The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1868-07-08
FOREIGN ITEMS.

LouOon ana E6I1s-I u6 lOllOWlng ldSISdppSdI
from a recent census of these cities:
Paris covers a space of seven millions hec
tareS, contains two millions inhabitants and
fifty thousand houses.
London covers thirty-one millions hectares
(mOre than four times the size of Paris, con.
tains three millions inhabitants and three hun
dred and sixty thousand houses.
In Paris the houses average four stories in
London only two. In Paris forty persons to u
house; In London only eight.
Rev. William Charters, a most accomplished,
as well as devout clergyman of the Scottish
Establishment, who has for some years been a
prominent preacher and pastor in Glasgow, is
announced as having been appointed by the
crown to the chair of Theology in the Univer-
sity of Edinburgh, and formerly occupied by
the late Rev. DR.. Robert Lee
The Foreign Missions of the Irish Presbyte-
rian Church in India are in a fOurishing con-
ditiOn, and a new mission TO China has Just
been inuagurated by Mr.. Cory, one of the
merchant princes of Belfast, who will give the
sum of five hundred dollars annually to this
field, with the recognition of the Assembly,
and with the understanding that the Ulster
people shall endorse and enlarge the gift by
annual help.
The Rev. Robert Montgomery, ex-Modera-
tor, for many years missionary in India, said
that, as among the fruits Of Protestant Evan
geical missions, there were some $50 900 ma
tive Christians gathered in Christian churches.
And in their own mission field in GOOjerati
there are Eve native congregations, with a
membership of about 400 eight catechiSts,
and an equal number OF c0ip0rteiTS.
Rev. William Wilson, who tor a number Of
years held a pastoral charge in Dublin, be-
queathed upwards OF $50, 900, TO the Foreign,
Home Jewish, Roman Catholic, Colonial, and
Continental Missions, and also to the Presby-
terrain College at Belfast, $500
The Scriptures are being freely circulated
throughout Mexico both by London and New
York (American) Bible Societies. In the City
of Mexico a Protestant church has been or.
ganized A Protestant church building has
been erectedin the city of Monterey. News
papers are Springing into existence in many
places in Mexico
Regium Donum for the Irish Presbyterian
Church.-There is no doubt that the giviag uE
this DOnUnl is a serious pecuniary loss mas
much as the sum abandoned will be more than
| $500, 900 per annum. Along 10Th MGS will 60
if MIR. Gladstone policy succeeds, the May.
nOoth College endowment, say Sl6S,000 pei
annum. Vested interests are to be duly re-
spected. All the present clergy Of the Irish
! Establishment will hold their livings for life
so also each Presbyterian pastor will retain hi
J Re0tHRa DORa0a up to the period of his decease
English Presbyterian churCh.-Rev Prof
Chalmers, of London, was one of the delegates
from the English Presbyterian Synod to the
Irish Assembly. His address is thus noticed:
"Dr. Chalmers rose to address the Assem-.
bly,, and was greeted with loud and prolonged
applause, the entire audience rising to thelI
feet to receive him. He said it gave him
great pleasure to be present as the representa-
tive of the English Presbyterian Church, to
tender them her gratitude, inquire after their
welfare, and express the interest which the
English Church took in the work in ~hich
they were engaged, and to assure them nat
whatever difficulties they were involved in,
and whatever eventualities, possibilities, and
probabilities might await them, they might
depend upon the sympathy and strenuous sup
/ port of the English Presbyterian Church.
/ The progress of the English Presbyterian
/ Church was peaceful and without noise, yet it
was making progress year by year, and they
now possessed l20 churches. They had up
wards of 500 elders, between 500 and 900 dea-
cons, and upwards of 10000 communicates,
whilst their contributions to all purposes, con-
I gregatiOnal and missionary, had been foT the
last year upwards of 500, 900, and, in addition
/ to that, for temporary and extraordinary ope
ratiOnS, they had received the sum of S75, 900.
/ Altogether, the contributions to matters con-
nected with the Church had been about $780,
| OOO-(applauSe which, from 100 congrega-
tons, they did not think so much amiss. The
I stipends of the ministers were from $3.50 and
/ $40O, up to So, 500 and $4,000; but the aver,
age over the length aud breadth of the Church
was 81 200, and the contributions of the church
members were SIS per head He trusted the
/ time would yet be realized when the great
Presbyterian Churches of England Ireland,
aud Scotland would stretch out their hands to
/ their friends in America, and present to the