—M. Ledoux, Consul-General of France at Zanzibar, reports a great famine in equatorial Africa. The tribes, in despair, have pillaged the caravans.
—M. Succi, delegate of the Italian Society of Commerce with Africa, has returned to Milan after a voyage to Madagascar and the Comores. The sovereign of one of these islands has granted to him a concession very advantageous for the Italian Society.
—In an exploration of Quango three great cascades have been discovered, to which the names of the emperors of Germany and Austria and the king of Portugal have been given.
—The military French administration has placed forty kilometres of railroading of the Decanville system from Sousse in the direction of Kaironan.
—After having been dangerously ill of bilious fever, Stanley has recovered sufficiently to go to Manyanga, and from there to Stanley Pool.
THE CHINESE.
—The American Board has rendered good service to the cause of missions by issuing a large map of China, suitable for use at monthly concerts and other meetings.
—The Chinese merchants of San Francisco have received from the Emperor of China an elaborate and beautiful scroll, in recognition of their liberal gifts for the relief of sufferers from the famine in China three years ago.
—“I love money first and God second,” was the confession of a Chinaman in Boston, who was quite ready to argue that his was the best way, as he was giving an account of his nephew’s preparation for a public profession of religion.