THE COLONIAL CHURCH SOCIETY. (From the Times.)

New Zealander, Volume 5, Issue 367, 20 October 1849, Page 3

THE COLONIAL CHURCH SOCIETY. (From the Times.)

The annual meeting of this Bociety was held on Tueidny night, Bth May, at the Freemasons' Hall, Great Queen Street. Mr. J. Plumptre, M.P., presided. The secretary rend the repoit, which, after detailing the successful results of the sodc'y's operations in British North America, Prince Edward's IsUnd, New Brunswick, thu Bnhamis, Madras, Calcutta, the Cnpoof Good Hope, Australia, Poit Phillip, Van Diemen's Land, Malta, Fiance, tec, stated, that in 1848 two hundred and fifty thousand of our countrymen aeain left these shores to coloui.e the feitile regions of America, Australia, and the Cape of Good Hope, making more than half u ra:liion i« the course of two successive years. The events of the two past years have, in various ways, widely enlarged the sphere of general missionary work. Taking all causci of increase into account, the number of bouls directly inte- , cited in colonial misiions it now augmenting at the rate of from thieu to fuur Lund red thousand annually. The colonial and foreign empire of Great Britain now extends over 8,000,000 square milts; inhabited by a population of at least 150,00 1,000 of the moit various racss, languages, and religions, so that a s xth poition of the habitable globe, and of the enure human race, ars hubject to the British Crown. Though Hie 4,00j,00 >0r5,000 00!) English-speaking colonis «,with whom this totfi'ty has directly to do, form conipura» tively a bn>»li section of tins vabt aggregate, yet it must os remembered that it it the on y section which at present is really influential on the mats, and that nw asured by thin scale, it is of paramount importance.