We see that Stanley’s story of his journey, “_Through the Dark Continent_,” is published by Sampson, Low & Co., London. We have not yet examined it, but are sure that it will be of great interest and instructiveness even to those who have read his vivid letters in the _Herald_ from time to time. * * * * * It is with deep regret that we record the death of Mrs. Dr. JAMES of the Mendi Mission, of which the tidings is given in another column. The other members of the mission are all well, and the work progresses both materially and spiritually; and the brave band who went back to carry the light of life to the dark land of their fathers, have not lost heart or hope because one of their number has gone up higher. * * * * * We made a very full and frank statement three months ago in regard to our finances. We recognized the fact that the receipts up to that time had been better than for the corresponding months of the previous year. It gave us peculiar pleasure to make that statement. And now, having spoken so, we wish to be heard on the other side. For it is equally true now, that the receipts have been diminishing, and for two months have been less than in the same months of the previous year. Friends, do not leave us in the lurch now, or spoil in the last two months of our fiscal year the improving record of the first ten. Our needs as your agents are very far beyond the means you furnish us. * * * * * THE LAW OF RESTITUTION. The law of restitution is one which the religion of the Old Testament enforces, and which the New Testament does not relax. It applies, as all laws do, most pressingly to individuals, but it reaches out, as all laws do, to nations and to races. We have wronged the Negro, the Indian and the Chinaman—all three—and they therefore call on us, on our American nation, and on our English-speaking people, for redress, and for all that we can do to atone for past neglect—not only for past neglect, but injustice. Need I recite? It was in 1620 that the first slave ship landed her human freight upon the shores of Virginia, and, from that time for more than two centuries the deadly traffic was continued, and men, women and children were bought and sold like animals. We need not say, “But this was a Southern crime; we and our fathers were not guilty.” For two-thirds of that time, the whole nation were alike in it. Northern ships and Northern capital carried on the importation later than that. Our Northern fathers gave it up largely, it is true, as it is charged, because what was for the time profitable in South Carolina and in Georgia, did not pay in Massachusetts and Vermont. It was not until 1825 that the slaves were set free in the State of New Jersey. We do not propose to depict the evils and the sins of slavery. Thank God, they are in the past, save as the consequences are upon us still.