Ar a recent commencement of this institution Professor Lane mentioned that the University had furnished 10 presidents of colleges; 36 professors of colleges, of whom 25 are now in active service; that 35 academies and classical schools are at the present time supplied with principals from the University, and more than 140 are now employed as teachers in various institutions; 35 are members of the bar; 179 are ministers of the Gospel, of whom 130 are members of the Methodist Conferences, and 19 are of other denominations.

The Methodist ministers are distributed as follows:

IN Palestine you are nearly as much in the wilderness as when in Arabia, for as to inhabitants they are precisely the things which do not exist, for all you can tell, except in the towns and villages you pass through. You ride on day after day, and you rise over each hill, and you sink into each valley, and except an occasional solitary traveller with his servant and his muleteer, or a Turkish official with his party, rarely does a moving object appear upon the landscape. No cattle are on the land, and no passengers are on the highways. How lonely it is! and this loneliness strikes you more like that of the desert, for it seems unnatural, because here there should be life, and there is none. Sometimes you may make out at a distance on the hillside a single figure, a man upon a donkey. It is the only moving thing your eye can detect all round. And so you go on through this desolate land. From Jerusalem to Beyrout you scarcely light upon one single scene of rural industry-not one single scene of life that can be compared with those on the Arab pastures from the top of

Jabel el Sufar to the wells of El Mileh. There, in places, the country was full of people and children, and flocks and herds-a rejoicing picture of pastoral existence in all its abounding wealth; while here, in the country of tillage, and towns, and villages, the whole land seemed to lie under a spell.-Louth's Wanderer in Arabia.

SUCCESS OF PROTESTANT MISSIONS.

THE North British Review has the following statement. "The degree of success obtained by Protestant missions is, we think, considering that their efforts were trifling until within the last sixty years, very encouraging. Wherever heathens have been brought into connection with Christians in the dependent relation of slaves, they have been led to adopt their masters' religion. Thus the liberated populations of the British West Indies are as Christian as any European peasantry. The same is the case with the slaves of the United States and elsewhere. The East Indian colonies of the Dutch contain a large number of nominal, but, we fear, only nominal, Christians. Amboyna, for example, with 5000 inhabitants, is said to be entirely Christian. Celebes and the other Moluccas contain very large numbers who have at least professed Christianity under the direction of the Netherlands Society; and, to judge from the returns made by the missionaries, these numbers are very fast increasing. The Protestant missions in British India are said by late returns to contain about 22,000 communicant members, with probably about 130,000 professed Christians. In China the work is yet in its infancy, and the communicants of the mission are numbered as yet only by units and tens; all the societies together only claim a total of 361 communicants. In the Birmah, the American Baptists return 8000 communicant members, who would represent, according to the Indian scale, a population of nearly 50,000 professed Christians. In South America, the societies return 14,000 communicants, and in Western Africa, 13,154. In Polynesia and New Zealand the native Christians must amount to nearly 200,000. Considering that no force has anywhere been employed in favour of Protestant missions, and that, with the exception of some of the Dutch possessions, Government influence has never given them much assistance, and, in the case of British India, has until lately perseveringly opposed them, we think that these results are as great as could be expected.

"We attach no slight importance to the fact, that the success of missionary enterprise has been so variously distributed. Episcopalians have been permitted to plant Christianity at the head-quarters of the African slave trade, and to raise up a new Christian nation in New Zealand. Presbyterians, Independents, and Methodists, are the founders of the Christianity of Polynesia. Scottish Presbyterians stand in company with American Congregationalists and Presbyterians at the head of the highest kind of intellectual education in India. One of the most successful and interesting missions belongs to the Baptists, who have also taken the lead in forming vernacular literature. While the highest place in missionary honour must be reserved for the Episcopalian Moravian Brotherhood, who, while they have made themselves an apostolic history, have,

as our High Church friends inform us, neglected to continue in its due channel the apostolic succession. Yet, if outward or inward symptoms be any sign, these men have been inoculated with the true primitive virus.

Statistics.

OURS A "GREAT COUNTRY."

THE following table, showing the comparative distances between some of the American and foreign cities, affords a very good idea of the extent of our continent:

THE provisions for high education in the United States are continually growing. The total number of colleges is one hundred and twenty-two. The students exceed twelve thousand. This is exclusive of the high schools, many of which take rank with the best colleges. These, and one hundred and twenty-two colleges, employ more than a thousand professors; and possess extensive laboratories. Nearly three thousand students are honorably dismissed from these colleges annually. Of medical schools, there are about forty. The students exceed five thousand. The professors are not less than two hundred and fifty. The theological schools of the United States number forty-four. The professors number one hundred and twenty-seven. The students vary from thirteen hundred to fourteen hundred. The libraries belonging to these schools contain about two hundred thousand volumes. The law schools of the United States are but sixteen, and the pupils about six hundred. But this gives no fair estimate of the number of young men engaged in the study of the law. It is supposed that between thirty and forty thousand young men are engaged in such studies.

BENEVOLENT EFFORTS IN ENGLAND.

THE London Christian Times gives an extended report of the receipts and expenditures of the principal benevolent associations and societies, whose operations are conducted in London. The various amounts, reduced to dollars and cents, give the following grand result: