Morning journal and courier., 1890-05-21

Britain has grown to about 3s, GOO, 600, gain of about 1O, COG, 900, in the same time. In the last four years the excess of births over deaths was 1,763, ,00O, while the excess of immigration over emigration is only 665, ,000. There has been gain, therefore, of a little over 1, 1000, ,000 in the population of Great Britain since 1885.
 very interesting experiment in technical education is in progress in the Nausharo schools in Sind, province of India. The schools are provided for both sexes, and the industries taught are such as would be found in trade or apprentice schools in America. They are embroidery, tailor- ing, joiner and cabinet work, smiths work in iron and brass, mason's work, pottery, electro-plating and the like, and the interest displayed by both sexes in these classes is constantly increasing The boys are divided into gangs, over which a senior boy, who has displayed unusual skill. is put in charge, and the schools are in close touch with the market. The orders are distributed among these gangs of boys and girls, and the profits are divided by the the teacher according to the degree of skill possessed by each individual. The success of the experiment. has surpassed all expecta- tions.
 The Stationery Trades Journal of London prints conspicuously the following extract from the letter of wcrkingman at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: There are about 5000 men out of work here in Syd. ney, and 750 were counted lying about the parks few nights ago, having nowhere else to go. Things are really very bad, and have been so these four years past. However, there will shortly be a general election, and it is hoped and expected that a protectionist majority will be returned. Victoria has protectionist tariff, and they are much more prosperous than we are in New South Wales. So our people, seeing the baneful effects of free trade, will go for protection. There was South Australia, suffering great depres- sion, thousands of men out of work and their families in want. About two years ago that colony adopted protection; since then industries have prospered, and it has stead fly gone ahead. The curse of this colony has been free tradel
 The Rev. 0. H. Merrill, speaking of the work of the Vermont Domestic Missionary society, made some remarkable statements about the destitutiou of churches in Yer mont. "Of the 19S Congregational churches, 49 are without a pastor. Thirty-fve minis ters supply two pulpits each. One-half of the population never hear religious dis course from one years end to another, and these are not the foreigners for the priest looks after them very carefully, but native born Yankees" That Is to say that but three-ffths of all the Congregational churches in the State are able and willing to wholly maintain ministers, the rest being obliged to share with one another, or to do without, or to depend upon the chances of missionary effort And what is even worse than this Is ths state- ment that (though minute gain is reported from the mission stations) the 149 churches which do still maintain ministers wholly or in part are losing ground; the whole of them show net loss of seven in membership dur ing the year reported.