... A meeting of the Port Glasgow Harbour Trust ?? llhoh yesterday in the Council Ilall-thc Lord Provost in the chair. The minutes of last meeting having been read andl a;-. proved of, II[r. Jonx 1TITCr-tELr, submitted a statoment of the aceuat of the Trt-tit, for the pa;t year, from which it appeared ?? the revelilne, for the year ending 2d Feb. last, amounitel to t2515. Tie total expelnditure ...

... CONTI-NENTAL NEWS. FRANCE. (From the Times' CoerrspcplnCe.)t PAiIS, WVEDNESDAY M OUINING.-T lle .Jfollieesl C(Olfilils Our Lotreppouideat's statemelnt ?? the promiotion of Ucneral Excellmau s to the rank of a larshal of France. The Socialists have lately attempted seditious demonstrations in ceveral departmental towns. A secret society has been discovered at Lille in the act of halnging the ...

... THE E.LECTrIUC TELEGRAPHr. W -,rse Chin ?? ?? -1 ;v c :ie ?? the tConstitu~ixtonat) j ld In Conmmon Ivith onrl local Contemporareieis, lv-~ bstive Ie.j ?? of late to notice tile recmis:iless Wlviicll to ,4R- {Ijff se ractei'ises the inanatremeit t of tile Electric 'PCIL L nll, dlii , (,a d li taiiily lye have Ihad great reason to comiplain diriui' tile lntv ce nfisteria Icrisis. It really ...

... L OUV - L 11 f1 ?? It J IV-Nll ?? -. i The annual general meeting of the teachers constituting the . memberbhip of the Scottish Educationtal Institute, was hlmd on t Saturday, in the High School, Edinburgh. t Dr. IIuxran, the rector of the Ayr Academy, who was Pr- t sident of the Institute for the last year, delivered a reliring I address, in the course of which lie alluded to the success of ...

... A CRUEL PRIEST AND HEARTLESS PARENIS. (From the Thnea.) It is not long since we had occasion to bring under public notice two terrible instances of the powver ex- ercised by the Roman Catholic priesthood over the consciences of the faithful. Tal as we may in the general of the aggressive power of the Romish See, il and of its enormous pretensions, it is only by descend- I1 ing to particular ...

... SERPENTS AT TrIS ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN'S.N| THE SERPE - FD. (CO NCL U 1ErD.) (IB )J. Cooper, inl Bentley's Miscellal'y.) InI feeding thle larger serpents,, thle Boas and Pythone, Some care is necessar.y lest such onl accident should occur. as that which befell Mrll. Copls, Of the Lion Offics in) the Tower, some years ago. IIr. Cops was holding at fowl to thle head of thle largest of thle five ...

... GL.A%.S-G.OW,4 JUNE 30. Inmproventwiis cat the to-1 Rall.-Operatiots ave s for some days put been. gloing on ill frout of tlhe 6iirt Hall, fiaciin-:the. Green, which promise to iniprova- tre thlorouglhftre in that locality. The raililng that pro- tects the ?? of the building, and whvick for-. d merly, imnmecdiately opposite the gatelvay, ?? considerably, beyona the line of wall; has beell re- ...

... GLASGOW,'MARCH 28. Fatal Accident at the Harbotsr.-About half-past ten o'clock on Monday, an accident, which involved the death of one individual, occurred at the harbour. As twelve men, in the employment of Messrs. Tod and by M'Gregor, engiueers, were repairing the paddle-rhigs °ar' of the steamer Craignish Castle, the scaffolding in the ing inside of the paddle-boxes on which they were stand ...

... NEW KILPATrRICK AND STRATtIBLANE HIORITICULTURAL SOCIrTY. The first meeting, for the Peasoll, of tile above society Was held, on Snturday, 19th Jully, in thle Congregatleonal Hlal, Muilngavie. Though the cottlogers did not turin out so well as in former years, there was all averasgo show. Of pansies tiere wero more than usnal, and of good qeanlitv. 'I'hos peaches wore very flits. 'Vito judges, ...

... DR, JOHN RAE'S SEARCH FOR SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. thou - The Xew 1'hrk Albion of a recent (late gives the following day. a interesting comumunication from Dr. Rae, whose zealous labours ha - in the cause of humanity have already made his name familiar As 0to time public :-held Fort Confidcnce, north-east end of Great well 0 Bear Lake, Oct. 14, 18.50. T C ?? protracted fabsessiec of the excellent ...

... b Sf51~~M . W. 11. DiASO 0N. (From the Mtanchestert Guardian.) a We last week gave ain Ccnount of a new r-use practised by a :.man calling himself 1 W. H. Mason, estate agent, 42 Sidisey a Street, Chorlton-upn-edlock, Manchester, by which lie had cdobtained fronsdfeen esn a considerable number of pest- r age stamps. We also stated that the address given in the ad- wi n vertisements in the ...

... (From thle Times.) orai Our own correspondence from Turin, and the general 'V considerations of policy suggested by thse exertions of eve: the Sardinian Government to, establish a liberal and voti temperate form of nmonarchiy in one portion of Italy, opil have materially strengthened the interest AVe have often has I expressed in the welfare of Piedmont. By its geogra- surf -phical position ...