RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.
By Editor
—The American Bible Society will hold its anniversary this year at Richmond, Va., on the 12th of May. —The debt of the New York City Mission Society is now $13,168. It employs thirty-five missionaries. —Seven of the present Congregational pastors of New England have occupied their pulpits continuously fifty years. —Hengler's large circus in Liverpool, holding 4,000 people, is crowded at the religious meetings held there every Sunday evening. —The number of Roman Catholic missionaries and teachers among the Indian tribes in the United States is 117. —The children of the Free Church of Scotland are engaged in raising money to purchase a steamer for the Livingstonia Mission in Africa. —An exchange says: "The New England Methodist Conference, at Westfield, Mass., has voted not to admit ministers in the future who use tobacco." —The $20,000 needed to provide a fireproof building in Philadelphia for the library and valuable papers of the Presbyterian Historical Society has been secured. —Nine-tenths of the immense number of liquor establishments recently visited by the police in New York, were run by Roman Catholics. The rest made no claim to religion. —The Established Church in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland is governed by two archbishops and twenty-eight bishops. The salaries of these range from $75,000 per annum, given to the archbishop of Canterbury, to $12,000. The deans, the next inferior dignitaries, have salaries averaging about $5,000, the highest paid having $15,000. The total income of the church may be set down at $40,000,000 to $50,000,000 a year. No religious census has been officially made, but the church population has been estimated on trustworthy data at 12,500,000, for whom 5,750,000 church sittings are regularly fixed and available.