... PRESBYTERY EDI NBU RGH The monthly meeting of the Presbytery of Mdinburgh took place yesterday—the Rev. W. H. Gray presiding. LADY GLENORCHY'S CHURCH. Dr Nispet, for the committee on this church, reported that, considering certain proposals submitted to them by the trustees of the church to form a fair basis for a suitable settlement of the matters in dispute them, the committee had in- ...

... NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, In aceordance with the Resolution moved at the great public meeting, held in Edinburgh on the 2d November, by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and seconded by the Lord Provost of Perth, copies of the following Petition have been addressed by the Committee of the Association to every city, Royal burgh, and the principal burghs of barony in Scotland, for signature. Ic is ...

... - 3_ ?? The weekin s union was beld yeaterday.ag lonse, North Brunls lekhte.' The following guardiass ars Hynd nns, Thomas Arkins;Flanagan, Carolin,iBoland, Butler, Archbold, Hardy, Nugent, Long, Ratibourne, Crawford, P L I, Cusack, Harkan, Roper, Gavacan, Hogan, Mallet, M'Farlane, Cos- grave, and G Thorp. STATE OrP TEE HOUSE. Paupers in the house on the 19th November, 2,546; ad- mitted during ...

... (From Taesday's Gazette.) Her Majesty, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, that burials be discontinued in the under mentioned parishes and places from and after the 6th day of December next, viz.:- In the parishes of St. Botolph, Billingsgate, and St. George, Botolph-lane ; in the churchyards of the parishes of St. Mildred the Virgin, ...

... Igi~e Court. OSBORNE, Nov. 30. The Queen and Prince and the royal children | ?valked and rode in the grounds yesterday. The Duchess of Rent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard and Sir George Cooper, arrived in town by the Great Westernt Railway yesterday morning from her residence, Frogmore, near Windsor. Her royal highness visited the Duchess if Gloucester, at Gloucester-house, in the afternoon, ...

... IffSCMLAN~EA. A WORD FOR THE CoNTmovBnsuALxes.-Those who are alwaysmendingthe road ?? have no tinse to pursue it; as the man who carries the lantern stumbles oftener than he whofollowshim. TEARs AND LAUGHTmER.-God'm adeboth tidaat nd laughter, and both f'or. kind purposes; for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to bseathe freely, -o tears enables sorrow to vent itself patiently. Tears ...

... GROWTIL OF FLAX About two years ago, an attempt was made in this city to form a Company for the purpose of purchasing the Chevalier Claussen’s patent for Scotland, for the pre- paration of flax, and of working the same, both in pre- paration and in manufacture. We expressed an opinion then, founded on observation of the process as exhibited in Loudon, and on the specimens of the plant ...

... THE REV. JOHN LINCOLN GALTON AND ONE OF THE CONGREGATION.. - TO THE EDITOR OF THE FXETER arL POET. SIB,-I am not going to reply to the letter of One of the Congregation, but, treating the gentleman so subscribing himself as the mouth-piece of the congregation, simply desire to draw his attention to the following extract from one of the speeches delivered at a publio meeting recently held ...

... EDINBURGH GAZETTE SEQUESTRATIONS, Duncan M‘Kenzie, innkeeper and merchant in Dingwall—Credi- tors meet in the Caledonian Hotel, Dingwall, 12th December, twelve * Kenneth M‘Kenzie Thorburn, Esq., writer to the signet, lately re- iding in Edinburgh, now deceased—Creditors meet in Messrs Cay & Black's Sale Rooms, George Street, Edinburgh, 12th December, two o'clock. EXAMINATIONS. Andrew Nicol, ...

... Rl SSIA, PERISlA, AND INDIA. -0- Tr 'llEi TDITO1R Or TlE DAILY NEWS. 0 people of the ?? in India, wanting {m Iatuio Xfeeling, have always seemed to regard . cquai indifference the overthrow of their native -l.et aiud bhe advent of the foreign victors. There i :ht be c.e icgy enough to repulse a baud of ma- aer-'1s, ?? the gates of the walled village and I wonvvoud ieclosed-buttheportals ...

... IB * THE EASTERN ?? 80. co] THE ESTERNWAR. .trj The Paris journal, Pays, confirms the fact of the departure WE of the English ships for Sulina, and says that it is not to be WI considered as an armed intervention. av a PORTUGAL. fo, The Chrooicdas Madrid correspondent writes on the 24th rtn that a letter from Orenos, Salicia, received on that day, says cie that a risiog has taken place at ...

... EXTRAORDINARY OFOEA ?? :M _Q R AL i We are about to unfold' a tale, which, if it do p not make each particular hair stand onr end, willwe doubt not, startle even those most conversant with the annals of SI knavery. It is in the summer of the year 1848 that our his V tory opens, though it might have commenced earlier; andthe first scene is laid in the Assize Court at Bristol. One of the ...