In our number for July, page 34, we gave an account of the formation of a Free Presbyterian Congregation at Geelong under the ministry of the Rev. John Z. Huie: and on page 36 we published the first list of Subscriptions amounting to £216 11s. 6d.; and in the following number, page 40, we recorded the purchase of a site for the sum of £160. We are happy to have now to report very considerable progress since that period, with reference we mean to the outward affairs of the House of God. In addition to the Subscriptions formerly advertised, the sum of £180 has been paid or guaranteed. The Committee have sold one half of their allotment for £182, the auctioneer remitting his commission. By this transaction the original price of the site is recovered, a portion sufficient for immediate wants retained, and a balance of £22 10s. added to the Building Fund. Thus the £216 11s. 6d. advertised, the £180 guaranteed, the profit on Land Sold, make available for Building purposes about £403, allowing £16 and upwards for subscriptions that may not be realised.

The Church is now in progress of erection; and the Contractor is under engagement to finish it by the 28th day of March, 1848. The dimensions are 60 feet by 30 in the clear; at the end there is to be a Schoolroom, 20 feet by 10, and a vestry 10 by 10, making the dimensions of the place of worship, 50 feet by 30. The height is to be 16 feet, the material stone; and there will be comfortable accomodation for 250 persons. The Contract price is £500. The plan includes a handsome Portico, with four Tuscan columns and pilasters, 14 feet broad and 4 deep.

The only drawback to our satisfaction in this report, is the length of time in which our Brethren at Geelong will have to meet, and their devoted pastor, to minister, in their present place. It is beyond all comparison the most uncomfortable place in which we have known a Christian people to assemble. Built originally for a store, in a lane not distinguished for cleanliness, of weatherboards indifferently put together, - the winds of heaven have free ingress and egress. In wintry weather, it must be disagreeably, if not dangerously, cold, and in a hot wind it must be like a furnace. Our heart's desire and prayer is that, humble as it is, souls may be born to God in it, and that our excellent Brother who labours so faithfully may be restored to health, and preserved for many years to be, as he is now, a burning and a shining light amid the darkness of this benighted land.