The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1875-08-25
FOREIGN ITEMS.

Dr. Candlish professor in Glasgow College, is to
succeed DIR, Dykes as editor of the British and
Foreign Evangelical ReUte'o.
Advices from China and Japan complain of great
heat. the thermometer going to one hundred de-
grees IN Japan, and one hundred and ten IN re-
king.
Rev. Newman Hail. Of London, having been in.
vlted to accept ordination at the hands OF Arch
bishop TAFT, declines. thinking that as he has pur-
sued his ministerial course for thirty years without
it. he has no call 10 that direction.
Old Catholicism is spreading in Italy. In meet
ing held at Naples it has constituted itself as de-
nomination, under the name OF Italian National
Catholic Church" About three thousand men,
bers were represented The Archbishop (m par
/ tBuS) Paneh has been elected Bishop of the new
Church.
The sustentatiOn Fund of the Free Church of
Scotland, which last year was increased by above
| el00 600, is still moving EDWARDS and upwards
The contributions of the last month show an in
crease over the whole Church of f4l9 It's. 81.
! The English Rsvisers of the Authorized Version
of the New Testament at their 6ty-second session,
completed the revision of the First Epstle to the
Corinthians to the middle of the fourth chapter.
Memorial signed BY l4O 4Sl members of the
Church of England, has been addressed to the
Queen, praying her majesty not to countenanee
the proposals to egaze the use of eucharistc vest
ments aud the eastward position of the celebrant
at holy communion.
Some geographical discoveries of considerable i'm
portance not only in a scientific but also (for the
Ottoman Treasury in financial point of view,
have been recently made 10 Syria In the shape of
host Of villages whose very existence was un-
known, or, had been forgotten No fewer than
spv Y. ~ fhoea haplacc honniafc hoy bpnn
unearthed in the single districts of Damascus, be-
sides about an equal number in other parts Of the
province.
Representation in the Alliance.-The Council or
Convention which is to meet IN Edinburgh, July
4;h, 1876, will be composed of delegates appointed
by the various cooperating Presbyterian churches.
The largest number assigned to one church will be
forty. The number assigned to the Southern
Presbyterian Church is twenty-eight. The Pres
byterian churches in the British Isles will elect
minority Of the members.- Christian Observer.
The Funeral of Hans Andersen took place on the
18th inst, In the Frau Kirche, Copenhagen, and
was attended by the King Of Denmark and other
members of the royal family, together with the
ministers and chief officers OF the government and
the diplomatic corps. Populations were present
from all parts Of the kingdom representing NUM-
cipal bodies, the universities, the workmen the
press etc. The day was observed as day OF ma
tiOnsl mourning throughout Denmark.
The HerEegOviuian Instruction is assuming grave
proportions. The Turkish forces have been de-
fested in several engagements, communication has
been interrupted and the insurgents are burning
and pilaging the country in all directions.
One of the subordinate, but most excellent char
acteristics of the great London meetings of Mr.
Moody was the unity of purpose and feeling which
prevailed throughout. The harmony was so COM
plete as to pervade all Mr.. Sankey's choirs.-
Think of ohoirs never disputing, said the Lon
don Times in its three column review of the mission
Conforming The Khedive Of Egypt has pro-
claimed that heuceforth the calendar in use among
Christian nations will be adopted in Egypt instead
Of the MOhammedan calendar.