able for its industrious collection of facts, gives the following general summary of the RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS in the United States.

Presbyterian Church. Synods 16. Presbyteries 90. Ministers 1,214. Licentiates 218. Candidates 229. Churches 1,880. Churches vacant, 679. Communicants 136,479. Congregationalists. Associations 62. Ministers 720. Churches 960. Churches vacant, 240. In addition there are from 100 to 150 Unitarian Churches. Baptists. Associations 190. Churches 3,723. Ministers 2,577. Baptisms 238,654. Prot. Episcopal. Clergymen 486. Churches 598. Communicants 24,075. Meth. Episcopal. Districts 83. Circuits 890. Preachers 1,465, besides a large number of Local Preach

ers.

Number of members 381,997. Free Will Baptists. Ministers 242. Church es 335. Licentiates 30. Communicants 12,000. German Reformed. Churches 400. Ministers 90. Communicants 30,000. Reformed Dutch. Synods 2. Classes 16. Churches 150. Ministers about the same. Communicants 14,000. Evangelical Lutherans. Ministers 200. Congregations 800. Roman Catholics, 600,000. Quakers or Friends. Whole population 750,000. Universalists. Societies 250. Ministers 140. Swedenborgians. Societies 12. Ministers 50. Whole population 100,000. Shakers. Societies 16. Preachers 40. Population 5,400. Cumberland Presbyterians. Congregations 60. Ministers 60. Christians. Ministers 250. Churches 250. Communicants 20,000. Seventh Day Baptists. Churches 18. Ministers 29. Communicants 2,862. Six Principle Baptists. Churches 15, Ministers 20. Communicants 1,500. TunkChurches 33. Ministers 30. Com

ers.

municants 3,000. Mennonites. Churches 225. Ministers 200. Communicants 20,000. Free Communion Baptists. Churches 32. Ministers 23. Communicants 1,284. Several small sects of Methodists not included in the preceding list. Ministers 225. Members 11,214.

Whole number of Denominations mentioned 22. Whole number of Ministers in 20 Denominations (exclusive of Roman Catholics, Quakers, and Local Methodist Preachers) 8,196.

in Virginia two; in Ohio two. In addition, fifty-four towns are mentioned where there are receivers of these doctrines. The number of ordaining ministers is six; the number of teaching ministers is eight; the number oflicentiates ten.

Benedict says that the population comprised within the limits of the denomination is 100,000. Probably a nearer estimate is 130,000. Quarterly Journal.

Shakers, or the Millennial Church. There are Societies of Shakers at the following places, Alfred, and New Gloucester, Me. Canterbury, and Enfield, N. H. Shirley, Harvard, Tyringham, and Hancock, Mass. Enfield, Conn. Watervliet, and New Lebanon, N. Y.

Union Village, and Watervliet, Ohio. Pleasant Hill, and South Union, Ky. West Union, Va. The number of Societies is 16; number of Preachers about 45; members gathered into their Societies about 4,500; those not included about 900; making in all a population of 5,400.

The above facts are derived from

documents published under the sanction of the Society.

ib.

Another University in London. The late established act of a University in London which is now nearly ready to go into operation, has given rise to another project of the same kind by the supporters of the Established Church. A meeting was held for that purpose on the 21st. of June, of which a London paper gives the following report.

His Grace the Duke of Wellington was in the chair, and was surrounded by the Archbishops of Canterbury, York, the Primate of Ireland, the bishops of London, Durham Landaff, Bath and Wells, Chester, Litchfield and Coventry, &c. &c., and most of the principal of the nobility. They were hailed on their entrance into the rooms with loud cheering.

The Duke of Wellington briefly addressed the meeting in explanation of the objects for which the meeting had assembled. His Grace said it was necessary in this country, the constitution of which was essentially Protestant, and which religion was established in the land, that a college should be founded wherever its existence was deemed necessary by the heads of that

church-seminaries for the diffusion of education—education, which (said his grace) without religious instruction combined, was worse than useless. His grace then declared his approbation of the principles on which it was intended to establish the new college, and sat down amid cheers.

Several resolutions were then adopted unanimously, laying down the necessity for the college, the broad principles on which it would be conducted, and appointing a committee,containing some of the first names in the country, to conduct the proceedings until another general meeting of subscribers was called.

A long list of subscriptions from the reverend and noble individuals present and others, was read and received with successive cheers.

The Bishop of Chester said, "It has been said that no persons are to be admitted into the collec, which it is the object of this day's meeting to found, but those who are members of the Church of England. As this report is unfounded, as I now declare it would, if allowed to circulate, be productive perhaps of some injury, I conceive it my duty thus once to contradict it. (Hear, Hear.) So far from such being the fact, no question whatever as to the religious opinions held by the student will ever be asked and all that will be required of him is, to conform to the rules of discipline which will be laid down on that head. (cheers.) What I mean" said his lordship "is that in order to become students it is not necessary that they shall be members of the established church, but they must submit themselves to the rules and discipline which the college, connected as it will be with the church, will impose for the general management and conduct of their studies." (Loud applause.)

It was whispered in the hall that it was the intention of his Majesty to present a donation of 5000/ towards the institution, to testify his approbation thereof.

The subscriptions entered into at the meeting amounted to nearly 20,

Hamalaya Mountains. In a late official report, by Captain Herbert, on the Geology of the Hamalaya mountains, it is stated, that they present no fewer than twenty-eight peaks which overtop Chimborazo, in the Andes, (one of them being 25,000 feet in elevation,) forty-four of which tower above the second height of the South American summits, and a hundred above the third. The Geological formation is Gness. There is no trace of volcanoes. Coal has been discovered at the foot of these stupendous altitudes. Ib.

Gipsies in England. The number of Gipsies in England was estimated, sixty years ago, at 40,000, and it is not thought to have since decreased. They are every where the terror of the peasantry; and it is stated that, within ten miles of London itself, a tribute, not unlike that formerly exacted in the wild parts of the country under the name of black mail, is paid to them by the farmers, to protect their propertỷ from their incursions.

Ib.

RELIGIOUS.

Christian Perseverance; a Sermon delivered in the Second Universalist Church in Charleston,December 23,1827. By D. K. Whitaker. Charleston.

Review of a Discourse delivered at

Townsend, entitled 'Means by which Unitarian Christians may correct Misrepresentations of their Faith.' By Timotheus. Lancaster. F. & I. Andrews. The Covenant and Declaration of Faith of the Second Church of Christ in Dorchester, with a List of the Officers and Members. Boston. T. R. Marvin. 12mo. pp. 36.

A Discourse delivered at the Installa

tion of the Rev. Mellish Irving Motte in Boston, May 21, 1828. By Willlam E. Channing. Boston: Bowles & Dearborne. 8vo. pp. 43.

A Sermon preached at the Ordination of the Rev. Samuel Presbury in Northfield, Mass. February 27, 1828. By John Pierpont. Boston: Bowles & Dearborn.

12mo.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Provincial Letters, containing an exposure of the Reasoning and Morals of

RELIGIOUS.

Revival in Cincinnati. From a letter to the Editor of the Christian Watchman we make the following extract respecting the results of this recent powerful and interesting work.

Many of the most worthy and intelligent, of the most wealthy, as well as the common people, have experienced the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. The first week in July was a signal season. Nearly forty professed a hope in Christ in the Baptist congregation. Forty-one persons were baptized in the waters of the Ohio on the 6th, and about one hundred and seventy were received into the two Presbyterian Churches. On the 13th, forty-six more were baptized, making eighty-seven that had united with the Baptist Church. On the same day, two hundred more were added to the Presbyterian churches.

The work continued as at its beginning. Religion was the principal theme of Meetings were holden conversation. every day and evening. Business and labor were neglected. Such was the state of feeling, that it could not be described. Opposition, which is usual in Revivals, was scarcely known, for all were more or less convicted or concerned. From the man of grey hairs to the boy of fourteen, persons of all classes in society were seen professing the name of Christ.

Cincinnati contains about 20,000 inhabitants, and is literally the emporium of the west. We may calculate much on such a work of God; not only on the state of that city, but the country adjacent, and thousands will feel its influence in generations to come.

Revival in Ceylon. Another powerful revival of religion is experienced in

the mission schools on this Island. The work is said to be powerful and extensive beyond all former precedent. The fruits of a former revival amounted to nearly one hundred. Since that period schools have been greatly multiplied and prospered. The fields have been thus enlarging and fitting for the harvest; and now the time of the vintage has come. What will be the amount of the ingathering no one may presume to foretell.

Burmah. It appears from extracts in Dr. Judson's Journal in the British Baptist Magazine, that the prospects of the Missionaries are more encouraging than they have been at any former period. Our brethren are under British protection, and have the full liberty of exercising their religion, in all the forms and ordinances which their consciences direct as according with the word of God. The means which they are at present using for the spread of truth, are four. 1. Public worship on Lord's-days. This attended by the members of the Mission, the scholars under instruction, the native converts and inquirers, occasionally some of the neighbors and travellers. The assembly varying from 20 to 70. After worship, religious conversation is sometimes held for hours. 2. The daily evening worship. This is intended for the Mission family, the scholars, the Christians, &c. who reside in the vicinity, averaging about 20. The women repair to another room, and receive the instruction of Mrs. Wade. This with the female school conducted by Mrs. Wade and Mrs. Boardman, (Mr. Boardman has also begun a school for boys) may be called the third means. 4th. is Mr. Wade's zayat, to which he goes regularly after breakfast, and spends the day. On the 17th of January, two natives, Moung Dwah, (brother of Mah Men-lay and husband of Mah Doke) and Mah Lah, received baptism. Five other natives Moung Tan, Moung Yay, Moung Tan-loon, Moung Myat-kyan, and Moung En, with some others, are all considered hopeful inquirers. On the 11th of January, at his zayat, Dr. Judson had a crowd of company through the day, some of whom listened to religious instruction with great interest. Several of the children in the school have manifested a great tenderness of mind.

A Burman priest visits the zayat every day, and appears to be almost convinced of the truth, but cannot yet give up the merits of his clerical austerity. He speaks in favor of Christianity, but will not give up heathenism, Moung Shway-bay, a native convert, has commenced reading the Scriptures at the zayat, and at other times is devoted to the female school. Moung-Ing is a most valuable assistant in making known the Gospel. Mr. Boardman, we learn, has now become so well acquainted with the Burman language, as to be able to address the natives.

Guatamala. The following from Dunn's Travels in Central America presents a view of the moral condition of that region, exceedingly painful to the mind of the philanthropist and Christian.

With a lazzaroni in rags and filth, a colored population drunken and revengeful, her females licentious and her males shameless, Guatamala ranks as a true child of that accursed city which still remains as a living monument of the fulfilment of prophecy and of the forbearance of God," the hold of every foul spirit, the cage of every unclean and hateful bird."

To this censure there are many exceptions, but they are not sufficiently numerous to render such a description as a whole, unjust. The pure and simple sweets of domestic life are here exchanged for the feverish joys of a dissipated hour; and the peaceful home of love is converted into a theatre of mutual accusations and recriminations.

Among the lower orders, this loose and vicious life leads to excesses, which, unrestrained by a vigilant police, produce the most melancholly consequences. The men generally carry a large knife stuck in the belt against the back, and the women a similar one fastened in the garter of the stocking. These on every trifling occasion, they draw, and the result is often fatal. Not a day passes in which some one or other does not stain his hands in the blood of his fellow-creature. On feast days and on Sundays, the average number killed is from four to five. From the number admitted into the hospital of St. Juan de Dios, it appears that in the year 1827, near 1500 were stabbed in drunken quarrels, of whom from 3 to 400 died.

POLITICAL.

Colombia and Peru. By late arrivals from Carthagena we learn that Colombia has declared war against Peru. The alleged causes of the measure are the following:

The attrocious attempt to induce a portion of the Colombian army to turn their arms against their mother country-the claim of Peru to dominion over three of the departments of Colombia, and her endeavoring to unite them to her territory-her prohibiting the Colombian ambassador from displaying over his residence the flag of his country, a banner which so often led the Peruvians to conquest-having, without the least provocation, and without a previous declaration of war, invaded Bolivia, the friend and ally of Colombia-having commenced hostilities against an infant commonwealth, which is indebted to the Liberator of both Colombia and Peru, for its wise institutions, its natural preponderance, and the honor of bearing his illustrious name-insulting in their ministerial prints the republic of Colombia, her President, her army, and every thing connected with the nation-depriving the Colombian army of those indemnities which had been granted to the soldiery, in recompense for the blood which their countrymen had shed for the liberties of Peru, and thereby violating the faith of treaties.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Intemperance in New-York. It has been stated in the Report of a Committee of the Common Council, and is an unquestionable fact, that in the city of New-York there are no less than

THREE THOUSAND LICENSED DRAMSHOPS.

Now, as many of these shops are devoted in part to the sale of other articles, we will make the low supposition that only one-third of their profits, on an averge, are derived from the sale of liquors: which would be equivalent to 1000 shops devoted exclusively to this purpose.

The average rent of these shops we will suppose to be $150 per annum; and the average expenses of the occupants, (many of whom have families,) apart from their business affairs, to be

$450. Total expenses of each shop, not including the purchase of liquors, $600. This sum multiplied by 1000 makes a joint aggregate of $600,000. Now, as the "Best of Liquors" are retailed" at 3 cents a glass," (and we will make no deduction for inferior liquors, such as cider brandy and whiskey,)this sum would pay for 20,000,000 glasses,-equal to 250,000 gallons.

But it must be remembered that $600,000 is only the gross profilseven supposing that nothing more is realized than sufficient to pay for rent and expenses of living. If we suppose the gross profits to be one quarter of the money received, then, instead of 250,000 gallons sold, we shall have four times this quantity: or 1,000,000 gallons: which, estimating our population at 200,000 souls, is 5 gallons to an individual, or 25 gallons to a family of five!-N. Y. Obs.

Dugald Stewart. The Caledonian Mercury, a Scotch paper, notices the death of this distinguished man, which occurred recently, in the following

manner.

On the afternoon of Wednesday last, this venerable and eloquent philosopher, the last relic of the school founded by Dr. Reid, expired at his temporary residence, in Ainslie-place, after a short but painful illness, which was borne by him with a dignified fortitude and resignation worthy of his principles and his character. And thus has been extinguished, in mature old age, with his well-won honors thick upon him, a man who has long been the admiration of the wise, and the example, as well as the model of the good, and who, without any exaggeration,may be viewed as one of the brightest, and at the same time, purest lights that has shed its radiance on the paths of philosophy, and pointed out the road to truth. The private character of this truly illustrious man may be almost divined from his works, more especially the last of them, his "Philosophy of the Active Powers of the Human Mind," published only a few weeks before his death. Benevolence was its great and obvious feature: and this was united with a certain nobleness of mind, and elevation of sentiment, a generosity of disposition and a purity of feeling, together with an openness, candor, and digni