We cannot dismiss this subject without the remark, of peculiar pertinence at this moment, that it would have been better for our people had Mr. Grice never left these United States.  The twenty-seven years he has passed in Hayti, although not without their mark on the fortunes of that island, are yet with out such mark as he would have made in the land and upon the institutions among which he was born.  So early as his thirty-second year, before he had reached his intellectual prime, he had inaugurated two of the leading ideas on which our people have since acted, conventions to consider and alleviate their grievances, and the struggle for legal rights.  If he did such things in early youth, what might he not have done with the full force and bent of his matured intellect?  And where, in the wide world, in what region, or under what sun, could he so effectually have labored to elevate the black man as on this soil and under American institutions?

So profoundly are we opposed to the favorite doctrine of the Puritans and their co-workers, the colonizationists—­Ubi Libertas, ibi Patria—­that we could almost beseech Divine Providence to reverse some past events and to fling back into the heart of Virginia and Maryland their Sam Wards, Highland Garnets, J.W.  Penningtons, Frederick Douglasses, and the twenty thousand who now shout hosannas in Canada—­and we would soon see some stirring in the direction of Ubi Patria, ibi Libertas.—­Anglo-African Magazine, October, 1859.

B.

Communication from the new York society for the promotion of education among colored children.

To the Honorable the Commissioners for examining into the condition of Common Schools in the City and County of New York.

The following statement in relation to the colored schools in said city and county is respectfully presented by the New York Society for the Promotion of Education among Colored Children: 

1.  The number of colored children in the city and county of
New York (estimated in 1855, from the census of 1850), between
the ages of 4 and 17 years 3,000

a.  Average attendance of colored children at public
schools in 1855 913

Average attendance of colored children in
corporate schools supported by school funds
(Colored Orphan Asylum) 240

          
                                                                                                    ——­ 1,153

b.  Proportion of average attendance in public
schools of colored children to whole number
of same is as 1 to 2.60.

2.  The number of white children in the city of New
York in 1855 (estimated as above), between the ages of
4 and 17 years 159,000