“I write now to acquaint you with the death of one of our chaplains at Cawnpore on the 22nd instant, that you may, if possible, get some proper person appointed in his place. Our honoured friend Mr. Grant, will not be backward to use his influence, if it can avail--and may God grant, for the honor of his gospel in these lands, that a true minister of his word may be sent out. It is inconceivable to those not on the spot, how much pious _well-educated_ men may effect, above the usual run, even of pious men who come out as missionaries. If translations be to supply the gift of tongues, then those translations ought to come as near the character of that gift as possible. Now the Serampore translations all, I fear, fail entirely in idiom and every recommendation. Of their Hindoostanee translation, I can speak from some knowledge, that it is calculated to displease the least fastidious, by the mixture of Persian, Arabic, and English words in it, as well as by the turn given to many phrases, from the literal rendering from the English. Thus, ‘on these two hang all the law and the prophets,’ the word used is literally, ‘suspended as from a peg.’ Such is my own feeling respecting this translation, that I should abstain from giving it to an intelligent Hindoo, and no other could make anything of it; and at this place, we have, in consequence, nothing to meet the enquiries of the Hindoos, except a catechism translated by Mr. Bowley, which is read with avidity. “Divine providence is, I hope, opening a door of great usefulness here, through the means of the Baboo Joy Narian--a kind of Deist, who is about giving up a house, and £5,000. to endow it as a school, to our Church Missionary Society. The house in Benares we have actual possession of, and it is now undergoing a little repair, with a view to commence a school of general learning, of which Mr. Adlington will be the superintendent.”