Our publishers are issuing, daily, works of permanent value, and promising more of the same class during the ensuing months. Phillips, Sampson & Co., have published the first volume of Lingard's History of England, which was announced some months since. The work will be comprised in thirteen handsome duodecimo volumes, and will be issued at intervals of two or three weeks. It opens with the Roman Invasion, and extends to A. D. 1688, the period at which Macaulay takes up the thread of history. P., S. & Co. continue their monthly issues of standard, illustrated, octavo editions of the English Poets. A complete edition of Moore, and a new stereotyped edition of the works of Shakspeare, with twelve fine portraits of the heroines, have just been published; and they will be followed by Grimshaw's edition of Cowper, and the collected works of Felicia Hemans, with a memoir by Mrs. Sigourney. In the same superior style they will publish, during the season, the works of Ben Jonson, of Beaumont and Fletcher, and the Dramatic Works of Massinzer and Ford. These will be crown 8vo. volumes with portraits, being an exact reproduction of "Mexon's London editions of the Dramatists." They will issue at an early day a new work by Rev. Edward Beecher, D.D., which promises to make its mark upon the religious world. It is the result of long and laborious thought and study. It will be entitled, "The Conflict of the Ages; or, The Great Debate on the Moral Relations of God and Man." It will make a duodecimo of five hundred pages. They also announce "Father Brighthope's; or, An Old Clergyman's Vacation," by Townsend Trowbridge. "The Last Leaf from Sunny Side," with a graceful and affecting tribute from Professor Phelps, to his talented and lamented wife, has been out a short time, and will be read with mournful pleasure by the thousands that have been charmed by her previous volumes.

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Messrs. Little, Brown & Co., announce as prepar

ing for publication an edition of the British Poets, from Spenser to Moore, reprinted from the celebrated Aldine edition. It will be comprised in forty 16mo. volumes, retailing at seventy-five cents each. The first volume of the series, comprising the Poetical Works of Thomas Gray, with a Life by Milford, is already published. A practiced eye cannot distinguish the difference between the American and English copy of this work, save that the former is printed on whiter paper, and, if possible, is of superior mechanical execution. The same publishers are preparing a new edition of Hume's England-an exact reprint of the English octavo edition; Washington's Correspondence of the Revolution, by Jared Sparks; The Life of Sir James Mackintosh; Life and Letters of Francis Horner; Plutarch's Lives, &c.; the Journal of John Winthrop, edited by Hon. James Savage, 2 vols. All these works will be illustrations of the highest book-making art in America.

Crosby, Nichols & Co., announce The Cloister Life of the Emperor Charles the Fifth, by William Sterling: God with Men: or, Footprints of Providential Leaders, by Rev. Samuel Osgood, 12mo.; A History of Jesus, by Rev. William H. Furniss, D.D.; The Child's Matins and Vespers, comprising Meditations and Prayers for Morning and Evening; Regeneration, by Rev. Edmund H. Sears; The Prophets and Kings of the Old Testament, by Rev. F. D. Maurice, author of "The Kingdom of Christ," &c.

James Monroe & Co. announce as forthcoming, Star in the Desert, by the author of "A Trap to catch a Sunbeam," &c.; a new edition of Stewart's Philosophy: Lucy Herbert: or, The Little Girl who would have an Education; Appeal to Young Ladies, by Rev. W. G. Elliot, of St. Louis, Mo.; and Sunlight in the Clouds. Also the following classical editions:Demosthenes on the Crown, by Professer Champlin; Septem Contra Thebas, with Notes. They have just issued the seventh volume of Hudson's fine edition of Shakspeare, and the Locke Family, a Genealogical Register.

Gould & Lincoln are bringing through the press Dr. Grant and the Mountain Nestorians, a work of great interest; Chambers's Home Book: or, Pocket

ing and instructive reading for the old and young: 6 vols., 16mo.; The American Statesman: or, Illustrations of the Life and Character of Daniel Webster, for the Entertainment and Instruction of American Youth, by Rev. Joseph Banvard; The Priest and the Huguenot: or, Three Sermons in the Reign of Louis XV-a sermon at court, in the city, and in the desert-translated from the French by L. Burgener.

Ticknor, Reed & Fields, have just issued, Notes from Life, in Seven Essays, by Henry Taylor, from the third London edition; A Book of Thoughts, sharp and original, upon money, humility and independence, wisdom, choice in marriage, children, the life poetic, the ways of the rich and great; also, an admirable little treatise on the Education of Girls, by Mrs. Anna C. Lowell. Every teacher should read it. The finest editions of the "English Poets of the Nineteenth Century," to be found in the country, are published by this house. We doubt not, the lectures of Dr. Holmes have caused a very lively salo of these volumes during the present season.

Hon. I. Davis, of Worcester, Mass., has presented the American Antiquarian Society nine magnificent folio volumes, elegantly bound, comprising Lord Kingsborough's Antiquities of Mexico. This magnificent work was purchased for the liberal donor by John Keith & Co., and originally cost $750. It contains fac-similes of ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglyphics, preserved in the royal libraries of Paris, Berlin, Dresden, Vienna, the Vatican, and the Borgian Museum at Rome, the Institute at Bologna, the Bodleian Library at Oxford, and various others, the greater part inedited. Also the Monuments of New-Spain, by M. Dupaix, illustrated by upwards of one thousand elaborate and highly interesting plates, accurately copied from the originals, by A. Aglio.

The American Geographical Society, at a recent meeting in this city, listened to a paper by the Hon. J. R. Bartlett, on the Boundary Line between the United States and Mexico. Mr. Bartlett illustrated his lecture with maps of the country, prepared by himself, a certified copy of the boundary commissioners' map, and by other authenticated documents. In the treaty map, the Rio Grande, (the western boundary,) was placed two degrees further east than its true position-an error which, by adhering to the map on the eastern boundary, would reduce New-Mexico from three to one degree of longitude on the southern boundary. An error in the position of the town of El Paso was another obstacle to the settlement of the boundary.

The New-York Conference Seminary, Charlotteville, (N.Y.,) under the control of Rev. Alonzo Flack, assisted by a numerous faculty, reports a total of five hundred and twenty-five students. It is conducted on the plan of cheap expenses but thorough instruction, and of course must be prosperous.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, appointed first Consul at Liverpool, after spending some few days among his literary friends in New-York, sailed immediately for his official station.

There are now published in the United States about four thousand periodicals, three thousand of which are mainly devoted to politics, miscellany, and general news; the rest to literature, education, religion, &c. Five hundred of the

sessed and paid into the State Treasury up to January last amounted to $12,874.

The Socialist writer, Alhurne of Kiel, announces that he is about to establish a Communist Colony in Venezuela, to which he invites the cooperation of all persons in Germany who share his opinions.

Macaulay's History of England has been prohibited by the Congregation of the Index at Rome. The Governor of Massachusetts has approved an act, which provides for the establishment of forty-eight scholarships, to aid in educating young men for principal teachers in the high schools of the Commonwealth. The State is to be divided into school sections, and every town in these may recommend any one, or more. From these, the Board of Education selects one out of each of the forty-eight classes, and provides for his education at any college in the State, receiving $100 annually for four years. After leaving college, he is bound to teach in the public schools a term equal to that for which he received the bounty.

The catalogue of the Richmondville (N.Y.,) Union Seminary, reports unusual success. This institution is under the care of Rev. J. L. G. McKown and an effective faculty; its terms are remarkably low and its students numerous. Its new buildings are rapidly going up.

At the late session of the New-England Conference a resolution was adopted giving the name of "Fisk Professorship," to the professorship created in the Wesleyan University by the payment of $20,000 by the New-England and Providence Conferences.

Rev. Dr. Nevin having declined the Presidency of Franklin and Marshall College, the trustees of that Institution have elected Rev. Philip Schaff, D. D.

Charles Phelps, of New-York, has donated to Knox College, Illinois, lands in that vicinity valued at $13,000, for the support of an additional professorship in the institution, to be styled the "Phelps' Professorship," and the trustees have accepted the same.

At the late anniversary of the Central American Educational Society, held in this city, the secretary reported that thirty-eight young men had been assisted by this society during the year past, in acquiring an education in the Union Theological Seminary in New-York.

From the report of the superintendent of Public Instruction in California we learn that the number of children in the State between the ages of four and eighteen is estimated at seventeen thousand eight hundred and twentyone, the number of common schools at twenty, of scholars attending them three thousand three hundred and fourteen, and the total amount of expenditure $28,103. About one hundred and fifty thousand acres of school lands have been sold, yielding a school fund of $300,000. It is estimated that by January next about $50,000

The new East Maine Conference Seminary, Bucksport, (Me.,) is prospering under the Principalship of Rev. L. L. Knox and a good board of assistants. Its last catalogue announces already two hundred and twenty-seven students. Success to it.

A popular abstract of the voluminous memoirs of the great Thomas Chalmers by Dr. Hanna has been recently published by Rev. James C. Moffat, and published at Cincinnati.

The establishment of a college in Missouri, under the care and patronage of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, to be located in Fayette, Howard County, has been decided upon, and the plan of scholarship endowment has been

matured.

There have been two hundred and seventy sermons and eulogies on Daniel Webster already printed and in circulation in the United States. Several persons, it is said, are engaged in making collections of them, that they may be preserved in more permanent and accessible form.

Emory & Henry College, (Va.,) reports one hundred and thirty-one students. It is healthfully situated among the mountains of Western Virginia, its terms are moderate, and its faculty, headed by President Wiley, composed of "workmen that need not to be ashamed."

The venerable German poet, Ludwig Tieck, died recently at Berlin. Tieck has been called "the last of the great poetic age of Germany." He received his academic education at the Universities of Halle, Göttingen, and Erlangen, where he devoted himself with the greatest interest to the study of history and the poetical literature of ancient and modern times. His when he was twenty years of age. Tieck exfirst production in poetry, " Abdallah," appeared dramatic affairs of Dresden, during his residence erted a marked influence in the literary and in that city, where he passed many of the best years of his life. His Shakspearian readings to a select circle of friends were among the principal intellectual attractions of Dresden, and have become widely celebrated through the descriptions of American and English travelers.

The French government forbade the insertion of an article in "The Moniteur," on the character and works of M. Proudhon, written by Ste. Beuve, on the ground of its being too severe a criticism.

The poet Montgomery has made a collection of his hymns, many of which, as they appear in the various denominational hymn-books, have been altered to suit the taste of the compilers. In this collection the poet has left them in the form in which he desires they should go down to posterity. Montgomery is now in his eightyfirst year. A recent American traveler (Benjamin Moran) says: "He is a hale old man, in the enjoyment of a governmental pension, and is quietly wearing out the thread of existence in Sheffield. Occasionally he attends public meetings, and gives both his time and money to aid and relieve the distresses of the poor."

FROM an abstract of the annual report of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, we learn that during the past year twenty-one new missionaries and assistant missionaries have been sent to different fields. The Board has now among the Indian tribes ten ministers, one preacher, and fifty-two assistant missionaries. The schools contain about four hundred pupils. In Africa, four ministers, six assistant missionaries. In Upper India, twenty-six ministers, two of whom are natives, twenty-five female assistant missionaries, and twenty-five native helpers. Instruction is given to upward of twenty-three hundred native youth. In Siam, two ministers and three assistants. In China, and among the Chinese in California, ten ministers and thirteen assistants. Among the Jews in New-York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, three ministers and a licentiate preacher. The total receipts of the Board for the year amounted to $153,222 83, being $8,000 more than the receipts of the last year.

The New Bible House recently erected for the American Bible Society in this city is built in part by the avails of the former house, which was paid for by special contributions in NewYork, and which house more than doubled in value while in the hands of the Board, and in part by another late special subscription by citizens, amounting to $56,400. The debt yet remaining will be removed by means of the income from the stores and offices rented. The building fund is kept distinctly by itself, and has no connexion whatever with the ordinary contributions of the Society.

A new religious Society, which will hereafter probably hold an important and conspicuous position among the anniversary meetings, has recently been formed in this city. Its aim is to provide a bond of union and acquaintance among Congregationalists, and to promote the interest of the Congregational polity, without, however, any legislative or ecclesiastical power, it being a purely voluntary organization. It will gather a large library and have its consulting rooms in this city, but will be a national society, taking the name of the "American Congregational Union."

Over $22,000 have been raised by the Wesleyan Missionary Society in Canada during the past

year.

The Scotch Episcopal Church numbers seven bishops and one hundred and forty-seven clergy; six of the former, and sixty-two of the latter being of English ordination. The churches and chapels are, in all, one hundred and forty-the schools in connection therewith eighty-three. "Letters from Rome," says a Paris correspondent of a Washington paper, state "that in a secret consistory, held lately, the Pope completed the Sacred College by the creation of eight new cardinals. These letters contain some interesting information relative to the Roman Cardinalate. According to the Pontifical Constitution, the Sacred College is composed of seventy cardinals, divided equally between the

three orders, thus: Six of the order of bishops, fifty of the order of priests, and fourteen of the order of deacons. The youngest is Cardinal Andrea, born in 1812; the oldest is Cardinal Oppozoni, who is eighty-four years old, and who has worn the hat fifty years. Fifty-four of the actual cardinals are Italians; sixteen are foreigners. Of the fifty-four Italians, thirty-three are Romans by birth or adoption, seven are Piedmontese, seven Neapolitan, two Tuscan, and five belong to the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom. Of the sixteen foreign cardinals, six are of France, three of Austria, two of Spain, two of Portugal, one of Belgium, one of England, and one of Prussia."

The only Lutheran Churches in New-England are one in Waldoboro, Me., and one in Boston. The one in Waldoboro was formed by a colony of Germans in the last century, and the one in Boston within the last three or four years. There are now about ten thousand German emigrants in New-England, the most of whom are mechanics, and reside in cities and large towns.

Rev. Dr. Cumming, of London, has received a present of a thousand guineas and a service of silver plate worth three hundred guineas, from his friends, in acknowledgment of his services in the Popish controversy-in all, amounting to near $7,000.

A correspondent of the Philadelphia Christian Observer from Tennessee states that the average salary of Presbyterian preachers in that state is less than $200 a year.

Mrs. Thomas Fassitt, of Philadelphia, lately deceased, has made large and liberal bequests to several of our benevolent institutions, be

queathing $5,000 to the Philadelphia Education Society; $5,000 to the Philadelphia Home Missionary Society; $5,000 to the American Sunday-School Union; $1,000 to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

From a comparative view of the statistics of the Presbyterian Church, Old School, we learn that in 1840 there were seventeen synods and ninety-five presbyteries, one thousand six hundred and fifteen ministers, one thousand six hundred and seventy-three churches, and one and eighty-three communicants, and $173,498 hundred and twenty-six thousand five hundred collections. In 1852, twenty-five synods and one hundred and forty presbyteries, two thousand and thirty-nine ministers, two thousand seven hundred and thirty-three Churches, and two hundred and ten thousand four hundred and fourteen communicants, and $1,191,107 collections-showing an increase, since 1840, of eight synods, forty-five presbyteries, four hundred and twenty-four ministers, one thousand and sixty Churches, and eighty-three thousand eight hundred and thirty-one communi

cants.

The religious excitement in Holland continues intense. The old ministry have resigned, and a more rigid Protestant ministry succeeds. There are in Holland one million six hundred and seventy thousand members of the Dutch

Reformed Church, one million one hundred and sixty-five thousand Roman Catholics, and two hundred and forty thousand and three hundred of other denominations.

A late communication to the legislature of California from Hon. J. W. Denver, Secretary of State, gives a tabular statement of the number of Asiatics in each county in California, which will be interesting to those who are looking to that country as a field for missionary labor. There are, according to this table, 22,175 Chinese; 1,125 Australians; 836 Sandwich Islanders; 39 New-Zealanders; Manillas 6; Malays 28; Bombays 10; Hindoostan 4; Van Diemen's Land 5; Society Islands 21. In Tuolumne County there are 2,486 Chinese; 46 Australians; 14 Sandwich Islanders; 4 New-Zealanders, and 1 from Van Diemen's Land.

Miss Mary Murray, of this city, has gratuitously conveyed, for a Presbyterian congregation, organized, or to be organized, in connection with the Presbytery of New-York, and to be known as the "Murray Hill Presbyterian Church," a sufficient portion of land on the north-west corner of Thirty-fourth-street and Fourth-avenue, for the erection of a church, Sunday school, and lecture-room. The land is valued at from $25,000 to $30,000.

The American Baptist Home Missionary Society employs one hundred and sixty-five missionaries and agents, at an expense of about $38,000.

The Roman Catholic Church in this country comprises six archbishops, twenty-six bishops, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-one priests, and one thousand five hundred and forty-five Churches, with an estimated population of two millions, ninety-six thousand three hundred. There are thirty-three ecclesiastical seminaries, forty-five literary institutions for young men, and one hundred and two female academies; there are forty-two religious institutions for males, and ninety-six for females; there are one hundred and eight charitable institu

tions.

The Georgia Baptist State Convention, recently held, represented a constituency of eight hundred and twenty Churches, and about sixty thousand members, while there were in the state about four hundred and thirty-eight Baptist Churches not represented, having sixteen thousand members. It thus appears that the Baptist denomination in Georgia consists of one thousand two hundred and three Churches, and about seventy-six thousand members.

The annual report of the American Seamen's Friend Society states that the receipts for the past year amounted to $25,283, and its expenses to $23,732. This society has sustained chaplains and missionaries in the principal ports, and has fostered Sailors' Homes, Savings Banks, and Libraries. The number of boarders at one of the Homes during the eleven years of its establishment has been 36,596. About one and a half millions of dollars have been deposited in the Seamen's Bank.

The receipts of the American and Foreign Christian Union for the past year amounted to $67,507, being an advance of $11,000 on the previous year. The expenditures were $65,742. The number of missionaries, &c., in the service

of the Society was one hundred and eighteen. The society supports five missionaries in Canada, two in Hayti, four in South America, one in Ireland, fourteen in France, two in Belgium, two in Sweden, and two in Italy.

From the report of the Committee on Statistics connected with the Brooklyn Sunday-School Union, we learn that the seventy-five schools connected with the Evangelical Churches in that city have at present 710 male and 930 female teachers; 5,646 male and 6,623 female pupils. Total-teachers, 1,640; children, 12,269. The average attendance during the year has been 8,916. Of the teachers, 1,103 are Church members; of the pupils, 565; 110 teachers and 327 scholars have made a profes sion of religion during the past year, making the conversions in the Sabbath school 439-over three times as many as were reported in the preceding year. The aggregate number of volumes in libraries is 32,876, and the contributions by the schools for benevolent objects during the year amount to $5,768 25.

The income of the New-York State Colonization Society for the year was $18,000, being $4,500 more than in any previous year. Six expeditions have been fitted out for Liberia during the year which have taken out seven hundred and twenty-eight emigrants. The receipts of the American Colonization Society from regular sources for the past year were $53,000.

Eighteen French Catholic missionaries have taken their departure very recently for different points of the globe, as follows:-Seven for China, two for Cochin China, one for Thibet, four for Pondicherry, two for Tonquin, one for Siam, and one for Mysore.

From the last report of the American Society for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Jews, we learn that the prosperity of the society has been greater than during any former year, the whole amount of receipts in the treasury having been about $13,269 03. There have been employed nine regular missionaries, besides from five to seven colporteurs, all converted Jews. They have met with a cordial reception by the Jewish people, and their messages of consolation and salvation have commanded respectful attention. The fruits of missionary labor are on the increase. They have been the past double the number over the preceding year. Fourteen Israelites, through the instrumentality of the society, have publicly professed faith in Christ, and the prospect is that twice this number will follow their example during the next year. Of the converts of the past three years, one is a missionary, two are colporteurs, two are students preparing for the missionary work, and one a missionary teacher. Of the 15,000 or more Jewish converts in the world, about every one in sixty is a preacher.

Funds are being raised in Vienna to build a church, as a memorial of the recent escape of the emperor from death. The subscription on the 9th ult. had reached about 300,000 florins, about $125,000, making a proper allowance for the condition of the Austrian currency. It is stated in The Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung, that Franz Joseph has granted a pension to the mother of Lebenyi, who attacked him.