RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.
—A new Jewish temple has been erected by the Sinai congregation of Chicago. It will cost $70,000, and is free from debt. —Another German Catholic bishop, the Bishop of Limburg, has been removed by the government, because he appointed parish priests without applying to the High President for consent. —Dr. Morgan Dix gets $15,000 a year, the largest salary paid to a Protestant clergyman in New York city. Drs. Chapin and John Hall get $10,000 each. Drs. Storrs and Budington receive the same amount from their Brooklyn congregations. —According to the Herald there are 50,000 lots of church property in the city of New York, valued at $126,147,000, which pay no taxes to support the city government, while the cost of gas to supply the lamps kept burning before the churches entails upon the city an annual expenditure of $50,000. —The London Missionary Society has announced that its two missionaries, the Rev. Griffith John and the Rev. Dr. McKenzie, who were attacked by a Chinese mob near the village of Wei-Kia-Wan, have recovered from their injuries which were slight. Mr. John has started again for the district in which the disturbance occurred. —The Methodist camp-meeting grounds about twenty miles from Pittsburg, Pa., were destroyed by an incendiary fire on the night of April 21st. The grounds contained over 150 cottages all of which were destroyed excepting the tenant houses occupied by the superintendent, and the hotel. The loss is estimated at about $50,000; insurance, $20,000. This fire will doubtless interfere somewhat with the camp-meeting appointed there for August. —The religious movement in Massachusetts has taken on the character of a temperance reform. The temperance clubs are spreading with great rapidity. In Boston the Bunker Hill Club has 2281 members, of whom 500 are reformed drinkers; the Faneuil Hall Club has 1341 members, nearly all reformed men; the Boston Centennial Club, 495 members; the South Boston Reform Club, 525; the Shawmut Club, 30 members. The Traveler gives a list of temperance clubs throughout the State, which shows a total of 17,348 members. —In advocating an inspection of conventual establishments in England, Sir T. Chambers said recently in Parliament: "The first case he would cite was at the Good Shepherd Convent, at Hammersmith. Certain persons, whose houses overlooked the convent enclosure, saw a nun endeavoring to escape over the wall. They saw her seized by a man in the garb of a monk, who, with two women, dragged her back to the convent. This was March 16, 1875. Efforts were made to obtain information, but they were of no avail. Why the nun strove to escape, or by what authority she was detained has not been discovered. In another instance Sir T. Chambers said two laborers, in January, 1875, saw a woman, very early in the morning, almost without clothing, escape from the Newhall Convent, in Essex. She ran nearly a mile up the railroad line, and claimed their protection. She was pursued, taken out of the care of the men, and forced back to the convent. The statement made was that she was an Irish lady who was insane, and was sent back to her friends. But by what authority are insane persons to be dragged back into convents? What government can permit such mysterious occurrences to pass unquestioned? It seems that the subject of a general law for the inspection of convents is attracting a strong interest in England. In Italy, Sweden, Belgium, France, Spain, and Austria, such a law already exists. It is only in England and the United States that cases like those cited by Sir T. Chambers could occur without legal inquiry.