The accountability of the board to the public has been secured, by giving their election to the delegates from the auxiliary societies, and the life members of the society, and requiring a full statement to the annual meeting of all their operations and proceedings. The number of members of the board of managers has been reduced, and its efficiency increased by the election of several new and wellqualified members. Miscellaneous. The trigonometrical survey of the State of Massachusetts, by colonel Stevens, will be completed during the present year, also the astronomical portion of it by R. T. Paine.-Some interesting conclusions may be drawn concerning the state of morals in New England from the following facts, furnished in the report of the attorney general of Massachusetts. No person in that State, during the last year, was capitally punished. Only one was sentenced to the state prison for life. The larger number of criminals have been subjected to confinement in the county jails or houses of correction. It is probably a just conclusion, that, with the increase of population, there has been an actual but not a proportional increase of criminal prosecutions. The number of persons apprehended by the police of the city of London, in 1832, was 72,824. Supposing the population. of London to be twenty times that of Boston, the same proportion would give for Boston 3,641, instead of the actual number 1,904. The lottery and license laws have furnished occasion for an unusual number of prosecutions, because a more enlightened public sentiment has shown an increasing determination to enforce the penalties. Of the 119 persons committed to the Massachusetts' state prison last year, 34 were foreigners; 16 of them Irishmen. Of the crimes for which they were committed, larceny comprises 83, and assault under various forms but 12.-A bill has passed the legislature of Pennsylvania, providing for the establishment of a general system of education by common schools. It appropriates $25,000 for 1834; $50,000 for 1835; and $75,000 for 1836. Each school district is obliged to raise by tax double the sum, before it can draw its proportion from the State. If it refuses to raise such sum, then its proportion of the public money is to be divided among those districts which do comply with the law. A law for a similar purpose is in progress through the legislature of Massachusetts, establishing a school fund in that State, and requiring returns from all the towns concerning the condition of the schools, before the system actually goes into operation.-A law has been passed in North Carolina, which virtually extends the authority of the State over that portion of the Cherokee lands, which were included within the chartered limits of North Carolina. in certain specified places for a given time; and when it rises above a certain other fixed price, the importation is permitted. The home grower is, therefore, sure to be free from foreign competition at any price under a given sum, for instance 48 shillings on a quarter of wheat; and this gives him confidence in pursuing this species of cultivation. It is supposed by Mr. Malthus and others, who are in general opposed to restrictions, that the ports of Great Britain could not with safety be opened to a perfectly free trade, since wars or other interruptions of trade might produce great distress. Another powerful party are in favor of a total repeal. The election of members to the reformed parliament turned in some measure on this question. Mr. P. Thomson's election at Manchester, in opposition to Cobbett, showed the anxiety of the manufacturing towns for free trade, of which Mr. T. is the official representative. In almost every place the opponents of free trade were rejected. At Leeds, Mr. Sadler, the political economist, was obliged to yield to Mr. Marshall and Mr. Macauley. Even in the agricultural districts, a corn monopoly is ceasing to be a popular demand, the farmers beginning to see that they are not to be benefited by it. On the subject of Church Reform, there are, with many minor differences, three great parties. The first including the archbishop of Canterbury, most of the bishops, the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin, the London Quarterly, Blackwood, the British Critic, and other influential individuals and bodies of men, are opposed to all reform. Some of them admit that slight changes would be advisable, would they not open the door to revolution and the subversion of the establishment. The archbishop of Canterbury upholds pluralities on the ground among other things, that they promote the cause of sacred learning. Another class are the radicals and a considerable number of the dissenting body, who wish for the entire dissolution of the establishment as the religion of the state. The one party from their hatred to all religion, the other from deep rooted hostility to establishments, conceiving them to be anti-scriptural and wrong in principle, as well as inexpedient and unjust in their operation. A very large intermediate body, though with many differences of opinion, including the moderate dissenters and the evangelical party in the establishment, are in favor of a qualified reform. With this party it is supposed that the views and plans of the ministry mainly coincide. Earl Grey, in a recent interview with a delegation from Nottingham, intimated that the ministers were totally opposed to a subversion of the union of the church with the British government. Lord Henley, a pious member of the established church, whose plan of church reform has perhaps been most exten sively known, considers the non-residence of the beneficed clergy as the greatest evil in the present system; it appearing by the last parliamentary returns, that out of 10,533 livings in England and Wales, there are only 4,413 residents. More than 4,000 livings are insufficient to maintain a minister. More than 4,800 have no fit residence for one. Church room is also greatly wanted in various parts of the kingdom, while £300,000 per annum are almost entirely devoted to sinecures; the ostensible purpose being to keep up divine service in about thirty cathedral and collegiate churches. The chief object of his plan is to make cathedral property assist parochial necessities. He thinks that in reference to orthodox protestant dissenters, there "ought to be some healing measures." He would also abolish pluralities, non-residence, and episcopal translations, adjust the episcopal revenues, and erect some new sees. The plan of the Christian Observer is to provide for the specific professional and religious education of candidates for the holy office; to diminish the temptations for the assuming of the sacred functions merely as a temporal provision and an easy profession; it considers that it is indispensable to the purity and spiritual efficiency of the church to abolish the holding of two benefices by one person; that every clergyman be obliged to reside on his benefice; that large parishes should be subdivided into convenient pastoral districts; that adequate facilities should be given for the opening of new churches and chapels; that there may be a speedy commutation of tithes for land, corn rent, or other sources of equally permanent income; a better distribution of the labors and resources of bishops; considerable modifications in the laws and usages of ecclesiastical patronage; that the crown and episcopal patronage, should be given under due regulations, to the whole body of the clergy; that there should be a more effectual supervision of the clergy; and that the ordinances of the national religion may be extended to all the dominions of Britain. Some things in the liturgy and church service, it is generally agreed, require amendment and modification. The dissenters are also deprived of many rights and subjected to many hardships, in relation to burials, marriages, registration of births, and payment of tithes to the ministry of the national church-all which will doubtless be considered in the plan of ministerial reform. In regard to church endowments there is a great variety of opinions and estimates. One writer says that "perhaps the larger proportion of incomes of clergymen is derived not from the church, but from other sources-from parents and relations-while the actual endowment of the church would barely supply to its minister food and raiment." Bishop Watson thought that if all the revenues of the church were portioned out among the parochial clergy, they would not give an income to each of more than £150. In 1822, a Mr. Thackeray estimated the whole ecclesiastical revenue at £2,290,000. Dr. Yates says that there are still 3,589 parochial benefices, which do not exceed £98 per annum, that there are 1,000 livings under £60 per annum, and 422 under £30. A great mischief appears to be the inequality of the distribution. The following we take from a late writer, who says it is "according to a most moderate estimate." 1,733 rectories, cóntaining 4,637,508 acres, at 3s. 6d. an acre, worth £811,563 Annual value, £1,203,095 All which are in the patronage of the crown, bishops, deans, chapters, colleges, and other public establishments. In the gift of private patrons, there are the following: 1s. 3d. 3,444 rectories, containing 9,216,144 acres, at 3s. 6d. an acre, worth £1,612,825 2,175 vicarages, 46 5,820,300 1,000 perpetual curacies, averaging £75 each, 649 benefices, not parochial, averaging £50 each, 363,768 75,000 32,450 In England and Wales the patronage of rectories and vicarages, The following is a summary of the value of Scotch livings: The aggregate revenue of the church of Ireland, in 1832, accord |