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This society has recently been enabled to make an important addition to its establishment in the east. In order to extend its operations in that quarter, and give union and strength to the missionaries, it has undertaken the superintendence and management of the missions in southern India, which have been hitherto maintained by the society for the promotion of christian knowledge, and which that society consented to resign in consideration of the benefits the missionaries must derive from an intimate connexion with Bishop's college, Calcutta.

Five European missionaries, and six native teachers, devoted to the instruction of the native congregations in the neighbourhood of Madras, have thus been added to the society's establishment, and there is an urgent demand for more labourers in the same field.

Under these circumstances, the society feels justified in expressing a conviction that the British public I will not fail to aid its labours. Its

friends are therefore entreated both to form themselves into committees for this purpose in concurrence with the ecclesiastical authorities, and to circulate those authentic details of the nature and extent of the society's operations which will be furnished to them from time to time.

NORTH AMERICA.
Newfoundland.

Present establishment, six missionaries, eighteen school-masters. Annual charge, 1,900l.

Proposed increase, four missionaries, eight schoolmasters. Annual charge, 1,160. Population, forty thousand Protestants.

Nova Scotia.

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Present establishment, two visit- 501.

One missionary. Annual charge

ASIA.
Calcutta.

Bishop's college, three professors. Endowment for twenty students. * Eleven missionaries, European;

* Six, resident in the college at the date of the last despatches.

six native preachers. Annual charge, 4,900l.

In addition to these charges, there are other sources of expenditure in the endowment of divinity studentships in Nova Scotia and Canada, donations in aid of churches, gratuities to missionaries, &c.

ESTIMATE of the PAYMENTS which have been made on FOREIGN LOANS, MINING SHARES, and other speculations during the present year.

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II FOREIGN.

COPY of a NOTE addressed by the RIGHT HON. GEORGE CANNING, his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to the CHEVALIER DE LOS RIOS, Minister Plenipotentiary of his most CATHOLIC MAJESTY.

Foreign-Office, March 25. The undersigned, his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, is commanded by his sovereign to deliver to the Chevalier De Los Rios, for the purpose of being transmitted to his court, the following reply to the official note addressed by his Excellency M. Zea to his Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Madrid, on the 21st of January.

So large a portion of the official note of M. Zea was founded upon a denial of the facts which had been reported to the British Government, with respect to the state of the several countries of Spanish America, and upon an anticipation of events expected by the court of Spain to take place in those countries, by which the credibility of the reports transmitted to the British Government would be effectually disproved, that it has been thought advisable to await the issue of the expected events in Spanish America rather than to confront evidence with evidence, and to discuss probabilities and conjectures. Of that decisive issue, as it appears to be, the undersigned is directed to say, that it is a great satisfaction to the British Government that it had actually taken place before the intentions of the British Government towards Spanish America were announced. Those intentions, therefore, cannot possibly have had the slightest influence upon the result of the war in Peru.

With this single observation the undersigned is directed to pass over all that part of M. Zea's note which turns upon the supposed incorrectness of the information on which the decision of the British Government was founded.

The questions which remain to be examined are, whether in treating with de facto governments, now established beyond the danger of any external assailment, Great Britain has violated either any general principle of international law, or any positive obligation of treaty.

To begin with the latter, as the most specific accusation.

M. Zea brings forward repeatedly the general charge of violated treaties; but as he specifies only two-that of 1809 and that of 1814-it may be presumed that he relies on them alone to substantiate his charge.

First as to the treaty of 1809. That treaty was made at the beginning of the Spanish struggle against France, and was directed wholly, and in terms not to be misapprehended, to the circumstances of the moment at which it was made. It was a treaty of peace, putting an end to the war in which we had been since 1804 engaged with Spain. It is expressly described in the first article as a treaty of "alliance during the war" in which we were engaged jointly with Spain against France. All the stipulations of the treaty had evident reference to the de

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