... THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS Without Its LicentiousnesI. (From ithe Gtasgow Herald.) r We quote elsewhere a paragraph from an Edinburgh paper, of which further illustrates the remarkable position assumed by re the Church in reference to the Veto law. The crown patro la nage it seems had been exercised in the ease of the united pa- m rishes of Daviot and Duelichity, In a way that might have been ...

... Afll'RnACT ANNUAL REPORT FR0OM THIS CASV.-HOOKe OF THIC Aberdeen Ophthaalmic and Aurlc Institution, O: FOR I TiSMA9lS OF THHt KTh AND ItAlR, (Under the Suiperintendence of Mr RmNey, Surgeon, it Queen StroetA t El'eablle/zed in November, 1831. C The numbrnii of A pplicationis since the 20tht of De- Cs comber, 18t38. lhas been 2360 SC Under Tlrisatnient Lit that date, 2 O a -201 tI Of these were ...

... 190411cotic Elt# lOnto. c. masger of the Horse' pl.ce, the Queen's iews, 1'imico, Dec. 21. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the Right Hlonourable George William Fox Lord Kintuaird to be Master of her Majesty's Buckhounds. Downing street, Dec. 23. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Henry V. Huntley, Esq., Commanderin the Royal Navy, to be Lieutenant-Gover- nor of her ...

... Ti ii C 'nl ?? prcesnt position of the Church is likoly to prove, fur seune time, a subject of paramount iaterest, and thus to inmpose upon the public journalist the duty of carefully notin1g, friom time to time, the Vary- ing phases which it may asseume. Now that tboe civil and Lccleshistical polve s are placed in direct collision, every stelp takien, cither by the one or the other,-every de- ...

... On Tuesday, a public meeting, composed of gentlemen of all political opinions, was held in the Hopetoun Rooms, to consi- der the propriety of erecting, in the metropolis of Scotland, a national testimonial to the Duke of Wellington. On the me- tion of the Lord Justice Clerk, the Lord Provost was called to the chair. Amongst thoseon the platform, we observed the Marquis of Tweeddale, who came ...

... To the EDITOI. (f the ABiEriDEiEx JOURNAL. Herald Office, 30th December, IU39. F Slit, St I was rather surprised toobserve io your paperof Wednesday G last the following paragraph :- in We are authorised to state that the paragrapil in I110 last ci Aberdeen Hlce rld, relative to the appointutet by the Commissiorn 1 of the Rter. A. L Gordon, contains, as usual, a falsehood. 2. T his I take ...

... Jere in Intellioer. Frrewte. On Friday Louis Philippe received in state Nourri Effendi, the new Turkish Ambassador, who delivered his credentials. Al the Ministers were present. and his Excellenlcy was after- wards Introduced to the Royal Family. From Algiers, the news received by the French Govern- sent is far from satisfactory. Ahdel-Kader is preparing for battle In good earnest, and the war ...

... Srn,-l can truly say, for my respected brethren who were ap- pointed to intimate the sentence of suspension in the seven pa- rishes of the Presbytery of Strathbogie, that it was a duty which they entered upon with unfeigned ?? the most painful feelings-and that they performed it only from a regard to the authority of the Church Courts which had devolved it upon them, and a consciousness of the ...

... ' THE VETO ACT. PUBLIC MLETING IN TIlE COURT-IIIOUSE. At three ocloch on Saturday afternoon the Court-house was crowded in every part by an assemblage of the most re. spectable and influential Gentlemen we ever saw convened on any public occasion in Aberdeen. The meeting took place in consequence of the requisition addressed to the Lord Provost, published in another column. The LouD PROVOST, ...

... To Mhe EDITOR of the ABERDEEN JOURNAL. Sin,-Permit me, who have in no wily whatever beert caitnect- aed with the late proceedlings of thle Presbytert' of Strathbogie pcI ,f regarding the settlement of Marnouch, to state what I co'tsidet e. haveltbeen the ajtaation of that Presbaytery vihen they last met, o te which I loate often board mnisrepresenited and which dloes not tV t. seens in general ...

... TU R KEY. .n ;Constantinople, December 4. d (Froimr the Correspounlenl of the Jforningq d Chronicle.) L The deep and double game that France has e bcen playing with us throughout the affair now i. so exclusively occupying tile attention of Europe, d and against which I have already more tha h once raisced my feeble voice in warning, has now, at a nio;nent when success had almost crowned o it, ...

... FRO(M EDINBURGH GAZETTE. SEQUrSTRATIONS. December 2S. AL! X.\ ?? SiEcer-mEn, solicitor, dii- til er, anid oiind imerchatit, lahely residling in Inivern-sa -CreFtlitnrs meet in the Caleioniain Hotel there, Sth and 29th Janiiar . twvelve o'clock. DececwIr 928. DAvinI HUNTiR, latelylitiilder in EBin- ?? meet in Fergusmon's Ship Ta-vern, Eist Rei.ter Street, 6th January and 3d February, one ?? ...