plause, in a public meeting, pronounced your lordship the idol of the negro race. This was no mere compliment; it was by no means empty flattery; the sentiment is deep in the heart of every enlightened son of Africa. Most of your lordship's cotemporaries, who raised their voices in harmony with your own, in favor of African disenthralment, have passed from the stage of action. But they are not dead. Those noble men can never die. When your lordship, in your turn, shall have followed them, and each shall have taken his chamber in the solemn and silent halls, the principles you have enunciated and advocated will live on.

'Men may go, and men may come;
But these go on forever.'

The emancipation in the British West Indies was not an event standing isolated in its solitary grandeur, like some towering rock in mid-ocean, or like the Eddystone lighthouse on your own rock-bound coast. No; it is a link in the great chain of those events which are to bring about Africa's redemption. It belongs to the same chain which Fox, and Burke, and Granville Sharpe, and Wilberforce, and Clarkson, helped to forge. The principles which these moral heroes set into operation, and which have been more fully developed by your lordship, are abroad in the earth. They will continue to work until every fetter shall be broken, until they shall have completely expelled from our globe every species of violence, of oppression, and of barbarism.

"And now allow me to reiterate the prayer of the closing resolution, that your lordship's declining years may be serene and peaceful. If it be true, as some one has beautifully said, that if we would have angels visit us at night, we must be engaged in deeds of love and mercy by day,' surely your lordship's whole life must have been one of uninterrupted intercourse with those celestial visitors.

"It is not for me here to speak of the close of such a life. Such a life can have no close; it will glide away gently and gloriously into eternal and beatified existence, and be lost in the fullness of joy and the everlasting pleasures at the right hand of God."

His lordship, who was deeply affected by this eloquent address, delivered with much fervor by Mr. Blyden, then rose and said:

"I am really quite at a loss for words to express my sense of the compliment which has been paid to me, through you, Mr. Blyden, by the young men of Liberia. I do assure you I am so overcome by the feelings this address has excited in me, that I cannot thank you adequately. But tell the young men of Liberia, from me, that their kind words have sunk deeply into my heart, and thank them for me for all they have said; and may God bless you.

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It will interest our readers to learn something of the history of the Rev. Edward W. Blyden, who is one of the most remarkable individuals of his race it has ever been our good fortune to meet with. Mr. Blyden was born of African parents, at St. Thomas, the Danish island in the West Indies. He is now twenty-six years of age. At the age of sixteen he went to Liberia, and was educated there, at the Alexander High School for boys, at Monrovia, of which he has now become the principal. He is a member of the Presbyterian denomination, and has improved his opportunities so well, that he has acquired an admirable knowledge of Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and French. The style of the address he delivered bears its own testimony to his proficiency in English. Some two years ago, he wrote letters to the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone and to Lord Brougham, bringing under their notice the requirements of the Alexander High School in the way of books for its library. These letters were perfect specimens of polyglot composition, in the various languages in which the writer is proficient, and at once attracted attention to him. We believe we may state that they produced valuable donations of books, and that personal acquaintance with Mr. Blyden has only enhanced the esteem in which he was already held by the donors.-London paper.

The Home and Foreign Record mentions, with deep sorrow, the death of the Rev. Thomas L. Ogden, at Corisco, May 12th, 1861. The Missionaries are generally well.

LIBERALITY TOWARDS LIBERIANS.

Messrs. Payne and Roe, two Liberians of about eighteen years of age, had been sent to England to be educated, by the liberality of Samuel Gurney, Esq., a member of the British Parliament.

THE SLAVE TRADE.

A writer, dating from the West Coast of Africa, June 3d, 1861, mentions several American vessels which have been sent home and condemned as engaged in the Slave Trade, and have again visited the African Coast and taken off slaves, or are preparing to receive them, for Cuba. Among them are named the Virginian, Falmouth, Trion, and Storm King-the last having sailed recently from the coast with six or seven hundred slaves. The English are said to burn vessels found employed in the slave trade.

LIBERIA COLLEGE.

The Hon. J. J. Roberts is President of this College, and appointed Professor of Jurisprudence and International Law; Rev. Alexander Crummell, of Maryland County, Liberia, Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, and of the English Language and Literature; Rev. Edward Welmot Blyden, of Monrovia, Liberia, Professor of the Greek and Latin Languages and Literature.

Professor Crummell, a native of New York, is now in the United States, collecting books and apparatus.

The College buildings are situated on the southwestern slope of Cape Mesurado, facing the Atlantic ocean, and within the corporate limits of the city of Monrovia. The site was granted by the Legislature of Liberia.-N. Y. Journal of Commerce.

On the 27th of July, the brig Teresa Bandall sailed from Baltimore for Liberia, with ample supplies, consigned to the Government of that Republic by the Financial Secretary of this Society, for the benefit of the Recaptured Africans.

NEXT VESSEL FOR LIBERIA.

Our next Expedition for Liberia will sail from NEW YORK CITY the 1st of November next. Applicants for a passage should send in their names immediately. Persons wishing to send freight will please notify us as soon as possible.

Our Correspondent, " Africa," of Cincinnati, Ohio, will find the information he desires in our last number, (August.)

FUNDS.-All monies for the Society should be sent to Rev. W. MCLAIN, Financial Secre tary, Colonization Rooms, Washington, D. C.

RECEIPTS OF AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY, From the 20th of July to the 20th of August, 1861.

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AFRICAN REPOSITORY.

Vol. xxxvii.]

WASHINGTON, OCTOBER, 1861.

[No. 10.

THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA-THE WHITE NILE. Among the most interesting regions of Eastern Africa are those which border on the White Nile, one of those mysterious streams whose source has as yet slept in obscurity, but which cannot long escape the keen eyes of daring explorers. Zeal for trade has kindled the curiosity of many adventurers, who have exposed themselves to a thousand dangers from the united love of gain and distinction. But of all motives to open Africa to the observation of civilized men, the missionary spirit has proved most daring and determined. It has moved its possessor to encounter all obstacles, and make the greatest sacrifices. It has had in view the sublimest object, and worthily pursued it.

[From the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, London, 1861.] MEMORANDUM OF A JOURNEY FROM KHARTUM BY THE WHITE NILE, BAHR EL GAZAL, AND IN THE INTERIOR OF CENTRAL AFRICA, During the years 1857 and 1858.

BY JOHN PETHERICK, ESQ., F. R. G. S.,

H. M. Consul at Khartum.

Preparatory to laying before you an extract of my Journal on an excursion from Khartum to the Equator during the years 1857 and 1858, permit me to explain that my object in visiting countries and tribes hitherto unknown, was for trade; but at the same time with the determination to break new ground, and, however humble my means, to endeavor to add to our knowledge of the Centre of Africa.

The White Nile had already been navigated by D'Arnaud, BrunRollet, Vaudez, and my friends De Malzac and Don Ignacio Knoblecher, beyond Belignan, to a series of cataracts as far as 3° 30′ N. lat. These rapids unfortunately present an impassable barrier to sailing boats; as during the increase of the Nile, when favorable

northerly winds prevail, they are too shallow for navigation, while on the other hand, during the inundation, when the draught of water is sufficiently deep to allow a boat to float over the obstacles in the bed of the river, the wind blows invariably from the south, and therefore nothing but a steam-boat could attempt the ascent.

Unfortunately for private enterprise, the introduction of steamboats, even for so worthy an object as scientific purposes, is strictly prohibited by the Viceroy.

I might here mention that Vaudez, while occupied in endeavoring to form an expedition from the neighborhood of Belignan eastward into the interior, was, with sixteen of his followers, all Arabs from Khartum, suddenly attacked by the negroes of the Bari tribe, and all were brutally slaughtered.

The extracts which I have the honor to read to you have been taken from the journal of my expedition in the years 1857 and 1858; but lest they might mislead some into the idea that excursions so far into that terra incognita of Central Africa may be performed with a small sacrifice of time, allow me to state that the greater part of the distance achieved has been the result of five successive journeys, during an equal number of years, some of the principal difficulties and events of which I will, in the course of my narrative, introduce to your notice.

My first expedition, in the year 1853, reached only to the extreme confines of the lake Bahr el Gazal, of which I had been the first navigator; but owing to the rank cowardice of my men, who, on seeing a strong hostile party of negroes prepared to oppose my landing, refused to proceed, I was in consequence obliged to make an immediate return to the White River and Khartum, under feelings, to say the best, far short of complimentary to Arab boatman, Arab soldiers, and Arabs of every other denomination, but with a full determination to try it again.

The subsequent year, by having an increased armed force distributed in two boats, I not only effected a landing, but proceeded into the interior of the country, from the extreme navigable point of the lake, and formed an establishment among the Djour tribe, by leaving twenty-five men there.

Each succeeding year, by an increase of men in my employ, and establishing new posts or halting-places, I have succeeded in reaching a country which, according to my rough calculations, I believe to be near the equator, at Mundo in the Runga or Niam-Nam tribe, said by themselves, as also by neighboring tribes, to be cannibals; of which, however, I have had no ocular proof.

Not having had the advantage of instruments to determine latitudes by observation, I have been confined to the use of a compass, and the rough calculation of the days' journeys performed.

According to the great speed with which the negroes in these parts are accustomed to travel, and reckoning an ordinary day's journey to be eight hours' march at 3 miles per hour, it will amount to 28 miles per day, and deducting one-third for deviation from a straight line, will reduce a day's journey to 19 miles.