Mr. John F. Slater, of Norwich, Conn., has given $1,000,000 to a Board of Trustees, the income of which is to be applied for the education of the recently emancipated race in America.
We are happy to report that our appeals for endowment for Talladega College have met with additional responses since the statement given in our February number. One friend has given $5,000 towards the endowment of the President’s Chair, and another has pledged $5,000 for the Theological Department.
GENERAL NOTES.
AFRICA.
—W. F. Mieville has been appointed English consul at Khartoum.
—Ambassadors from Abyssinia have gone to Cairo to regulate the question of the frontiers and to seek the appointment of consuls of the two countries—of Egypt and of Abyssinia.
—After working with an indefatigable zeal to gather the means necessary to the establishment of a new mission, Mr. Coillard will set out with his wife in May to found a station between the Zambeze and Lake Bangueolo.
—Mgr. Taurin Cahaque, apostolic vicar, has made from Harrar an excursion among the Gallas and founded a station around which he hopes to gather a Christian colony.
—The council of ministers at Cairo has decided upon the complete abolition of slavery in Egypt. Abdelkader Pasha has been nominated Governor of Soudan. A special administration of the Soudan has been created at Cairo with the purpose of making out the statement of receipts and expenditures of that province and of re-organizing the military service with a view of maintaining order upon the Abyssinian frontier. It will take measures for the complete suppression of the slave trade.