—The Committee of English missions has accepted for its stations on the Niger the services of Dr. Percy Brown, who offers himself for work in any part of the mission field. —The new king of Cayor has made a visit to the Governor of St. Louis, promising to aid with all his power the construction of the railroad. In two or three weeks the section from Dakar to Rufisque will be finished. —The British and African Steam Navigation Company, which has already 20 ships for service on the west side of Africa, has constructed two others of less draught that they may leap the sand banks of the lower rivers. They will be named the Lagos and the Calabar. —Unwilling to yield to any one the territory of Liberia, the Senate of Monrovia is prepared to place the question of the southern limits of this State, a subject on which it disagrees with England, to the arbitration of the United States. —Mr. Piazzi Smythe has communicated to the English journal _Nature_, from a correspondent at Santa Cruz, capital of Teneriffe, that the peak of Teyde, which has not had an eruption since 1798, has broken out again since the commencement of 1883. A river of lava descends from its summit, still covered with snow. —The Baptist missionaries settled at Manyanga and Stanley Pool, where their stations have taken the names of Wathen and Arthington, in honor of the two principal supporters of their work, have felt more and more obliged to free themselves from the protection of the armed Zanzibarites of the Belgian expeditions. Since the attack in which M. Peschuel Locsche was wounded they have felt that the route along the northern side of the river from Manyanga to Stanley Pool was safe only for strong caravans well armed, and they have sought one upon the southern side. There the Belgians, after having burned Ngombi, whose chief was disposed to attack the caravans, have made a new route to Stanley Pool, and Lieut. Valcke has founded a station at Ngombi and organized a service of caravans between that point and Stanley Pool. The missionaries have one independent of the Belgians, so that caravans pass every four or five days. The security of transport is greater, but the price of everything is greatly increased.