Twenty-one students, of whom eleven were Kaffir certificated-schoolmasters, were under theological instruction. Dr. Stewart thinks the home churches will hardly continue the present number of missionaries beyond the lifetime of those now in the field, and that the work will be done by a native ministry. * * * * * A “Livingstonia Central African Company,” for promoting legitimate traffic among the natives, has been organized by a society of gentlemen interested in the civilization of the “Dark Continent” and in the development of its resources. Direct communication is to be opened with Central Africa, and a road has already been constructed a distance of sixty miles around the cataracts of the Shiré, which, connecting with a line of steamers, will constitute a line of 800 miles from the coast. Two Christian gentlemen of Edinburgh, Messrs. John and Frederick Moir, are at the head of the company. It is to be no less a missionary than a commercial enterprise, and there is every reason for believing that in both respects it will prove a success. The natives are becoming fully awake to the advantages of the extensive and solid business facilities possessed by the company, whose future will be watched with great interest. * * * * * The _West African Reporter_, of Sierra Leone, in announcing changes in the officers and probably in the location of the Liberia College, (Dr. Blyden having been appointed President; and the trustees, leave being given by the legislature, having voted to co-operate with the American Board in a plan to remove the college further into the interior,) expresses itself strongly in regard to the injury done to natives who have been sent to Europe to receive their education. It sums the result thus: “We find our children, as a result of their foreign culture—we do not say _in spite_ of their foreign culture—but as a _result_ of their foreign culture—aimless and purposeless for the race—crammed with European formulas of thought and expression, so as to astonish their bewildered relatives. Their friends wonder at the words of their mouth. But they wonder at other things besides their words. They are the Polyphemus of civilization—huge, but sightless—_cui lumen ademptum_.” To some extent the same holds true of negroes from the South, educated in the North for work in their old homes. * * * * *