Meteorological Register, kept at the Surveyor General's Office, Calcutta, for the Month of Aug. 1836. Maximum Pressure observed at 9h. 50m. 82,382,3 calm.,614 82,8 84,5 82,3 calm.,592 83,3 S. ,634 85,3 84,6 83,6 N. 0,51 E' E. ,490 86,086,8 87,0 S. E. E. 0,38 E. ,396 85,6 86,3 86,0 E. 0,45 9 ,488 85,0 88,0 85,5 E. 490 86,8 87,487,2 E. ,480 84,5 84,8 84,5 10 ,648 84,5 37,385,3 E. 648 83,3 83,5 83,2 E. ,620 84,5 8. 14 ,698 83,3 85,8 84,5 S. 15 ,656 84,3 87,084,8 W. 688 83,5 91,0 85,8 16 ,610 85,5 89,5 87,5 s. E. 61086,7 S. 93,4 88,9 ,544 86,5 ,648 83,5 ,536 86,5 20 ,568 84,6 89,5 85,0] E. '55286,4 93,087,2 E. ,482 87,5 21 ,450 83,7 84,5 82,7 E. '436 83,9 87,2 84,5 H. E ,376 82,6 22 ,534 82,283,281,5's. w. 534 83,3 86,0,83,5 S. ,524 85,0 23 ,652 83,5 87,3 84,2 s. E. 640 85,3 91,587,5 S. ,612 84,4 24 ,674 85,389,086,2 E. 650 84,9 87,5 86,7 E. 25 ,524 82,9 85,5 83,5 E. 504 84,0 89,084,5 E. ,598 84,0 26 ,650 80,080,079,8 8. 642 80,0 79,9 78,5 8. ,628 80,2 27 ,806 82,085,083,1 S. 792 82,7 86,8 84,5 8. ,744 84,2 E.,460 84,6 ,700 85,8 96,890,5 w.,688 85,5 89,5 87,7 W ,612 85,5 94,088,8 N.,596 65,3 ,600 3,6 83,983,4 calm.,580 83,9 ,624 83,2 82,682,8 calm.,808 83,2 THE CALCUTTA CHRISTIAN OBSERVER. November, 1836. I.-Short Memoir of the Rev. J. T. Reichardt. The Rev. John Theophilus Reichardt was born at Heidelberg, in Baden. His father held a respectable station in the service, first of the Grand Duke of Baden, afterwards of the king of Wirtemberg. He was one of several sons, and at one time was inclined to take up the profession of arms, to which he was moved by a mingled feeling of patriotism and love of action. Happily for himself, and, it is to be hoped, for many others, the military ardour gave place to a holier and far more powerful enthusiasm, and he devoted himself with a zeal which never subsided, to the service of God and the spiritual welfare of his fellow men. After the usual classical preparation at a school in Stuttgardt, he passed through the prescribed course of literary and theological study in the well known and admirably conducted Missionary Seminary at Basle, and came out to India in 1822, as a Lutheran Minister, under the auspices of the Church Missionary Society. Friends yet surviving bear full and satisfactory testimony to the more even than ordinary zeal and spirituality of mind. and temper, with which Mr. Reichardt entered on his Missionary labours in Calcutta. Naturally of an active and elastic temperament, animated with a most fervent devotion to God, filled with regard for the honor of the Saviour, and penetrated with pity for the blind and debased idolaters among whom his work was assigned him, he set himself at once and in earnest to the task of an evangelist. Without any very peculiar powers of mind or depth of erudition, he yet possessed a clear understanding and a good judgment, and had made a very respectable proficiency in general literature, as well as in classical, biblical, and theological learning. He at once commenced the study of the Bengáli language as an indispensable preliminary to future usefulness; and among other proofs of the earnestness and labour with which he did so, is especially to be noted a MS. in 3 volumes, yet remaining, in which he had caused the entire of Rám Chandra Sharma's Abhidhán, or School Dictionary, to be copied out in columns, to which his Pandit appended, under each word, one or more sentences exhibiting its use and application. These sentences not being selected from accredited native authors, but composed expressly for the purpose by one individual, are of course less valuable both for illustration and authority, than had they been the product of known writers, to whose books they would have served as an invaluable introduction, while they established the acceptation of the terms found in them. Still, they prove no ordinary tact and perseverance in Mr. Reichardt; and might yet, if revised and improved, prove eminently serviceable to future students. For about six years this intelligent Missionary laboured in connexion with the Church Missionary Society, with much zeal and assiduity in the superintendance of Bengáli schools as well as of the English school on the Mirzapore premises-in Bengáli preaching-in the composition of native tracts and the compilation of several useful works, both in English and Bengáli, for the use of schools. The principal of these were, in the latter, a Catechetical Summary of Christian faith and practice, bearing the title of or The Enlightener, and a collection of Hymns for the use of the Native Christians, in various metres, Native and European in the former, a Summary of History and a compilation on Geography, exhibiting great labour and an extensive and accurate acquaintance with the science, the first volume only of which has been published at the Church Mission Press. A second revised and improved edition of the was published a year or two back, and is in use among the Christians and in the schools of the Church Missionary Society. Various judgments will be and are formed of these and all similar productions of different Missionaries by various individuals, according to the principles of translation and native style severally adopted by them. Mr. Reichardt's pronunciation was somewhat defective, as is that of, I believe, nearly all the continental nations of Europe when applied to eastern languages, above that of Englishmen generally—and he had not modelled his style of writing altogether upon native authority, as has been the case with many both before and since; who finding little that was in itself worth reading in the native writers, have paid too little attention to a line of study which, however irksome and unremunerative in some respects, is the only one certainly calculated to make one acquainted with the idiomatic propriety of native composition, in modes of thinking, and forms of expression; and it is to be apprehended that many works, of much labour and containing most excellent matter, are less useful than they might be, from the defect of liom and freedom from foreign turns of thought and phraselogy, order and connexion of sentences, &c. which too undeFerved and incautious a neglect of native writings must occareion. Mr. R. had acquired considerable facility in colloquial and pulpit discourse, and left no opportunity of exercising his talents unimproved. Indeed no man laboured more simply or more perseveringly-he made the Missionary object the centre of his thoughts, and brought all his mental and physical ability to bear upon it: and it is surely to be hoped, that so much zeal and effort were not fruitless. How far, in regard to actual conversion of souls, success attended them, cannot now be ascertained-but thanks be to our gracious God and Father in Christ, to give success being out of the power of man, the degree obtained will not be made the measure of acceptance or result to the humble, faithful labourer-" A Paul may plant and an Apollos water, but it is God alone who giveth the increase" neither the one nor the other among the "labourers together with God" is, as to final effect, "any thing"-yet every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour"-not to his success. No doubt, however, as in the natural so in the spiritual "husbandry"-though it be the warming sun and rains from heaven, and the first life-giving power of God alone, that cause the field of man's toil to bear the fruits whether of the earthly or the heavenly seed, for the bread of earthly or the bread of eternal life-yet neither the bestowment of a divine blessing nor the effect of that blessing is made altogether independently of the prudent, active, and watchful agency of man. To be wise as well as harmless, is essentially required of us in all relations-and the most successful Missionary will usually be the most humble, pious, laborious, and intelligent-he, in short, who exerts himself in the diligent use of all his mental and physical powers as though every thing depended on him; yet in faith and prayer, as well knowing he has not an iota of efficiency as to the moral and spiritual result; while equally aware too, that God has, in his wisdom, so connected man's labour with his own blessing, that ordinarily the one is given only in the measure and skilful application of the other. Thus Reichardt assuredly laboured, and both his work and his reward are with his God. In the year 1829, I think, some unhappy differences of opinion between the Calcutta Missionaries and the Church Miss. Committee, occasioned our deceased brother to withdraw from the Society; and without passing a judgment-nay, in some points of view, without the means of forming a clear and final opinion on the merits of the disputes in question-which, however, lost to the Missionary cause the services of such men as Isaac Wilson and Reichardt, both men, though in different kinds, of talent, character and zeal, and both of undoubted piety and devotion to the Saviour and to his cause-I will only assert from long personal intimacy with Mr. R. then, before and since, that whatever error of judgment may have cleaved to him in that unhappy affair, he felt throughout the comfort of a good conscience he was actuated neither by pride nor covetousnesshad neither grown lukewarm nor ambitious-he left the Mission with the deepest regret, and most reluctantly turned himself to tuition as the only mode either of support or usefulness then open to him. Yet did he not forego the character nor remit all the feasible exertions of a Missionary; but continued still in many ways, by his contributions, his pen and his voice, to make known" among the heathen the unsearchable riches of Christ." In conjunction with his amiable and excellent wife, he entered upon the conduct of a seminary for the education of young ladies in this city, which was maintained in vigour and repute up to the period of his decease. There, too, the writer of this tribute to his memory, was often and often witness, at all times and seasons, to the ardour which he brought to his important and honorable task-he spared no toil, no pains, no watchfulness, to promote the improvement and comfort of his young charge-his personal attention to his responsible undertaking was unremitting, and many have not slightly benefitted by his instructions and his care, in which he was ever ably seconded by his pious and affectionate wife. Withal, Mr. Reichardt was unceasing in endeavours for the moral and spiritual benefit of his pupils, for whom he maintained not only morning and evening prayer, but a regular Sunday service-all of which, too, were never perfunctorily performed, but were always conducted with seriousness, solemnity and devoutness, in a manner intended and calculated to instruct and impress the young people committed to his training and with what effect in many instances, all his friends well know. Mr. Reichardt lost his faithful and beloved partner in April 1833, by a fit of apoplexy: the loss was to him most afflicting and desolating; he felt it severely, but submitted himself to God as to Him that doeth both wisely and graciously in all his providences. This most excellent lady had a heart so warm, and maintained a course of piety so consistent, as to gain, I may truly say, the universal esteem and regard of those who knew her, and she died as lamented as she had lived beloved and valued. That confidence reposed in Mr. Reichardt after the death of his wife, by which he was still enabled to carry on his establishment, was a well merited testimony to his character and worth it was as just as it was unusual; and for a |