Immediately at the landing, erected partly on piles on the verge of the tideway, is a large one-story building, well lighted with glazed windows, with spacious open fire-places, and other necessary accommodation for temporary lodging. This is intended for the reception, free of charge, of Indian visitors from abroad. It thus serves also as a market-house where any interchange or sale of commodities is carried on. other On another side, also close to the tideway, so that rubbish may be washed away, is an extensive range of workshops, where various industries are carried on. In one, the cooperage, barrels were being manufactured; in another, window-frames and articles of house-joinery. But, without going into particulars, I may at once state that many of the ordinary requirements of the settlement were provided for in these workshops, and that in every branch proficiency appeared to be attained. The mill, situated upon a small stream falling into the bay about a mile above the anchorage, is excellent in its way, and supplies lumber for all local demands. A large circular saw, worked by machinery driven by an enormous overshot water-wheel, does its work rapidly. Cedar (the Thuja cedar of which the canoes are made) is the timber chiefly sawn-a wood valuable for many purposes, easily wrought, and very durable. The sawyer, a very respectable Indian, resides with his wife and family close to the mill, and has a garden attached to his residence in a thrifty condition. A tannery, about a quarter of a mile in length, serves to convey the lumber to a convenient point for shipment. Beneath the mill, connected with the same machinery, is a turning-lathe. Large stanchions for ornamental purposes were here in progress of manufacture at the time of our visit. At the outset the houses at Metlakahtla were placed without any regard to order, or, as our kind conductor graphically and somewhat amusingly described to us, "higgledy-piggledy." Now, however, a regular street system has been established, and the "higgledypiggledy" style abandoned. Along the main street, lamps, after the fashion of the ordinary gas-lamp, have been erected, oil being used for the purpose of illumination. The plan adopted for the houses appears to be a good one under the circumstances. Two houses, each having an upper story, are erected side by side with an interval of some thirty feet between. Each of these houses receives its particular family, the interval between them being built over, one story in height, thus connecting the intermediate building, into which a door opens from both houses as well as from the front, forms a common room or hall of entrance to which both families have access, and in which a large open fire is jointly maintained for the common benefit. The school-house attracted much of our attention. Neat, clean, spacious, and in every way well contrived for its object, it was not destitute of scholars, no fewer than 146 (69 boys, 77 girls) being assembled during our inspection. These children were neatly and cleanly dressed, and very decorous in their behaviour. They sang for us several hymns, concluding with the national anthem. Mr. Duncan afterwards put the elder boys through a course of manual drill, in which they were perfect. On the whole I, personally, and I believe I may safely say all my companions, left the school-room deeply impressed with the good effects of the tuition that was in progress. Among the other points of interest was the public reading-room. This is a large chamber, well lighted and well warmed, in which the residents can assemble at leisure hours during the day, and in the evening to discuss their local politics, and study, if inclined or able, the printed intelligence from abroad. Of course, among the 800 or so of adults who compose, as I am told, the population of Metlakahtla, there are comparatively few, and these only of the rising generation, who are equal to the task of reading for edification. For the rest, however, the illustrated publications, of which there appears to be a copious supply, afford an endless source of amusement. The principle of the institution is admirable, and the effect produced, I do not question, in every way humanizing and beneficial. This reading-room is attached to the Mission residence with which it communicates. It is intended to place inside at the corners four large carvings in wood representing the family devices of the four great divisions of the tribe. It is the intention, too, I believe, to form a museum of such relics of the past as can be collected, to be placed in a room adjacent. The dwellings of the two resident missionaries, both neat and comfortable residences, are divided from each other by the interjacent reading-rooms before mentioned, and by a large office immediately in the rear of it, into which there is access from either dwelling by lateral doors, as well as by another door communicating with the reading-room. Detached, at a proper distance, there is a large warehouse, with a well-fitted shop, provided with all necessaries for the supply of the settlement. A decent and respectful young man, Indian or half-caste, attends to the sales, and everything appeared to be conducted with diligence and regularity. In the middle of the main square stands the jail or lock-up, intended for the temporary confinement of offenders. This is a substantial wooden building having two storeys; the lower divided into cells for night confinement, the upper used as a day-room. I may here mention that Mr. Duncan, having for many years been in the Commission of the Peace, had for a long period to deal, single-handed, with many flagrant violations of the law. These he appears to have dealt with firmly and effectively; but his decisions, under such circumstances, met at times with much adverse criticism-the mere fact of his being a missionary alone causing, with many, an unfavourable prejudice. Fortunately for Mr. Duncan the appointment of other respectable magistrates at no great distance, whose co-operation in an emergency can be procured, relieved him from the probability of a renewal in the future of those insidious imputations to which he has heretofore been subjected. I have perhaps said enough to indicate the general nature of the improvements, and the advance in civilization which have taken place in this interesting locality. If it be asked as to the conclusions at which I may have arrived regarding the moral and social aspect, I at once reply that the opinion I have formed is entirely favourable Decency of demeanour, and a general air of respectability pervade the community. The old men and women, weaned from their savage habits, have adopted the forms, and I trust the spirit, of a better condition of life; while the younger, benefiting by the education they receive, give promise of continued advance. I cannot express myself too strongly upon this point, nor overrate the wonderful success that has attended the exertions of Mr. Duncan. Withal, much as may have been alleged to the contrary, there is no apparent attempt at coercion in any way, beyond those salutary regulations and restrictions for internal government which are necessary in some shape for the welfare of every community. Each man's labour is his own; and the results of that labour, for whomsoever performed, is for his own benefit and that of his family. Thus a general independence appears to prevail, and a feeling of self-reliance is created which should produce the happiest effect. Nor is Mr. Duncan unaware of the substantial benefits which may accrue to the people from the establishment of salmon-canneries and other industries around them at which they may obtain profitable employment. But he is properly anxious to guard by all means in his power against the possibility of a contaminating intercourse, and in this anxiety he will doubtless be sustained by the right feeling of the respectable gentlemen who have embarked their capital in various enterprises around. Certainly I had not adequately appreciated the importance of the work that has already been performed, and the bright promise which it holds out for the future. Nor in thus highly commending the results that have been obtained here and in the neighbourhood do I speak on inadequate grounds. Such commendation may come from me with peculiar emphasis, seeing that in my early youth I was in contact with people amid all the grim circumstances of their pristine barbarity, and can therefore contrast their former condition with that-so utterly differentin which I now behold them. ALEX. C. ANDERSON. THE MONTH. E rejoice to say that a Fund has been opened for the purpose of raising a memorial to the late beloved Honorary Secretary of the Society; and the object to which the Fund is to be devoted will, we believe, meet with general approval. That object is to provide a Mission steamer for East Africa. Other schemes were suggested to the Committee, but most of them involved the investment of the money raised and the employment of the interest only; and it is known that this form of memorial was not, as a rule, one that commended itself to Mr. Wright's own mind. On the other hand, the deep interest he always took in the East Africa and Nyanza Missions, and the large contributions he made towards them-the fact that it was he and his family who purchased the Highland Lassie and paid her working expenses for two years-the desire he was known to entertain to find some means of replacing her by a larger and more suitable vessel-and the great advantage that would accrue to the Missions on the coast from the presence of such a boat, both in the way of convenience, of speedy communication, of economy, and of efficient administration-all these circumstances combine to point to a "Henry Wright" steamer as the best possible memorial of Henry Wright's services. The Highland Lassie has been very useful in fine weather and with favourable winds. But in the season of the monsoon she is useless without considerable alterations and a new boiler, which would be very expensive, and would absorb almost all the little cabin space the vessel has. The success of the Niger Mission steamer leads us to hope much from a boat of adequate size and steam power, although the sea and not a great river would be her water-way; and a Henry Wright on the East Coast seems the natural complement to a Henry Venn on the West Coast. She would be at the service of both the East Africa and Nyanza Missions, plying regularly between Zanzibar, Mombasa, and Saadani or Bagamoyo, and sometimes, if necessary, taking longer voyages. She would promote efficiency and economy of administration by acting as a kind of movable base and permanent head-office, as well as for the conveyance of mails, of supplies, and of the missionaries themselves. Possibly she might occasionally earn freight, and thus partly meet her expenses, like the Henry Venn; but apart from this, there can be no doubt she would ultimately save the Society much money. per The Committee ask for Five Thousand Pounds to purchase a good boat, and a further sum (perhaps 50007. more) to provide a depreciation fund which would help to replace her in case of need and thus perpetuate the name as the names of the Harmony and the John Williams have been petuated in successive vessels on the Greenland coast and among the isles of the Pacific. We cannot think that there will be any difficulty in raising the amount required, by a combination of large and small gifts from both rich and poor friends of the Society-so many of whom will eagerly seize the opportunity of showing their thankfulness to God for Henry Wright's consecrated life and noble services to the missionary cause. A SLIGHT change has been made in the arrangements for applying the special gifts lately made to the Society for the purpose of sending out additional missionaries this season. We mentioned before that the 10007. given by Mr. Crabb of Chelmsford had been allotted to meet the claims of East Africa, and was to be employed in sending thither the Rev. Theodore C. Wilson, brother of the Rev. C. T. Wilson of the Nyanza Mission. Mr. Theodore Wilson, however, has since been appointed to the Yoruba Mission, which much needs reinforcement, and to which have been appropriated the contributions of St. John's, Hampstead, St. Paul's, Onslow Square, and the friends of Mr. Barlow. Mr. Crabb's 1000l., thus released, is now not to be applied to East Africa, but to the Punjab, which has suffered so much by the death of Mr. Gordon, the retirement of Mr. Baring, and the failure of certain plans for supplying these vacancies from the North-West Provinces; and the Rev. C. H. Merk, another of the Islington men detained for lack of funds, and a son of the late Rev. J. N. Merk, for many years the Society's missionary at Kangra, has been selected to go out at once. This reduces the number of still detained men to twelve. The reason for withdrawing the allotment of a man to East Africa is that the proposed advance into the Teita country is not thought advisable at present; besides which, in the present unsettled prospects in Uganda and on the route thither, it is possible that one or more of the twelve missionaries now in Africa in connexion with the Nyanza Mission might be spared if necessary for Mombasa. BISHOP MOULE sailed for China on Dec. 22nd. Being unable, owing to the pressure of business at the last, to attend the Committee on the day of its meeting, he wrote the following letter to them: Dorchester, 16th Dec., 1880. It is a great sorrow to me that I have not been able, face to face, once more to express to the Committee my very hearty attachment to the known principles of the Church Missionary Society, and my sense of the kindness and considerateness I have always experienced at the hands of the Secretaries, and of the Committee whenever I have been in direct relation with it. I go out for the third time to China with great confidence in the reality of the spiritual work begun by my beloved predecessors, and carried on hitherto by my colleagues. "A little one has become a thousand" within my own experience; although the development into a strong nation" is yet to come. My earnest desire in my new office, as in my old, is to help forward, and to guide, if it may be, the growth of a really Chinese Church, the embryo of which, and more than embryo, is already in existence. But whilst I am confident regarding the reality of the work, and heartily desirous of furthering and not hindering it,-no one has better cause than I to know that πρὸς ταῦτα οὐκ εἰμὶ ἱκανός. And I would fain, if I could, have responded to your invitation in the affirmative, and have knelt down with the Committee and been commended by them to the Spirit and Word of God, of whom alone the requisite ability can come. I earnestly ask that such commendatory prayer for me and my charge may be offered on my behalf both by the collective Committee, and by its members individually. MR. FELKIN has arrived from Mombasa, and has given the Committee a full report of the recent difficulties there in connexion with runaway slaves. A detailed account of the proceedings of the East Africa Mission during the last year or two, with Mr. Felkin's information, will be found in this present number of the Intelligencer. MR. FELKIN has received a letter, via the Nile, from Mr. Pearson in Uganda, dated June 1st, which is three months later than our previous news. Mtesa was in bad health, and friendly with neither Mr. Pearson nor with the four French priests, and the latter were anxious to get away. "A short time ago the houses where the royal tombs are were rebuilt, and when finished, more than two hundred people were sacrificed." "I have not a bead or a yard of cloth, and am subsisting on what I get from selling clothes, &c." 'No one is allowed to come to learn to read." ON Nov. 30th, St. Andrew's Day, Bishop Moule held his first ordination at St. Mary's, Islington. The Rev. F. Glanvill, who is to sail shortly to join the Tamil Cooly Mission in Ceylon, and the Rev. I. J. Taylor, who is going to Japan as agent of the Bible Society, received priests' orders. Both are C.M.S. Islington men who were ordained deacons by the Bishop of London on June 11th. The sermon was preached by the Bishop's brother, the Rev. Handley C. G. Moule, Principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge. THE Archbishop of Canterbury has conferred the Lambeth degree of D.D. on the Rev. W. Mason, Vicar of Long Horsley, Northumberland, for his services as a missionary in North-West America, and particularly for his translation of the Bible into the Cree language. Mr. Mason went out in 1840, under the Wesleyan Missionary Society, but subsequently joined the C.M.S., and was ordained by the Bishop of Rupert's Land in 1854. THE Waganda envoys, with the Rev. P. O'Flaherty and Mr. C. Stokes, left Mpwapwa for Uyui, en route for Uganda, on Oct. 21st. Some delay had occurred owing to the illness of Mr. O'Flaherty and the difficulty of obtaining porters. OUR letters from Mpwapwa, which are down to Oct. 31st, mention that the Sultan of Zanzibar's military expedition into the interior, referred to in our last, consists of 500 men under the command of Lieut. Matthews, an English naval officer whose services had been placed at the Sultan's disposal some time back for the suppression of the slave trade. The arms carried by this force are also those supplied by the British Government for the same purpose. How far this new employment of resources derived from England is legitimate, we will not commit ourselves hastily to say. It is just possible that a series of small military posts, which we hear Lieut. Matthews is forming on the road, may be of some service in the cause we all have at heart. On the other hand, as we said before, if war with Mirambo or any other African chieftain is intended, nothing but confusion and devastation can result; and with a view to the influence of the British Government being exercised in favour of peace with all except the slavedealers, the C.M.S. and the London Missionary Society have agreed to make joint representations to the Foreign Office. Both societies are peculiarly concerned in the matter; ourselves, because of our station at Uyui and our road to the Victoria Nyanza; and the L.M.S., because of its Missions at Mirambo's capital and on Lake Tanganika. All these events illustrate in the most wonderful way the rapidity with which Africa is opening up. One recent circumstance is peculiarly startling. On Oct. 28th, 1871, Mr. Stanley, after a long and perilous journey into the heart of the Dark Continent in search of the long-lost Livingstone, found him at Ujiji, just two years after the commission was given him, and ten |