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island. In the capital there was but one Episcopal church, capable of holding 800, and a second church, just built, to hold 700; as the seat of the Popish bishop's see, there is a'Catholic church, together with a Presbyterian chapel, and a Methodist chapel, each capable of holding 500; it is computed that there are 3000 Protestants without the means of grace in that city. The Wesleyan Methodists have 12 circuits in the Newfoundland district, with 13 preachers, and 1849 members. There are Presbyterian and Congregational societies in the island. Missionaries from the London Missionary Society have laboured at Twiling Gate, Harbourgrace, Togo, Conception Bay, Bonavista, Green Pond Island, and the Town of St. John's. These, as missionary stations, are abandoned, on account of the superior claims of the Pagan nations. It would be interesting to ascertain what permanent results have followed those efforts.

AUTHORITIES.

As it is not convenient to cite an authority for every fact, so we must content ourselves by stating that we have inserted nothing but on the best authority we could obtain. We are indebted for the preceding statements to Mr. Martin's History of the British Colonies, Reed and Matheson's Visit to the American Churches, Dr. Betteridge's Brief History of the Church in Upper Canada, Cox and Hoby's Baptists in America, Historical and Descriptive Account of British America, Seventh Report from the Committee on Grievances of the House of Assembly, U. C., Earl of Durham's Report on the Affairs of British North America, Captain Moorsom's Letters from Nova Scotia, Bishop of Exeter's Charge, Reports of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, of the Colonial Missionary Society, Missionary Record for the Church of Scotland, Quarterly Record of the Missions of the United Secession Church, Minutes of the Methodist Conference, held at Liverpool, July 1839, &c. &c.

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, &c.

Favours have been received from Rev. Dr. Fletcher-Rev. Messrs. Algernon Wells-John Sibree-D. E. Ford-Thomas Milner-Thomas Russell - E. Leighton-Dr. Stroud-Mr. Robert Fletcher.

E. D. Ward's valuable Letter has been sent to the right quarter.

The writer of the Review of Mr. Beale's Natural History of the Sperm Whale, which appeared in our September number, has returned to us that gentleman's manuscript of twenty folio pages, which we referred to him. His judgment is that Mr. Beale has not produced any additional evidence to sustain his unfriendly strictures upon the Missionaries in the Society Islands. Our Reviewer declined to enter upon the question of the American Missionaries at the Sandwich Islands, so that all Mr. Beale has written on that subject is beside the mark. Mr. Beale is much displeased with some suspicions that we expressed in the Review unfriendly to his religious and moral character; if they are unjust, we regret the injury that has been done him; but he must permit us to say that the writer, who expects more from the arts of civilization, than from the truth of Christianity, and that can speak with levity of those voluntary exiles who endure so many privations for the sake of teaching them to the savage inhabitants of these islands, is not in a position to claim great consideration from a review that is conducted on the principles of the gospel. The MS. of Mr. Beale shall be returned.

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PART II,-REVIEWS AND CRITICAL NOTICES.

The Titles of the former are printed in Italics.

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Schism, Works on, 445.

Scrap Book, The Juvenile, 736.
Search, John, Pamphlets by, 107.
Sermons. Alliott's, 522.
Gallaway's, 333.
Miller's, 53.

Slave Trade, Buxton on the, 722, 829.
Smalley's Select Meditations, 596.
Smith's Pilgrim's Staff, 596.
South Sea Islands, Moerenhout's Voyage
to, 458.

Beal's Ditto, 590.
Statistics of Popery, 653.
Stickney's (Miss) Pictures of Private
Life, 271.

Study, Hints on, 523.

Styles's Animal Creation, 815.

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Table of the Lord, The, 734.
Tatham, Mrs. Memoir of, 820.
Temple's Christian's Daily Treasury,

596.

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