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A Society for the relief of destitute sick foreigners, in China, has been organized at Hongkong. The Committee of management,

Rev. V. Stanton, secretary.

John Stewart, Esq.

Frederick T. Bush, Esq.

Lt. William Pedder,

John Carr, Esq.

William F. Bevan, Esq.

MORRISON EDUCATION SOCIETY.

Office-bearers for the year ending September 1847.

- H. E. Sir J. F. Davis, bart. &c., &c., Patron.

Rev. E. C. Bridgman, D. D. President. A. Campbell, Esq., Vice-president. D. Matheson, Esq., Treasurer.

C. B. Hillier, Esq., Corresponding Secretary.

J. Stewart, Esq., Recording Secreta y. J. Dent, and W. H. Morss, Esqs., Auditors.

The following are the Minutes of its last general meeting, held in Hongkong, September, 1846.

The Eighth Annual Meeting of the Members and Friends of the MORRISON Education SOCIETY was held at 6 r. M. on the 30th September, 1846.

Present, The Rev. Dr. Bridgman, the Rev. Messrs. Stanton, Milne, and Cleland, Lieuts. Tod and Davis, Messrs. D. Matheson, C. J. F. Stuart, Shortrede, Parker, Cairns, Olding, Balfour, Gilbert, Bird, Inglis, Howell, and others.

The President, the Rev. Dr. Bridgman, having, in a brief address, noticed the improved prospects of the Institution, and touched on the loss it had so recently sustained by the much regretted death of Dr. Dill, one of its most active officers, the several Reports annex- ed were read to the Meeting; after which the following Resolutions were carried without dissent, short and appropriate remarks having been made by each proposer :-

1. Proposed by the Rev. W. C. Milne, seconded by Dr. Balfour,- That the Reports just read be accepted and published under the direction of the Trustees.

2. By J. Cairns, Esq., seconded by Dr. Gilbert,-That the collec- tion of Annual Subscriptions and Donations be made as soon as the Annual Report shall have been printed.