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“ We daily met members of these poor deluded people, on their way thither, with merely the clothes on their backs, and two small waterpots slung by a pole across their shoulders, containing the sacred water of the Ganges, as an offering to their great Lord of the Earth. These poor wretches suffer most ou their return, being destitude of every thing, and hundreds of miles from their homes.—At each stage along the New Road, there are small travellers' bungalows, or houses ”

“ In India we hear nothing of controversial publications. All our Methodist missionaries are only anxious to retain their own places, by sending home to England and to Calcutta reports of a most exaggerated kind, Of the good they work among the poor deluded Hindoos, and of the number of their conversions. ”

“ The native travellers found these walled places a great protection against the rogues who are always ready to plunder a weary traveller who falls asleep after his journey. They must carry a little money for food, and to pay the government tax at the temple. There are mile stones all along this new road, which we found a great comfort. Bissunpoor is 81 miles from Calcutta, and at 100, we came to a pretty little civil station called Bancoora. ”

“ These miscreants aim at nothing less than forming Central Italy into a republic; and, as one of the means of carrying their plot into execution, have formed themselves into bands, to employ assassination, when necessary to forward their object, or to remove obstacles. ”

“ The old town has nothing remarkable but the temple; and partakes more Of a religious than a commercial character. The new town, separated from the old by the civil station and the public offices, was laid out by a European many years ago; it has very broad streets with fine shops and houses on each side, and is a place of great Commerce. This is the civil station of Bahar, and appeared to be a quiet, pretty place. In four days more, after sixty miles we came to. ”

“ They have a very respectable school and parsonage houses; and a tract of waste land close to the place, on which they settle their native converts, for when a native renounces his faith, he is shut out from all intercourse with his family and connexions. ”