Mr. Palmer, as a lay-assistant, left Melbourne, at the end of May, upon a missionary journey into the interior. He proceeded along the Sydney road to Wangaratta, turning off and stopping at various places on his route. From the last-named place he writes :"All along the route we have experienced great kindness; and, whilst Mr. Palmer has been much occupied in selling books, I have found great opportunities of preaching the Word. I have slept at fourteen different places, and been absent from home seventeen days. Every thing has prospered with us, and I am greatly pleased with the manner in which my Christian companion has fulfilled his duty. By writing to all the settlers, whom I purpose visiting on my return (and each day is already arranged for), my hope is to meet as large congregations as can be collected, and that the good Lord may vouchsafe His gracious blessing is my earnest prayer." Immediately upon Mr. Chase's return, the Rev. J. H. Gregory purposes to set off upon a journey along the western port road, as far as Cape Shark.

Adelaide.-Institution for the Natives.-Archdeacon Hale, of Adelaide, is exerting himself to form an Institution, in which natives who have been brought up at the Adelaide school, and others, who may seem fit subjects for admission, may be gathered together in a separate community, apart from the vicious portion of the white population as well as the wild portion of the blacks, and kept under regular Christian instruction, and the enjoyment of the means of grace, with a view to their becoming gradually accustomed to habits of industry, and to a more settled mode of life. Port Lincoln has been selected as the locality for the intended institution. The Archdeacon has published an appeal, in which he states that the whole of the means at present employed for the instruction of the aborigines, in the neighbourhood of Adelaide, consist of schools for the children of either sex, who, however, on leaving the school, go forth again upon the world under circumstances the most unfavourable to their civil or religious culture. Their habits prevent the employment of any agency to keep them in mind of that Supreme Being whose name they have been taught to call upon. They are without pastoral superintendence of any kind, without the means of grace, without refuge or protection from the contaminations of vice which