RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.
—A board of revisers have held twenty-five sessions over the Kafir Bible. —In Boston there are thirty Roman Catholic churches and chapels, and thirty-nine priests. —The hundredth anniversary of Congregationalism in Liverpool, England, was recently celebrated. —The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions has increased its debt during the fiscal year just closed $17,000. —The greatest collection of Bibles of various editions ever brought together was displayed at the recent Caxton Exhibition, in London. —The Kendall County Fair Association, Michigan, offers a premium of $100, in five premiums of $30, $25, $20, $15 and $10, respectively, for the largest and best organized Sunday-school. —An exchange says: “A clergyman of the church of England has been condemned, at the age of seventy-two, to twelve months’ imprisonment, for obtaining a service of communion plate by false pretenses.” —Rev. Dr. Schneider, who recently died in Boston, was the first person, it is said, to write and preach in the Turkish language a Christian sermon. It was over forty years ago, and at Constantinople. —A strong movement was recently made in England to admit the public to the British Museum, National Gallery, and other public buildings, on Sunday. But when the question came before the House of Commons, the measure was promptly put down by a vote of 278 to 87. —The Cincinnati Catholic Telegraph says: “All the Catholic colleges, academies and parochial schools of the diocese, as far as we have learned, opened the new scholastic year with increased attendance. Obedience to the law of the church, requiring Catholic education for Catholic children, is becoming in this quarter of the world more marked and wide spread.”