... p . v : -III cpecial Telegram.) I LoNDuoN, Tnesday, 5, PatS. q THE Committee of the House of Lords, appointed to try h the merits of tho above Railway scheme, met this day, ' when the case. for the 'promoters of the line was taken up. Mr Hops Scott, Q.C., addressed&- +1he.Causenittee, in opening the case, eafter which the Earl of Abede~h ~a~5~ Tao~MP. i ames Elphinstone, M,P., Mr Thomson b of ...

... R1OIJSE OF LORDS-Ttesday, Ju1e 29. The Leases and Sales of Titled Estates Act Amendment Bill and the County Management Bill, were read a second time; au the Ecclesiastical Commission B3ill passed through Committee. Lord Brougham, by request of a the Earl of Malmesbury, gostponed the second reading of the Independence of Pariiament SEQUESTRATION OF CLERnYMEN. Lord ST. LEONARDS asked the ...

... THE Council's Committee on these Customs have reported and, as we expected, they leave the subject as they found In it. They have considered the present Customs and the is proposed substitutes, arid find no reason to make any alters- mn tien-inasmnuchr as none of thle substitutes proposed appear nr to them likely to please tire public. 'Neither the re-adjust- -ment of tire. tax on partienlar ...

... A PARTLUMENTAtY RiTURN was published last week, show- a ing the nlumber of stamps issued to each of the nlewspapers C of the United Kingdom, from the lst July, 1855, when the in ce1npelsory stamp was abolished, totleetid of tleyearl1857. t; Tle following figures (which we copy fromn tles .SCOtesur(), PI are deduced froes the sums stated in gros in tbe Rettirn, anld t show the average numiber ...

... FRANCE. P tius, Friday.-Thoserew transport Saone, with 700 Marhic InfiatlryforChina, lha received ordiers to quit Brest Shc istocall at Gorce, the Isle of Reunion and Singapore, on her route to Pi ong Kong. A report is cuirent that the trial of the assassins of the 14th Januar1y will be postponcd till the ease of Bernard is fulrtlhergone into before the London courts, as it is thought some ...

... 'nTHE long trial of Bernard, the French refugee, on the charge of conspiracy to assassinate the Emperor of the U- French, and of being an accessory before the fact to rethe murder of Nicholas Batti, and others, in the Rn Lepelletier, on the 14th January last, was brought al to a close on Saturday. The prisoner was acquitted ; o and the acclamations with which the verdict -was re- a ceived ...

... UtNIVERSITY QUESTION-MEETMG OF THE GUILDRY. A meeting of the Guildry, called by their Dean, was held in the Town Hall on Saturday, to consider the Universities Bill, as far as regards Aberdeen. About fifty gentlemen were present. The notice calling the meeting having been read, The DEAN of GUILD said lie had called this meeting at the request of several influential parties in Aberdeen, who ...

... eeLr-Advocate - . -John Inglis, Esq. 'i!Solicitor-General - Charles Biailie, Escj, ied Crown Counsel - - . . Maxwell Inglis, Esq. ad- (Edward S. Gordon, REsq. 3e o pu~Avets - Archibald Broun; Resq. ,ofd )eAvoaeRobert Blaektbutn,Esq. the IJohsi Miller, Esq. ted Depute - Advosate in Sheriff tRoger Montgome~rie, REsq.: Courtr-- oen CuslfrWoods and Forests Archibald T. Boyle) Eeq. Id- Counsel ...

... - --- *4L TEE NEW INDIA BILL, (From the Time8.) The new India Bill is a remarkable combinatioln of mo- 1 desty and enterprise. It fulfils not only the pledge made by the Government on its accession to offica, but also one f which it did not make ; for it is an India Bill and a Parlia- 1 mentary Reform Bill rolled into one. To the populous con- stituenciesof London, Manchester, Liverool, ...

... pTiHE movement among the Shipowners is likely to be : f all but universal. Every third day a meeting takes . D p)lace at one or other of the larger ports; and, on the I e .15th of December, a meeting of the Shipowners' Asso. I e ciation is to be held at the London Tavern, to take I a into consideration the present ruinous condition of the shipun ineet LrdaMalmesbiiry's reply to' the P f Grq ...

... TOWN COUNCIL FROCELDINGS. f ,S'len'dp, dla.I/ S. The Council smet specially this day-the Lolrrovost lee 1Ipresiding : an I PRESENT-The four Baillies, the Dean ofS|Guild Dr St Christie, Messrs Williams, Sheplherd, . lboss, See H. Ross, Cruickshanle, Henderson, Gi, roeJine I son, and J. Jamieson. mi 3 THIE UNIVERSITY QUESTION. 'it - Tle PROVOST stated that tdis was a special mecting called Sh, ...

... &Ox the subject of Christian education ,in public ic schools, Sir John.Lawrence, in the document referred tb I to in the preceding article, proposes to make secular C us education the rule, and religious optional to the parents 01 of the pupils. With reference to jiita'& Woin' the m Y- public revenues for the support of native religions et most people seem to conceive that the only Christian ...