—The Peninsula of Sierra Leone is 22 miles long by 12 miles broad, with a population of 37,000, all of whom excepting about 4,000 bear the name of Christians. About one-half of these are connected with the C. M. S., and the remainder are for the most part Wesleyans. It became a diocese in 1852, and may, with as much propriety, be called Christian as England or the United States. It is no longer considered missionary ground. The church sustains itself, and the whole peninsula is divided up into parishes, the same as England, each one having its own clergy, Sunday-school and church council. The cost of all is met by voluntary subscriptions, as it has been for nearly twenty years. Three hundred and forty-three persons partook of the Lord’s Supper at Lagos last Easter Sabbath, members of one church, which during the past three years has contributed no less than £3,412 for church purposes. Sierra Leone is the oldest, but not the only, mission of the Church Missionary Society on the West Coast of Africa. Yoruba has eleven stations, thirteen African clergymen, more than two thousand communicants, and nearly six thousand professing Christians; and the Niger Mission, begun 23 years ago, has its African bishop and clergy, two hundred communicants and 1,500 Christians. * * * * * —ROBERT ARTHINGTON AND THE ENGLISH BAPTIST MISSION.—It is difficult to decide whether to admire most the overflowing love which prompts his gifts, the large, unsectarian spirit with which they are bestowed, or the wisdom with which they are placed and limited. Evidently, he has profoundly studied the problem whose solution he feels called to attempt. He has just written a letter to the directors of the English Baptist Missionary Society, offering 4,000 pounds toward putting and maintaining a steamer on the Congo River, for the use of the Congo Mission of that Society. He writes: “I believe the time has come when we should make every necessary preparation to carry out the original purpose of the Congo Mission to place a steamer on the Congo River, where we can sail north-eastward into the heart of Africa for many hundred miles uninterruptedly, and bring the glad tidings of the everlasting Gospel to thousands of human beings who are ignorant of the way of life and immortality. “I have, therefore, now to offer your Society a thousand pounds toward the purchase chase of a steamer, of the best make and capacity, every way suitable for the purpose, and its conveyance and launch on the river at Stanley Pool, and three thousand pounds to be carefully invested, the interest only to be used for the perpetual maintenance of such steamer on the Congo and its affluents, until Christ and his salvation shall be known all along the Congo from Stanley Pool to the first cataract of the equatorial cataracts of the Congo—beyond the mouths of the Armvimi and Mbura Rivers.” * * * * *