... (S.U rr t Sp z it ?t At f. I It THE SCOTTISH EPISCOPAL CHIURCM. TO THE EDITOR) OF THE CALEDOINIAN MERCURY. SIR-If .I understand the letter of Veritas, (which appears in your columns this morning) aright, the writer means to say, I will not belong to the Scottish Episcopal Church. I have got a tabernacle of my own, and I am lord of all I survey. I am very sure that no member of the ...

... A ;IKING-CONSORT IN ENGLANU. (FROM THE MANCHESTER EXAMINER.) There never seem to be wanting illustrations of that old proverb which calls upon us to put up a prayer to be saved from our friends. Of all people in the world, Kings, Queens, and great personages generally are those who seem to have most occasion to put up sueh a petition. The renewed circulation of the rumoured intention or wish ...

... CE]JEMONIAL To be observed at the marriage of her Royal High- ness Victoria-Adelaide-MarY-LOuisa, Princess Royal of Great Britain and Ireland, eldest da'eghter of her Majesty Queen Victoria and of his Royal Highness Albert Prince-Consort, Dnke of Saxony 4sad Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, with his Royal Highness Prince FrederiC-William-Nijhol-Ch'arles, only son -of his Royal Highness ...

... GERMANIY AND THE BALTIC. [FRO31 OUR OWiN CORRESPONDENT.] HAMBURG, January 4, 1858.-The proceedings of the Diet at Frankfort may for a short time have the effect of directing attention to the 'question of the Dtchies ; but, under present circumstances, when matters of more importance form the topics of the day, both in Germany and other countries, it can scarcely be expected that the ...

... Aberdeen .A. & R. 3imlne, Glasgow --V. Love, St Athen eum. IEnoch Square Do. ..L. & J. Smith. Greenock ..Mrs Owen. Do. -W . Panton. tIaddington..J. M1illen. Do. -D. Wyllie and, Do. -G. Smileq. Son. ilawiek _R. Mack. Aberlady .)Ir F. Mitchell. ! Do. J. Dalgleish. Alloa --J. Lothian. jinveresk . Gordon. Arbroath ..James Smith. I InverkeithgMiss Campbell. Do. --G. Sutherland. 1Jedburgh ..A. & ...

... Yesterday afternoon Professor Blackie delivered a lecture on the above subject in the Greek class-room of the University. The learned lecturer said-When, on a recent oc- casion, I set before the students of this university a very mild, moderate, and discriminating eulogy (for so it was allowed to be by the English press) of the Oxford system under the favourable influences of re- cent reforms. ...

... * We copy from The Labourer's Friend-a small t publication issued by the Society for Improving the a Condition of the Working-classes-the followinget- . tracts from an address delivered to agricultural ser-s vants by the Rev. E. ?? Beynon, President of the East Surrey Agricultural Association:- Ibhave heard the remark made, that the life of a 1 labouring man is a dead level from the ...

... SUMMIARY. Two additional telegrams have arrived, con- firming the melancholy intelligence recently-re: ceived, and adding a few fresh and not very comforting items. The defeat of General Wind- ham is rendered more inexplicable by the reports now furnished. He had defeated the Gwalior mutineers on the 26th November-a fact not mentioned in the first despatch-and was himself obliged to retreat ...

... The gallant Havelock, it appears, died the da before the acknowledgment of his services, iu the shape of a Baronetcy, was made by the Govern- ment. As the Bill for his pension was deferred till the next meeting of Parliament, the Ministry will now have to make some new arrangement so as to confer on the family of the deceased General some suitable recognition of his own dis- tinguished merits. ...

... ?? Om 3attIllgelitt. AN IzAvrrAuTrDe - CRscYcAN.-ThC lev. Sir Lionel Darrell, a Protestant clergyman, has gene-P. rously contributed the munificent sum, of L.100 to. A] wards the erection ofa new Roman Catholic chapelE 4n the parish of Clhlrchtownv. of TunX MsosacAGE OF tlip PRINCESS-ROYAI-Sub.- vW scriptions are getting up in Southampton to provide eg the necessitous poor there with tea, ...

... ElD civil S~trirt- - aim Naw Poon LAWv COmIissIOxEns IXt CLovEa.- According to the Dublin Evening Aail, neither of I the commissioners has, since his appointment, visited a single workhouse of the 165 with which Ireland is now studded. RAPID POSTAL COMMUNICATION. - The Dundee Post says:-A correspondent informs us that he this week posted a letter in Edinburgh seven Aours before leaving that ...

... '3MHE CITY, ITS SINS AND ITS SORROWE. Q(ss r ?? *zMEs.) '.Nobody denies Dhat there arae certain grand tivths whbich the Christian teaelher mnust never forget, and .that there aret lessee-s to. be inculcated 'a whiob-all -dse is subsidia;er:; tut these;truths become dim, svid ,these lessons lose 'heir importance, by beiang. severed in the way thatipreachers Fever them-from the, inte- rests and ...