Now that I am favored with the opportunity I would endeavor to make the best of it. I beg most respectfully to thank you for the piece of ground you have obtained for me, and the kind assurances contained in your letter which I value far more than the ground. Surely such assurances from one I esteem so highly must be to me a stimulus and an encouragement to do my duty, the Lord preventing me in that humble sphere of usefulness to which he has called me. Sopervision in this isolated spot is of necessity, as you are aware, very imperfect in winter, so that it behooves me, placed as I am, to be very attentive to my business, not doing every service, in order to have a clear conscience. It consists in hoping that the Superintendent may be able to pass some time occasionally on the ground, in consequence of the little building which... is now in progress for the benefit of the poor people. He would greatly help and encourage me in the School where I have six different classes to get through, which I could hardly be able to do myself were it not for my own boy, a little fellow of twelve years, who is very smart at everything. I wish to prepare him for a Training School. He is at present reading algebra and geometry. Our Sabbath School is very well attended, directly by boys and girls who are unable to attend the daily School. The congregation is as satisfactory as could be expected. You have feelingly inquired after the temporal wants of the poor people on the island, who, I assure you, are very grateful for the interest you have taken in them and their children. The potato harvest being now in, the distress for food is not so pressing as that which lies in their inability to pay off the debts contracted in summer for food. Things did look very gloomy, indeed, at one time. Starvation stared the poorer of our people in the face to such a degree that their faith began to fail; but He who feedeth the young ravens condescended to see and relieve their immediate wants. Some wealthy Roman Catholic neighbors supplied meal at a heavy rate of interest, and those who were unable to command cash, too gladly availed themselves of the offer. They could not be blamed; for their circumstances were urgent. Some of our people have taken as many as four bags on credit (£6), and have nothing with which to pay! The creditors will soon insist on payment. How is it to be done? This is a question I will not attempt to solve. Were it not for your timely aid and that of our Superintendent matters would have been much worse. The boarding of the little parsonage is pretty well advanced. The masons will soon have their part finished. My wife, it will be remembered by some of the Society's friends how poorly this woman braved danger when no second male him could request me to tender to you her best thanks for your good remembrance of her, and for the many favors she has received from you. Be assured that in our family circle, your name is never forgotten at a throne of grace. The good Bishop is expected to visit this part of his discourse next week. I must, by this time, have exhausted your patience. I am more than half afraid I have trespassed too much on your valuable time. You will, I trust, pardon me when I tell you I have written from a full heart — a heart overflowing with gratitude and respect. From the Same. December 1867. Respected Madam, — I am honoured with the receipt of your kind favor of the 2nd. The case of £G — which you ask me to report, is a very hard one indeed. The cause of the fire is not known. The man and his wife were digging potatoes a mile from the house, and not even in sight of it, from an early hour in the morning. The fire was not reported to them till towards the evening. A number of the islanders were on the spot shortly after the fire took place, but the wind was so very high that nothing could be saved from the flames. I estimated the entire cost at £5, as timber can be had free for its re-erection. The man and his wife are both converts from Popery these many years, and the moral character of both is very good, but I fear they have been in a very slumbering state spiritually. The man frankly confesses his error in this respect, and promises amendment. The man frankly confesses his error in this respect, and promises amendment. Building of our little Mission-house is finished as far as the walls. The delay arises from preparing the timber. The covering will be wood, hot while all is done. I expect it will be a neat job. Be found to man a boat and save the life of a young girl, on whom the incoming tide was making rapid inroads, and would shortly be surrounded and swallowed her up, while she was perfectly aware of her danger. This estimable woman has been an active, lively interest, shut that exciting tide. The School is doing very well — the children are in excellent health. You will please bear with me while I say that I very much value the Christian advice contained in your letter, and will endeavor, by God's grace, to act upon it. I certainly feel my responsibility to be very great, and that great watchfulness must needs be observed to check the growth of fomales in the hearts of those committed to my care. From the Same. January 1868. "Respected Madam, — I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 12th inst., promising the sum of £2." owards re-building E C's cottage. I have made bown to him your promise, and the kind advice you requested me to impress on him. The poor fellow, together with his wife and child, is now homeless. We must all view his case as a great calamity, particularly in this inclement season. He wants nothing but what will enable him to find a shelter before the winter is any further advanced. He is now totally destitute in this respect, and there is no time to lose in making his sad case known. He desires, through me, to express his most grateful thanks. He intends, by God's help, to attend more regularly to his religious interests. From the Same. It will give you pleasure, dear Madam, to know that I have got a shelter once more; a far more comfortable house now than before; your kind promise encouraged him to build on a larger and more substantial scale. No premiums, I am happy to say, are necessary to induce the children of this island to attend school. In sending their children, they act upon higher and more land-able motives. It may not be amiss to mention one fact here to show the working of your School here compared with where the Schools have been so long in existence. A Protestant farmer named G living in the County Sligo, having no Protestant School near, seat but boy, then nine years old, to this School, to the ears of the boy's grandfather. The grandfather removed to April last, the boy of course went with him. He is now in the 13th year. He learned his alphabet with me, and now the Teachers in I have very reluctantly admitted that he is the most advanced boy in any of their Schools. I have yet some boys quite as clever as he is. Our people here very much pride themselves on the advancement. Of their children in veligions as well as secular instruction. Through the mercy and long suffering of our God, we are entered upon a new year — a year which threatens to be very trying in many ways, but particularly so to the Lord's people in this kingdom, and to His truth which we profess. It therefore behooves all of us to pray earnestly that the good work which He has begun in us and in this our land, may be performed and preserved by Him unto the end to His own glory. From the Same. January, 1668. Respected Madam, I have to thank you for the frankness, which I beg most respectfully to do. Your valuable parcel has been received, the contents of which will be most useful. So much of a Teacher's salary was paid out on clothes, in order to keep up a decent appearance, we required denying ourselves other necessaries, until your child care of us as sad as the School children enabled us to breathe more freely. I fully condense from your letter that you feel stronger than when you last wrote. As to your spirit, I have only to thank God for it. Allow me to assure you that your letters comfort us greatly. They always contain so much to cheer and encourage on account of their daily life in this backward place. We need wisdom, Madam, that anything which recalls you to our own may be a pleasure; but we are in possession of your kindness. Of so many a day, from you already, whereby to remember yes so much, great skill, which you have sent, as the latest. Please send the book of useful knowledge you speak of, I shall teach it readily. "I have taught the two Hymns of which you write to all the children of the School, line by line, and verse by Verse, at one time, as you desired. Our kind Superintendent heard them repeated and was satisfied. I receive the papers you send monthly; they are always eagerly sought and read by the Sunday School scholars, as well as by those who attend the Day School, and also by the adults. I regret to tell you that ever has made its appearance in the island, but I hope it may not spread. My wife and children ask me to convey their grateful thanks to you and your kind friends, and I am, with greatest respect, &c." From the Same. "You ask about the suitability of the clothing, so I should tell you that the girls are always the best off in the way of clothes, although not always the most deserving." Boys make up two-thirds of the School, yet we seldom find or ever get anything to suit them—but perhaps there is no remedy. I trust the Lord will preserve the dear little ones attending the School from the fever—some of the poor islanders exhibit great fear of infection. The expression of those fears to me gives me an opportunity of reminding them of a still worse disease with which we are surrounded, and even infected, and which must, unless arrested in its onward course, and in death everlasting. I point them to Jeans, the great physician, who alone is able and willing to cure this most incurable of all diseases. It gives me pleasure to find the great willingness with which even Roman Catholics on the island receive spiritual advice. The light of God's holy word has depicted much of the Roman darkness which fills the hearts of the ignorant. In proof of what I state, I beg to mention an instance which took place last week. Old man named J. H. H., a Romanist, called on me and requested me to go with him to settle a shore dispute between himself and his son, a convert from Popery. There is no such thing as going to law known among us, as we try and settle our disputes as amicably as we possibly can, and so satisfactorily that no person on the island has appeared before a magistrate as plaintiff or defendant, for the past ten years. The dispute settled, he asked me into his house to see his wife who was under the influence of the son. He commenced to speak very badly of the son after entering the house. The old woman said— "We never had any satisfaction with him since he became a convert." I said how is that? she replied with a sigh: "There is no use is going into particulars." I saw at once that the old woman was leaning on what she considered religious work, and that she wished her son to do the same. I said... The Protestant religion gives far less latitude and encouragement to evil doers than the Roman Catholic, and the man who habitually did wrong had not the love of Christ in his heart, without which it mattered very little what profession we belong to. With heat wishes, and prayers for your welfare, I have the honour to be, &c. A WESTERN ISLAND. — 37 CHILDREN The Rev. Superintendent of this difficult yet fruitful field of labour writes: — "The Teacher still continues to pay constant attention to those committed to his care." We have had some visitors here the last quarter; they examined the children on several occasions, and professed themselves as well pleased with their attainments. Since last report, three of our pupils have left for distant places, and I hope that they will be able to manifest in their lives the benefit of the instruction received here. Notwithstanding so many have left us of late, the School still continues to hold its own as regards numbers; the gaps, however, left behind them are considerable, and we lose the influence of their example amongst the people, besides breaking in on our own little company; but we must bend to necessity and hope that those leaving us will be influential for good when they go to settle in life. Here there is not employment for them when they are educated, so depart they must. We still continue to receive very favourable accounts from those who have left. I am glad the dear orphan children afford you so much satisfaction, and are getting on well. From the Same The past season was Very severe and cold, yet the attendance was good and regular. The children evidently like coming, being seldom absent, and then only from unavoidable causes. Our School has been of great service to us. We live in the midst of Romanists; and if the young had no opportunity of receiving good and sound instruction, I doubt greatly whether many of them would be found, when grown up, in the ranks of Protestants. We have several children of Romish parents in our School; and I have no doubt some of the parents receive the benefit, as they get the children to read to them at home in the evening. This preserves them from wandering about and learning the evil practices on all sides. We still continue to receive very favourable accounts, and in various directions of those who have left us. As far as I can learn, all are doing well, and remember with gratitude the instruction received here. Some who entered the navy have obtained badges for good conduct, and have been promoted; so that I may say our School has done good service to many, and without it we should be almost powerless. "I am very anxious that you should take up a youth who, I think, promises well to be a teacher, which he is himself inclined to be. I would wish, if possible, to have him properly educated with this view. He is a good man with great desire for learning; suitable Teachers are disposed of attainment; we must train if we would have the material for our Schools." There are very many interesting facts connected with this island—once without Protestant, or minister, Cavendish School; but now for years possessing all, with many friends of labor, but it is not expedient to reveal histories full of the interest that would lead to persecution and of injury in the good cause of truth. The fact that from 35 to 60 children (a large portion of them Protestants) have been for years under secondary and secular instruction here speaks for itself. One generation of pupils have succeeded another, and the educated often scattered to the ends of the earth in search of... Employment and the means of sustaining life respectably, but well able to do it, afford sufficient evidence that labour here has not been in vain. The vivid recollection of scenes where — and of the benevolent persons by whom they have been fitted through God's providential care for the battle of life is the best proof that a right influence for time and eternity have been exercised here, for which the Committee uses to bless the Lord. The instraction afforded in these two valuable Schools which might have formed no one only for the dividing after formed by a mountain torrent quite impassable in winter, and the distance of the one from the other rendering it more desirable to have two small but truly well-taught Schools under one of the Society's most earnest and valued Superintendents, a father to the little ones, and a good friend and a spiritual guide for both the teachers and the taught. The Rev. Superintendent reports: — "As we have no agency here except your Schools (the most important of all in my judgment) the report already furnished of the Church Education Society's Institution will apply you with all necessary details and comments respecting the progress of your work here; but, I may add, that the teachers of my Schools have manifested through a most personally severe winter a most cheerful and honest zeal in charge of the duties committed to them. The increase of study for the teacher of School was not needed to secure her attentive application to her work; but it has aided a very agreeable stimulus to her exertions, as manifesting a kind consideration in those who employ her. The little children have all done their best to take advantage of the opportunities they enjoy, and it is no mean praise to the young here to say that the scholars, for the most part, love their teachers and their Schools. They make very good progress in the classes, but..." I must say that it is most trying to one's feelings as well as patience to witness the departure from under our training of those who have just begun to be true credit to our endeavours, while their places are supplied by new faces and minds uncultured in the very fundamentals of knowledge and intelligence. "Be not weary in well-doing" is surely a very necessary injunction; and we trust, in fulfillment of the promise attached to it, will prove a significant incentive to our exertions. We return you many thanks for the Hymns, which shall be taught exactly in the way you propose being — by the entire School at the one time. The teachers carry out our wishes as far as they possibly can. One of your teachers has had to part with her brother, a most excellent young man, just twenty years of age. He is gone to Australia, where a fine situation of £100 a year awuts him. He was one of my models, and I feel his loss deeply. A teacher on principle in the midst of temptation. Gradually all my clever ones are moving away; and at times I feel as if I could rather read over them the funeral service than see them go off to evil foreign lands. From the Same. Your full and welcome parcel of clothes came in just as hour after I posted my last. I have only time to say how thankful we are for your great kindness, and to wish you sincerely health, happiness, and blessing. The articles will be readily worked up in the Schools. Just a little ones are enjoying your bountiful presents, and they are doing well on that own little petticoats, in which they take an uncomfortable interest. We have had very fine dry weather for some time, but this day has made up for all our quietness by an unmitigated hurricane which, indeed, if it be a little uncomfortable to us, will undoubtedly hurl into mid-ocean the Fenian craft said to be looking in here and there along our coast. The elements fought for us last year, and the Lord may use them this year too; they are mighty armies in his hands. Thanks for the monthly papers; we are glad to see year writing on them. As it tells as you are well, I drove nine miles this day through the mountains and really did wish you could have been with me, if it were possible without suffering. It was one of our north coast storms, and you seldom encounter that sort of thing. But, notwithstanding the severity of our climate up here which makes us prematurely grey, we are all healthy thank God and able for our work. With sincere regard, "Believe me," The Table of the Yule's Gathering Log of Children is a decidedly mixed School; and all the parents appear so satisfied with the care that they receive that education is not that which would be opposed to the wishes of a mass of the Irish Romanists were they allowed to exercise their own judgment, instead of being subject to the domineering fiat of their priests. The School has the advantage of very kind and careful supervision, and the teacher is considered every way worthy of the charge, being orderly and well conducted in every respect. The Superintendent says: "It is certainly owing to her mild and gentle manner of teaching that so many poor Roman Catholic children are permitted to attend both by their parents and priests. The benefit of this School is great. First, it rescues from vice and the evils of an idle village a number of poor children, mostly Roman." ists. They are at the same time taught to hear, and learn the Bible. This precious treasure also must — even though it be after many days, bring a longing to them. The Superintendent thinks the benefit of a few prizes to the best conducted children would prove of great value in so isolated a locality. This is the only Female School in the district. The children have a great respect for the teacher, and the parents hold her in high esteem. Her conduct is so correct and kind. She has had the gratuitous help of a relative, whose character is alike amiable and useful and of the greatest advantage in training the children. Indeed, but for such a school, it would be difficult for one teacher to take charge of so many. Some consideration might be manifested with advantage towards this individual; young children will learn hymns with pleasure from persons able to teach them accurately. Our poor little ones can be most favorably taught in this way to sing the love of Jesus; and thanks for books and clothing— all tend much both to instruction and the comfort of the dear children. Two-sitting school. This fine school in one of the wildest of the north coast districts was opened some years since, the first arranged for the benefit of a population sufficiently numerous to yield so large a supply of pupils. Many proofs of progress have been recorded from time to time, and the latest communication from the Superintendent is of a most hopeful and satisfactory character. It is as follows: — I have received the teacher's salary, and return my best thanks for it. The teacher is most grateful for what you have sent, and I hope and expect great benefit to the School and that all will afford you much satisfaction. We have asked for a supply of books which, with your accustomed kindness, you will afford us; and with many thanks for all the ties you allow us to give you. Believe me faithfully and obliged, Twentieth-seventh Station. — 57 Children. This most important Station in which not only the juvenile part of the community is instructed both in scriptural and secular knowledge, but the religious services for the adults and their families are held in the Schoolhouse by the Society, and licensed for that purpose by the Bishop of the diocese, has been unfortunate in the frequent dumgei that have taken place in the superintendence within the last few years. For a succession of several years, three or four remarkably devoted ministers of the Gospel were left at the Mission House, during which period the new Schoolhouse was erected, and a vast amount of good in the institution of the people was accomplished; so that a very perceptible change was effected both in the lives and doctrine of many. One of the clerical friends whose life and zeal afforded a beautiful manifestation of the power of the Spirit was early taken to his rest ere yet he had time to be weary of the fight of faith, but not before. He had become more meet for hesyen than for the evil and turmoil of this world. The others were called to very important spheres of labour which they now fill to the advantage of the Church; but this interesting School with its Sunday and daily classes, in Sabbath services and week-day toil, has suffered much loss in their removal. It is hoped that a visit from the Hon. Secretary may have a happy effect in reviving and giving more working energy to this interesting field of missionary labour. The teacher writes: — "I should have acknowledged the receipt of your letter, waited in hopes of seeing the Bector; but the inclement weather has prevented him. The Rev. Mr. had Divine Service here last Sunday. I accompanied him in visiting the people. The fever which has been prevalent here is abating. Two Roman Catholic men died of it; and the teacher in the town of, near this, lost his son in it, and another of his children is ill. God in His mercy has been pleased to preserve the lives of the Protestants, though I may say fever has visited every house. The roof and windows of our dwelling have suffered terribly in these storms, and must be repaired when our Superintendent is able to examine all. May the Lord protect us in those perilous times, and give us grace in this short life to prepare us for a better. From the Same, We have distributed the papers and tracts you were pleased to send me. The Sunday School, which goes on wall, thanks to the Lord, and we all meet at the door, welcome index of your return to our native land. We rejoice, welcome you. A home. We had evening service here yesterday, and an earnest address. The School is increasing now. Indeed, you would pity some of them with emaciated faces and heads half bald after the fever, God has been graduates to us as we visited them in their sickness, and did not take it. May we be grateful for all our mercies. TWENTY-EIGHTH STATION. This great School almost without an exception of Roman Catholic pupils who never had any other school in which they could receive even the first instructions of instruction, has been now in operation for some years under very favorable circumstances and devoted teachers, and enjoying the superior advantages of one of the earliest and most valuable institutions of the Society. The Rev. Superintendent writes: "I am satisfied the School is prospering well and making a good and sore progress. The Holy Scriptures in regularly read and committed to memory without hesitation. The largest class also (adults) read a portion of the Word of God. The average attendance on it has been 15. The Sabbath class of 13 is continued. The average attendance on the Day School is, as you would expect, much affected by the vicissitudes of labour, more indeed, than by weather, though our storms are truly terrific. But you will understand that in so poor a place where life is depending on labour — where the crops are depending for their culture on sea-weed to be gathered by women and children — where cattle must be herded, and even goats and geese, to preserve them from destroying, or from being destroyed, a very regular attendance is generally impractical, but the Sunday School is..." A regular and general benefit is derived, the teacher and his family do all that is possible for the general good. They are faithful and worthy as ever. The clothes distributed amongst the children during the quarter were a great boon and comfort to the many poor parents we were able to supply. These substantial gifts are most opportune, owing to the unusual severity of the weather at the time. I am glad to mention that a lady of the most influential in the neighbourhood has kindly donated your female teacher materials to enable the girls to be instructed in useful work, and also to visit the School. Dear Christian lady is most active and benevolent in any way in her own more immediate neighbourhood. TWENTY-NINTH SCHOOL. — BETWEEN 80 AND 90 PUPILS This School has not been opened long; but the immense number of children attending the School best proves how it was required. The Superintendent writes: "The management at this School is between 80 and 90. In fact, there are too many for the room we have; but I am still, as you may suppose, to turn any away, especially like strong can only last till the spring work begins. School is not very far off. I consider a visit from you to these regions would not be perfectly practicable but of very great advantage to work. Many would be glad to see and warmly welcome within the district of twenty-five miles you have schools in your connection, and you have enlisted some of the most valuable and esteemed helpers in the service, well satisfied with the teacher I have selected for the school. A wife and four children, and the children." Party seem happy and well satisfied. Your female teacher at School is about to be respectable married, and another member of the family takes her place in the Work School. I have arranged to visit your School of short, and am always pleased to assist in carrying out your useful plans. I do hope our new teacher will not, like most of those who come to these parts, get the habit of perpetually gathering about the place; so that I would consider 'contentment' in such a case to be 'great gain.' Your teacher at — his been so successful that it would be a great pity to move him. He is much esteemed among the people. We are always uneasy if we are a long time without hearing from you, fearing it may be illness that causes your silence. From the Same. "The bale has arrived safely. I am greatly obliged to you for it, and have no doubt its contents will prove against comfort to many a poor, ill-clad child. When the roundabout passage is passed, I hope to take it to M — — and assist in the distribution. It is sad to think what a long way the poor little children have to go during all this terrible weather. I am very much obliged to you for the tracts and periodic abuse you send me. I am very much obliged to you for the tracts and periodic abuse you send me. I am very grateful for the notice you take about the absence of all clothing for the poor boys, with few exceptions all your gifts are truly feminine, but our boys exceed." In number, and are often superior in other respects, with great want of garments and exposed in all weathers. I would entreat your kind friends to bear them in graduations remembrance. This small School is one of the latest opened in a place pressed on the System of the Committee by the Bishop of the diocese. A small School, not demanding a large only, yet absolutely necessary to the moral training of the children of a destitute quarter. The Rev. Superintendent reports the teacher as competent and sealous. The children making reasonable progress. He writes: "The priest has driven away three Roman Catholic children from the School. Nevertheless, although he did his utmost, three more remains. I know we shall have an increase of pupils as soon as the weather gets finer. Though our number is small, being gradually reduced by physical influence, still the value of the School may be judged by the fact that the priest has purchased a cabin near to it, in order to convert it into a National School to draw off if possible the little Roman Catholic children from scriptural teaching." This School, in like manner recommended to the care of the Society by the Diocesan, preserves a little company of Protestant children from ignorance or Roman influence. The Rev. Superintendent expresses himself as well pleased with the zeal and diligence of the teacher, and the children are attentive and improving under her care. THIBET-FIRST SCHOOL. It is now some years since the Committee were called on to stretch out a helping hand to this most valuable institution, which had been commenced in a period of peculiar and gracious inflaence. When God was abundantly blessing His own word — when the Spirit was manifesting His renewing power — when sinners of all classes and ages were entering that searching enquiry, "What shall we do to be saved?" and His ministering servants were unwearied in affording the only sufficient reply, viz., the complete, finished work of the cross, and the everlasting love that had appeared and bestowed on man this great salvation, — it was even then that the oil upon the head of the great high Priest had descended to the very lowest hem of his garment, and readied, as in the first days of Christianity, that lost class of whom Jesus spoke in Matt. xxi. 32. It was then, when repentance was given to many such poor sinners, that "The Lord" was benevolently opened at Kingstown by a few Christian friends for the reception of some whose hearts God bid touched. It prospered, but had to encounter many difficulties. In its first efforts, it was hard to find a loof nadet which to shelter poor penitents from disgrace. Hard, when found, to gain employment for the fallen — and yet more difficult after a season to obtain means for the preservation and support of those whose hearts the Lord had touched, and who — weary and heavy laden, had come to Him that they might fidd rest. It was then that the Committee of the Island and Coast Society felt they were at liberty to preserve this valuable coast institution from lain, and it is with the liveliest satisfaction that they have since from year to year afforded the sum of £20 towards the payment of the esteemed matron, an acknowledgment of which will be found under the head "Donation" in the local report of the "Home" Committee. Within the last year the good providence of Grod has so 67 prospered the zealous laboara of those in charge of this charit7, ^^^ ^^^7 i^o^ occupy (as stated in their last Re- port) **a new and spacious Home, detached, and in a high and healthy IdoaKty^ comfortaUj fitted up with a new and excellent laundry," affordifig every needed accommodation, and consequently in a more promising position for self- sapport, at least in some measure. The Island and Coast Committee, under these circum- stances, are hopeful that it may not any longer be necessary to renew their <* donation," but in any case of difficulty they will rejoice to ofier, as in times past, some aid to an institu- tion which they hold in great esteem, and over whose interests they can never cease to watch and pray. The valued Superintendent writes at close of the year as follows: — "I am sure it will cheer and encourage your Society to bear that the ' Kingstown Home ' goes on most hopefully. The inmates have been lately removed to a more comfortable and suitable dwelling, with a good laundry attached, where remunerative labor and industry can be carried on, and a greater number of inmates received. We must ever praise the Lord and feel grateful to your benevolent Society for their timely aid when the "Home" was about to be closed some years ago from want of funds. Since that time, it has continued to prosper. Above all, we have to praise God for an increase of spiritual life and steadfast, consistent Christian conduct amongst many of the inmates, while the others are steady and obedient. During the past year, five were received into the institution and five were placed as domestic servants; almost all giving the utmost satisfaction, of which we are happily informed by most cheering and laudatory letters. Praying that all your labor in the vineyard may be crowned with equal success, I remain yours gratefully, A. B. B. C. ISLAND IND COAST SOCIETY. From the 1st of January to 1st December, 1867, at which Book of the Society should choose. £153 is. 6d. Oe £8. d. Lqi||;ui, Dowagor Ladj, temp, relief 5 0 0 Digby Mrs. Winfield, Sherborn Castle 6 0 0 Uojd, Miss, Stockton Hall (for '67 and '68) 9 0 0 Boyle Lady S., Dover 6 0 0 Digby Family, Representatives of... 21 0 0 Thompson, H. Esq.... 10 18 6 Fuller, Mrs. and the Misses Conolly... 6 0 0 Webb, Townsend, Esq.... 110 Dempsey, Wm., Esq. | temp, relief... 100 Hawkms, Mrs., Pembroke-road, do.... 1 Offley, Mrs., do.... 1 Benson, the Misses, Monkstown, do.... 0 10 White, Mr. B. T., Fleet-street... 0 10 Bank Note recovered 5 0 0 Gilbert, Mrs., Bamby Man Or... 8 0 Tills, Miss, per Mrs. Stuart, London... 0 5 Smith, Mrs., Besboro' temp, relief... 1 0 Greer, Thos., Esq., Ssa Park, da... 6 0 Bonrke, U. O, Esq., St Philip's, Melton... 0 10 0 Douglas, Mrs.... 6 0 0 Do., tempond relief 3 0 0 M'Quillao, Miss, do. 0 5 0 Ganssen & Esq., by A. Lowry, Esq., temp. relief... 2 0 0 H. M.M., do.... 10 0 Raddiffe, Miss, Cheltenham, do.... 1 0 0 Ryan, Mrs., Watedoo- plaoe, do.... 10 0 Eilbride, Rev. Wm. Anan 7 0 0 Col. per do. after Sermon 0 15 0 Armstrong's Miss, temp. 