6.—A rendezvous might wisely be established at Berber, where a fruitful oasis affords supplies. This locality is said to be healthy, and, being situated on the Nile in the southern portion of the desert, free from African fever. If a steamer is secured for the Mission, the missionaries, in case of sickness or need of changes, could easily resort to Berber, spending a portion of the more unhealthy season; and possibly, meanwhile, developing a Mission at that point. 7.—The aid rendered by the Egyptian authorities to the United Presbyterian, of America, who have established 35 mission stations in Lower Egypt, gives promise of a good measure of protection and co-operation. Although the Mohammedans as such, and, especially, the slave-dealers, are sure to look with disfavor upon Protestant missions in the Nile Basin; yet, American and English influence is sufficient to assure such toleration as is needful, while the real heathen, to whom we hope to minister, have no political or other reasons for discouraging our efforts. From the information gained during the year, we are encouraged to believe that as soon as the means, now being gathered in Great Britain and America, is sufficient to warrant us in inaugurating the Arthington Mission, we can safely and wisely enter upon the work. The amount to be made up is a little less than $15,000. May the Lord hasten His work in His own good time. * * * * * THE GENERIC AND THE INDIVIDUAL NEGRO. In commenting upon the evidence in the Whittaker case, one of our most fair-minded weeklies says: “Should his guilt be finally established, the act will be a blunder no less than a crime. Whatever his purpose, the _necessary_ result of his conduct will be injurious to ‘his people.’” This is ambiguous. Whittaker is three-fourths part Caucasian, and we are unwilling to take, as being a part of _his people_, even 1/46,000,000 part of his crime if he is guilty, and do utterly refuse to be hurt by it. If, on the other hand, his one-fourth part negro blood so dominates these three-fourths, that he must be accounted a negro, then grave apprehensions are excited. That he has, as we go to press, passed so many of his examinations successfully under all the difficulties of his position, we must conclude is due to the modicum of negro blood in his composite nature; a fact which foreshadows the supremacy of _his people_ in our land.