—On the 19th of July, Judge Belden, of the District Court, rendered a decision important to the interests of Chinese labor on the Pacific Coast, declaring the exorbitant license tax on Chinese laundries, of twenty dollars a month, to be void, and payments made recoverable, on the ground that such charges were excessive, disproportionate, and derogatory to fundamental principles of just government. —Twenty-five Chinese laborers sailed July 19th for Peru, to work on a sugar estate. They are guaranteed prompt payment of sixteen dollars a month, and good treatment. Others will probably follow them. —Judge Choate, of the United States District Court, ruled, July 10th, that a Chinaman cannot be naturalized under the laws of the United States. The application was made by a Chinaman known as Charles Miller, who has lived in New York for twenty-eight years. Judge Choate was guided by the decision of Judge Sawyer, of California, in the Ah Yup case, when thirteen hundred Chinamen petitioned that schools might be provided for them, as for Indians and negroes, and showed that in San Francisco alone they were paying $42,000 in school taxes. Their request was not granted, although it merely asked the carrying out of a provision of the State Constitution which the honorable gentleman had sworn to obey. —Colonel F. A. Bee, attorney for the Chinese six companies, declares, upon official records, that during the past two years, up to June 1, the emigration and death-rate of the Chinese have exceeded the immigration by about 500; and that the entire number of Chinese residents on the Pacific Coast, as shown on the registers of the six companies, does not exceed 65,000. THE FREEDMEN. SYSTEMATIC BENEFICENCE IN ATLANTA UNIVERSITY. BY REV. HORACE BUMSTEAD. During a portion of the past school-year a plan of systematic beneficence has been in operation among the scholars and teachers of Atlanta University. It was undertaken largely as an experiment, and with many misgivings as to the results. Its success has been so gratifying as to suggest the possibility that other schools and churches in this missionary field might like to introduce it, if made acquainted with its practical workings. THE PLAN.—This is set forth in the following recommendations, drawn up by a committee of teachers and scholars, and adopted by a unanimous vote of the school:— “1. That we recognize more fully the duty and privilege of systematic giving. “2. That during the remainder of the school-year we make twenty-five weekly offerings of money at the Friday afternoon meeting, to aid in paying the debt of the A. M. A. “3. That all persons connected with the school be invited to hand in on slips of paper, to be provided, a statement of the amount which they will endeavor to give weekly.