The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, in 1874, decided, after thorough discussion, to continue its Freedmen’s Committee, as then located and constituted, for five years (_i.e._, until 1879), “during which period its affairs shall be conducted with the view to the final merging of the Committee with the Board of Home Missions, the churches to be transferred as soon as possible to the Board.” During this fourth year of the proposed five, this last has been done; all the missionaries exclusively engaged in preaching, and their churches are thus transferred. Evangelical work is still retained by the Committee. —The shrinkage in value of real estate has reduced the income of the Peabody Educational Fund from $100,000 in 1876, to $60,000 in 1877. It may be still less this year. —The Congressional Committee on Education recommend that the proceeds of the sale of all public lands be set apart as a fund for school purposes, the income for the first ten years to be divided among the States on the basis of illiteracy. —The Kentucky Legislature propose to make of their share an endowment for the State University, against which the colored teachers of Fayette County protest, as a gross injustice to the common-schools, in the following resolutions: “WHEREAS, The _per capita_ for each colored child in this Commonwealth is only forty-five cents, while that of a white child is at least four times as great; and, whereas, the passage of the proposed education land bill by Congress presupposes the granting of equal school facilities to all; therefore, be it ”_Resolved_, That we regard the attempt, both of the Legislature of this State and the friends of Kentucky University, to maintain that institution at the expense of the colored common-school system of Kentucky, as an act unjust to the colored people of this Commonwealth, unworthy of the chivalry of the age, and as an act deserving the execration of a generous and magnanimous people. “_Resolved_, That we urge the friends of humanity in Congress to defeat the bill now pending in the Senate of the United States, unless it can be so modified as to render futile all efforts of the enemies of the colored common-school system to misapply the aforesaid funds.” —At a meeting held in Baltimore, March 3d, under the auspices of the P. E. Board of Missions, it was stated that there are in the South thirty-seven chapels for colored worshippers of that denomination, fifty-seven clergymen and teachers (five of whom are colored) and one colored evangelist. —In this Assembly it was held that of the 5,000,000 colored people, one-third had, since the war, risen to a higher civilization and a higher life; one-third had gone down to a lower plane, and one-third were left victims of circumstances. If this last estimate be correct, the upper third will work more and more effectually upon the lower two-thirds to lift them to its level. * * * * *