Poetry. TO THE REV. MR. AND MRS. MCEWEN, On their departure from India. WHERE shall we look for help, O Lord? We stand, Homewards for help our longing eyes we turn, Of light, which is not heat, 'midst praises loud Shall not our brethren help us? Many lie, And in calm joy lay down their maiden shield: Where shall we look for help? O sinful fear! High faith that all things here work out the best, Calcutta, May, 1839. M. Missionary and Religious Entelligence. 1.-MISSIONARY AND ECCLESIASTICAL MOVEMENTS. Since our last the following new laborers have arrived. The Rev. Mr. Malan and lady. Mr. Malan is appointed to occupy the post of Dr. Mill as Professor of Oriental languages, at the Bishop's College. He is the son of the justly popular Cæsar Malan, of Geneva.-The Rev. J. Caldwell and lady, of the American Western Board of Missions. Mr. C. is, we believe, appointed to Saharanpur.-The Rev. J. Morrison, left for Allaha bad on the steamer, and the Rev. J. McEwen and Mrs. M. sailed for the United States on the Edward.-Mrs. Robinson, the wife of our respected brother Rev. W. Robinson, minister of the Loll Bazar Chapel, died after a few hours illness of cholera, on the 16th of May. Her end was peace. -The London Missionary Society have established a new Mission at Mirzapur, Upper India. The Rev. R. C. Mather has removed from Banáras to occupy this new and important sphere. We sincerely wish him every success in his work.-In our last we announced the arrival of our Ameri can brethren on the ship William Gray; we find it was the Edward. 2. THE REV. MR. AND MRS. MCEWEN. We regret to announce the departure of the Rev. Mr. McEwen and Mrs. McEwen for America. During the whole of his residence in this country, Mr. McEwen has been a sufferer from disease, to an extent which would altogether have unfitted most men for active labour. Nevertheless, besides the establishment and superintendance of an excellent Missionary school at Allahabad, in which he was most efficiently assisted by Mrs. McEwen, he succeeded in gathering together an English congregation, to whom he preached regularly, and by whom he will long be remembered with affection. As a small token of the sincere esteem with which they regard him, they have presented to him a handsome silver standish, with the following inscription: To the Rev. James McEwen, Presented with the affectionate regards Allahabad, N. W. Bengal. 1st Jan. 1838. We sincerely hope, that the Lord will speedily restore them in answer to our prayers, and that a long and successful life of Missionary labour yet awaits them in this land. 3.-NEW PLACES OF WORSHIP. We understand that a neat and commodious place of worship has been erected by the voluntary subscriptions of the residents at Midnapur. It was opened during the past month by the Rev. J. Brooks, Missionary at the station. Would that every station would imitate so laudable an example! A new native place of worship was opened by the Missionaries of the Lon don Society, on Thursday the 10th of May, in the Chitpur Road. The devotional services were conducted by the Rev. Messrs. Morton and Piffard; the Rev. A. F. Lacroix preached a sermon appropriate to the solemn occasion. The congregation was very large, and the interest excited very great. This chapel is situated in one of the guiltiest and most populous parts of the Native city. It is the very wapping of Calcutta. Let us pray that the enemy may be disturbed and conquered in his own stronghold. We understand there is a strong probability of a church being erected at Chittagong, and, whether we consider the number or respectability of the residents, at no station could it be more acceptable. The ground is, we believe, purchased. May the building soon rise and be the birthplace of many souls. 4. CHINESE PROFESSORSHIPS IN EUROPE. The Emperor of Russia has established a Chinese professorship at the capital and appointed an ecclesiastic, long resident at Pekin, to the office. The London University has also established a similar professorship, and conferred the honour on the Rev. C. Kidd, for many years Missionary of the London Society and one of the teachers in the Chinese College at Malacca. 5. ANNIVERSARY OF THE HINDU COLLEGE. The anniversary of this institution was held during the past month. It was distinguished by nothing beyond the usual unmeaning exhibitions, and the absence of all visitors save the Committee and the functionaries. We refrain from further remarks on the tendency of this institution, as we intend to discuss at length the merits of this and all similar institutions, in an early number. We merely answer a query put in an editorial of our contemporary the Englishman a few weeks back, whether we do not consider the Government Schools Christian enough? We answer, No; they are not Christian at all, but infidel. What kind of Christianity or liberality would the writer call that in which one of the chief officers of the land should enter a school on the walls of which were suspended a few texts of scripture, and order them to be taken down, and warn the master against instructing even inquirers out of school in the truths of Christianity. The walls of that school might have been decorated too with as many extracts from the Qurán or the shastras as the teacher pleased, but none from the Bible. We have heard it rumoured that the Committee of Public Instruction are or were discussing the propriety or otherwise of admitting clergymen as teachers into their schools. We can save them all discussion, by assuring them that no conscientious clergyman, or Missionary either can accept or will apply for such an appointment, until the constitution of the Committee ceases to be what it is; and we can further assure them that any who may apply for the situation with a clerical garb in the present state of things will not need any discussion to satisfy their consciences, as they must long since have received a more powerful quietus than the decisions of the Committee can supply. 6.-EXPORTATION OF NATIVES. If there be pleasure in being amongst the first to discover and expose the miseries which the powerful inflict on the weak; and there is, be it but in the hope of affording relief, we, in common with one of our contempo. raries (the Englishman), possess that pleasure in connection with this subject. We have always predicted what the issue of the traffic in natives must be, but we were willing to hope that the agitation of the subject and the vigilance of the Bengal police, might afford protection for awhile to these poor creatures: but in this even we are disappointed, the rapacity of these traffickers in flesh and blood cannot wait until the humanities of the good shall sleep. The manner in which the Government prohibition to import more coolies into the Mauritius has been evaded by vessels sailing laden with them regularly cleared, shows how little the poor fellows have to expect at the hands of their shippers. Not only have we in this conduct the strange anomaly of one public functionary setting at nought the orders of another, but we have one class of our own subjects violating the first law of nature towards another and a weaker class. Even while we write, there are vessels advertized for conveying coolies to the Mauritius in the very teeth of this Government edict. The coolies are not free emigrants; they are not free laborers; they are the moment they set their foot on the vessel bonâ fide the reverse of freemen. We were aware of the peculiarly jesuitical method by which the brand of slavery was attempted to be fixed on the coolies by the masters at the Mauritius, by transfer. This was as far as we can understand checked, but we were not prepared to read of these free emigrants, that after having been ill fed, miserably clad, hard-worked and still worse paid-that after this they should for leaving their employers preferring to live on the wild fruits of the jangal,-that for this they should have an armed police force sent after them, be threatened with the contents of loaded guns and dragged back to the police office as public criminals; and though unable to speak so as to be understood, their most deplorably wretched condition spoke so as to raise them up friends in a strange land and cover their accuser with shame!!! These are free laborers. They had, it appeared, been transferred more than once by the original importer, and each time at an advanced rate of wages. This happened at or near Sydney. We rejoice that these poor deluded people have the whole of the press here in their favor, and that the Sydney monitor has declared its intention of watching over their interests; and more, that Lord Brougham intends to moot the subject of their transportation to the West Indies in the House of Lords. We predicted the evils referred to, but we did not anticipate them at so early a date. The young serpent is more easily crushed than the old. We rejoice that in this case it has shown its fangs so soon. Our advice to the friends of humanity is, extract its poison ere it has inflicted pain. 7.-THE GYANANESHAN AND MISSIONS. The Gyananeshan in an article on the efforts of the Rev. W. H. Pearce in England to raise funds for sending out a number of new Missionaries to India, while he speaks in most respectful terms of that gentleman's efforts for the welfare of India, offers some advice to him and his colleagues. He says that Missionaries have commenced at the wrong end-they have ONLY preached and that in the streets and bazars, and that as a natural consequence, none but the lowest of the people have heard or believed; and to this he attributes the want of enlarged Missionary success. He recommends as a much more efficient method, the establishment of schools, and exhorts the directors of Missions to select only men well qualified for the work of tuition. We feel grateful to our contemporary for his advice and for the hope he has induced that there is any way in which his countrymen may be converted to the faith of Christ; but while we are far from undervaluing education and believe that it may be made preaching, yet we must assure our contemporary that that which was to the Greeks foolishness and to the Jews a stumbling block, and which appears to be equally both to him, was mighty through God to the pulling down of the strongholds of sin and Satan. This foolishness of preaching from the days of the holy Found er of our faith to the present day (and that to the poor, publican and harlots and sinners), has been the means of uprooting many a system of error and cruelty and will, we as firmly believe as that the sun shines upon us this first day of Jane, be the means of converting his countrymen to the faith of Christ and blessing them with the hope of life. How ridiculous would the conduct of the agriculturists appear to the citizen unaccustomed to such practices, if he saw him throwing his seed about as in sport to the winds, he might say what can spring from that? will not the sun scorch or the winds of heaven destroy it? can it vegetate?-and yet it does. So is it with the preachers of truth; they scatter abroad the seed of heavenly knowledge in dependance on a higher power, believing that seed may be buried long, "Yet grace ensures the crop." This is our feeling in reference to the preaching of the gospel to the natives, that their conversion will be brought about chiefly through this apparently insignificant order of means. Minimum Temperature observed at sun rise. Meteorological Register, kept at the Surveyor General's Office, Calcutta, for the month of April, 1838. Temperature. Wind. 129,852 79,5 72,0 72,1 Cm.,91282,0 84,180,0 S. ,892 83,4 90,3 83,7 S. 2 ,870 80,0 74,5 74,5 S. S. w. 7 ,776 79,9 72,0 72,3 Cm. 8 ,738 80,4 75,7 76,0 S. ,747 81,7 77,5 78,0 S. ,769 81,578,8 77,0 S. 21 ,784 81,976,7 77,0 E. b s.,848 86,8 89,083,0 s. w. ,840 22 ,808 82,178,5 78,7 S. 23 ,826 81,879,0 78,5 S. 24 25 ,748 82,577,8 77,2 S. 26 ,752 85,080,880,6 S. 27 ,746 84,580,0 79,0 S. 28 ,730 85,380,3 8. 730 86.5 80,0 79,8 Cm. 785 90,5 93,286,0 S. ,648 87,6 92,3 85,5 ,736 81,678,3 77,0 s. E.,800 85,0 85,579,7 s. w,,760 85,7 87,5 81,0 s. w.,700 85,5 80,6 76,3 ,760 75,670,070,8 S. ,836 81,3 84,280,8 S. ,826 84,6 85,5 S0,8 S. ,734 83,5 89,3 77,8 s. (H.),704 83,1 ,710 76,5 71,7 71.7 s. E.,778 84,0 84,782,0 S. ,742 85,2 87,0 81,0 s. (H.),698.85,0 87,0 82,1 s. (H.),676 84,3 85,5 81,7 s. ,700 77,071,0 71,3 s. s.E.,740 84,7 88,084,0 S. ,724 88,0 91,9 84,9 s. (H.),686 87,2 93,9 86,9 ,708 77,5 73,5 73,8 8. ,760 84,2 87,784,0 s. s w.,736 86,8 ,750 70,873,5 73,0 s. w ,802 85,5 89,083,2 N. w.,770 91,0 ,778 82,5 76,8 77,0 S. E.,820 83,3 88,984,2 w. b s.,780 89,1 .76081,975,5 76,3 s. E.,81286,0 88,083,0 8. ,788 89,0 93,0 83,7 s. w.,740 90,0 94,2 84,7 s. w.,760 90,0 92,5 85,5 ,755 82,076,3 76,5 s. E.,800 85,7 87,082,5 S. ,764 88,5 91,0 83,0 S. ,744 90,0 92,0 83,0 s. w.,700 89,7 91,084,0 ,808 82,8 77,0 78,0 E. ,830 85,0 86,783,0 w.b s.,818 87,0 90,7 83,0 8. ,750 89,5 92,5 85,0 S. ,74 89,0 92,0 84,5 ,800 85,0 85,781,7 s. w.,778 88,5 90,0 $2,7 s. w.,694 88,9 90,2 88,0 s. w.,650 87,0 ,790 85,5 86,081,7 s. w.,788 87,5 88,7 83,0 8. ,720 88,4 90,0 84,5 8. ,698 88,0 88,6 84,0 89,0 91,2 84,0 s. w.,776 89,7 93,5 84,2 s. w.,756 90,6 92,965,0 s. w. ,869 85,7 86,5 83,3 s. E.,859 87,9 91,3 84,2 S. ,820 90,0 94,9 85,5 8. ,800 90,0 93,5 86,0 ,800 87,0 92,083,0 S. ,840 92,5 95,085,0 ,840 89,7 93,083,5 s. w.,120 94,5 97,088,0 ,808 88,0 95,383,0 s. w.,780 ,832 89,0 96,585,6 s. w.,798 ,832 89,2 97,5 86,0 s. w.,788 768 89,7 95,5 s. W.,778 ,928 80,5 83,078,8 s. w.,900 83,0 87,0 83,1 s. w.,838 84,0 96,8 85,0 s.s w.,820 ,776 88,3 93,385,1 S. ,750 8. 91,0 96,5 85,5 w.b s.,794 92,0 97,5 86,5 s. E. ,766 8. ,802 87,6 89,0 84,7 ,778 69,1 89,5 85,0 S. 8. 92,0 103,7 83,5 8. E. ,730 99,5 92,285,0 s. s.) ,730 90,591,584,8| 8. E. 8. W. ,696 W. 702 91,9 100,3 89,3 ,752 94,0 99,0 93,7 104,3| W. 720 93,7 94,088,5 94,088,5 ,724 90,8 91,485,2 ,700 90,6 94,5 8. w.,654 90,7 95,0 83,6 ,590 90,5 89,8 87,0 S.,722 89,8 88,3 85,9 |