—Mr. J. B. Hoyt, of Stamford, Conn., has subscribed $20,000 for the Connecticut Literary Institution at Suffield. —The will of Mrs. Maria Cary, of Brooklyn, gives $5,000 to Antioch College. —Mr. A. E. Goodnow, of Worcester, has presented Mount Holyoke Seminary with $5,000, to be invested as a fund for keeping in order the estate of Goodnow Park, presented by him to that institution. —The Worcester Free Institute, of which Dr. Chas. O. Thompson is the Principal, has received during the past year, $26,000 from Mr. David Whitcomb, and $6,000 from Mr. Stephen Salisbury, both of Worcester, Mass. The Institute now has property amounting to $680,000. —Mr. W. C. Jones, of Warrington, Eng., has given $10,000 to establish a preparatory institute at Hong Chow, China. —_We published the statement in the October_ AMERICAN MISSIONARY _that endowments were needed at Talladega College, of $25,000 each for four professorships. We are happy to report that the late Benjamin De Forest, of Connecticut, provided by his will, $10,000 toward such endowment._ GENERAL NOTES. AFRICA. —A German expedition, under the direction of Baron Muller, will set out from Massaoua or Souakim for the country of the Gallas. —Two English missionaries of Uganda, Messrs. Pearson and Litchfield, have returned to England. —During forty years, the Church Missionary Society sent 87 missionaries to West Africa. —Captain Capello will have the direction of the civilizing station which the Portuguese government intends to establish at Bihé. —A Spanish association, the _Exploradoro_, is organizing an expedition for the region comprised between the Bay of Corisco and Lake Albert. —The Church Missionary Society had at last reports but three missionaries left of the whole number sent to Uganda, the capital of Mtesa’s kingdom. —The Governor of Sierra Leone intends to visit the chiefs of the tribes who live along the Rokelle, with the view of establishing among them a permanent peace. —Messrs. Cuzzi and Michieli, agents of the Italian Society of Commerce with Africa, have set out for Khartoum, where they will make purchase of gum. —Count Pennazzi, who has already explored the Soudan, will shortly start for the country of the Gallas, from whence he aims to go directly to the great lakes of Eastern Africa. —Mr. Godwin, engineer at Cairo, has addressed a report to the Egyptian government showing the necessity of prolonging the railroads to the Egyptian Soudan, using alternately conveyance by water and the railroad. —We are happy to announce the arrival of Mr. I. J. St. John and Rev. J. M. Hall at Freetown, Sierra Leone, on Dec. 12, after a long and rough voyage. They were in good health and hoped to reach Avery Station that same week.