The State Board of Examiners, ten in number, came over, fresh from the inspection of the State University at Athens, and gave four days of faithful attendance upon the examinations and Commencement of this Institution. Their Report is to be made to the Governor and the Legislature, but it was understood that they were greatly delighted with the thoroughness of the scholarship evinced, and the general _morale_. The _Constitution_, which reported each day, said: “The examinations were heard by many visitors who showed great interest in all the proceedings. The various questions were, as a rule, aptly answered, and each student gave evidence of the progress achieved in this excellent and yearly growing Institution. The familiarity with Greek which was shown by the class, which was called upon to construe and parse selections from Demosthenes, was quite astonishing. Everybody who has grappled with the Greek language knows how difficult it is to render the “Oration” properly. Special proficiency was shown in the several other branches upon which the students, both male and female, were subjected to rigid questioning. Our citizens are cordially invited to visit the Atlanta University, and see for themselves the great good which the management is doing for the colored people in our midst.” * * * * * TALLADEGA COLLEGE. =Commencement Exercises—Standard of Instruction—Literary Society—Needs.= REV. O. W. FAY, MONTGOMERY, ALA. The friends and patrons of Talladega College have great occasion for encouragement and congratulation, in view of the present condition and future prospects of that Institution, as evinced by the examinations and exercises connected with its Tenth Annual Commencement. Those exercises opened grandly on Sunday, June 6th, at 10.30 A. M., with a baccalaureate sermon by President De Forest from the text (1 Tim. i. 12), “And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful putting me into the ministry,” which was a clear and inspiring argument for entering upon the work of the Gospel ministry especially appropriate for the occasion, as it was addressed particularly to the class of eight young men who this year graduate from the Theological Department. At 4 o’clock P. M., a Union Prayer Meeting of the Sunday-school classes was held in the College Chapel, after which Prof. T. N. Chase, of Atlanta University, gave an intensely interesting detailed account of his recent experiences while visiting the Mendi Mission on the West Coast of Africa. The evening was given to the missionary sermon by the Rev. O. W. Fay, of Montgomery, on “The Divine Economy in the Gospel,” or the plan according to which God has been working, and is destined to work for the redemption of mankind. Text, Isa. xiii. 4: “He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.”