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report. The anxious gentlemen draw up their chairs, and turn attentive ears. For nearly an hour, he buzzes and bores the contents of this report into their ears, takes sundry sips of water, and informs those present, and the world in general, that nearly forty thousand dollars have recently been consumed for missionary labor. The school at corsica, the missions at canton, ningpo, pukong, cassaba, abheokuta, and sundry other places, the names of which could not, by any possibility, aid the reader in discovering their locationall, were doing as well as could be expected, under the circumstances. After many years labor, and a considerable expenditure of money, they were encouraged to go forward, inasmuch as the children of the school at corsica were beginning to learn to