The last number of the Baptist Magazine will have informed many of our readers that the Secretary of this Society has been invited by the Committee of Stepney College to take the oversight of that institution, and that feeling it his duty to accept the appointment, he has resigned the secretaryship of this Society, continuing however to discharge the duties of the office till a successor shall have been appointed.

Previous to his coming to this decision the Committee of the Mission passed a resolution expressive of their sense of the great importance of the continuance of his services in connexion with the Society.

It is only necessary further to state, that the Secretary having on the 20th of June presented a letter of resignation, the Committee adopted the following resolution, on the motion of Dr. Cox, and seconded by Mr. Birrell :

"That the Committee, having received the communication of the Rev. Joseph Angus, resigning his office as secretary of the Society, and having had laid before them assurances that that step has been taken after prolonged consideration and prayer, and is therefore not open to change, do, with a deep sense of the ability, diligence, and fidelity of his services during the past ten years, feel compelled to accept his resignation."

INCOME AND EXPENDITURE.

We regret that it becomes our duty to announce that the Committee, having made a special appeal last year, and received in consequence £4000 to extinguish the debt then existing, but finding that notwithstanding that contribution the financial year closed with a debt of equal amount, have felt compelled to reduce the grants to nearly all the stations, and that even with those reductions much more must be raised in the present year to prevent an accumulation of debt than was raised in the last. At the same time the Committee express the hope that these reductions will not be permanent. We feel assured that our friends, when they read some of the late communications, and perceive the openings for usefulness which are presented, and the powerful calls for more missionaries, will lament that there should be even a temporary reduction, and that men well prepared for missionary work, and thoroughly devoted, should receive the answer, "The Committee have no funds to send you out, and cannot foresee when they shall have." We cannot help hoping that the appeal in the last number of the Herald will have had some effect, and that when the question is whether we are to withdraw from the work which the great Head of the church appears to have assigned us, the members of those churches, of which we regret to say there are many, from which no contribution has been of late received, although possessing the means, will aid the Society, and that in many others we shall witness a greater spirit of liberality;

that each individual will put to himself the question, "How much owe I my Lord? What can I do to advance His cause who has done so much for me?" It is refreshing to hear of a wool-grower in the north of Scotland having made a contribution of £13,000 to the objects promoted by the Free Church of Scotland, and are there not individuals belonging to the Baptist denomination who might contribute an equal amount to the evangelizing of the world without depriving themselves of a single comfort, or interfering with the just expectations of those who may succeed them?

It is respectfully requested that where it is practicable the friends in the country ordering Missionary Cards, &c., would at the same time kindly mention the name of a country bookseller, and his London agent, through whom the parcels may be sent, or such other mode of transmission as may most economise the funds of the Society.

JAMAICA .........ANNATTO BAY ............Jones, S..........

..Feb. 20, March 10, April 7,
May 9.

.Feb. 28, June 4.

BROWN'S TOWN............ Clark, J............ Feb. 19, March 6 & 21 (two

letters), April 4, May 1.

CALABAR.................. Tinson, J.......

.........Feb. 19, March 23, April 9

& 16, May 14, June 5.

GURNEY'S MOUNT ......Armstrong, C......Feb. 13.

JERICHO

KETTERING

KINGSTON

MONTEGO BAY

MOUNT ANGUS

MOUNT HERMON.

PORT MARIA

ST. ANN'S BAY

.Vaughan, J. S. ...Feb. 19, March 22, April 19.

........... Teall, W. .........Feb. 26, March 20.

......... Hume, J. .........Feb. 19, March 6.
.Day, D............ March 5.

.....Dendy, W. & ors. Feb. 19.

Millard, B.......... Feb. 15, March 21,(2letters)

SALTER'S HILL............Dendy, W..... .April 5, 9 & 18.

SPANISH TOWN.............
STEWART TOWN

TRINIDAD.........PORT OF SPAIN .......

.Harvey, C......
..Claydon, W.

.April 6.

.April 4.

Dexter, B. B.......Feb. 27, April 2 & 3.
Cowen, G........ .Feb. 14, May 14.

Law, J. ......
...........Feb. 20, April 20, June 6.
....................... March 20, April 7.

SAN FERNANDO............ Cowen, G.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

The thanks of the Committee are presented to the following friends

W. B. Gurney, Esq., for 500 copies of his little work, entitled "Home Missionaries;"
W. F. Lloyd, Esq., for 1000 copies of his "Lessons to Infants," for the West Indies and
Africa;

Mrs. Gipps, Potter Street, for a box of books and useful articles, for Martha Vitou, Fernando Po;

Friends at Waltham Abbey, for a parcel of useful articles, for the same;

Ladies at Stoke Green, Ipswich, for a box of clothing, for Haiti;

Miss Savill, Camberwell, for a parcel of magazines;

Friends at Bury St. Edmunds, for a box of clothing, for Trinidad;

Friends, New Road Chapel, Oxford, for a box of clothing, for Africa;

A friend (Long Acre), for a parcel of magazines;

Mrs. Blight, Hackney, for parcels of magazines;

Friends, George Street Chapel, Plymouth, for a box of clothing, for Rev. J. Merrick, Bimbia;

Sunday School, Hooe, for a box of clothing, for the same;

Ladies, Ashton under Lyne, for a box of clothing, for Africa;

Mrs. Snowden, for a pulpit bible, for Rev. A. Saker, Western Africa;

Mr. and Mrs. Beal, Walworth, for a Communion Service and a parcel of fancy articles, for Haiti;

Mrs. Hogg, for a parcel of books, for Africa;

T. Bignold, Esq., Norwich, for a book, for Mr. W. Newbegin, Africa;

Friend (unknown), for a parcel of magazines, for Africa;

Miss Adams, for a parcel of magazines;

Friends, Old Chapel, Stroud, for a box of clothing, for Rev. S. Hodges, Sturge Town;

Mrs. Cozens, for a parcel of magazines, &c.;

Miss Waring, Shirehampton, for a book, for Rev. G. Cowen, Trinidad;

Miss Dennis, Kingsland, for a parcel of fancy articles, for Mrs. Lewis, Calcutta ;

Ladies' Missionary Working Association, Stepney, for a box of clothing, for Rev. A. Saker, Western Africa;

Mrs. M. C. Harris, Camden Town, for a parcel of magazines;

Mrs. Billing, late of Worcester, for a parcel of magazines;

Friends at Cavendish Chapel, Ramsgate, for a case of clothing, for Africa;

Friends at Bristol, by Rev. J. Clark, for a parcel of useful articles, for Rev. J. Merrick, Bimbia;

Mr. Stone, Loughton, for a parcel of magazines;

Mr. Collett, Condicote, for a parcel of magazines;
Friend at Hackney, for a parcel of magazines.

Extract of a letter from Rev. G. Cowen, Trinidad, dated April 7, 1849.

"Will you be so good as to present my very cordial thanks to the kind ladies at Ipswich and Lymington, for the boxes of clothing they have so kindly forwarded to the Mission House for me, and which we find such a help to us ?"

Rev. John Clarke wishes thankfully to acknowledge a present from Mrs. Hogg of twentyfour copies of the late Rev. Reynold Hogg's works.

CONTRIBUTIONS,

Received on account of the Baptist Missionary Society, during the month

Subscriptions and Donations in aid of the Baptist Missionary Society will be thankfully received by William Brodie Gurney, Esq., and Samuel Morton Peto, Esq., M.P., Treasurers, or the Rev. Joseph Angus, M.A., Secretary, at the Mission House, 33, Moorgate Street, LONDON: in EDINBURGH, by the Rev. Christopher Anderson, the Rev. Jonathan Watson and John Macandrew, Esq.; in GLASGOW, by Robert Kettle, Esq.; in DUBLIN, by John Purser, Esq., Rathmines Castle; in CALCUTTA, by the Rev. James Thomas, Baptist Mission Press; and at NEW YORK, United States, by W. Colgate, Esq. Contributions can also be paid in at the Bank of England to the account of " W. B. Gurney and others."