tom-house, and eventually exchequered; and that I am obliged in consequence to alter my route; and, in short, every thing, all my baggage-shield, buckler, lance, dogs, squire, and all gone. I only am left;-left to what? To some riddle, I'll warrant you; or at all events, I will not warrant any thing else. My heart is too much troubled

(To be Continued.)

Gymnasium at New-Haven.-This institution just established by the Messrs. Dwights on a very liberal scale, is now opened, with flattering prospects. From forty-five to fifty scholars are engaged, of whom thirty have arrived. The Instructors are,

Rev. S. E. DWIGHT and Principals. }

Mr. H. E. DwIGHT,

Prof. ANDREWS, late of the University of North Carolina, Teacher of Latin. Mr. JOSEPH A. PIZARRO, late Teacher of Spanish in Partridge's Military Academy.

Mr. CHAS. A. COULOMB, late Teacher of French in Nassau Hall. Mr. SOLOMON STODDARD, Jr., Teacher of the Greek Language. Mr. STYLES FRENCH, Teacher of Ma

exhibited in the following estimate. Without the aid of printing some of our noblest institutions, as the Bible and Tract Societies, could not even exist, and all the benevolent operations of the age would be reduced to a very limited scale.

It is announced in the London Times,

that that paper is now printed with an improved machine which takes off the astonishing number of four thousand copies in an hour, or seventy in a minute. It is computed that to write out the contents of one of the numbers of that paper would employ an amanuensis six days; and as about 8000 copies are circulated daily, it would constantly require 48,000 persons to accomplish what is now done with one press.

The American Bible Society is now prepared to print at the rate of three hundred thousand copies of the Scriptures yearly. We shall leave it to our readers to make the estimate how many scribes would be requisite to produce Bibles at this rate, together with the number of buildings, desks, &c. which would be necessary for their accommodation.

But this is not the whole view of the matter. The great saving of paper is to be taken into the account-to say nothing of the comparative neatness of execution. "The paper requisite for

an amanuensis to write out in an ordinary hand, the contents of the Times newspaper, would cost twelve times as much as the paper used for printing it; the great bulk of this paper would make it very inconvenient to read, and almost impossible to circulate, the journal.

"The importance of compression then is obvious, and if, for the sake of it, the amanuensis should be obliged to compress his writing into the same

space as the printing, supposing it possible, it would take at least four times as long to perform his task. To write out in this way the Times newspaper would, therefore, occupy one hundred and ninety-two thousand scribes. But the press which works off this newspaper is moved by steam, and completes the impression in two hours; if it were necessary, the same press might be kept going twenty four hours, in which time it would do the work of two millions two hundred and four thousand scribes!!! Yet all the manual operations which produce this result are performed by about two dozen hands! Such are the advantages we owe to mechanical art, that one man can do, in the present day,what four centuries ago, would have required one hundred thousand!"

Education in France.-M. Charles Dupin, of the French Chamber of Deputies, in a speech against the policy of the late ministry, makes the following singular statement.

"You have been told, Gentlemen,

that the ministry had prosecuted certain objects of public utility: I acknowledge it; I say more, the thing was indispensable. It was necessary to make a grant of some small sums out of the millions annually drawn from private fortunes, under the name of public tax, in order that the people might believe in the necessity of taxation, but it is in the very inequality of the appropriations that I discover the spirit of the ministry. Gentlemen, France contains 2 1-2 millions of horses, and 32 millions of men. The ministerial budget allows for the improvement of breed, and for the bringing up of 2 1-2 millions of horses, 1,805,000 francs; and for the improvement of the human race, for the primary instruction of 32 millions of men, it allows 50,000 francs. Thus, for the amelioration of 100 horses in France, the public treasury allows 72 francs, and for the amelioration of 100 Frenchmen it only allows 16 hundredths of a franc."

RELIGIOUS.

Letters to an Anxious Inquirer, designed to relieve the difficulties of a friend under Serious Impressions. By T. Charlton Henry, D. D., late Pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, Charleston, S. C. Charleston.

Etchings from the Religious World. By Thomas Charlton Henry, D. D., late Pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, Charleston, S. C. Charleston, 1828.

Unitarianism an Exclusive System; or the Bondage of the Churches that were planted by the Puritans: a Sermon, preached on the occasion of the Annual Fast, April 3, 1828. By Parsons Cooke, Pastor of the East Church in Ware. Belchertown.

RELIGIOUS.

The late anniversaries in New-York, in the month of May, were attended with more than undiminished interest. The Reports of the various Societies are not yet printed, but valuable abstracts from them have been published in the New-York Observer.

The American Bible Society, notices in the beginning of its Report, the death of four of its Vice Presidents within the year; Tilghman, Worthington. Phillips, and Clinton; and the death of one of its managers, Thomas Eddy, of the Society of Friends. It also mentions the resignation of its late venerable President, the Hon. John Jay, and the election of the Hon. Richard Varick in his stead; also the resignation of the Treasurer, W. W. Woolsey, Esq. and the election of John Adams, Esq. in his stead.

In the course of the past year, 21 have been added to the number of Life Directors, and 123 to the number of Life Members; making the aggregate of the former, 179, and of the latter, 1,113.

The number of Auxiliary Societies was stated in the Report of last year, to be 547; to which number, 44 have since been added, making the total number at the present time, 591.

The Receipts of the past year, from all sources, have amounted to $75,879 93; being an increase of $10,687 05 over those of the preceding year. Of this sum, $44,603 48 was received in payment for books, $2,240 towards liquidating the debt on the Society's House, and $17,610 86 as free donations to the Institution.

The whole number of books printed ⚫ during the year, or now in the press, is 118,750. Of this number, 65,250 are English Bibles, and 53,000 English Testaments. The stereotype plates for a Sunday School Bible and Testament have been completed, and books printed from them, highly satisfactory to the Board, as they doubtless will be to the public generally.

From the first of May, 1827, to the 1st of the present month, there have been issued from the Depository 73,426 VOL. II.-No. VI.

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Bibles in English, 57,053 Testament in English, 1,643 Bibles in Spanish, 1,447 Testaments in Spanish, 299 Bibles in French, 270 Testaments in French, 312 Bibles in German, 88 Testaments in German, 43 Bibles in Welsh, 10 Bibles in Dutch, 1 Gælic Bible, 11 Testaments in Portuguese, 4 Mohawk Gospels:-Making a total of 134,604 copies, which is an increase of 62,996 over the issues of the previous year.

The total number distributed since the formation of the Society in 1816, is six HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND SEVEN

TY-FIVE.

Of the issues of the present year, 127,347 have been by direct sale, and 7,260 as gratuitous distributions.

At the beginning of the year the Society had but eleven presses, and those worked by hand. This class of presses has been increased to 20.Here they have been obliged to stop; for their House would contain no more, and at the same time leave room for the other operations of the Society. Finding themselves thus straitened, they have recently procured additional ground, and are about to commence the erection of another House, which will be completed in the coming July. In this House are to be placed 8 presses, worked by steam-power, (equal to 20 of the former kind;) together with 20 hand-presses now in their present building, which must be removed from the present House, to give additional room for binding. When these changes are made, the Board expect to be able to print at the rate of 300,000 copies per annum.

The number of Agents employed by the Society the past year is 11. They have directed their efforts rather to the formation of Auxiliaries and Branches than to the collection of funds, and in this work much has been accomplished.

The principal part of the foreign Scriptures mentioned above have been sent to the Mexican and South American States, and to the West India Islands. The manner in which a part of these were distributed is rather remarkable. The vessel being wrecked in which they had been shipped, they

were plundered by the Indians, carried to Maracaibo; and there sold at a high price to such as wished to purchase.

At the request of Mr. Parvin, at Buenos Ayres, 271 Spanish Bibles were sent to his care for sale or distribution, and 274 to a correspondent at Monte Video, in Brazil. Others have been sent to Matanzas and Port au Platt, in the West Indies, and a small quantity in Dutch and English to St. Thomas; designed principally for the supply of families whose Bibles had been destroyed the preceding year by a distressing fire in that Island.

Very recently, the Managers voted $500 to supply the Rev. Jonas King with copies of the Greek Scriptures for distribution in his contemplated visit to Greece.

Following the principles of the British and Foreign Bible Society, the Managers, some time since, procured stereotype plates for the Catholic Bible, designed for distribution in parts of South America, where the common Bible would not be received.

The late discussion in Great Britain as to the lawfulness of circulating the Apocrypha in connexion with the canonical books, even for good purposes, has raised a similar question among the Managers of this Society. To perpetuate that harmony which so happily prevails among their Auxiliaries, and prevent an evil which has shaken the British and Foreign Society as with the heavings of an earthquake, the Board have with great unanimity resolved that no books containing the Apocrypha, shall hereafter be issued from their Depository. The plates of the Spanish Bible (the only one containing the Apocrypha,) are, therefore, to be speedily altered, and the inspired books to be circulated, as their Great Author prepares the way.

American Tract Society.-The Report begins with a brief allusion to the extraordinary operations of the past year in extending the circulation of the Holy Scriptures, increasing the number of missionaries in our own and foreign lands, multiplying the number of Sabbath Schools, and promoting the better observance of the Sabbath. Equally signal have been the smiles of Providence upon the efforts for the circulation of Religious Tracts: insomuch that, although the results of the

previous year were so great as to be attributed by many to the excitement of novelty or some other temporary influence, they are only to those of the year now closing as three to five.

The Report makes mention of the death of the Hon. William Phillips, one of its Vice Presidents, and Rev. Drs. Henry and Payson, two of its Directors. It also speaks of the death of the Rev. Leigh Richmond, author of the "Dairyman's Daughter," the "Young Cottager," and the "African Servant," and the Rev. William Rust, author of the "Swearer's Prayer."

Within the past year the Publishing Committee, in the discharge of their responsible duties, have examined a number of treatises, both original and selected, and have adopted twelve new tracts into their duodecimo series in English, which extends that series to page 204 of Vol. VII. To the series in Spanish seven have been added. In the German language, which in some portions of our country is extensively spoken, twenty-four Tracts have been stereotyped and published; three have been printed in the Hawaiian language for circulation at the Sandwich Islands; and two, together with the Ten Commandments and four handbills, in Italian, for circulation in the Island of Malta.

Besides the above in the duodecimo form, sixty-five Children's Tracts have been stereotyped, and most of them printed.

Through the liberality of four respectable friends of the cause, of as many different denominations, who contributed $800 for the purpose, that excellent work, " Doddridge's Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul," has also beed stereotyped and printed, and will be sold at the low price of 37 1-2 cts. per volume.

Of the American Tract Magazine, 5000 copies are issued monthly. The Christian Almanac for 1828 was pub lished in twenty distinct editions, one of which was fitted for general circulation throughout the United States, and the others to the meridian and latitude of the following places respectively; Boston, Hartford, Albany, Rochester, Utica, New-York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Richmond, Charleston, Raleigh, N. C., Augusta, Geo., Huntsville, Alab., Washington,

nati, and St. Louis.

Total No. of Tracts printed during the year, in English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, and Hawaiian, 5,019,000 Do. since the Society was formed, Whole number of pages 12mo. printed the past year, not including 12,760,000 pp. of

covers,

8,834,000

53,667,000

97,835,000

Do. do. since the Society was formed, Whole No. pp. Children's Tracts printed the past yr. 5,208,000 Whole No. copies American Tract Magazine, Do. Christian Almanac, printed at the Soc. House, Of the Rise and Progress, (560,000 pages,)

40,500

123,900

2,000

Whole No. pp. 12mo. Tracts distributed the past year, 46,321,784 Do. since the Society was formed, 74,701,516 The gratuitous distributions of the past year have been as follows:

Pages. To the Sandwich Islands, 645,000 To the Mediterranean, 269,000 To other foreign lands, 91,238 W. and S. of the Alleghanies, 976,138 To other parts of the U. S. 611,602 Total gratuitous distribution, 2,602,978 The Committee have voted an appropriation of $300 to the Rev. Jonas King, to be empioyed by him in procuring translations of the Society's Tracts into Modern Greek, for distribution under his direction in his contemplated mission to Greece.

The Committee express their conviction that far more ought to be done in the work of gratuitous distribution, and assure the Christian public that nothing but means is wanting to enable them to disperse millions of pages every year among those who enjoy very few, if any, of the privileges of the Gospel.

The total receipts of the year are $45,134 58. The expenditures amount to the same sum, leaving the Society entirely dependent upon the Christian public for the means of carrying forward and extending its operations.

Among other Branches of the Society is one in each of the six principal

New-York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston, and New-Orleans. That at Boston has between 500 and 600 Auxiliaries; has procured from the Depository of the Parent Society, the past year, more than 7,000,000 pages of Tracts, and remitted to its Treasury $7,229 78, including an unconditional donation of $1000, and donations for specific objects to the amount of $906 25 more. The New-York City Branch distributed, during the first year of its existence, 2,368,548 pages of Tracts; and its remittances to the Parent Society, during the year ending May 1, have been $1,585 45. The Philadelphia Branch has already recognized 153 Auxiliaries, and remitted to the treasury of the Parent Society $3,984 38. It has also resolved, quite recently, that, with reliance on Divine aid, an Auxiliary Tract Society shall be formed in every inhabited township, and every congregation that will grant permission, in the States of Pennsylvania and Delaware, before the 1st of Jan. 1830. The other Branches are also prosperous.

The number of new Auxiliaries, formed during the past year, is 268; making the whole number of Branches and Auxiliaries 640, exclusive of those connected with the Society's Branches and Auxiliaries. Of these, 76 are in Connecticut, 215 in New-York, 61 in New-Jersey, 77 in Virginia, 65 in States and Territories West of the Alleghanies, and the remaining 146 in other States of the Union.

Not the least interesting item in the Report is the following:

During several months of the past year an interesting work of grace has been apparent among the females employed in printing, folding, and stitching Tracts in the Society's House. Since the commencement of this refreshing, 41 different individuals have been employed in these departments of labors, 15 of whom were previously members of the church. Of the remaining 26, eighteen now cherish a hope in Christ, and most of them have connected themselves with churches of different denominations in the city. A similar blessing, and simultaneous in its progress, has been witnessed among the young women employed at the House of the American Bible Society.