General Intelligence

The Changes iñ China.- The Rev. Dr. Abeel says. 'The China I l;new a fow year ag-o s not the China in which I am mw residirrg-. We can ño long-er say to the church es at home, 'ye are straightened n us.' The fields, the villajes, the junks, the shops, the crowded etreets, the nutnerous temples are all open to us. Hiuidreds of thonsands are accessible. We eau with . difBculty escape them. Ifwe have no ]ei;;nre to visit tliem, hey come to us M iny a lime have I retired wearied and exhausted, but thcir voices have rung in my ears and I have found little or no relief.' And yet hc fears the hearts ol the churches are not prepared to send the men and means necessary. A new Article of Export. - One hundred bales of North River hay have been purchased n New Yotk for sliipnient to Great Britain. fliis, eays the Shipping List, is, we believe the first shipment of hay ever made to Gieat ïritain from thi country.