career, having received 157,367 dollars in the year, while it issued 483,873 copies of the Scriptures: and it engaged to purchase Chinese, Bibles and Testaments to the amount of 10,000 dollars.

In British North America the Bible cause progressed. The Upper Canada Society issued, in the past year, 14,606 copies, and ordered 15,034; the Montreal Society issued 10,172 copies; the Nova Scotia Society ordered 5,986 copies; the New Brunswick ordered 3,770 copies; the Prince Edward's Island issued 2,033 copies, and ordered 3,012; and 923 copies were ordered for Newfoundland. These items will indicate but imperfectly the spirit of activity in the cause of the Bible.

Domestic proceedings were multifarious, as in time past; old friends were departing to their eternal rest, but the cause of God still progressed. The receipts of the Bible Society for the year were £117,440 9s. 3d.; and the issues were 315,638 Bibles, and 593,586 Testaments; total, 1,109,224; and on the Continent, 42,935 Bibles, and 267,124 Testaments—a grand total of 1,419,283 copies of the Scriptures. Grants of the Society this year were made amounting to £35,890 18s. 8d., including the cost of 14,280 Bibles and 23,020 Testaments for the schools and the poor of Ireland.

The Forty-third Annual Meeting of the Bible Society was held in Exeter Hall, May 5th, 1847, when the great assembly was addressed by the Chairman, the Marquis of Cholmondely, the Bishops of Winchester, Cashel, Chester, and Elect of Melbourne; Lord Glenelg, Sir C. E. Smith, the Rev.

Dr. Beaumont, Rev. G. Smith, of China, Rev. J. Stoughton, and Rev. A. Brandram.

THE FORTY-FOURTH YEAR OF THE SOCIETY,
1847-1848.

STORMS of political agitations convulsed the European Continent this year; while commercial embarrassment prevailed in England. But amidst all the perplexity, the Bible Society held on its course of divine benevolence, blessing millions with heavenly peace, and bringing glory to God.

Reviewing the operations of the Bible Society, it is found that amidst the tumults in France, M. de Pressensé issued at Paris 124,214 copies of the Scriptures; of which 102,283 were by the colporteurs. The French and Foreign Bible Society issued 17,169 copies; and 6,998 were issued by the Protestant Bible Society of Paris.

Mr. Tiddy issued from the depôt in Belgium 9,085 Bibles and Testaments; in Holland 30,874, and in Cologne 9,493 copies of the Scriptures. Besides them, Mr. Tiddy furnished 13,702 copies in Dutch and French, for South Africa, Switzerland, and Canada. And the Netherlands Bible Society distributed in the year, 18,197 Bibles and Testa

ments.

In Germany though agitated, Dr. Pinkerton issued 64,761 copies of the Scriptures, printing various editions, and purchasing others, as supplies for the depository. His summer tour advanced the Bible cause in north-eastern Germany.

"The Protestant Pastor in Hungary" reviewing the past ten years, reports the printing of thirteen editions of the Bible, and twenty-five editions of the New Testament, for the Protestants in Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Bohemia, Moravia, Transylvania, and Hungary.

The Central Prussian Bible Society issued a total of 318,882 Bibles, and 63,855 Testaments, besides 300,000 Testaments, and 12,000 Bibles for the Prussian troops, half the expense of which was borne by the British Society.

The Hamburgh-Altona Bible Society printed a seventh edition of 20,000 German Bibles.

In Switzerland, amid much political agitation, Lieutenant Graydon, the Society's agent, sold 14,344 copies of the Scriptures; while 7,683 were issued by the Bâsle Bible Society.

In Denmark, 9,629 copies were issued; and in Sleswick-Holstein 7,886 Bibles and Testaments. In Sweden, the agency at Stockholm issued 38,881 copies. In Norway, at Christiania, the issues were 4,228 Bibles and Testaments; at Drontheim, 311; and at Stavanger, 925.

In Russia, the issues of the agency at St. Petersburgh were 28,222 copies of the Word of God; of which 4,725 were on account of the American Bible Society. Besides, Mr. Melville, of Odessa, issued 4,811 copies in several languages of South Russia.

For Spain and Portugal very little could be done with the Scriptures, because of the hostility of the priests. And the same was the case in Italy, though 718 copies were forwarded to Leghorn, and an edition

of the Italian Testament, with marginal references, was completed by the Society.

The Rev. T. Lowndes issued 5,579 copies of the Scriptures at Malta, and 4,845 at Athens, where he carried forward the revision of the Old Testament in Modern Greek and superintended the printing of 10,000 New Testaments. From the depôts at Smyrna and Constantinople 4,784 copies of the Scriptures were issued by Mr. Barker; while liberty of worship was secured for the Turkish converts to Protestantism at Constantinople, by Sir Stratford Canning and Lord Cowley. Increasing demands for the Scriptures in Turkish, Arabic, Armenian, Modern Greek, and Italian, were made at Jaffa, and Damascus, and in Palestine, which were supplied by the Bible Society.

In India gratifying progress was made in translating, revising, printing, and circulating the Scriptures. The Calcutta Auxiliary issued 12,068 copies; and aided a new society, at Agra, by forwarding thither 42,200 volumes of the Scriptures in the dialects of Northern India.

The Madras Auxiliary issued 23,738 copies; while 5,950 English, and some Greek and Hebrew Scriptures, with 1,000 reams of paper for printing, were granted by the British Society.

The Bombay Auxiliary issued 4,169 copies; and the complete Bible in the Maráthí language was printed there, at the press of the American Mission.

To Ceylon,1, 535 Bibles and Testaments were sent to the school commission; and the Jaffna Auxiliary issued 12,697 volumes in the Tamil language.

In China, the work of revision was interrupted by a difference of opinion among the translators, as to the proper rendering into the Chinese, of the greatest term in theology-the name of God. In the mean time, by a grant of £100, Dr. Gutzlaff printed 4,000 New Testaments, in parts, 100 Old Testaments, and 600 Psalms. A grant of 250 Bibles and Testaments was made to the British Chaplain at Hong Kong, the same to the Church Missionaries at Shanghae; and £200, with 200 reams of paper to the London Society's Missionaries, at Singapore, for an edition of a revised translation of the Malay Testament. A grant of 170 Bibles and 225 Testaments, in several languages, was made to the Church Missionaries, at Borneo.

The Auxiliaries in New South Wales, South Australia, and Australia Felix increase in issues, and orders; and the Van Dieman's Land Auxiliary ordered 3,262 copies, and the Cornwall 3,900 Bibles and Testaments.

The distribution of the New Testament in New Zealand was reported, and a demand for more copies of the Scriptures; 20,000 copies of the Psalms, and 10,000 of the Pentateuch. The Society printed 5,000 copies of the whole Bible in the Tahitian, for the London Missionary Society; and the New Testament in the Rarotongan and Samoan languages; while 15,000 more of the latter are required by the Missionaries.

Testimonies were given of the success of Mr. Bourne's Mission to South Africa, where he sold 23,601 copies of the Scriptures, and granted 5,668