... _VOLUNTARY' _CHURCH _ASSOCtATTON _' LAST night a _meeting of tlie members of the _Edinburgh Association fur _Promoting Voluntary Chureli Principles , and the friendB of Hie Voluntary cause _generally , _ ' _-as held in _the Synod Hal _) of _tlic _United ...

... _zealous • Voluntaries in tho land . _'* This _event would so _thoroughly • _shake tho _foundations of • tho - Established Church _, • that it would not bo worth ton years * purchase .- Mr Harvby concluded _: hy _pointing out _the duty of Voluntaries towards ...

... _perhaps the _beat as an interim measure _, namely , that of affording a certain pecuniary aid to private individuals who ' raise . an equal or greater amount by voluntary contribution . ' _' Schools of this description , may be required to renderan annual ...

... existence ; and as the _voluntary _educational institutions shara _. tlio _common difficulties , it _results _, that the henevolent _' few ara most unjustly overloaded to _little or no purpose . Thc ' oiTer of Government to _meet ' voluntary subscriptions _Aa ...

... We would fain hope that the inowledge of _this fact will _encourage _subscribers _to ome _stiJI more liberally forward _in aid of an instiiu _* ion fraught _with so great an amount of good . It ii _to ie _regretted that _there lias _been lather a falling ...

... _Accident . —Last _Sunday morning , a gentleman _aiding in Stanley , accompanied by his _sister , _crossed e _river in a _boat for the purpose of paying a _visit to person who resides on ihe opposite _aide . On their _turn about nine o ' clock in _the evening ...

... his troops had entered Lahr . The _Prussian _troops advanced to Kehl on the 2 d inst _., and a _stron' » corps _lias been detached against _Freiburg . The whole _length _, of the Rhine from _-Mannheim to Kehl is now occupied by the Prussian troops , and ...

... who lias cot _loit _tonic , and rnany of llieni _have lost four or _five . EOYPT . —A French _officer of _distinction ia _>> aid to _have _entered into a trraly with the _Austrian _Government , in the name of _the _Pacha of _Ugypt , in order to _purchase ...

... _liberty . _The _authorities have been very tende in enforcing discipline among them _as yet . A grea deal is left to the _voluntary principle ; which , fear , will not _suffice . _Strictncas of discipline is i _necessary - element of _everything _military ...

... _strong _disavowals of _confidence in tho _late _debate—after tho fire to which _the Government bus _been _exposed on all _aides _, as Sir _James Graham rather incautionsly declared , on tbo flank , in front , and in tlie rear , _after Sir _Robert ...

... the Humane _Society . ' • .- •; • On Saturday a detachment of recruits , consisting of seventeen young men , embarked at Leith for _Chatham _, to join the 48 th regiment On Wednesday . _'another detachment of _recruitsconsisting of fourteen , _embarked ...

... we say ; _remove his • iilini _. _ent—abolish tlie grievances which _. inflame and'fiiltell him . Cut . off his legs by ; detaching _, ttie laity , which support _Ililli , inake it no _longer tlie _interest of tIie . Catholic gentry to employ tlie _' _perilous ...