reduction of the Society's expenditure in the diocese, and its ultimate withdrawal from the pastoral stations.

The Committee took into consideration the present circumstances of the Fuh-Kien Mission. A Memorandum was presented, setting forth the necessity which has arisen from the increase in the number of European Missionaries and of Native Christians, from the exclusion of the Mission as a resident Mission from the neighbourhood of Fuh-Chow, and from the rapid extension of missionary work, of making new arrangements for the administration and development of the Mission and the organization of the Native Church. After full discussion, a series of Resolutions were adopted for recommendation to the General Committee, providing for the erection of an additional Mission-house, a college for training Native agents, and a boarding-school, in the foreign settlement of Nantai; for the occupation of Hok-Ning-Fu by two European Missionaries; for the formation of Native Church Committees and a Native Church Council on the lines adopted in other of the Society's Missions; for the development of Native Church self-support and evangelistic effort; for the consideration of plans for the elementary education of converts; for the general administration of the Mission by a Missionary Conference and a Finance Committee. Also that the Fuh-Kien province, being included within the conventional limits of the Bishop of Victoria's jurisdiction, and the Mission having been indebted to Bishops Alford and Burdon for the exercise of episcopal functions, Bishop Burdon be informed of the Committee's plans for the future development and administration of the Mission, and their hope expressed that he might be able occasionally to visit Fuh-Chow at the time of the half-yearly Missionary Conference, and give the brethren assembled the benefit of his episcopal counsel and lengthened Missionary experience.

General Committee, February 22nd.-A Report was presented from the Estimates Committee, reviewing the foreign estimates for the year ending December 31st, 1881, and making various recommendations, which were adopted.

Committee of Funds, February 22nd.-Honorary District Secretaries were appointed for the following counties: Beds, Herts, Hants, Gloucestershire, Wilts, Somersetshire, Leicestershire, Northants, Warwickshire, Herefordshire, Durham, Northumberland, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Salop, Carnarvonshire, Carmarthenshire, Brecknockshire, and Radnorshire.

The Rev. H. Streeten was appointed Association Secretary for Somerset and Wilts.

Committee of Correspondence, March 1st.-Letters were read from the Rev. F. H. Baring and the Rev. R. Clark, with reference to a proposal of Mr. Baring's that the Society should make over to him the Batala Tehsil in the Punjab, with a view to his carrying on missionary work therein at his own

cost.

The Committee expressed their thankfulness to God that He had put it into the Rev. F. H. Baring's heart to be willing to spend himself and the means which God had given him in efforts for that part of the Punjab which had for several years past engaged so much of his time and thought, and their willingness to make over to Mr. Baring the Batala Tehsil, on certain guarantees provided for in the scheme submitted; also to hold the Fund which Mr. Baring proposed to create in trust for the purposes specified.

A Report was presented of a Conference held, at the request of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, between three members of that Society

and three members of the C.M.S., in reference to the occupation of Sangumnar, in the Bombay Presidency, respecting which a local difficulty had arisen, stating that after a full and friendly discussion, the S.P.G. members of the Conference had agreed to recommend to their Committee, as the best mode of meeting the difficulty, that the S.P.G. Missionaries should be directed to consider Sangumnar as a terminus to their work, and to offer any facility in their power to C.M.S. agents who might occupy or visit that place. The Committee expressed their willingness to accept the agreement thus suggested.

Mrs. Grime, of the Society's Mission at Benares, was appointed to the temporary charge of the Alexandra Girls' School at Amritsar, and an offer on the part of the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society to pay her expenses, was thankfully accepted; but the Committee directed that their purpose to place a married Missionary over the Institution be borne in mind.

Reference was made to a Minute of the Madras Corresponding Committee on the importance of further developing the work in North Tinnevelly, the district where Ragland, Fenn, and Meadows had formerly carried on their itinerating, which work was now altogether in the hands of Natives, and was meeting with marked success amongst the caste people. The Committee sanctioned the formation of two Native Church Councils in the North Tinnevelly District, instead of one as at present, and recommended that a special grant be made for two years to meet some local promises for help in the fuller training of Native agents and for other purposes.

General Committee, March 1st.-The Resolutions of the Committee of Correspondence of February 22nd, with reference to the Rupert's Land and Fuh-Kien Missions, were considered and confirmed.

A letter was read from the Rev. G. R. Thornton, stating that the East Herts Church Missionary Association had it in mind to raise 3207. in addition to its ordinary income to enable the Society to send out at once one of the Missionaries detained at home, and inquiring whether the Committee would encourage such an effort. The Committee recognized with thankfulness the desire of the East Herts Association, and agreed, if the sum mentioned were raised, to endeavour to employ it in sending out, at an earlier period, one of the men now necessarily detained at home.

Committee of Correspondence, March 8th.-The Rev. A. R. Cavalier, of the Tamil Cooly Mission, Ceylon, had an interview with the Committee, and gave some account of the work. He dwelt on the grave difficulties arising in the Mission from the temptations to which the Native agents were exposed and the unstable character of some who had come from Tinnevelly. The Secretaries were directed to prepare a scheme for consideration on the best mode of procuring men qualified spiritually and otherwise for the work of catechists in the Tamil Cooly Mission.

The Rev. John Piper, of Tokio, Japan, had an interview with the Committee and gave an encouraging account of the position and prospects of the Society's work in Japan. He dwelt on the great care which its Missionaries took in instructing candidates for baptism, which, while causing the numbers of the Church Missionary Society's converts to look relatively small, had resulted in the formation of an infant Church, consisting on the whole of true and living members. He was not however as sanguine as some might be of the general prospects of Christianity in Japan.

Mr. J. Silverlock, Jun., an English gentleman lately resident at Fuh-Chow, had an interview with the Committee. He bore hearty testimony to the

reality of the work done in the Fuh-Kien Mission, and particularly pressed the importance of the College for the preparation of Native agents, and of the work done by the Native Bible-women.

A grant of Rs. 200 was made to the Rev. R. Bateman towards the enlargement of the church in the Native settlement of Clarkabad, rendered necessary by the rapid increase of the congregation; the Rev. Robert Clark having drawn the special attention of the Committee to Mr. Bateman's great services in connexion with Clarkabad, and to the heavy expenses incurred out of his own private resources in respect of this church, which had been built entirely by private and local effort.

A letter was read from the Rev. J. Vaughan, of Krishnaghur, earnestly appealing for another young Missionary to be sent out for itinerating work in that district. The Committee undertook to give careful consideration to Mr. Vaughan's appeal at the next settling of locations of Missionaries.

TOPICS FOR THANKSGIVING AND PRAYER.

THANKSGIVING for much blessing vouchsafed in connexion with the recent Conference at Madeira. Prayer for Divine guidance in the plans now being matured for the development of the West Africa Missions. (P. 245.)

Thanksgiving for good fruit gathered in past years in the North-West Provinces of India. Prayer for the Native Church there, and for the downfall of idolatry. (P. 201.)

Prayer for the four additional missionaries just sent out. (P. 245.)

Prayer for a blessing on the work now being initiated in connexion with the Frances Ridley Havergal Fund. (P. 250.)

Prayer for hesitating inquirers at Burdwan and Jubbulpore. (Pp. 248-9.)

Prayer for Athabasca (p. 228), Kashmir (p. 232), Fuh-Kien (p. 251), Ankihtlast (p. 246), Hong Kong (p. 247), Great Valley (p. 248).

REPORTS, &c., RECEIVED FROM THE MISSIONS,

From February 15th to March 15th, 1881.

Yoruba.-Rev. J. A. Maser (Annual Letter).

East Africa.-Dr. E. J. Baxter, Rev. H. K. Binns (Annual Letters).

North India.-Rev. E. Droese (Annual Letter).

Panjab and Sindh.-Rev. A. Bailey, Rev. W. Rebsch, Rev. G. Shirt, Rev. J. Sheldon, Rev. W. Jukes, Rev. J. Bambridge, Rev. J. S. Doxey, Rev. Imam Shah (Annual Letters). Western India.-Report of Sharanpur Native Church Committee, 1880; Rev. T. Carss (Report of Robert Money School, 1880); Report of Sharanpur Orphanage, 1880 (printed); Rev. A. Bapuji, Rev. L. Maloba, Rev. W. A. Roberts, Rev. F. G. Macartney (Annual Letters).

South India.-Rev. E. N. Hodges, Rev. T. Kember (Annual Letters); Madras C.M. Record, Oct., Nov., and Dec., 1880, containing Report of Nallur Native Church Council, 1879; Bishop Sargent's Visit to Mengnanapuram, Suviseshapuram, and Dohnavur Districts, June and July, 1880; Notes of a Tour in North Tinnevelly, Oct., 1880; Report of the Four Pastorates, North Tinnevelly, Rev. V. Vedhanayagam; Report of Masulipatam Girls' Boarding School.

Travancore and Cochin.-Rev. W. J. Richards (Annual Letter).

Ceylon.-Rev. J. D. Simmons, Rev. J. Hensman, Rev. T. P. Handy, Rev. W. E. Rowlands (Annual Letters).

China.-Rev. J. Bates, Rev. R. Shann, Rev. Ll. Lloyd, Rev. F. F. Gough, Rev. Dzing Ts-sing, Rev. J. D. Valentine (Annual Letters).

New Zealand.-Rev. F. T. Baker, Rev. J. Matthews, Ven. Archdeacon Clarke, Ven. Archdeacon Williams (Annual Letters).

N..W. America.-Rev. S. Trivett, Rev. J. A. Mackay, Rev. J. Settee, Rev. T. Clarke (Annual Letters).

N. Pacific.-Rev. R. Tomlinson (Annual Letter).

NOTES OF THE MONTH.

ORDINATIONS.

At an Ordination held on March 13, at St. John's, Paddington, by the Right Rev. Bishop Perry, under a Commission from the Bishop of London, the Revs. J. H. Knowles, C. B. Nash, H. Rountree, and F. E. Walton were admitted to Priests' Orders.

RETURN HOME OF MISSIONARIES.

North India.-The Rev. J. A. Lloyd left Agra on Feb. 5, and reached Southampton on March 9.

South India. The Rev. A. F. Painter left Madras on Jan. 19, and arrived in England on Feb. 26.

DEPARTURE OF MISSIONARIES.

Yoruba.-The Rev. T. C. and Mrs. Wilson left Liverpool on Jan. 15 for Lagos. Punjab.-The Rev. C. Merk left Genoa on Jan. 24 for Bombay.-The Rev. J. H. Knowles and the Rev. H. Rountree left Southampton on March 16 for Bombay. North India.-The Rev. F. E. Walton left Southampton on March 16 for Bombay. China.-The Rev. C. B. Nash left Southampton on March 16 for Shanghae.

Contribution List.

In the following list of receipts from Feb. 11th to March 10th are acknowledged all remittances from Associations, Benefactions, and Legacies of 5l. and upwards, and Collections of 10s. and upwards. All other sums are acknowledged in the Annual Reports. Parties not finding such payments duly acknowledged are requested to inform the Secretary without delay.