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Committee, not to make the usual Grant to Bishop's College, Calcutta.

INCOME AND EXPENDITURE.

Though the appeal to the Public on the defalcation in the Funds, which was circulated for several months previously to the 31st of March, was kindly and liberally answered in many quarters, yet, at the close of the year, the actual deficiency in the Receipts amounted to the sum of 18357. 19s. 8d.: the Gross Amount on account of the General Fund, for the year ending March 31, being 43,2607. 4s. 4d. The excess of Expenditure for General Purposes during the same period amounted to 95577. 13s. 2d.; exclusive of 25257. advanced out of the General Fund toward the completion of the Institution Buildings: the Total Expenditure in the year being 52,8177. 17s. 6d., including the sum of 17301. 6s. 11d. for Missionary Registers and Quarterly Papers supplied to the Associations.

The Receipts, during the year, on account of the Institution Building Fund have amounted to the sum of 5647. 19s. 6d.

Without entering into the particulars which form the excess in the Foreign Expenditure, the Committee deem it requisite to state, that it falls principally under the following heads:-the purchase of Premises for the Mission at Calcutta; the erection of Buildings in the Missions; the increasing number of Missionaries; and the return home of Missionaries and their families.

Though a considerable portion of this excess arises out of occasional charges; yet, on a full examination of the subject, the Committee are constrained to state, that the operations of the Society cannot be continued on their present scale without an increase of the permanent income of the Society. They have, therefore, found themselves compelled to fix a limit to the expenses of the Missions; and to prohibit any enlargement of their operations, under the existing circumstances of the Society.

Before the Committee take leave of this subject, they would particularly call the attention of the Society to the consideration of those circumstances which affect the proceedings of a Missionary Institu

tion, in reference to its necessary expenditure. The very formation of a Mission contemplates its gradual extension; and that extension involves a progressive augmentation of unavoidable expenses, in the multiplication of Missionaries, Catechists, and Schoolmasters, the extension of Schools, the erection of Buildings, and-which, under God, is the end of all-the accession of Converts, with all the contingencies resulting from these different heads of charge: nor will this state of things cease in a Mission, until those Converts grow to such numbers, and are advanced to such maturity of character, as to provide from among themselves for the support of a Christian Ministry and its concomitant expenses. It is moreover to be borne in mind, that the reception and training up of Missionary Candidates, though essential to the very being of a Missionary Society, tends directly to the augmentation of its permanent expenses, exactly in the ratio in which it brings forward Agents beyond what may be required to supply the place of those who are removed from the scene of their labours. In fact, this tendency to increased expenditure arises out of the exigencies of the Heathen World; and the obligation to provide for it is only a part of that more extended one which binds Christians to undertake and to prosecute Missionary operations among them.

DEPUTATION TO BASLE.

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The arrangements entered into with the Committee of the Bâsle Missionary Society for the reception of Students, from thence to be employed in the Missions of the Church Missionary Society, were adverted to in the 22d Report, page 52.

In consequence of these arrangements, several Students have, from time to time, been received from the Bâsle Institution, who are usefully labouring in the Society's different Missions. Of the Individuals thus received, two have, on the application of the Committee, been admitted by the Lord Bishop of London to Holy Orders in the Church of England; and a third was, at his own instance, admitted to Episcopal Orders in Calcutta, by the late Bishop Heber.

With a view to consolidate the connection thus sub

sisting between the Society and the Bâsle Institution, a Deputation, consisting of the Senior Clerical Secretary and the Assistant Secretary, was appointed to proceed to Bâsle, in order to confer with the Directors of the Institution on various subjects in reference to the mutual interests of the two bodies. The Instructions of the Committee were delivered to the Deputation at their Monthly Meeting, on the 11th of June. The Deputation embarked in the Steam Packet for Ostend on the 20th of the same Month, and arrived at Bâsle on the 3d of July. They were received with the greatest Christian kindness and cordiality by the Inspector of the Institution, the Rev. T. Blumhardt; and, by the desire of the Bâsle Committee, were hospitably received into the Institution during their stay in that city. Every facility was afforded to the Deputation, to enable them fully to inform themselves on all the points referred to them in their Instructions; and they were throughout treated by the Committee of the Institution in the most friendly and confidential manner.

The general result of the visit of the Deputation was highly satisfactory; and promises to cement more closely the friendly relations subsisting between the two Societies, to their mutual advantage. A copious Abstract of the Report of the Deputation was printed in the Missionary Register for Oct.1827, pp.457-462.

EXERTIONS OF FRIENDS.

The Committee desire to express their thanks to the Friends who have kindly assisted the Society; either by Preaching, by assisting at Meetings, or by furthering Local Associations in its behalf.

The Committee express their earnest hope, that other Clergymen in different parts of the country will kindly assist the Society in visiting its Associations; experience having fully convinced them, that, unless this help be afforded, a considerable diminution in the Receipts of the Society will be the consequence.

In noticing the Exertions of Friends, the Committee deplore the loss which the Society has experienced in the death of Mr. Compigne, who, for twenty-one years successively, took an active part in the councils of the Society.

Since the last Anniversary, the Provost of Oriel College, Oxford, having been appointed to the Bishopric of Llandaff, his Lordship's name has been transferred from the List of the Vice-Presidents to that of the Vice-Patrons.

The Committee have also the pleasure of numbering among the Vice-Patrons, the Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man, and the Bishop of Calcutta.

NEW ASSOCIATIONS.

Thirteen New Associations or Branches have been formed in England, during the year; beside Twenty in aid of the Hibernian Auxiliary.

CONTRIBUTIONS BY ASSOCIATIONS.

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