RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.
—The Church of England’s annual income is $36,000,000. —The Jewish population of New York is about 80,000. —The Russian Greek church has 56,500,000 members, and 38,605 churches. —There are 300,000 Sunday-school teachers and 5,000,000 scholars in England. —An exchange says: “The income of the Archbishop of York is $50,000 a year, and of the Archbishop of Canterbury $75,000. The enormous salaries paid to church dignitaries is now creating a stir in England.” —The whole number of the foreign missionaries sent out from Christendom is stated at 2,110. Of these Great Britain furnishes 1,060, Germany 502, the United States of America 460, and the smaller states of Christendom 88. —The British and Foreign Bible Society printed last year 2,670,742 copies of the Bible. The American Bible Society printed 881,056 copies. During the past year these societies have circulated among the Turks 17,773 Bibles. —A marble memorial tablet has been placed in Trinity Memorial church, Gunnersburg, England, bearing the inscription, “In memory of John Frith, the Martyr.” He was burned at Smithfield in 1533. The Rev. W. Frith, present pastor of the church, is said to be a descendant. —The Tobacco Plant calculates that if half of the estimated amount of tobacco annually consumed, 4,000,000,000 pounds, were transformed into roll-tobacco two inches in diameter, it would coil itself around the globe thirty times; and if it was formed into tablets, similar to chocolate tablets, it would make a pile as massive and as high as the third largest of the pyramids of Gizh. —Bishop Andrews, of the New York Methodist Conference, has decided that the licensing of women preachers is against the doctrines of Wesley. The advocates of the new departure have taken an appeal to the General Conference of Methodists of the whole country in 1880.