in Bornholm and Norway, in certain parts of which copies had become exceedingly scarce.

Sweden has in the course of the last year made considerable progress in the important work of providing for the dissemination of the Holy Scriptures. For this rapid advancement, both Sweden and the British and Foreign Bible Society are chiefly indebted to the zealous and prudent exertions of the Reverend Doctor Brunnmark, who, when proceeding on a visit to his native country, kindly charged himself with full powers from your Committee to encourage the formation of Bible Societies, by immediate grants and promises of still further and more effectual aid. The Report of Doctor Brunnmark, the Resolution of Thanks from your Committee, and the testimonies to his conduct received from persons of the first distinction in Sweden, all which will appear in the Appendix, render it unnecessary for your Committee to say more in this place, than that Doctor Brunnmark amply justified the confidence, which, from a long experience of his zeal, his judgment, and his philanthropy, they had been led to repose in him. Three new Bible Societies have been established in Sweden, in consequence of his exertions during the past year, under the designations of the Gothenburg, the Westeras, and the Gothland Bible Societies: they are severally patronized by the Bishops of those dioceses within which they are included, and the second

comprehends the two provinces of Westmania and Dalecarlia. To each of these new Societies your Committee granted a donation, in proportion to its extent and importance.

The Evangelical Society in Stockholm has also proceeded with its usual diligence and activity in printing and distributing the Holy Scriptures. In the course of the last year it has printed 5,000 copies of the New Testament, and 2,000 Bibles; of these, 843. Bibles, and 2,047 Testaments, have been distributed gratis: the joy of the poor, on receiving these copies, was very great. The sum of 2001. has been granted by your Committee in further aid of the funds of this Society, which arrived most opportunely, and was immediately applied to the purchase of paper for printing an additional number of copies of the Scriptures.

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Your Committee, with a view to encourage atten⚫ tion to the object of the British and Foreign Bible Society, presented, through the Rev. Dr. Brunnmark, copies of its Annual Reports, and also of certain of the Society's editions of the Holy Scrip tures, to the Public Libraries at Gothenburg, Wisby, and Westeras. The acknowledgments of the several Consistories for this mark of attention, will appear in the Appendix.

Your Committee cannot take leave of their Swedish fellow-laborers, in words better suited to their feelings, than those in which the Bishop and the other Patrons and Officers of the Gothenburg Bible Society have expressed theirs: "We are at a dis

tance from each other, as to the earthly spot we inhabit; but our joys, our views, our hopes, in this blessed work, are the same."

In entering upon the Russian Empire, the first object which demands the attention of your Committee, is the Bible Society established at Abo for the province of Finland, of which an account was given in the last Report. This Society is pursuing its useful labors with a steady and zealous activity. The Finnish New Testament on standing types is in a course of printing; and will, it is hoped, be ready for distribution in the Summer. The joy of the Finlanders, in the prospect of being furnished with the Holy Scriptures in their own language, is very great; and their deep poverty hath abounded unto the riches of their liberality, to such a degree, that their Subscriptions to the funds of the Finnish Society have more than tripled what had been expected by the most sanguine of its friends. In the mean time, the 2007. voted by your Committee, in order to enable the Society at Abo to supply the poor Swedes in Finland with copies of the Scriptures in their own language, have been employed for that purpose: the distribution has already commenced; and has rejoiced the hearts of many.

Early in last June, the Rev. John Paterson, whose exertions in promoting the establishment of the St. Petersburg Bible Society were particularly specified in the last Report, undertook a journey, at the express desire of your Committee, and with the

approbation and encouragement of the St. Petersburg Bible Society, through the Russian provinces of Courland, Livonia, and Esthonia, for the purpose of investigating the want of the Holy Scriptures in those parts; and taking such measures as might seem adviseable, with a view to an adequate and efficient supply. Among the discoveries to which Mr. Paterson's inquiries led, was the affecting information, that in the district of Dorpat in Livonia, including a population of 106,000 souls, not 200 New Testaments were to be found. The event of Mr. Paterson's journey through these provinces, was the establishment and regular organization of four Bible Societies; viz. at Dorpat, Reval, Mittau, and Riga. These Societies were all formed under the authority and in the spirit of the 9th article of the St. Petersburg Bible Society, which empowers the Committee of that Society "to appoint Sub-Committees in various parts of the Empire, which are to be dependant upon the General Committee, and actively engaged in the promotion of its views." Mr. Paterson was greatly assisted in effecting the esta blishment of these Auxiliary Societies, (for such in fact they are,) by the personal influence and exertions of Count Lieven, and Baron Vietinghoff, two of the Directors of the St. Petersburg Society; and the several institutions are patronized and conducted by some of the first characters for station, learning, and piety, in the districts to which they respectively belong.

The Rev. Robert Pinkerton (to whose aid in the

formation of the St Petersburg Bible Society, Prince Galitzin has borne so honorable testimony*) was in the mean time not less zealously employing himself, in promoting, under the same auspices, and with similar aid, the formation of a Bible Society at Moscow.

This important event took place on the 4th of July, O. S. On that day, the Bishop of Dimitrieff,、 and Archbishop Vicarius of Moscow, Augustine, accompanied by five of the first Clergy, together with a number of the most respectable Nobility, met in the Hall of the College for Foreign Affairs, and unanimously formed the Auxiliary Bible Society of Moscow.

The establishment of the Society was notified to the Russian public in a luminous and impressive Address, which will appear in the Appendix.

Connecting the formation of the Moscow Bible Society with the awful visitations which that antient capital had so lately experienced, your Committee are utterly at a loss to express their mingled emotions of astonishment and gratitude. They can only exclaim: "It is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes!"

It would be an act of injustice, to omit specifying in this place the very distinguished services which Mr. Pinkerton has rendered to the British and

"To Mr. Pinkerton, who fortunately happened to be here for a short time, we are likewise deeply indebted for his most active and valuable exertions." (Letter of Prince Galitzin, 9th Report, Appendix, No. XI.)