Third and fourth annual reports of the committee of the Synod of the Presbyterian church of Canada, in connection with the Established church of Scotland, appointed to conduct the French Protestant mission in Canada East, July, 1845.

Peterboro', Sarnia, and the United Congregations of Dundas and Ancaster, no contributions have been received for the years 1^43-4, from any of the congregations whose Ministers have separated themselves from the Synod.As the arrangements for that year, which have involved the Mission in considerable expense, have been gone into with their full concurrence and promised support, it is to be hoped they will feel morally bound to contribute to some extent to remove the present incumbrances, and the more especially as the object of the Mission is divested of those considerations which led to the late unhappy disruption of the Synod.Your Committee, however, express their fear that the burden of past obligations, as well as making pro- vision for the future, must rest entirely with the Synod ; a circumstance which, it is to be hoped, will stimulate every member to increased exertions, and to make up from the beneficence of their own congregations what may be lack- ing on the part of others.Your Committee, impressed with the importance of connecting with the preaching of the Word, the religious education of the young, directed early their attention to this subject.After some vexing delay, they succeded in obtaining the services of Mr. N., as stated in last Report.He arrived early in August, 1843, and entered upon the duties of his office, so soon as a few scholars could be assembled.He appeared qualified to give in- struction not only in the Elementary branches of educa- tion, but also in some of the higher departments of litera- ture; bnt was unfitted for the special business your Committee desired to commit to him, which will appear from certain papers, which they beg to submit, without more minute reference to the case.How far we are prepared to enter on this department of Missionary work, or how far the minds of the Canadians are prepared to receive education at the hands of those who have the professed object in view of destroying their superstitions, and enlightening their minds in the knowledge of the Gospel, cannot be fairly ascertained.From the com- plete failure of the experiment we have made, we are forced to confess, that the school was productive of little benefit, while it added considerably to the expense of the Mission.The few scholars that had been collected soon withdrew, some from indifference, some from a suspicion of interference with their religious opinions, some, perhaps from other causes.Both from the tempef of his mind, and constitutional indolence, the result of advanced age, and perhaps the long indulged habits of a country Popish Priest, Mr. N. was found utterly unqualified to remedy these evils, or recruit his diminished classes.A stranger to the peopler and utterly averse to domiciliary visits, he looked to the Committee to do every thing for him, except to teach ;

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