for

amount received for Bibles and Testaments £70,267 108. 11d; making the total receipts from the ordinary sources of income £149,308 78. 1d., being £11,551, 12s. 2d. more than in any former year oth added the sum of £1,379 Chinese Fund, 28. 10d., ecial Fund for India making a grand total of £ £152,574 35. 6d. The issues of the Society for the year are as follows: 3300 & 41595 G C inzist From the depot at home 976,563 1,602,187-1 From depots abroad. 625,624 copies; being an increase of 84,329 copies over those of any preceding year. The total issues of the Society now amount to 33,983,946 copies. The ordinary payments have amounted to.. £146,563 58. 1d., and the payments on account of the Jubilee and Chinese New Testament Funds to £6,613 19s. 7d., making the total expenditure of the year to amount to £153,177 4s. 8d., being £4,136 105, 1144 more than in any former year. Society is under engagements to the extent of £83,818 17s. 4d.dow 21f nut

NAVAL AND MILITARY BIBLE...
SOCIETY. e 15IT UP.

THE eighteenth annual general meeting of the members and friends of this society was held at Willis's-rooms,King Street, St. James's, the Marquis of Cholmondeley in the chair, The report, which was read by the Secretary, stated that during the past year the society had circulated 19,973 copies of the Scriptures (Testaments included) amongst sailors, soldiers, and canal boatmen. The above number was composed of 12,676

Testaments. The numb Bibles and 7,297

Bibles and Testaments exclusively supplied to troops going to India since January 26th last year had been 12,489; of which 9,522 were Bibles and 2,967 Testaments. The special fund for sending these Bibles to the East was £248, and the society expended £290 more than it actually received for that object. The Rev. C. P. M'Carthy had been appointed secretary in the room of the Rev. J. W. Lester. The Rev. G. R. Gleig, Chaplain-General to the Forces, and the Rev. Professor Browne, Chaplain to the Forces, spoke in high terms of praise of the operations of the Society in the army, and the meeting was also addressed by the Hon. Major H. L. Powys, the Hon. Captain F. Maude, R.N., Captain E. G. Fishbourne, Col. H. Aylmer, R. A., the Rev. F. S. C. Chalmers, B. D., and other gentlemen, in support of resolutions affirming the claims of the Society to public support.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN SCHOOL

SOCIETY41 to 81196*9m! THE 53rd annual general meeting of the friends of this Society was held at their house, in the Borough Road, Southwark, Lord John Russell, M.P., presided.

115 are

under training, Queen's scholars at the Chas examination for certificates of merit, 113 of the students presented themselves, of whom 95 were successful; 55 obtained prizes for drawing, and 5 certificates of full competency. In the Model Schools the average daily attendance of boys is 603, of girls 350, The total number admitted since the schools were opened is 62,112. Seven gentlemen are engaged in the inspection of schools, the holding of meetings, and other methods of awakening and guiding public interest. During the year 119 grants of money and school materials have been made to schools at home and in the colonies. Ten Ragged Schools have been thus assisted.

LONDON CITY MISSION. THE twenty-third annual meeting was held at Exeter Hall.

The SECRETARY read the report, which stated

The Society had 350 missionaries employed, who went among various classes in London requiring assistance, for instance, Asiatics, Italians, Germans, Jews, soldiers, marines, policemen, gipsies, fallen women, Greenwich and Chelsea pensioners, as well as to public houses and coffee shops, night houses, workhouses, and hospitals. The number of families 'visited during the year had been 193,971, of which 15,188 were Romanists, 1,053 Jewish, and 2,003 professedly infidel. The number of persons visited had been 1,618,277, of which 162,821 had been to the sick and dying. The following statistics were also given :Hours spent in domiciliary visitation alone, 476,109; Scriptures given away, 4,879; religious tracts given away, 2,352,544; books lent, 63,817; in-door meetings and Bibleclasses held, 30,836; open-air services conducted, 4,156; readings of Scriptures in visitation, 511,492; adults induced regularly to attend public worship, 3,097; children sent to ragged, higher day, and Sunday schools, 12,067; communicants received by the ministers, 792 family prayer commenced, 447; drunkards reclaimed, 741; unmarried couples induced to marry, 258; fallen females, known as such in the districts, 5,565, of whom 305 had been persuaded to enter asylums, 105 had been restored to their homes, and 145 were otherwise rescued; backsliders to church communion, 176; shops closed on the Lord's-day, 140. A special mission had been opened for Guy's Hospital, under the direct superintendence of the chaplain superintendent, and the Committee of the hospital had subscribed £50 a year towards the maintenance of the missionary. The number of

£123,062 18 11

There has been a noble increase in the receipts at the Mission House and in the home districts, amounting to more than six thousand pounds, and an increase of more than six hundred pounds in the Juvenile Christmas and New Year's Offerings. There is also an increase of nearly four thousand pounds in the receipts from the Foreign Auxiliary Societies. The total net increase is £3,857 10s. 9d.

The following much lamented missionaries have been removed by death

Dr. Cook, at Lausanne; Mr. Barnabas Shaw, at the Cape of Good Hope; Mr. Ritchie, from the West Indies; Mr. Albert Des Brisay, in New Brunswick; Mr. Bennett, in Nova Scotia; Mr. Slight, in Canada. To this affecting record must be added that of Mr. Muller, of Winnenden, in Germany, and of three excellent females, the wives of missionaries, who have also exchanged mortality for life.

The following general summary presents a view of the Society's labours and agency :Central or principal stations called

circuits

660

493 3,903

693

985

11,703

Full and accredited church members 121,479 On trial for church membership 8,234 Scholars, deducting for those who

attend both the day and Sabbathschools

Printing establishments

...

...

113,601 8

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. THE annual general meeting of the members and friends of this Society took place at Exeter Hall, which was densely crowded.

The Rev. H. VENN, Prebendary of St. Paul's, the Secretary, read the report.

It stated that during the past year the total ordinary income of the Society had been £130,766 18s. 4d., while the special fund for India up to March 31, 1858, was £24,717 16s. 11d., making the total received in the United Kingdom, £155,484 15s. 3d. The balance in hand, after providing for all payments, was £1,444 188. Ild. The local funds raised in the missions, and expended there upon the operations of the Society, but independently of the general fund, were not included in the above statement. They were estimated at £3,915 18s. 11d. The total number of clergymen employed by the Society was 225. The total number of European laymen, schoolmasters, female teachers, catechists, &c., was 2,077. Adverting to Sierra Leone, the report mentioned the death of Dr. Weeks, who had been for some time bishop of that diocese, and congratulated the Church upon the appointment of the Rev. Dr. Bowen as his successor, the new bishop having travelled much in the East, and become well acquainted with the language and habits of the inhabitants of the various districts. The report proceeded to trace the operations of the Society in India, China, Africa, the Mauritius, New Zealand, North America, and the various places in which the missionaries are stationed. Towards its close it expressed a hope that the Government of India would openly proclaim its Christianity, and that it would admit the Bible into its public schools.

HOME AND COLONIAL SCHOOL
SOCIETY,

THE annual examination and meeting of this Society was held at the Institution, Gray'sinn-road. The examination of the children of the model schools gave the greatest satisfaction. The report read by the secretary, gave an interesting account of the operations of the Society and the educational movement generally. After quoting the reports of the Government inspectors, it went on to give the following summary of the work of the Deanery Department during the year. The Society had trained thirty-eight teachers for two years, under the Government minutes of August and December, 1846,32 teaching for one year under the same minutes, 27 teaching under the Government Infant school minute of April, 1854, one teacher for a shorter period, not under the Government minute, thirteen teachers sent by Government to be trained for regimental schools, eleven teachers engaged and sent up for twenty-four weeks' training, one teacher engaged and sent up for a shorter period, two teachers sent out as assistants, five missionaries for foreign stations, seventeen governesses for families and private

schools; total, 147. There are already in training 51 students in their second year, to be trained under the Government minutes of 1846; 71 students in their first year, to be trained under the same minutes; 47 students to remain under the Government Infant school minutes of 1857; two students sent by Government to be trained for regimental schools; one student to remain six months, engaged and sent by a patron to be trained; 15 young persons under eighteen to remain one year or more; 16 governesses for families and private schools; and two pupil teachers who have completed their apprenticeship; total, 108.

At the close of the ninth year of its operations, the Committee rejoice to be able to report to the contributors continued tokens of the blessing of Almighty God upon their labours,and encouraging marks of the progress they have been permitted to make in the great work entrusted to them. A steady advance towards the object in view is manifested by the concurrent testimony of various parties, and observable in all the several departments of the missionary field; first, in the effects of the Society's operations upon the Roman Catholic population in Ireland; secondly, in the effects upon the Roman Catholic hierarchy and priesthood; thirdly, in the effects with reference to the United Church of England and Ireland; and fourthly, in the incidental effects upon the Christian population of England.

After entering into a variety of interesting details on these several points, the Committee say, with respect to the funds, that the amount received from all sources, in the year 1857, is less than that entrusted to them in the previous year. The whole amount of the Society's income for its general object, in 1857, was £27,164 17s. 2d. This total, compared with that of the year 1856, shows a decrease of £4,183 7s. 10d. The balance in hand at the beginning of the year 1857 was £1,125 2s. 4d., which, added to the sum received on the general account, makes the amount to be £28,289 19s. 6d. As this sum was not sufficient to meet the expenditure, the Committee received from the Trustees of the Reserved Fund the sum of £2,350. This makes the whole sum to be accounted for amount to £30,639 19s. 6d. The whole expenditure of the Society in the year 1857 amounted to £29,019 8s. 8d., which, with the sum of £1,620 10s. 10d. remaining in hand, balances the amount received. Of this outlay, the sum of £24,251 10s. 2d., was

expended on the missionary operations of the Society, and £4,767 18s. 6d. on the necessary contingencies in England and Ireland. This is less than the outlay of the preceding year by the sum of £2,618 12s. 1d., of which the diminution in the missionary expenditure was £2,167 28. 1d., and in the contingent expenses £451 10s. In analyzing the missionary expenditure it is found that the sum expended on the Society's direct missionary operations was £21,452 10s. 6d. The grants to the clergy of local Committees for missions amounted to £678 7s. 3d. The cost of the Society's training establishments was £1,474 3s. 2d., and the cost of the management of the Mission department was £646 9s. 3d,

The staff of agency at the beginning of this year was as follows:

Ordained Missionaries.
Lay Agents and Readers.
Schoolmasters
Schoolmistresses.

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66

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THE annual meeting of this Board was held in Crosby Hall. The Chairman, in his opening speech, said: A short time since the Rev. W. Frazer, minister of the Free Church, Paisley, visited Ireland and England as a deputation from a number of gentlemen in Glasgow, interested in national education. His object was to gather information relative to the working of existing systems, and the management of the various training institutions. That gentleman has published his report in a pamphlet, entitled, "The State of our Educational Enterprises." It affords me the highest satisfaction to refer to his notice of the College at Homerton, and the testimony he has borne to its esteemed principal, with whom I have felt it both a pleasure and honour to be associated in this important movement. "I had the privilege of closely examining the working of this institution and, although differing from the principal, Mr. Unwin, as to ecclesiastical theories, I think it no more than justice to him to bear my humble, yet emphatic testimony to the admirable manner in which the institution is wrought; and to say that this institution is among the first of those instiwould apply tutions in England to which

were I requiring a teacher, having a profound consciousness of the responsibilities of his office and practical skill for his every-day work. The schools are admirably arranged,

hour fixed for the commencement of the proceedings, the hall was densely crowded, and it became necessary to shut the outer doors of the building to prevent the avenues from being choked up. Disappointment was manifested by the multitude who had the misfortune to be excluded. The chair was taken by the Earl of SHAFTESBURY.

The report, which was read by the hon. secretary, Mr. W. LOCKE, commenced by stating, that in almost every department of the Union there were improvements and increase. The number of schools, scholars, and teachers, was larger than last year, the finances were improved, and the various operations of the Union were gradually and steadily extending. As regarded schools and scholars, there were now in union 135 Sunday-schools, with 28,500 scholars; 98 dayschools, with 14,390 scholars; and 131 week evening schools, with 8,650 scholars : making in all 364 schools, with 43,540 scholars. As, however, most of the Sunday-scholars were children who attended during the week, the Committee put down the number of weekday and evening scholars as only 23,000. The voluntary teachers in these now numbered 2,530, and the paid teachers 328, the paid monitors 200. The number of school buildings was n now 160. Nearly 100 of the schools had industrial classes for boys or girls, at which the attendance was nearly 4,000. Under the head "Shoe-black Brigade," it was stated that the Red, Yellow, and Blue Brigades, numbering 190 boys, earned last year no less than £3,227 by cleaning boots and shoes in the streets, being an average of about £17 each per annum, or above 1s. per day for each lad. A large portion of this money was put aside for the boy's credit in the bank, after his food and lodging were paid for. Additional employments for boys in the streets were in contemplation, but not yet matured. The number of scholars placed in situations in the last year was 1,320; namely, 587 girls and 733 boys. In the preceding year there were 1,260. The number not reported was 1,500, making 4,000 in all in the last two years. The Committee had reason to believe that a great portion of them retained their situations and did well. At the annual prize meeting lately held, rewards were given to 490 who had kept their places satisfactorily for twelve months; the previous year the number was 402. The number of paid teachers who were formerly ragged scholars was 57; 105 of the scholars had lately become communicants of Christian churches. The subject of refuges for the outcast was still an anxious one for the e Committee, especially under the altered minute of the Privy Council, by which it was proposed to withdraw a large proportion of the aid previously granted for such places. The number of refuges formed was now 15; 11 for boys and 4 for girls. The total number of inmates

in the year was 538. Emigration had again become a prominent feature in the Society's operations, more especially in the emigration of girls of an age to become domestic servants, whose position at home was dangerous or unfortunate. The self-devotion of the matron of the St. Giles's Refuge, in herself accompanying the girls across the Atlantic, and there seeing them placed in good situations before she left them, and a contribution of £400 from one individual towards this object, had given the Committee a fresh impetus in this direction. In her first trip to Canada, Mrs. Edmonds took out ten girls, all of whom were placed in domestic service, most of them in Christian families, within a week or two after their arrival; and she had lately started on a second trip, with twentyfive more, having every prospect of similar success. Some pleasing tokens had already been received by her from the girls she first took out. Mothers' meetings continued to yield pleasing fruits, although the number attending them was not so great as might be wished; 49 schools reported an attendance of 1,140, while three of the schools had a meeting also for fathers, and had an attendance of 100. At these meetings, and likewise the Ragged School services (of which there were now 74, and a weekly attendance of 3,230), the city missionaries continued to render most effective help. The penny banks and clothing funds went on successfully. Those for scholars only had last year 7,930 depositors, with £1,990 deposited; and those for scholars' parents or friends, 7,520 depositors, with £2,530 deposited; making together above 15,000 depositors, and above £4,500 of deposits. The sum contributed to clothing funds exceeded £600, about double the amount reported last year. The magazines, large and small, continued to give satisfaction to their readers, and the Association for the mutual improvement of paid teachers was progressing. The state of the finances was on the whole encouraging. The debt of the schools had been considerably reduced. The annual grants to them were now about £2,000 a-year, in addition to which the special grants were considerable. The cordial thanks of the Committee and of all ragged-school friends were heartily due to a lady (whose name had not been given) for a £1,000 donation to the general fund, also for a legacy of £500 towards the same fund, and £400 towards emigration, all received through Lord Shaftesbury. The total amount received by the Union in the year was about £4,500, which, added to the receipts of local schools, made a grand total of more than £35,000, collected by voluntary subscriptions for the ragged-schools of London.

EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.

THE annual soirée in connexion with this Society was held in the Freemason's Hall,