GENERAL NOTES.
AFRICA.
—The French Chamber has voted a sum of fifty million francs to be expended in the purchase of land, and in colonizing Algeria.
—Two Societies of Geography have been founded in the Portuguese African colonies, the one at Mozambique, the other at Loanda.
—A French Society for the protection of the natives in the colonies, similar to the English Society of Exeter Hall, is to be formed at Paris.
—England contemplates sending two new Consuls to Souakim and to Khartoum to watch over the execution of the contracts relative to the treaty.
—A new expedition undertaken under the auspices of M. C. A. Verminck of Marseilles, and directed by M. Zweifel, will soon set out from Freetown for Timbo, Falaba and the sources of the Niger.
—Major Mechow, who has explored Loanda, has arrived at Lisbon, bringing two young negroes belonging to the same tribe, but who are completely different as to the form of the head and the color of the skin.