RELIGIOUS SUMMARY. Religious Summary. Ix Rangoon, India, the Baptist mission has two hundred and fifty pupils in one school, and thirty-one of them are young men preparing to preach the gospel to their countrymen. Preaching is sustained in three languages-Burman, Karen, and English. The Episcopalians in this country have twentynine dioceses, one thousand six hundred and fifty clergymen, one thousand six hundred and fifty parishes, and one hundred thousand communicants. Of one hundred and fifty male missionaries who have gone to China, eighty-eight were from this country, forty-seven from England, and fifteen from the continent of Europe. In the churches connected with the Baptist Western Union, Jamaica, are eighteen thousand three hundred and eighty members. In thirtyfour of these churches, one thousand and fiftysix baptisms are reported for last year. The last General Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist Connection, convened at Syracuse, in this state, was composed of thirty-two clergymen and thirty-two laymen, representing twelve annual conferences. The income of the Church Missionary Society, England, the last year amounted to $600,000, of which more than $50,000 were raised in the various missions, chiefly in India, being an increase of at least $30,000 on the year before. We learn that, during the past year, there has been a net increase of one thousand five hundred persons in the German Methodist Episcopal The whole Church in the United States. The receipts in full of the British and Foreign An effort is being made, in the bounds of the Virginia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, to raise a fund of $22,000, for the education of the daughters of the traveling preachers of that body. The Pope has resolved to send an apostolic delegate to the Haytien Government, and has chosen for the purpose Pudre Spaccapietra, a Neapolitan. An eminent clergyman at Wurtemburg has come into possession of a part of a scroll of the law, which had been found in Pompeii. It was discovered in an Egyptian temple in that city, and it is presumed that it was brought thither from Jerusalem, since the Romans looked upon We learn that the American Board of Foreign We learn that the Sunday-school connected The number of Jews in Jerusalem has greatly At a late meeting of the Managers of the At the last session of the Georgia Conference, It is stated that there are one hundred and twenty-five thousand Europeans, chiefly French 1 virtually giving the gospel to Spain, while Spain is shutting it out. A door of access is open also to the Jews and to the Mohammedans; and one of the missionaries has preached the gospel in a mosque to a mingled assembly of Arabs, Protestants, and Papists. There are in the United States eight thousand seven hundred and ninety-one Baptist churches, valued at $10,931,000, and capable of seating three million one hundred and thirty thousand people. At the late session of the Southern Illinois Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, it was resolved, That each member of the annual conference be and is requested to write a sketch of his life, conversion, and such other facts as he may think proper, to be deposited with the secretary of the conference." Princeton Theological Seminary has one hundred and nineteen students this year, who represent nineteen States, besides Germany, Scotland, and Ireland. Upon the application of the Committee of the Wesleyan Missionary Society to the British and Foreign Bible Society, ten thousand copies of the Tongese New Testament have been ordered to be printed, and also an edition of five thousand copies of the New Testament, in Feejee. The London Jews' Society, by their missionaries, have distributed fifty thousand copies of the New Testament, in Hebrew, and one hundred thousand copies of the Old Testament, besides thousands in other languages read and spoken by the Jews. At the last session of the Alabama Conference, twenty-three missions were recognized within the bounds of the conference. This conference has increased its membership one thousand six hundred and eighty whites, and two hundred and three colored, during the past year. It has raised $20,329 for the cause of missions. At the last Mormon Conference, at Salt Lake, a large number of elders were appointed to missions in various parts of the globe. They have missionary establishments in Europe, parts of Asia and Africa, and the islands of the sea. The Church missionaries from England are aiming to form a line of stations across Central Africa. Two are already formed--Badagry and Abbeokuta; for a third, they have their eye on Ibadan, a city of fifty thousand inhabitants, a day's journey farther northeast, on the road to the Niger. Ilorin may constitute a fourth, and the fifth bring them to this great river. As many more will bring them to the Lake Tehad, where they expect to greet their brethren from the eastern coast. The Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions have sent out the Rev. William Speer, lately from the China Mission, as a missionary to the Chinese of California. The famous Countess Hahn Hahn-authoress of "Jerusalem and Babylon," and other workswhose recent conversion to Catholicism made some noise, has just entered the convent of the Order of the Good Shepherd, at Angers, in France; and will, after due probation, found a similar convent in Coblentz or Cologne. During the period of about twenty years that the American Baptist Home Mission Society has been in operation, it has been instrumental in gathering and organizing seven hundred and eighty-five Churches, besides many hundreds of other Churches aided from its funds. The Methodist Tract Society has commenced effective operations. It starts with a catalogue of more than four hundred tracts, well classified, and a volume series, the first book of which is a very neatly bound edition of Carrosso's the life Life-one of the best illustrations of of faith" in our language. One of the main designs of the Society is to furnish translations of volumes and tracts for the German and Scan dinavian missions of the Church. This demand is very urgent, and affords a great opportunity of usefulness. Funds are needed immediately to begin the translations. J. B. Edwards, Methodist Book Concern, New-York, is treasurer. At a late meeting of the New-York Bible Society, it was stated in the report that the agent, in the course of his regular distribution, had furnished a Bible in the Italian language to Agostino Francis, mate of the brig Anna, of Palermo, Sicily, at his earnest request. A few brig, the agent learned from the mate of the weeks since, while visiting another Sicilian latter vessel that Agostino Francis had been discovered after his return to Palermo to be the possessor of the Bible which had been procured by him at New-York, and for this crime had been arrested and sentenced to imprisonment for ten months, and a fine of sixty dollars. Mark H. Newman, Esq., has left by his will twenty-five thousand dollars to the American Home Missionary Society. He gave also ten thousand dollars to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; and then made the American Home Missionary Society his residuary-legatee, from which it is expected a large amount will be realized by the society. It is said that a gentleman, who attended the Madiai meeting recently held at the Metropolitan Hall, in this city, sent to the American Bible Society a check for $1,000, to aid in circulating the Bible. The number of regular Baptists in Wisconsin is four thousand and eleven; of Free-Will, one thousand and nineteen; and of Campbellite Baptists, five hundred; total, five thousand five hundred and thirty. The population of the State is four hundred thousand, making almost one Baptist to every eighty persons in the State. The Mormons report that they have in the London Conference, England, one hundred and sixty elders, one hundred and twenty-one priests, ninety-eight teachers, sixty-seven deacons, and two thousand three hundred and fifty-two members. It is said that from seven to ten thousand Christian pilgrims, besides Jews and Mohammedans, annually flock to Jerusalem. The American and Foreign Christian Union has one hundred and fourteen missionaries, of which eighty-five are employed in the home field, and additions to this number are made as fast as the Society's means permit. Art Intelligence. Ir is said that Raffaelle Monti, the Milanese sculptor, sends his wonderful vailed statue of the Bashful Beggar to the New-York Crystal Palace for exhibition, in May. This is pronounced to be the only work in which apparent transparency has been given to solid marble. A picture has been drawn in England, called "The Last Return from Duty," representing the Duke of Wellington, on horseback, leaving the Horse Guards for the last time, on a day in August last. At a recent meeting of the Kilkenny Archæological Society, Ireland, the secretary drew attention to a splendid series of drawings, by Mr. Henry O'Neill, of the ancient sculptured crosses of the county of Kilkenny. The style of ornament observable in these crosses is peculiar to the Celtic race; it prevailed throughout Ireland, in the Isle of Man, Cornwall, Wales, the northern shires of England, and Scotland,-in short, wherever the influence of the early Irish preachers of Christianity extended. The peculiar interlaced work is also to be traced over Germany and Italy, wherever these zealous heralds of the gospel directed their footsteps. Mr. George L. Brown has been engaged recently in making elaborate and finished drawings of the neighborhood of Rome, comprising Albano, Tivoli, &c. They are to be engraved and issued in parts of twelve or fifteen numbers each. We learn that the Sultan has resolved to repair the defect in the cupola of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, at Jerusalem, at his own expense, to appease the disputes to which the state of the building has given rise among the Greek and Latin Christians. A Turkish engineer had arrived with orders to survey the edifice, and make the necessary measurements and estimates for the repairs. The Alumni of the University of Virginia have on foot a project, to raise by subscription $2,500, for the purchase of Raphael's immortal picture, the "School of Athens." The statue of Thomas Jefferson-the second in Crawford's Washington Monumental Grouphas been cast in the Royal Foundry in Munich. Madrid papers announce that the statue of Columbus, of large size, in bronze, is about to be erected in the principal square of the Spanish capital. At a late meeting of the London Asiatic Society, a portfolio of fine drawings, from the temples of Jwullee, in the Belgaum Zillah, India, by Lieutenant Biggs, of the Bombay army, was laid upon the table for the inspection of the members. Jwullee is a village on the Malpurba River, and is rarely visited by English men. It is wholly composed of caves and temples in every stage of decay, the best preserved of which are made habitable by the addition of mud walls and thatched roofs. The most beautiful of the whole, which is also the least decayed, is called the Maha Lakshmi Devi. Very many inscriptions exist in the Canarese charac ter, but in the older dialects of the language, not now understood by the common people. The temples extend to the south along the river, in groups of from twenty to thirty. These temples appear to be built, without cement, of enormous stones, those of the roof being twelve feet long, by eighteen inches in thickness. There are many similar structures about ten miles distant; and there is also a in the neighborhood, particularly at Pundkul, remarkable inscription on a rock not far from Jwullee. A letter has been written to the United States Consul at Leghorn, by the Secretary of State, directing him to ship Greenough's group for the capitol in the first merchant vessel that will take it directly, and without transhipment, to Washington. The erection of the Jackson Statue at Wash ington occurred recently. An imposing military procession, followed by surviving officers and soldiers who served under Jackson, and a civic procession, escorted the official dignitaries and the public to Lafayette Square, the place where the monument is to stand; a prayer was delivered by the Rev. Clement C. Butler, and an oration was pronounced by the Hon. Stephen A. Douglas. He paid a deserved tribute to the genius of Mr. Mills, the artist, a native of the State of New-York; and concluded with a succinct account of the achievements which have given to the name of Andrew Jackson such substantial claims upon the affectionate remembrance of his countrymen. A bill, appropriating $50,000 for an Equestrian Statue of Washington, was recently passed by a unanimous vote of both Houses of Congress. Didot, of Paris, has undertaken a splendid work under the direction of Mongez, a member of the Institute, and with the instrumentality of able artists-engravings (with explanations) of all the contents of the Gallery of Florence and the Patti Palace. The work is to consist of a hundred livraisons, the price of each five francs. The collection of pictures belonging to the Duchess of Orleans is about to share the fate of the rest of the Orleans property in France, and be disposed of by auction. Among the specimens of modern art which this collection includes, may be mentioned the well-known Francesca da Rimini of M. Ary Scheffer. In the city of Strasburg, on the eastern frontier of France, there stands, in the principal square, a large bronze statue of Guttenberg, in full-length figure, with a printing-press at his side, and an open scroll in his hand, bearing this inscription: And there was light. At a special meeting of the mayor and aldermen of Boston, held recently, provision was made for the purchase of Mr. Healey's picture of Webster replying to Hayne. M. Decaisne, one of the most distinguished of French portrait painters, is dead. Scientific Items. ABOUT two hundred coins of the Roman emperors-Gordian, Antoninus Pius, Gallienus, and Valerian-were found recently in digging for a railway near Villefranche, in France. The medals stuck together, and appeared to have been deposited in a vase. Near them were a quantity of human bones, and among them several men's jaws containing teeth in a fine state of preservation. Local antiquaries suppose that the bones may have belonged to the slain in the grand battle between Severus and Albinus, which was fought in those parts, A. D. 198; but it is, perhaps, more probable that they were buried there after some battle in the middle ages. At a late meeting of the American Geographical and Statistical Society, in this city, Dr. Kane, under whose charge an expedition to the Polar Seas has been organized, delivered an address. The society at once resolved that funds should be procured for the purpose of securing the services of a practical and scientific assistant to accompany the expedition. There are now in operation in the United States eighty-nine main and branch lines of telegraph, whose united length is 16,729 miles. The cost of construction averages $150 per mile. Total length of the Bain line, 2,012 miles; of the House line, 2,400 miles; the balance is mostly Morse's, whose instruments can transmit 8,000 to 9,000 words per minute. M. Mare, of Nantes, France, has patented a new process of tinning iron articles. The process is as follows: The articles are scoured with sulphuric acid, and when quite clean are placed in warm water, then dipped in a solution of muriatic acid, copper, and zinc, and finally plunged into a tin bath in which has been placed a small quantity of zinc. When the tinuing is completed the articles are taken and dipped into boiling water, and lastly are placed in a warm sand-bath, which last process softens the iron. Mr. Hind, the distinguished astronomer at Regent's Park, London, has recently discovered another planet, the seventh first seen by him, and the twenty-first now known to exist between Mars and Jupiter. The new planet when first found was in the constellation Taurus. Mr. L. B. Swan, of Rochester, has discovered a new solution for the Galvanic Battery, which promises a saving of seventy-five per cent. in the material used by telegraph companies, independent of its saving labor and time. The solution produces an electric and galvanic current of uniform power and intensity, without the rapid decomposition of the metals and acids hitherto unavoidable. The solution discovered does not act chemically on the mercurial amalgam; and during a trial test by Mr. Barnes, the operator at Rochester, of forty-five days, this solution was used without alteration, or fresh amalgram or acids, and without perceptible destruction of mercury or zinc. At a recent meeting of the Farmers' Club, held in this city, it was stated that a new article of the gutta percha genus has been obtained from trees near Palembang (Suma tra), and is called "Getah-Mata-Buay." When mixed with gutta percha, it can be adapted to purposes of great utility. Among the other articles presented was the specimen of the seed of a new tree, the Paulonica Imperialis, which would prove a valuable addition to our shade trees. This tree grows rapidly, has a large sunflower-like leaf, and blossoms with a delightful fragrance in the month of June. It attracts no insects whatever. We learn from the Tribune that the second trial trip of the caloric ship Ericsson, recently made up New-York bay, proved fully, and beyond the possibility of doubt, the existence of a new motive power as sure and efficient as steam, while it is free from all danger of accident, and is vastly cheaper and more manage able. The owners of the caloric steamer Erics son are so well satisfied with their experiment, that they announce their intention of building on the same principle, during the present season, six ships of four thousand tons each. The Evening Post says that all the power used in Captain Ericsson's engines is obtained from the expansion of the atmosphere by heat. He uses no water and makes no steam, but employs the atmosphere very much as the steamers employ water, with this difference, that instead of throwing away the heat after it has been used, as the steam engine does by condensation, he separates it from the escaping air, and uses it over again in heating each new change of air which is supplied to his cylinders. This economy of the heat, of course, results in a corresponding economy of fuel, furnace-rooms, and firing equipage, equal, it is supposed, to a difference, in point of expense, of five parts in every six. In the Academy of Sciences at Paris, at a late meeting, it was announced that M. Goldsmith, a German gentleman, residing in that city, had discovered another new planet, different from that of Mr. Hind. It is between the eighth and ninth magnitude. On M. Arago's suggestion it has been named Lutetia, in honor of Paris. The planet recently discovered at Marseilles had been definitely named Massilia, with the consent of M. de Gasparis, who had some share in the discovery. Quite a large number of spectators assembled at the Hippodrome, in Paris, lately, to witness another experiment in aërial navigation. The aërostatic machine which was to ascend on this occasion is the invention of M. Giffard. It is an oblong cylinder, somewhat in the form of a fish, of about one hundred and twenty feet in length, and about twenty feet in diameter at its thickest part, and gradually tapering off at both ends. The directing apparatus is a very small and beautifully-finished steam-engine, setting in motion a propeller resembling in form the screw used in steam vessels. This is suspended, at twenty feet beneath the balloon, from a long boom which is attached to it, and which supports at its extremity a triangular sail. AYARD TAYLOR was born on the BAYAR of January, 1825, at Kennett's Square, Pennsylvania, where he resided until his nineteenth year. Who and what his parents were has not transpired, save that they were, and we believe still are, members of the society of Friends. From his earliest years he was fond of writing verses, and of poring over books of travel and adventure; now deep in the antique Munchausenisms of Mandeville and Marco Polo, now with Crusoe and his man Friday on their desert island, and anon in the charmed region of poesy, enraptured with Milton and Wordsworth, (still his prime favorites,) or bewildered in the maze of his own ambitious rhymes. His VOL. II, No. 4.-W young life was full of dreams, yet he himself was not a dreamer of the old sortbright-eyed, but sickly and useless; on the contrary, he was a strong-limbed and active boy, foremost in all athletic exercises and games of strength, and much addicted to long walks. Walking seems never to have tired him, exposure never to have affected his health, he was so stout and hardy. By-and-by he enters the office of a country newspaper, to learn the art and mystery of printing and now behold him at the "case," with his sleeves rolled up, and his quick-moving fingers dingy with the smut of mysterious bits of lead; now "setting up" a President's Message, or an account of the last mam |