them: I trust it will long continue, and that much fruit will be found to arise from the seed which has been sown.

Regent.

Mr. Davey visits Regent as often as his numerous engagements in other directions permit; performing Divine Service there on an average four or five times in the Quarter, and administering the Lord's Supper once. The Sunday Services, and those in the Morning and Evening, were conducted by David Noah till his removal to Waterloo in November. Mr. and Mrs. Weeks, on their arrival in the Colony, were stationed at Regent, for the purpose of conducting an Infants' School.

Mr. Davey gave an affecting view, in his Reports in March and June, of the neglect of the means of Grace which prevailed among the people, and of the inconsistent conduct of many who came to the Lord's Table. This latter evil arose from the want of that Pastoral Superintendence which it is utterly impossible for a single individual to exercise throughout the District; but it has in some degree been removed by the appointment of one person to overlook every Twenty or Thirty Communicants. In September, Mr. Davey's account is more favourable: he says

With respect to the people generally of this place, I can report more favourably than I could do last Quarter: many of them appear more attentive to the means of Grace than they were. The Congregations on Sunday Mornings have averaged about 300: in the Afternoons, about half that number and on Week-days, about 100. I have administered the Lord's Supper once; baptized one Adult and ten Infants; received one Backslider into the Church, who appeared penitent; and married 15 couples. There are several persons making inquiries about the salvation of their souls, who will shortly be received as Candidates for Christian Baptism. The number of Communicants on the list is 248, who have been regular in their Weekly Meetings; and I think the benefits of this plan already appear. David Noah has visited most of them in these Meetings.

At Christmas, the Missionaries make the following Report of this Station:

300 attend on Sunday Morning; 100 on Week-days; Communicants 244. A large increase in the number of Communicants appears, when compared with the statement of last year. This has arisen from the circumstance of a number of

persons, who were admitted to Church privileges years ago, but grew remiss and neglected the means of Grace, being stirred up, during this year, to claim the same privileges, from the enjoyment of which they never were regularly excluded. A great increase in attention and regard towards the means of Grace has taken place during the last four months. Weekly Prayer-Meetings are held by the Communicants and by the Candidates. The Mission has opened a School here in the Society's Premises; while Government continues the School it used to keep before; and 57 Children are under instruction. Bathurst.

Although this Settlement has the benefit of a resident Missionary, the inhabitants do not appear to have profited in proportion to their advantages, and there is reason to lament their general unconcern for the salvation of their souls. The average number attending Divine Service on Sundays is 250, including children: about 120 are present at the ThursdayEvening Lecture; and about 180 at Daily Morning Prayers. At Christmas there were 6 Communicants: Mr. Davey had baptized 17 Infants during the Michaelmas Quarter. The Communicants of this place and Charlotte have a Prayer-Meeting every Tuesday; and it is mentioned in the Report, that, in the Quarter ending at Christmas, a manifest change had taken place in the regard shewn to the means of Grace.

An Adult Evening SCHOOL was kept by Mr. Boston while he remained at Bathurst; and since his removal to Gloucester, has been continued by John Attara : the number of Scholars is 14.

Mrs. Taylor, whose removal from Freetown to this district, for the benefit of her health, has been noticed, assisted Mrs. Heighway, till her marriage with Mr. Betts, in conducting the Infants' School; of which Mr. Davey, at Michaelmas, makes the following Report:

The attendance of the Infant School has been augmented by the Liberated African Boys, and by the Children born in the Colony residing at Charlotte: the total number on the books is 124, out of which there has been an average attendance of 116. Some deficiency has been experienced in consequence of many of the Children having had the measles. Their progress is both satisfactory and encouraging.

A Sunday School has been established, for Apprentices especially; which contains 53 Scholars of that description, and 12 Adults.

Charlotte.

William Davis, a Native Teacher, noticed in the last Report as having the care of this Settlement, has been removed from his connection with the Society; and it does not appear, from recent accounts, that any one has been appointed to succeed him. Very few of the inhabitants attend Church, either at Bathurst on Sunday Mornings, or at their own Village in the Afternoons. At Michaelmas, Mr. Davey

states

About 26 of the Liberated African Boys have attended the Infants' School at Bathurst: with the progress of many of them I have been much pleased; and I trust, that as they are very partial to the School (coming very often an hour before it commences), they will receive lasting benefit from attending it. The Children born in the Colony, residing at this Village, have also attended the Bathurst Infants' School: the heavy rains and the measles have prevented their attendance being so regular as we anticipate it will be in future: it is pleasing, however, to report, that an average of 29 have attended.

The following view of this Settlement is given by the Missionaries, in their Annual Report

Charlotte is so near to Bathurst, that the inhabitants might very well attend Divine Service there, had they a desire after spiritual things: but they shew nothing like pious feeling, or even a regard to morality, the Communicants excepted; and the Sabbath is sadly profaned. The attendance on the Sunday Services is about 40; Communicants 3. The Children of this place attend School at Bathurst; but, as the parents are not anxious about the instruction of their children, the attendance is irregular.

The following Extract, from the West-African Report, will be read with feelings of considerable regret:

The Minister of the Mountain Villages notices-and the same remark is made by the Minister in charge of the River District-the apparent very rapid spread of Mohamedanism in his District within the last twelve months. The emissaries of the False Prophet have manifest advantages over the Teachers of Christ's religion in this Colony, the latter having so few Natives to support them. Their number is considerable; they can undergo fatigue which would be fatal to a

European life; they need no conveyance for travelling from place to place; and they recommend a religion requiring chiefly an outward change without an inward, and opening the door to carnal enjoyment rather than condemning it.

SEA DISTRICT.

The Rev. William K. Betts continued to superintend this district, assisted by William Neville, a Native Teacher, till Christmas; when the pressing want of Labourers to meet the demands of the Mission compelled the Missionaries to relinquish it.

York.

Mr. Betts has visited York at such seasons as he has been able; and the state of the inhabitants shews how much they need the attention of one whose whole time could be devoted to them. The Sunday is profaned by a very large proportion of the people; and but little attention appears to be paid to the Missionary when he visits them. Of their general character Mr. Betts remarks, at Michaelmas

The people are, in general, regardless of the Sabbath and their souls; nor am I sanguine in hoping that much improvement will take place in their spiritual condition, till they can have the advantage of Pastoral Visits at their houses; which appears to me the most likely means, by far, of drawing the minds of the Africans, generally, to reflect on those things which are unseen and eternal.

In this state of things, it is a subject of gratitude that there is a large and interesting Congregation, chiefly consisting of those baptized Africans who have formed themselves into a body under the superintendence of their Class Leaders, after the method of the Wesleyans. These Leaders exercise à laudable watchfulness over the conduct of the Members of their respective Classes.

Of these, Mr. Betts writes

That select body of professing Christians in this town, mentioned in former Reports, still conduct themselves in a praiseworthy manner; and I hope that many of them are seeking the Kingdom of God in truth, though they need to have the way of the Lord expounded unto them more perfectly. One of the most devoted of these people has been stirring up the minds of the inhabitants to meet the expense of a substantial Stone Church, and it is probable that he will succeed: the building used as a Church has fallen down.

The state of this Settlement is thus noticed in that Report:

An attendance of 200 has generally been obtained on Sunday Mornings, and of 150 in the Afternoon; the Communicants are 82. The grass hut, formerly used for Divine Service, having fallen in, Public Worship has been performed in the Government School-Room; which, however, will not contain one-fourth of the population. The people have met on week-days in a place of Worship belonging to them.

Kent.

Mr. Betts, who resided at this Settlement till November, when it was relinquished, found the evil effects on the Congregation, from the want of a Teacher between the time of Mr. Gerber's departure and his own arrival: and the inconsistency of their conduct with their profession, led him to exclude many of the former Communicants from the Lord's Table. At Lady-Day he makes the following Report

While truth demands that I should speak unfavourably of the state of the Professors of Religion at this place, yet it affords me pleasure to be able to say, that the attendance on the means of Grace, on the part of the inhabitants in general, is encouraging.

At his Midsummer Report, Mr. Betts writes

Divine Service has been performed three times on the Sunday, with very few exceptions. The first of these Services was formerly the Six-o'clock public Morning Prayer; but the number increasing in attendance on that occasion, I have, in addition to reading a chapter and Prayers, generally preached. The attendance at the place of Worship on the other parts of the day has not decreased. There have been two Children baptized, after much instruction and exhortation given to the parents and sponsors; and 12 couples have been married.

The Missionaries give the following account of this Station, previous to its being relinquished in November

Kent was the residence of a Clergyman, from the beginning of the year; and of a Native Teacher since the month of April: both of whose services were withdrawn, as before noticed, in November last. Up to that time, there was an attendance at Divine Service, on Sunday Morning, of 250; Afternoon, 150; on Week-days, of about 70: Communicants, 17. Some of the people were attentive, and appeared to value their religious opportunities, but the majority were careless: the attention and apparent seriousness of those attending on week-days was