day school, who were there assembled. The meeting was interesting and encouraging, beyond even the expectation of those who were present.

DUDLEIAN LECTURE.-The annual discourse before the members of the University at Cambridge, established by the will of Hon. Paul Dudley, was delivered in the College Chapel, on Wednesday, May 10, 1843, by Rev. E. S. Gannett of Boston. The Lecture was commenced in 1755, and is limited to the discussion of four subjects, which must be examined in rotation. The subject this year was Natural Religion, and it was the object of the preacher to ascertain its precise value in relation to the great questions of human interest.

DERBY LECTURE.--This annual discourse was delivered on Wednesday, May 24, 1843, in the meetinghouse of the Third Congregational Society in Hingham, by Rev. E. B. Hall, of Providence, R. I. The subject was the Power of Education, and the common disregard of it seen in the narrowness of principle, aim, means, and result. The occasion is an ancient one, founded by Mrs. Derby, in aid of the cause of Education in the Academy there, the children of which all attend the services.

BREAKFAST AND Fair at RoxBURY.—An eminently successful attempt has been made to provide funds for the erection of a Unitarian meetinghouse in Geneva, Ill. Rev. A. H. Conant, whose ordination as an Evangelist was noticed in the Miscellany for July, 1841, has been preaching, since his return to the West, in Geneva and its neighbourhood, and has gathered a congregation who desire a permanent place of worship for themselves and their pastor, and have subscribed a considerable sum for this end; but being unable from their present resources to raise the requisite amount, have looked to their friends at the East for assistance. Several ladies of the First Congregational Society in Roxbury, who felt a peculiar interest in the condition of this infant church, devised a method of affording them aid, which yielded results heyond the largest expectations of those by whom it was conducted. They proposed to hold a breakfast and a fair at the Norfolk House, on the morning of the first of May, when visitors from Boston might be tempted out of town by the freshness of a spring morning. Tickets were sold, granting admittance to the rooms, and other tickets entitled

the holders to partake of the refreshment which was set forth on simply, but amply furnished tables. Articles of personal convenience or ornament were also offered for sale at fixed prices. May-day however, according to the usual experience of those who at this season of the year build their calculations of weather upon English poetry rather than the New England climate, brought only disappointment and postponement. The next day was more favourable, and the hall which was the principal scene of action was filled through the whole morning, and we believe through the whole day and evening, with a dense crowd, talking among themselves, listening to speeches or to music, buying, eating, or gazing, as the previous arrangements afforded, and their own inclinations led them to seek, opportunity. The hour from 11 to 12 o'clock in the forenoon was occupied by addresses, which were made by Rev. Mr. Putnam of Roxbury, Jonathan Chapman, Esq., John C. Park, Esq. and Rev. James F. Clarke of Boston, and Mr. Frederick Huidekoper of Meadville, Penn., at present a resident near the University at Cambridge. After defraying the necessary expenses, the amount of net receipts was found to be $915; $800 of which, being as much as was needed for this purpose, has been given for the completion of the edifice at Geneva, and the remainder been appropriated to the personal benefit of Mr. Conant.

CAMBRIDGE OBSERVATORY.-The appearance of the late comet-an event which once would have been thought to portend dire misfortune -has been made the occasion of a great benefit to our University. In the lecture which Professor Pierce gave in this city upon the comet, he spoke of the imperfection of the astronomical instruments used at Cambridge in terms which touched both the pride and the generosity of the friends of science in this community. A subscription was commenced to provide a proper telescope, the most costly and important of the instruments needed. This subscription has been completed, and has reached an amount which, we presume, will place Cambridge at the head of the scientific institutions of the country in respect to the means of astronomical observation. An excellent site has been bought by the University, on a hill about half a mile north of the College Buildings, on which to erect an Observatory. The Daily Advertiser thus notices the subscription of which we have spoken.

"We are happy to learn that the amount of $25,000, which was a short time since proposed to be raised in this city for the purchase of a Telescope and other astronomical instruments, is all subscribed. Of the above sum $5000 were subscribed by one gentleman, $1000 by another, several sums of $500 by other individuals, $3000 by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and $1000 by the Society for

the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. A considerable length of time will doubtless elapse, before the principal telescope can be manufactured, but measures we doubt not will be immediately taken for having it in progress without delay."

NEW YORK ANNIVERSARIES.-Upon looking over the reports of the meetings of the Benevolent Religious Associations that celebrated their anniversaries the last month in New York, as given in the New York Observer, we do not find reason for presenting a very particular abstract of their proceedings. The usual methods of communicating intelligence and keeping alive an interest in the objects contemplated by the several Associations were adopted, apparently with the usual success. The Annual Reports of the Committees were read, detailing the operations of the past year, addresses were made, principally by laymen, sermons were preached, and on the whole the anniversary week in our sister city appears to have resulted in at least the usual amount of activity and of satisfaction. One feature seems to have distinguished these meetings beyond those of former years-declamation against the Romish Church. Some of the addresses before the American Bible Society and the Foreign Evangelical Society particularly exhibit this character. The speeches generally discover more than usual care in the preparation, and in some instances bear the aspect of regular discourses rather than extemporaneous effusions.

The meetings commenced with the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, whose receipts and expenditures the last year had been about $60,000.-On Sunday evening, May 7, Rev. Dr. Sprague of Albany preached a sermon before the Foreign Evangelical Society; which he has been requested to repeat "at Philadelphia and Albany, and if possible, at Boston," and also to give it for publication.-The American Seamen's Friend Society had expended $13,785, being nearly $800 more than the receipts. The Report of the American Anti-Slavery Society stated, that "in no period since its existence has the Society had so much reason to congratulate itself on its success."-The Sunday School Union on Tuesday afternoon assembled the thousands of children connected with the Sunday schools of New York city at Castle Garden and Broadway Tabernacle, where they were addressed by different gentlemen; and in the evening held a public meeting of the friends of the institution.-The Convention for the Evangelization of the World-a meeting which was originated last year, when a Committee was appointed to report "a plan of action," -assembled on Tuesday, and held successive meetings on other days. On Wednesday a sermon was preached by Rev. Dr. Wyckoff of

Albany. "The most important resolution" adopted "provides for an annual concert for prayer and conference on the subject of missions for the conversion of the world, to be held in the city of New York during the anniversary week.”—The Foreign Evangelical Society had expended about $10,000 the last year. If the gentlemen who addressed this meeting expect to prevent the spread of Catholicism by the utter want of candour and indulgence of heated tempers which they showed, they will probably find they have mistaken the means for effecting their end. The receipts of the American Tract Society the last year exceeded $96,000. The labours of the Society, abroad and at home, were detailed in the Report, and the meeting was addressed by three gentlemen who had been employed as missionaries in the East.-The resources of the American Home Missionary Society for the year had exceeded $100,000. On comparison with the last Annual Report it appeared "that there had been important advances in the good accomplished by the Society."-The receipts of the American Bible Society amounted to $126,448. "The whole number of Bibles and Testaments issued in the course of the year, in nineteen different tongues, was 215, 605." The entire Bible has been stereotyped in raised letters for the use of the blind.-The American Temperance Union reported that “the temperance reformation has been instrumental in saving not less than half a million of our citizens from degradation and ruin, and has restored more than 100,000 drunkards;” and in relation to foreign lands, that “in Ireland six millions have received the pledge," "in Sweden 50,000 persons," ""in Norway the parliament has resolved that after ten years there shall not be a distillery in the land," and "in the Sandwich Islands the King, with all his chiefs, and 1500 of the population, have signed the pledge.”—The American Education Society listened to a Sermon from Rev. Dr. Beecher of Cincinnati.—The American Board of Foreign Missions held "a great missionary meeting” on Friday, when it was stated, that "during the first nine months of the current financial year the receipts of the Board were $161,250, being less by $31,520 than the appropriations, and less than the receipts of the same period of the former year by $93,159."

NOTICE. The Publishers of the Miscellany propose to issue a supplement to the present volume, containing the intelligence of the anniversary week, together with the Title-page, Index, and Table of Contents for the volume. It will appear as soon as it can be prepared.

SUPPLEMENT TO VOLUME VIII.

THE ANNIVERSARIES.-The meetings of the various religious Associations connected with our portion of the Christian Church have this year been occasions of more than usual interest, and of great though not entire satisfaction. The attendance has been larger than for many years previous. More of the clerical brethren than we have ever seen, we think, on similar occasions were present, and hall and meetinghouse crowded on successive days and evenings showed how many had come up to our "solemn feasts," if not how deep an interest was felt by our people at large. The facilities of conveyance, that have been so greatly increased of late, doubtless were one cause of the larger number of visitors to our city than on former years; the weather too was propitious, as it enabled persons of both sexes to go abroad without exposure; but unquestionably a desire that these meetings should be productive of spiritual benefit and an anticipation of pleasure from their recurrence had been growing among us, and led many who on previous anniversaries had stayed at home to join now their fellow-disciples around the table of friendship and the altar of a common faith. Differences there were of opinion and feeling, which found expression in ways not altogether agreeable, and brought passing clouds over the sunshine of our harmony, but the warm light of goodwill and reciprocal confidence broke in again, and the interruption, while it taught the need of mutual forbearance, gave us an opportunity to exercise the graces which we have so diligently commended to our brethren of other denominations. Before the commencement of the week the want of a perfect acquaintance with one another's wishes and plans had prevented an arrangement of the exercises for Tuesday evening satisfactory to all parties, but every measure possible was taken to produce concord alike of feeling and action, and with a favourable result. The introduction of remarks and resolutions bearing upon the subject of Slavery changed in a measure the character of some of the meetings, but it was not allowed to disturb the fraternal sentiments of those who, differing in their judgments of what is right and best, yet respect in others the honesty of conviction which they claim for themselves. The public engagements of the week were appropriately and happily closed by a service, which though for the first time celebrated in this manner among us, will, we hope, in future years reunite those who may take part in