this time in the city of Washington, or New-York, for the purposes of war upon the inhabitants of those cities.

Yet, it will be no less necessary amongst the Indians, that laws should be established for their government, than it is, that laws should be enacted for the government of our own citizens; nor less necessary that all infractions of their provisions should be visited with their appropriate punishments, in the one case, than in the other.

I sincerely wish you success in the noble work in which you are engaged, as I do all others who have undertaken its promotion. I know that any aid which it may be in the power of the President to afford, and which will be furnished through the medium of the Secretary of War, whose good feelings and hearty co-operation in this benevolent design are known to you, will be most cheerfully granted. As for myself, if I can help, in my feeble way, to forward this cause of suffering humanity, I promise you the best services I may have the ability to render; and those you are authorized at all times freely to command.

Accept assurances of my respectful and friendly regards.
THO. L. MCKENNEY, S. I. Trade.

Rev. Dr. Milledoler.

NEW-YORK SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION SOCIETY.

The Nineteenth Quarterly Meeting

Was held on Thursday evening, the 19th of last month, in the Methodist Church in John-street. RICHARD VARICK, Esq. President of the society, in the chair. The meeting was opened with prayer, by the Rev. Samuel Nott, Jun. The President then read the constitution of the society, after which the reports from the schools were presented. We presume those who heard them read, will be reanimated by a perusal of the following extracts, and we hope they will excite in all, a friendly interest for the Sunday school cause.

The report of the school for coloured men, cannot fail to produce astonishment in the minds of those who have so long doubted that the mental capacities of Africans were capable of a great degree of improvement. That school exhibits the most gratifying and cheering spectacle to the Christian and the philanthropist. They may there see men of all ages, from twenty years to three score years and ten, some of whom, a short time ago, were labouring with great assiduity to learn the alphabet, and who are now able to recite whole books of the Holy Scriptures at a lesson ! And, God be praised, this precious seed has not been sown in vain-many of them show forth, in their lives and conversation, that they have been with Christ, and found in him the hope of glory.

Among these men, we readily recognize some, who, a few years ago, were Bancker-street sabbath-breakers of the vilest class, but now decent in their dress, orderly in their behaviour, industrious in their callings, and punctual at school and at church! The mighty moral revolution which these schools are capable of producing, and, indeed, are now producing, is beyond all human calculation or conception. Wherever they have been established, they have become the nurseries of the church, and thousands, at the last day, shall point to them from their seats in glory, as to them, the very gate of heaven. Who, then, will be so obstinate and blind, as any longer to pretend that Africans are not capable of the same advances in mental improvement as other men in like circumstances?

Our limits oblige us to be very brief, and we would barely further remark, that one striking feature of the reports is, their acknowledgment of the great benefit derived to the teachers, by weekly prayer meetings, which have been established in most of the schools.

School No. XXXIV. attached to St. George's Church, (coloured male adults.)-One hundred and four scholars have been admitted, which, together with the number in school at our last report, makes a total of 203.-We have dismissed 59-leaving 144 remaining in school. The principal part of those dismissed, have gone to sea. The average number of attendants is 96-the largest number present, at one time, was 125.

A good proportion of the scholars commit the sacred scriptures to memory. L― B― recited to his teacher, in four lessons, 350 verses; and AW the whole book of Romans, containing 433 verses. For this they were rewarded with Bibles, by the Rev. Dr. MILNOR. Nine Bibles and 24 Testaments have been distributed as rewards to other scholars.

We think the progress of the scholars, together with the moral effects that have been produced, will encourage an increased zeal in the cause we have espoused.-17 teachers, 2 visitors, and 10 assistant teachers, are actively engaged in the school at present.

A prayer meeting has been established for the five schools attached to St. George's Church-which is held at the Lecture Room every Wednesday evening.

We have received letters from some of the scholars, who formed a part of the colony to Africa. They appeared perfectly satisfied, and their prospects bid fair for their future prosperity-but alas! the scene was soon changed. God had ordered it otherwise-some of them are now in the confines of the narrow house appointed for all living. However distressing this intelligence may be, let us remember that "God's ways are not our ways," and that he will overrule this awful dispensation, for the best ir erests of the Redeemer's kingdom.

We have also received, (through one of our teachers,) a communication from Mr. WH, Jr. in Alexandria, (D. C.) stating that a school for coloured people had been established there. The first Sunday they had an attendance of 12. The second Sunday 150-and the third Sunday 200-with a prospect of an increase of numbers. They met with great opposition, but were determined, through the assistance of God, to persevere in the glorious work.

(To be concluded in our next.)

Arrival of the Rev. W. WARD.

Amongst the arrivals in this city on Thursday last, by the Nestor, was the Rev. WILLIAM WARD, one of the missionaries who has resided at Serampore, in the East Indies, twenty years, and author of a work on the History, Manners, Literature, and Mythology of the Hindoos, in 4 vol. 8 vo.

The object of the visit of this missionary to the United States, is, we understand, to solicit aid for the support of converted natives while obtaining scriptural knowledge in the Missionary College recently formed at Serampore. He has, it seems, obtained more than $16,500 for this object in England and Scotland; and during his short residence in the United States (for he proposes, it seems, to leave England again for Serampore in May next) would be glad to realize what would complete the sum of £5,000-that is $5,700. The expense of the buildings is to be met in India, where, as well as in Britain, this college has received considerable patronage: the Governor-General of India is its patron, and the Governor of Serampore, with Drs. Carey and Marshman, and Mr. Ward, form the Committee of Management. A gentleman in Scotland has given £500 sterling, and another £100 to this institution.

Dr. Carey and his colleagues, it appears, have, for a number of years back, been employing native converts in instructing their fellow-countrymen; they have now more than fifty native preachers. Indeed, it strikes us, that this is the only way in which the religious wants of the population of Hindoost'han, 150,000,000, can ever be met. Where would 75,000 foreign missionaries be obtained, and from what funds could they be sup ported? And this number of teachers will be required after we have deducted half the population as under age, even if we give 1000 indivi duals as the flock of each teacher.

The following arguments, which have been urged on this subject, appear to us to be entirely conclusive in support of the absolute necessity of such a college as the one before us.

1. The vast expense of foreign missionaries: the education of a missionary in England, with the outfit and passage money of himself and his wife, does not cost less than $2,600; and their support annually $666. The native, who is on the spot, may be educated for $45 a year-$67 a year will support him in the field as long as he lives.

2. Perhaps the foreign missionary dies in twelve months after his ar rival; that is, before he has been able to speak a word to the natives. Seven hundred and fifty pounds sterling will thus have been sunk for ever, and his wife and family will remain to be supported by the society. Four

mission families passed through the United States a few years ago, to Serampore of these persons, Mr. and Mrs. Biss, Mr. and Mrs. Mardon, Mrs. Moore, and Mrs. Rowe, are already dead; two only survive. To the native missionary the climate is quite as healthful as America or Europe to their natives. If the Hindoo die, $22 50 a year will support his wife.

3. As it respects the language, the climate, the subsistence, the manners, and the modes of thinking and feeling of the inhabitants, all so strange to a foreigner, the native missionary is quite at home.

4. At present, the only practicable mode of instructing the natives is by collecting them in the streets and on the highways; but this exposure to the heat of the climate, though nothing to the natives, is almost insupportable to the foreign missionary.

5. Neither the foreign missionary nor his wife can enter the dwellings of the Hindoos, nor can they obtain access to converse at all with the females. But the native missionary and his wife have many opportunities of carrying into families and to the secluded female, the message of pardon and eternal life.

6. The dialects of Hindoost'han amount to not less than fifty, another formidable obstacle to the conversion of the natives by the medium of foreigners.

7. The foreign missionary, standing amongst a crowd of Hindoos, is supposed to advocate a religion designed only for the whites, the religion of his education; but the Christian Hindoo appears before his countrymen as a convert, as a man who has renounced the gods and the Ganges; upon whom his hearers perceive a great change to have been wrought, and who has given up rank, and all that was dear to him, for Christianity.

8. Experience confirms the force of all these arguments :—while the foreign missionaries in India have been the means of some solitary conversions only, large societies of converted natives have been raised by the labours of native missionaries, in various parts of India.

But there is another department of this college which, we confess, is peculiarly interesting to us. Heathen youths, supported by their friends, are beginning to assemble at Serampore, from all parts of India ;-they are to have the benefits of this college, and access to its lectures, without fee or reward. The general light which will be thus widely diffused amongst the heathen, added to the instruction which will be afforded by an extensive library now forming, by a large scientific and philosophical apparatus, and by the books which will issue from the college, must, at no distant period, produce a great mental and moral change in a country which has remained in the grossest darkness from the earliest ages.

Societies or individuals, by contributing £200 sterling, ($889) will provide a fund for ever for sending out these native preachers; or, the small sum of $50 annually, (say by ten individuals) will meet the education of a successive supply of these interesting heralds, each one of whom may be conferring on multitudes, through a long life, the unspeakable benefits of Christianity. For more particular information respecting the great work the Lord is carrying on in India, by our English Baptist brethren, we would refer the reader to our former numbers, and especially to the plan of the college, (p. 270) and to Mr. Ward's letter in this number of the Herald.

Several of the clergymen of New-York have already, we hear, resolved to give to this college all the support in their power, and we hope the mit

sionary from Serampore will find in the United States all, and more than all the assistance he asks. DIVIE BETHUNE, Esq. is the Treasurer for New-York, for this most interesting and important institution; and we dare say there is not a clergyman in the United States who will not gladly forward any donations committed to his care.

SUMMARY.

By the return of Mr. JAMES DOUGHEN. who went out with the colony to Campelar, Africa, and other sources of intelligence, we learn that the first attempt in this benevolent enterprise has been followed with the most melancholy consequences.

The colony consisted of 82 people of colour, and 12 whites: of the former, 15 had died when Mr. D. left Campelar, on the 9th of June, and of the latter Mr. Doughen is the only survivor. Mr. Crozier died on the

15th of April, Mr. Townsend on the 16th, and Mr. Bankson shortly after. The Rev. Mr. BACON was taken ill at Campelar, on the 17th, and after remaining in that state nine days, was prevailed on to go to Sierra Leone for medical aid, but he died on his passage, the 3d of May, at Cape Shilling, an English settlement.

Before Mr. Crozier died, he appointed Mr. Coker, a mulatto, and one of the emigrants, as his deputy agent in case of his death.

The annual general meeting of the FIFTH WARD BIBLE ASSOCIATION, was held on Monday evening, the 23d ult. in the Methodist Church in Duane-street. After the Report of the Board of Managers had been read, William C. Mulligan, Esq. and the Rev. W. Patten, addressed the meeting, and urged the necessity of an increased attention to the wants of this part of our city. The meeting was well attended, and we hope the Board will be encouraged to renew and double their efforts the ensuing year.

The church and congregation under the pastoral care of the Rev. Mr. FREY, having resolved to unite with the Presbytery of New-York, the ordination of elders and deacons, took place on Sabbath evening, the 5th inst. The Rev. Mr. McClelland preached an appropriate and eloquent sermon on the occasion from 1 Thess. v. 12, 13.

A new Episcopal Church and congregation has been organized at Greenwich Village, near this city. We understand that the use of the large room over the Engine House, at the corner of Christopher and Hudson-streets, has been obtained for a temporary place of worship, and that the Rev. George Upfold, M. D. has received and accepted a call as their pastor.

A box is placed in the office of the CHRISTIAN HERALD, to receive such donations as may be given to "The Female Missionary Society for the Poor of the city of New-York." The importance of this society, and the low state of its funds, are particularly noticed in our last number, to which we would direct the attention of the pious and benevolent. When the Lord says, "the gospel shall be preached to the POOR," who dare withhold the means?

Errata.-Page 384, last number, for "Adyeoll," read Adyelott.

bottom line, for "this," read the.

To Readers. We solicit the particular attention of our readers to the notice of Mr. Ward's arrival in this city, and the object of his mission stated in the preceding pages. A little delay in issuing this number of the Herald has been unavoidable.