—Rev. Dr. Alva Woods of Providence, R.I., gives the Vermont Academy at Saxton’s River another $1,000 to be used in supporting embryo ministers. —The venerable John Baldwin, founder of Baldwin University, Berea, O., has given $3,000 to establish a school at Bangalore, India, in the Rev. William Taylor’s work. —Mrs. Noah Woods of Bangor bequeathed $5,000 to Bowdoin College for a scholarship, to be called the Blake scholarship, in memory of her son, who was a graduate of that institution. —_Talladega College, Talladega, Ala., is erecting Stone Hall by the gift of Mrs. Stone—the fourth College building. Endowments now are the great necessity. $25,000 will provide for a Professorship, and there are four such needing endowments; one of these a Theological Professorship._ * * * * * GENERAL NOTES. AFRICA. —The French Chamber has voted a sum of fifty million francs to be expended in the purchase of land, and in colonizing Algeria. —Two Societies of Geography have been founded in the Portuguese African colonies, the one at Mozambique, the other at Loanda. —A French Society for the protection of the natives in the colonies, similar to the English Society of Exeter Hall, is to be formed at Paris. —England contemplates sending two new Consuls to Souakim and to Khartoum to watch over the execution of the contracts relative to the treaty. —A new expedition undertaken under the auspices of M. C. A. Verminck of Marseilles, and directed by M. Zweifel, will soon set out from Freetown for Timbo, Falaba and the sources of the Niger. —Major Mechow, who has explored Loanda, has arrived at Lisbon, bringing two young negroes belonging to the same tribe, but who are completely different as to the form of the head and the color of the skin. —In his exploration in the country of the Soumalis, M. G. Revoil has found the vestiges of a Greek colony to which a Gallas white tribe had attached itself. The arms, the clothing, the idiom and the physiognomy of the people of the tribe confirm this opinion. —Besides the two stations founded at Vivi and Isangila, Stanley has charged Lieut. Harron with the establishment of a third at Manyanga, where M. McCall has already installed the missionaries. —A new International Belgian expedition is to be organized by Major Hanssens and Lieutenant Vandevelde. M. Popelin, who with M. Roger had left Karéma to found a station upon the west side of Tanganyika, has unfortunately succumbed to the fever and disease of the liver. —The South African diamond fields have been wonderfully productive. In a single year, according to the testimony of Sir Bartle Frere, brilliants valued at over seventeen and a half million dollars passed through the Cape Town post-office.