XXV. GENERAL STATISTICS. Summary of the Principal Religious Denominations. According to returns made in 1843–5, and by estimate. Churches in New York.-There are 206 churches and 21 Baptists, 16 Roman Catholic, 17 Dutch Reformed, 8 Jewish, 8 African, 5 Congregational, 5 Associate Reformed Presbyterian, 4 Universalist, 4 French, 3 Lutheran, 3 Reformed Presbyterian, 2 Unitarian, 2 Welch, 1 Methodist Protestant, 18 Miscellaneous. Connected with the various congregations are 39 moral and religious societies. Churches in Philadelphia.—There are in Philadelphia 17 Baptist churches, 11 Roman Catholic, 1 "Christian Chapel," 12 for colored congregations, 1 Disciples of Christ, 2 Dutch Reformed, 20 Episcopal, 7 Friends', 3 German Reformed, 2 Jews' Synagogues, 5 Lutheran, 2 Mariners', 22 Methodist Episcopal, 4 Methodist Protestant, 1 Moravian, 2 New Jerusalem, 33 Presbyterian, 1 Unitarian, 4 Universalist, 1 Independent. Total 150. Churches in Baltimore.—It is stated that there are 100 churches in this city, of which the Methodists have 32, the Presbyterians 13, Roman Catholics 11, Protestant Episcopal 10, Lutheran 7, Unitarian 1. Churches in Boston.-Unitarian 21, Orthodox Congregational 13, Methodist 11, Baptist 10, Protestant Episcopal 8, Roman Catholic 7, Universalist 6, Free Will Baptist 2, Christian 1, Friends' 1, New Jerusalem or Swedenborgian 1. Total 81. CATHOLICS.-The number of Catholic Dioceses in the United States, according to the Christian Review, is 21; apostolic vicarate 1, bishops 17, bishops elect 8, priests 634; priests deceased during the year 12; increase in the number of the clergymen, since the publication of the Catholic Almanac for 1843, 55; number of churches 611; other stations 461; ecclesiastical seminaries 19; clerical students 261; literary institutions for young men 16; female academies 48; element ary schools every where Catholic periodicals 15. throughout most of the dioceses; The number of the Catholic population in the United States, according to their own reckoning, is between one million and a half and two millions. The Progress of Unitarianism.-The following statistics were collected from authentic sources, and published in the Seventeenth Annual Report of the American Unitarian Association in Boston, in 1842. "In 1820, there was not a single congregation avowedly Unitarian in Ireland; now there are 39, and the number continues to increase every year. "In 1826, Dr. Chalmers boasted for Scotland, that all the church accommodations possessed by the Unitarians in that country put together, would only afford seats for 1500 people, and that one half of them were unoccupied. This boast was then true. Now, a single congregation alone, the Glasgow Unitarian congregation, numbers a body of people connected with it, greater than Dr. Chalmers assigned, sixteen years ago, to the whole kingdom. Eleven other societies have been formed, or revived, and there is a clear prospect of more and greater increase. "In England, it is only twenty-four years since Parliament removed the penalties by which the profession of Unitarian opinions was visited. There are now in England about 300 Unitarian Congregations. "On the continent of Europe, Unitarian Christianity is steadily on the increase. In Switzerland, it is, and has been for some years, triumphant in the church and city of Geneva, the chosen abode of John Calvin, and is gaining ground in the other cantons. In France, it is making progress among the Protestants. Indeed, in every country of Europe, where the profession of religion is free, Unitarian views are largely held, and are making progress. It is estimated, that in Hol land, Switzerland, France, and Germany, it is the faith of not less than one half of those who have renounced the Churchof Rome." (To this it may be added, that John Ronge, the Martin Luther of the nineteenth century, has made a Declaration of Faith essentially Unitarian, both in its form and its spirit. He is now engaged in establishing an Independent German Catholic Church, and multitudes flock to his standard. An attempt is also making to establish an independent Catholic Church in Cincinnati, Ohio,-a very impor tant movement as it regards the dominion of the Pope in the United States.) In 1825, the whole number of our societies in the United States, i. e. of Congregational Unitarian Societies, was 120. It is now about 300. Besides these, there are in the United States nearly 2000 congregations that reject the Trinity, and its kindred doctrines. They belong chiefly to the sects denominated Christians, Universalists, and Friends, or Quakers." GEORGE G. CHANNING, Esq., Traveling Agent of the American Unitarian Association, made the following statement before the New York Convention, in October, 1845: that the number of regular churches belonging to the Unitarian denomination, was about 250; average attendance 75,000; communicants 18,000, or about 75 to each church; 4,800 Sabbath School teachers, and 27,000 scholars in the Sabbath Schools. Unitarianism in Transylvania in Europe." From some statistics which have just been published, it would appear that the churches founded by the Socini, and their followers, the Polish brethren, are in a flourishing state. In 1766 the number of Unitarians in Transylvania was only 28,647; in 1789 they had increased to 31,921; in 1818 they amounted to 40,000; and at the present time (1845,) the estimate is 51,700; so that within 80 years, the Unitarians in Transylvania have almost doubled their numbers. They have three colleges, one at Clausenburgh, of which the most reverend Alexander Szekely is the head. This gentleman is called. "General Notary," "Clerical Vice President," &c., and his office appears similar to that of an arch-bishop. The number of students at Clausenburgh, is 220. Another college is at Thorda; it contains 174 students. A third college is at Szekely, Keresztur; it contains 184 students.. The capital of the Transylvanian Unitarian Church is, in money, 30,000 florins; in landed and real property, 40,000 florins; total, 70,000. With this sum, it would appear that they are able to defray the whole of their church expenses, and put by annually 200 florins for contingences. The professors of this faith enjoy all the rights of citizenship in the principality; among them, are advocates, judges, censors of the press, registrars, and privy counsellors. We are indebted for the above information, to a Latin calendar, (a national and not a sectarian work,) for the current year, entitled, "Novum et vetus calendarium ad annum vulgarem 1845, dierum 366, in usum magni principatus Transylvaniæ, et partium adnexarum; Claudiopoli, typis, Lycei Regii." (Boston) Christian World, from the London Inquirer. UNITARIANISM IN THE UNITED STATES. A Unitarian is one who holds to the personal unity of God in contradistinction from the doctrine of the Trinity or three persons, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost in the Godhead. Though there had been Unitarians in reality, if not in name, in the country previously, yet it was in 1805, upon the |