the missionaries was about ten miles distant, but want of water compelled them to make choice of their present station. The Kuruman, says Dr. Philip, is the finest spring of water I have seen in Africa. It is about 6 feet in breadth and nearly 2 feet in depth. At its source it flows from a hill, a little elevated above the surrounding country; and the missionaries, in order to secure its fertalizing influence to the country below, have finished a ditch, two miles in length, two feet in depth, and from three to five feet in breadth. In the valley is a neat row of houses, with gardens attached to them, and they have been stocked, by Mr. Moffat, the missionary, with a variety of seeds and edible roots. Should the same spirit of improvement which now exists continue to prevail here, this settlement will, in a few years, present a very pleasing object to the African traveller.

Mr. Moffat, observes our author, is now able to address the Bechuanas in their own language. He has prepared some school books, which, together with some parts of the Holy Scriptures, have been printed in England, and are, by this time, in the possession of the missionaries and the people. The attendance and attention of the people is increasing.

The scarcity of rain in this country often occasions much distress. Not a drop had been seen running on the surface of the ground for five years, and their sole dependence is on irrigation. The government of these people is tyrannical, yet in the public assemblies there is perfect freedom of debate. A speaker may, in these meetings, point out the faults of the king, in the plainest manner, and even condemn his personal and domestic vices. The fact that the Bechuana language prevails over a vast portion of the African continent, is a circumstance, says Dr. Philip, which adds greatly to the importance of this mission.

The Bechuanas, though active and intelligent, are neither generous, honest, nor humane. Their women perform all the labour, and endure the most severe oppression. Mr. Moffat has travelled three hundred miles beyond Lattakoo, and found the country populous, the people able to understand his language, and extremely desirous that missionaries should come and settle among them.

In these volumes there are many things which we are now obliged to omit, but which we may present to our readers on some future occasion. The great object of Dr. Philip, in the publication of this work, was to arouse the humanity and sense of justice in England, to deliver, from the most cruel oppressions, the coloured population within the limits or vicinity of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, and to secure to the native tribes the privileges of freemen, and to place them under the protection of equal laws. We rejoice to learn that this object is accomplished. It is known, we presume, to most of our readers, that Dr. Philip, with several missionaries from France and Switzerland, embarked, some months ago, on his return to South Africa. Three missionaries from Paris, destined to this field, were brought forward, at the last anniversary of the London Society, and placed under the direction of Dr. Philip, who goes as superintendent of the several missionary stations. The Rev. Mark Wilks, in his address, on this occasion, turning to Dr. Philip, observed: "St. Paul had to vindicate his own freedom, and to struggle for his own rights, but it has been your happy and enviable lot to vindicate the rights and to struggle for the freedom of the tribes of Africa, and, in those struggles, to be successful. Others have said to the slave, abide in your calling; consoling him in his bondage, and assuring him of liberty and rest in Heaven. But you have broken their bonds asunder; you have told them not only of peace and rest in Heaven, but of liberty, peace, and happiness on earth."

That Christianity is destined, speedily, to triumph over the degrading superstitions, the ignorance, and cruelty of the native tribes of South Africa, can hardly admit of question to any wellinformed and candid mind. We cannot better bring this Review to a close, than by soliciting the attention of all our readers to the following remarks of Dr. Philip, in regard to the success which has already attended the benevolent exertions of missionaries to enlighten and reform these people :

"To such as think that nothing is doing by the missions, unless they are continually hearing of miraculous conversions, I must be allowed to hazzard a remark, for the accuracy of which I can vouch, as far as my own observation extends, that the number of conversions which come under

the notice of missionaries do not bear a greater proportion to the general good done by the missions, than the conversions and triumphant deaths recorded in our monthly publications in England do to the entire sum of good done in our native country, by the preaching of the gospel and the institutions of Christianity. While the missionaries are complaining that they have so very few striking instances of the power of divine grace to record in their communications to their respective societies, let it be remembered that their influence is much more extensive, and the change carrying on by them much greater, than they themselves are able to imagine. In those countries where our missions have gained a marked ascendency there is scarcely one spot, however much secluded, impervious to their all-pervading light and heat. Where perhaps they are grossly misrepresented and spoken against, they are checking the grinding power of oppression, raising the standard of morals, proclaiming liberty to the captives, opening the prison doors to those that are bound, diffusing abroad the lights of science and literature, undermining the false systems of religion against which they have to contend, multiplying those charitable institutions that have for their object the relief of suffering humanity, vanquishing infidelity by the most direct and powerful of all arguments, by living exhibitions of the truth of Christianity, and changing the very face of our colonies; while they are accelerating the approach of that moral revolution which will shortly usher in the kingdoms of this world as the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ."

Annual Meeting of the American Colonization Society.

THE Society held its Annual Meeting on Monday evening, the 18th of January, at the Capitol, in the Hall of the House of Representatives. The ample room, so kindly granted to the Society, was, at an early hour, filled to overflowing, with citizens and strangers from every quarter of the Union, and at seven o'clock the Hon. CHARLES FENTON MERCER, one of the Vice-Presidents of the Society, was called to the Chair. appropriate prayer was offered by the Rev. Dr. LAURIE. The following gentlemen appeared as Delegates from the Auxiliary Societies:

From the Society of Canfield, Trumbull county, Ohio.
The Hon. ELISHA WHITTLESEY.

From the Indiana State Society.

The Hon. WILLIAM HENDRICKS.

From the Society of Newark, N. J.

The Hon. THEODORE FRELINGHUYSEN.

From the St. Clairsville and Belmont Co. Society, Ohio.
The Hon. B. RUGGLES.

From the Society at Pittsburg, Penn.

The Hon. WILLIAM MARKS.

From the Society of Hampton County, Mass.
The Hon. ISAAC C. BATES.

From the Society in Wilmington, Delaware.
The Hon. ARNOLD NAUDAIN.

From the Society in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The Hon. JACOB BURNET.

From the Washington County Society, in Penn.
The Hon. W. M'CREERY.

From the Societies of Crawford and Erie Counties, Penn.
The Hon. THOMAS H. SILL.

From the State Society of Vermont.

The Hon. BENJAMIN SWIFT.

From the Society of Zanesville, Ohio.

The Hon. WILLIAM IRVIN.

From the State Society of Maryland.

The Hon. B. C. HOWARD,

J. H. B. LATROBE, Esq.

From the Society in New York.

G. P. DISOSWAY, Esq.

From the Society in Alexandria, D. C.

Rev. Mr. JACKSON, and HUGH SMITH, Esq.

From the Society in Georgetown, D. C.

JOEL CRUTTENDEN, Esq.

SAMUEL MCKENNEY, Esq.

ROBERT P. DUNLOP, Esq.

The Annual Report was then read by the Secretary, Mr. GURLEY.

The following resolutions were then adopted:

On motion by the Hon. Mr. IRVIN, of Ohio:

Resolved, That the Report just read be received and printed.

General WALTER JONES then rose, and, in a very appropriate and impressive speech, of some minutes, portrayed the high character of the venerable President of the Society, Judge WASHINGTON, and eloquently expressed the grief which not himself only, but the Society and country have deeply felt, for the loss of private virtue and public worth which has been sustained by his death. He then offered the following Resolution, which was unanimously adopted:

Resolved, That this Society entertain a deep sense of the loss which it has sustained by the decease of its venerable President, the Hon. BUSHROD WASHINGTON, and that it will cherish an affectionate remembrance of his intellectual and moral worth. Mr. KEY stated that he had just been requested to discharge a duty which it was impossible for him to decline.

It was to propose a Resolution, calling on this meeting to do honour to the memory of one who had given his life to the cause of African Colonization-who had forsaken friends, kindred, and country, and the fairest prospects of fame and happiness, to fulfil the dangerous and honourable duty to which he had devoted himself, and in which he had fallen!

As a member of the Board of Managers, where the zeal and talents of Dr. Richard Randall, (the lamented individual to whom the resolution referred) had been so conspicuous, it was grateful to his feelings to be permitted to call for this tribute of respect to his memory. It was still more grateful to him, and still more his duty, as a native of Maryland, to offer a resolution which endeavoured to express and to record the worth of him He was proud to whom Maryland had given to the cause of this Society. know how early and earnest an interest that State had manifested for the success of this work of patriotism and benevolence. The means of making the Society's first experiment on the African coast, he well remembered, were chiefly furnished, and with a zeal and readiness that did them honour, by the liberal inhabitants of her principal City-that City which has so recently received our thanks for another contribution to our Treasury. But, Maryland deserves to be remembered, on this occasion, for far richer gifts Her small metropolis, than those of treasure-she has given us her sons. small in extent and population, but great in the estimation and affections of all who have had the happiness to know it-her small metropolis has afforded two noble sacrifices to this cause of humanity. Nor has Maryland ceased to be prodigal of such gifts, when such a cause demands them.Another of her sons is now proceeding to the same scenes of peril, and has offered talents, health, and life, to the service of that cause in which his brethren have honorably fallen!

If time permitted he would be glad (he said) to show why it was that Maryland felt this distinguished interest in the success of this enterprise