Dr. J. C. Warren has published a description of the Mastodon Giganteus, with other subjects connected with Mastodon history, in a handsome quarto volume. We learn that Dr. George C. Shattuck, of Boston, of the class of 1803, has liberally presented $1,000 to Dartmouth College, to be expended in the purchase of works on the natural sciences; and Dr. Shurtleff, of the same city, has given $1,000, to be expended under the direction of the Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, for books in that department of study. Rev. John Newman, A. M., Principal of the Troy Conference Academy, has been appointed to, and accepted, the professorship of the Latin Language and Literature in the New-York Free Academy. A new college building was dedicated at Lima, N. Y., recently. Bishop Morris conducted the religious services, and a very superior address was delivered by Rev. Mr. Thomson, of Ohio. The edifice is called a noble structure, one hundred feet long, sixty feet wide, and three stories high. The late Bishop Hedding left his library to the Biblical Institute, Concord, N. H. The little story published in Sharp's Magazine, entitled The Visit," was written by Miss Bremer, in the English language, and so correctly, that it was not found necessary to alter a word in the whole tale. The city of Lha-Sea, Thibet, we are told by M. Huc, in his late travels in that country, is the depository of an immense collection of sacred books, which, however, are guarded with so much jealousy from inspection, except by the Lamas, (priests,) that nothing satisfactory can be gained as to their contents. There are now forty-three newspapers in Texas, with a fair prospect of fifty before the termination of the present year. There are two religious papers, which are doing well, and a third, a Baptist organ, is to be established in the fall. The Ohio University at Athens, at its late commencement, conferred the degree of D. D. on the Rev. E. R. Ames, one of the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church. "Deck and Port;" and the "Wide, Wide World," by Miss Wetherell; and among the forthcoming works, "A History of Europe, from the fall of Napoleon in 1815, to the Re-establishment of Military Government in France, in 1851," by Sir A. Alison; the seventh and concluding volume of Lord Mahon's "History of England;" a new historical work from the pen of Mr. Carlyle, (we believe a Life of Frederick the Great ;) two volumes of "Fresh Discoveries at Nineveh and Researches at Babylon," from Dr. Layard. The ten volumes of "Memoirs, Journals, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore," edited by Lord John Russell, is expected by the London public, with more than usual interest. Bohn has just published, as volume seventh of his Standard Library, "The History of the Church," by Neander. Professor Larrabee declines accepting the editorship of the Ladies' Repository, to which he was elected by the last General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The late George Collier, of St. Louis, made a bequest of $10,000 to the St. Louis College. Guizot has reprinted his essay on the "Life and Works of Shakspeare," appending thereto the critiques of the Duke de Broglie, from the Revue Francaise. The views of these writers are said to be original and startling. The part of lago, they say, was generally disapproved of when acted in France, as a clumsy plotter, and Othello, also, as "an idiot and pig-headed imbecile." The remarks of Guizot are subtile and profound, and the Duke de Broglie has a poetic reverence for the bard. Webster's Dictionary appears to be fast rising in popularity in England. Longman, the publisher, has now adopted the revised edition by Goodrich, as a perfect English standard. The Efik Language of Calabar.-Among the "Curiosities of Literature" may be placed the fact that this African language has never been written or printed; neither does it appear to have been yet mastered by any white man. From The Missionary Record of June, 1852, we learn that the people of Calabar are a colony of the Eboe race, and it is not unlikely that the tribes who inhabit the great palm-oil producing countries which lie between the Cross River and the Niger, speak also the Efik. byterian missionaries, it is stated, have made several trips to Old Calabar and the Cross Rivers, but the great Eboe country, from whence the Calabar people came, and where the great oil markets are, remains to be explored. The Pres The Royal Academy of History of Madrid is about to undertake a work of the greatest Mr. Henry Rogers, well known by his article on "Reason and Faith" in a late number of the Edinburgh Review, will, it is said, soon publish, through Crosby, Nichols, & Co., of Bos-utility for the national history of that country, ton, his "Eclipse of Faith; or a visit to a Religious Skeptic." Criticism reports this work one of the ablest answers to the modern school of Rationalists. The London Literary Gazette notices the following among the new publications of Bohn's cheap series:-"Hawthorn's Scarlet Letter;" "Emerson's Essays and Orations;" "Forbes's Short Explanation of the Nicene Creed;" "M'Ilvaine's Evidences;" "Pascal's Provincial Letters by Dr. M'Crie;" "Payson's (Rev. E.) Memoirs." The Athenæum notices Colton's in the publication of a collection of the principal laws, statutes, and municipal privileges, (fueros,) of the provinces and large towns of Spain. In order to collect these documents the Academy has appointed a commission, composed of twenty historians and others, who will examine the local archives for this purpose. M. Pascual Gayangos, who is already celebrated for his researches in the ancient history of Spain under the Moors, is the president of this commission. A translation of Heinrich Szchokke's ingenious little tale," Labor Stands on Golden Feet," has been published in London. "It is," writes a foreign cotemporary, "a book which both employers and employed may peruse with profit, and learn from it their respective duties to each other-the rights of individual labor, no less than those of capital." From the Colonial Times, we learn that the foundation stone of the Wesleyan College at Somerset, Van Diemen's Land, was laid on the sixth of January, with appropriate ceremonies. All the Wesleyan ministers of the colony were present. The Rev. J. M'Knight, of Hamiltonville, Penn., has been chosen Editor and Corresponding Secretary by the Board, appointed by the late New School General Assembly, to superintend the publication of doctrinal tracts and books. The article in a late number of the Revue des Deux Mondes, under the title of "The Squadron Mediterranean," which traces the naval history of France since 1824, is attributed to the pen of the Prince de Joinville. Victor Hugo's satirical pamphlet on "Napoleon the Little," has an immense circulation on secret in France, and every effort is made to introduce it into the provinces, especially the rural districts. Such is the government feeling on this subject, that the latest ordonnance against hawkers of pamphlets was specially directed against this terrible denunciation by M. Hugo. The Chevalier Bunsen, it is believed, will shortly issue his work, Hippolytus and his Age. ical Library in Great Queen-street, Lincoln'sinn Fields, of which this will be a complete catalogue, but, at the same time, a useful index to general theological literature. In the first volume the arrangement of authors and works is alphabetical; in the second, a catalogue raisonne of all departments of theology under commonplaces in scientific order will be presented. Of special value to theological students, this "Cyclopædia" will also prove an important contribution to general literature. The last descendant of Corneille was disseventy, and in great poverty. The President covered recently in Paris,-an old man of has granted him a pension of 2,000 francs. A new edition of Junius is preparing by Mr. Cramp, with notes, fac-simile autographs, letters, and a mass of other evidence, which, the author says, proves incontestably, that the author was the celebrated Lord Chesterfield. Victor Hugo, previous to his quitting Brussels for England, addressed a letter to the proscribed French refugees in Belgium, in which he says:-"I had wished never to part from you, but I have been made to understand that at the moment I am about publishing a historical work entitled "Napoleon the Little," my presence will be a source of embarrassment to Belgium-a source of danger even, they tell me. That has satisfied me that I ought to take the resolution I have taken, to leave Brussels immediately. If," he continues, "it should happen that M. Bonaparte believes he ought to institute a complaint against me in Belgium, on account of my publishing this book, I will appear with profound confidence before a loyal Belgium jury, and will thank Providence for giving me a new occasion to plead against this man, before the conscience of all people, the great cause of Right, of the Republic and of Liberty. A writer in the Athenæum (we believe Mr. R. The Hon. Mr. Neville's "Anglo-Saxon Remains," and a new volume of Miss Strickland's "Lives of the Queens of Scotland," are shortly to appear from the London press. Among other novelties in book-craft, we find the following announced in the Athenæum:— Mr. Hepworth Dixon's "Domestic Story of the Civil War;" "History of the Ionian Islands, by Mr. Bowen; Mr. Mansfield Perkin's "Per-Hunt) states that there are about seven hundred sonal Narrative of an Englishman resident in Abyssinia;" "Isis: an Egyptian Pilgrimage, by Mr. J. A. St. John; "Village Life in Egypt," by Mr. Bayle St. John; Mr. Palliser's "Solitary Rambles and Adventures of a Hunter in the Prairies;" the "Memoirs of the Baroness d'Okerkirch," written by herself and edited by her grandson, the Count de Monthison; and Dr. Sunderland's "Journal of a Voyage in Baffin's Bay and Barrow's Straits in 1850 and 1851, in search of the missing crews." Thackeray, Douglass Jerrold, and the authoress of "Mary Burton," are all actively preparing for the ensuing literary season. Tennyson, it is said, has battalions of manuscript, but his determination as to their appearance is not yet announced. Sydney Vendys has a new poem ready for the press; and the author of the "Fallen Family" has a new story, with the title of "Reuben Meddlicott." We learn also that Mr. Macaulay has finished two more volumes of his "History of England," and will publish them during the season. literary and scientific institutions under different names in England; the number of lectures delivered yearly at which varies from twentyfive to one hundred, at a general expense of from $100 to $500 by each institution, though many expend considerably more. First class lecturers, we further learn, do not realize more than $18 a lecture on the average. Mr. Thackeray, it is stated, has been engaged to deliver a course of lectures before the New-York Mercantile Library, during the coming winter. Junius.-The Dublin University Magazine for July names the Earl of Chatham as a new candidate for the authorship of Junius, and sustains the theory with very great force of argument. The Rev. Thomas Sawyer, formerly of this city, has been unanimously chosen President of the new Universalist College, named "Tuft's College," (after a principal benefactor,) located at Somerville, Mass. He has accepted. The Life of Rev. A. S. Byrne, by Rev. J. Carroll, will shortly be issued by the Wesleyan Book Room, Toronto, Canada. The introductory numbers of the Cyclopædia Wesleyan Normal Training Institute.-There Bibliographica, devoted to theology and kindred are in attendance on this Institute at Westminsubjects, have been issued in London by Mr. ster five hundred and twenty students, a tenDarling, proprietor of the well-known Theolog-fold increase in two years. The English Wes leyans are earnestly at work in the promotion pense. This splendid library includes Rabbinof education. Mr. Halliwell, the Shaksperian editor, London, has issued a prospectus, in which he proposes a new edition of the Bard of Avon, "in twenty folio volumes, corresponding in size with the convenient first collective edition of 1623." This convenient size it appears has not been governed by the view of a general circulation, but "to suit numerous fac-similes to be made from that work," (ed. 1623;) and we further learn, that the issue is to be "privately printed for subscribers only." To the public in general, therefore, this edition of Shakspeare may be considered as a sealed book. The subscription to this "folio Shakspeare" will be nearly $200. Index Expurgatorius.-Among the books condemned by the last decree of the Congregation of the Index, at Rome, is the Universal Dictionary of History and Geography," by M. Bouillet. This is the book which was some time since bitterly attacked by the Univers. The Archbishop of Paris ordered that journal to cease to write against a work published with the approbation of the diocesan authorities. The Univers, pursuant to its professed principle of hierarchical obedience, submitted. The decision come to at Rome is a significant fact, and has occasioned considerable sensation. Valuable Hebrew Library.-A projected sale at Snisk of the library of the late Leon V. Samuel, is talked of. The enormous wealth of its late proprietor, enabled him to accumulate rare books and manuscripts, regardless of ex ical and Chaldaic dictionaries, archaeological works and apocryphal Bibles in almost every dictionaries, cabalistic works, Hebrew books language, Biblical commentaries, concordances, and pamphlets of the fifteenth century, Hebrew correspondence, the works of Jewish geographers and natural philosophers; Hebrew grammars, dictionaries, liturgies, manuscripts, commentaries, and translations of the Mischna and Talmud; Hebrew and Samaritan Pentalaw books, and general literature of the Jews. teuchs, sermons by Hebrew preachers, poetry, manuscripts, of which no other copies are There are a great many editiones principes, and extant, embracing Walton's Polyglot, the works of Jacob Law, Lambrose's Venice Bible, 1639, Spanish Bible, Ferrara, 1553, and works by Abarbanel, Aramah, Prissol, and Kimchi. A late issue of the London Times records the telegraphic transmission of a Government message, at the extraordinary rate of one hundred and fifty words and forty-eight stops in two minutes, by an improved instrument. The Penny: a Blessing or a Curse; treated been issued in London. It is in the happy style proverbially.-A little work with this title has of our own Franklin. Since Master Henry Peacham's Worth of a Penny, written in the time of the Civil Wars, and as great a favorite with them as "Poor Richard" is now, there has probably been no book on the subject so quaint, wise, and suggestive, as the above. It is essentially a poor man's book, but it may amuse and interest men of the best reading. Religious Summary. American Bible Society.-At the last regular monthly meeting of the Board of Managers, Dr. Thomas Cock was in the chair, assisted by the Hon. Luther Bradish. Four new auxiliaries were recognized-one in Wisconsin, two in Ohio, and one in Illinois. Communications were laid before the Board by the secretaries from different sections of our own country, and from abroad. Letters from Texas and Oregon show the progress of the Bible cause in those important portions of our land. A letter was received from La Pointe, on Lake Superior, in regard to the progress of revision of the New Testament in the Ojibwa tongue: also an interesting letter from Rev. Homer B. Morgan, in Thessalonica, in reference to a new edition of the Hebrew-Spanish Bible, the former edition being nearly exhausted: one from Mr. Williams, of Canton, and another from Rev. L. B. Peet, of Fuh-chau, China, relat ing to the Chinese version of the Scriptures: another on the same subject from Bishop Boone. Several new agents were appointed one for Alabama, one for Arkansas, and one for the north-west portion of Missouri. Numerous grants of books were made in various languages, -as in Portuguese, Danish, Polish, Spanish, and French, as well as English,-for home and foreign wants, with two entire Bibles for the blind. The Rev. J. E. Lyon-in his article on German Missions, in the Boston Daily Zion's Herald-says, that "full one-fourth of the German missionaries in the field at this time, have been converted from the errors of Popery." Rev. R. Ryland, President of Richmond College, Va., having been tendered the honorary distinction of D. D., through the Chronicle, begs leave respectfully to decline the honor, for two reasons. "The first is, that such titles do not seem to accord with the simplicity of the gospel; and the second is that, if they do, I am not sufficiently learned to deserve them. At least, I beg my brethren, especially those in Virginia, to continue to address me in the affectionate style they have hitherto done. Brethren, we have always been a plain people-let us continue to be such." The Independent Dissenters of Lancashire (Eng.) are preparing to erect fifty additional chapels in that county, within the next five years, at an expense of $750,000. The Jesuits are again introduced into Austria, and proselytism is carried on on a most extensive scale. The Seraphine Society, patronized by the Court, has no other object than to extend Catholicism among the Protestants of Austria and its most active member-the man, in fact, in whose hands all the threads of the Jesuitical plot are concentrated-is the consul SCHWARZ, the greatest enemy of the two isms -republicanism and patriotism. The forty-third anniversary of the American Board of Foreign Missions was held at Troy, September 7th: Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen, chairman. Henry Hill, Esq., the Treasurer of the Board, stated the financial condition of the society, viz.: Receipts for the year, ending July 31st, were $301,732 70; expenditures $301,727 35. The following is the summary of the Board's operationsNumber of Missions.... Number of Stations...... 26 ......111 -401 Number of Native Preachers....... THE PRESS. 45 646 County, Ohio. The Strangites, Brewsterites, and Bishopites, are new-lights; the Cutlerites are reformers; and the Brighamites and Hydites are two branches of usurpers of the government of the Church, after the assassination of Prophet Smith. The Indian Mission Association, by its last report, shows twenty-one Churches, one hundred and twenty-six baptisms, one thousand three hundred missionaries, assistants, and communicants, and one hundred and sixty-five pupils in the schools, principally among the Choctaws, Creeks, Weas, Piankesadws, Miamies, and Pottawatomies. Sixteen years ago, the first German missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church began his labors among that people in this country. After six weeks visiting and talking among his countrymen, he gathered his first congregation. It was in a private hall, and was composed of three persons; now there are one hundred and twenty-five German missionaries and ten thousand members in this country, and a hopeful mission is opened in the fatherland. The Baptists of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, it is stated, have resolved to raise $50,000 for the endowment of Acadia College. A late report on education states that $10,000 have been already subscribed. The Minutes of the Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, commencing with the Kentucky Conference, October, 1851, and ending with the Pacific Conference, April, 1852, show a gratifying increase in the ministry and membership of the Church. As compared with the last year, 1850-51, we find the followjng condition of the membership:— 783 Number of Pupils in the Seminaries (75 do.) 485 The Rev. H. W. Beecher, we learn, is engaged in the preparation of a Hymn-Book, to contain a thousand original and select compositions, adapted to a rich collection of music, arranged by Messrs. Zundel and Matthews. "The Mormon sect," says the Southern Christian Advocate," is already split into seven antagonistic bodies, all practicing immersion, viz. :— 'Rigdonites,' the original sect, scattered through the land; Brighamites,' in the valleys of Utah; 'Strangites,' at Force, Beaver Island, Lake Michigan; Hydites,' on the unreserved public lands in Western Iowa, Kanesville being their head-quarters; 'Cutlerites,' on Silver Creek, Mills County, Iowa; 'Brewsterites,' at Socorro, New-Mexico; 'Bishopites,' at Kirkland, Lake The apparent decrease in the number of local preachers is explained "by the fact, that there are no local preachers reported in the Minutes of the Tennessee, Indian Mission, Mississippi, and Alabama Conferences. Last year those conferences reported nine hundred and eighty-two local preachers, which (without any increase) added to the number reported from the other conferences, would make an increase of seventy-one local preachers." The corner-stone of a new Methodist Episcopal Church was laid at Sacramento, lately. Rev. Messrs. Stratten, Benson, Simonds, Wheeler, and Gober, including ministers of different denominations, took part in the services. Mr. Simonds's interesting address on this occasion was listened to with much attention. Mr. Stratten read a history of the organization and progress of the Church, which, with copies of the Testament, Hymn Book, Discipline, City Directory, and sundry papers, were then deposited in the usual man ner. Of the eighty thousand inhabitants of NewZealand, sixty-five thousand may be considered Protestants, of whom forty-five thousand are under the care of the Church Missionary Society: The Wesleyans have under their care about eighteen thousand; not more than five thousand are Romanists, and ten thousand perhaps Pagans. Moral improvement is progressing, and agricultural pursuits, with water-mills and a demand for vessels to take their produce to the neighboring towns, are fast supplanting the barbarity and indolence of former days. Southern Methodist Episcopal Missionary Statistics. The following synopsis from the Secretary's report, will show the present state of the Missionary department of the M. E. Church, South : "I. In the destitute Portions of the Regular Work. One hundred and thirty-six Missions; one hundred and six Missionaries; twenty-two thousand five hundred and seventy-eight white, and one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two colored members; with one hundred and seven Churches; one hundred and twenty-five Sabbath schools; and three thousand and eighty-six scholars. "II. Among the People of Color.-One hundred and twenty Missions one hundred and eleven Missionaries; thirty-three thousand three hundred and seventy-eight colored, and seven hundred white members; with sixtyeight Churches; and sixteen thousand three hundred and eighty-six children under religious instruction. Leihy, P. E. of the Milwaukie District, it appears there are in that State about two hundred and fifty thousand Norwegians. The missionary labors of Messrs. Willerup and Agrelins among these people, have had the effect of awakening a general inquiry among them, and ed to the Methodist Church in that section. one hundred and fifty converts have been addA church has been completed at Cambridge, four, neat, plain, and substantial, at a cost of Wisconsin, of stone, forty-four feet by sixty$3,000, two-thirds of which has already been paid, the remaining $1,000 is now due, and for which Mr. Willerup has given judgment notes, besides paying out the greater portion of his missionary appropriation. Some of the Norwegians have mortaged their small farms to secure the money now due, and others, mechanics, have taken liens upon the church. The Bishop of London, in view of the important Church business that is, in a great measure, to occupy the approaching session of Parlia ment, is engaged upon a bill, the object of which will be to improve the administration of discipline among the clergy. Among other subjects to be revised are a modification of the Canon Law, the Institution of Clerks, (clergy,) the Ecclesiastical Courts of Appeal, and the reform of the Church courts generally. Wesleyan Missions in Ceylon.-From a stateIsland of Ceylon, we learn that in fifty-one places ment recently put forth by the Wesleyans on the for preaching the gospel, the average attendance is about four thousand. In the Western Province, there are three European missionaries, eight native ministers, three local assistant misand seventeen schoolmistresses. sionaries, nine catechists, forty schoolmasters, There are "III. Among the Germans.-Ten Missions; seven Missionaries; three hundred and thirty-fifty-two schools, containing one thousand five two Church members; five Churches; and one hundred and thirty-six scholars. hundred and seventy-six boys, and five hundred members in the Western Province is one thouand seventy-five girls. The number of Church Island about one thousand six hundred and sand one hundred and twenty-nine, and on the "IV. Among the Indian Tribes.-Thirty-one Missions; twenty-seven Missionaries; four thousand four hundred and seventy-seven Church members; thirty-nine Churches; twenty-thirty. eight Sabbath schools, and one thousand two hundred and sixty-one scholars; eight manuallabor schools, and four hundred and eightynine pupils. "V. In China.-One Mission, and three Missionaries. "VI. In California.-Twenty-one Missions; nineteen Missionaries, and three hundred members. "General Aggregate.-Missions, two hundred and ninety-nine; Missionaries, two hundred and seventy-three; Churches, two hundred and twenty-nine; Church members, sixty-three thousand six hundred and eighty-seven; Sabbath schools, one hundred and thirty-six; children under religious instruction, nineteen thousand eight hundred and ninety-one; with eight manual-labor schools and four hundred and eighty-nine pupils." There is a great demand for Presbyterian ministers in Texas. "Those of piety and energy, who can preach acceptably—not readcould do much good, and build up important Churches." Methodist Missions among the Norwegians in Wisconsin.-From a statement of Rev. I. M. The Rt. Hon. W. C. Gladstone, one of the highest of English High Churchmen, has come out against State establishments of religion. Rev. Pierce Connelly, late domestic chaplain to the Earl of Shrewsbury, has published his "Reasons for abjuring his allegiance to the See of Rome;" and an English correspondent of the Record speaks of the English Romanists as trembling beneath the lash of his exposure of their system. Late advices from the Cape of Good Hope state that the Mount Bok Wesleyan Missionary Station had been attacked by about three hundred Hottentots, on horseback and on foot. The place was bravely defended by the friendly natives stationed there; but the rebels were successful, killing seven Fingoes and wounding a number of others, and carrying off considerable plunder. Native Chinese Testament.-A copy of the New Testament, printed with metal types, and of a superior character, has been forwarded to the Directors of the London Missionary Society, and is sold for four-pence, (eight cents.) |