The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-01-04
FOREIGN ITEMS.

An Atheistic Congress at Paris re-
Gently resolved that parents should be prohibited
by law from speaking of religion at home.
Prince Roland Bonaparte has sold
his inter, st in the Monaco gaming tables for
through marriage.
There are OF evangelical students
preparing for the ministry at the University of
Tubingen.
of the Americans in England Mr..
Wlnans is by far the most lavishly expensive
lie pays $4,000 for deer forests in Scotland :;
and in London lives in palatal abode on Carl
ton House Terrace.
According to the annual estimate of
Mr.. Lawes of Rothamsted, England, the seven
seasons ending with 1881 have been more dlsas
trous to British agriculture than any seven con.
secutlve years of which there is any record I'm
1868 he says, two thirds of the total bread
consumed was the produce of home grown
wheat. A few years later the requirements of
the country were met by one half of home grown
and one-half of foreign wheat. But the harvest
OF 1879 scarcely supplied one loaf in four re-
CURED, that of 1880 only one in three, and that
of 1881 will also supply only about one loaf in
three required"
In 1876 six and one-half pounds of
cornmeal and eleven pounds of oats were sub
situted for eighteen and three fourths pounds of
oats in the ration of the horses of the Paris
Omnibus Company. The horses maintained
their good condition and did their work as we'll
as before, although they were not quite so live
ly The Company saved 420, 600f that year by
the change, owing to the low price of corn and
the high price OF oats.
Madame Tchen, wife of the first
secretary Of the Chinese Embassy in Paris, lately
died there and was buried with the customary
Chinese rites. The room at the embassy In
which her remains lay coffined was surrounded
with white silk curtains, on which virtuous
maxims selected from the works of Confucius
and Buddha were embroidered M Tchen
slept beside the coffin at night and prayed there
IN the daytime The body was deposited in
vault belonging to the Funeral Company, in
which 1t will remain until M. Tchien can 20 with
it to China.
The traffic in African slaves is car
ried on by certain of the Zanzibar and interior
Arabs IN the true piratical fashion of mo sur
render and it is to be added that the British
opposition to the nefarious trade is as brave and
resolute as ever. December Sd, Capt. Charles J .
Brownrige of H. NJ S. London, in a steam pin
mace with ten men, ran alongside dhow full of
slaves flying French colors, but they were beaten
off after a fierce fight, and the dhow escaped
VI this British crew of ten men, Captain Brown
rlgg, John II. L. Acres, writer Richard Henry
Monkey, sJroker; and Thomas Bishop, ordin
airy seaman, were killed; one man severely, and
two slightly, wounded. Only the previous
month (November) one of the boats of the Lon
don made good capture Of a slave dhow near
the island of Jumba. On this occasion, under
the command of Lieutenant Charles Travers the
crew made gallant coup, and succeeded in re-
leasing lao slaves, principally of the male sex.
These made an aggregate of over 500 slaves lib
Grated since October 18th, 1880 the date of the
vessels commission, while nearly $500 tons of
slave dhow shipping have been destroyed by the
London. Captain Brownrigg was highly re
sPected, and it is noteworthy evidence of his
cautious manner of procedure, that the above
captiyes were in every case effected almost with
out bloodshed. The British government is pre-
pairing one or two more vessels for this service,
and the death of these brave seamen will nerve
the arms of those who shall come after them in
this most humane and righteous work.-N. Y.
Evangelist.