visit to this country by Mr. William De Graft, a native Local Preacher, and a valuable assistant in the African Mission. Their stay in England is expected to be very short ;-not exceeding, probably, four months, when Mr. Freeman hopes to return to the scene of his evangelical labours, accompanied by six other Missionaries. Four of these are intended to be his companions in the glorious enterprise of attempting to establish a Mission among the four millions of men who constitute the population of the powerful kingdom of Ashantee and its dependencies; and thus to introduce Christianity, education, and civilization into one important portion of that great continent, to which Britain owes so vast a debt of reparation for the wrongs and miseries of the accursed slave-trade. This Mission may now be considered as fully determined upon by the Wesleyan Missionary Society, in accordance with the Resolution of the late Annual Meeting in London; and it will certainly be undertaken as soon as the Special Fund, now raising for that purpose, shali have reached the amount of, at least, £5,000; being the sum deemed requisite for outfits, passages, the expenses of introducing and establishing a new Mission in a heathen country, and the support of the agents to be employed for the first three years. The General Fund of the Society being already pledged for other existing and older Missions, to more than the extent of its present ordinary means, the Committee have been obliged to have recourse to the formation of a Special Fund for Ashantee and the GoldCoast, as the only plan at present available for enabling them to meet this new and important opening in Western Africa. We earnestly commend it to the prompt and liberal support of the Christian public. The auspicious progress already made in this good work will be seen on referring to the List of Contributions, at page 712 of this Number. The Secretaries of the Wesleyan Missionary Society deem it necessary to state, with a view to prevent the trouble and disappointment of useless applications, that as the period of Mr. Freeman's sojourn in England will be so very short, and as the completion of the Special Fund above-mentioned will materially depend, under the blessing of God, on his personal applications, it has been deliberately agreed, that his public ministrations in this country must of necessity be limited, exclusively and sacredly, to those places in which a seasonable assurance can be given, that either considerable private donations, or public collections, for the Gold-Coast and Ashantee Mission specifically, will be connected with his visits and labours. DEATH OF MR. JUFF. THIS valued native Assistant Missionary expired at St. Mary's, Gambia, on the 1st of March, after a severe affliction of three months' duration. Mr. Moss, the only resident Missionary at the station, improved this event by a sermon, addressed to a very crowded congregation, on a passage applicable to the character and circumstances of the deceased, "The righteous hath hope in his death." Contributions to the Wesleyan Missionary Society, received by the A Friend, by Rev. Dr. Bunting (on annuity) Thomas Allen, Esq., Macclesfield.. Nathaniel Waddingham, Esq., Hull.. Legacy of the late Mr. Cockshott, of Addingham (in part) Legacy of the late Mrs. S. Simpson, of York; Miss Ann Lin foot, Executrix LONDON DISTRICT. BATH DISTRICT. £ s. d. 66 8 6 2 0 0 Harp-alley Lambeth Silver-street ... 40 60 7 0 0 2 18 0 8 Limehouse. 5 5 6 Islington 20 0 CORNWALL DISTRICT. Camborne...... 58 17 0 St. Just 105 0 0 67 16 6 776 11 GUERNSEY DISTRICT. Guernsey ..129 17 Jersey (French .225 0 0 5 8 1 17 6 10 19 10 11 Croydon 5 0 0 HALIFAX AND BRAD FORD DISTRICT. Halifax...... 162 4 0 Stanhope-street 13 0 0 Bingley Bayswater. 5 18 4 Tottenham ... 4 17 0 10 0 0 10 15 9 1 Keighley 0 6 525 14 0 HIBERNIAN AUXILI ISLE OF MAN DIST. District...... 5 6 0 LIVERPOOL DISTRICT. District.........273 4 0 Chester......... 76 0 0 349 4 0 KENT DISTRICT. ... 4 17 0 222 5 4 LEEDS DISTRICT. 65 13 0 Rochester 49 7 2 Rye 160 18 5 Chatteris 16 0 0 Northampton. 80 0 0 96 0 SHEFFIELD DISTRICT. 245 0 Ayr Derby ......... 83 0 0 Newcastle East 50 0 Belper 55 0 0 Gateshead 70 0 0 Burton 20 0 0 Durham 25 0 95 5 8 Cromford 30 0 0 Sunderland ...103 8 0 LINCOLN DISTRICT. Newark......... 30 South.Shields 22 5 10 Spilsby. Ashby-de-la Houghton-le Lincoln......... 89 0 0 Sleaford ........ Zouch nington...... 10 20 35 0 NORWICH District. AND LYNN Nottingham 370 0 000 Spring 30 0 0 Alston. North Shields 40 7 11 434 5 9 DISTRICT. YORK DISTRICT. 19 1 9 York............2006 Easingwold.. 120 0 0 MACCLESFIELD DIST. Nantwich...... 34 Pembroke...... 10 18 6 61 10 Carmarthen Malton 50 13 10 Leek Pocklington ... 66 0 0 Macclesfield. 21 8 6 ... Selby. 60 0 0 Uttoxeter 30 0 Tadcaster 20 0 WHITBY AND DAR LINGTON DISTRICT. Ripon 50 Newcastle-un Knaresborough 47 0 0 Bedale 50 00 der-Lyme ... 235 7 Whitby 111 14 8 0 Bay 61 19 172 16 5 Special Contributions for the proposed Mission to Ashantee, and the extension of the Gold-Coast Mission. The Cordial Thanks of the Committee are offered for various acceptable Presents to the Society; namely, to Mrs. Parkins, for Workbags, &c.; Mr. James Jaggar, for a variety of Articles, to the care of the Rev. T. J. Jaggar, Feejee. LONDON-Printed by James Nichols, 46, Hoxton-square. |