... To THE EDITOR OF TIB D&TLY NRW6. Sin,-Allows me to call your attention to the sub- joined portion of a report of proceedings at a church court in Scotland :- Free Synod of Glasgow and Ayr.-The Free Synod of Glasgow and Ayr met at Gla'gow on Tues- day, in the Free Tron Session-house. * * * In the evening Mr. Gibson gave in a report from the Committee on Sabbath Observance. The report ...

... QUARjtELy AETUS OF TE RGEd S, AND DRATHS fli,,,FNG, o .Ar et iwae nssued yesterdayZ WR Rtrpi'- I eea, I o, inog the birtbs and ristered bj '2,19registirmAn all the districts ofi~ akl duringthe e- summer quarter that ended on Septembei 3O 186D; and the marriages in 12,145 churches or chapels, about 3,658 es registered places of worship unconnected w ith tbe 'csta- it blished oburch,'and 628 ...

... THE WAR IN ASIA. A letter in the Cologne Gazette, dated Vienna, Oct. 26th, states that a report was current in Coostanti- lople on the 16th that General Mouravieff's army e bad commenced its retreat acrobs the Arpatstchai. c Russian officers who were made prisoners in the late I SffSir at Kara have stated that the attack upon that ] fo«tress was undertaken solely in consequence of direct ...

... ELECTION OF ALDERMAN SALOMONS FOR I JLORD MAYOR. On Saturday a Common Hall was held for the pur- t pose of electing a Lord Mayor for the ensuing year. The Lord Mayor, several of the aldermen, sheriffs, and under-sheriffs met at the Guildhall at twelve o'clock, and proceeded in 5 state to the church of St. Lawrence Jewry, where divine t !iservico was performed. On their return, I I The TowN ...

... IRISH AGRIOULTURAL STATISTICS FOR 1855 8.: 28, 51! Lill 927 04 18 82 32 50! l3 An abstract of the returns of the agricultural sta. 13 tistics of Ireland, ordered by government, has just been 18 completed, and exhibits the extent of land in statute acres 58 under crops in this country for each county and province 42 in 1854 and 1855. That for the latter year bas been com. 50 piled from returns ...

... Yesterday the quarterly general meeting of pro. prietora of this company was held at the office¢, Old Broad- street; Mr. P. D. HADOW in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said the report of the committee showed tbe steady progress made in the working of the mine. At the last meeting they had to report a loss of 2181. on the three months' working, but he had now the satisfaction of itufrmirg them that the ...

... NAVAL AND MILITARY PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 28. The steam~transport Niagara, No. 48, arrived at Sitheiad~t4 norhteg. from the Crimbea. Her date. are . Bslal~vaOet. 6: Scoisri, Oe. 13; and Maltal Oat. 18. She ?? 167 muilitary invalids, siek and vounded, 16 navel invalidsi e nd 12 merchant eeamen. The following offioel~asjx als0 eoma homae-in the Niaabra: General Sir Harry Jones, R.E.; Major Grahame, ...

... --TJR ARMYS 0INi ¶L BE CRTMEA. (FItOY OUR OWN CORRESPA)NDENT.) [The following appeared id out Evug FIdit(6q 'df Ysterday]; G Al P BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, OCT. 13. Great interest is taken by the Alied armles in the two expeditions that have sailed hence, viz., the one for Kinburn, situated on a tongue of land near the 3outh of the River Bug, leading up to Nicoluieff, consisting of 10,000 men, and ...

... DR. KANE'S OFFICIAL ACCOUNr OF HIS LATE ARCTICAD VENTURBS. The following is a oopy oF the official report of has sit Dr. Kane, commanding the second Grinnell expeiition in the pa seareh ot Sir J. Franklij, to the Secretary of the Arneri- evptai can Navy : , n a evitabre, Our little party have returned in bealth and ssfeg. were e We reaceds& the Danish settlements of Upernavik onites the 6th of ...

... UNIVERSITY INTBLLiGBNCB. OXFORD, OCr. 24. EXEGESIS OF HOLY SCILIPTUR&-Dega Ireland, prolessor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture (the provost of Oriel College), proposes to commence his lectures at the Clarendon on Monday, the 29th instaxt, at 11 o'clock (the lectures during this present teem being upon the mystical Sense of Scripture), to be continued on each succeeding Monday. On Wednesday ...

... CLOSE o0 A PREDICTION PUBLISHED FORTY YEARS AGO. Up to this point the prophecy seems to point to tho for. tunes of Napoleon, the old Bourbons, and the commence ment of Louis Philippe's reign. But now comesI the end of it. After the mutual animosity of the old and young blood of the Capet, and the discontent of the French nation, we may suppose ourselves arrived at the end of eighteen forty. ...

... OPENING OF THE COMMERCIAl TRAVELLER' SCHOOL BY PRINCE ALBERT. The ceremony of the inauguration and opening of the new school at Pinner for the children of commercial travellers took place om Saturday, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, with the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs of London, being present on the occasion. The new building, which is a hand- some Elizabethan stracture, was designed by Messrs. ...