“I attended at Chunar last week. On Good Friday, we first had divine service in English, in a barrack; and afterwards in Hindoostanee, at the Free-school. The number of communicants after the first service, was seventeen. Of the native congregation, twenty-seven females and two men remained to commemorate the death of our Lord. Almost the whole congregation were in tears during the sermon, in which Mr. Bowley set before them the Saviour’s sufferings: and during the communion, the greater number appeared to be deeply affected, and all of them exeeedingly serious and attentive. There was an evident blessing vouchsafed to us, and, in my own case, a lively sense of the Divine presence, which seemed also to pervade the whole congregation. Friday before, I heard thirty-two native Christians read, who have within these few months, most of them, and all of them since Mr. Bowley came to Chunar, begun to learn, some the Persian, others the Nagree character; and some of them now read the Scriptures in Hindoostanee, with fluency, and all of them expressed much delight arising from their new attainment. Indeed, a remarkable tenderness of conscience seems to distinguish most of them; and their altered exemplary conduct is the talk of all, and as usual, by some ridiculed, and by others commended. “On Thursday, I catechised the first class in the Free-school, consisting of seven boys, who not only repeated their catechism correctly, but answered very intelligently many questions I asked them, arising out of the catechism. They also repeated passages of Scripture, which they got off as tasks, and the whole class repeated verse by verse, the thirteenth chapter of Proverbs. Some of the children in the Free-school, and their mothers, who are amongst the most exemplary of Mr. Bowley’s congregation, are the families of non-commissioned officers belonging to native corps now in the field. It must strike every reflecting mind what a comfort establishments such as that of the Church Missionary Society at Chunar, must be to Europeans of the above class. If instead of leaving their wives and children comparatively unprotected, and exposed to the temptations of this heathen land, they could place them where their children might receive education at little or no expense, and their wives be receiving good instruction, instead of being left to every wind of temptation, surely much of the pain arising from separation in time of war would be alleviated.