St. Petersburg.—Twenty-three new tracts have been printed—121,000 copies—at a cost of £80 to the Society. They are chiefly translations from English tracts, and all contain the Gospel of our Lord.
The sales, including nearly 8,000 German tracts and books, have reached during the past year 115,823 copies. The gratuitous circulation has been, in addition, 2,600 tracts.
At Riga, M. Loeswitz still pursues his tract publication in the German, Lettish, Esthonian, and Polish languages. His scheme involved the printing of 90,000 tracts and books in these tongues at a cost of over £300, towards which the Committee contributed £100.
SWEDEN AND NORWAY.
The Stockholm Missionary Union, of which the Rev. Mr. Wiberg is Secretary, has issued sixteen new tracts, in editions of 10,000 each, at a cost of £44, towards which the Committee have voted £20.
The gratuitous circulation during the year amounts to 80,000, by the hands of sixteen agents employed in various parts of the kingdom.
Through the Rev. J. Storjohann, the Norwegian Chaplain to the Port of London, the Committee have printed six tracts in Norse, amounting to 15,500 copies.
GERMANY.
Hamburg.—The Lower Saxony Tract Society has received the usual grant of £350. It has printed during the year 870,000 publications, and circulated by sale and gift 1,060,000.
Mr. Oncken’s circulation for the year ending March 31, 1870, was 1,030,306. The grants made to him have been £300 for tract printing, £100 for the purchase of tracts from other German Societies, and £13 for Spanish and Russian tracts.