There are, in the United States and Territories, one United States Convention, one United States Universalist Historical Society, twelve State Conventions, fifty-nine Associations, eight hundred and seventy-five societies, five hundred and fifty meeting-houses, and five hundred and forty preachers. Besides these, there are twenty-one periodicals published by the order, and twenty new books have been published within the year, besides reprints. There are also five schools in the patronage of the denomination. There is an Educational Association in Maine, a Sunday School Association in Massachusetts, a Publishing Association in Pennsylvania, a public library of fifteen hundred volumes in Ohio, and two Book Associations in Indiana and Illinois. By adding the numbers of societies, etc., in the British Provinces, to those in the United States, there are, at present, the grand total of one General Convention, twelve State Conventions, fifty-five Associations, eight hundred and ninety-five societies, five hundred and fifty-six meeting-houses, and five hundred and forty-six preachers. ------------------------------------- PERIODICALS.—_Gospel Banner and Christian Pilot_, Augusta, Me.; EASTERN ROSE-BUD, Portland, Me.; _Universalist and Family Visitor_, Contoocookville, N. H.; _Universalist Watchman_, Montpelier, Vt.; _Trumpet and Universalist Magazine_, Boston, Mass.; _Christian Freeman and Family Visitor_, Boston, Mass.; _Universalist and Ladies Repository_, Boston, Mass.; _Light of Zion, and Sabbath School Contributor_, Boston, Mass.; _Star and Palladium_, Lowell, Mass.; _Gospel Messenger_, Providence, R. I.; _Universalist_, Middletown, Ct.; _New York Christian Messenger_, New York city; _Universalist Union_, New York city; _Evangelical Magazine and Gospel Advocate_, Utica, N. Y.; _Western Luminary_, Rochester, N. Y.; _The Nazarene_, Philadelphia, Pa.; _Christian Warrior_, Richmond, Va.; _Southern Universalist_, Columbus, Ga.; _Star in the West_, Cincinnati, Ohio; _Christian Teacher_, Lafayette, Ind.; _Better Covenant_, Rockford, Ill. MISSIONARY STATISTICS. We have been much assisted in our missionary statistics by the kindness of the secretaries of the several Missionary Boards, and by permission of the proprietor, Mr. F. Rand, for the use of his valuable Missionary Chart, prepared with great care, in 1840, by the Reverend Messrs. Jefferson Hascall and Daniel Wise. Those of the Congregationalists, Baptists, Methodists, and Episcopalians, are brought down to 1841, and are quite accurate; but the efforts of some of the other denominations in this great and glorious cause are not fully stated, as some of the items have not been reported. First Protestant Missions. The first Protestant mission on record was undertaken in 1559, by Michael, who was sent into Lapland by Gustavus Vasa, king of Sweden.