New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-02
MORAL AND RELIGIOUS.

C6tion8l efforts are TO be confined To the native IAN
guages every possible attempt is to be made TO
the natives to selfrelance and efforts their be-
half and Government aid is to be respectfully declined.
Already native pastor at Jafna has been ordained
over a native church, and the press established at
Manepy is to be owned and worked by natives.
MARRIAGES OF RosAs CATHOLICS AND PRorEs
rasrs.-It is mentioned that the Roman Catholic
Synod Of Thurles have made very important regula-
ton with regard to mixed marriages of Romsn Csho-
lies and Protestsnts. Henceforth, no such msrrisge
will be allowed unless both parties sign declaration
10 the Bishops that they will bring up their children
as Roman Catholics
SEcrs IN ScorLAsD.-Presbytersni seems as If
it were indigenous TO Scotland. There are scarcely
geo congre cations of Epscopalians Independents and
Baptsts in that part of the English realm and even of
these there is no small number without regular pastors.
The Dssentefs are seceders from the Establishment,
and have retained Presbyteriansm. OF Presbyterian
congregations, including the Establishment, and other
Presbyterian bodies, there are about 1900.
THEOLOGICAL CHAPEL IN BANGOR, ME.-The
ladies Of Bangor Maine, raising funds 10 erect
chapel for the Theological Seminary in that place,
which shall also contain deposit for library of
10 900 volumes, toward which they have contributed
81 2OO They have collected 800 for chapel, and
intend increasing it to $1,000.
ARassIASs AND THE PoPy.-The Pope is still max
ing attempts to attach the two million Armenians now
in Turkey, TO the Roman See. The points Of differ
ence from Rome, summed up recently in note to
the Archbishop Of Paris, by M. Boghos Dordian, an
eminent Armenian of Constantinople are these four:
Procession of the Holy Spirit the two natures of
Christ the state of souls after DEATH and the Papal
Primary. NJ. Udcin thinks that these points might
all be adjusted and that the Armenians may yet be
brought into the Roman communion. conference
held with the Papal Nuncio, Ferreri, resulted in
declaration his part of the orthodoxy of the Arme-
Mans and with the refusal on their part to allow their
Patriarchs and Bishops to be nominated by the Pope.
Meanwhile, the Armenians have no desire to submit
to the Gar.
MAYOR WooD AND TIE CLERGY.-The Christian
TafeHigencsr states that on the very day on which
Mayor Wood sent in to the City Government his Mes
sage, O copy of the same with his respects" was
served upon all the clergymen of the city.
BAPTIST MIssIoSs.-12e Macedonian the Missona
ry paper of the Baptist Union, acknowledges the re-
ceipt of 500 from a Congregatonali. as contrbu-
ton to the effort now being made by the Union to
move the debt resting on them.
SICKNESS AMONG THE CLERGY.-The Rev. Jared
Flagg successor TO the Rev. DIR. Finton of Grace
Church, BROOKLYN, Is sick of typhus fever. The Rev.
Dr. Hawks has had a neuralgia affection of the face
which for while simulated paralytic affection.
RELIGIOUS RIGoR-By order of the Sandman Min
istry the Freres of the Christian School of Ruccongi
have been dismissed for having given as prize to
their pupils book entitled How the Property Of the
Church is Stolen, and what the Consequences of it
are On the other hand the ecclesiastical journals
OF Piedmont expressing great indignation at the
appearance of an item OF G,426f. for Protestant wor
ship in the State budget. In the budget Of Catholic
people, it is complained every credit is suppressed
and money is granted for religion which is only toll
Grated by the nation.
AccIssIoNs TO THE CHURcH.-A Baptist periodical
says: The members received into the Baptist Churches
for some years past from other denominations exceed
two thousand annually; and the number of ministers
so received BY change Of convictions, is equal to one
every week in the year This great movement is in
principle the very from that Of Bishop Ives and
the Puseyites and it is IN addition to about fifty thous
aid converts yearly.
RESULTS OF MISSIONARY LABORs.-Sir G.. Grey,
Governor of New-Zeaand has stated his belief that,
out Of one hundred thousand natives there were not
more than one thousand who did not profess Chris.
anity OF these fifty thousand are estimated to be
in connection with the Church Missionary Society. OF
course there are many who Christian professors
whose conduct is not in accordance with their proes
sion. but still the moral good accomplished has been
very great.
RUSSIAN CHURcHEs.-The most interesting church
in St. Petersburg is that devoted to Ste. Peter and
Paul otherwise called the Fortress Church" as it
stands within the citadel Of the city Its slender spre
ses TO the hight of 3iOeet it said that eco ducats
have already been expended in the gliding Of this spre
non the walls and around the pillars Of the church
hang trophies taken from the Turks, Persans and
French In this way the Russians have decorated all
theirchurches, and hardly nation but is thus repre-
snted in ST. Petersburg Moscow The chief part of
Interest pertaining to the Fortress Church is, that
beneath rest the remains Of al the since Peter
the Great
A fREscH VIEW OF THE BrBLE-BURsrsc Case
The De5ats regrets that the terms Of the law should
have permitted the accused to escape, and suggests
that the offense for which he should have been ar
ragned was that of troubling public order, and eI
citing the passions Of class Of citizens against
another.
UsIrARIAsrsx.-TkeE piseopal Recorder says that
out Of Massachusetts, there but &c societies
which recognize the general name. and out Of New
England but 80. OF these, the greater part have
now ceased to hold regular worship and If the pro-
cess Of Generalization goes on at the same rate for
few years longer, there viii not be single Unita-
Ran Congregation south and west OF New-York IN
existence" Whist The Recorder means by =" de-
moraization, applied to denomination of the in
fuence and Christian standing Of the Unitarian we do
not precisely know nor it probable that its conjeo-
lures as to the decline Of Unitaransm are wholly
ssttnt with the facts connected With the present
strength and recent progress of that denomination
An EXAMPLE FOR CHRISTIANS The Hindoos, when
gathering in their harvest before il is removed from