the commencement of last year $289 68. Amount due the Treasurer $356 47. The total Foreign appropriations for the year amounted to $23,000 77. The receipts from sales of Bibles and Testaments amounted to $8,330 06.

The Foreign operations of the society showed the most gratifying results. The entire appropriations for Foreign Missions for the year, amounted to $23,000 77.

The Society met with great success in Germany, where over 23,000 Bibles had been distributed. To Edinburgh over 25,000 Bibles and Testaments had been sent, and in many other parts of Europe, a like proportionate progress had been made.

From the various missionary stations in Asia the Board had received the most satisfactory assurances of success. The Bible had been translated, printed and widely circulated in India, Burmah, Tavoy, Siam, and China. What the Society had accomplished in all these countries offered the most gratifying assurances of

success.

AMERICAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

The Society has had in its service the last year 1,065 ministers of the Gospel, in 26 different States and territories: in the New England States, 311; in the Middle States, 224; the Southern States, 15; the Western States and territories, 515. Of these, 640 have been the pastors or stated supplies of single congregations; and 425 have occupied larger fields. Four have ministered to congregations of colored people; and 41 have preached in foreign languages-10 to Welsh, and 29 to German congregations; and 2 to congregations of Norwegians and Swedes. The number of congregations supplied, in whole or in part, 1,820; and the aggregate of ministerial service performed, is equal to 853 years. The pupils in Sabbath schools and Bible classes amount to 70,000. There have been added to the churches 6,678, viz.: 3,855 by profession, and 2,823 by letter. Many of the Western churches have been visited. Seventy-seven missionaries make mention in their reports of revivals of religion in congregations, and 366 report 3,096 hopeful conversions. The balance in the treasury, April 1st, 1850, was $15,553 69. The receipts of the succeeding twelve months have been $150,940 25; making the resources of the year $166,493 94. There was due to missionaries, at the date of the last report, $11,935 77. There has since become due, $151,515 41; making the total of liabilities $163,451 18. Of this sum, $153,817 90 have been paid. The remainder, $9,633 28, is still due to missionaries for labor performed. Towards liquidating these claims and redeeming the additional pledges on commis

sions which have not yet expired-making, in all, $64,906 49there is a balance in the Treasury of $12,676 04-the greater part of which was received near the close of the year, and is available only as a means of cancelling the present indebtedness of the society to its missionaries.

AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY.

The receipts of the year, in donations, were $109,897 76; for sales, $200,720 33; balance in treasury last year, $110 23-total 310,728 32. Expenditures for paper, printing, binding, engraving, copy-right, translating, and revising, $179,984 48; for colportage, $73,278 23; remitted to foreign and pagan lands, $20,000; other expenditures as by items in the Treasurer's report, $37,356 59; total, $310,619 30; balance in the Treasury, $107 02. Due for printing-paper, to be paid within six months, $32,908 64.

The operations of the Society within the past year, have resulted in the publication in nine languages, of 78 new works, of which 42 are volumes, including the Family Testament, with brief notes and instructions, and 14 volumes in German. The total publications on the Society's list are 1,598, of which 327 are volumes, besides 2,594 approved for foreign stations, in about 114 languages and dialects. There were circulated during the year, 886,692 vols., 7,837,692 publications, 269,984,615 pages-total in 26 years, 657,795 volumes, 119,826,867 publications, 2,777,807,404 pages. Illustrated Family Christian Almanac for 1851, 310,000 copies; American Messenger, 186,000 monthly; German Messenger, 18,000. The gratuitous distributions, in 2,697 distinct grants, to missionaries at home and abroad, the army and navy, seamen, humane and criminal institutions, Sabbath-schools and inindividuals, by colporters, and to life-members and directors, amounted to 56,638,543; value, $37,759 03.

Twenty general agents and seven superintendents of colportage had been employed in large districts. They had remitted, during

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year, to foreign and pagan lands, as proposed at the last anniversary, $20,000: which had been appropriated to North American Indians, $500; Toulouse, South of France, $300; Paris Religious Tract Society, $500; Baptist Mission, France, $300; Belgium, $200; Basle, Dr. Marriot, $300; Hungary, $100; Barmen, for Alleine's Alarm," $100; Nuremberg Evangelical Society, Bavaria, $200; Hamburg Baptist Mission, $700; Lower Saxony Tract Society, in part for Bohemia, $300; Berlin, for Poles and Lithuanians, $100; Denmark, $100; Sweden, $100; Russia, for army and navy $1,000; Italy, through the Italian Society at Geneva, $500; Greece Mission American Board, $300; Episcopal Mission, $200;

Armenians of Turkey, $1,500; Syria, $300; Salonica, $100, Nestorians, $400; South Africa Mission, $100; Bombay, $500; Ahmednugger, $200; Madura, $1,200; Ceylon, $,1000; Madras, $1,200; Teloogoos, Baptist Mission, $200; Teloogoos, Lutheran Mission, $100; Orissa, $300; North India Missions, $3,000; Burmah and Karens, $400; Assam, $200; Siam, Baptist Mission, $800; China, Mission General Assembly's Board, $300; Canton, Mission American Board, $700; Southern Baptist Board, $100; Hong Kong, Baptist Mission, $400; Shanghai, Southern Baptist Board, $200; (Shanghai, Protestant Episcopal Mission, $200, transferred from Mission in Turkey ;) Sandwich Islands, $1,000 -Total, $20,000.

The report contains a sketch of the rise and the progress of the colportage system for ten years. No less than 1,599 different persons, in all, have been in commission as colporters, including 531 theological students; the number of families visited has been 2,168,793, of whom 374,320 were destitute of all religious books, except the Bible; 137,711 were without the scriptures, of whom 84,707 were supplied; and 224,913 families were Roman Catholics. Within the past three years, 233,345 families have been visited, who were habitual neglecters of the sanctuary. The colporters held prayer meetings, or addressed public meetings, to the number of 60,578; sold 2,424,630 books, and granted 652,668 volumes to poor and destitute families.

The statistical account of the colportage branch of the Association for the past year, showed that including 135 students from 40 colleges or seminaries for their vacations, 569 colporters have been employed for the whole or part of the year. The whole number in commission April 1, was 368. The statistical tables show that the colporters have visited 505,422 families, of whom 90,779 were destitute of preaching; 68,027 were without religious books; 34,684 without the Bible, and 54,321 families were Roman Catholics. They have sold 451,951 volumes; granted to the destitute 127,884 books; held prayer-meetings, or addressed public meetings, to the number of 13,306, and distributed 14,201 Bibles and Testaments.

AMERICAN TEMPERANCE UNION.

The following statistics are taken from the annual report of the Society for 1851:

More than 60,000 journals and 200,000 Youth's Advocates have been issued from their office; with these publications, home and foreign missions, two State Legislatures and numerous Sunday schools have been gratuitously supplied. 4,000 copies of the Half-Century Tribute to the cause have been distributed.

A new edition of Permanent Temperance Documents and several four-page tracts have been issued.-Numerous sermons and lectures have been preached and delivered by the corresponding secretary. Collections and donations, $1,526 38. Ten auxiliary State Societies have held annual meetings, taken strong and decisive action, and made favorable reports. One new State Society has been organized in Iowa. Temperance Orders report a healthy condition and efficient action. The temperance advocacy and press have been elevated, and vigorous, and much local action has occurred of deep interest. Temperance legislation has advanced beyond any former year. Two decidedly protective bills were reported to the last New York Legislature, and laid over for action. In Iowa, an entirely prohibitory law has passed, and all drinking places are to be broken up as nuisances. The new constitution of Michigan precludes all future license of the traffic by the Legislature. The Legislatures of Illinois and Ohio have forbidden all sale for drinking on the premises, and the constitutional convention of Ohio have given it to the people to say at the ballot box in June next, whether any license shall hereafter be granted in the State. Vermont has decided once and again at the ballot against all license, and the State has now prohibited the sale by statute. Delaware has made all Sunday liquor traffic a criminal offence, and a bill is before the Massachusetts Legislature making the exhibition of the implements of drunkenness evidence of sale.

NATIONAL TEMPERANCE SOCIETY.

The National Temperance Society of the city of New York was formed in October, 1850, and celebrated its first anniversary on the 7th May last, at Tripler Hall, in that city. There was a very large attendance. The receipts amounted to $2,295 44, and the disbursements to $1,966 59. By the constitution twenty per cent. of all receipts is set apart for the erection of a Temperance Hall in the city of New York. When such a hall shall have· been provided, the permanent fund will no longer accumulate, but all the receipts will be appropriated to the direct work of spreading truth throughout the community. For this permanent fund, there are now in the hands of the treasurer of the Board of Trustees $323 68. Balance on hand May 1, for general purposes, $5 17. To conduct their general operations for the ensuing year, to sustain the inebriate's Home, to act against the Sunday liquor traffic in the cities, and for the overthrow of the whole license system, and to co-operate with friends over the State to obtain a legal prohibition of the sale of intoxicating drinks, the Board estimate their present necessities at ten thousand dollars.

AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY.

The receipts for the year amounted to $64,000, being 25 per cent. above those of the preceding year. The debt is now reduced to $7,000. The Society has also secured from Congress an ap propriation in payment of a claim for the expenses of the recaptured slaves of the bark Pons, in 1846, of which the New York State Society furnished more than $6,000, not hitherto acknowl edged among its expenditures, and for which remuneration is provided in the above appropriation. In Africa, affairs have progressed encouragingly. A final purchase has been made of the line of sea coast as far northwesterly as is desirable, and includ ing the great slave factories at Gallinas. The government of Liberia has maintained its successful course, not only at peace, but as a successful peacemaker between the contending nations of the Vey, Goula, and Boosay tribes. Agriculture has received a great impulse by the successful introduction of horses from the interior of Africa. The attempt of a company in England to ex tend cotton planting on the coast of Africa, while unsuccessful elsewhere, has succeeded well in Liberia. An exploring tour has been undertaken up the St. John's river to its source, from which we may anticipate interesting information. Various explorations are now in progress from different portions of Africa, north, south, and east, from which better acquaintance may be hoped respecting unknown regions. State legislative action has been invoked in many parts of the United States, with much promise of success, and upon the whole, the past year has been one of unexampled prosperity.

AMERICAN AND FOREIGN CHRISTIAN UNION.

The total receipts of this Association during the past year amounted to $56,265 82, all of which has been expended. About $34,000 has been expended on Missionary operations, and $21,000 for printing and postage. The Report gives a brief survey of its operations both at home and abroad during the last year.

HOME FIELD.-The whole number of the missionaries employed by the Society in all its departments in this country during the whole or portions of the last year, was 78. Of this number 14 were Germans, 20 Irish, 10 French and Canadians, 3 Italians, 2 Spaniards and 2 Portuguese, and the rest were English and Americans. The number of languages in which these Missionaries endeavored to impart the Gospel was 7, viz: German, Irish, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and English. Of these Missionaries 32 were ordained ministers, 8 or 10 licentiates, and the rest were laymen. As to their ecclesiastical relations, they