“This morning I have written to the Adjutant General, enclosing a medical certificate of the necessity for my going on. Our own Surgeon N. an old practitioner here, Dr. H. and Dr. S. the garrison-surgeon, concur in opinion, and without hesitation on the subject. I ought, I believe, to consider this as the voice of Providence, and to acquiesce in it, as I hope I do. But the whole of this dispensation has proved the greatest trial I ever met with. I cannot see my way at all in it; and I go on, driven, as it were, by circumstances. I foresee innumerable difficulties before me, without one certainty of good to follow, and utterly despair of profiting myself or others in England. I am called to walk by faith more than ever: sense is all opposed.” Shortly after the date of this letter, Mr. and Mrs. Corrie sailed from the Cape for England, and after a prosperous voyage, landed at Southampton on the 22nd June. Here Mr. C. was made acquainted for the first time, with the publication of the Journal of Abdool Messeeh, and the interest excited by it. He heard also, with sorrow, of the death of Dr. Buchanan. On reaching London he was visited by several of those friends who interested themselves with the progress of the gospel among the Hindoos; and at an early day attended a meeting of the Committee of the Society for Missions to Africa and the East, to communicate to them information on missionary subjects. He was, also, invited to attend a Committee of the London Missionary Society, to answer enquiries respecting their prospects in India. On all these occasions Mr. C. endeavoured to shew, that from the co-operation of many pious individuals among the English in India; from the readiness with which children were sent to school whenever opportunity was afforded, and from the eagerness with which translations of the Scriptures were received by many among the natives, there appeared to be fair prospects of good being done among them. He pressed upon his friends at the same time, the fact, that but little or nothing had yet been effected in India, for want of a sufficiency of labourers, and that nothing would be done without them; that wherever missionaries thoroughly acquainted with the language of the country had resided, they found plenty to do, and that though few of the natives of India in comparison with the multitude, shewed any concern for religion, still the number of such as did so, exceeded the opportunities of instruction.