had been held by the Committee with the Commissioners of the New School Presbytery, and that the Commissioners had requested the Committee to state, in their Report, the precise grounds on which they conceived it improper for the Synod to receive the Presbytery as an organic body. They desired to be received in that way, if received at all; and if Synod declined receiving them in that way, they wished that the grounds on which Synod declined to receive them, should be embodied in the Report. The Committee had acceded to their request, and embodied their views in the Report. Dr. Breckinridge proceeded in detail to explain the views of the Committee upon each item in the Report on this important subject. He showed clearly that the Synod could not receive the Presbytery as a Presbytery. The thing is impossible, even if Synod desired to accomplish it in that way. His position, and that of the Synod, as he believed, is that all who are likeminded with us should be united with us, and none others. The Commissioners had not committed the Presbytery which they represented to any course in the future. It is the true policy of Synod to open the door fairly to all who desire to come in, on the terms named. If they come, and are one with us, they will be cordially welcome. If they do not, it is their privilege to stay away. He had done all in his power, in days past, to get all who ought not to belong to the Presbyterian Church out of it, and he had been equally earnest in getting all who were one with us to unite with us. He was for union with all of God's people who were likeminded with us, and can cordially unite with us in building up the Redeemer's kingdom in the world. Union with any others would only weaken our hands, and hinder our progress as a church. The Doctor denies that the churches, as such, were to be examined by the Presbyteries when received from the New School Presbyteries. The Presbytery was to proceed, in each case, as if they were receiving a newly organized church, of whose orthodoxy and proper organization they were to inform themselves. It was absurd to suppose that Presbytery would examine each church member, or require a letter of dismission from the church to which he belonged. If Presbytery is satisfied that the church is orthodox and properly organized, they should receive it in its organized capacity. After this explanation by the Chairman of the Committee, of the paper presented by the Committee, it was unanimously, and by acclamation, adopted.

SYNOD OF NEW YORK.-Public Schools.-The Synod unanimously adopted the following resolutions relating to the Bible in the Public Schools:

Resolved, 1. That the education of children in the schools of the State requires the most vigilant attention of the Church, lest, by neglect of the Bible, and those Christian principles which inculcate obedience to government and respect for law, the Public School should lose all moral power, and become subservient to infidelity, Romanism, licentiousness, and anarchy.

Resolved, 2. That in the name of our common Christianity, and of public morals and our civil liberties, founded on the principles of the word of God, and in the name of the God of our fathers, and in behalf of the Christian congregations and families under our care, this Synod lifts up its voice of remonstrance, and earnestly utters its solemn protest against the recent action of the Board of Education, by which the children in

thirteen of our public schools have been robbed of their right and privilege of reading the word of God and calling on him in prayer, and that the ministers and people be enjoined to use all lawful means to restore the Bible to its place, as the basis of all right education.

Resolved, 3. That a committee of five be appointed to examine the whole subject of popular education, and report to the next meeting of Synod on the expediency of abandoning the present system of education by the State, leaving education, with religion, to be supported by the voluntary action of the people.

MISCELLANEOUS.

SLAVE CHURCH MEMBERS.-The following figures show the number of slaves at the South who are Church members, and the churches they belong to:

Connected with the Methodist Church, South, are about

180,000

GERMAN METHODISM, when dated from the formation of the first German Methodist Society, reported to the Ohio Conference in the fall of 1838, is just twenty years old. The writer of this was then the only missionary, and reported thirty members to the Conference. Now we have, inclusive of probationers, 19,980 in church fellowship. Our increase during the past year was 2722, while 171 took their transfer from the Church militant to the Church triumphant. During the twenty years of its existence the German work had, at an average, a net increase of 1000 per year. But if we would count those of our members who, during these twenty years, have died in the Lord, and those who, after the division of the Church, fell under the care of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and those of our children who joined the English Church, the whole addition of German members to the Methodist Episcopal Church, in the space of twenty years, would be about 25,000.

THEOLOGICAL SPECULATION IN NEW HAVEN.-Dr. Cleaveland recently preached his twenty-fifth anniversary sermon, in which he offers the following remarks on the theological developments in that part of New England:

"These five-and-twenty years have brought other and more significant changes in their train. The heated atmosphere of the religious community here, which I found so impatient of dissent on my first arrival in the city, has sensibly cooled down, and given place to a larger and kindlier spirit. The enthusiasm felt here a quarter of a century ago for the then recent scheme of theology, has greatly abated. New parties have arisen, contending for new issues. The current of theological opinion and speculation is seeking other channels, and assuming other phases. In this process of disintegration and reconstruction, some have fallen back on positions more in sympathy with the older theology, and into a style of preaching less rationalistic and more Scriptural ;-while others are pushing their investigations in the opposite direction, farther from the central doctrines of the Gospel,-the Trinity, Atonement, and Justification by Faith-extending signals of sympathy with Unitarians, Transcendentalists, Pantheists, and I know not what besides."

ROMANISM IN SCOTLAND.-The following statistics are published on this subject:

A LITURGY IN CAMBRIDGE COLLEGE.-The Boston "Recorder" says: "We learn that Professor Huntington has introduced a liturgy into the College, which he reads to the exclusion of a sermon in the afternoon service on the Sabbath. It consist of an expurgated edition of the Episcopal Liturgy. The Litany is retained, except so much of it as contains the doctrine of the Trinity. That doctrine is excluded from the book. Is not this a sign?"

DR. RANDOLPH, a celebrated spiritualist, has openly recanted. In a lecture, at Utica, on a recent Sunday, he stated it as his candid opinion, founded upon an experience of nine years as a medium, that Spiritualism was one-third imposture, one-third insanity, and one-third diabolism. Dr. Randolph declares, that insanity is the usual fate of trance mediums. He has received and accepted a call to the Christian ministry.

THE ARGUMENTATIVE FORCE OF IMAGINATION.-The learned translator of the "Acts of the Apostles," for the Baptists' new version, says, in a note on Chapter I, verse 5: "Dip, bap, and plunge, indicate the sounds made by variously applying any solid substance to water. The

air echoes plunge, when a person is suddenly immersed in water; it echoes dip and bap, when persons, or other solid substances, are suddenly submerged!" Now, this we should call an Irish echo, which gives three distinct answers; for dip, bap, and plunge, are totally unlike in sound, fix our lips as we may. It taxes our imagination a little too severely to be required to find these different sounds attending the immersion of a person in water. Splash seems, to us, to be the most natural sound, and even that depends on the violence with which the immersion is made; and, where the immersion is even gently made, splatter is the sound which usually accompanies it.-Presbyterian.

Statistics.

TOBACCO.

THE following table gives the total inspections in Virginia for a series

Total, hhds.,

47,862 57,872 65,320 52,910 71,103

Increase over last season, 18,193 hhds.

The value of the tobacco and stems exported from Richmond for the past four years is recorded at the custom-house in that city as follows:

The shipments from Virginia and portions of North Carolina of manufactured tobacco, the past year, amounted to 370,000 packages, of 100 lbs., in about the following proportions:

The tobacco trade of Virginia, including manufactured and unmanufactured, amounts to near $20,000,000; of this, about $10,000,000 belongs to the city of Richmond. The tobacco trade of Virginia is said to be nearly double the value of the flour produced in that State.

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COTTON.

THE New York Shipping List give their annual statement of the cotton crop of the United States for the year ending August 24th, 1858, compared with the two previous years, as follows:

The crop of sea island, included in the above statement, was 50,494 bales.

The following table will show the export to foreign ports for the year ending August 31:

1858. Bales.

1857. Bales.

Inc. Bales.

Dec. Bales.

2,590,445

Total consumed in the U. S. (including burnt),

595,562

Adding the stocks in the interior, detained on the passage, and lost on the way, it is estimated that the amount of cotton raised in the United States the past season was, in round numbers, 3,247,000 bales (after deducting 8000 bales new crop received this year to 1st inst.), against