“MADAME L. RIPERT,
Sister of M. A. THIERS,
Ex-President of the Council of Ministers, &c. &c.
keeps an excellent table meridionale at 3fr. a-head, wine included. 
Breakfast at all hours, at 3fr. 25c.
44, Rue Basse-du-Rempart, Paris.”

The retaliation was a counter-card:—­

“Mdlle. ——­, brevetee de la police, et M. ——­, liberated convict, the sister and cousin-germain of M. ——­ a thorough-bred Montagnard, continue to carry on their business, Rue de la Lune. On va en ville.”

These attacks are very mean, and paltry, but it is clear that their castigation is beyond the effective handling of the law.  Yet society exercises no effective jurisdiction in the matter; it shields offenders against decency and generosity so long as the offense is committed in subserviency to party.

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LANGUAGES OF AFRICA.—­At a religious meeting in London, the Rev. John Clark, formerly missionary in Jamaica, and afterward in Fernando Po, in Africa, said that at Fernandina there were persons belonging to fifty Different tribes, who understood English so well as to be of help to a translator of the Bible into their respective languages.  He thought the Word of God would have to be translated into two hundred languages before all the tribes of Africa will be able to read it in their own tongue.  The Mohammedans, who are spread through the length of the continent, have many who can read the Koran in the Arabic characters.  If, therefore, the Word of God were translated into their tongues and printed in that character, many, not only of the Hovas and the Arabs of the desert, but also of the Foolahs, Mandingoes, and Housah, who professed Mahommedanism, would be able to read concerning Jesus Christ.

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LETTERS FROM MR. RICHARDSON, the African explorer, have been received in London, dated at Mourzouk, June 22d.  Mr. R. and his companions were detained six weeks waiting for the promised escort of the Touarick chiefs for Soudan by the way of Ghat.  They expect to meet the many caravans coming down from the interior to Ghat.  The actual arrival of the chiefs was greatly to the astonishment of the Moors and Turks of Mourzouk, who could never believe that the hardy bandits of the Sahara would obey the summons of a Christian, and escort English travelers through the unexplored regions of Central Africa.  The Turks had on previous occasions repeatedly invited the Touaricks to visit the town of Mourzouk, but they never would do so.

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