MOUSTIEK, LIONEL. 



NAVY, UNITED STATES. 469 



Sunday-Schools. Scholars. Teachers. 



British Province 3,912 TOO 



American Northern Province 5,430 558 



". Southern Province 529 65 



Missions '. 9,871 1,323 



The Moravians have 87 mission stations in 

 various parts of the earth, with 319 missiona- 

 ries, 1,009 native assistants, having the care of 

 20,518 communicants, 24,916 non-communi- 

 cants, and 22,814 baptized children. The in- 

 crease of the missions, in 1868, was 21,401, 

 and the expense 17,113. The sums raised by 

 contributions of members or by trade in the 

 various stations, and the special donations for 

 school purposes, amounted to about 25,000. 

 The total number of missionaries employed 

 from the commencement of the missions, 136 

 years ago, was 1,850. 



A Home Missionary Society has lately been 

 established in the British provinces, to which 

 there is an auxiliary in Yorkshire. The Irish 

 Scripture-reader's Society also does mission- 

 work in connection with the Irish congrega- ' 

 tions. There are five boys' and ten girls' schools 

 and boarding-schools in England ; seven boys' 

 and ten girls' schools are enumerated on the 

 Continent of Europe. In the United States, 

 besides the theological school at Bethlehem, 

 Pa., there is a ladies' school at the same place ; 

 and there are schools at Ohaska, Minn. ; in 

 Bartholomew County, Ind. ; Lancaster County, 

 Pa. ; Nazareth, Pa. ; and Salem, N. 0. Theo- 

 logical institutions are located at Gnadenfeld, 

 Prussia; Fulneck, England; and at Bethle- 

 hem, Pa. There are schools for the children 

 of missionaries at Fulneck, and at Kleinwelke, 

 Saxony. A training-school has been estab- 

 lished at Nisky, Prussia. The leading Mora- 

 vian periodicals are, the Moravian, at Bethle- 

 hem, Pa. ; the Messenger and Periodical Ac- 

 counts (Missionary), in England; the Bruder 

 Bote and the fferrnhut, in Germany. 



The following is the condition of the prin- 



cipal church funds in the British provinces : 

 ministers' fund, 0,192 7s. Gd. ; income, 418 

 14s. lOd. ; sustentation fund, 5,156; minis- 

 ters' children's fund, 4,998 13s. 4d. ; training 

 institution fund, 2,160 7s. lOd. 



British societies in aid of the Moravian mis- 

 sions are, the London Association, the Edin- 

 burgh Association, and the Glasgow Auxiliary. 



MOUSTIEB, LEONEL, Marquis de, a French 

 statesman and diplomatist, born in Paris in 

 1815 ; died in that city, February 5, 1869. He 

 was the eldest son of the Marquis Clemen 

 Edouard de Moustier, Comte de Frotte. He 

 was educated for the diplomatic career, elected 

 member of the Legislative Assembly for the 

 Department of Doubs, May 13, 1849; was am- 

 bassador at the court of Berlin from March, 

 1853, to November, 1859; ambassador at 

 Vienna from December, 1859, to August, 1861 ; 

 ambassador at Constantinople from August, 

 1861, to September, 1866 ; and appointed Sec- 

 retary of State for Foreign Affairs on the 2d 

 of September, 1866, which place he held up to 

 December, 1868, when he resigned in conse- 

 sequence of his failing health, impaired by his 

 long residence in the East, and was made Sen- 

 ator, and was succeeded by the Marquis de 

 La Valette. While filling the Department of 

 Foreign Affairs, the marquis was supposed, in- 

 correctly it is now said, to represent the war 

 policy of the empire, and, in particular, to 

 have urged an aggressive interference in the 

 affairs of Germany, with a view to preventing 

 the consummation of German unity. His 

 health since the period of his appointment to 

 the Senate, had been steadily and percepti- 

 bly declining. His retirement from the For- 

 eign Department was very generally, though 

 perhaps erroneously, regarded as a manifesta- 

 tion on the part of Napoleon III. of his aban- 

 donment of a war policy toward Prussia, and 

 the news of it was joyfully received at the 

 Prussian court. 



NAVY, UNITED STATES. The Navy of 

 the United States at the commencement of the 

 political year, on March 4, 1869, consisted of 

 203 vessels of all classes and in every con- 

 dition. Their aggregate tonnage was 183,442 

 tons, and when in commission they were 

 calculated to carry 1,366 guns, exclusive of 

 howitzers. As regards steam or sailing ves- 

 sels, excepting the ir on-clad s, which are all 

 steamers, of the wooden ships 32 were sail- 

 ing-vessels; 53 were steamers with some aux- 

 iliary sail-power; 44 were steamers with- 

 out any efficient sail-power, and 22 were with- 

 out sail-power of any kind. The whole force 

 effective for immediate service at the begin- 

 ning of the political year was 43 vessels, in- 

 cluding storeships, mounting 356 guns of every 

 calibre, and attached to fleets; six others, 



mounting 36 guns, were in commission for 

 special service, besides six at the various sta- 

 tions used as receiving-ships, with fourteen 

 tugs and small vessels. The remainder of the 

 navy not in commission consisted of 46 iron- 

 clads and monitors of every class, laid up at 

 the various stations. Of this number 32 have 

 been condemned and ordered to be sold as not 

 adapted to the service, of which 26 have 

 never been in commission. All of these iron- 

 clads would require a thorough overhauling 

 and expensive repairs to hulls, turrets, and 

 machinery, before they could be got ready for 

 service. There are 22 vessels on the stocks- 

 unfinished, and 66 laid up in ordinary, or unfit 

 for active service in the future. 



The North and South Pacific stations were 

 combined into one, the Pacific station; the 



