had sold or distributed as many as 120,644 copies of the Scriptures. M. Jules Delaborde, who read the Report, declared that the colporters were, perhaps, of all evangelists the most useful.

The Central Protestant Evangelization Society extends its labours to twenty-six departments, and it employs forty-six agents, of whom twenty are pastors. It has established Divine worship in twelve chief towns of departments, where Protestantism was unknown before. The Society supports a Theological School at Batignolles, Paris, in which twelve young men are received; and thirty students are preparing for the sacred ministry, under the direction of the Society. This year, the tenth since its foundation, the Society has received 103,265f., and expended 83,664f. The Preparatory Schools Society Committee report, that, sixteen years ago, the normal school was founded, for the training of schoolmasters. The foundation of a normal school for young women is desired, and a member, M. Hottinguer, has liberally furnished the means, but, hitherto, the Minister of Public Instruction has refused to grant the necessary authorization. M. Gauthey, Director of the Normal School, Paris, said that, in 1846, they commenced with twelve young men; now they have thirty; and, since its foundation, the school has sent out 119 fully prepared. Nine new preparatory schools were founded during the past year, and 131 received assistance from the Society. The African schools, also, had not been forgotten. The receipts of the year had amounted to 59,200f., and the expenses to 64,700f.

The three remaining meetings are those of the Protestant Mutual Aid Society, the Society of Patronage for Young Apprentices, and the Institution des Diaconnesses. The latter is at once a school, and a refuge, and hospital. This establishment was founded fourteen years ago by a pastor of the National Church, and has rendered immense services not only to our Protestant Churches in general, by receiving their sick, and reclaiming their lost ones, but has also, under Divine grace, been a means of conversion to a great number of Roman Catholies, who have, one way or another, been brought under its salutary influence. Last year 200 children, mostly Roman Catholics, attended the school, 178 sick persons were received into the hospital; the school for discipline numbered nineteen young girls, and the refuge seventeen young women. In addition to which 35,406 quarts of soup were distributed, and 134 children clothed. After the meetings of the different Societies, the Evangelical Alliance celebrated its tenth anniversary in the Taitbout Chapel, and was numerously attended. The day after the holy sacrament was administered by pastors of all denominations, and the meetings closed, having exhibited throughout the same animated character that marked their commence

ment.

EVANGELICAL RELIGION IN HUNGARY.

THE chairs of the Hungarian colleges have been filled for a series of years, almost without exception, by men either of infidel and neological sentiments, or subservient to the Jesuits. In consequence of this fact, the Hungarian Protestant clergymen, who are of influence from their piety and energy, received their education partly in a German university. It can hence be easily imagined with what serious alarm the hearts of the faithful men in the Protestant Church of Hungary were filled, when, a few

years ago, the Government withdrew the permission for theologians to attend German colleges. They could not but see in this a death-blow to their Church, the purpose of exterminating the evangelical ministry of the country in the course of a single generation. However, their fears and anxious anticipations have been most agreeably disappointed. A few weeks ago, as we are informed by private friends in Hungary, permission from the Government was obtained, by the evangelical pastors and congregations, to establish a theological seminary in Pesth, and to appoint to the professorships such men as had the confidence of the Church, and had approved themselves sincere and energetic champions of the faith delivered to the saints. The seminary is to be conducted by eight professors; those appointed already are known to us as men of signal piety and sound erudition; and while we are filled with joy and gratitude for the unexpected deliverance, we look forward with great hope and expectation to the harvest which will spring up from the teaching and labours of an enlightened and devoted clergy.-Commonwealth.

Statistics.

THE EMIGRATION TO THIS COUNTRY.

THE following table shows the countries from which our emigration has been derived during the past year:

The following table shows the relative proportion of German and Irish emigra

tion for the last seven years:—

RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.

THE following table, it is believed, comprehends all the most serious railroad accidents, which have occurred in the United States during a period of about three years:

THE philosopher and mathematician, Herapath, has just made an estimate of England's material wealth, as an estate. Here it is, a most business-like document, fit to be put into the hands of any lawyer, or land-agent, in the kingdom:

Waste lands, public buildings, churches, chapels, hospitals, prisons, arsenals, forts, military stores, dockyards, ships of war,

750,000,000

£4,447,000,000

That is what we are worth. Not exactly that Alderman Farebrother could, by advertising it in the Times to-morrow, nail a purchaser at the entire figure in a month hence. A little management would be required, some judicious lotting there must be, and the whole should not be thrown upon the market at once. But there it is. England is worth that to us.-London Atlas.

POPULATION OF THE CRIMEA.

THE total number of male inhabitants in the Peninsula may be divided as follows: 156,000 Tartars, of whom 80,000 are peasants, farmers, or shepherds; 16,000 Imans and Mollahs, acting at the same time as priests or judges; 10,000 Myrsas, or nobles, a kind of feudal lords whose influence and privileges have, but not without great difficulty, resisted foreign domination; and 50,000 bourgeois and petty tradesmen, residing in the towns. The Christian population does not amount to more than 22,000 or 23,000, and is entirely of European origin. The number of Russians carrying on trades, who have established themselves in the Crimea, since the conquest, are not calculated at more than 3000. Turkey, and more particularly Constantinople, have furnished a contingent of 10,000 Greeks, who established themselves for the most part at Balaklava and Eupatoria. Armenians, at the most, followed this example; and 6000 Poles, Germans, and French, forming a more floating portion of the population, complete this census.

THE ICE TRADE.

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It is estimated that there is invested in the ice business, in all parts of the United States, between $6,000,000 and $7,000,000; and the number of men to which it gives employment during the winter months, is supposed to be from eight to ten thousand. The total annual consumption of ice in New York alone, exceeds one hundred thousand tons. Boston consumes about fifty thousand tons yearly; and Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, nearly an equal amount. Besides this large domestic consumption, there is every year a large amount exported to Southern cities. Boston exports much more than New York. The increase of the ice trade, in that city, since the year 1832, has been quite remarkable. In that year, the whole amount shipped was but 4,352 tons; in the year 1853, the amount exported was 100,000, and in 1854, 156,540 tons. One leading house alone exported last year 91,540 tons. The average price of this per ton, when sold in large quantities for shipment, is two dollars. A large proportion of it goes to Savannah, Charleston, New Orleans, and Mobile. Considerable is also sent to Havana, Rio Janeiro, Callao, St. Thomas, &c. But a small proportion of the ice harvested in the vicinity of New York is exported, being only about 15,000 tons a year.

Varieties.

THE ONE CHERISHED SIN.

OFTEN from my window on the sea-shore, I have observed a little boat at anchor. Day after day, month after month, it is seen at the same spot. The tide ebbs and flows, yet it scarcely moves. While many a gallant vessel spreads its sails, and catching the favouring breeze, has reached the haven, this little bark moves not from its accustomed spot. True it is, that when the tide rises, it rises; and when it ebbs again, it sinks; but advances not. Why is this? Approach nearer, and you will see. It is fastened to the earth by one slender rope. There is the secret. A cord, scarcely visible, enchains it, and will not let it go. Now, stationary Christians, see here your state, the state of thousands. Sabbaths come and go, but leave them as before. Ordinances come and go; ministers come and go; means, privileges, sermons, move them not yes, they

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move them; a slight elevation by a Sabbath tide, and again they sink; but no onward, heavenward movement. They are as remote as ever from the haven of rest; this one sin enslaves, enchains the soul, and will not let it go. Some secret, unseen, allowed indulgence, drags down the soul, and keeps it fast to earth. If it be so, snap it asunder; make one desperate effort in the strength of God. Take the Bible as your chart, and Christ as your pilot, to steer you safely amid the dangerous rocks, and pray for the Spirit of all grace to fill out every sail, and waft you onwards over the ocean of life, to the haven of everlasting rest.

RECORDS FOR ETERNITY.

WHEN Bishop Latimer was on trial, he at first answered carelessly. But presently he heard the pen going behind the tapestry, which was taking down his words. Then he was careful what he said.

There is an all-recording pen behind the curtain of the skies, taking down our words and acts for judgment.

It is a pen of iron. "The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, How and the point of a diamond." It graves deep its records on the imperishable tablets of eternity-a record of every thought, word, and act. ought we to live, since we can almost hear the all-recording pen going every hour, since we know that we are filling a page in the books that shall be opened at the judgment, and the record is imperishable as eternity.

A rich landlord in England once performed an act of tyrannical injustice to a widowed tenant. The widow's son, who saw it, became a painter, and years after succeeded in placing a painting of that scene where their oppressor saw it. As his eye fell on the picture, the rich man turned pale and trembled, and offered any sum to purchase it, that he might put it out of sight. If every scene of wickedness through which a man passes should be painted, and the painting hung up before him, so that he would always see the portrait of himself with the evil passions expressed on his countenanoe, and himself in the very act of wickedness, he would be wretched. Such a picture gallery there is; and in eternity the sinner will dwell in it; for every feature and lineament of the soul in every feeling and act of wickedness, is portrayed imperishably, and will be exhibited to the gaze of the universe forever.

By the discoveries of modern science, the rays of the sun are made to form an exact portrait of him on whom they shine. We are all living in the sunlight of eternity, which is transferring to plates, more enduring than brass, the exact portrait of the soul in every successive act, with all its attendant circumstances.

Interesting to the antiquarian is the moment when he drags out from the sands of Egypt some obelisk on which the "pen of iron, and the point of a diamond" have graven the portraits, the attitudes, the dress, and the pursuits of men who lived and died three thousand years ago. But none can utter the interest of that moment when, from the silence of eternity, shall be brought out tablets thick set with the sculptured history of a sinful soul, and men and angels, with the sinner himself, shall gaze appalled on the faithful portraiture of a life of sin. Remember, then, O transgressor! you must meet the record of your sin in eternity."