THE Society for the Propagation of the Roman Catholic Church throughout the world had receipts in 1852 to the amount of 4,790,468 francs, of which France contributed more than one-half.

The operations are principally through the means of tracts. The appropriations to different missions are as follows:-In Asia, 1,198,154 francs; America, 958,452; Europe, 678,975; Oceanica, 461,878; Africa, 310,954. The missions in the North of Europe have received 189,100 francs, those of the German Redemp torists 5,000 francs, and those of Switzerland 44,000 francs. The appropriations for the conversion of Scotland amounted to 44,000 francs, and the receipts from that country only to 14,426 francs. The appropriations for England proper are 109,400 francs, the receipts only 72,810. The Society includes members of every age and each sex; it is so organized that each circle of ten members collects three sous a week, which is the regular contribution, and transmits the sum to another branch including ten circles, and so on.

The Roman Catholics in the United States have six archbishops, twenty-six bishops, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-one priests, one thousand five hundred and forty-five churches, with an estimated population of over two millions. They have thirty-three ecclesiastical seminaries, forty-five literary institutions for young men, and one hundred and two female academies.

The total receipts of the Presbyterian Board of Missions the past year were $153,222 53, being $8,000 more than the receipts of the previous year. They have missionaries in India, China, Africa, and other distant parts of the

world.

Religion in High Places.-We rejoice to see it stated, on good authority, that the presidential mansion is a house of prayer. God is constantly recognized at the table; daily social devotions, attendance on Sabbath mornings by all the inmates of the house are maintained, and the blessing of the Most High is thus insured on that distinguished family, if not on the whole land, instead of the malediction uttered against

the families that call not on the name of the Lord.

A farewell missionary meeting was recently held in Spring-street Church, to take leave of Mr. and Mrs. Barker, who ere this have departed for Ahmednuggur, India, where Mr. B. is stationed as a missionary.

Novel Decision of a Law Case.-A lawsuit was lately instituted in Spain, in which the heirs of a rich man sued the Church of Rome for the recovery of money paid under the will of the deceased, to purchase, at the fair market price, twelve thousand masses for his soul. The priests, though they took the money, objected to the labor, and the Pope, at their request, abridged it, pronouncing that twelve masses should be as beneficial as twelve thousand. The counsel for the Church, in answer to the allegation of non-performance of contract,

announcement that the endowment of $100,000 for the seminary was complete, with the exception of $5,000, and about $3,000 of this sum was raised on the spot.

Romanism is not maintaining its ground in Texas. Some eighteen years ago it was the only religion tolerated by law. Now, it has thirty churches, twenty-five priests, six literary institutions, and an estimated population of thirty thousand; while Protestantism, which eighteen years ago was an illegal heresy, has twenty-seven thousand communicants, -i. e., twelve thousand Methodists, eight thousand Baptists, six thousand Presbyterians, one thousand Episcopalians, and about three hundred thousand adherents among the population.

Upper Canada Bible Society.—The anniversary meeting of this Society was held at Toronto on Wednesday evening last. In the absence of the president, Honorable Robert Baldwin, the mayor of the city presided. Interesting addresses were delivered by Rev. Messrs. Sanson, Irvine,Jenkins, and Dr. Caul. The report submitted to the meeting is of a very cheering nature, showing

the deceased had been delivered by the efficacy of the twelve masses. The judge decided, that inasmuch as full value had been received, there was no breach of contract; but intimated that parties about to die had better contract for deliverance with his Satanic majesty, as it could be done much cheaper than with the Pope.

The King of Prussia, on the 15th of March last, issued a public order, directing: "1. That on all marches, the Sabbath, as far as it is

practicable, is to be selected as a day of rest for the troops; 2. That in those cases where it is not possible to avoid marching on the Sabbath, care is to be taken that the breaking up

for the march shall not interfere with the celebration of divine service; and, 3. That in all such cases the troops do not, in their march through any place, or upon reaching the spot of their destination, create any disturbance of the Sabbath services; for which reason the use and noise of drums or other military music is to be foregone." Such an order is worthy of the sovereign, who, at his own cost, has circulated above two hundred and fifty thousand copies of

True to its word for this time, The Freeman's Journal, the organ of Archbishop Hughes, has made its appearance as a Sunday newspaper. The first number, under the new arrangement, is dated "Sunday morning, July 3, 1853." If The Freeman and its friends can have their way, there will soon be as little of the Sabbath left here as there is now in Papal countries.

Quite an encouraging amount of revival spirit is prevailing in the Methodist Churches of Texas.

Dr. Cook says the revival in Southern France, and particularly at Nismes, is still progressing. Dr. Medhurst, the veteran missionary of the London Society in China, who has been engaged, in company with Dr. Bridgman and others, many years in translating the Scriptures into the Chinese language, has announced the final accomplishment of the great task.

The Mormans of Malmea, in Norway, have been summoned by the Minister of Justice to appear before the Court of Lund, to answer the numerous charges reported against them. They are twenty in number. Their chiefs, three priests of that sect, have been accused of many infamies and sent to prison.

The Methodists of Cincinnati recently commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of their first church organization in that city, resolving unanimously to contribute $50,000 to three objects, viz.: 1. About $6,000 to put the German churches out of debt; 2. About $10,000 or $12,000 for the Female College; and, 3. The remainder, or about $32,000, for the Sunday Schools and church extension among the needy.

Of the two millions of inhabitants in the Canadas, nine hundred and forty thousand belong to the Catholic religion, and one million and sixty thousand to the Protestant, showing nearly eleven Protestants to nine Catholics. The latter have gained five hundred and sixty thousand in thirty years, the former nine hundred and twenty thousand. The Catholics have more than doubled their number, but the Protestants have increased theirs more than sevenfold.

Colored communicants in the South number largely. A cotemporary makes the following statements:-There are about one hundred and fifty thousand colored members of the Southern Methodist Church, one hundred and twenty thousand in the Baptist, ten thousand in the Presbyterian, and in other churches about twenty thousand-making a total of three

hundred thousand.

Rev. J. T. Bowen, Rev. J. H. Lacy, and Rev. J. S. Dennard, Baptist Missionaries to Central Africa, with their wives, embarked at Boston for Lagos on Wednesday, 6th instant.

The Moravians on the Continents of Europe and America do not number above twenty thousand souls, yet they have gathered, through their missionaries, not less than seventy thousand persons into Christian congregations in foreign lands. At Labrador, nearly the whole of the natives had been Christianized there;

eleven had died of the yellow fever. Yet there was no lack of laborers for God. During the last eleven years, the congregations at Surinam had risen from ten thousand to seventeen thousand persons. It might be estimated that onefourth were communicants. In the West Indies the congregations numbered about forty thousand persons, principally negroes, and there were upward of two thousand children in their schools. Two training schools had been established for the education of native teachers. It was seldom that one taught in their schools left the path of rectitude. The Moravians have seventy missionary stations and two hundred and eighty-six missionaries in the world, and these are sustained for the trifling expense of about $60,000.

We see it stated in a New-Haven paper that the action of the New-Haven Railroad Company, in relation to the Sunday mails, meets the approbation of the public in Connecticut. There is a strong feeling in opposition to the running

of trains on the Sabbath.

Wesleyan Methodist Church in Canada.-The thirtieth annual conference of this branch of the Methodist Church has lately been held in the city of Hamilton. After deducting the losses occasioned by deaths, removals, expulsions, &c., the increase over the past year amounted to about twenty-five hundred.

The increase of Sabbath schools in Great Brit ain is an exceedingly hopeful aspect of the religious state of that country. According to a recent Parliamentary return, in 1818, when the population of England and Wales was 11,642,683, the number of Sunday schools was 5,463, In 1851, when the with 477,225 scholars. population had increased to 17,927,000, there were 23,498 Sunday schools, with 2,407,409 scholars. A great moral impression is, by these multitudinous schools, making upon the British mind, that will not be without effect on the future of that country.

A comprehensive union of all the associations for promoting temperance, and of those desirous of an anti-liquor law, not connected with Temperance Societies, has been undertaken in Carada West, under missionary auspices. It is called the Canada Prohibitory Liquor Law League; and the Association has begun its service by offering a premium of £25 for the best essay on the nature and objects of the League, embracing full and valuable statistical information upon the extent, expense, and results of the liquor traffic in Canada. Rev. Dr. Ryerson, Professor Lillie, and Professor Taylor, are the adjudicators.

American Colonization Society.-The receipts of this society, during one month ending June 20, were $6,542, including a donation of $5,000 from David Hunt, Esq., of Rodney, Mississippi, and another of $200 from Dr. Stephen Duncan, of Natchez, Mississippi.

Rev. Thomas Gallaudet, pastor of the recently organized church of Deaf Mutes in this city, at the annual examination of the New-York Institution received from the pupils a beautiful present of books. Mr. Morehouse made the presentation.

Mr. Benjamin Hardinge, of Cincinnati, has made a valuable discovery in synthetic chemistry, by which he is enabled to produce an artificial marble from common pebbles and sand. It is said he is about to erect in or near that city a model palace, to be built entirely of marble and precious stones.

Seven thousand dollars have been appropriated by the corporation of Trinity Church, N. Y.,

for the construction of a monument to the memory of those American soldiers and citizens who died in the English prison-ships in the war of 1812. It is to be built of carved brown-stone, and its height will be seventy-three feet. The base will be fifteen feet square, and be placed at the top of a series of steps twenty-four feet square at the bottom. It was proposed to have a figure of Washington, in a niche. A cenotaph, surmounted by appropriate military emblems, is also suggested as a good design. Messrs. Wills and Dudley are the architects, and the style of the monument will be similar to the monumental crosses of England.

The monument to be erected at Tarrytown to the captors of Major Andre is to consist of three blocks of marble, with a shaft forty feet in height, on which a suitable inscription will be engraved.

An Italian artist, who prefers the West Rutland marble in Vermont to that of his own country, has ordered from Rome two blocks weighing one tou each, for the purpose of making

a test.

A New Discovery in Photography.-A Swedish artist, Carleman, has made a discovery, which he calls photochromography. By this new application of photography he is enabled to take from three hundred to four hundred copies per day, and the various objects are represented in their natural colors. Herr Carleman will take out a patent in Germany without delay. Should this new art succeed, it will revolutionize lithography and engravings.

We learn from Munich, that a few days ago two gigantic statues were cast in bronze in one entire piece in the royal foundry of that city. M. Miller superintended the difficult operation. It is the first time the thing has been attempted, the custom having heretofore been to cast large statues in different portions, and to weld them together afterward. The production of them in one complete mass is an immense progress in the casting art. One of the two statues is an equestrian one of Gustavus Adolphus, and is destined to be placed in the principal square of Gottenburg, in Sweden; the other is of Patrick Henry, one of the founders of the United States Independence, and is to form part of the gigantic monument to be erected to Washington.

Robert Lemon, Esq., exhibited at the Society of Antiquaries, in London, on the 17th ult., an oil-painting in his possession, presumed to be a portrait of the poet Milton. It had formerly the poet's name in an old hand, written at the back upon the canvas, but which, upon the relining of the picture a few years ago, was removed. Mr. Lemon, in illustration of this portrait, presented the copy of a letter preserved

among the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, (No. 7003, fol. 116,) from Mr. George Vertue to Mr. Charles Christian, dated Aug. 12, 1721, describing an interview between Vertue and Deborah Milton, the poet's youngest daughter, in which she repudiated a supposed portrait of her father then shown to her, "it and curled locks. On the contrary, (she said,) being of a brown complexion and black hair her father was of a fair complexion, a little red in his cheeks, and light-brown lank hair;" a description which Mr. Lemon considered closely to tally with the portrait before the Society.

The Dean of Exeter exhibited before the Archæological Institute, London, a drawing of the fresco-painting, representing the Resurrection, lately discovered in Exeter Cathedral. The whitewash has been carefully removed, and the painting is a work of considerable merit, apparently of the fifteenth century. The principal figures measure about five feet in height.

Alexander Humboldt has written a letter, in which he advocates the construction of an oceanic canal, without locks, across the Isthmus of Darien, having reference to points on the Gulf of San Miguel and Cupica.

A. G. Findlay, Esq., recently read a paper before the Society of Arts, London, on the Proposed Central American Canal, and its Relations to Commerce. The object of this paper was, to show the peculiarity of the geographical position of the American Isthmus, and, consequently, the peculiarity of its climate, and some hitherto unnoticed influences in the current systems which center here, and which bear most strongly upon any system of navigation;then, to show what new fields for commercial enterprise it will open, and what existing advantages it will increase.

The London Record of the 30th ult. says: An expedition, to test with care the mineral resources of Greenland, has been arranged to start from Portsmouth this week. A yacht, of two hundred and seventeen tons, called the Dolphin, has been fitted out, for the purposes of full exploration. She takes out several scientific men, engaged for the undertaking, and the mines to be investigated consist of copper, tin, silver, and lead.

An interesting and successful series of experiments have been made by Professor Challis, of Cambridge, on the determining the longitude by

electro-telegraphic aid. Already in America some results of a similar kind had been obtained. The present observations have been made at Greenwich and Cambridge Observatories under peculiarly advantageous conditions. The signal-giver at Greenwich had the means of observing the passage of a star across the field of the transit telescope and of giving signal at the same time, and in several instances his signals were made at the instant of transit, so that the observation taken at Greenwich was actually recorded at Cambridge. Above a hundred and fifty separate observations were taken under various circumstances, so that amply sufficient data are obtained for accurate and satisfactory induction.