claim the interposition of the government to secure us in the possession of treaty rights. With full liberty to preach and reside in the country, with the removal of all penalty from the profession of a Christian faith, how should we be encouraged to look forward and expect still more magnificent results. Could Morrison on his death-bed have looked forward twenty-seven years to the treaties of 1861, would he not have said, "I die content. These twenty-seven years of labour and anxiety will yet bring forth a glorious harvest. Barred, bolted and locked, China shall yet be thrown open to missionary effort." Let us, too, look forward with prophetic sight, and behold the time when the millions of Chinese shall not only hear, but also believe, the gospel; and when heathen China shall take her place MEDICAL MISSIONS IN CHAMBA, NORTH INDIA. day of Magh, s. 42 of Chamba era, corresponding with the 31st of January, A.D. 1867. Whereas, the Punjab Medical Missionary Society have expressed their readiness, in reply to certain offers from me, to station at Chamba a Medical Missionary, I hereby agree that, in the event of their doing so, I will abide by the following conditions for a period of seven years from that date; and in the event of my decease before that time, they shall also be binding on my heirs WE refer our readers to the Number of Christian Work for February of this year, in which Dr. Elmslie, of Kashmir, gives an account of the remarkable opening which exists for a Medical | Missionary in the neighbouring valley of Chamba. Missionary in the neighbouring valley of Chamba. He details fully the circumstances which led the Rajah to desire the services of a European medical man at his court, and to be so earnest in applying for one, as not only to offer him unrestricted access to the people as a missionary, but also to promise an adequate salary, a free house, a dispensary, an hospital, and all other appliances free of expense. Since writing his letter, Dr. Elmslie has been acting as a temporary agent in (two thousand and four hundred) to the said and successors. 1. I will pay an annual subsidy of Rs. 2,400 society. Chamba, with the view of keeping the door open 2. I will provide for their use here a suitable for a permanent successor. He reports most house and out-offices, and a suitable building and favourably of the place as a field for medical mis-out-offices for use as their hospital and dispensary, sionary enterprise, and expresses an earnest hope and will not make any charge on account of rent that a man of the right stamp may offer himself for the said buildings. without delay. Meanwhile, an appeal has come to the same effect to the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society, from Mr. Dallas, secretary to the Punjab Medical Missionary Society, enclosing an administrative paper on the subject, issued by the Rajah of Chamba. The paper is as follows, and must be regarded as a remarkable document, coming from a heathen prince : Administrative Order by His Highness Sveesingh, 3. I will provide all medicines, surgical instruments, and surgical and medical appliances, which the Society may consider necessary, and bear the expense of all contingent charges connected with the dispensary, the salaries of the native attendants of the hospital and dispensary included. 4. The Society's bills, under the 1st and 3rd conditions, will be paid by me, in such way, and to such persons, as they may desire. 5. The Chamba Medical Missionary shall have full liberty to prosecute the calling of a Christian Missionary, in the same way as he would be allowed to do, were he employed in any of the provinces of India which are under the immediate administration of the British Govern ment. 6. The Medical Missionary shall be bound, on my demand, to render to me, and to my immediate relatives, due professional attendance; but beyond this I will not interfere in the way in which he may see fit to carry on his medical duties in Chamba. 7. I wish the Society to avoid, as far as possible, changing during the above-mentioned period of seven (7) years, the medical missionary whom they may appoint at Chamba; but I will not object to such changes as the Society may certify to be unavoidable, and not made only for the furtherance of missionary interests in other parts of India. 8. I will pay to the Society the charges to which they will be put, for the passage out to India of the medical missionary they appoint, and also for his return to Great Britain at the expiration of 7 years from this date. My proceedings on the subject of the 11th and 12th October, 1866, are hereby cancelled. These arrangements for the introduction of the practice of European Surgery and Medicine in my State, were set on foot at my own special desire. They have been carried out with the aid of my superintendent; and, in all future pro Secy. Punjab Med. Mis. Society. It is earnestly hoped that some young member of the medical profession, of competent surgical attainments, and imbued with Evangelical sentiments and a missionary spirit, will speedily appear as a candidate for this honourable position. The Directors of the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society, without being connected in any way with the proposed mission, will gladly assist in procuring a suitable agent for Chamba, and therefore hereby invite applications, which may be addressed to the Secretary, No. 8, Shandwick Place, Edinburgh. Contributions to the various objects of the Medical Missionary Society are received in Edinburgh, by the Commercial Bank, or Dr. Omond, 43, Charlotte Square; and in London, by Mr. James Watson (Messrs. Nisbet and Co.), 21, Berners Street, W.; or by Messrs. Fuller, Banbury, Mathieson, and Co., 77, Lombard Street. order that they should make it known to the nations. Probably from no other spot in the ancient world could this knowledge have been spread abroad in all directions so constantly, and for so long a series of ages.-Robinson. THE DIFFUSION OF CHRISTIANITY.-Palestine | true God and of the Gospel was to be revealed, in was, in ancient times, in a manner isolated from all other countries, yet it formed the middle point of intercourse and communication between the most populous and powerful nations of Asia, Africa, and Europe. The hosts of Egypt swept over it on their march to oriental conquest; those of Assyria, Babylon, and Persia, in like manner overran it on their way to subjugate the valley of the Nile; while in later times the Macedonian conqueror took his route across it to the East, and the Romans held it as a convenient thoroughfare to their more distant oriental dominions. All this implies not an intercourse of war alone, but also of commerce and the arts. We may thus perceive the wisdom of the divine counsels in planting in this narrow and apparently isolated land the people to whom the knowledge of the A LEGAL FICTION.-In the neighbourhood of Presburg, in Hungary, a woman was charged with being the receiver of stolen goods. She had been most of her life a Jewess, but about six months ago she was converted by a priest of the Church of Rome. The date of birth runs in Hungary from the date of baptism. Therefore the woman, when on trial, made the ingenious plea that she was an infant not come to years of discretion, and could not legally be convicted. The tribunal held her defence to be a good one, and acquitted her.— Express. INTELLIGENCE. England. (From our own Correspondent.) THE Archbishop of Canterbury has issued an invitation to a meeting to be held at Lambeth on September 24th and three following days, of bishops in visible communion with the United Church of England and Ireland. Many bishops are expected from the colonies, and some from the United States. Lord Sidney Godolphin Osborne has addressed a very emphatic letter to the Brighton Church Association on the present aspect of affairs in the Church, and on the policy of the bishops. He says in this letter:-"I wish I could add my belief, that there is hope of any abatement of the evil, either by a more honest action on the part of those clergy or bishops who promote it, or on that of the rest of the bishops, so many of whom have spoken and written against it. The hesitating and, I might almost say, equivocal action of the Archbishop, satisfies me that he is either deficient in that moral courage which his post at this crisis demands, or is but too much under the influence and guidance of that one particular bishop who seeks to act out, by his means, in the whole 'Church, the very questionable part he carries out in his own diocese. Day by day I feel more convinced that the Protestant members of the Church can place little dependence on the so-called unanimous resolutions of the Upper House of Convocation. Drawn, as I believe them to have been, by the pen of one skilled in casuistry; wedded in heart to what he professes to condemn; receiving but little alteration at the hands of others, I am forced now to consider these resolutions as a mere covering of a determination to delay action, by the putting forth of what it was hoped would be received by the Protestant members of the Church as a sufficiently strong condemnation, and make further action needless. I have no hope myself of any real good being done in the matter, until the proper legal tribunals have decided whether we have, for nearly three centuries, lived under a delusion that the Established Church, as such, has no place within her pale for bishops or clergy who follow purely Romanist practices, and preach the doctrines we believed to have been repudiated at the Reformation. If extreme Ritualism is declared to be legally consistent with the Articles, Canons, &c., of our Church, it will then be for those who value religious liberty, abhor the slavery of Popery, to seek another "Reformation;" failing in this, to cling to the truth as our martyred forefathers held it, and worship in union, as God in his providence may permit." An account is given in the Record of the Romish celebration at St. Albans, Holborn, upon Easter Sunday. "The sun shone down in splendour, but the two chief'altar' candles must needs be lit ; the coverings on the lecterns were changed to some of another colour, and the richly-illuminated'altar' service book was put in position. Presently the deep silence was broken by soft music, and now a banner was seen advancing from behind the chancel pillar into the north aisle. As one man, the vast congregation rose, and sang the hymn, 'The Lamb's high banquet we await, In snow-white robes of royal state.' During this singing the processionists, with measured step, advanced down the north aisle, and then up the middle aisle to the altar.' The processional banners were of large size, in beautifully embroidered silk, and mounted high on gilded crosses. The first banner was in dark blue with yellow cross; the second, in white and red, contained a representation of our Lord trampling on his enemies; the third, in light blue, was, we suppose, a representation of the Virgin Mary, standing on a crescent moon, with glistening stars around her head; and the fourth was filled with medieval devices-what we will not even conjecture. In this procession the surpliced choristers, carrying flowers, led the way, the three priests robed in rich gold-coloured vestments (somewhat differing from each other in form, bordering, &c.), came at the close. The altar' reached, the 'celebrant' and his two assistants took their places facing the table, and with the richly embroidered crosses on their backs to the people. After another suspensive interval the Communion Service began, Mr. Mackonochie, as 'celebrant,' Mr. Taylor, of California, who has recently made a circuit of the world, visiting Australia and have been attended with the same results as elsewhere. A correspondent of the Revival states, "At our large chapel (Wesleyan) in Queen Street, all the meetings are carried on with activity and tage preachings, etc., being well attended, and taking the leading part. In the singing of the Nicene Creed priests and people bent low at the portion relating to the incarnation and humili-East Africa, is now in London, and his services ation of our Lord, rising again at the remaining part of the Creed. In the prayer for the Church Militant there were marked pauses after certain passages, e.g., 'We also bless thy name,' &c. In the ascription, 'Therefore with angels, and arch-energy-our prayer-meetings, class-meetings, cotangels,' &c., the people did not join in till the words, 'Holy, holy, holy,' &c., at which moment two incense-bearers appeared, swinging their censers before the 'altar,' but neither smoke nor scent was perceptible. In the prayer of consecration, the 'celebrant' made a long pause after the words consecrating the bread, and all three priests made deep obeisance. Just then the censer sent forth a cloud of smoke overshadow-weeping penitent has been found at the coming the altar-piece,' and filling the church with scent. Similar demonstrations followed the consecration of the wine. Again, there was a long pause, in which we could only observe motions, indicating, we suppose, that the priests were themselves communicating. At these times the organ pealed forth in soft strains and portions from the Hymnal Noted were sung by the choir and the initiated of the congregation, but what these were we cannot presume to say. At length the administration to the commuicants took place in the form customary among the Ritualists, the priest raising the bread to his forehead as he gave it, and the prolonged service was brought to a close. A hymn followed the Benediction, during which the officiating priests drained off what re-ings:-"The mass of the unemployed are unskilled mained in the cups, and, with gestures of reverence, replaced the sacred vessels on the credence table. We should have mentioned that there was a sermon on John xx. 1, the subject being the continuity of our present life in the future life, sin and sorrow only excepted. One of the preacher's illustrations was that in heaven the Lord's 'ever Virgin' Mother would sustain to Him the same relationship as on earth." We (says the Norwich News) learn from correspondents in the dioceses of Hereford, Chester, Lincoln, Oxford, Winchester, and Ripon, that the restoration of the Palm procession on Palm Sunday has been largely made, and in many cases with a scrupulous following of the ancient English rite. In places where the procession with palms did not take place before the High Celebration, we are informed that the churches were decorated with palms, some of which, having been privately blessed, were afterwards reverently distributed to the faithful. munion-rail crying for mercy. While God has been thus signally owning the labours of his servants in the sanctuary, He has not withheld his blessing from the more private means--the classmeeting. . . At our mission-room, scarcely ever a sermon is preached, morning or evening, but what souls are inquiring, 'What must we do?' .. As a proof of what God is doing for us, at our quarterly meeting we had to record an increase of fifty-four members, with seventy-four on trial for membership. Mr. Whitmore, of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Millwall, contradicts the report of the men refusing to work for wages under 7s. a-day, and gives a most harrowing account of their suffer workmen, usually engaged in the construction of iron ships. I saw large numbers of them on Monday, April 8, patiently waiting outside the gates of the Millwall Iron Works, hoping to procure employment, which I know they would have thankfully accepted at the rate of seven shillings for two days; and, if these had been taken on, hundreds more would have been ready and eager for employment on the same terms. Numbers of men have left Millwall, and have travelledmostly on foot-to all shipbuilding yards in England and Scotland, returning weary and heartsore to Millwall to their families, having been entirely unsuccessful in their search for employment. Almost without exception they return with the same testimony, 'There is no work to be had anywhere;' and this, I feel convinced, is the simple truth. Their condition just now is pitiful; heart-wearied and hopeless, without money and clothes, subsisting on the dole of pauperism, and unable to help themselves, often hungry, always in debt, and, when sickness comes, having no strength or stamina to battle against it. I have seen one man lie dead with hunger and cold. I saw a woman of about thirty-five years of age, on Sunday, lying dead without a vestige of flesh on her; her frame was that of a skeleton with a yellow skin drawn tightly over it. I know another who is dying now, because he gave what he could get to his wife and children, and starved himself beyond recovery. Another I saw on Monday with his hand crushed by an accident; he had a poultice of stale bran, and when I asked him why he had not linseed meal, he declared he could not get the linseed meal, having neither credit nor money, nor things to pawn. The Mansion House Committee is dissolved, the East-end Committee has ceased to act, and the only refuge is the poorhouse. I ask you if it is probable that men in the condition I have thus truthfully described would refuse to work for 6s. 6d. per day? A writer, in the Quarterly Review, gives a sketch of the recent Mormon Conference. It was held in the Music Hall, Store Street, Bedford Square. It was mentioned with no small exultation that this gathering on the 7th of April, 1867, took place exactly thirty-seven years after that of the 6th of April, 1830, on which Joseph Smith formed his church of six members. The hall was well filled, especially in the afternoon and evening, with a congregation almost entirely of the lower class, a large number being women and children. The chair was occupied by Brigham Young, jun., "President over all the saints in Great Britain and Europe," and at present also commissioner for Utah to the Paris Exhibition. He is about to return, as is the custom with all the Mormon missionaries, to enjoy the comforts of Salt Lake City; and his successor, F. D. Richards, sat by his side. On his left was Orson Pratt: and the front row of the platform was filled by some seventeen presidents of branches, elders, missionaries, &c., men of the most commonplace and unintelligent aspect, but with faces marked by either stolid or smirking self-conceit. Brigham Young, jun., looks like a substantial yeoman, who has lived up to his privileges in the temporal good things of Zion. Orson Pratt has a very different aspect; his patriarchal beard setting off strongly-marked massive features, of which Lavater might have hesitated to pronounce whether they belonged to a face or a mask. "It is the very face of a false prophet," was the involuntary expression of our companion. London has ten branches (that is, congregations), 93 elders, 54 priests, 21 deacons, 1,030 members on the books, of whom from 30 to 40 are missing. We were struck with the fact that while 110 converts were baptised in the course of the year, 44 were excommunicated. Dr. John Campbell, well known as a leading Nonconformist, and long editor of the British Banner, and afterwards of the British Standard, died on the 26th March. He was born not far from the town of Dundee in 1795. He came to London in 1828, and soon afterwards was invited to fill the place of the celebrated Matthew Wilks in the Whitfield Tabernacles of Moorfields and Tottenham Court Road. He published various books; amongst others, The Martyr of Erromanga, and The Memoir of David Nasmith, the founder of city and town missions. He took an active part in the efforts used against the Bible-printing monopoly of the Queen's printers. In 1848, he established the British Banner, having previously established the Christian Witness, and the Christian's Penny Magazine. Having given offence to various members of the Congregational Union by his emphatic statements, he established later the British Standard on his own responsibility, which he conducted till near the close of his life. A deputation recently waited on the Directors of the Brighton and South Coast Railway Company with memorials against Sunday excursion trains. The memorial from Hastings was signed by 403 magistrates and clergymen of Kent and Sussex. The memorial from Brighton was from a public meeting in that town. A third memo-rial from Dover, with 394 signatures, was ready, but could not be presented in consequence of an informality in its wording. This also was signed by magistrates and ministers only. The deputation was received with politeness, and listened to with attention, but no hope was held out that the prayer of the memorial would be granted. When the last memorials of this kind were presented to the Board, the shares of that line were at 126 per cent., now they are quoted at 67. Scotland. (From our own Correspondent.) THE proceedings of the Union Committee to the end of March have been published. The subject of chief interest was the queries put by the Free Church Committee as to the making a free question of the lawfulness of State endowments. It was decided by a majority of 15 to 3 that neither the queries nor the answers be at |