The ninth section of an act passed by the California Legislature for the collection of the foreign miners' tax has been printed in the Chinese language, for the information of more than thirty thousand Chinese in the new State.

Tong'k Achich, a Chinaman, certifies that the translation is "faithful and good."

The Pope's Bull.-This name, which is now applied exclusively to instruments issuing out of the Roman Chancery, is derived from the seals which were appended to them, being for

merly of gold bullion. Bulls were not originally confined to the popes alone, but were also issued by emperors, princes, bishops, and great men, who, till the thirteenth century, sometimes affixed seals of metal, as well as of wax, to edicts, charters, and other instruments, though they were equally called bulls, whether they were sealed with one or the other.

The South Carolina Conference has determined to establish its new Female College at Spartanburg. Six localities were named, and this was selected mainly because of its greater health.

William Cotton, Esq., of Highland House, Ivybridge, has presented to the inhabitants of Plymouth, England, his fine collection of illustrated books and valuable old prints, accumulated at a very considerable expense in the course of a series of years. It was first opened to the public on the first of June, and is called the "Cottonian Library."

Professor Richard H. Bull, a young man, but

A Baptist University is to be established at Pella, in Iowa. It will be both literary and theological. A plan was formed for it at a Baptist Educational Convention recently held there.

A New-Yorker, at present visiting the Greek

Archipelago, writes that the whole Greek nation is fast returning to the use of the original Greek language.

The French Minister of State has caused a circular to be addressed to the managers of all the theaters of Paris, forbidding them to introduce into their exhibitions performances of clowns, acrobats, posturers, or dislocationists. He says that such exhibitions degrade the dramatic art.

A colored college at Bermuda is about to be organized. Some of the nobility of England have taken hold of the matter, as also many white and colored persons in America.

His

Dr. Rufus W. Griswold, of literary note, is sick of consumption at Bangor, Me. recovery is pronounced impossible.

We perceive, by our English papers, that Mr. Macaulay and Hugh Miller appear as the champions, respectively, of University discipline and self-education. Mr. Macaulay, in a late speech in Parliament, alluded to University honors, and pointed to Lords Mansfield, Eldon, Stowell, Lyndhurst, Wellesley, Derby; to Warren Hastings, Sir Charles Metcalfe, Coleridge, Peel,

Canning, and other eminent men, whose lives

had thus early been honored with scholastic laurels. Hugh Miller, the geologist, on the other hand, comes out in "The Witness," re

York.

Professor Van Vleck, also a young man, but said to have no superior of his age in mathematics, was recently chosen Adjunct Professor of Mathematics in the Wesleyan University, Middletown.

Mr. Alexander Somerville, the writer of a series of articles under the signature of "One who has Whistled at the Plow," has received $500 from the Royal Bounty Fund. A prize of $500, offered by the Associate Institution for the best essay on the laws respecting the "Protection of Women," has been awarded to Mr. James

Edward Davis, barrister-at-law, of the Oxford

Circuit.

A library edition of Mackintosh's History of England is to be published by Longmans.

The third volume of Macaulay's History of England is in the hands of his publisher.

The Methodists of Maine are taking measures to raise $25,000, for the establishment of a Female Collegiate Institute.

The corner-stone of the new academy, to be erected in New Ipswich, N. H., by the munificence of the late Samuel Appleton, was laid with appropriate services on the 11th of August.

The honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity has not been conferred at Yale for some twelve or fifteen years past. The corporation have assigned no reasons for that course. In the mean time the example seems to have no sort of influence with other colleges.

Goldsmith, Cowper, Dryden, Swift, Chalmers, and Johnson, as indications, of another character, that youthful attainments do not necessarily precede high rank in literature or science, or even in general influence.

A collection of autograph letters of Tom Moore to his publisher, amounting in number to about one thousand, has lately been sold at auction, in London. The Literary Gazette states that only fifty-seven of these have been introduced by Lord John Russell into his "Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence" of the poet.

Soyer's Pantropheon is announced. It is a history of food and its preparation in every age

of the world.

former Congressional Library have been restored About three-fourths of the books comprising the from Europe, and at prices considerably lower than the previous cost; while in many cases the edition is better, and the books are in better binding.

Bayle St. John, in his new work, "The Turks in Europe," says:

"Nearly all Turkish women sally out every Friday to take the air, away from the town, on the banks of the Bosphorus, or to some of the places where water and shade may be found. The wealthy go in carts without springs, of unwieldy and primitive construetion, six or seven heaped together; and sometimes their husbands lead the oxen or horses to the chosen spot, and then go away, leaving the women perfectly free to enjoy themselves as they please. The most popular amusements are the singing and music of the gipsy women, who repair thither for the purpose -music which is amorously languid, and singing which is detestably indent.

FROM a statement made by the General Agent of the American Bible Society, at a late meeting, it appears that the injury sustained by the recent fire in the Bible House is of small amount, much less than was at first supposed; and that, as it will lead to measures for increased safety, it may prove rather beneficial than otherwise.

Dr. Boardman declined the Professorship of Theology at Princeton, to which he was recently elected by the Assembly.

Conversions from Popery.-Five persons renounced the errors of Popery in St. James's Church, Latchford, Warrington, and were received into communion with the Church of England.

The Latter Rain.-Dr. Duff, the Calcutta Missionary of the Free Church of Scotland, stated, at the late meeting of the General Assembly, that last autumn, for the first time since the destruction of Jerusalem, "the latter rain" had returned to the Holy Land.

All the members of the Unitarian Society in

St. Louis, who were slaveholders, have lately

emancipated their slaves unconditionally.

At a recent meeting of the British Archaological Institute, a bull for the plenary indulgence and remission of sins of Jack Ketch, (!) granted by Pope Benedict XIV., was exhibited. It is dated some time after 1740, and is on vellum, in the usual form and with the usual seals. Jack Ketch is styled Joannes Catchus-Eques Tiburnensis.

The Wesleyans in Australia have erected, at a cost of $15,000, an "Emigrant's Home."

Cheering religious intelligence has recently

been received from Sierra Leone. The inhab

itants of that Christian colony are spreading along the coast and up the rivers, and carrying the leaven of Christianity into regions where Christ is not named.

The news from China excites much interest in California. Christianity, it seems, is about dawning on that benighted country, so long wrapt in heathen darkness.

The King of Prussia has, at his own expense, circulated more than two hundred and fifty thousand copies of the Bible among the troops of his army; and these are printed in six different languages.

Among the converts in a recent revival in the Presbyterian Church at Cleves, Ohio, are four grandchildren of the late President, Gen. Harrison.

There is considerable agitation among the Scotch clergy for an abolition of oaths. Petitions on the subject, numerously signed, have been presented to the House of Lords, through Lord Brougham, who, however, opposes the move

ment.

In Lower Canada the post-office is kept open on the Sabbath, and is closed on the Romish holidays, by the same influence.

In the Italian Catholic churches, during service-time, a fine musical passage is frequently rewarded by loud cries of, "Bravo, Bravissimo." So says a correspondent of Dwight's Musical Journal.

The income of the English Tract Society, the last year, was about $388,500, of which not far from $47,000 were from contributions; the receipts of the American Tract Society were $384,627, of which $147,374 64 were donations.

The American Tract Society has, since its organization, circulated about 500,000,000 publications, in nearly one hundred languages and

dialects.

There are in the United States 36,000 houses of public worship, capable of accommodating 13,849,896 persons-only half the actual population and valued at $86,416,639. The Methodists have the largest number of churches.

The gospel is said to be preached from the pulpits in Chicago in seven different languages. The population of the city is about 50,000.

the Prussian crown is menaced by religious, as The London Leader says that the stability of

well as political agitation. A sort of freethinking development of Protestantism is making rapid progress in Southern Germany. Something like the old ferment of the Anabaptists, without their ferocity, distinguishes the

movement.

A correspondent of the London Record says that a new edition of the Pilgrim's Progress has been published, with the text so altered as to inculcate a theology the very opposite of Bunyan's, even teaching Puseyism! If so, a new It sin has been committed under the sun. would be more than questionable morality to plunder, parody, and pervert a work of Bunyan's genius, in order to oppose his own views.

The Wesleyan Methodists of England are engaged in raising the munificent sum of £100,000 sterling, (nearly $500,000,) for the relief of some of their connectional funds, and £60,000 (almost $300,000) have already been contributed.

Churches in Philadelphia.-It is said there are now not less than twenty-five new churches in course of erection, or just completed, in Philadelphia, and about ten are being remodeled, with a view to increased accommodations for their congregations.

From the Sixth Annual Report of the faculty of the Methodist General Biblical Institute, we learn that the whole number of students who have attended, during the year, is 73; that the entire expenses of each student need not exceed $75 per annum, and that it is confidently expected that the vacancy in the faculty, created by the election of Professor Baker to the episcopacy, will be filled by the 1st of February next, an election having been made. The property of the Institution, including conference pledges, amounts to $52,125 50. The Institute is located at Concord, N. H.

During the last year one hundred and sixtyfive persons have joined the Baptist Church from among the Cherokee Indians.

A Chinese church is to be built in San Fran

Clerical Breakfast.-Sixteen ministers of the Episcopal Church, in Boston, recently met at the residence of one of their number, Dr. Wells, and partook of a social breakfast. This is an English usage, hitherto unpracticed in this country.

Irish Wesleyan Conference.-This conference, which was held at Dublin, commenced its sittings on the 22d of June, and closed on the 1st of July. The Rev. John Scott, president of the British Conference, presided. The numbers in society have been somewhat reduced by the immense emigration now going on from Ireland. No less than 758 members of the

Wesleyan Church have left the land of their birth during the past conference year. The British Wesleyan Conference assembled in Bradford, England, on the last Wednesday in July.

Monument to the Pilgrims.-Efforts are being made to raise the sum of $50,000, for a monument to the memory of the Pilgrims. It is to be placed on or near the spot of their landing.

Bible Union. It is reported, and upon what seems to be reliable authority, that the American Bible Union will so far modify its practical aims as to restrict its operations to the revision of the English Scriptures, and in this manner avoid antagonism to the American and Foreign Bible Society.

cisco, 42 by 45 feet, and three stories high. It will be devoted to moral and religious instruction, under the superintendence of Geo. Athei, of the See Yup Company.

Rev. E. Burt, of West Newfield, Me., has resigned the pastoral charge of the Congregational Church in that place.

Rev. Preston Pond, pastor of the Edwards Church, Boston, died at the M'Lean Asylum, after an illness of eight days. His disease was typhoid fever. Mr. P. was a son of Rev. Dr. Pond, of the Bangor Seminary, and a man of great promise.

Rev. Dr. Wilson, of the Union Theological Seminary, has received a unanimous call to the South Park Presbyterian Church, in Newark, N. J.

Rev. Dr. Crane, for nearly forty years pastor of the First Congregational Church, Middletown, Conn., recently died of cholera, in that city.

John N. Lewis has accepted the office of Corresponding Secretary of the Central American Education Society, and has already entered upon its duties.

The churches in Boston, which usually contribute in aid of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, propose to raise $25,000 during the present year.

A new German Church was recently opened in Chicago, Illinois.

A Romish Cathedral was recently consecrated at Milwaukie. The Papal Nuncio, M. Bedini, took a conspicuous part in the ceremonies. He was connected with the awful death inflicted at Bologna on the noble poet and patriot, Ugo Bassi. The unfortunate Ugo had been captured at Rome by the French, while he tarried behind the Roman troops to bind up the wounds of a French soldier. He was set at liberty. But when he fell into Bedini's hands at Bologna, he was handed over to the Austrians to be shot.

Bishop M'Ilvaine and lady have arrived in this country in good health, from their visit to Europe.

Conversions.-In Burlington, Vt., there have been remarkable conversions to Protestantism, eight adults in one day having publicly disowned the Church of Rome.

Progress of Tractarian Perversions.-The Duchess of Hamilton has publicly avowed the fact, which has long been suspected, that her Grace has united herself to the Church of Rome. Rumor intimates that the Duke will also shortly be declared. His Grace's only sister, who was divorced from the Duke of Newcastle, became a Romanist before that event, and shortly after

The Bible Society at Sierra Leone remitted

Society, and received from it for distribution two thousand three hundred and eighty-seven copies of the Scriptures. Five hundred copies of Luke, Acts, and the Epistles of James and Peter, have been printed in the Yoruba language; and as copies are given to those only who can read, large numbers, both of the old and the young, are earnestly engaged in learning. The Bible is to be translated speedily into the Necra and Osti languages, which are spoken by more than five millions of people.

A Maronite Monk advised a man on Mount Lebanon to shoot his brother, for becoming a heretic, that is a Protestant; and when the man remonstrated with him, he answered with great glee, that the Pope and the Council of Trent had sanctioned the massacre on St. Bartholomew's day.

THE Aztec Children, now in London, have been "critically examined" by Professor Owen and Dr. Latham, and we learn that the popular account of their discovery in an ancient city, hitherto untrodden by any European, is somewhat doubted by those learned Thebans.

A Midland Crystal Palace.-A project (originating with Mr. Samuel Beale, the deputychairman of the Midland Railway Company) has been started for erecting in Sutton Coldfield Park, near Birmingham, a public edifice after plans of, and for similar purposes to, those of the new Crystal Palace at Sydenham; and, moreover, there appears to be every probability of its success.

Chloroform for Bees.-A sixth part of an ounce of chloroform for a common hive, or nearly a quarter of an ounce for a very large hive, is used in Scotland for putting bees to sleep while their honey is taken. They put the chloroform in a shallow breakfast plate, covered over with thin gauze, then put the hive over the plate, covered with cloths, and in twenty minutes the bees will be sound asleep and out of the combs on the trole.

So successful has Captain Hornby, R. N., been in his manner of rearing fowls, that he has fixed £500 as the price of a Spanish cock and two hens, which form part of his collection at the Poultry Show in Baker-street, London.

Electric Light.-A new application of electricity, invented by Dr. Watson, is now exhibiting in the immediate vicinity of Wandsworth. The great feature of the invention is, that the materials consumed in the production of electricity are employed for a profitable purpose, independent of that of illumination. Thus, while a most brilliant light is produced by galvanic action, materials are introduced into the battery by which pigments of the finest quality are obtained; and these are so valuable that they equal, if they do not exceed, the cost of the operation.

Artificial Gold.-M. Theodore Tiffereau, a Frenchman, says that he has discovered the means of making gold. In a paper laid before the Academy of Sciences, entitled, "The Metals are not Simple, but Compound Bodies," he has put forth his views, and asserts that he has actually produced gold by artificial means.

It is reported from Washington that the President has concluded a contract with Clark

Mills for the erection of a colossal equestrian statue of George Washington, at a cost of $50,000.

The United States Agricultural Society have employed the artist Lossing to sketch a view of Mount Vernon and objects of interest there, including the celebrated carved mantle, sculptured with agricultural devices. The society are intending to ornament a diploma of membership with the sketches..

Interesting Discoveries. The commissioners appointed to settle definitely the boundary between Turkey and Persia have come upon the

remains of an ancient palace, supposed to be Shushan, mentioned in Esther and Daniel, and also upon Daniel's tomb. "The pavement of red and blue and white and black marble," mentioned in the first chapter and sixth verse of the book of Esther, still exists. Not far from the palace is a tomb, on which is sculptured the figure of a man bound hand and foot, with a huge lion in the act of springing upon him.

Dr. Roots exhibited before the Society of Antiquaries, England, an iron sword-blade, with a portion of the wooden handle adhering to it, found in the bed of the Thames at Kingston, near the spot where so many Roman weapons had been previously recovered.

The sale of Marshal Soult's Gallery of Spanish pictures, which took place last year in Paris, has been quickly followed by the dispersal of the Spanish Gallery formed by the late king, Louis Philippe. This has been sold in London by Messrs. Christie and Manson. It was chiefly formed by Baron Taylor in the year 1835, at the time when the suppression of the monasteries, and the panic induced by other revolutionary proceedings, induced the proprietors to listen readily to the overtures of purchasers. The first portion, sold on the 6th and 7th of May, amounted to one hundred and sixty-eight pictures, and realized more than £10,000. The second portion of the collection, sold on the 13th and 14th of May, consisted of three hundred and thirty pictures, and realized £10,380. The sale was finally closed on the 20th and 21st, yielding in all £27,000.

The Standish Gallery, bequeathed to Louis Philippe by Mr. Frank Hall Standish, has followed the same fate. This collection, consisting of two hundred and forty-four pictures, has produced just 10,000 guineas.

The late M. B. Larsky, engineer, made a discovery of the greatest importance in White Russia, which was brought to light when his papers were examined after his decease. Being occupied in making a road in that province, he found it necessary to drain off the waters of a lake into a lower level; and, in the course of the operation, he discovered, in a forest several feet below the surface of the soil, a road paved in the antique Roman or Mexican style, with traces of a stone bridge of a peculiar construction.

We perceive from the London papers that the rage for monuments, which some of our cotemporaries are wont to comment on, is not confined to this country. A committee has been formed at Weimar for promoting the erection of a monument to Goethe, Schiller, and Wieland. The committee in charge of the monument to Moore have determined to call in designs for a statue of the poet, and leave the design for the pedestal to be decided when all the funds are collected.

A monument to Sir Isaac Newton is to be erected at Grantham in 1854, just two hundred years from the time he entered the school at that place.

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of 1851.

Two colossal bronze statues have been recently cast in the Royal foundry at Munich: one, an equestrian group, by the Swedish sculptor Fugelbjerg, of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, intended for the cathedral of Göttenberg; and

the other, of Patrick Henry, one of the founders of American independence, which is to form a portion of the Washington Monument, being erected in the city of Washington.

Incredible as it may appear, ten houses of papier maché have been made and sent out to Australia, at the order of Mr. Seymour, a gentleman who is about to take up his residence there. They are so well done that it is scarcely possible to imagine that they are other than excellent brick dwellings.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science held its seventh regular session at Cleveland, Ohio, commencing July 30th, and adjourning August 2d. The attendance was large, comprising many of the scientific gentlemen of the West and South-west, and a considerable number of representatives from the East. Various interesting investigations of scientific subjects were detailed, and many elaborate papers were read. The city of Cleveland gave the learned convention a great banquet on the last evening of the session. The Association will hold its next meeting at Washington, D. C., on the last Wednesday in April, 1854.

A monster block of coal, fifteen feet in hight, five and a half feet square, and weighing fifteen tons, is on exhibition at the New-York Crystal Palace. It was taken from the Parker Vein Mines in Maryland.

The Chinese mode of hatching the spawn of fish is said to be as follows:-The fishermen collect with care, on the margin and surface of rivers, all those gelatinous masses which contain the spawn. After they have found a sufficient quantity they fill with it the shell of a fresh hen's egg, which they have previously emptied, stop up the hole, and put it under a sitting fowl. At the expiration of a certain number of days, they break the shell in water warmed by the sun. The young fry are presently hatched, and are kept in pure fresh water till they are large enough to be thrown into the pond with the old fish. The sale of spawn for this purpose is an important trade.

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The attention of men of science has been called to an extraordinary discovery made in one of the departments of France. A digger, in throwing up some earth, came upon a body in a state of perfect preservation. On examination, it proved to be that of an individual buried thirty-seven years ago. He had died from the effects of the bite of a mad dog. The shroud and coffin had fallen to dust, but the body remained intact. This is the third exhumation made within twenty years of bodies of the victims of hydrophobia under similar circumstances; and it would clearly seem that they are beyond the reach of decomposition. The registry of deaths was consulted, but no

A case of specimens of Swedish Porphyry, from the Royal quarries at Elfdal, has arrived in England. These specimens include fifteen distinct varieties, some of great beauty. They have been presented to the Crystal Palace Company by Mr. C. H. Edwards.

The director of the United States Mint, at

Philadelphia, has issued a circular inviting the

cooperation of artists, engravers, and others, in furnishing new designs for the silver coinage of the United States. Each person is left free to exercise his judgment and skill. An impa tial examination will be made of the designs which may be furnished, and for those three which shall appear best fitted to the object in view a competent and liberal remuneration will be made.

Sir John Franklin. - Information has been received by the Russian government that several of what are called glass balls, probably bottles, have been found at the mouth of the river Obi, which falls into the Arctic basin at the seventieth parallel of east longitude. The locality is where such articles would be found, if they had been thrown from Franklin's ship, in case they had attained a high northern latitude. The British government has requested that some of the balls be transmitted to the foreign office.

Lightning.-Mr. E. Meriam, of New-York, a distinguished scientific writer and practical philosopher, says that persons struck by lightning should not be given up as dead for at least three hours. During the first two hours they should be drenched freely with cold water, and if this fails to produce restoration then add salt, and continue the drenching for another hour.

Glass Pens. It is reported that glass pens are now made possessing the requisite qualities to write with, and that they will soon supersede all others. They are anti-corrosive by the most impure ink, at least as much so as gold, and their cost will be but that of the making.

The Himalayan Cedar.-The East India Company has ordered a ton weight of the seed of the Deodar-tree to be placed at the disposal of the British government. Should it all vegetate, no fewer than 16,000,000 plants will have been acquired, and we may expect the hills of Great Britain to be soon clothed with the sacred cedar of the Brahmins.

A Phenomenon.-The spring on the premises of Mr. George C. Emert, near Shepherdstown, which furnishes the main power for running several mills near by, suddenly sunk, as it were, last week, and remained dry for some days, when the water again returned. The water on coming back, we learn, gushed forth at first clear and copious, then receded and returned somewhat turbid, though not diminished in quantity. The receding and returning, or ebb and flow, continued for some time, after which the water became clear and fresh as before. A similar event, we are informed, occurred some thirty odd years ago, when the spring gave way in like manner.