of the Missouri Conference, includes five circuits; viz., Shawnee, Delaware, Peori, Kickapoo, and Kansas missions. These employ, including the superintendent, six missionaries, who have the charge of four hundred and seventy-two members, besides the school teachers. The number of scholars is not exactly ascertained.

Very interesting communications have been received from the superintendent of the district, which have been published in the Christian Advocate and Journal, respecting the origin, progress, and present prospects of these missions. From these it appears that those who have embraced Christianity are improving in the arts of civilized life, building houses, cultivating their lands, and learning useful trades. There is therefore reason to hope that the Gospel will prove a means of rescuing these people not only from the degrading thraldom of a barbarous paganism, but also from the temporal wretchedness to which they were fast approaching.

6. The reports from the Saganaw and Huron missions, in the Detroit district, are not so favourable as from some others, owing to the influence of ardent spirits, and the impracticability of calling the natives from the pursuit of game, and other uncontrollable causes. On the Huron mission, however, there are twelve native members of the Church, and five or six children under instruction. Patient perseverance, however, it is believed, will, by the blessing of God on the efforts of his servants, overcome the opposing obstacles, and be a means of bringing these people under the blessings of the Gospel.

7. The Oneida and Menominee mission, in the vicinity of Green Bay, is in a prosperous state, and numbers about fifty converts, all of whom are strongly attached to the cause of Christ, and manifest their abhorrence of their former habits by becoming members of the Temperance Society. Here, also, the blessings of Christianity are apparent, in producing industrious habits and a love for domestic enjoyments. By cultivating their land, and attending to some branches of mechanical labour, they lighten the expense of the mission, by providing in some measure for their own support.

8. The missions at Sault de St. Marie and Ke-wa-we-non are in a prosperous state. At these stations there are one white missionary, one native missionary and wife, one white school

teacher, and one native interpreter ; in all about sixty members in the church, with two schools, including about fifty scholars. The society of native members is prosperous, and the schools are doing well. The missionary brother Chandler preaches every Sabbath at Fort Bray, where there is a small class of converted troops, who are, indeed, soldiers of the cross of Christ.

9. The Cherokee mission, within the bounds of the Holstein Conference, is somewhat disturbed by the removal of the Indians to Arkansas, though many of them evince a determination to hold fast their faith in Christ. There were returned on the minutes of the conference five hundred twenty-one native members, and the superintendent writes that a few whites have been received. The two native speakers, Field and Boston, full of the missionary spirit, have gone with the emigrant Indians to the Arkansas, where, it is expected, they will be abundantly useful to their brethren.

10. From the Oregon mission we have had no very recent information. The last account we received was from Rev. Daniel Lee. His letter was dated at Henolalu, one of the missionary stations at the Sandwich Islands, April 19, 1836, whither he had gone for the benefit of his health. His letters give a glowing description of the state of things in those islands, and of the Oregon teritory. From his representation, and from that made to the board previously by the Rev. Jason Lee, the superintendent of the mission, we were induced to send a reinforcement to the mission. Accordingly, in August last, a physician and blacksmith, with their wives and children, a carpenter, and three female teachers, in all, thirteen, sailed from Boston, by the way of the Sandwich Islands. With these were sent out a large quantity of household furniture, about twenty boxes of clothing of various sorts and sizes, valued at not less than $2,000, agricultural, mechanical, and surgical instruments, as well as medicine for the benefit of the mission. Of their arrival we have not yet heard, either at the Sandwich Islands or at the Oregon territory.

Not being able to send a missionary with his family, as was generally desired, measures were adopted to send one or more as soon thereafter as practicable; on the 24th of January last, the Rev. David Leslie, wife, and three children, accompanied by

a pious young lady as a school-teacher, and Rev. H. K. W. Perkins, left Boston, in the brig Peru, for the Sandwich Islands, with a view to find a passage from thence to their place of destination. We cannot but hope and pray for the safe arrival of these mission families to their field of labour in due season.

Respecting the actual state of things in this mission, we have not much to add to the information which was given in our last report. It seems, however, that in consequence of the failure of the health of Rev. D. Lee, and his departure to the Sandwich Islands, with the hope of its restoration, Rev. Jason Lee was left alone, assisted only by brother Shepard, as a school-teacher. But from all the information received, the prospects of the mission were flattering, and more labourers were greatly needed, to answer all the calls which were made for religious instruction. Should the families recently sent arrive in safety, it is hoped that they will be able to go forward and prosper.

11. Our last report gave information that an attempt had been made to establish missions among the Winnebagoes, and other tribes who inhabit the prairies on the upper Mississippi. This mission has been prosecuted with much vigour the past year. The Rev. Alfred Brunson, a member of the Pittsburgh Conference, having been appointed to the superintendence of this mission, in the early part of last year, removed his family to Prairie du Chien, that he might be in the midst of his work. Openings are presented for the missionary among the Winnebago, the Chippeway, and Sioux Indians; and measures have been adopted by brother Brunson to supply them with the word of life. A chief of the Sioux tribe, residing two hundred and fifty miles from Prairie du Chien, has sent an invitation for a missionary to be sent among them; and the last account states that a supply would be furnished early this spring. At the Ottowa Lake also, a distance of two hundred and sixty miles into the Indian country, there is a prospect of establishing a mission for the especial benefit of the Indians, as there are two devoted young men now labouring among them. Should their prospects be realized, brother Brunson states that they shall soon penetrate to the Rocky Mountains, and probably, ere long, meet their brethren who have commenced their missionary labours on the other side, in the valley of the Columbia river.

In prosecuting his missionary labours in the Galena District, in the Wisconsin Territory, which is now fast filling up with emigrants, brother Brunson has given a cheering account of the blessed effects of the gospel in the hearts of many of the white inhabitants, to whom he and the other preachers had preached, several of whom had been awakened and converted. Among others, several French Catholics had been brought to the knowledge of the truth.

As this is a new field of missionary labour, and the attempts to evangelize the natives are in an incipient state, the number of converts is not given. There are, however, three missionaries devoted especially to the benefit of the Indian tribes. The others will be noticed among the Domestic Missions.

12. The Liberia mission still excites a deep feeling of sympathy in the Christian community. The last General Conference constituted this mission into an Annual Conference, possessing all the rights and privileges of other Annual Conferences, except sending delegates to the General Conference, and drawing on the funds of the Book Concern, and the Chartered Fund. This latter right was denied them on the ground only that they derive their support, not in the ordinary way, but from the Missionary Society, which pays its missionaries their full demand. By these means the superintendent of the mission will have authority, with the consent of the Conference, to receive and employ travelling preachers, to examine their characters, and to expel them if found unworthy, the same as any other Annual Conference.

In September last brother Seys visited the United States, and was instrumental in awakening an interest in behalf of the mis sion in all places where he held meetings. After spending a few weeks in this country, in which time his health was greatly improved, on the 14th of October he sailed for Liberia, in company with the Rev. Squire Chase, of the Oneida Conference, whose services had been accepted by Bishop Hedding as a missionary for Cape Palmas, and Mr. George Brown, a coloured lo cal preacher, destined for the Liberia mission. Letters have been recently received containing information of their safe arrival, after a very boisterous voyage, in good health and spirits, and much encouraged from the prospects before them. Indeed, the letters state that every thing is going on well throughout the

colony, and that there are calls for help among the natives in the interior. Brother Barton is still at his post, in good health, and is much blessed and encouraged in his labours. There are now in the several stations in the colony fifteen missionaries, three white and twelve coloured, and six school-teachers.

The last information received from this mission stated that a more detailed account of it would soon be forwarded, which, we regret to say, has not been received. We can only give the numbers, therefore, as reported last year; viz., three hundred and seventy-five, although there can be no doubt that there has been a considerable increase.

We have engaged the services of a young gentleman of piety and talent as a physician to the mission, who is expected to sail soon, in company with two young ladies who have volunteered their services as missionary teachers.

13. South American mission. In our last report information was given that the Rev. Justin Spaulding had sailed for Rio de Janeiro. Since then, several letters, containing interesting information, have been received from him, in all which he gives us reason to hope that success will attend his efforts. It seems that confidence in the Catholic Church and priesthood, and the superstitions of that community, is daily weakening, and a brighter day, it is hoped, will ere long dawn upon that interesting portion of the American continent. Brother Spaulding has succeeded in forming a small society, and establishing regular preaching every Sabbath, as well as in forming Sabbath schools for the benefit and instruction of the youth. At the earnest solicitation of the people, he has also opened a day school, which is well attended by the children of the English and American citizens. And, from his representation of the need of a school, and of the entire practicability of establishing one on very advantageous terms, we have engaged a young gentleman of piety, and of classical learning, who is expected to sail for that place in the latter part of this summer or beginning of autumn.

On the 14th of October last, the Rev. John Dempster, of the Oneida Conference, sailed from the port of New-York, as a missionary to Buenos Ayres, by the way of Rio de Janeiro. After a fatiguing passage of fifty days, he arrived safely, and in tolerable health, at Rio, spent a few days in that place, in