We are abundantly satisfied that these noble institutions through the South, of which Hampton is one of the best-known and most efficient, are surely and not so very slowly re-shaping the races which are under their influence. We think there was abundant reason for Governor Long, of Massachusetts, in his address at Hampton, to use these words: “Horace Greeley was wont to say that the way to resume is to resume, and so we would say, the way to solve the race problem in this country is to solve it;” and this is what the Hampton Institute is doing. * * * * * AFRICAN NOTES. —The River Binue, one of the great confluents of the Niger, which Bishop Crowther and Dr. Blaikie ascended, in 1854, to a point 400 miles above its union with the other great branch, has recently been explored 150 miles beyond the furthest point before reached by any white man. This was done by the C. M. S. Steamer _Henry Venn_, under the command of Mr. Ashcroft. This voyage was recently described before the Royal Geographical Society of London, which awarded Bishop Crowther a gold watch, valued at £40, for geographical explorations on the Niger. Mr. Ashcroft considers the Binue a most interesting mission field. In no part of Africa has he seen so many flourishing towns—“a good-sized town every mile along the bank of the river for a long distance, thickly populated.” He says: “I spoke to the kings at many of the heathen towns, and they were all willing to learn the white man’s book, and that their children also should learn.” * * * * * —The Royal Geographical Society, on the 26th of April last, was visited by Rev. C. T. Wilson and Mr. Felkin, who had just arrived from Central Africa, and with them were three ambassadors from King Mtesa’s court in Uganda. These were introduced as “Earl Namkaddi,” “Earl Kataruba,” and “Earl Sawaddu,” nobles of the second rank at home. These men are described as of slight build, very black in color, and with features more bright and intelligent than in the common negro type. It was in 1863 that Speke and Grant discovered the great lake Victoria Nyanza, and made known to the world the existence of Uganda and its people. Since then only four whites have visited that country—-Mr. Stanley, M. Linant de Bellefonds, Col. Long, and Dr. Emin Effendi, until the visit of Mr. Wilson, who returns with the first natives who have visited Europe from that region. * * * * *