RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.
—The number of priests in France is 50,000. —Rev. Samuel C. Bartlett, D. D., of Chicago, has been elected President of Dartmouth College. —The Freedmen's Aid Society of the M. E. Church has evangelized 50,000 colored people. It employs 75 missionaries. —The Church of the Strangers have decided to place a suitable tablet on the wall near the pulpit, in memory of Commodore Vanderbilt. —Unitarians and Universalists have not yet been invited to co-operate in the union revival meetings now being held in Boston. The matter is being discussed quite freely by the public press. —Slade, the American medium, who slid into a great deal of trouble in England, has taken the opportunity offered by a defective indictment to slide out of it all, and has gone in great haste to Russia. —The Boston Globe, Advertiser and Transcript are giving daily reports of the revival work in that city—reporting the prayers, and nearly the whole proceedings verbatim. The daily attendance is upward of 4,000. —The Powers are said to have recently exchanged communications respecting the eventuality of a vacancy in the throne of St. Peter. It is reported that the Catholic Powers have engaged to make the strictest use of their ancient prerogatives to insure regularity in the election of a successor to Pope Pius IX. —The following item, with various comments, is going the rounds of the religious papers: “The first Universalist church in Bergen, N. J., resolves to dismiss their pastor, Rev. Mrs. Phœbe A. Hanaford, and secure one who bears only a masculine title. It is probable that her friends will leave the church and organize another.” —According to the Paris Univers, another batch of Cardinals' hats is to be distributed. The present 54 “princes of the church” are mostly old men, only two being under fifty, while eight are over fifty, twenty-three are over sixty, sixteen are over seventy, and five are over eighty. The oldest is Di Angelis, Archbishop of Fermo, who is a month the Pope's senior, and the youngest, Cardinal Bonaparte, who is forty-nine.