My Dear Sir,

"I hope this will find you and your family in a perfect state of health. I think it necessary to inform you of the existing circumstances of the Armenian Ecclesiastics, situated in the surrounding villages of Julpha. There are only two copies of the Armenian Bible in Phiriah; one in the possession of the Rev. Sir Johannes of Bolorun, who is at present Primate at Phiriah, and the other is with Mr. Mackertich the provost of Sanghibaran. The former is printed at Amsterdam by Dr. Voskan, and the latter is the Serampore edition. Consequently I beg you will make these circumstances known to the Bible Society of your place, and obtain 60 copies of the Armenian Bible, which you will be pleased to transmit to the Persian Gulph by the first opportunity. This supply will be sufficient for distributing amongst the Ecclesiastics of the villages.

"I am sorry to inform you that some of our nation have obtained at your place a supply of the Armenian Bible, with a view of distributing them gratuitously amongst the poor classes of these regions, but they have sold them at from five to ten Rupees each: the poor classes have not a single copy of it.

"I should be extremely happy if a collection could be made at your place for the purpose of buying this supply of Bibles. I would, however, undertake the expense of transmitting them to Julpha; but I am at a loss to know who would undertake to do it, if I were to apply for the same.

“I think I have fully stated the great scarcity of Bibles prevailing among our countrymen of Julpha, and have no doubt that you will use your zealous endeavours for the speedy transmission of the same. Beside this supply, which is intended for the Armenian Ecclesiastics only, two hundred copies will scarcely suffice for the use of the lay Armenians, who are in narrow circumstances.

"It would have been much better, had the Bible Society transmitted to these quarters a large supply of Armenian Bibles for sale. The rich would buy them for money, and the poor would be supplied gratis; but at present the former have them, and the latter are in need of them. Under these circumstances the Bible Society is a loser, the profit of it being earned by a few of our covetous countrymen. I am at a loss what account will be rendered by them in the day of judgment,

"I inclose this letter without cover in that of our friend Mr. Ari ratoon Kaloos, that he may be acquainted with the details of it, and co-operate with you for the speedy compliance with my request.

"I saw in Julpha a new edition of the Reverend Mr. Martyn's translation of the Holy Testament printed at St. Petersburg, by the pecuniary aid of the Bible Society of that place. The Russians sell it at Teheran for ten Rupees per copy: but a small sale is effect

ed.

"One of the domestics of my brother arrived here from Elizabethpole; he says that four German Missionaries of the Lutheran Church have come to that place; they know Armenian also, they have distributed there small tracts in different languages, among which were some Armenian pamphlets, composed in common style against the rules of our church; they bore the recommendation of my brother."

We are happy to understand that the Calcutta Bible Society have promptly and liberally supplied this demand.

SIBERIA.

(Continued.)

In this division there is but one station, Selinginsk, occupied by three Missionaries from the London Missionary Society.

CHINA. In this vast country too, there is but one station, Canton, and but one Missionary, Dr. Morrison, connected with the London Missionary Society.

"The Directors give the following general statement relative to the Chinese Scriptures

"Nearly ten years have elapsed since the completion of Dr. Morrison's Chinese Version of the New Testament. Two editions were printed from 1813 to 1819, of about 5500 copies; exclusive of detached portions, previously printed, amounting to 1650 copies. A third edition was printed in 1822.

"Of the Chinese Version of the Old Testament, executed by Drs. Morrison and Milne jointly, the whole has been either printed or is passing through the press; except the Book of Judges and the Second Book of Chronicles, which portions are under revision.

"In the early part of 1822, Dr. Morrison completed his Chinese and English Dictionary, in five quarto volumes; a work which has occupied more or less of his time for fifteen years. It has been printed at the expense of the East-India Company.

"The completion of this work enables Dr. Morrison to devote time daily to the explanation of the Scriptures. Since 1813, the Gospel has been preached, both in English and Chinese, more or less regularly, either at Macao or Canton; not without effect on some of the Chinese.

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Referring to the lamented decease of Dr. Milne, his surviving colleague writes July 5, 1822.

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"Yesterday, July 4th, nine years, had elapsed since Mr. and Mrs. Milne landed at Macao, and were received by me and Mrs. Morrison. Three of the four, all I believe under forty years of age, have been called hence, and have left me alone and disconsolate. But good is the wili of the Lord! They all died in the faith and hope of the Gospel; and they all died at their post, attending to the business of their Christian Warfare in distant lands. They have left their bodies in the field of battle. They were faithful to their Saviour's cause until death.”

INDIA BEYOND THE GANGES.-"On the suggestion of the late Dr. Milne, the Directors of the London Missionary Society, at a Meeting held Jan. 29, 1823, adopted the following Resolution

"The Directors of this Society, viewing with Christian compassion the vast population of the Kingdoms of Siam, Cochin-China, and Japan, now sunk in the most debasing idolatry, and without the knowledge of a Saviour, do

"Resolve, by the help of a gracious Providence, to attempt, as early as prac ticable, complete Versions of the Old and New Testament iuto each of the three languages of the said Kingdoms.

"Preparations for the Siamese are in progress at Sincapore.

"In reference to one of the principal means of future probable usefulness within this sphere, and to its action on China itself, the Directors of the same society thus speak, in their last Report, of the Anglo-Chinese College

"In this Institution-by its local situation sufficiently removed from the interference of the Chinese Authorities, and yet admitting an easy and extensive communication with that portion of the Chinese Population which is scattered > over the islands of the Indian Archipelago, and, occasionally, even with those of the Chinese Continent itself-is collected together every requisite and facility for enabling the Christian Missionary speedily to acquire a knowledge of the language, literature, and philosophy of China, as well as of becoming familiarly acquainted with the Chinese Version of the Scriptures; by which means he may, under the Divine blessing, be qualified to go forth and preach the Gospel to the numerous Chinese of the Archipelago; whence, we may be permitted to hope, that at some future, and, we trust, not distant period, Native Teachers will pass over to the Continent of China, to teach their idolatrous countrymen the knowledge of that religion by which they themselves shall have been previously made wise unto salvation; thus also shewing both the wisdom and the benevolence of that pro vidential insular arrangement, which, in the first place, admitted of such offsets from the continental population, and afterward facilitated so beneficial an ingraftment on the original stock."

The stations included in this division are; Malacca, Sincapore, George Town in Pulo Penang, and Rangoon. Ava might have been added. The number of Missionaries are ten, beside one Printer: they are attached to the London Missionary Society, and the American Baptist Missions.

INDIA WITHIN THE GANGES.—" In our last volume, we were enabled to give much information, reported by eye-witnesses of the highest character, respecting the state of both the Christian and Heathen Natives of India, and of the Progress and Influence of Education and Christianity: see pp. 113, 114, 149-157, 265-268, & 396 -401. We shall rejoice to see an increase of such travellers and observers as Major Mackworth, the Rev. Henry Townley, and the Rev. Principal Mill.

"Much interesting intelligence also occurs in the last volume in reference to the See of Calcutta, and the measures in relation to Protestant Episcopal Missions in India. The character of Bishop Middleton and that of his successor, the views and feelings with which Bishop Heber has entered on his sacred function, the Parliamentary Recognition of Episcopal Ordination in India, and other points connected with this subject, so pregnant, it may be reasonably hoped, with benefit to the cause of Christianity, will be found detailed at pp. 82, 225, 226, 249, 250, 289-292, & 396.

"A sufficient number of competent Christian Instructors is the most urgent want of India. The gradual creation, by the Divine blessing on the intelligence and piety of European Teachers, of a body of duly qualified Native Missionaries, is an object of supreme importance, and now happily kept in view by the different Societies which labour in India. Our Schools, our Seminaries, and our Colleges, are all means to this great end. We extract, on this subject, from the Twenty-third Report of the Church Missionary Society, a few sentences of an animated letter, addressed to the Society by the Rev. Marmaduke Thompson, on his return to his la bours in India:

"We require holy men, who are at the same time Scholars and Divines-men, who, capable of adorning a University, but emulating rather the self-denial and toil of Apostles, and crucified as they to the world and the world to them, can, like them, gladly give themselves wholly to the service of the Heathen, for the love of Christ, at any personal cost and sacrifice. The country itself will not be wanting to us. From its proper Native population, and from the descendants of Europeans it has yielded, and still yields, to the Romish Missions, and will yield to us under equal care, sufficient supplies of fit and able men for every department of our labours. May the encouragement, which the assurance of this fact is calculated to afford, move, through the Divine mercy, the hearts of many in our revered Church, whom the Lord has abundantly qualified, by endowments of mind and spiritual gifts, for the Missionary work in India!"

"Another eye-witness of what he describes draws the following picture of the preparation already made for future good;