New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-05-10

he Trustee Of the Lower Falls Pr, rby terta Church
Va. Arf'Grth q Ch,mp"n The defendant, with
Cihus bad subscribed s9o0 10 fluid FOR the ton
az church School District NJ 7, near the lower
fslls lie di.igt,d HE ,b.lly TO ply the sub
.ritcd, IN theological grounds alleging that his slb
fcltti 10 be operative on condition thl: the &C.
c,siutiIcal form OF g"yernm Mt If the Church s."d
te New School organization. He declined to pay,
hcrce the ,uit. The Court ruled The defense.
Veroio fer plaintiffs. 1899 Is.
TRE WYsLErAss ASD THE CHuRcH OF ENGLAND
movement s now in pro5'',s looking to uoion
Of the We.lyan body with the E-'Cbi-hed Church in
Fl gland ard petition has be- seut up to the Con.
vo'sn to this eff CT by members of fhe Epscop llian
body IN when they ray that " the retention by the
"Wcsltyars of their system OF 'clas1 meetings need
Lot be nsup. rsbl. obstacle Ia their reunion with
"ibe Church. That in respct 10 the admission OF
"Ncsleyan minister to the order OF the Church Of
England, your performers submit thi. it would be
"pIOpG 70 retsin the requirement OF three years
,snonal far regards life and behavior; bus,
as regards soundness il the faith and general fitness
for TIE seerd ministry, they think il desirable that
"the perod Of probation be reduced, and that no
"oncer time be prescribed than the Bishop may
"requhe to satisfy himself on those essential points
The CRowS or THoRss The sacred crown of
thoins which girded the brow of Christ is sad by
Catholic writer's 10 have been kept win mnch
ration Of Ju usaem, and atttrward at COnsantinopie,
Until the thirteenth century, when Baldwin H. gave It
to st Louis King Of France at time when tue cap
al Of his ov empire was no longer considered place
Of security against the Slracens The sscred treasure
was canied by holy men, by way of Venice, into
France. st. Louis, with his mother, and many pre-
lates and princes met it five leagues from Sens. The
pous king and his brother Robert, barefooted and at
tended by an immense multitude, carried /, TO the
cathedral of that city. 1t was thence conveyed to
Paris with extraordinary solemnity, where the king
had built for its reception chapel, called the Holy
Chapel.
present PosIrIoy OF DIssENrERs IL PRussIA.-
The Elberfeld Gazette publishes letter from Nori-
hansen which exhibits the position OF Prussian Dis
sert.rs as one not to be eDvied. 1t concerns de-
csion recently issued by officer OF the temporal
executive against the Rev Edward Baltzer, clergy
man of free congregation. BY this decision he is
bound, although a minister of religion, to send his
children to receive religious instruction in the public
school of the place. otherwise, from duly qualified
private teachers The OF this is, that the
fgous instruction he himself may impart to his chill
drt is not recognized able to replace the religious
instruction which the authorities require in the
Of the law.
A "Low.PRIcED" Church The terms high
church" low church." and 81 broad church"
used TO designate different parties in the Episcopal
denomination; but correspondent of The ChurchmaR,
writing from Baltimore describes a division in the
church. Abiding to the high and Glow" parties
in Baltimore, and defending church of the former
class he thus speaks Of Episcopal church of another
description in that city: Now, to carry the
"w war into Africa which can if provoked into it, |
might BY way of comparison give truthful nara
five of leading Evangelical establishment in this
&" city, which, so far architecture is concerned, is
shabby. genteel lew-prced affair, consecrated to
God, but on a leased lot from man."
CoLoRED CHURCHES IN WAsHIsGToS.-The mum
Der of people Of color in Washington City is 10000,
which is about one-fourth of the number of whites.
They own eleven places of worship, the aggregate
value Of which is nearly $40 000 or 81 each TO the
people. The whites, 10000, with all their wealth,
Offices and Government favor have $4,000 in
church property, which gives little % to each.
Ten Of the coored congregations pay their pastors
an average $3.50 each, beside marriage fees and other
Notwithstanding total of Sc 800 yearly and
above the expense of keeping the houses in fuel, re-
pairs, etc. There are about 900 children in the Sab
bath-scto ols.
A STRANGE PREACHER IN THE PULPIr.--The
journal &c DTebJ shys tndt congregation VI
the Church of Ardilieries, Rambouillet were
surprised at their afternoon prayers, Sunday
last, by voice suddenly exclaimiDg from the
pulpit: "Harken to my words, race of vipers
"The days of vengeance and of divine anger
"have anived-the Seine will plow in torrents OF
"blood-Paris will be destroyed, and marine monsters
"will rhabt its ruins" In this eccentric preacher
was recognized the schoolmaster Of the place, who
had before piyen sipns of mental alienation He was
with difficulty induced to quit the pulpit and meas.
ures were taken to place him in lunatic asylum.
CATHOLICISM AND PRoTEsTANTIsM France
1t appears from official returns that the number per-
sons in France belonging to the Roman Catholic re-
bgion is 35 93l ,O32; Calvinsts, 4sO JO7 Lutherans
267 s25 Jews 10 975; and other creeds 30 900. The
following are the salaries Of the Bench Of Bishops:
Archbishop Of Paris, $4,000 francs; II Others 10000
francs each; and 65 Bishops, $4,000 francs each-in
al 50 Episcopal The preates invested with the
dignity Of Cardinal receive in addition 10000 francs
year each; and 90 Bishops residing in large and ex
persve center Of population, receive an addition of
1900 francs among them.
RLfoRM IN THE CHURCH OF SARDIyIA.-The nine
articles proposed for the reformation of the Church of
Sardinia, which are to be acted upon at the next
session Of the Parliament at Turin, will it is thought,
uproot some great abuses. The most important Of
them The entire independence Of the Church Of
Sardinia from Rome the denial of tradition as source
of dogmas; permission to all the people to read the
Bible and interpret it for themselves abolition of COM
pulsOry ceEbacy of the priests and the use of the
popular language in the church services.
RELIGION IN ISDIA.-There are in India including
the aylsyan Peninsula and the Island of Ceylon 10
vcars.apostolic and 7sl priests, with Roman Catho-
IL H.