The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1873-07-16
FOREIGN ITEMS.


Ia consequences Of the suspension of coin pay
meat, 5y .us Bank Of Fanes London has become
the center ot exchange tor all + lrope
FaPal balls canno, be prcm1'gated 10 Brazil with
opt government sanction The sentence OF eXcom
mu1icl0on has no civil effect.
Isabella sx Queen Of spain has retired from Rome
after having made valuable presents TO the Pope
and been vel received The Pope is able to walk
shout .itt.e withou, support
Wen Endowed If the Eoglish Church were dis
es'aoh~hed she would 80 out Of office II is esti-
mattel. with an end 7nent of $3.50 900 600 1t she
were provided f0r on the same principles as the
lrish DIS established ciu'cb.
Ths Universities Of Oxford and Cambridge spend
annually some $3.50 900 each on the salaries of
Fellows Of which each institution has about 800
receiving about 81 500 a year, and making little or
no return. The stipend OF a Fellow continues
through his hte, or until his marriage, II he
marriss.
Tie spanish Government begins to show some
siga, OF hie. A proclamation, We are told, is about
20 be- Issued ealing upon all the Carists through
cat the Republic 90 .ay down their arms aud sub
mit 90 che Government. Five days are TO be al
loved them. Failing TO surrender within the
specified time, c0rd0us VIII be drawn around the
I1suuec,io1arv districts and a decisive campaign
commenced The strength of the Carhsts In the
North Is revealed by the fact that railway traffic is
SUI lnterurled. the foreign mails being sent by
sea iu war hips.
what IS called Hospital Sunday, in many pro-
vinciai towns ln England has found It's way into
London Sunday GA which funds are raised By
cue churches iog the local hospitals. The under
taking ln London was of some magnitude but af
GER spec'a. Efforts one thousand churches signi6sd
their willingness to JOIN IN the movement, and on
che Sunday specified four hundred Of them the
number that had reported contributed sixty thou
slat aclsr- which goes tO the benefit of he forty
o. hfy u1eud0wcd hospitals of the metropolis
whose doors are open to all classes Of sufferers.
Oftas sixty British Societies that propagate the
Z0>De. among the he8ihen 2l are Of the Episcopal
church. l0 are Jointly Episcopal and NOueOntorm
i,f, and SO are supported by the N0ncOntOrmistS Of
E8gand aud che Presbyterians Of Scotland aud
Ireland Their total contributions for 1871 we're
nearly $500 900 OF which he Episcopal church
gave nearly $500 000 heading the list with the
$50 o. the Church Missionary Society. These
Societies look after about a million converts from
heatbeDIsm, of whom 81 23l, or nearly third
are found IG Madagascar under the London Mis-
sionary Society. About 250 600 are communicates
and ABOUT the same number of children, whose
parents for che most part are heather, attend the
school
Dr Livingstone. At the meeting Of the Royal
GecErarhical Society 10 London. Oh June 23d, SIR
B2f'cl frere. the new,V-eected President said the
h.ng o. laly had intruSted 70 him a gold medal
for Dr. Livingstone, to be handed to the great
explorer be should meet him either in Zanzibar
OF elsewhere. AS this had not happened be had
BROUGHT DC back with bin to Englani, 70 be kept
until d. Livingstone return. Sir Bartlett Frere
then read a letter announcing tbat the Queen bad
approved 90 Che pension of $500 per annum to Dr..
Livingstone in recognition OF his services In Cen
Hrn. y u r b., q
tees-Nr john Murray aud James YOung-dsr- |
ing the D1lt0rS absence. Ga his return it will be
paid directly to him.
Scottish Pres5ytsrianisn has three churches, the |
E,tan1,ned numbering a million and a half the |
tfoe With baf as many, and the United Presby- |
terrain, With nearly halt a million. The two latter |
uoite To- non conformity, and they have been try /
l1g ior Gen years 10 get together for common sup |
port OF common interests The United Presbyte- /
rlanS generally dCn0unce State ENDORSEMENTS as lit /
t-e short of sacrilege. The Free Church avoided |
taking this ground az It's organization, and a ma /
J'uty strenu0usy refuse communion with a church /
which holds lC Ihis has so fac defeated the pro-
posal OF Free Church and Uoited Presbyterian |
union. The recent meeting OF the Free Church |
Assembly was exceedingly stormy, aud almost
ended IN disruption OF the body which Chalmers
founded thirty years ago. The majority wished to
have Free Church PreSbyteries sustain calls OF
Jn,ed Presbyterian ministers to Free Churches, |
aad 90 this the minority threatened disruption OF
The church. A meaningless compromise was
haally reached, and Pre>oyteries will not "sus-
raio but w,l pronounce sufficient the calls /
fu question.
q Ncw Ihroaeh Route The PENNSYLVANIA Gen.
era. Railroad Company have established a new
through route IRON New York TO Washington,
which went i0,o operation on June % The route
viii be from Jersey City TO Philadelphia over the
old hne, thence by way of lancaster to York Pa,
over the Northern Central 20 Baltimore, and over
the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad TO Washing
ton. This important step will render the Penn
Sylganja Company absolutely independent Of the
Baltimore and Ohio, and SVe Philadelphia, BalJi
more. and WILMINGTON lthrOsds In their through
route. The great tunnel under Baltimore being
completed, passengers viii be carried through with
out the teiionS delays attending the transfer by
horsepower. throughout the road Is double track,
laid WITH steel rails and stone ballast.