—A company with a capital of 150,000 livres sterling has been formed under the name of River Gambia Trading Company, to develop commerce on the Gambia, which is navigable for 640 kilometers.
—The Church Missionary Society has established at Lokodja, near the confluence of the Niger and the Bénoué, a school to teach the native instructors the English language and the language spoken along the lower Niger.
—Mgr. Lavigerie, promoter of the missions of Algeria, has transferred to Malta the college which was formerly at St. Louis, to prepare a medical faculty for the Negroes of Equatorial Africa and the Soudan.
—A dispatch from Tripoli to the English Journal announces that 600 native Algerians of the Chambas tribe have proceeded to Ghadamès to demand the punishment of the Touaregs who assassinated the missionaries and ill-treated the Chambas.
—In a war between the tribe of the Paums and that of the Veys, sustained by the government of Liberia, the latter have been beaten and in part massacred, and the survivors have fled to Cape Mount, where help has been given them by the American missionaries. The government of the United States has sent the ship Essex to aid the troops of Liberia against the Paums who intercept communication between Monrovia and the northwest whence they obtain palm oil.
—Dr. Krapf, one of the pioneers of missionary work in Central Africa, has just died. Entering the service of the English missions in 1837, he sailed on the Tiger, the Choa and the Amhara. Not being able to enter the country of the Gallas by the north, he conceived the project of attacking the continent by the east, and in 1844 commenced with his friend Rebmann the mission of Mombas. His travels gave impulse to the discoveries of the last 25 years. Since 1856 he has been living at Wurtemberg, occupying himself with literary works upon the languages of eastern Africa.
INDIAN MEDICINE MAN.