Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume IX, Number 49, 3 December 1870 — English Column. [ARTICLE]

English Column.

Tbe Austriao pressare generally ex»ltant ov«r the abrogation of tbe Concordiit. — A white bat, as r«»re a curiousity as a white blackbird, w-t8 captured in a saioon in Paris. j —The stenmers between San !Francisco iand Panama now use negroes both as waiters and seamen. —Sir James Clark, the Qneen's pbys'cian, at his death left property in Engknd valued at 5128,000. Cdba.—The fighting still goes on in Cuba, «nd general Ryan says the Cubanf» are eonfident of independence. A photographer in Indianapolis exposes delinquentcustomers by displayioj: their pie* tures upside down, and labeled, "Not paid for." Newport boast of 300 cottages ?.nd villns, worth from 815,000 to $200 000 eaeh, and one worth 5300,000, whieh are occupied only in the Summer. A woman m Troy was lately brought be« fore a Justice. charged wi(h stealing a sum of money fom her husband. She was dismissed on the ground that a wife c,annot steal from her husbnnd. Tue kid glove is about to cease frorn its mission as the embletn of arissocracy on uecount of defection m prices. Very excellent kids are now sold in Paris at tlvirty cents a pair. and on Broadway, New York, they are marked as low as fifty cents. The Kussian Government, ac.-.ording to a recent report of the Minister of W»r, possesses 566,232 needle guns. Th« rnanufacture »f metallic cartridges, it is a!so statpd, has reached 300,000 a day, with 1-5,000,000 already made.

"1 sympathize sincerely with your grief," said a French lady to a recently widowed friend, "to lose such a husbind ns yours." —" Ah, yes, he was very go(>d ; aud then, you see, such a misfortune is iilvvays great, for one knows what kind of a husband she has lost, but cannet te!l wh«t kind of a ni;m one will fi»d to succeed him."

KinNAPPiNG —Is ahvaysgoingon in China. Girls are carried ofTand sold tc< brothels, boys are sold to companies of play-actors. The thieves seem to have been im\isually active of late in several parts of China ; the people have got rxcited in consequence, and their excitement has been directed. against foreign missionaries, who they declare buy the ehildren in order to make medicine and philters of their eyes, breasts, and others parts of their body.

—lt is said that one year ago the Bench Street Presbyterian Church i.n Boston was struggling for existence, witb a congregation of about one hundred and a »um total of $1,900 raised during the year. Since that two hundred and fifty members hiive been added ; their house is crowded ; $'S,OOO have been raised for current expenses; and a debt of $30.000 pmd ; from four tf» six hundred are present at tbe praver meetiogs. They think the change has been efft>ctecl by giving e»ch something to do in one of these departments of comrnittee work: Relief, whieh renders material uid ; Care of Sick; btrangers. the "hand-shaking coinmitee;" Domestics, to look after the vvorking girls and hired nien ; Music, to be responsible forthe singing; Sociable, to provide social entertainment; Sab• bath School t to visit the sick and look after absentees; Devotional % or prayer-meeting conunittee; Young Women,'s Devotional; and Spiritual, to assist the pastor. All are expected to be eraployed. A superintendent directs the work of eaeh committe£, and the pastor looks to t'ae superindent and works through him.

A description of Paris.—Pnris is a city as unique in the Jocation of its various publie buildings as iu any other of its specialities—eaeh quartt:r and eaeh arrondissement possessing some one or more great architectural or governmental monuments, rendering thein more or less worthy of a visit to the stranger, or desirable ns a residence to the cilizen. This gr<;at city, by diffosing the various objects of interest and seats of trade over its vast extent, eaeh quarter being distinguished by sonie sprcial branch. rarely \vitnesses the hindrmces so freqnent in their recurrence in London. Paris is indubitably the capital of the world. No situation in life but ean be accommodiited, no diversity of tasie but ean be responded to, no limits to the purse but ean be suited, in fuct. nothing that is desirable or obtainable in this world but ean find the mcans of gratification. For the old it is an Elysium, for the y«>ung, a land of promise ; f«»r the studious, a grove of Academies ; for the flippant. a never-ending round of gay nothings ; for the inen, the Mobammedan heaven ; for the women Fashion's high court; for chjldren, a universal play, ground ; for the healthy, everything invites to the enjoyment of life; fur the invalideverything offers that science and skill ean conceive or execute ; for the gourmnnd, it is the very sanctum of Epicurus ; for the vegetarian. a rast repository of esculents ; for the charitable, a never failing excuse for liberality ; for the eeonomieal, a constant inducement to s»ve a penny ; for the prodigal, a perpetual temptation to spend one.