approved shall not unnecessarily be overturned, or carelessly be trampled upon with the ashes of the dead. It is but just too that those who feel inclined to cooperate should fully know what are the principles of action, and what is the relative rank of the official agents, before they be involved in unforeseen obligations, and to prevent incurring misunderstood responsibilities. Without necessarily being chargeable then with any itching ambition for legislating, we trust the following principles may be embraced in the digest now presented, and be found salutary in the transaction of affairs connected with this institution.

I. As a branch of the Mission, all the transactions of the seminary shall be cognizable and regulated according to the General Principles laid down for the whole procedure of the station.

II.-There shall be no superiority among the professors one over another, but all shall constitute a College Council, and the office of President shall be held annually by the members in rotation.

III. The President shall be the medium of communication with the College Council, and, as the exigencies of the institution require, may call extra meetings; but further than this he shall have no authority; and when absent from the station, the duties of the office shall devolve upon the next member in rotation.

IV.-When any alteration of the plan here digested, is proposed, or any principle that would materially affect the character of the institution is about to be

introduced, it shall remain for the decision of the Directors of the London Missionary Society; and, should even a minority of the College Council, regarding any particular measure in this light, exceed one third, the proceeding shall be suspended till reference is made to the Society at home, and its decision known.

V. The details of the seminary shall at all times come under the united superintendence of the Professors; and all the business of the institution, exclusive of tuition, shall be transacted at the General Meeting of the members of the mission.

VI.-Should discussions arise in the transaction of general business, they shall be settled by the votes of a majority, and the minority shall have the right of inserting their protest in the records of the Mission.

VII.-Hereafter should the Professor's chair of any class be held by a lay gentleman, he shall only have a right to vote in matters unconnected with ecclesiasti cal affairs.

VIII. The President, in all common cases, shall vote as another member of the Council, and in addition, when there is an equality of votes on opposite sides, he shall have the casting vote.

IX. The admission of candidates for study, the particular branches of learning to be pursued, the examination of their progress, and their separation for the work of the ministry, are to be the result of the consultation and decision of the College Council.

X. The internal economy, the discipline and the

public examinations, shall be conducted according to rules agreed upon by the Professors, and approved of by the Directors of the London Missionary Society.

XI.-As the four Elementary Schools are designed, as much as possible, to be preparatory for seminary candidates, their general management shall be under the direction of the Board of College Council.

XII. After the erection of the necessary buildings, no sum exceeding £200 for extraordinary expenditure shall be drawn from the consolidated fund, without previously consulting the Directors of the Parent Society.

XIII.-All money subscribed for the purposes of the Institution, whenever received, shall be transferred to the general accounts of the Parent Society, and the sums expended shall be by drafts on the Treasurer according to arrangements made from time to time.

To be successfully pursued, studies should as much as possible be rendered subservient to each other, and yet not permitted to interfere. Some departments of learning require more the exercise of memory, others more the application of the mind; some are calculated to enlarge, and some require previous enlargement of the mind. The evils consequent upon an improper arrangement of studies are great, and much to be deprecated. It is not an uncommon result to see a student who has entered upon a course before suitable preparation, pass through it without feeling its im

portance, and close it without deriving the natural advantage; and to hear him advancing declamation where reasoning should take place, and making assertions answer the demand for proofs. What we witness in the course of nature in the material world, may afford apt illustrations of the principles required in the progress of mental improvement. If a channel be not previously widened to a sufficient extent to receive the body of water about to flow through it, inundating confusion is the consequence, or the stream follows another course: and if a massive pile be erected, or rather, should the attempt be made to erect the most costly materials, without a suitable foundation, the fabric is exposed to destruction, and most certainly its symmetry will be despoiled in the first rude shock by which it is assailed. Surely no fabric should be more carefully constructed than a temple to truth, nor the course of any element more prudently and appropriately directed than the precious waters of divine knowledge, the overflowing of that fountain which is from beneath the throne of Jehovah,—the meanderings of that river the streams whereof make glad the city of our God.

We feel it therefore a matter of the greatest moment that the divisions of study should be defined with correctness, as to the manner in which they ought to proceed. Great minds may advantageously break the common routine, or otherwise feel themselves restrained; and men of energetic and precocious genius may in a manner peculiar burst through all obstacles,

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make for themselves a path in mid-air, or with a giant's stride overstep barriers that must be gone round by ordinary men. Plans are however for the many, not for the few, and we must act and reason as if great men were seldom to be found, and that it is more in the path of the historian than of him who "paints the manners living as they rise," to shew that there were giants in those days.

In the formation of intellectual character, much depends upon the authorities who are permitted to give laws, or the standards of excellence which are recognized in literature. It is surely no matter of dispute whether the English Bible now admitted as the authorised version, be better than any one made by a foreigner into the same language, nor need we for a moment hesitate in pronouncing that the present translation, or any one equal to it, could not have been produced apart from a knowledge of the original languages. In England the Bible has been the chief, the admitted, the common standard of language, of sentiment, of laws: the variety and antiquity of its history, the light it affords in various researches, its inimitable touches of nature, together with the sublimity and beauty so copiously poured over its pages, are not indeed the "pearl of great price"-the saving knowledge; but they may be deemed the subsidiary ornaments, the embellishments of the casket in which it is contained: and these have shed their lustre on the common objects which have been pursued. What are the strength, the copiousness, the power and fitness