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inevitable to new undertakings, with the obstacles arising from the jealousy of the Chinese people, formerly rendered it necessary to work upon a limited scale. But now two foreign teachers are employed by the Society, and in future efficient and valuable assistance in the department of instruction may be derived from the pupils who have completed their course. The prejudices which at first prevented parents from sending their children to the school, and often led them to withdraw them in the midst of their studies, are rapidly declining, and already applications for admission are more numerous than the state of the funds will admit. This change furnishes to the Society a strong reason for extending its operations. Instead of thirty pupils, to which the School has hitherto been limited, there should be at least twice the number. But to accommodate them, it is necessary that the Society's building be enlarged, the space it affords being scarcely enough for the present mem- bers of the school. The annual expenditure of the Society now amounts to about $4000. To enlarge the building will require an outlay of about $5000 (£1000), after which the increased expense of the Society will be about $6000 (£1200) per annum. Of this sum nearly $1000 are now provided for by a Fund; and the remaining $5000 must be supplied by Yearly Subscrip- tions and Donations, or by establishing a Fund of about $75,000, or £15,000. "To call upon the few residents in China, who have hitherto borne the whole burden of the Institution, to contribute this amount, would be too severe a tax upon their benevolence, and the Society now "look to the enlightened and liberal in other countries to co-operate with them."

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"The Rev. S. R. Brown, who has had the charge of the School since its establishment, is commissioned to receive such Sums as the benevolent in England and America may be disposed to give.

"The vastness of the work proposed by the Society, the condition of the 360,000,000 of idolaters in China, the facilities for the diffusion of Christian knowledge among them, which, since the late war, have been greatly in- creased, the growing eagerness with which admission into the School is now sought, the inadequacy of the existing means to meet these demands, and the reciprocal obligations of those nations that derive so much advantage from their trade with this country, all call upon the Christians and philan- thropists of England and America to lend their aid to so good a work.

"From this school the merchant may obtain honest and trustworthy assis- tants, foreign governments able and educated interpreters, and especially it is hoped that here Missionary Societies will find helpers prepared to their hand, in active, intelligent young men, who, with the true spirit of the Gospel, nurtured and strengthened by constant familiarity with Christian observances will be ready to carry the message of life to their countrymen.

"E. C. BridGMAN,

"President of the Morrison Education Society

"A. CAMPBELL, Vice-President.

"VICTORIA, HONGKONG, December 12th, 1846,"