... TuESDAY, MAY 22. Fbi;is, Appellant; THE GLASGOW AND SOUTIOVESTERN RAILWIAY COMPANY, Respondents. This appeal was argued on the With of Mtay. The appellant is an extensive worker of coal mines on a branch line of the railway, and lie complained that the company charged him a rate for the transit of his coal much greater than that paid by others who sent coal on the main line for treble the ...

... (From the Times' Correspondence.) Camp before Sebastopol, Tuesday, Mfay 8. The details of the Kertsch expedition have lost their interest, inasmuch as it effected nothing. The most extraordinary irumours are afloat respecting the reasonas of its retpirn rc ainfechl, but the subject is one of such delicacy that it is better to rcfrtihi' from any comment or hypothesis respecting it. It is ...

... CFron the Morning Chronicle's Correspondence.) Marseilles, Wednesday. The French divisions from the camp at Maslak, under the command of Generals ?? and Herbillon, embarked for the Crimea on the 12th and 13th. The division of cavalry under General ?? was to embark on the 15th; and the Imperial Guard and General Regnault St. Jean ?? on the 16th. The destination of this force remained a secret. ...

... . ?? . E . T . ?? 1118 CIIARtACTER. net (1From the LdInburgh Review for April.) dec 'The Grand IDuke Nicholas had been apparently excluded by'I his birth from tie succession to thle Imperial throne. His o clder brothers, Alexander (who was ?? years his senior) ,, and Constantine, preceded him in their rights to that inherit- NV ance, and there was no reason to suppose that a complete failuretl ...

... DESPATCHT FROM LORD RAGLAN. iUni'A~LjILI 1'iAJIU.LU.UL IUMVla1kLN. (From a Secoul Supplement to the London GazeteM of Friday, May 18.- Monday, May 21.) rd . War Department, May 21. Lord Paamure has this day received a despatch and its en- closures, of which the following are copies, addressed to his Lordship by Field-Marshal Lord, Raglan, ?? Before Sebastopol, May 8. My Lord,-The enemy ...

... DR. BEGG ON FREE CIIURCIf REFORM. tr ?? I~a (From the Scotsman.) 3 The Rev. Dr. Begg, in anticipation of the meeting of tie I General Assembly, has issued a spirited pamphlet, setting forth the evils of the present condition of the Free Church and suggesting some of the remedies. We shall give one or two of the more significant passages. After premising that I the Free Church started into ...

... ,L Great exeitement has been caused ia Parkville, Missouri, L and through the United States generally, by an extraordinary outrage which was committed on the 14th ult., in connection .e with a newspaper called the Tndulstrial Lmninary. This jour- n nal; it appears, had given offence to the pro-slavery party, by se the freedom with which it spoke of election doings in Kansas, arid by its ...

... Ordination.-The Rev. Henry W17allis Smith was, on Thursday the 10th instant, ordained to the pastoral charge of the church and parish of Durrisdeer, by the Presbytery of Penpont. The solemn service was con- ducted in a most able and impressive manner by the I 'Rev. W. B. Dimbar of Glencairn, and at the close of the service Mr. Smith received a very cordial welcome from the members of his new ...

... (From the Times.) 4 Thei electric telegraph, which now connects the seat of Government with the seat of war, has intro- duced a new element into the conduct of military operations, and,like all other human inventions, its uses are not unaccompanied by inconveniences. We cer- tainly should regard it as an inconvenience and all evil of a very serious order if this extreme facility of ...

... Lord Dundonald's Plans.-It is said-and we be- lieve is correctly said-by well-informed persons, that the scientific comlmission appointed to -consider the feasibility of Lord Dundonild's plan for destroying the arsenals and fortresses of the Russians, have re- ported in favour of the project, subject to certain con- ditions, which wilt have to be decided by military en- gineers.-Atheezum. In ...

... THE SIEGE OF BEBASTOPOL. Paris, Saturday, May 26, 7.30 A.Mr. The Afonitcur publishes two despatches from General Pelis- c Bier, dated the 23d and 24th irstant. In the first the General t a thus expresses himself:- e The enemy have formed between the Central Bastion and i the Bea a large place d'arries, where they propose assem-a bling considerable forces to make important sorties against us. ...

... OGENERAL AHUMBLY. Thile 6eneral Assembly of the Cht'ifl of Scotland Met yes. terday. L6Md Belliaven, her Majesty's Ford High Commis. sioner, probesse4 from Holyrood, escorted ly a troop, of the 1st Dragoons and- a portion of the 82d Regimntit, to St. Giles, Church. As it Ssa the day appointed for tle cektl''etion of the sanniversary of her Majestty birth, business war almost en- tirely ...