ANGLICAN CHUKCHES. 



The immigration from Europe to America 

 by far exceeded, in 1869, that of any of the pre- 

 ceding years. The great bulk continues to go 

 to the United States, but in several South 

 American republics there has also been for 

 years a considerable increase. A new feature 

 in the history of immigration is the extraor- 

 dinary rush to America of the Chinese, who, 

 it seems, may now come not only in as large 

 numbers as the Europeans, but much larger. 

 It is now certain that this new immigration of 

 people from Asia will greatly enhance the rate 

 of increase of the population of the American 

 Continent, but, on the other hand, grave dan- 

 gers are feared by some economists from a 

 large admixture of Mongolians with the present 

 population of America, and the dangers of a 

 coming Chinese question are discussed. 



Censuses were taken, in 1869, in Mexico and 

 the Argentine Kepublic, both of which showed 

 a considerable increase of population over the 

 previous official statements. The population 

 of America, at the present day, certainly ex- 

 ceeds 85,000,000, of which, at least, 78,000,000 

 are inhabitants of independent American States. 



ANGLICAN CHUKCHES. The Church 

 Almanac for 1870 gives the following statis- 



tical summary of the Protestant Episcopal 

 Church in the United States* for the year 

 1868-'69 : 



Dioceses 39 



Bishops 54 



Bishops elect '.I'/. 



Priests and Deacons 2,711 



Whole number of Clergy 2,762 



Parishes 2,512 



Ordinations Deacons, in 26 Dioceses 115 



Priests, in 24 85 



Total, in28 200 



Candidates for Orders, in 20 208 



Churches consecrated, in 18 47 



Baptisms Infants, in 26 20,749 



Adults, in 26 5,030 



Not specified, in 6 3,760 



Total, in32 29,539 



Confirmations, in 36 " 20,793 



Communicants increase in 23 Dioceses during past 



year 7,186 



Number reported in 33 Dioceses . . 176,686 

 Present number in the whole 



Church 200,000 



Marriages, in 30 Dioceses 7,647 



Burials, in 30 u 12,475 



Sunday-School Teachers, in 27 Dioceses 18,644 



Scholars, in 30 " 185,975 



Contributions, in 31 " $4,205,029,41 



The following table exhibits the number of 

 clergymen, parishes, baptisms, communicants, 

 teachers and scholars of Sunday-schools, and 

 the amount of missionary and charitable con- 

 tributions for each diocese : 



* It will be seen, on examination, that the above summary does not include, in some of its items, the statistics 

 of the whole Church. Several of the convention journals were not published when the Church Almanac went to 

 press, and of those published and received by the editor, two contained no abstract of the parochial reports, and no 

 summary of statistics for the conventional year. 



+ The statistics marked with daggers are taken from the Convention Journal of 1868. 

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