As we expected, the figures we quoted from the Edinburgh
Daily Review as to the decrease of English Missionaries in India turn out to be official, and the correspondents who impugned them are in the wrong. They have, no doubt unintentionally, included the returns from Ceylon, which is a Crown colony, and has no more to do with India than Hong Kong has, in the Indian returns. The figures we quoted are confirmed by the " Statistical Tables of Protestant Missions in India, Ceylon, and Burmah for 1871," and by the " Report of the General Missionary Conference held at Allahabad, 1872-73." The returns for the Church Missionary Society submitted there were prepared by the Rev. H. W. Shackell, of Benares, formerly a Fellow of St. John's ; and were supervised for the general report by the Rev. Mr. Sherring, of the London Missionary Society. The only question on which there is some doubt is whether our figures are not too favourable, as Eurasians are considered Europeans, and their number may be slightly increasing.
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