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liberal gifts had been made for the establish- 

 ment of new missions. The sum of 12,000 

 had been subscribed toward the establishment 

 of a mission near the Nyanza Lake. The so- 

 ciety bad determined not to interfere with the 

 AIIH-I -iciin missions to Mohammedan countries, 

 but to confine its operations in those regions 

 to 1'nlestine. A largely-increased number of 

 candidates for the society's college at Isling- 

 ton was reported, and the institution was now 

 quite full. Forty-six candidates had been ac- 

 cepted during the year, of whom eleven were 

 prepared to go forth at once. 



The one hundred and seventy-fifth anniver- 

 sary of the Society for the Propagation of the 

 Gospel in Foreign Part* was held in London, 

 April 27th. The Archbishop of Canterbury 

 presided. The report stated that the collec- 

 tions and subscriptions during the year had 

 amounted to 125,294, and that 528 mission- 

 aries were engaged in various fields of mission- 

 ary work. Among the speakers was Sir Bartle 

 Frere, who spoke of the impressions which 

 had been made upon him during a recent visit 

 to India. He could give a great amount of 

 encouragement to those who were interested 

 in the spread of Christianity in India, for he 

 had just traveled over parts of that country 

 where, when he first went to India, it would 

 have been dangerous to send a missionary or 

 any white man at all; now, in these districts 

 he had found teachers of all denominations of 

 Christianity, busily employed in spreading the 

 truths of the gospel. No doubt could be en- 

 tertained of the glorious results which would 

 follow this increase of missionary institutions, 

 for wherever he had traveled in India he had 

 found communities of Christian people living 

 under the aegis of the British Government with- 

 out exciting any feelings of jealousy or ill-will 

 on the part of the native population. The 

 great safeguard of missionary enterprise was, 

 that there was no compulsion, or any use made 

 of the temporal sword to enforce the ob- 

 servance of the principles of the religion dis- 

 seminated. He found, everywhere, that the 

 missions were in the most flourishing condi- 

 tion, although the cry was still for more hands 

 to assist in the work. The Archbishop of Can- 

 terbury spoke of the appointment of two new 

 bishops in the diocese of Madras, which had 

 been made during the year, and said that steps 

 were being taken with a view to the founda- 

 tion of other bishoprics. 



The annual meeting of the South American 

 Missionary Society was held in London, April 

 24th, the Earl of Shaftesbury presiding. The 

 society is constituted for the purpose of making 

 known the gospel to the inhabitants of South 

 America, and it is conducted in conformity 

 with the doctrine and discipline of the Estab- 

 lished Church of England. A mission was 

 founded in Patagonia, in 1844, under Com- 



Knander Allen Gardiner, R. N., but it did not 

 racceed after the death of its founder. The 

 wciety was reformed in 1852. The Rev. Al- 



len W. Gardiner, son of Commander Gardiner, 

 commenced in 1801 a mission at Lota, Chili, 

 to the European population. The report gave 

 accounts of the progress of the work in the 

 Falkland Islands, Tierra del Fuego, Uruguay, 

 Brazil, the Amazon River district, and Chili. 

 An important branch of the work was that 

 which addressed itself to Roman Catholics. 



ANTONELLI, GIACOMO, cardinal deacon of 

 the title of St. Agatha della Suburra, and sub- 

 sequently of Santa Maria, in Via Lata (born at 

 Sonnino, States of the Church, April 2, 1806; 

 died at Rome, November?, 1876). His family 

 was an ancient one in the Romagna, and had 

 produced many priests and historians. He was 

 educated at the Roman Seminary and Universi- 

 ty, and at twenty-one took the degree of Doctor 

 in the Canon and Civil Law. At twenty-four 

 he passed the examinations and showed the pat- 

 rimony requisite to enter the Prelature of Jus- 

 tice. After filling minor judicial offices, he was 

 in turn delegate at Orvieto, Viterbo, and Mace- 

 rat a. After the accession of Gregory XVI. he 

 baffled the insurrection in which the subsequent 

 Napoleon III. and his brother took part. Anto- 

 nelli was then made Secretary-General of the 

 Department of the Interior, and subsequently 

 Minister of the Treasury. He was made car- 

 dinal deacon by Pius IX., June 12, 1847, and 

 immediately afterward President of the Con- 

 sulta of State, f nd to his death was the master- 

 spirit of the administration of the Pope. He 

 ceased to be minister during the year 1848, be- 

 incr replaced by Mamiani and Rossi. After the 

 fall of the latter, Cardinal Antonelli advised 

 and carried out the flight of the Pope to Gaeta. 

 As minister of Pius IX. he appealed to France, 

 Spain, Austria, and Naples, and represented 

 the Pope at the conference at Gaeta. "When 

 the Pope was restored to Rome, after the 

 French conquest of the city, Caidinal Anto- 

 nelli, as prime-minister, set to work to reibim 

 the civil administration, and encourage agri- 

 culture and industry. The revolutionary party 

 was, however, active, and an attempt to as- 

 sassinate the cardinal, in June, 1855, showed 

 how obnoxious he was to Ihem. "When, in 

 1859, revolts began, and Piedmont evidently 

 aimed at seizing the Papal States, the task of 

 Cardinal Antonelli became one of great diffi- 

 culty. All admit the consummate ability with 

 which as a statesman and a diplomatist he en- 

 deavored to avert the blow. "When, with the 

 capture of Rome, the last of the temporal pos- 

 sessions of the papacy was wrested from Pius 

 IX., Cardinal Antonelli remained as Secretary 

 of State to the Pope, but, of course, chiefly en- 

 gaged in the management of the difficult rela- 

 tions forced upon the Holy See by the new 

 order of things. In these he manifested great 

 ability and skill. His appeals to the various 

 powers for a restoration of the Pope's author- 

 ity failed to effect the result. He died after a 

 brief illness. Though holding so high a po- 

 sition in the papal court, and a cardinal, he 

 never was ordained a priest, or was named ta 



