AFRICA.
–It is reported that Piaggia, the Italian explorer, who purposed penetrating the Galla country in Southern Abyssinia, is dead.
–Col. Mills, who formerly occupied the post of Consul-General and English Political Agent at Mascate, has been appointed to succeed Dr. Kirk at Zanzibar.
–M. Maspéro, director of the Egyptian museum, has succeeded in discovering the opening of the pyramid of Meydoum which has passed until now as impenetrable.
–M. Tagliabue, correspondent of the Exploratore, has made from Massaoua an excursion among the Bogos, where he has specially studied the tobacco plantations.
–M. Godfrey Roth, who gave proof of so much zeal at the time of the arrival of the caravans of slaves at Siout, has been attached to Giegler Pasha, at Khartoum, for the suppression of the slave trade.
–Rohlfs has written the Secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society that he hoped to return to London in January, and go from thence to Cairo, to negotiate peace with the Khedive on the part of the King of Abyssinia, under the auspices of the English government, from which he beseeches aid in favor of the Emperor of Abyssinia.