| Description | 17 Sep: At an interview with the governor-general Corrie suggested that the Indian government should shoulder responsibility for religious instruction and worship for Indian subjects, and did not appear to have given offence; Captain Chapman, a former member of the Finance Committee at Salisbury Square, has promised to arrange a month's account in the manner there approved, and this model Corrie will see is followed; every penny has gone in actual missionary work; Corrie thinks a deputation to visit the stations would be a waste of funds, as information is coming in well from them; Corrie thinks that funds are accumulating that the minister in charge of the Old Church might be the chief CMS agent in Calcutta [Kolkata]; he feels his secretaryship has interfered with his work as a minister and Thomason said the same before his death; complaints that SPG have given a false account of the appointment of Moreton as chaplain at Chinsurah; Corrie procured a government chaplain there to release Moreton for his proper missionary work, to his annoyance; the college was also offended when Corrie obtained a chaplain for Howrah, Corrie feeling the East India Company should bear the charge, not the British public; Corrie will send home a full statement for the facts for publication if unfair insinuations against him continue |