The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-11-23
FOREIGN ITEMS.

During the past year the progress
of discovery at Pompeii has been rapid. Seve-
raj very important houses have been opened for
the first time since their memorable closing up
In the early years of imperial Rome. One OF
them is built and furnished on an entirely origi-
nal plan. Some of the statues found are OF
bronze, and are said to be of exquisite work
manship. Furniture discovered is also of high
excellence.
In many of the large towns of South
ern and Western Russia the Jews quarter has
been literally reduced to ruins, and even in a
place of much Importance, and with so
cosmopolitan population as Odessa. the un
lucky children Of Israel were for weeks in con-
tinual fear of massacre.
LONDON, Nov. II, 1SS1.-Three
shocks of earthquake were felt at Agram on
Tuesday night. Earthquake shocks were felt
at Naples, Catanzaro, and Cosenza early on
Wednesday morning. A dispatch to the Times
from Rome says -" There were two earth
quake shocks at Messina yesterday morning,
the first at one o'clock and the second at twenty
minutes to six o'clock 1t is reported that the
shocks caused some disasters and loss of life in
the interior. N. Y. Herald.
One of the most princely inheritances
of Great Britain is that which falls into the
hands of the successive Dukes of Norfolk. They
are heads also, for the time, of the leading
Roman Catholic family in the realm. short
time ago son was born to the present Duke,
the heir of his name aud possessions. But alas !
the babe is blind, and the Duke has borne it to
Lourdes, in the hope that miracle may open
Its eyes to the word into which it has come.
~ Our Lady of Lourdes" seems to be- the last
hope of this disappointed father.
The ex-Empress Eugene visited, a
few weeks ago, that chateau at Fontainebleau
rryha oF h.
most brilliant if not the most refined, enter
tainments of the time. She was recognized by
some of the old servitors who have been left in
charge by the republic. The party was asked
to wait until some tourists had concluded their
visit, and then the Empress was conducted
silently through those rooms of which she was
once the ornament. She wandered from room
to room, brooding over each spot and leaning in
tears over the bed where t. little Prince used
to sleep. Great persuasion was necessary to
induce the unfortunate mother to leave the
chamber which had belonged to her dead son,
and'her grief was communicated to all around.
The visit occupied over two hours.-L"terior.
The Rock, newspaper of the Ang-
Hcan Church, strongly anti Ritual ic and
evangelical, compares the Church Congress and
the Moody meetings thus =" Messrs. Moody
and Sankey following hard after the Church
Congress, have opened their singing and preach
ing campaign in Newcastle. 1t is a singular
transition from the sometimes tumultuous de-
bates of this Convocation to the orderly but
deep and devout services of the American
revivalists. T.e contrast is that between a
brawling torrent, Drumming over with water,
but soon running dry, and that of the Thames,
strong without rage, without o'erAowing
full The strangest part of this comparison is
that the Church Congress is the torrent, and
the revivalists' visit is the river, gentle, but
not dull. Revlvallsm in their case has reached
the second stage, 1t is past its infancy, and has
reached its middle course of measured activity
in the work of an evangelist. For this, their
second visit, we should wish not so much no
toriety as sober and well-considered plans for
reaching the unevangelized masses"