March 2, at the General Baptist chapel, Sawley, by Mr. Buckley, missionary from Orissa, Mr. Ezra Glover, of Berry Fields House, near Daventry, to Miss Martha Parkinson.

March 14, at the baptist chapel, Kettering, by Mr. Toller, Mr. R. Wallis, to Miss S. Stockburn.

March 14, at the baptist chapel, Emsworth, Hampshire, by Mr. J. Millard of Lymington, Mr. W. Silverlock, to Miss

March 16, at the General Baptist chapel, Bourne, by Mr. J. B. Pike, Mr. Joseph Woolley, to Miss Elizabeth Taylor.

March 18, at the baptist chapel, Wrexham, by Mr. Brooks, Mr. Enoch Kidson, to Miss Harriet Wood.

Jan. 20, after a short and severe illness, Rebecca, the wife of Mr. John Birtwistle. She was for many years a consistent member of the baptist church, Branch Road, Blackburn.

Feb. 12, aged 50, Mr. Thomas Widdowson, many years an esteemed member of the General Baptist church, Ashby-de-la Zouch. Feb. 19, at Stroud, Gloucestershire, Mrs. E. Hawkins, widow of Mr. H. Hawkins, baptist minister. Mrs. H. had been, for more than sixty years, an honourable member of the baptist community.

Feb. 23, at Curry Mallett, Somersetshire, Mr. Francis Taylor, aged 21. He was baptized and became a member of the baptist church, Isle Abbotts, before he was sixteen years of age. His course was short, but honourably run. He was afflicted for the last twelve months, during which period he was supported by the presence and promises of God. His end was peace.

Feb. 23, at Derby, Mrs. Elizabeth Tivey, aged 66. Mrs. T. had been a member among the General Baptists many years, and was well known as the manager of the Temperance Hotel in Derby, where her attention and kindness secured the esteem of a large circle. Mrs. T. was mother of Mr. T. Cook, of the Leicester Temperance Hotel. Feb. 25, in the 38th year of his age, Mr. Thomas Swan, one of the pastors of the baptist church, Nelson-street, Glasgow. He might aptly be styled an apostle of the poor; as he was instant in season and out of season in his efforts to bring sinners to the foot of the cross, a work in which he was singularly blessed, particularly openair preaching, by which he would often send the gospel message in at the doors and windows of adjacent houses. Hundreds will have cause to bless God through all eternity for his labours of love on their behalf. In his death the church have met with a severe loss, but we know that our loss is his gain.

March 4, at Great Ellingham, Norfolk, aged 76, Mr. C. Hatcher, who for nearly thirty-seven years was the respected pastor of the baptist church in that village, which he resigned in 1842, from the premature infirmities of age. His end was peace; dying, in his own language," resting on the bosom of Jesus.” His funeral sermon was preached, March 12, to a large congregation, by the present pastor, Mr. J. Cragg, between whom an uninterrupted excellent christian feeling had prevailed.

March 4, at Louth, aged 72, Elizabeth, wife of Mr. W. Ashton, long consistent and much-respected member of the General Baptist church in that town. Her kind hospitality, especially in entertaining ministers of the gospel and friends of the Redeemer, endeared our departed friend in the remembrance of a large circle.

March 7, after a brief illness, Jane, the minister, Diss, Norfolk, aged 36. She lived beloved wife of Mr. J. P. Lewis, baptist the life, and died the death of the righteous, and truly her “last end was like his."

March 9, at Guilsboro', Northamptonshire, aged 95, Mr. John Clifton, nearly threescore and ten years a member of the baptist church in that village.

In our last number we briefly mentioned the departure of Mr. Paul Alcock, formerly baptist minister of Parley, Hants. Mr. Fletcher of Christchurch, writes, Feb. 24th: "He died at Christchurch, on Sunday, Feb. 5th, in his 63rd year, after many weeks' illness and much suffering. I visited him nearly every day for some weeks before his death. He was much esteemed by all who knew him in this town. Since his residence here, after retiring from Parley, he was accustomed to attend upon my ministry and was in fellowship with our church. Though much troubled in mind at various times during his last illness, his end was perfect peace."

MECKLENBURG SCHWERIN.

"We first visited Ludwigslust, where the greatest hardships have been endured.

On the morning of the 24th of February last, three officers presented themselves at the house of Mr. Wegener, the baptist missionary residing there, bringing with them a search warrant. Having made their perquisition, they took away with them a number of books, the church records and seal, the communion plate, and several private letters. The next morning they came again and repeated the search; boxes and cupboards were ransacked, and about a thousand religious tracts, eight Bibles, and a quantity of other books, among which were Baxter's Saints' Rest, Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and Holy War, and Memoirs of Mrs. Judson, were packed in baskets brought for the purpose and carried off. In the afternoon of the same day, Mr. Wegener was cited before the authorities, and told by them that they were acting in what they had done under instructions from the highest quarters; that he and his congregation were not acknowledged by the State, and would not be permitted to celebrate Divine worship, and that he ought to obey the laws, and not act in violation of them. The

lived as a good subject, and had honoured the magistrates; that neither he nor his friends had ever spoken or done anything against the government; that they created no disturbance, but worshipped God peaceably; and that their only wish was to make the gospel known among their fellow-creatures. He was finally told that there was only one alternative, submission or emigration, and was then dismissed. On the 19th of May he was apprehended and sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment, every other day on bread and water, for having administered christian ordinances.

About the same time another person in the neighbouring town of Eldena, of the name of Weding, was summoned before the judicial court of Grabow for not having brought his infant to be baptized. He was ordered to take it for baptism within a week, under a penalty of twenty-five dollars, or a fortnight's imprisonment.

Another person from Korn was at the same time, and by the same court, commanded to provide his child with a Lutheran catechism within three days, or pay a fine of ten dollars.

Scarcely had Mr. Wegener been out of prison a week than he was summoned again on the 9th of June before the court, when a decree was read to him to the following effect:

:

1. That the articles which had been taken from his house, viz. Bibles, Testaments, hymn books,

papers, &c., vessels for the Lords' supper, church register, seal, &c., should not be returned to him.

2. That all preaching and spread ing of baptist doctrines, or making of proselytes, was entirely forbidden, and that in every case in which he administered baptism, the penalty of imprisonment should be doubled.

3. That the circulation of books, whether by sale or gratuitously, was strictly prohibited under a fine of ten dollars.

4. That journeys for missionary purposes, and all activity at the missionary stations, were entirely forbidden, and that he should be placed under the surveillance of the police, and not be allwed to go beyond the boundaries of Ludwigslust.

Six days later he was summoned again, and this decree, or a similar one, was again read to him, and he was specially informed that the gendarmerie of all the surrounding districts were instructed to arrest him, if they found him beyond the boundaries of the town. His passport was taken from him. On the 21st of the same month, an officer came to his house, and, in the presence of his wife and children, took down a full description of his person, to be given to the gendarmes. On the 13th of July a mandate was served upon him to pay sixteen dollars for having taught children and held meetings two years before and this was followed three days after by another mandate for seventeen dollars to pay law expenses. To meet these penalties and costs, and to defray also the expenses of his imprisonment, for he was charged for the bread and water on which he was kept, his goods were seized and sold. Two days only before we were at Ludwigslust his cow, the chief support of his family, had been seized and sold by public auction.

constant alarm. But it had also resulted in consequences in some respects more serious still; for it had brought him into pecuniary difficulty, and thus reduced him and his family to straitened circumstances. That he might not be entirely chargeable upon the missionary funds, he used to occupy himself in part like other of his brethren in his calling, being by trade a turner, but these incessant persecutions had almost ruined his trade."*

Cases are then mentioned of refusals to allow marriage on account of religious sentiments. Some couples had to wait for years, and others had to emigrate in order to be married legally.

The Deputation attempted to obtain an interview with the Grand Duke, but were not successful.

"Before we left Ludwigslust, we thought it right to call upon the principal magistrate there, as he was the person before whom Mr. Wegener had been so repeatedly summoned.

*Since our return, Dr. Steane has received a letter from Mr. Wegener, dated Ludwigslust, October 19, in which he says, that on the 14th an officer of justice came to him from the minister to say, that an execution would be put into his house for the costs of the last proceeding against him, amounting to something more than seventeen dollars, and that

he must proceed to take an inventory of his effects. already gone; your cow is sold; what shall I take

"But where," said he, " are they? Your things are

now?" I replied that he must take my wife and children; for if I was deprived of everything else, I

should have nothing with which to support them.

The man looked perplexed, but said he must execute his commission, painful as it might be to him.

"He

knew," he remarked," and the authorities knew that I was a good and peaceful citizen, and it would be place led such a life as I did. They (the officers)

well," he continued, "if all the inhabitants of the

would lay no hands on me, unless they were forced to do so by the ministry; and every one's faith was certainly a matter between God and his own conscience." Finding that there were no articles of furniture of any value left, the officer was about to set down the house, when he was told that there was

still a pig and a goat, and that he must take them. These words, Mr. Wegener says, coming from his

wife, quite overcame the man. "Your cow is gone,

and will you now part with your pig and your goat ?" and the man wept bitterly, adding, "how is it possible!" "In June of last year," Mr. Wegener adds, "my silver watch and a polished bureau were seized for six dollars, for costs of trial and eleven

days' imprisonment at Grabow; this year, the cow, the pig, and the goat, the last necessaries in my

house, on which we and other brethren and sisters

who have lodged with us have lived for the last

year. May they be an offering to the Lord, who

has commanded us for His sake to leave father, and mother, and wife, and children, and houses, and lands, and promised that we shall receive a hundred

everlasting,"