tracts published during the year, eight hundred and eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty, being an increase of three hundred and eightyeight thousand copies over the former year. They have also published from March, 1851, to April, 1852, twelve months, six hundred and seventy-six thousand copies of the Presbyterian Sabbath-School Visitor. Thirty-four thousand copies are now published semi-monthly. For the year the sales have amounted to $66,513 72, or more than $6,500 over the amount reported last year. The donations received for colportage and distribution have amounted to $17,996 89, including a legacy of $825 23, being an excess of $7,705 70 over last year. Total excess of receipts of both departments over last year, $14,219 42, including the legacy just specified. The grants of the year have been as follows: Sabbath-schools, seven hundred and sixty-nine volumes; ships of war, naval and military posts, three hundred and ninety-seven volumes; humane institutions, sixty-eight volumes; literary and theological institutions, two thousand two hundred and ten volumes; indigent ministers, one thousand two hundred and ninety-three volumes; feeble churches, one thousand three hundred and fifty-five volumes; individuals for gratuitous distribution, three hundred and sixty-six volumes; and also one hundred and seventy-five thousand one hundred and ninety pages of tracts, independent of the donations of tracts made by colporteurs. "Life of Rev. John Wesley Childs, for twentythree years an itinerant Methodist minister, by Rev. John Ellis Edwards," is the title of a new publication just issued by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Southern Baptist Publication Society.-The Society is engaged in the publication of denominational and other religious works. Its General Book Depository at Charleston is in successful operation, and sales amounting to $15,000 were made the past year, embracing seventeen thousand volumes of books. Western College Society. This society, through which the Congregational and Presbyterian denominations at the east aid their colleges in the west, is now rendering help to eight colleges in the Western States. The amount contributed, says the last annual report, by the Eastern and Middle States since the organization of the society, has not been less than $200,000, which has been given to institutions, collegiate and theological, scattered over the six States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Missouri. The wife of the late Bishop Bascom, in a late number of the Nashville and Louisville Christian Advocate, requests all persons who have anything in their possession relative to the life of the Bishop, to forward it to Dr. Henkle, his biographer, Nashville, Tenn. Rev. Dr. Lord, President of Dartmouth College, has published a letter to the venerable Dr. Dana, in which he dissents from Prof. Park's statement of the New England Theology, and treats his views as wide from the truth, and of dangerous tendency. American Bible Society, that they have translated and printed the Old Testament as far as the One Hundredth Psalm, and are hastening the work as fast as practicable. The Nestorians are exceedingly anxious to get hold of the Old Testament. Rev. J. E. Copp has become associate editor of the Memphis and Arkansas Christian Advocate. Newton Theological Seminary.—The last Senior Class of this seminary included six young men. "A new project has recently been set on foot to raise the sum of $100,000 to endow the seminary, and of this sum nearly $50,000 has already been pledged. One gentleman has subscribed $6,500, two gentlemen $5,000, and two $3,000 each." Shurtleff College, Ill.-Commencement, June 24. Graduated, three. The degree of D. D. was conferred on Rev. Robert Ryland, President of Richmond College, Va., and that of LL. D. on Hon. Lyman Trumbull, of Alton, one of the justices of the Supreme Court of Illinois. The Northern Christian Advocate says that the friends of education in Richmondville, New York, are erecting a large Boarding Academy, of sufficient capacity to accommodate three hundred students, to commence operations the first of November. The trustees have elected the Rev. J. L. G. M'Kown, of the Oneida Conference, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, their Principal. The Institution is to be called the Richmondville Union Seminary. On Cleveland University, Ohio.-The second Annual Commencement of Cleveland University took place on Wednesday, June 30th. Tuesday the Hesperian Literary Society had an oration by J. M. Hoyt, Esq., and a poem by Professor W. S. Blanchard. The graduates were eight in number. Miami College, Ohio.-Commencement, June 24th. The number of students is greater than at any time since 1840. Graduates, sixteen. It conferred the degree of D. D. upon Rev. J. C. Lowrie, of New-York; Rev. W. F. Ferguson, President of M'Donough College, Illinois; Rev. Wm. H. Goold, of Edinburgh, Scotland; Rev. Patrick M'Menamy, of Edinburgh; and Rev. Samuel W. Fisher, of Cincinnati. Rev. D. A. Wallace, of Fall River, Mass., an accomplished scholar and late President of Muskingum College, was elected Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy, in place of Prof. Th. J. Matthews. R. H. Bishop, Jr., was elected Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, in place of Prof. J. C. Moffat. Prof. Moffat will still continue connected with the University in the department of Asthetics. Indiana State University.-Prof. Lathrop, now of Wisconsin, but formerly of the Missouri University, was chosen to the Presidency in the place of Rev. Dr. Wylie, deceased; and Prof. Millegan, of Washington, Pa., Professor of Mathematics. The Board established a Normal department and an Agricultural department. An unsuccessful effort was made, in the Legislature, to abolish the University, and devote its funds to common-school purposes, as also another effort to convert it into a Normal school exclu Rev. Dr. Perkins writes from Persia to the sively. Episcopal Theological Seminary, Va.-The alumni of this institution have pledged themselves to add $15,000 to the permanent fundmaking it in the whole, $75,000. This seminary has furnished two hundred and sixty-four ministers, from which all the foreign missionaries of the Church have been taken, besides fourteen domestic missionaries. Jefferson College, Pu.-The college at Cannonsburgh has recently had $60,000 subscribed to the endowment fund. Hamilton College.-Commencement, July 28th. The address before the Society of Christian Research, delivered by Rev. Dr. Vermilye, of N. Y. city. Rev. Henry Kendall, of East Bloomfield, of the class of 1840, addressed the alumni; an Address before the Literary Societies, by Rev. Dr. Mandeville, of Albany, and a Poem by Wm. Starke, Esq., of Troy. Hobart Free College.-The college at Geneva, now called by this name, held its Commencement July 1st. Literary addresses by R. H. Dana, Esq., of Boston, and John N. Whiting, Esq., of Geneva. Madison College, Pa.-The first Commencement of this institution since its revival under the Protestant Methodists was held June 30th. Graduates, eight; all but one from southern States. Honorary D. D. given to Rev. Robert B. Thomson, of Virginia, and Rev. E. Yeates Reese, of Baltimore. William and Mary, Va.-At the Commencement, the degree of LL. D. was conferred on Judge George P. Scarburgh, and Dennis H. Mahan, Professor of Engineering at West Point. Genesee College.-We learn from the circular of this institution that its faculty consists of Rev. B. F. Tefft, D. D., President, Intellectual Philosophy and Belles Lettres; James L. Alverson, A. M., Professor of Pure and Mixed Mathematics; Rev. George Whitlock, A. M., Professor of Chemistry and Natural History; Rev. James Douglas, A. M., Professor of Latin and Greek Languages and Literature; Lockwood Hoyt, A. M., Adjunct Professor of Latin and Greek Languages and Literature; William Wells, Ph. D., Professor of Modern Languages and Literature; Rev. Moses Crow, Professor of Moral Philosophy and Evidences of Christianity; Professor of Law; Asa B. Snow, M. D., Professor of Anatomy and Physiology; Professor of Biblical Literature. This college is under the patronage of the Methodist Episcopal Church. It is projecting its plans with great energy, and promises to become one of the most commanding literary institutions of the denomination. I now find that Macaulay has gracefully de clined to do so. The repentant men of Edinburgh should have the brilliant essayist and historian. He is worthy of them, and were it not for his history I should regret that they rejected him. History, however, he would not have written, had he remained in Parliament, for he said that absence from Parliamentary excitement was necessary for a man girding himself for a great literary work. Let the great historian's assertion be pondered by those who would thrust other literary men into Parliament, however inferior their position to his. Macaulay is not to be had. He goes to Edinburgh; and may he represent that place so long as he can wag his eloquent tongue! As to Dickens and Jerrold, it would be a national calamity to distract either of them from the literary labors they both so admirably discharge. They belong to the community, and it is to be hoped that the men of Finsbury have too much sound sense to drag either of them from his proper vocation. Is it supposed that their time is not fully occupied? Would any man make either of them less a writer that he may become a struggling and questionable member of Parliament, to say nothing of the chance of signal defeat at the hustings?" Authors in Parliament.-Apropos to the subject of the preceding item, the London Athenæum contains an interesting article giving a detailed list of members of Parliament whom it calls "the representatives of the literary interest in the Legislature." It says:-"Mr. Disraeli has hereditary pretensions to lead the literary interest in the lower house, and I do not think that there could be any opposition to his claim of being the first novelist at present in the House of Commons. The only other M. P. whom I can find avowedly contributing to the fiction interest is Mr. Grantley Berkeley, whose novel of Berkeley Castle,' and its consequences, might furnish a chapter to Curiosities of Literature.' Lord John Russell, as author of Don Carlos,' is the only dramatist in the Lower House, and he ranks also amongst essayists, biographers and historians, by his various publications. Lord Mahon and Col. Mure are at the head of the historical and critical M. P.'s; and I perceive the names of Mr. Macgregor, Mr. Torrens M'Cullagh, and Sir John Walsh, as authors of historical writings. Under the head of poets, I observe Lords Maidstone and John Manners, and Mr. Monkton Milnes. The travelers' are more numerously represented in the lower house of Parliament than most other departments of literature; among them are-Lords Jocelyn and Naas, Mr. Emerson Tennent, Mr. Urquhart, and Mr. Whiteside; and I think that Sir George Staunton and Mr. George Thompson may be classed with the travelers. In the department of 'political philosophy' I find Mr. Gladstone, Sir William Molesworth, Mr. W. J. Fox, and Col. Thompson; Mr. Cornwall Lewis, Mr. Roebuck, Mr. George Smythe, and Mr. Mackinnon, appear amongst the general essayists. Mr. Walter, Mr. Wilson, and Mr. Wakely may be ranked with the editorial interest; and I may add that Mr. Butt, the new M. P. for Harwich, besides. being the reputed author of a three-volume novel, was for some years the editor of the "Dublin University Magazine." The biographers are represented by Mr. Grattan, author of a five-volume work on his celebrated father. The pamphleteer department is represented by "legion;" and I pass it by, with the remark that Lord Overstone in the upper, and Mr. Cobden in the lower house, are at its head by the importance of the publication. Turning to the Lords, the Bishop of St. David's (Dr. Thirlwall) is clearly at the head of the historians in that assembly-Lord Brougham of Political Philosophy and Belles-Lettres-and Lord Campbell of biographers. The novelists are represented by Lords Normanby and Londesborough. The editorial interest' of the peers is of a different kind from that in the lower house, and is represented by the Earl of Malmesbury, the Marquis of Londonderry, and Lords Holland and Braybrooke. Lord St. Leonard's work on 'Powers' shows that he has other than ex-offi cio rights to be placed at the head of living English writers on law. The Duke of Argyle, by his treatise on the Church History of Scotland, has added to the literary works of the Campbells. The Marquis of Ormonde has published a richly illustrated narrative of a residence in Sicily. In Physical Sciences, the Earl of Rose, not merely as P. R. S., but by his accomplishments, distances all competition in either house. There is only one autobiographer in the legislature-Lord Cloncurry. The acted drama, since the removal of Mr. Sheil, Sir T. N. Talfourd, and Sir Bulwer Lytton from the lower house, has no other representative in the legislature than the Earl of Glengall. Lord Strangford represents the poets of the peers; and of the Belles-Lettres interest in the upper house, the Earls of Carlisle and Ellesmere are efficient supporters. and Belles Lettres,' has a fair claim to be numbered among the historians of Parliament. In your correspondent's list of the Episcopal authors how came to be ignored the Bishop of Exeter ?-I venture to say the most copious of all existing Episcopal contributors to our controversial literature-and, I don't fear to add, by much the ablest. By some of his performances, indeed, he is entitled to rank with the historians of his bench." Rupert and Fairfax Papers.-We referred in the correspondence of Prince Rupert, &c. The our July No. to the proposed sale at auction of sale has taken place. It lasted seven days, and brought, says the Athenæum, £1,159 28.— exceeding the estimate of the best judges by more than £150. The prices in all instances were very good. Thus, the "Jew's eye" of the collection, the famous letter from Charles the First to Rupert after the surrender of Bris tol, brought £32-and the Pass to cross the seas to the Prince, inclosed with it, £3 10. for £8 108. A letter of Lord Clarendon's, "In the interest of the Fine Arts we may rank Athenian Aberdeen,' and as a musical composer the Lords have Lord Westmoreland. A more original author neither house can boast of than the venerable writer of The Wellington Dispatches.' I have not by me, when I write, the means of ascertaining the bench of bishops ranking with the literary interest; but foremost among them, besides the Bishop of St. David's, (named ante,) are the Archbishop-for so coin-collectors would term the horde of Canterbury, the Archbishop of Dublin, and the Bishops of London and Oxford. I may add that the number of peers is only about twothirds that of the lower house; but, on the other hand, the peers enjoy much more leisure." In a later No. of the Athenæum another correspondent suggests some emendations in the list. He says: "I am a little amused at some omissions in your note of to-day on 'Parliamentary Literati.' For example :-Did your writer not know that Lord John Russell, besides what is ascribed to him in the note, published about thirty years ago a novel? Moreover, Lord John has published various poems besides his tragedy of Carlos.' Mr. Monckton Milnes, though most known as a poet, is, I think, most respectably known for his prose essays especially his One Tract More' on the Pusey controversies. Lord Carlisle has often figured as a poet-his very first distinction having been a prize poem at Oxford. I believe Lord Brougham, besides Political Philosophy now sold-letters of Clarendon's were rare oc ly been published in Germany. Seven translations of Dickens's Bleak House have been published in Germany. The Leipsig correspondent of Norton's Literary Gazette says that Mrs. Robinson (wife of Prof. Robinson) has "become quite the literary heroine of the day in Germany; all her books which have been issued in America are in the course of publication in the German language; some of them have already made their appearance, and are much admired by the numerous friends of the authoress." The English press advertises editions of Mrs. Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Dr. Olin's Sermons, Brace's Hungary, and Curtis's "Lotos-Eating," the latter before its appearance in this country. American books are fast becoming staple in the English market. A correspondent of the N. Y. Observer states that D'Aubigne has finished the fifth volume of his History of the Reformation, and that it is soon to be published. Norton's Literary Gazette says:-Mr. Grote has already advanced a considerable way in the composition of the eleventh volume of his History of Greece. This volume is to appear by itself, and is to conduct the history of the several Grecian States on to that period at which their separate liberties were overborne by the Macedonian energies of Philip and Alexander. Among the late literary announcements of Puris are the following interesting works:Bergeret (Dr.) -De l'Abus des Boissons alcoholiques. Ouvrage annote par le Docteur AlzaretDugat. In 18mo. Biechy (Armand) Saint Augustine; ou, l'Afrique au V. siecle. In 8vo. Saint Louis; ou, la France au XIII. siecle. In 8vo. Dictionnaire Universel (le.) — Pantheon litteraire et encyclopedie illustree. Par Maurice de la Chatre; avec le concours de savants, d'artistes, et d'hommes de lettres. In 4to. de 2 feuilles; to be completed in from seventy-five to one hundred numbers, with wood-cuts. Drame de '93 (le.)-Scenes de la vie revolutionnaire. Vols. 5, 6, 7, now complete. Figuier (Louis.)-Exposition et Histoire des principales Decouvertes scientifiques modernes. Tome 3. Grand in 18mo. Fontanier (V.)-Voyage dans l'Archipel Indien. In 8vo. Garnier (Adolphe) -Traite des Facultes de l'ame; contenant l'histoire des principales theories physiologiques. 3 vols. in 8vo. Geruzez (E)-Histoire de la Litterature Francaise au moyen age, et aux temps modernes. In 8vo. Krichna et sa Doctrine. Dixieme Livre du Bhagavat Pourana. Traduit sur le manuscrit hindoui de Lalatch Kab, par Theodore Pavie. In 8vo. Maistre (J. Comte de)-Examen des differentes objections contre la Chronologie Biblique; suivie de leur refutation, a l'aide des decouvertes nouvelles faites dans les histoires de l'Orient, par le Chevalier de Paravey. In 8vo. Marounites (les,) d'apres le manuscrit arabe du R. P. Azar. In 12mo. Reuss (Edouard)-Histoire de la Theologie Chretienne au Siecle Apostolique. 2 vols. in 8vo. Souverains et Princes regnants de l'Europe. Histoire de la Monarchie Europeenne au XIX. Siecle. Par une societe d'hommes politiques. In 4to. Twenty portraits engraved on steel, to be published in three parts. Vaulabelle (Achille de)-Chute de l'Empire. His toire des deux restaurations, jusqu' a la chute de Charles X. Tome 6. A baronetcy has been conferred by the Queen of England on the Scottish historian, now Sir Charles Alison. The London Gazette says, that during the summer there is to be a "Studententag" of the assembled northern universities, in Christiania. The proposition emanated from the students of Upsala, three hundred of whom have chartered a steamer for the voyage. Should the meeting turn out successful, it will probably be repeated annually. finally decided to give up his Professorship at Professor Liebig, after long hesitation, has Giessen, in favor of a similar post at Munich. Auguste Comte has issued the second volume of his Politique Positive, embracing Social Statics. A mere indication of its chapters will suggest its importance: 1st. General Theory of Religion, or the Positive Theory of Human Unity; 2d. Sociological Appreciation of the Human Problem, from whence the Positive Theory of Property; 3d. Positive Theory of the Family; 4th. The Positive Theory of the Social Organism; 5th. Positive Theory of Language; 6th. Positive Theory of Social Existence systematized by the Priesthood; 7th. Positive Theory of the General Limits of Variation of which Order is susceptible. The able but skeptical works of Comte are exciting great interest. The very best reviews of them, in this country, have appeared in the Methodist Quarterly, which is conducted with signal ability by Dr. M'Clintock. Comte addresses a letter to the Dr. in this volume. M. Thiers arrived at Geneva lately. He intends passing the year at Clarens, finishing his "History of the Consulate and Empire." His family is to join him there. During the stay of M. Thiers at Turin, the Academy of Sciences held a special meeting in his honor, the ministers invited him to dine with them, and complimentary speeches were addressed to him at the Museum of Artillery. French Papers.-While the French Government, as we have shown, maintains its usual generosity to art and the literary press, the political press is being crushed by insupportable restrictions. We learn from the London Gazette that "it (the government) has definitely determined on reducing very considerably the price of the official Moniteur, and on giving it all the features of an ordinary newspaper. This will be the last blow to the unfortunate press The French Government has made its usual munificent appropriations for art, literature, &c., notwithstanding the depressed state of its finances. We give the following examples: $24,000 for subscriptions to new books; $36,000 for encouragement and relief to literary men and artists; $20,000 for the purchase of pictures and sculpture for the Louvre; $54,000 for encouragement to the fine arts; $27,500-not a single newspaper, perhaps, or at best for relief to artists, dramatic authors, musicians, and their widows; $185,400 to musicians; $86,500 to public libraries; $67,000 to the College de France, schools of eastern languages, &c.; $24,000 for publication of unpublished historical documents; $6,000 for learned societies; $13,000 for scientific very, very few, will be able to stand against such a terrible competition. The idea, however, of seeing all the newspapers in the land drop off, does not terrify the present rulers of France; on the contrary, it pleases them immensely. A periodical political press, however mutilated and shackled, still represents a cer tain degree of liberty, and, above all, it shows that the love of holy freedom is not totally extinguished in the hearts of the people, notwithstanding their present abject slavery. For so doing, newspapers are naturally hated by the despots; and the more they are vile, the more they hate them. En attendant the complete annihilation of the press, warnings' continue to shower on journals, especially in the provinces, like hail. After a warning' twice repeated, the government has the right to suppress any newspaper without any form of trial; and this is why it is so liberal with its avertissements." The following are among the most recent German and other continental publications announced in Europe. The French we give elsewhere: Lutterbeek (Prof. Dr. J. A. B.)—Die neutestamentlichen Lehrbegriffe; ein Handbuch f alteste Dogmen-geschichte u. system. Exegese des neuen Testaments. Noak (L.) -Der Genius d. Christenthums; der Christus in der Weltgeschichte. Pohl (Dr. E.) - Die Melancholie, nach dem neuesten Standpunkte der Physiologie u. auf Grundlage klin. Beobach tungen. Lex. 8vo. Rellstab (Lud.)-Sommermarchen in Reisebildern aus Deutchland, Belgien, Frankreich, England u. Schottland, im J. 1851. 2 Thl., 8vo. Rochar (A. L. v.)—Italienisches Wanderbuch. 1850, 1851. 2 Bde., Svo. Schumann, (A.)—Christus; oder, die Lehre des alten u. neuen Testamentes v. d. Person des Erlosers, biblisch-dogmatisch entwickelt. 1 Bd., gr. 8vo. Schneidewin (F. W.) -Die Sage vom Oedipus. Gr. 4to. Thiersch (Dr. H. W. J.) — Die Geschichte der Christlichen Kirche im Alterthum. 1 Theil, gr. 8vo. Werner (Prof. Dr. K.)-System der Christenlichen Ethik. 3er Theil, gr. 8vo. Brukner (C. A. F.)—Leben des M. Tullius Cicero. Duflos (Prof. Dr. A.) -Die Chemie in ihren Anwendung auf das LeEnnemoser ben u. de Gewerbe. In 2 Thln. (Dr. Jos.)-Anleitung zur Mesmerischen Praxis. Ewald (Prof. Dr. Heinr.)-Geschichte des Volkes Israel, bis Christus. Gr. 8vo. Gladish (Prof. Aug.)-Die Religion u. die Philosophie in ihrer weltgeschichtlichen Entwickelung u. Stellung zu einander. Gr. 8vo. Wesleyan University.-The Commencement is on the 4th inst., after we go to press; it will hereafter be noticed. Religious Summarg. informed Dr. Newman that the recent proclamation referred to all practices contrary to the strict letter of the law. The Irish Roman Catholics declare they will not obey the law, and the priests who conform to its requirements have in several instances been insulted in the streets. In Greece there has been a religious revolt, headed by a fanatic priest, caused by the recent understanding with the Patriarch of Constantinople for putting the Greek Church under his control. Progress of Mormonism.-This enormous delusion seems to possess a remarkable spirit of propagandism. It has spread rapidly in this country and also in England. Elder Curtis E. Bolton, writing from Paris under date of June 14, speaks most encouragingly of his success. He is now holding public meetings, and in the last three weeks had baptized fifteen persons. Elder Wm. Willis writes from Calcutta, May 2, that since last Christmas day his Indian brethren had increased from six to one hundred and fifty, and "if we," says he, "were to include children, we could show more than three hundred Indian saints of all sizes, colors, and languages, not to say a word about dress and undress." The statistics of the Mormons in India at that date were three elders, eight priests, nine teachers, eight deacons, and one hundred and twenty-two members. The German Reformed Messenger denies tha the Rev. A. Nevin and the Rev. C. M. Jamisor, who have recently left the German Reformed Church, were influenced in taking that step, as was Dr. Berg, by the present attitude of that Church toward the Mercersburgh Theology. The New School Presbyterian Church now comprises one hundred and forty thousand six hun |