Recently, symptoms of dissatisfaction with the "Plan of Union" have extensively developed themselves, particularly in New York, Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa; and the probability now is, that a pure Congregational mode of church government will soon be generally adopted by the descendants of New England Congregationalists, who are scattered over the great West.

These Congregational churches are more particularly denominated Orthodox than any other churches in the United States, and adhere to the doctrines of Calvin or Hopkins.

PUBLICATIONS. - The Orthodox Congregationalists publish a great number of periodicals, the principal of which are the Boston Recorder, the New England Puritan, Boston, Mass.; the Christian Mirror, Portland, Me.; the Congregational Journal, Concord, N. H.; the Vermont Chronicle, Windsor, Vt.; the Congregational Observer, Hartford, Ct.; and several in the Western States, which are sustained partly by Congregationalists and partly by Presbyterians.

DISCIPLES OF CHRIST.

THE largest number of this denomination is found in the region of country around where its doctrines were first propagated. There are, however, societies of this class of Christians in other parts of the country, some adopting, and others rejecting, its views on baptism. The total number in the United States is about one hundred and fifty thousand.

PUBLICATIONS. The Disciples of Christ publish a periodical, the Millennial Harbinger, at Bethany, Va., (edited by CAMPBELL, the founder of the sect,) and another, the Evangelist, at Carthage, Ohio.

EPISCOPALIANS.

We have already given, in the historical account of the Episcopal Church, in this Country, a few brief notices of its condition; and we now present the following additional statistics.

It being the essential principle of Episcopacy, that legitimate church authority is not originated by voluntary associations of men, but is of Divine origin, derived from Christ, and transmitted through an unbroken succession of Bishops, who trace their appointment to Him, we here give a list of the names of persons who constitute such succession.

* Archbishop Cranmer was the first in this succession, at and after the Reformation; and Bishop White was the connecting link between the English and American suc

cessions.

LIST OF BISHOPS OF THE CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES.
Those with an asterisk (*) are deceased.

*1784. Samuel Seabury, D. D., Connecticut, died, 1796.
*1787. William White, D. D., Pennsylvania, died, 1836.
*1787. Samuel Provoost, D. D., New York, died, 1815.
*1790. James Madison, D. D., Virginia, died, 1812.
*1792. Thomas John Claggett, D. D., Maryland, died, 1816.
*1795. Robert Smith, D. D., South Carolina, died, 1801.
*1797. Edward Bass, D. D., Massachusetts, died, 1803.
*1797. Abraham Jarvis, D. D., Connecticut, died, 1813.
*1801. Benjamin Moore, D. D., New York, died, 1816.
*1804. Samuel Parker, D. D., Massachusetts, died, 1804.
*1811. John Henry Hobart, D. D., New York, died, 1830.
1811. Alexander Viets Griswold, D. D., Massachusetts.
*1812. Theodore Dehon, D. D., South Carolina, died, 1817.
*1814. Richard Channing Moore, D. D., Virginia, died, 1841.
*1814. James Kemp, D. D., Maryland, died, 1827.
*1815. John Croes, D. D., New Jersey, died, 1832.

*1818. Nathaniel Bowen, D. D., South Carolina, died, 1839.

1819. Philander Chase, D. D., Illinois.

1819. Thomas Church Brownell, D. D., LL. D., Connecticut. *1823. John Stark Ravenscroft, D. D., North Carolina, died, 1830. 1827. Henry Ustick Onderdonk, D. D., Pennsylvania. 1829. William Meade, D. D., Virginia.

*1830. William Murray Stone, D. D., Maryland, died, 1838. 1830. Benjamin Tredwell Onderdonk, D..D., New York.

1831. Levi Silliman Ives, D. D., LL. D., North Carolina.

1832. John Henry Hopkins, D. D., Vermont.

1832. Benjamin Bosworth Smith, D. D., Kentucky.

1832. Charles Pettit McIlvaine, D. D., Ohio.

1832. George Washington Doane, D. D., LL. D., New Jersey.

1834. James Hervey Otey, D. D., Tennessee.

1835. Jackson Kemper, D. D., Missionary Bishop, for Wisconsin, Iowa, and the Indian territory North of Lat. 361°.

1836. Samuel Allen McCoskry, D. D., Michigan.

1838. Leonidas Polk, D. D., Louisiana.

1839. William Heathcote De Lancey, D. D., Western New York.

1840. Christopher Edwards Gadsden, D. D., South Carolina.

1840. William Rollinson Whittingham, D. D., Maryland.

1841. Stephen Elliott, jun., D. D., Georgia.

1841. Alfred Lee, D. D., Delaware.

The following table contains the statistics of this Church in the United States:

The Dioceses of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, are under the charge of the same Bishop. Indiana and Missouri are under the charge of the Missionary Bishop for Wisconsin, Iowa, and the Indian territory North of Lat. 36°. Alabama is under the charge of the Bishop of Louisiana. Mississippi and Arkansas are under the charge of the Bishop of Tennessee.

In the British American Provinces and Islands, there are six dioceses, containing six Bishops, and 454 other clergymen.

There are numerous local Societies for religious purposes, in every Diocese.

PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS. WEEKLY: The Churchman, New York; Gospel Messenger, Utica; Gospel Messenger and Southern Episcopal Register, Charleston, S. C.; Episcopal Recorder, Philadelphia; Southern Churchman, Alexandria, D. C.; Christian Witness, Boston; Western Episcopal Observer, Cincinnati, Ohio; Banner of the Cross,