Making a debt thirteen times greater than the revenue, and an indebtedness equal to about $142 to every man, woman and child of her population. FRANCE.--Debt, $780,000,000.

Revenue, $192.000.000.

Population, 35,000,000.

Making a debt four times greater than her revenue, and equal to $22 to each individual of her population.

RUSSIA.-Debt, $300,000,000.

Revenue, $86,000,000.

Population, 50,000,000.

Debt over three times her revenue, and $6 to every soul.

AUSTRIA.-Debt, $300,000,000.

Revenue, $100,000,000.

Population, 37,000,000.

Debt three times over her revenue, and $9 to every soul.

PRUSSIA -Debt, $100,000,000.

Revenue, $40,000,000.

Population, 15,000,000.

Making a debt twice and a half over her revenue, and $7 to each soul.

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

RECEIPTS OF ENGLISH RELIGIOUS AND BENEVOLENT INSTITU

TIONS.

A table is here presented of the respective incomes of the various benevolent and religious societies of England, collected from the last annual reports, and calculated upon an average of the last three years.

British and Foreign Bible Society

$517,000

Church Missionary Society

522,000

Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign parts

457,000

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

405,000

Society for Building and Repairing Churches

Church Pastoral Aid Society

202,000

British and Foreign School Society

67,000

Religious Tract Society

256,000

Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society

522,000

London Missionary Society

337,000

Baptist

226,000

London City Mission

103,000

During the year 1847-8 the receipts of nearly all the societies show a decrease, as compared with the preceding year-a circumstance attributed to the monetary pressure.

No. of pages circulated

211,730,285

$140.497

139,233

$254,377

Bibles and Testaments distributed

655.066 $137,468

THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

From the minutes of the last General Assembly, just published, it appears that there are now in its connection

The increase in eight years in this (the Old School) division of the church has been 560 ministers, and 636 churches. The Assembly, at its last sessions, directed its missionaries to form three presbyteries and a synod in China, one presbytery in Western Africa, and one in the Creek Indian Nation. It had already a synod of three presbyteries in Northern India.

The Board of Domestic Missions received contributions during the last year to the amount of $68,000, besides $6,000 for church extension, and employed 460 missionaries. The Board of Foreign Missions $109,000, and sustained 16 missions, embracing 101 persons, exclusive of native assistants. The Board of Education received $35,000, and assisted 377 candidates for the ministry. The Board of Publication issued 167,500 copies of books and tracts in the year, and received, from sales and donations, $48,000.

The Theological Seminary at Princeton had 147 students, and the one near Pittsburg 48. The former has 31 endowed scholarships, the latter 5.

The Synod of New Jersey contains 158 ministers and 138 churches. The Presbytery of New Brunswick, which includes Trenton, has 38 ministers and 28 churches.

[From the Catholic Directory for 1848.]

ROMAN CATHOLICS IN GREAT BRITAIN.

The total number of churches and chapels in England and Wales is 545: of which 534 are in England, and 11 in Wales. The greatest number in any one county is in Lancashire, where there are 105; in Yorkshire, 61; in Staffordshire, 36; in Middlesex, 21; in Warwickshire, 23; Northumberland, 22; Dur

ham, 18; Cheshire, 17; Hampshire, Kent, and Leicestershire, 14 each; Lincolnshire, 12; Somersetshire and Worcestershire, each 11; Dorsetshire and Gloucestershire, each 10. In Scotland there are 85 churches and chapels, besides 22 stations, where the Roman Catholic service is performed-making a grand total of churches and chapels in Great Britain of 630. In England there are ten Roman Catholic colleges, viz:-St. Edmund's, Hertfordshire; St. Peter's, St. Paul's, and St. Gregory's, Somersetshire; Stoneyhurst, Lancashire; St. Mary's, Staffordshire; St. Cuthbert's Ushaw, Durham; St. Lawrence, Yorkshire; St. Edward's, Lancashire; St. Mary's, Derbyshire; College of the Immaculate Conception, Leicestershire. In Scotland, one college, viz:-St. Mary's Blaris, Kincardineshire. In Great Britain there are 38 convents and 11 monasteries; of the convents, 12 are in London. There are also 806 missionary priests including the bishops; 680 of these are in England, 27 in Wales, and 99 in Scotland.

EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN NEW JERSEY.

It appears by the following brief passage from Bishop Doane's address at the late 65th annual convention, that the diocese has been signally prospered during the period that he has presided over it.

"The eighteen clergymen of 1832, are sixty-one; the twenty-nine Churches are now forty-nine.-Twenty-nine churches have been built, and one-third of that number have been wellnigh rebuilt. Nine parsonage houses have been added. The revival and increase, thus noted, I ascribe, under God, to the influence, direct and indirect, of the undertakings for Christian education, in which I have, for eleven years, been engaged. And under God, I rely, for the continuance of this revival and the extension of this increase, on the prosperity of the two institutions, now in successful operation at Burlington. Burlington College is intended for the training up of pastors. It is designed, also, as a central home for missionary deacons. When, in a few years more, these purposes shall be fulfilled, the diocese will have no want of clergy, of a proper spirit. There are already there five priests and six young men preparing for the ministry. Ten years, with God to bless us, will double, from that source alone, the present numbers of our clergy.

FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETIES.

The British and Foreign Bible Society has, within the period of eighteen years, increased its operations nearly threefold. The number of copies of the Scriptures distributed in 1830, was 434,422; in 1848 it was 1,124,067. The receipts of the year ending March, 1848, were £90,146. The total sum applicable to the purposes of the Society was £43,956. The receipts for Bibles and Testa ments amounted to £46,189, the issues of the Society for the year amounting to 1,124,067, viz., from the depositories at home, 837,631; from depots abroad, 286,706. The total issues of the Society now amount to 20,865,837. The expenditure during the past year has been £105,042, being £14.896 beyond the receipts. The liabilities of the Society now extend to £41,800. The Berlin Bible Society and its auxiliaries have circulated 1,440,000 copies since its first institution, besides 300,000 New Testaments and 12,000 Bibles, which have been issued, through the liberality of the sovereign and of the British and Foreign Bible Society, to the Prussian army. The Saxon Bible Society circulated last year 7,560 copies, and had an income of £1,100. The Swedish Society has issued altogether 145,333 Bibles, and 450,757 New Testaments; but, inclusive of the VOL. I.-SEPTEMBER, 1848. 29

edition set on foot by the British and Foreign Bible Society in London, its issues have amounted to 888,432 copies of the Holy Scripture. In France the number circulated last year was 128,113 copies. The Protestant Bible Society in St. Petersburgh has been so thwarted by official and other hinderances, that it could not succeed in circulating more than 7,500 copies last year, including 3,950 copies provided at the expense of the American Bible Society.

A London paper gives the following statement of the religious condition of the world.

1. There are in the world about 800,000,000 of souls. Of these Christianity is professed by Roman Catholics Protestants

Greek Church

80,000.000

70,000,000

50,000,000

200,000,000

5,000,000

140,000,000

450,000,000

2. There are, who never hear the Gospel, Jews blinded by
unbelief

Mahommedans, deluded by the false prophet,
Pagans, sunk in idolatry and superstition

600,000,000

3. Amongst these 600,000,000 there are only about 1400 Protestant missionaries, independent of native catechists and schoolmasters, and including those of America, Great Britain and the Continent of Europe, or one missionary to every 428,571 persons.

4. The entire sum of money raised by the churches of Great Britain for missionary purposes is about £350,000, and by those of America £150,000; making together £500,000; a sum only equal to the annual gifts of idolaters at Kalee's temple at Calcutta.

5. If every Sabbath scholar in Great Britain would collect only one penny per week for Christian missions, it would raise £433,333 6s. 8d. per year; which divided amongst the different missionary societies, would enable them to print twice as many books, establish twice as many schools, support twice as many missionaries, and occupy twice as many stations.

6. Of the heathen world,

30,000,000 die every year;

54,794 die every day;

2,283 die every hour;

38 die every minute.

At this rate, 36,860,000,000 have died during the Christian era, and 6,540,000,000 since the Reformation.

STATISTICS OF EDUCATION.

COLLEGES IN THE UNITED STATES.

We have prepared, with as much accuracy as possible, from present data, a table of the colleges in the Union, with the number of students and the Libraries. The numbers vary every year; as, for instance, by the report of the Regents in New York, the students in the colleges of the State were, in 1846, 688; in 1847, 957. It is said that 10 of the colleges are under Baptist influence, 8 under Episcopal, 13 Methodist, 12 Roman Catholic, and the remainder Congregational and Presbyterian.