Africa.
—A French school of archæology, like those which already exist at Rome and Athens, will be established at Cairo. M. Maspero, Professor in the College of France, has charge of the organization.
—M. L. Vassion, attached to the office of foreign affairs in France, has gone to Cairo; he will start from there for Khartoum and the river Blanc, where he will study the nature of the commercial relations which it will be possible to establish with Soudan.
—Dr. Pogge and his companion, M. Wissman, have sailed from Hamburg for Saint Paul de Loanda. The German Government has officially asked for them the protection of the Portuguese Government, by which they may traverse the African possessions on the western side.
—The mission of Algiers proposes to found two new stations between the great lakes and the Atlantic. The first will be upon the Congo itself, at the point where the river bends to the north; the second will be in the States of Mouata Yamvo.
—Messrs. Brazza and Ballay will descend the Alima in the transportable steamer which the latter has obtained from Europe, to complete the exploration of the Congo.
—The L’Afrique, in an article on the Sanitary Condition of Africa and the adjacent Isles, says, “Madeira is remarkably healthy, so that it has been for a long time chosen as a sanitarium for consumptives. Malaria is wholly unknown there; dysentery is rare and shows itself only in the epidemic form.”
—Bishop Crowther returned to Lagos, from a six months’ absence on the Upper Nile, just in time for his wife’s prayer, that she might die in his arms, to be answered. She did so, though unconscious of the fact, on the 19th of October last.
Adjai, afterwards Bishop Samuel Crowther, and Asano, afterwards Susanna, his wife, were children of the same tribe, kidnapped, rescued, and landed almost the same time, though not in the same party, at Sierra Leone, and were placed in the same church missionary school. They were married fifty-one years since, in 1829.