The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1875-02-03
FOREIGN ITEMS.

Prinoely DOnaiiOn.-The Msbarsjah Of Cash
mere has given TO- 900 rupees toward the erection
Of a Rew Christian church at Lahore.
The first Old Catholic service in Berlin was held
on Advent Sunday, in one OF the Protestant
churches, by Professor Weber, of Breslsu. About
three hundred persons attended the service, and
twenty received the communion.
Reformed Episcopal Church in British Columbia -
The Protestant Episcopal congregation in Victoria,
British Columbia, which to the number of 400
persons lately seeded With It's pastor, the Rev. L.
Cridse, to the Reformed Episcopal Church, in
tends to erect a larger chapel than the one now
occupied. The site for the new building has been
given.
The Irish DifRculty-Au English paper says
1.-THE solution of the Irish difficulty will some
day be this that no Irish will be left in Ireland,
III the statistics of the last six years are examined,
they show that such result is not altogether uu-
likely. 10 1868. the number of emigrsnts was OIL,
OlS in 1869 Go SOS; in 1870 "A S55; in 1871,
Il 240; in 1872 rs l02; in 1873, 90 l49; in the
first ten months OF 1874 6S 225. The emigrants
are the young and enteTprising: two flths OF them
are women. Ii is noticeable that the number in-
oreases steadily from lS6S to 1878. The check
given to the flow OF the tide by our financial troub-
les viii be Of short Duration before long the tide
viii flow again as strongly as ever.
The Old Catholics have now in Prussia one bishop.
ReinkeDs, ana - priests Regularly appointed
priests serve in the following Is parishes: Cologne,
Dr. TangeFman Bonn, the Bishop and four pro.
tesors Cre6eld, Essen, Dortmnnd and BOehDn,
Hagen and Witten, Breslau, Kattowiz, BOppar0
and COhleBE, Saarblioken, GleiWi,z and Dussel-
dOrf Twelve other towns will have regular ser
vices when priests are procured for them. They
are Berlin, Duisburk, Lennep, Solingen, Wies-
baden, Attendorn, k0nigSberg. Neissr, lnsterburg,
COn,z, Braunsberg and Belefeld TIE first Old
Catholic church IN Austria was recently opened at
Warnsdori, Bohemia.
Civilization IN Japan As an additional illustra-
ton and evidence OF the advance Of civilization in
Japan, is the fact that there now thiTtv-three
daily native newspapers published in that Empire,
and that from the first Of January 10 the md OF
June. 1874, there were sent through the post L.
ll9 267 COPIES Of these naperS, There also are
Aneriesn, Eoelsb. and French papers published
there. To 1852 when Commodore Perry took au
American squadron into japanese waters, there
was only one Journal and that for etheial decree:
only, published in japan.
South Central Africa Sir Bar,le Frere's fayora
HE account of South Central Africa has aroused
the Wesleyans OF England 70 the consideration Of
mission there Sir Bartle describes 1t as healthy
,srtile region, containing 8 600 600 Inhabitants
who arc willing to have intercourse with the whites
II il the country OF Makololo. LvingstoLe's favor
ire tribe. The proposed mission is made easier BY
tbe faet that the Siehuana language, used by the
WESLEYAN missionaries in the Beehuana district, II
the basis of all the dialects spoken up to the equs
tor.
Karen Missions. Sad news comes from the Ka
rem missions around TouDgu, Burmah Vas
ornoies "a rats have swept the fields Of the stand
inc grain. The government has only recently be
oTn IN assist the people, when their migration
from the iungles into the plain forced the matte
unon the attention Of the officials The who'll
northern country of the karens IS on the move To-
food Many perish on the way, unable to react
Toupgu, where relief works have been established
Schools and churches have been broken up by tn
famine.
Tbs Eusairis-Iu the mountains along the coas
of Syria, between Antakleh Antioch and Lata
k;eh dwell the degraded race OF the Nusairis, o
Ansairiyeb, as many call them. They may mum
her 200 600 and are supposed to be a remnant o
the most ancient inhabitants OF Syria. DR.. ThOmp
SON thinks it possible that Canaanites, driven on
I1 JoSbus. took refuge among their brethren il
these mountains, where they have lived for centu
ries. untouched by the travel and traffic OF tb
world. The names of men, castles, and village
all over these mountains are identical with thos
once common in Palestine The Nusairls ar
heather of the lowest character, but have minglet
with their heatbenism some features OF Persian
Nohammedanism, and are, therefore. reekoned b
the Turks TO be an heretieal sect OF Mohammedan
and are frequently recruited into the Turks
army. Among these people the Reformed Presby
tsriaps of America have had mission since 1885,
with Latskieh (Lao6ieea) as its center and sewers
outstations in the mountains. Recently considers
BE progress has been made and number OF NJ
sairis have been converted.