than the rate which had prevailed for several years previous, the average rate of increase for six years having been six per cent. The following are the statistics of the Moravian missions as reported December, MISSIONS. Antigua... 1872: Communicants. 14 948 158 Vienna, and two deputies were selected to take it to the capital and give it personal attention. The deputies reached Vienna on the 24th of September. Their cause was espoused by General de Schweinitz, the Prussian ambassador, and by Herr de Bose, the Saxon ambassador. M. de Bose conferred with the Imperial Minister of Public Worship on the subject of the memorial. The minister replied that a favorable time had not yet arrived for presenting such a memorial; that there existed, as 434 yet, no law in Austria defining the conditions on which religious liberty may be granted to a church; that such a law was then being prepared and would be laid before the next Diet; that he could not, therefore, consider any memorial on this subject until that law had been adopted; that, however, in so far as the prohibition of the public services at Pottenstein was concerned, if the provincial government at Prague should decline to uphold the protest of the Unity's Elders' Conference, and should sustain the judge, the Conference should report to him, and he would order the circuit judges not to interfere with the religious services of the Moravian Church. 1,159 1,371 4.296 2,866 1,256 984 Greenland.. 4,855 1,592 8765 805 192 11 21.296 The number of out-stations is ten. The number of baptized adults is 14,439; of candidates, "new people, etc.," 9,644; of baptized children, 23,986; total number of persons connected with the missions, 69,365. The entire receipts for missions for the year were £15,478 38. 11d.; the expenditures were £18,786 98. 11d. A monument in memory of the massacre of Moravian Indians at Gnadenhütten, Ohio, in 1782, was unveiled at that place on the 5th of June. It bears the inscription: "Here triumphed in death ninety Christian Indians, March 8, 1782." The act of withdrawing the veil was performed by four Christian Delaware Indians of Canada, one of whom was a lineal descendant of one of the victims of the massacre. A tablet has been placed at the spring in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, where Zeisberger and five families of Christian Indians encamped, on the 3d of May, 1772, and erected the missionstation at Schönbrunn, the first house of a Christian town in the State. Several other memorials of early Moravian missionaries, and of events in the history of the Church in America, have been erected. The mission in Bohemia has been prosecuted with a persevering spirit against many obstacles arising from the hostility of local officers. Although it is under the more immediate care of the German Province, its affairs have been regarded with interest by the churches in the American Province. In the month of August, the judge of the circuit in which the church at Pottenstein is situated, issued an order forbidding all further Moravian services at that station. A protest against this order was immediately sent by the Unity's Elders' Conference to the provincial government at Prague. At the same time a memorial, praying for religious liberty, was drawn up to be presented to the Imperial Government at In consequence of this response of the Minister of Public Worship, and by the advice of the two friendly ambassadors, the deputies did not send in the memorial, but withheld it, waiting for the passage of the law spoken of by the imperial minister. When they reached Prague on their return, the deputies found that the provincial government was about to decide against the protest of the Elders' Conference; they therefore informed the authorities of the favorable character of the response which the Minister of Public Worship had given on the subject of their petition, and succeeded in forestalling the anticipated adverse decision. MORSE, SAMUEL FINLEY BREESE, LL. D., the inventor of the Electric Telegraph, a painter of acknowledged merit, and an author, born in Charlestown, Mass., April 27, 1791; died in New York City, April 2, 1872. He was the eldest son of Rev. Jedediah Morse, D. D., a Congregationalist clergyman, famous in his day for his geographical text-books and his historical works. Samuel received his early education in Charlestown, under his father's direction, graduated from Yale College in 1810, selected painting as his profession, and in 1811 sailed for England, in company with Washington Allston, to study art under his tuition and that of Sir Benjamin West. He made rapid progress in his profession, and in 1813 exhibited at the Royal Academy his picture of "The Dying Hercules," of colossal size, and the plaster model which he made of the same subject to assist him in his picture received the prize in sculpture the same year, from the Adelphi Society of Arts. On his return to the United States, in 1814, he settled in Boston, but met with so little encourage ment that he removed to New Hampshire, where he found employment in painting por |