... COURT OF SESSION-FIRST DIVISION. CASE OF ST IAUL'S CHURCH. This case, which is at the instance of Miss Agnes Hunter, Newington, against the Presbytery of Edinburgh and others, was before the First Division about two months ago, when counsel were heard on certain specialties in it. different from the case of the Glasgow Church Building Society, which, it will be remembered, was de ided in ...

... Lord Ilowuen has appointed minister to Brazil.! understand that his lordship will call (ai route Ins! on) at the River Plate, with a view mat- in that the world a satisfactory termination. His lordship ar.ived in town l;i?t v.*eik the continent,! and wi !, understand, proceed early the en- suing month. ...

... ES. ROBBERY.-On Thursday, information was received by the city and metropolitan police, that on Wednesday even- ing, about half-past six o'clock, Mr. J. Elliott, collector of poor-rates, Putney, was robbed, in Broad-court, Ludgate- hill, of a yellow canvas bag, containing five: 20 notes, three 10 notes, arsd two Li notes, all of the Bank of England, out numbers and dates unknown; also 16 in ...

... HER MAJESTY'S SPEECH ON OPENING PARLIAMENT. [By Express.] HOUSE OF LORDS, Tcesdai, Jan. 19. This day having been fixed for the re-assembling of the Imperial Parliament, and the opening of the Session by the Queen in person, large numbers of persons assembled in the vicinity of the Houses of Parliament, St. James's Palace, and along the route of the Royal Procession — a more than ordinary in- ...

... A Gallery of British Art proposed.—The Society of Arts, hear, are about to revive their ancient custom of exhibiting pictures in their great room. They propose to make, once in the year, a collection ihe works of some eminent living painter—to charge for admission to the exhibition—and apply the profits to giving a commission for a picture to the painter whose works are exhibited, to be ...

... Yesterday, a court was held specially to consider a motion by Alderman Humpbery, That the Remembrancer be directed to prepare a petition to parliament for a bill to alter and amend the act of the 11th Geo. 1, c. 18, for regulating elections within the city of London, with a view, amongst other things, to extern! the elective franchise in the election of aldermen and common councilmen. The ...

... Christians in the mountains of Kurdistan. The claims of the surviving brethren of these murdered men upon the sympathies of Christendom were disguised the sectarian denomination of Nestorians. Who were the Nestorians ? Some affirmed they were the lost tribes of Israel; others assigned a different origin. What appeared certain was, that they were the only people in Asia who spoke the pure ...

... COURT OF EXCHEQUER CHAMBER-TUESDAY. Price, Executor o° Gosiell, v. Green.-In this case, which was brought here by writ of error from the Exche. quer. judgment was delivered this morning by Mr. Justice Patteson, affilrming the decision of the Court below in all points. This was an action of breach of covenant, hrought by the plaintiff, as executor of the late John Gosnell. Tile declaration ...

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... The court met on Thursday, at half-past one o'clock, to pass sentence on Ronald Gordon. found guilty of the charges of theft as stated in our last. Mr Neaves said, hie had nothing to state to the court in mi- tigation of punishment, except that he hoped the court would take into account the whole circumstances of the case and the history of the prisoner, which he thought might satisfyv the ...

... of the early wars of the French Revolution of 1789, served with great credit under Dam pierre, Bernadotte, and subsequently in the Russian campaign, where he was taken prisoner. He married the second daughter of the late Thomas Holcroft, the dramatist, who survives to lament the termination, after an affectionate intercourse upwards of forty years. GREECE.—In a part of our impression yesterday ...

... at Rennes. was said that serious disturbances had taken place at Vitre and Fougeres, that at the mayor had had a leg broken in a riot, and the mayor Angershad been killed. The following, howcTer, is ail that has renched us which appears to true : On Tuesday erening there was an assemblage of about two hundred persons at Ureal, who went the house of M. Gilles, miller and corn dealer, menacing ...