7. Homs, one missionary. 8. Hamath, one missionary. 9. Aleppo, three missionaries, one of them a physician. 10. Bethlehem, one missionary. "The present number of labourers is 12; the proposed number 23.

"We have assigned to the new stations a number barely sufficient to commence them. We have allowed to the old stations a number merely sufficient to carry on their operations, not unmindful of the interruptions to which all are liable from absence, sickness, and death. When an individual is taken away from his post, a year or two must elapse before his successor can reach the field, if the call for him be promptly answered, and two or three more before he will be at all competent to assume the duties of his station. Thus are the most vital operations liable to be for four or five years suspended by a single death, while a crushing accumulation of labour is thrown upon the survivors.

“Jerusalem.—1834. George B. Whiting, Charles S. Sherman: 1 Nut. As. Mr John F. Lanneau is still in the United States.-P. 89.

"Our school at Bethlehem is flourishing, and is doing good in that village, the number of scholars being sometimes 40 or 50. Many more have applied for admission; but we have given directions not to receive them, as there is already as many as one man can do justice to.

"The school at Jerusalem has been interrupted by the sickness of the teacher. We continue to have applications for schools in the villages and towns near us; but the state of our funds puts it wholly out of our power to support another.

"One department of missionary labour in which we are much interested, and which we think is as promising as any other, is the education of native girls in our families.

"We find, in almost every part of the country, some who no longer bow to the authority of popes and councils, custom and tradition, but are beginning to look to the Bible as the supreme rule of faith and practice, and who are thus becoming, in principle, Protestants.

"Several of our number have been brought down by fevers to the very gates of the grave; and almost every one of us, including the native children in our families and others of our household, have suffered more or less from sickness.

"In a later communication Mr Whiting says,

"Mrs Whiting has in her family four, and Mrs Sherman one little girl, for training in domestic habits.

"We received urgent requests to re-open our school. We yielded to the importunity of the people, employed a teacher, and commenced the school. It flourished for a few weeks, when a violent storm of opposition arose from the Greek convent, which threatened to destroy it. Threats, bribes, and the whole authority of the bishop, were employed to induce the teacher to dismiss his school. This he refused to do; but he agreed to remove his school to a room in the convent, they engaging to pay him the salary which he had received from us, and to allow him the daily ration of one of their monks. Thus the school is taken off our hands. A great convenience to us in these hard times.

“Deir el Kamer: among the Druses.-1841. Samuel Wolcott: Č. V. A. Van Dyck, M.D., Physician.

"In our brief stay on the mountains we found the Druses as accessible as ever, as willing to receive us among them, and as ready to listen to our instructions. We know of no people more entirely accessible than these; and see no reason to recall, or even modify, a single sentiment which we have ever expressed in regard to the interest and the promise of this field of labour.

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Aleppo.-1841. E. R. Beadle.

Aleppo is about 60 miles distant from Antioch, and nearly 100 from Alexandretta, its principal sea-port. Its population is now estimated from 45,000 to 80,000, among whom are 6000 Jews and 14,000 Christians. The Moslem population has been diminished by conscriptions for the army; and multitudes-it is said not less than 10,000-have fled to escape impressment. It is an important place for a mission, and affords every facility for living comfortably which can be found in Syria. Here are several English trading-houses, and the gentlemen who reside here feel perfectly secure. A mission established here would be the door to the vast territory lying north and east. Mesopotamia must be entered by Aleppo; and the Nestorians, at least the mountain Nestorians, can be reached better by Aleppo and Mosul than any other way.

"Mr Beadle has met with a strong opposition at Aleppo, which seemed likely to prevent his renting any house in the Christian part of the city. The Papists were at the head of it.

"Mr Thomson has recently forwarded many statistics of Syria and Palestine, by which it appears that he estimated the population at 1,350,000, including 100,000 wandering Arabs. Of these, he computes 565,000 to be Moslems; 240,000 Orthodox Greeks; 180,000 Maronites; 100,000 Druses; 30,000 Jews; and 235,000 Greek Papists, Armenians, Ancaireea, and all other sects. POPERY. We give the following statements of the missionary operations and statistics of popery, taken from a periodical of that church. How far we may rely on the accuracy of these we know not. We have little doubt they are exaggerated; but still they are curious.

-for the whole catholic world about 300 bishops, without counting the coadjutors, suffragans, and other prelates, and more than 152,000,000 of catholics.

Note on Europe.-Besides the missions which receive aid from the Institution, there are in Europe 14 vicariates apostolic, and about 600 bishoprics, which, added to the numbers given above, present a total of 634 bishops, and 122,000,000 of catholics.

Note on Western Asia.-The number of bishops given, indicates rather the sees than the individuals; hence the bishops who have no dioceses are, not comprised in it. The patriarchs have been considered as archiepiscopal titles, without confounding them, however, with the bishoprics, the administration of which each patriarch may reserve to himself.

With regard to the number of catholics, we have generally given the maximum of the calculations which we have seen; because the severity with which the capitation-tax is enforced, induces the people to withhold their names from the official census. Besides, the most of the calculations are based on insufficient data, by counting according to the number of houses in a country where so many live in tents; or by allowing, according to the European average, five persons for each family, which is not perhaps correct, when applied to the East. Yet this is the rule which has been followed by the delegate apostolic, when he estimates at 15,000 individuals the 3000 families which constitute the remains of the Chaldean nation. For want of any other sources of information, we have been obliged to adopt his calculations; not, however, without enter

taining a hope that a population which in 1826 amounted to near 120,000 is not now reduced to a tenth of that amount.

Note on Central Asia.-Besides the missions, we reckon only the archbishopric of Goa, which, in its present condition, belongs to none of these accounts, and the French factories, where a feeble European population is under the administration of an apostolic prefect and a priest of the seminary of the Holy Ghost.

The complete reconciliation of the Indo-Portuguese schismatics would bring the number of catholics to nearly twelve hundred thousand, out of a popula tion of a hundred and twenty millions.

Note on Africa.-Besides the countries where there are missions, the church (!) reckons, on the coasts of Africa and the adjacent islands, several bishoprics and numerous believers. I. Spanish Possessions: 1. Bishopric of Ceuta, comprehending, together with the city of that name, the other presidios lying within the limits of the kingdom of Morocco. 2. Bishopric of Christopher de Laguna, in the island of Teneriffe. 3. Bishopric of the Canaries, in the island of Palmas. In all 208,000 catholics. II. Portuguese Possessions: 1. Bishopric of Funchal, in the island of Madeira. 2. Bishopric of Santiago, for the Cape Verd Archipelago. 3. Bishopric of St Thomas, in the island of that name. 4. Bishopric of Angola, on the coast of Tongo. 5. The factories of Mozambique, Mesurie, etc.-In all 1,400,000 souls, of whom, perhaps, half are catholics. III. French Possessions: 1. Senegal. 2. Isle of Bourbon. About 85,000 catholics, under the administration of the priests of the seminary of the Holy Ghost. IV. Bishopric of Tangier, vacant for many years, where a few monastics attend on the small number of Europeans settled at Tangier and Morocco. Grand total for Africa, including the missions, 13 bishoprics or vicariates, 1,181,100 catholics.

Note on America.-Besides the missionary countries given above, we are to count,-1st, Lower Canada, two bishoprics and about 500,000 catholics; 2d, French colonies, four prefectures apostolic and 240,000 catholics; 3d, Spanish colonies, three bishoprics and 1,000,000 catholics; 4th, Mexico, Guatemala, the republics of South America, and the empire of Brazil, forty-four bishoprics, 23,000,000 of Catholics. Total for the New World, seventy-three bishoprics, or vicariates, 26,641,000.

Note on Oceanica.-Exclusively of the missions, the church counts in her ranks numerous disciples. 1. The Philippine islands, a magnificent colony of Spaniards, and one of the most successful theatres of their labours in favour of civilization, present a population of three millions of souls already advanced in civilization, and which is increasing every day by new conquests effected among 500,000 savages dispersed in the interior of some islands. One thousand priests, of whom six hundred are natives, are distributed through five hundred parishes in the archdiocese of Manilla, the diocese of Zebu, Nova Segovia, and Nova Caceres. 2. The Portuguese possessions in the islands of Timor, Flores, Sabrao, &c., contain about 135,000 inhabitants, a great number of whom profess the catholic faith. In taking the preceding details into account, all Oceanica will give seven bishops, and about 1200 priests, and 3,100,000 catholics.

Thus is the evangelical (!) net cast over the east by the fishers of men of our time. Thirteen new missionaries have departed for the Archipelagos of Oceanica, where the liberated church of the Sandwich Islands, and the fifteen thousand catechumens of New Zealand, anxiously await their arrival.

The great effects produced from such small resources enable us to estimate the vastness of the good (!) which might be accomplished with more ample means; and that, however rapid may have been the extension of the Association, the future presents a still greater work to complete. The contribution of 2,500,000 francs (L.100,000) from one hundred and twenty millions of Catholics, supposes

only one subscriber for every one hundred and twenty inhabitants, and shows what an immense field for labour remains yet before us. We have this object in view, when laying before the world our periodical reports. Formerly, the King of Israel, for having through pride numbered his people, was struck with an avenging scourge: we, however, continue without fear our annual enumerations, because from them we become not less humble than grateful.

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