–The London Missionary Society has furnished their Indian missions on the North Pacific Coast with a small steamer. The Baptists also have one on Puget Sound.
–The Protestant Episcopal Church sustains 394 missionaries in its home field, of whom 52 labor among the Indians.
–The Presbytery of West Virginia, although itself a weak Home Missionary Presbytery, has ordained three ministers for Alaska.
THE CHINESE.
–The Chinese government has decided to increase the tax on foreign opium and impose a tax on native opium.
–A Chinese ship loaded with tea recently arrived in London. It is the first that ever reached that port.
–Rev. H. V. Noyes, of the Presbyterian mission at Canton, has prepared a Concordance of the New Testament in Chinese.
–There were 18 graduates of the Scientific Department of the Training School at Kioto, Japan, and all remained to pursue the study of theology.