THE CHINESE.
—There are Chinese Baptist churches in Guiana, South America.
—The English Presbyterian Synod Missionary Society, having its field of labor principally in China, reported for last year an income of $425,000.
—The Trinity Baptist Church of New York has twelve Chinamen among its members. At the baptism of J. Sing recently, some twenty other Chinamen were present. One of these converts, Kun Sing, is about to go as a missionary to his countrymen in Canton, China.
—A number of Japanese have prepared a formal paper, asking that in the work of translating the Old Testament the Japanese Christians may be represented by a committee of their own countrymen, selected by themselves.
—The Stockton (Cal.) Herald gives the following account of a Chinese bride: The other afternoon a strange procession of hacks, with gay colors flying, with a scent of burning spices about them, drew up at the shed of the California Steam Navigation Company, where the steamer Mary Garratt was loading. In the first hack was a lone female, with her head in a bundle of bright-colored Chinese silk, which concealed every feature. Behind was another hack, in which several Chinese boys rode, each carrying a burning taper. Then came two more hacks, each filled with Chinese women. All alighted at the wharf, and the hooded woman was assisted out and led on board the steamer, her course being conducted by the boys with the lighted tapers and the women. The woman was so closely veiled as to be practically blindfolded. Then it was ascertained that she was a daughter of “Sonora George,” and was going to Bedouin Island to be married.