SEVERAL OTHER Diocesan Conventions have lately been held, as in New Hampshire, Vermont, New Jersey, Delaware, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Michigan, and California; but as the reports of their doings furnish no statistics, it is hardly worth the while to make any notes of them now.

THE Banner of the Cross supplies the following edifying statistics: In 1821 the population of Philadelphia was 140,000; the number of churches 84. distributed thus: 10 Episcopal, 13 Methodist, 17 Presbyterian, 8 Baptist, 4 Roman Catholic, and 32 others. The present population is 600,000; churches, besides several now building, 283; of which 51 are Episcopal, 43 Methodist, 44 Presbyterian, 31 Baptist, 27 Roman Catholic, and 87 others.

THE MARYLAND Convention last year resolved that $10,000 ought to be raised for Diocesan missions. The Rev. Ethan Allen set to work as agent in the cause, and has already reached the sum of $10,456, though he has not yet gone over the whole ground. There's one good thing. Here's another: At the late Convention, $4,365 were subscribed in aid of St. James' College; and The Church Journal naughtily informs us, that on Sunday, May 31, the offertory at St. Luke's, Baltimore, brought in $10.430, of which $8,270 were for the College, and the rest for completing the parish church. Big souls are not wanting in Baltimore.

THE VIRGINIA Convention acknowledges $31,000 received the past year from New York for the Alexandria Seminary. The account runs thus: W. H. and J. L. Aspinwall each $10,000, St. George's church $8,000, the legacies of Mrs. Banyer and Miss Jay $3,000.

A LAYMAN of Connecticut proposes to be one of 50 persons to unite in buying 4,000 acres of land, at not more than $1.50 an acre, to furnish 80 parishes in Kansas and Minnesota with glebes, and sites for churches, parsonages, and schools. When the requisite number of subscribers is obtained, on notice of that fact in The Church Journal, each subscriber is to remit $100 to A. B. McDonald, Esq., 76 Wall street, New York. The locating and selecting the lands shall be done by persons authorized for that purpose by Bishop Kemper ; and Mr. McDonald will pay over the moneys in his hands, to the order of Bishop Kemper. The remainder of the amount needed for the purchase of the 4,000 acres (over and above the first payment of $100 by each subscriber) shall be paid at once, on notice from Mr. McDonald, in equal amounts by all the fifty subscribers.

ORDINATIONS.—June 11th, in St. John's church, Bangor, Maine, the Rev. A. Dalton and the Rev. R. S. Howard to the Priesthood.-June 3d, in St. Paul's church, Burlington, Vermont, A. D. Spalter to the Deaconate.-June 4th, in St. Mark's church, Warren, Rhode Island, the Rev. E. W. Maxcy to the Priesthood. Also, June 9th, in Grace church, Providence, the Rev. L. W. Bancroft to the same.-May 27th, in Christ church, Middletown, Connecticut, the Rev. John Townsend, the Rev. T. F. Davies, Jr., the Rev. C. S. Leffingwell, the Rev. J. M. Peck, and the Rev. C. T. Kellogg, to the Priesthood. Also, Trinity Sunday, in the same place, W. A. Hitchcock, H. B. Hitchings, J. F. Mines, J. R. Williams, and Arthur Mason, all of the Berkeley Divinity School, to the Deaconate-Trinity Sunday, in Trinity church, Geneva, Western New York, the Rev. H. G. Wood, to the Priesthood.-May 24th, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, T. K. Conrad and R. S. Matlack, to the Deaconate. Also, May 26th, at the same place, E. W. Appleton, S. E. Appleton, H. C. Potter, H. M. Stuart, and Faber Byllesby, all of the Alexandria Seminary, to the same. Also, on Whitsunday, C. R. Bonnell, and on Trinity Sunday, A. M. Abel, to the same.-Whitsunday. in Trinity church, Fort Wayne, Indiana, the Rev. Elias Birdsall, to the Priesthood.-May 11th, at New Orleans, J. F. Girault. to the Deaconate. Also, May 21st, Anthony Vallas, to the same. -May 24th, in Trinity church, Muscatine, Iowa, W. T. Campbell, to the Dea

conate.

CONSECRATIONS.-April 25th, St. John's church, Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania.—May 19th, St. Paul's church, Petersburg, Virginia.-May 13th, St. Paul's church. Lowndesboro, Alabama.-April 5th, St. John's church, at the foot of Lake Washington, Washington County, Mississippi.-May 21st, Grace church, Lyons, Iowa.

THE CHURCH ABROAD.

THE CONVOCATION of Canterbury has had another session of two days, and the result shows most decided progress towards Synodal action. The Archbishop openly gives in, and that on grounds of conscience; and he intimates that he has done what he could to induce his Most Reverend Brother of York to relax the gagging process in his Province. In a speech on the address to the Queen, the primate used the following:

The clergy are called together to treat of certain weighty and urgent affairs concerning the security and defence of the Church of England; they are called together as the words of the writ likewise state, in a very solemn manner, putting them on their loyalty and allegiance not to disobey the summons. Now, as having the prerogative of either allowing deliberations to take place or of proroguing Convocation, I have been sometimes urged, when the clergy have been thus assembled in obedience to her Majesty's writ, to say at once that there was no business to be performed, and to immediately discharge them; but as long as they continue to be summoned in the solemn terms of the writ, I cannot take upon myself to execute what I consider, to say the least of it, so ungracious a task. That, then, is the reason why I have not listened to many suggestions which have been addressed to me, both publicly and privately, to use the prerogative with which I am invested, to dismiss Convocation as soon as it has assembled; conceiving such a course to be at variance with the duty I owe her Majesty in obeying the writ which I had received at her command.

The debates in both Houses were spirited, interesting, and perfectly decorous, but, as nothing was concluded, we need not dwell upon them. In the Lower House, Archdeacon Thorpe declared that of the present Convocation every newly-elected member was for Synodal action, and that all the newly elected but five were in actual attendance. This shows that all sorts of Churchmen are in favour of the revival. Things are also drawing towards some definite plan for admitting the laity.

THE INCOME of the Propagation Society for the year has been £104.470; of the Church Missionary Society, £123,000; all together, upwards of $1,000,000. Neither Society has ever reached so high a figure before.

THE LLANDAFF CATHEDRAL, after ten years spent in repairs, has been reopened, the Bishop of Oxford preaching. The offertory realized £2,800. THE IRISH CHURCH Education Society had an income of £39,526 the past year. It has supported 7,691 schools, with 85,569 scholars, of whom 15,770 are children of Romanists. That's the true way to smash up Popery!

"THE GOVERNMENT grant of £1,200 to the Church in Scotland" is to be discontinued. Her 7 Bishops and 160 Clergy, with incomes averaging only £90 a year, will be left in a sad strait, we fear.-The Bishops have issued a statement, prepared by a Committee of their Order, setting forth the true position and rights of the Scottish Church, its thorough unity and complete communion with the Church of England, and the great injustice of the present disabilities under which they have laboured ever since the year 1792.

THE ROYAL ASSENT has been given to the Act of the Colonial Legislature for removing all hindrance to Synodal action in Canada. The Bishop of Toronto had summoned his Diocese to meet in Synod on the 17th of June. As the thing now proceeds under express sanction of law, we may look for important doings.

WHATEVER exists as an emanation from man, exists as a relief or a supply to some want of humanity. Of these wants some are doubtless the fruit and manifestation of that depravity of our nature, whose infection remains, " even in them that are regenerate," and therefore deserve neither commendation nor encouragement. If there are those (and that there are we doubt not) who would refer all speculative philosophy to this category, we have at present no controversy with them. We will postpone this case for consideration at some other time, if indeed we shall think it worth while to give them our attention at all.

We have, then, before us the historic fact that Philosophy is and has always been one of the conspicuous departments of human activity. Among the earliest and most earnest exercises of the human mind do we find efforts to solve the great problems of Philosophy; the nature, origin, and extent of human knowledge; the reality of an external world, its origin and nature; the existence of GOD; the nature of virtue, and the destiny of the human soul. And although these are questions with which in their most abstract and comprehending forms the masses of people, in all ages, take no interest, and which the most active men regard as merely speculative, having no practical importance or value, there are, in all ages,