The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1877-02-07
CENTRAL PRESBY TE r I A

1t is stated that Mr.. Gladstone is engaged on
translation of the Latin preface to the Welsh YER
sion Of the Bible, published by Bishop Morgan II
the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
The first book said to have been printed in Pal
estine is announced. 1t treats of the Holy Land
1t is issued from the press established by NM.
Rothschid and Montefore, and added to the hos
pital and school library on Mount Zion, in Jerusa
lem.
The English revisers of the Old Testament have
held forty-one sessions. They have carried their
revision as far as Ezekiel Xiv: IA. The English
revisers of the New Testament have held sixty five
sessions. At their last meeting they reached the
sixth chapter of Hebrews.
Vicar Tooth, the last English rituslist to be taken
in hand, proves pretty hard to pull. He proposes
to stay where he is, with his alb and chasuble,
cross bearer and mass aud declares he will appeal
TO the courts of last resort before he will yield Ii
now there were only some sort Of suethistic which
the Establishment could be made to take while the
process of extraction is going on Laughing gas,
| for instance.
Rev. Dr. Caldwell, the Indian scholar, has been
excavatug ct the site of the city of Kaya of Marco
Polo, possibly the Tarshish of Scripture, on the
Coromaudel Coast. Ia tumuh he has brought to
light relics of the greatest antiquity, such as I'M
mense earthenware vases four feet In diameter
Also curious stone implements ornaments, and
unique coins have been found in neighboring water
courses and tanks. This city was famous mart;
but the covering Of its tillable land and the filling
up of It's harbor with sand has destroyed it so that
its place was almost forgotten.
The English Unitarian Year book for 1877 claims
three hundred and sixty two places of worship. OF
these, one hundred and FIVE are without pastors
Thirty-eight were founded between 1000 and 100
A. d. While counting among its members some
eminent names, the denomination is not as pToHli-
nent as in New England.
Depression of the Iron Trade in Germany The de-
preston of the iron business has been severely felt
In this country, but in Germany it has been much
worse. The capital invested by thirty-two OF the
largest steel manufacturing companies In that
country amounts to $7S,035 600, and the net loss,
exclusive of interest and depreciation in the value
Of property, was $l.795,000 Only six Of the CON-
panies paid any dividend whatever, and the most
fortunate of these six was one Of the smallest CON-
panies, which divided 6 per cent. The Prussisn
Mining and Iron Company Of Dusseldorf, with
capital of 50 100000 actually lost $605 600 on last
years operations and $2l5 900 on those Of the
year before. The net loss of the 80 companies in
two years has been 50, no. 600.
The Famine in India.-The reports of deficient
crops and consequent want in Southern and Wes-
tern India, are confirmed with many details, by
the last mails to London. The Tines says:
The area of scarcity or famine is terribly large
already. Beginning on the western coast, at the
Gulf of Osmbsy, it stretches inwards through the
district of Khandish, and downwards throughout
great broad strip of the Bombay Presidency
Crossing TO the Presidency of Madras, we find the
stricken districts stretching from point far north
Of the capital to TrichinopOly and Tarjore. Speak
ing roughly, we may say that the British territory,
which incloses the Nizsms dominions to the west,
the east and the South, is more or less the scene
of famine. 10 little more than a couple of months
100000 people must absolutely trust to the gov.
eminent for the barest necessities of existeHce.-
Describing similar afiction, Burke once spoke Of
"a nation in beggary," 4" a whole people stretch
ing out it hands for bread" These phrases are
not the exaggerations of rhetoric they severely
accurate descriptions of the calamity which now
threatens large part of our Indian Empire
About 2S7, 900 people are on the relief works al
ready in Bombay.