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The Rev. Dr. Ludlow, formerly Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, was on the 1st October inaugurated to the Professorship of Pastoral Theology, Church History and Government, in the New-Brunswick (N. J.) Theological Seminary of the Reformed Dutch Church, recently vacated by the decease of the Rev. Dr. Cannon.

The Hon. D. A. White, of Salem, has presented the town of Lawrence, Mass., with lands, valued at $20,000, the proceeds of which are to accumulate for the establishment of a Free Library, and Annual Lectures on Literature

and Science.

Mr. Schoolcraft, says the National Intelligencer, has a full vocabulary of the language of the Puebla Indians. It abounds in monosyllables, a trait not common, in its elementary forms, with our western tribes.

Professor Jewett, of the Smithsonian Institution, has been engaged, for some time past, in maturing a plan for the preparation of Library Catalogues, and for stereotyping the titles of books.

Dr. Hawkes, of this city, has been elected Episcopal Bishop of Rhode Island. It is said to be in contemplation to call him to the rectorship of Grace Church, in Providence.

From three to five columns weekly, of the Christian Observer, published at San Francisco, California, are printed in Spanish for the benefit of that class of California citizens.

The first term of the Richmondville Union Seminary commences on the 25th of October. It is located in Richmondville, Schoharie County, New-York, forty-five miles from Albany. A plank-road passes through the place, and the Albany and Susquehanna railroad, when completed, will bring it within one hour's ride of Albany, thus rendering it easy of access from all parts of the State. This institution possesses every facility for a complete and thorough classical education. The Principal, Rev. J. L. G. M'Koun, is a graduate of the Wesleyan University, and a member of the Oneida Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The terms for board and tuition, in common English branches, are only seventeen dollars per quarter.

Brown University.-An error escaped in our late notice of Brown University, or rather in the paper from which we copied. Instead of sixteen graduates, it should have read thirtyone, sixteen of whom took part in the commencement exercises.

Carlton & Phillips have now in press a course of Lectures to Young Men on the formation of a manly character, from the pen of the Rev. Dr. George Peck. Pursuing an original course of remark, it promises to rank above the ordinary works, now so abundant, for young men.

Wong Fun, a young Chinaman, from Hong Kong, has carried off the first prize in the junior division of the botanical class, under Professor Balfour, at the Edinburgh University.

Religious Summary.

THE first Conference of the United Brethren in Christ, was held in Baltimore, Md., in 1789, and numbered seven members. In 1800 the Conference embraced thirteen ministers. Now, the General Conference embraces fourteen annual conferences.

The New-York Young Men's Christian Association, assembled for the first time at their new rooms in the Stuyvesant Institute, in September last. "Though the origin of this praiseworthy Association," says a cotemporary, "is of recent date, yet it now numbers, we are happy to learn, something like four hundred members, and twenty life-members, representing some six of the evangelical denominations. The prospects of the Association are of a most promising character; and it is the intention of the managers to establish a reading-room upon an extended basis, which, it is confidently hoped, will prove a valuable auxiliary in accomplishing the object in view."

The increase of membership in the Ohio Methodist Conference, during the year just closed, was eight hundred and forty-eight.

The Presbyterian Herald says: a glance through the Minutes of the General Assembly (Old School) reveals the fact, that there are at the West two hundred and ninety-one Presbyterian Churches which have neither pastors nor stated

supplies. A history of the division of the Presbyterian Church, prepared by Rev. G. N. Judd, D. D., as chairman of a committee of the Synod of New-York and New-Jersey, is completed, and will be laid, in print, before the synod at its next monthly meeting.

The Irish Society of London seems to be very successful in its missionary labors and operations. Large numbers are reported as constantly leaving the Roman Catholic Church.

According to the Census Reports, the Baptists have increased in Canada, during four years past, more rapidly than any other denomination. In this period of four years they have advanced from 28,052 to 45,457, which is nearly doubling their numbers. The Presbyterians are next in order.

The Roman Catholic orators of Canada main

tain, that to attack tithes is to attack religion, for, were they abolished, not half-a-dozen priests would remain in Lower Canada! It is but a weak "religion" that has no better foundation than the forced contributions of a priest-ridden populace.

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superintendent of the Liberia Mission. He goes out in company with the bishop, as does also the Rev. Mr. Horne, who is to take charge of the Methodist Academy at Monrovia.

The last number of the Presbyterian Quarterly Review has an earnest article on the inadequate salary of ministers in the Presbyterian Church. The clergy of Connecticut are making the same complaints.

The Pope has requested Louis Napoleon to permit the re-establishment of the order of begging friars in France.

Rev. William M. Daily, D. D., Indiana, has in course of preparation a treatise on the obligations of parents and the Church to baptized children, and the reciprocal relation and obligations of such baptized children to the Church.

There are in the United States, Universalist societies, 1,091; clergymen, 640; and Churches, 828.

Rev. George M. Berry, late of the Baltimore Methodist Conference, has been transferred to that of Oregon.

The Parent Conference of Wesleyan Methodism, in England, at its recent session, suggested to the Wesleyan Methodist connection in Canada, the organization of a federal union of the Methodism of British North America, embracing Eastern and Western Canada, the Hudson Bay territory, New-Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland, the whole of which to be governed by a federal conference, after the manner of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States. This suggestion, however, must be discussed and acted upon by the Canada preachers, before it can become a reality.

Rev. Dr. Meade, Bishop of the Diocese of Virginia, publishes in the Southern Churchman a prayer, to be used in view of the great want of preachers in the Protestant Episcopal Church.

The Louisville Methodist Conference met on Wednesday, the 8th September, Bishops Andrew and Soule presiding. About ninety members belong to this conference.

The Baptists in Oregon possess eleven churches, and ten ordained ministers, with a membership of eleven hundred and seventy-five.

By a list published in the Churchman, we observe that there are eighty-three clergymen of the Episcopal Church residing immediately in New-York city and its vicinity.

The revenue for the rents and sale of the Clergy Reserves in Canada, amounted, in 1850, to £53,737.

Rev. Robert Newton, D. D., for fifty-three years an effective and able Wesleyan Methodist minister, has been placed, at his own request, on the superannuated list.

The Rev. Dr. Wainwright was on the ninth ballot elected Provisional Bishop of New-York, at the late Episcopal Convention.

New-York Tract Society.-Among the statistics presented at the late meeting of this society, we find that twenty-five missionaries

had been zealously engaged in promoting the objects of the society; 976,343 tracts had been distributed, 949 Bibles, and 1,505 Testaments supplied to the destitute children and others; 4,582 volumes had been lent from the ward libraries, and 754 children had been gathered into Sabbath schools.

The British Wesleyan Conference, at its last session, resolved to organize Methodism in France into an independent body, in order that it may claim the protection of the authorities as a duly organized Protestant Church. From the reports presented at this Conference, we gather that Methodism is rather retrograding

in Scotland.

There are in Virginia 550 churches, 90,000 members, and 413 ministers. The Rev. John Clay, the father of Henry Clay, was a Baptist preacher, and resided in Hanover County.

Late accounts state that the Supreme Eeclesiastical Council, in Prussia, had forbidden the Protestant clergy to admit Irvingites to the sacramental rites.

In consequence of the great influx of popu lation to Australia, the British Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Committee have resolved to send six additional missionaries to that country. The Rev. Robert Young, we learn from the London Watchman, is to proceed to the colony for the purpose of establishing an Australian Conference.

Letters from San Francisco state that efforts were making for a general closing up of the stores on the Sabbath.

The Northern portion of the Methodist Episcopal Church has in its communion at least 725,000 members; and it is estimated that nearly three millions of the population of the United States is connected with that body.

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The Friend-a Tahitian journal-of a recent date, states, that among the persecuting acts of the French Protectorate Government, official native would be allowed to preach without sanction;" and that the Rev. Mr. Chisholm, a German, employed by the London Missionary Society, has been prohibited from preaching out of a certain district, under pain of arrest and banishment.

There are fifteen missionaries and assistants employed by the Baptists in China, and three more are soon to sail for that country. In and assistants, and one in Central Africa. West Africa there are seventeen missionaries

The London City Mission has now two hundred and seventy missionaries in that metropolis.

The Scotch Free Church have at this time There were but six Scotch Churches at the ten congregations in the city of London. period of the disruption, and three of them continued with the state.

From the report of the Maine Congregational and seventeen Churches attached to that body, Conference it appears there are two hundred which are represented by fourteen local conferences. Whole number of members reported, 16,709; settled pastors, 152; stated supplies, 50.

Art Intelligence.

M. Adolphe Martin in the Paris Comptes Rendus of July, recommended the substitution of iodide of ammonium for that of potassium, in the collodian process of photography; Mr. Hockin of London has made a similar discovery, by which method he obtains "good positive pictures of buildings in a fraction of a second, without otherwise departing from the usual process."

The very interesting and extensive collection of curiosities obtained by Clot Bey, in Egypt, and purchased by the French Government, are to be exhibited at the Palace of the Louvre. The collection comprises articles of vertu in bronze, ivory, carved woods, curious stuffs, instruments of music, and utensils of all sorts.

A colossal statue of Bergen Jare, "the founder of the kingdom of Sweden,-who lived in the tenth century," is to be cast at the Royal Foundery, Munich. The monument is the work of the Swedish sculptor Fogelbjerg, and is to be the property of his native country.

Incited by the acquisitions already made of so many precious monuments at Rome, the Princess of Canino has determined on new excavations between the Tiber and the Garig

liano.

The King of Saxony, as we learn from the London Builder, has instructed M. Hanel, a Dresden artist, to proceed to Berlin, to execute a colossal statue of M. Cornelius, one of eight figures of the greatest artists of all ages selected for erection in the hall of the new Museum at Dresden. M. Cornelius is the only living artist to whom this honor has been accorded, and his statue is to be placed next those of Raphael and M. Angelo. Thorwalsden is also named as one of the number decided on.

The Society of British Artists has lost one of its most distinguished members, by the death of Mr. Allen, the landscape painter.

Professor Senff has lately exhibited at Halle, (Saxony,) two interesting pictures intended as floral illustrations of Thorwalsden's celebrated

"Night and Morning." In his treatment of this subject, the artist represents the opening day by the sun-rose, the power and strength of the day by the oak, the reward of action by the laurel. The gay and stirring movements of man are symbolized by roses, pomegranates, oranges, and passion-flowers intertwined. The pure blue heaven is represented by corn flowers, "because heaven is supported on the material earth."

Ears of corn and bunches of grapes conclude the wreath. The majesty of night, the subject of the second picture, is shown in the wonderful cactus grandiflora; her attendants are mourning and peace, the cypress and olive, with psyche. The night violet tells of the nocturnal stillness, while the poppy symbolizes sleep and death. The finiteness of rest, or the rest of all things, is indicated in the asphodel, the death-flower of Homer. The poetical treatment of these pictures is German in the extreme; while the artistic delicacy with which

the different flowers are arranged and colored, has excited marked attention from admiring crowds.

The total subscriptions to the London Art Union for the year ending 31st March, 1852, were £12,903, ($64,515,) being an increase of £1,933 ($9,665) upon the sum collected during the preceding year. The amount of the prizes was £6,449, ($32,245,) being an increase of £1,791 ($8,955) upon that of the previous season.

The exhibition of the Berlin Academy of Art, which is held every two years, was opened in September last. Though containing one thousand three hundred and fifty-two paintings, with a few pieces of sculpture, there was none of any remarkable peculiarity for conception or execution.

A large sculptural monument by the Brothers Zandomeneghi has been consecrated to the memory of Titian in Venice. The base of the monument is adorned with five bas-reliefs of the most celebrated of Titian's pictures.

Some calotypes, as we learn from the Art Journal, have been taken by Mr. Townsend, at Abbrokerton, a large town in the interior of Africa. The specimens, the artist says, though not very perfect, for want of time and proper attention, yet evince that the climate and the light are well adapted to the practice of the art.

Tony Johannot, the graceful artist, and painter of conversation pieces, whose death we have announced, was first introduced to English connoisseurs by Mr. Alaric Watts. To his reputation as a painter he added that of a happy and characteristic book-illustrator; of his skill in which department, the edition of Moliere, with his sketches, vignettes, &c., is one of the most beautiful, and artistically worthy books among the series of which it forms a part.

The donations to the American Musical Fund Society of New-York, which received its charter in March, 1849, have amounted to $4,000. Of the eleven donators, Mrs. F. A. Kemble gave $1,000; Madame O. Goldschmidt, $2,000; Miss C. Hayes, and the President of the Society, Henry Orcut, Esq., $200 each; the remaining seven, including Ole Bull, gave $100 each.

Further discoveries have been made by M. Beule, in the Acropolis, at Athens, of the last steps of the staircase that led to the principal entrance, and the surrounding wall of the citadel. This latter is adorned in the upper part with entablatures, as employed in the Doric temples anterior to Pericles, while at the rear are pedestals and fragments of the Roman epoch. Among several fragments of architecture by M. Beule, are twenty-three inscriptions in bas-relief, well executed, representing eight young Athenians dancing.

A clever adaptation of ornamental zinc, with colored designs, and suitable for pillars, trays, flooring, chimney-pieces, &c., has been exhibited in London, which, from its novel and handsome purposes of ornamentation, is likely to have great demand.

Scientific Items.

New-York Historical Society.-At the last monthly meeting, it appeared from the financial statement made by the Treasurer, William Chauncey, Esq., that there was a balance on hand at the time the last report was made of $847 48; amount received for dues, $4,215; total, $5,062 48. Disbursements, $4,529 02. Balance in the Treasury, October 1st, $533 46. The above receipts included $3,200 paid by sixty-four members in commutation of yearly dues.

The following corresponding members were elected:-Richard Hildreth, Boston; Franklin B. Hough, Ogdensburg. As resident members: Henry F. Hunter, Daniel Shepherd, and F. A. Talmadge.

Mr. De Peyster read a letter descriptive of the general tenor of certain documents recently donated to the society, and stated particulars relative to the public career of Lieutenant Governor Colden. The collection contained Governor

Colden's investigations in natural science, history, zoology, and other branches of learning; his work-a celebrated one in its day upon the principle of action in matter, published in 1755; his History of the Five Nations; dispatches to the English Government; correspondence with celebrated men in both the scientific and political world, with Franklin, Linnæus, Sinovius, &c., &c.; his discoveries as to a new mode of stereotyping.

In the year 1760, Governor Colden, writing to a friend in England, said that he was of opinion, that when the woods were cleared off, the climate would materially improve-so much so as to render this country, in time to come, a resort for pulmonary patients, &c.

Mr. Moore, librarian, read a very lengthy communication from Hon. John R. Bartlett, of the Mexican Boundary Commission, descriptive of his journeyings in Sonora, Chihuahua, Lower California, &c., while prosecuting the object of the commission. He stated that so far as he had traveled as yet, he had discovered no ruins of an antiquity prior to the present style of building. He has also made some valuable collections in mineralogy, botany, zoology, and of the Reptilia, some of which are rare specimens. The paper also described what Mr. B. noticed of the hot springs, or "geysers," situated in a gorge of the Nappa Valley, Oregon; and concluded by stating that he (Mr. B.) had discovered the original manuscript journal of the journey made from the city of Mexico to San Francisco by Padre Pedro Font, in the year 1776-7, a rare and interesting document indeed. At the close of the reading of this interesting communication, the audience expressed their satisfaction by hearty applause.

Cholera. Considerable sensation was excited by one of the speakers at a meeting held at Exeter-Hall, in London, who stated the "undeniable fact, that the tax levied upon salt by Warren Hastings, during his tyrannical rule in India, was the cause of the Asiatic Cholera," a disease, said the speaker, "unknown before the period alluded to, and which made its ap

pearance immediately following the edict which deprived the lower castes of Hindoos of a healthful ingredient in their food." In connection with this subject, we learn from the report of a French medical commission, both at Paris and elsewhere, that rain water is a prophylactic of cholera, and that this disease has never proved an epidemic in any city where rain-water is exclusively used.

The British Archæological Institute held their annual session at Newcastle lately, under the patronage of the Duke of Northumberland and In the course of business, a paper was read on the presidency of Lord Talbot de Malahide. the character of Robin Hood, in which it was maintained that he was a "mythical personage." (This opinion, however, seems to be entirely controverted by a statement of the Rev. Joseph Hunter, assistant keeper of the British Public Records, who, in one of his Critical and Historical Tracts, has collected a mass of information, tending to show that this "Greenwood

hero" was one of the malcontents connected with

the Staynton family, of the time of Edward II.; that he was born between 1285 and 1295; and that he was living in the early part of the reign of Edward III.)

A member of the Paris Academy of Sciences, M. Beulin, lately reported that by nourishing a silk worm on the leaves of the bignonia chica, he succeeded in giving to the cocoon of the

worm a uniform red tint. As the chica is well

known as furnishing the red pigment used by our Southern Indians, this hint may not be unworthy of a further demonstration.

The twenty-second meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science was held at Belfast in September last, Sir R. Murcheson in the chair. A vast variety of business, relating to every branch of science and art, was brought before the members, to which our limits will only permit us summarily to allude as follows:-Observations on the Nebulæ by Lord Rosse's Telescope; the Mathematical and Physical Theories of Light and Heat; Terrestrial Magnetism; Tides of the Ocean; Lunar Atmospheric Tides; and the Index of Friction in different gases. The meetings were numerously attended, and the general prosperity of the society is shown by the constant addition to its members, and increase of its funds and correspondence. Among the visitors was Professor Fowler, of the United States.

The Mountain of Light.-We give elsewhere an account of the recutting of this famous diamond. The last London Illustrated News says that the operation has been entirely successful, and has developed to a wonderful degree, the brilliancy and beauty of the gem. It has proved it to be of the first water, and it is now, perhaps, the most valuable diamond in the world.

The foreign journals announce the death, in Germany, of Dr. Herbert Mayo, a well-known contributor to the physiological researches of his day.

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FITZ-GREENE HALLECK.

N the long list of English poets, chiefly those of the latter days-for most of the early bards were earnest, poor men, who wrote because they loved to, and because they had to;-among the latter of the English poets, we say, are to be found many amateurs of verse, in the person of lords and right-honorables-the terms are not always synonymous-and gentlemen in easy circumstances, who, having nothing else to do, occasionally produced trifles in rhyme. Nothing can be more absurd than these gentlemen, unless it be their pretension and success; for they are often more successful than men of real merit VOL I, No. 6.-HH

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