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superintendent of the Liberia Mission. goes out in company with the bishop, as does also the Rev. Mr. Horne, who is to take charge of the Methodist Academy at Monrovia.

The last number of the Presbyterian Quarterly Review has an earnest article on the inadequate salary of ministers in the Presbyterian Church. The clergy of Connecticut are making the same complaints.

The Pope has requested Louis Napoleon to permit the re-establishment of the order of begging friars in France.

Rev. William M. Daily, D. D., Indiana, has in course of preparation a treatise on the obligations of parents and the Church to baptized children, and the reciprocal relation and obligations of such baptized children to the Church.

There are in the United States, Universalist societies, 1,091; clergymen, 640; and Churches, 828.

Rev. George M. Berry, late of the Baltimore Methodist Conference, has been transferred to that of Oregon.

The Parent Conference of Wesleyan Methodism, in England, at its recent session, suggested to the Wesleyan Methodist connection in Canada, the organization of a federal union of the Methodism of British North America, embracing Eastern and Western Canada, the Hudson Bay territory, New-Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland, the whole of which to be governed by a federal conference, after the manner of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States. suggestion, however, must be discussed and acted upon by the Canada preachers, before it can become a reality.

This

Rev. Dr. Meade, Bishop of the Diocese of Virginia, publishes in the Southern Churchman a prayer, to be used in view of the great want of preachers in the Protestant Episcopal Church.

The Louisville Methodist Conference met on Wednesday, the 8th September, Bishops Andrew and Soule presiding. About ninety members belong to this conference.

The Baptists in Oregon possess eleven churches, and ten ordained ministers, with a membership of eleven hundred and seventy-five.

By a list published in the Churchman, we observe that there are eighty-three clergymen of the Episcopal Church residing immediately in New-York city and its vicinity.

The revenue for the rents and sale of the Clergy Reserves in Canada, amounted, in 1850, to £53,737.

Rev. Robert Newton, D. D., for fifty-three years an effective and able Wesleyan Methodist minister, has been placed, at his own request, on the superannuated list.

The Rev. Dr. Wainwright was on the ninth ballot elected Provisional Bishop of New-York, at the late Episcopal Convention.

New-York Tract Society.-Among the statistics presented at the late meeting of this society, we find that twenty-five missionaries

had been zealously engaged in promoting the objects of the society; 976,343 tracts had been distributed, 949 Bibles, and 1,505 Testaments supplied to the destitute children and others; 4,582 volumes had been lent from the ward libraries, and 754 children had been gathered into Sabbath schools.

The British Wesleyan Conference, at its last session, resolved to organize Methodism in France into an independent body, in order that it may claim the protection of the authorities as a duly organized Protestant Church. From the reports presented at this Conference, we gather that Methodism is rather retrograding in Scotland.

There are in Virginia 550 churches, 90,000 members, and 413 ministers. The Rev. John Clay, the father of Henry Clay, was a Baptist preacher, and resided in Hanover County.

Late accounts state that the Supreme Ecclesiastical Council, in Prussia, had forbidden the Protestant clergy to admit Irvingites to the

sacramental rites.

In consequence of the great influx of popu lation to Australia, the British Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Committee have resolved to send six additional missionaries to that country. The Rev. Robert Young, we learn from the London Watchman, is to proceed to the colony for the purpose of establishing an Australian Conference.

Letters from San Francisco state that efforts were making for a general closing up of the stores on the Sabbath.

The Northern portion of the Methodist Episcopal Church has in its communion at least 725,000 members; and it is estimated that nearly three millions of the population of the United States is connected with that body.

The Friend-a Tahitian journal—of a recent date, states, that among the persecuting acts of the French Protectorate Government, "no official native would be allowed to preach without sanction;" and that the Rev. Mr. Chisholm, a German, employed by the London Missionary Society, has been prohibited from preaching out of a certain district, under pain of arrest and banishment.

There are fifteen missionaries and assistants employed by the Baptists in China, and three more are soon to sail for that country. In and assistants, and one in Central Africa. West Africa there are seventeen missionaries

The London City Mission has now two hundred and seventy missionaries in that metrop olis.

The Scotch Free Church have at this time There were but six Scotch Churches at the ten congregations in the city of London. period of the disruption, and three of them continued with the state.

From the report of the Maine Congregational and seventeen Churches attached to that body, Conference it appears there are two hundred which are represented by fourteen local conferences. Whole number of members reported, 16,709; settled pastors, 152; stated supplies, 50.

M. Adolphe Martin in the Paris Comptes Rendus of July, recommended the substitution of iodide of ammonium for that of potassium, in the collodian process of photography; Mr. Hockin of London has made a similar discovery, by which method he obtains "good positive pictures of buildings in a fraction of a second, without otherwise departing from the usual process."

The very interesting and extensive collection of curiosities obtained by Clot Bey, in Egypt, and purchased by the French Government, are to be exhibited at the Palace of the Louvre. The collection comprises articles of vertu in bronze, ivory, carved woods, curious stuffs, instruments of music, and utensils of all sorts.

A colossal statue of Bergen Jare, "the founder of the kingdom of Sweden,-who lived in the tenth century," is to be cast at the Royal Foundery, Munich. The monument is the work of the Swedish sculptor Fogelbjerg, and is to be the property of his native country.

Incited by the acquisitions already made of so many precious monuments at Rome, the Princess of Camino has determined on new excavations between the Tiber and the Garig

liano.

The King of Saxony, as we learn from the London Builder, has instructed M. Hanel, a Dresden artist, to proceed to Berlin, to execute a colossal statue of M. Cornelius, one of eight figures of the greatest artists of all ages selected for erection in the hall of the new Museum at Dresden. M. Cornelius is the only living artist to whom this honor has been accorded, and his statue is to be placed next those of Raphael and M. Angelo. Thorwalsden is also named as one of the number decided on.

The Society of British Artists has lost one of its most distinguished members, by the death of Mr. Allen, the landscape painter.

Professor Senff has lately exhibited at Halle, (Saxony,) two interesting pictures intended as floral illustrations of Thorwalsden's celebrated "Night and Morning." In his treatment of this subject, the artist represents the opening day by the sun-rose, the power and strength of the day by the oak, the reward of action by the laurel. The gay and stirring movements of man are symbolized by roses, pomegranates, oranges, and passion-flowers intertwined. The pure blue heaven is represented by corn flowers, "because heaven is supported on the material earth." Ears of corn and bunches of grapes conclude the wreath. The majesty of night, the subject of the second picture, is shown in the wonderful cactus grandiflora; her attendants are mourning and peace, the cypress and olive, with psyche. The night violet tells of the nocturnal stillness, while the poppy symbolizes sleep and death. The finiteness of rest, or the rest of all things, is indicated in the asphodel, the death-flower of Homer. The poetical treatment of these pictures is German in the extreme; while the artistic delicacy with which

the different flowers are arranged and colored, has excited marked attention from admiring crowds.

The total subscriptions to the London Art Union for the year ending 31st March, 1852, were £12,903, ($64,515,) being an increase of £1,933 ($9,665) upon the sum collected during the preceding year. The amount of the prizes was £6,449, ($32,245,) being an increase of £1,791 ($8,955) upon that of the previous season.

The exhibition of the Berlin Academy of Art, which is held every two years, was opened in September last. Though containing one thousand three hundred and fifty-two paintings, with a few pieces of sculpture, there was none of any remarkable peculiarity for conception or execution.

A large sculptural monument by the Brothers Zandomeneghi has been consecrated to the memory of Titian in Venice. The base of the monument is adorned with five bas-reliefs of the most celebrated of Titian's pictures.

Some calotypes, as we learn from the Art Journal, have been taken by Mr. Townsend, at Abbrokerton, a large town in the interior of Africa. The specimens, the artist says, though not very perfect, for want of time and proper attention, yet evince that the climate and the light are well adapted to the practice of the art.

Tony Johannot, the graceful artist, and painter of conversation pieces, whose death we have announced, was first introduced to English connoisseurs by Mr. Alaric Watts. To his reputation as a painter he added that of a happy and characteristic book-illustrator; of his skill in which department, the edition of Moliere, with his sketches, vignettes, &c., is one of the most beautiful, and artistically worthy books among the series of which it forms a part.

The donations to the American Musical Fund Society of New-York, which received its charter in March, 1849, have amounted to $4,000. Of the eleven donators, Mrs. F. A. Kemble gave $1,000; Madame O. Goldschmidt, $2,000; Miss C. Hayes, and the President of the Society, seven, including Ole Bull, gave $100 each. Henry Orcut, Esq., $200 each; the remaining

Further discoveries have been made by M. Beule, in the Acropolis, at Athens, of the last steps of the staircase that led to the principal entrance, and the surrounding wall of the citadel. This latter is adorned in the upper part with entablatures, as employed in the Doric temples anterior to Pericles, while at the rear are pedestals and fragments of the Roman epoch. Among several fragments of architecture by M. Beule, are twenty-three inscriptions in bas-relief, well executed, representing eight young Athenians dancing.

A clever adaptation of ornamental zinc, with colored designs, and suitable for pillars, trays, flooring, chimney-pieces, &c., has been exhibited in London, which, from its novel and handsome purposes of ornamentation, is likely to have great demand.

New-York Historical Society.-At the last
monthly meeting, it appeared from the financial
statement made by the Treasurer, William
Chauncey, Esq., that there was a balance on
hand at the time the last report was made of
$847 48; amount received for dues, $4,215;
total, $5,062 48. Disbursements, $4,529 02.
Balance in the Treasury, October 1st, $533 46.
The above receipts included $3,200 paid by
sixty-four members in commutation of yearly
dues.

The following corresponding members were
elected:-Richard Hildreth, Boston; Franklin
B. Hough, Ogdensburg. As resident members:
Henry F. Hunter, Daniel Shepherd, and F. A.
Talmadge.

Mr. De Peyster read a letter descriptive of the
general tenor of certain documents recently
donated to the society, and stated particulars
relative to the public career of Lieutenant Gover-
nor Colden. The collection contained Governor
Colden's investigations in natural science,
history, zoology, and other branches of learn-
ing; his work-a celebrated one in its day—
upon the principle of action in matter, publish-
ed in 1755; his History of the Five Nations;
dispatches to the English Government; cor-
respondence with celebrated men in both the
scientific and political world, with Franklin,
Linnæus, Sinovius, &c., &c.; his discoveries as
to a new mode of stereotyping.

In the year 1760, Governor Colden, writing
to a friend in England, said that he was of
opinion, that when the woods were cleared off,
the climate would materially improve-so much
so as to render this country, in time to come,
a resort for pulmonary patients, &c.

Mr. Moore, librarian, read a very lengthy
communication from Hon. John R. Bartlett,
of the Mexican Boundary Commission, descrip-
tive of his journeyings in Sonora, Chihuahua,
Lower California, &c., while prosecuting the
object of the commission. He stated that so
far as he had traveled as yet, he had discovered
no ruins of an antiquity prior to the present
style of building. He has also made some
valuable collections in mineralogy, botany,
zoology, and of the Reptilia, some of which are
rare specimens. The paper also described what
Mr. B. noticed of the hot springs, or "geysers,"
situated in a gorge of the Nappa Valley, Oregon;
and concluded by stating that he (Mr. B.) had
discovered the original manuscript journal of
the journey made from the city of Mexico to
San Francisco by Padre Pedro Font, in the year
1776-7, a rare and interesting document in-
deed. At the close of the reading of this
interesting communication, the audience ex-
pressed their satisfaction by hearty applause.

Cholera. Considerable sensation was excited
by one of the speakers at a meeting held at
Exeter-Hall, in London, who stated the "unde-
niable fact, that the tax levied upon salt by
Warren Hastings, during his tyrannical rule in
India, was the cause of the Asiatic Cholera,"
a disease, said the speaker, "unknown before
the period alluded to, and which made its ap-

pearance immediately following the edict which
deprived the lower castes of Hindoos of a health-
ful ingredient in their food." In connection
with this subject, we learn from the report of
a French medical commission, both at Paris
and elsewhere, that rain water is a prophylac-
tic of cholera, and that this disease has never
proved an epidemic in any city where rain-water
is exclusively used.

The British Archæological Institute held their
annual session at Newcastle lately, under the
patronage of the Duke of Northumberland and
the presidency of Lord Talbot de Malahide.
In the course of business, a paper was read on
the character of Robin Hood, in which it was
maintained that he was a "mythical personage."
(This opinion, however, seems to be entirely
controverted by a statement of the Rev. Joseph
Hunter, assistant keeper of the British Public

Records, who, in one of his Critical and His-
torical Tracts, has collected a mass of informa-
tion, tending to show that this "Greenwood
hero" was one of the malcontents connected with
the Staynton family, of the time of Edward II.;
that he was born between 1285 and 1295; and
that he was living in the early part of the reign
of Edward III.)

A member of the Paris Academy of Sciences,
M. Beulin, lately reported that by nourishing
a silk worm on the leaves of the bignonia chica,
he succeeded in giving to the cocoon of the
worm uniform red tint. As the chica is well
known as furnishing the red pigment used by
our Southern Indians, this hint may not be
unworthy of a further demonstration.

The twenty-second meeting of the British
Association for the Advancement of Science was
held at Belfast in September last, Sir R.
Murcheson in the chair. A vast variety of
business, relating to every branch of science and
art, was brought before the members, to which
our limits will only permit us summarily to
allude as follows:-Observations on the Nebulæ
by Lord Rosse's Telescope; the Mathematical
and Physical Theories of Light and Heat;
Terrestrial Magnetism; Tides of the Ocean;
Lunar Atmospheric Tides; and the Index of
Friction in different gases. The meetings
were numerously attended, and the general
prosperity of the society is shown by the constant
addition to its members, and increase of its
funds and correspondence. Among the visitors
was Professor Fowler, of the United States.

The Mountain of Light.-We give elsewhere
an account of the recutting of this famous
diamond. The last London Illustrated News
says that the operation has been entirely
successful, and has developed to a wonderful
degree, the brilliancy and beauty of the gem.
It has proved it to be of the first water, and it
is now, perhaps, the most valuable diamond in
the world.

The foreign journals announce the death, in
Germany, of Dr. Herbert Mayo, a well-known
contributor to the physiological researches of his
day.

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N the long list of English poets, chiefly those of the latter days-for most of the early bards were earnest, poor men, who wrote because they loved to, and because they had to;-among the latter of the English poets, we say, are to be found many amateurs of verse, in the person of lords and right-honorables-the terms are not always synonymous-and gentlemen in easy circumstances, who, having nothing else to do, occasionally produced trifles in rhyme. Nothing can be more absurd than these gentlemen, unless it be their pretension and success; for they are often more successful than men of real merit VOL I, No. 6.-HH

among the triflers of the age of Charles the First and Second; Cowley and Shenstone, among the garden-pastoral poets; and Rogers and Moore, among the vers du société poets of the present age; and such, it has always seemed to us, is Halleck among the poets of America. Differing widely from his good-natured puffing friends, who compare him with the greater poets, and from the general public, who buy his works by editions, we are yet disposed to consider him a man of genius and a poet; for no man save a poet could have written "Alnwick Castle," "Burns," and "Marco Bozzaris." To what class of poets he belongs, or the poetical value of the class, is another consideration, upon which we may hereafter dwell; at present it is enough for us to consider him as a poet simply, to investigate some of the merits and demerits of his poems, and, if possible, to discover their cause to do which we will glance over what little of his biography has been made known to the public. That it is not more full is to be regretted; for the lives and actions of all men, especially poets, depend oftentimes on apparently insignificant events, an ignorance of which is fatal to a proper appreciation of their characters. Were we fully acquainted with the life of Halleck, the body and soul life of the man and poet, his poetry would strike us in other lights, and seem other and better than it is. As it is, however, we must do our best.

The author of" Fanny,"" Burns,"" Marco Bozzaris," etc., says the Rev. Rufus Griswold, was born in the town of Guilford, Connecticut, in August, 1795: consequently he is now in his fifty-eighth year. It is said he evinced a taste for poetry, and wrote verses, at a very early period. What kind of poetry delighted his boyish taste, and what kind of verse emanated from his boyish pen, is open to conjecture: the last we venture to pronounce "most tolerable, and not to be endured," that being the cast of most juvenile verse. Nor is it much more difficult, we fancy, to determine the poets he read in youth, supposing his taste did not come to him by nature, like Dogberry's reading and writing. If he began to read poetry in his twelfth year-and he could hardly have read it before he must have read Scott's "Lay of the Last Minstrel," and "Marmion," and Moore's "Odes and Epistles,"

and still later, his "Twopenny Post-bag," and "Fudge Family," besides the standard poets of the previous age, and the age of Elizabeth. These last, however, he would not be likely to admire much, or to imitate; the young seldom having taste enough to follow the old, rather delighting in the new; consequently the new poet, like the rest of the world, was delighted with Scott and Moore; and their mingled influence, and the influence of Byron, as developed in "Beppo," and "Don Juan," both of which were published during Halleck's noviciate, pervaded his manner of thinking and writing. The versification of Scott and Moore, who were both masters of the octo-syllabic measure, is reproduced in "Alnwick Castle," and "Marco Bozzaris," and the ottiva rima of the Italian poets, first introduced into English by Byron, or rather by Frene, in his "Whistle-craft" poems, is reproduced, or, more strictly speaking, its style is reproduced-for Halleck wrote the verse in six lines instead of eight-in "Fanny." Setting aside the fact of his borrowing other people's measures, which he had a right to do if he pleased, it is to be regretted that he borrowed their style with them-reflected their tendency to badinage and burlesque; neither of which qualities was natural to him, or worthy of his naturally serious genius. But of that more, perhaps, anon.

In his eighteenth year, says Dr. Griswold again, Halleck removed to NewYork, where he has since resided; that is, up to the time of his (the doctor's) writing biographies of "The Poets of America." From his eighteenth year, we know next to nothing of the young poet; nor much, indeed, afterward; nor even to-day, though he is to be seen occasionally in our streets, healthy and rubicund. We should say he made a good use of his time in youth, as far as education went. He is said to be a good English scholar, beside being a proficient in several of the modern languages. There is a certain air of taste about his compositions which can only be the result of thorough scholarship. In 1819, his twenty-fourth year, we hear of his publishing what Dr. Griswold calls his "effusions," in the Evening Post, under the signatures of “ Croaker,” and “Croaker & Co." In the production of these pleasant satires, still says the biographical doctor, he was associated with Dr. Drake,