The Connecticut Observer, And New York Congregationalist

Protestantism in Prussia.-The king of Prussia has undertaken to combine Lutherans and Calvinists into one body, and has compiled a Liturgy for their common use. He not only requires them to adapt themselves to his system, but takes it on himself to appoint ministers in each locality, and claims from all to be recognised as Head of the church in his own dominions. By this means many have expelled from the national edifices of worship, and have had recourse to private houses; they have been followed by persecution, and a great number of them are emigrating to South Australia. Thus the king is losing hundreds and thousands of his best and most industrious subjects, while the colonies of Great Britain are gaining them. But we may adore the Providence of God, that is thus making the wrath of man to praise him, by transporting trees of righteousness, to the vast islands of the Southern Pacific.-Ib.