Religious And Educational

- The Oxfor 1, Miss., University has 800 s.tndents. - Tho Soutli Carolina College of AgricuUure has opened with twenty-six students. - Of the Chinese on our Pacitic Coast 1,200 are said to be professing ChrisUans. - The experiment of a half-dav attendauoe tot priinary school pupils is proving a great suucess in Washington auil in New Haven. - The Hiernian Híblo Society has circulattd iu Ircland. since it was forpaèd, nearly anJ a half million copies of the Bible. - The Catholic schools of TCngland areatlended by 2&5,OOO cllldre The scliools received L182,961 from the Government for their maintenanee last year. - Twenty-six of the 148 missionary workers of tlie Methodist Episcqpal ('liurch are supporter) by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society conneeted with-the ehuruh. " The Appropriatioo for África foí thls year ÍS 88,900; for China, $14,000; for India, $60,500; for Japan, $27,000. - Tlie Presbyterian Synod at Lexins;ton, Ky. , says the Courier -Journal, was attended by four oolored delegates. Three of theru were old-fashioueiC dia;nitied, sensible men, like unto Dncle Tom, and the other an "aggressiyö" type of the latter day. They all oocupied seats in the body of the Synod. - The town of Accrin;ton, Lancashire, Eng., claims pre-eminence as a Sunday-sehool town. Of the thirty Ilionsand inhabitant9 near!y ten thousand are coiineoted with Sunday schools - eiht thousand seven hundred and thirtv-eight as scholars, and eleven hundred" and thirty-eight a3 teaohei-s. - A movement is on foot in the Territory of Montana to take nee led aetion in regard to the sohool-lands, whieh, it is said, are being used by irresponsible persons and exhausted, without yieldmg auy benefit to the schools. A Territorial Counoil of Edneation will bo f' irmed, havinw for one of its prominent objeets the establishment of a normal sohool.