he cried out, and began to cross his forehead. He then said that it was to preserve him from accidents; that he gave two dollars for one, and it was very good. I directed him to Jesus Christ for preservation and salvation: to Him he must pray, and put no trust in his Greegrees."

On landing at Senegal, it proved to be a grand festival with the Mahomedans. Melancholy evidences abounded, on all sides, of a country buried in the shadow of death. His mind was deeply impressed with a sense of the invaluable privilege of being born in a Christian Land, where the holy and peaceful religion of Jesus is proclaimed.

Mr. Garnon was strongly urged by Major Peddie, at the head of the Expedition into the Interior to discover the Source of the Niger, and who was then at Senegal, to preach a Farewell Sermon to the party engaged. He would have gladly complied; but much lamented that he was prevented, by orders to go on board early on the Sunday Morning. Major Peddie, and two other Senior Officers, died, as is well known, with about fifty men, when they had proceeded scarcely more than 200 miles. In writing afterwards to a friend, and mentioning his having seen the setting forward and the return of one of the largest expeditions into Africa, he says, "Some who have returned are not very willing, I believe, to go again; but they say the HONOUR of the thing obliges them. Farewell such HONOURS! I once sighed for them, but found them not. I was told that glory was to be found in ARMS: I sighed for that also; and enjoyed it, as I thought, for some years. I endured all difficulties then, as a good soldier; yet I never found this glory: till at last it was told me that TRUE glory was to be found above

and that it consisted in Grace imparted here, as an earnest of Glory hereafter."

On Sunday, October 3, the Diana sailed for Goree, where she stayed a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Garnon here visited Mr. and Mrs. Hughes, stationed at this Island by the Church Missionary Society; and examined into the state of the Schools. On the following Saturday they sailed for Sierra Leone. The ship stopped, for a day or two, at the British Settlement in the Gambia, then quite in its infant state; and anchored in St. George's Bay, off Free-town, on the 21st of November.

The view of the Peninsula of Sierra Leone, when sailing up the River, is striking and beautiful; and the face of the country quite different from any which they had before seen on that coast. The mountains, which extend a considerable distance from West to East, form a noble chain; and, on a near approach, present a very picturesque appearance, from the thick and lively verdure with which they are constantly crowned. Here and there is a spot cleared, with a house and a farm. These pleasingly vary the scene. The Church at Leicester Mountain, from its conspicuous situation, soon arrests the eye of the stranger; and affords, to an enlightened mind, pure satisfaction and delight, when it is considered that this is but ONE of the several buildings that are erecting for the instruction of the Heathen.

The first intelligence which met Mr. Garnon was the death of several who promised to be useful in the Colony but he was not discouraged : his language was, "Lord, I desire to be thine!-enable me to give up my life cheerfully in this work, if thou shouldst require it!"

[To be continued.]

FUNDS.

The Funds being exhausted, it became necessary to adopt some effectual measures for their renovation. A Public Meeting was, in consequence, called on the First of May, of last year. The proceedings at this Meeting we gave at pp. 222 and 223 of the Volume for 1818. To the contributions there mentioned, may be added One Hundred Guineas from his Royal Highness the Prince of Saxe Coburg; and Five Hundred Pounds from each of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, "being the Third Donation which those Venerable Bodies have granted from their public funds, toward extending generally the blessings of National Education."

Upward of 65001. was contributed, it appears, between the time of the above Meeting and the Anniversary; and an increase of more than 200!. has taken place in the Annual Subscriptions, principally by a number of Subscribers consenting to double their subscriptions.

On this subject it is statedThe Committee entertain the sanguine hope, that further additions to the Annual Subscriptions will be made, so as fully to provide for the unavoidable Expenditure of the Establishment; and to leave the sum contributed by Donations to be wholly appropriated to the very important object of directly establishing the System in different parts of the country.

CENTRALOL.

This Establishme. ontinues to answer its several des gns-in the Education of a number of poor children, in presenting a model of the National System to visitors

from all quarters, and in training Masters and Mistresses in the perfect knowledge of that System.

On the Education afforded by this Establishment to the poor, it is said

The number of Children, now on the Lists of the School, and in a course of re

gular attendance, is, Boys 582, Girls 298. The average number of Boys for the last year has been 606; that of Girls, 305: and, adding the numbers of the present to those of former years, the whole number of those who have received education here, since the first establishment fact, which shews, in a very satisfactory in 1811, amounts to more than 4300-a manner, the effect which this single In. stitution has directly had, in the course of so few years, on the morals and conduct of the lower orders.

On the second object of the Central School, in its exhibiting a model of the System, the Report

states

Visitors from all parts of the Kingdom, of whom are of the highest rank,

many

and amounting on the whole to nearly

5000, have inspected it, at various times, during the course of the last year; and have uniformly expressed the greatest admiration of the excellent discipline which is maintained, the order and regularity with which the whole is conducted, and the singular improvement which the Children make in useful elementary knowledge.

On the third object it is said

But perhaps, after all, the most extensive benefit of the Central School is derived from the diffusion of the System, through its Training Masters and Mistresses. The number of Masters admitted in the last year, and retained by the

Society for the purpose of being sent to

such Schools as may apply, is 42-of Mistresses admitted for a similar purpose, 22.

nent

The Schools supplied with permaMasters and Mistresses are, 41;

The Committee, in their Report of last year, mentioned the formation of a Society for promoting the Education of the Poor within the Government of Bombay; and that the communications which they had received from Archdeacon Barnes of the zeal and energy with which the cause was supported at that Presidency, afforded the fairest promise of successful results. By a subsequent Letter, a request was communicated from the Archdeacon, in the name of the Society there, that a Master, thoroughly instructed in the System at the Central School, might be provided and sent out with the least possible delay : themselves engaging to defray the expense of the passage, and to give a liberal salary, to commence from the period of his leaving England. It was found, on inquiry, that Mr. Cooper, who has conducted the National School at St. Martin's to the satisfaction of Archdeacon Pott and the Committee of that Parish, was willing to engage in the situation. The East-India Directors have kindly consented to grant him a passage, and he has now left England for his destination.

CONCLUSION,

The Committee cannot refrain, before. they conclude, from expressing their firm and confident hope, that a very material improvement in the religious and moral condition of the lower classes is progressively taking place, from what is now doing, and is likely to be further done, by the National System of Instruction.

They have stated already, that, according to the best estimate which they can form, about 180,000 Children are now receiving education in Schools united with the Society; and 50,000 more in Schools. mainly conducted on its principles, but not actually received into Union. And when it is considered, what a rapid succession is continually going on in the individual Children who compose these Schools, and how considerable a portion of the whole number are annually sent forth. into the mass of Society having imbibed the useful instruction there afforded, they derive the most gratifying anticipations of what may be effected, in the progress of years, by so large a part of our population, trained from their early years, by wholehabits, and in attachment to the Establishsome discipline, to religious and moral ments of their Country, in Church and

State.

In regard to the happy effect of the National Education in preserving the rising generation from the taint of evil, they have great satisfaction in mentioning a fact, for the truth of which they are permitted to allege the authority of the Re corder of the City of London.

The public mind has been shocked, in the two or three last years, by numerous instances of early depravity in Children of this Metropolis, who have been systemati❤ cally trained to the most flagrant breaches of the Law. Inquiries have been diligently made into the history of these Children; and it has been ascertained, that, while the whole of those who have been committed for being concerned in these guilty connexions amount to the fearful number of 497, only 14 have been found amongst them who have received Education in any of our National Schools. Now, when it is recollected, that, in the Central School alone, more than 4000 Children have been educated, and many thousands more in the different National Schools in and near the Metropolis, the Committee cannot help considering this fact as affording a gratifying proof of the solid and per2 K

manent efficacy of those impressions, which the discipline of the National Schools fixes in the youthful mind.

But, while so much real good has been dene and is now doing, it should be well

remembered, that much remains to be

done; and that there is as yet no room for

a relaxation of those exertions, which have hitherto proved so effectual in maintaining and extending the National System. If Schools on this plan have been formed in every Diocese in the Kingdom, and if the whole number in the Union amounts to upwards of 1200, still it should be called to mind, that many populous Parishes are now without any National School, and that the whole number of Schools already established falls very far short of the number of Parishes in the Kingdom.

On these grounds it is anxiously hoped, that the contemplation of the good already effected will only serve to stimulate the friends of the Society to increased exertion and activity in maintaining it. The General Committee acting, as they have done from the first, under the firm impression that to afford to the Public the fullest proofs of the uses of the Society, is to take the most effectual means of en. suring to it continued support, have never hesitated in employing, without reserve, the funds entrusted to them, when fa

yourable opportunities presented themselves of applying them with advantage. They have the satisfaction of finding the wisdom of their course of proceeding fully justified in the event: for not only have they succeeded, beyond their hopes, in establishing the National System; but they have derived the most satisfactory proofs of the approbation of the Public, in the liberality with which they have twice renewed their exhausted funds. With these impressions they will continue, in the exercise of their best discretion, faithfully to apply the sums placed at their disposal; being fully convinced that the more they can plant this admirable system, with deep and strong roots, in every part of the Kingdom, the more they will advance the cause of true Religion, and promote the solid welfare of the State, together with the happiness, present and eternal, of those Individuals to whom its blessings are extended.

APPENDIX,

From the Reports of the Societies and Schools in Union, given,

Mind.

ries.

Upon the whole, your Committee can confidently report, that the progress of the Children, during the last year, has been very satisfactory; and creditable, in a high degree, to the exertions of both the Master and of the Mistress. All who have learned to read, have learned in so

perfect a manner, that it can scarcely be possible for them to forget what they have acquired; and all the rest are in a fair cellent method of classification adopted, way to do the same. Owing to the exevery Child's mind is fully exercised, and none is thwarted or discouraged by being over-tasked: so that all are acquiring industrious habits; and all in such manner advancing, as to afford every reason to expect that not one, who shall remain in the School a reasonable time, will eventu ally be dismissed untaught. And, as the mode of tuition employed almost constrains every child to reflect upon the subject and matter of his lessons, all are in perpetual habits of endeavouring, at least, to understand the Scriptures; and the majority appear actually to have digested so much of them, that it is presumed few will depart without such a measure of religious knowledge, as will enable them hereafter readily to profit by the Discourses of those who are to build them up in our most holy faith.

This passage may serve as a reply to an objection which we have heard against the System of Mutual In