GREAT BRITAIN. 



GREECE. 



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about $700,000. The Free Church of Scotland 

 (Presbyterian) is a voluntary church, a seces- 

 sion from the Establishment, and has 16 synods, 

 71 presbyteries, 880 ministers, 923 congrega- 

 tions, and about half a million adherents. It 

 has 81,891 scholars in its Sunday-schools, and 

 raised, in 1867, 367,527 = $1,842,635 for 

 home and mission purposes. It has a susten- 

 tation-fund, from which is paid annually to its 

 clergy an average sum of 140 = $700, by 

 way of salary, and they have in addition, in a 

 large proportion of the churches, manses or 

 parsonages. The other Presbyterian bodies 

 of the United Kingdom are : the United Pres- 

 byterian Church, extending over the whole 

 kingdom, with 31 presbyteries, 593 churches, 

 575 ministers, and about 160,000 members, 

 which raises 260,000 = $1,300,000 for benevo- 

 lent purposes; the Presbyterian Church in 

 Iceland, with 37 presbyteries, 598 ministers, 

 560 congregations, 123,000 members, 58,000 

 scholars in its Sunday-schools, and raising 

 84,000= $420,000 for benevolent objects; 

 the Presbyterian Church in England, with 7 

 presbyteries, 113 churches, 110 ministers. 

 20,000 communicants, and 15,500 Sunday-schol- 

 ars ; and six smaller bodies, with an aggregate 

 of about 137 churches and 136 ministers. 



Of the Dissenting communities, the Method- 

 ists, divided into the Wesleyan Body, the New 

 Connection, the Primitive Methodists, the Bi- 

 ble Christians, and the Methodist Free Church, 

 are the most numerous. They count, in all, 

 about 618,000 communicants. The Wesleyan 

 Body has 5,024 chapels, 2,215 ministers, 317,200 

 members, and 826,775 Sunday-scholars. The 

 New Connection has 659 chapels, 259 circuit, 

 and 1,274 local preachers, 33,095 members, 

 and 75,416 Sunday-scholars. The Primitive 

 Methodists have 3,360 chapels, 161,229 mem- 

 bers, 943 itinerant and 14,169 local preachers, 

 and 258,857 Sunday-scholars. The Bible Chris- 

 tians have 417 chapels, 65 itinerant and 957 

 local preachers, 26,221 members, and 22,000 

 Sunday-scholars. The Methodist Free Church 

 has 817 chapels, 271 itinerant and 3,246 local 

 preachers ; 70,000 members, and 140,000 Sun- 

 day-scholars. 



The Independents or Congregationalists have 

 76 associations, 3,300 churches, 2,876 ministers 

 and missionaries, and about 340,000 members. 

 The Welsh Calvinistic Methodists and the 

 Countess of Huntingdon's Connection, who are 

 also Congregationalists in doctrine, have 759 

 chapels, 700 ministers, 95,000 members, and 

 140,000 Sunday-scholars. 



The Baptists, of whom there are several sep- 

 arate sects, have 2,447 churches, 2,000 minis- 

 ters, 231,506 members, and 267,396 Sunday- 

 scholars. They raise for benevolent and mis- 

 sionary purposes about $700,000 per annum. 



The Unitarians have 277 ministers, 270 chap- 

 els, and about 80 missionary stations. The Jews 

 have 80 synagogues, about 100 ministers, and 

 50,000 adherents. The Friends have 327 meet- 

 ing-houses, 665 ministers, and 17,000 members. 



The Moravians, 83 churches, 55 ministers, 

 5,550 members, 3,220 communicants, and 6,200 

 Sunday-scholars. The New Jerusalem Church 

 has 50 societies, with 3, 724 registered members, 

 56 schools, and 9,384 Sunday-scholars. The 

 Mormons have 82 churches. There are also 

 numerous minor sects. 



GREECE, a kingdom in Southeastern Eu- 

 rope. The present ruler is George I., "King 

 of the Hellenes," born December 24, 1845, the 

 third son of the King of Denmark, brother-in- 

 law to the Prince of Wales and to the heredi- 

 tary Grand-duke of Russia. Queen Olga is the 

 daughter of the Grand-duke Constantine, a 

 younger brother of the Emperor of Russia. 

 The issue of the union are two sons, Prince 

 Constantine, born at Athens, August 5, 1868 ; 

 and George, born June 24, 1869. The King 

 has thus far displayed no marked ability, but 

 it must be admitted that he rules over a disor- 

 ganized country, inhabited by a race which is 

 rather turbulent and lawless, and that the 

 country is laboring under financial misman- 

 agement and the effects of yet novel institu- 

 tions. He succeeded to the throne, after the 

 overthrow of King Otho by a successful revo- 

 lution, by virtue of a protocol signed by the 

 protecting powers, June 5, 1863. He was de- 

 clared to have arrived at his majority, June 

 27, 1863, by the Greek National Assembly; 

 arrived at the Pira3us on the 30th of October, 

 and the next day assumed the crown. The 

 legislative power, according to the Constitution 

 of 1864, resides in a single Chamber of Depu- 

 ties, who are elected for four years by direct 

 vote, and are 170 in number. There are a su- 

 preme court (Areopagus), four courts of appeal, 

 a court of claims, and sixteen district tribunals. 

 The population of Greece proper is 1,096,810, 

 that of the Ionian Islands, 251,172, making a 

 total of 1,348,522. The population in the 

 towns has been increasing. The Greek rite is 

 the national religion, but the Latin rite is tol- 

 erated. On the main-land the Greek Church 

 has four archbishops and four bishops, in Pelo- 

 ponnesus four archbishops and six bishops-, in 

 the ^Egean Islands one archbishop and three 

 bishops, and in the Ionian Islands five arch- 

 bishops and bishops. The Latins have two 

 archbishops and four bishops. 



At the close of the year 1868, the Turkish 

 Government had accepted the proposition of a 

 European Conference which had been made by 

 Prussia, France, and .Russia, for the purpose 

 of settling in a peaceable manner its conflict 

 with Greece. Its consent had been given, 

 however, on the condition that its ultimatum 

 of December llth should be the basis of the ne- 

 gotiations. The Conference was held in Paris, 

 from January 9th to February 18th. In its first 

 sitting it received the following note, presented 

 by the Greek plenipotentiary, A. B. Rangab6 : 



I deeply regret to be unable to accept the invitation 

 you honored me with, to assist at the sittings of the 

 Conference with a consultative voice. 



The object of the Conference being to deal with a 



