_Mr. Spurgeon_ finds caste even in England. He says: “I know several half-sovereign people who would not think of asking a half-a-crown to tea, and there is a very strong aversion on the part of the half-crowns to the three-penny pieces; and, perhaps, a stronger aversion still on the part of the three-pennies to anything coppery. I have heard of a Christian minister in this country now, who, I am told, is humble and useful and talented, but there is not a congregation that will have him for its minister. He was nearly starved to death a few years ago, and the great sin he has committed is that he married a black wife. Now, you would not like a minister’s black wife; you know you would not. Up comes the caste feeling directly. We condemn it in the Hindoo, and here it comes in this country. We like a negro if he has been a slave, and we raise money for him when we would not for a white man. Now, I do not think a black man is any better than a white man, and I do not think that because a man is green he is at all superior. I believe that we are all pretty nearly equal, and that God made of one blood all nations on the face of the earth. But we want to hear these stories about caste in India that we may be taught to avoid it here; and if it were not for these follies, vanities, and prides of human nature, carried out to extremity abroad, we might not so readily see them to be evils in what is thought to be a mild form at home”. * * * * * TWO CONVENTIONS.