... it II ONs Friday, thle new Indian Council, embodied -under the of Act Of last session, met for the first time, and at once enter- It ed on the discharge of their important fanctions. The Sit- I e- ting, which lasted upwards of two hours, Vas occupied of chiefly in settling the future mode of procedure, and the b o- President, in exercise of ties authority conferred upon binst a- by the Act, ...

... 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 ...

... dg. A meeting of direetors and other representatives of rail- bhe ined way companies was held on Thursday at the Easton Hotel, resi London, Mr H. S. Thompson, chairman of the North-East- see to ern Railway Clompany, in the chair, son Lsty. The following companies were represented :-London and q vres North-Western;- Midland; -North-Eastern; Lancashire and E rt h~o Yorkshire;' Great Western; ...

... ENGLAND. Me THE P1UNs E OFuo WAaES.-The Prince of Wales will shortly occupy the Whito Lodge in Richmond Park. Since rin the death of the Duchess of Gloucester, the Rangership of .h this Royal demesne has been entrusted to the Duke of Cam- ceo bridge, on the understanding that when the Prince of ths Wales attained his majority, the Duke should transfer the tin Rangership to the Prince. The ...

... 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 ...

... (From thi Glasgow 3 orojag Journal.)l.) THE Establislcd Prcsbytcry of Glasgow again declined on Frase Wednesday to enlter on the anti-patronage discussion, to ase which it hns been invited by a ninber of well-meaning-but These not very wiscly guided or judicious laymen. The facility of TLese runninq into difficulty is sometimes very tempting, and Long! there is a class of persons so strangely ...

... 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 ...

... FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,. Li FRANCE. PARIS, Thursday.-It is said that a communication has taken nlace betwecn the French Ambassador in London and the Eng- lish government on the immigration into the French colonies of free negroes; that several facts which are stated to have taken place on the West Coast of Africa, and disapproved by the local authoritices, were mentioned, and a request made that ...

... 11 Saturday, Jale. 9. ie Thle Board met this day-Mr Kemp, in the absense th ~o from indisposition of the Chairman, presiding. El PRasgIerT:-Messrs Reid, Urquhart, Allan, A. Fraser, esi I, Croumbie, H?. Ross, Gildawie, Calder, fronside,- ie Campbell, Leslie, 'Watson, Gray, Playfair, R. Ie Fraser, Ross, Watson, and Luimetden. - Onl the suggestion of Mir A. Fraser, it was agreed that the hond of ...

... mn LOSS OF TWEhNTY-ONE LIVES. rd (Froin t7he Sydney Morning Herald.) se E.xRns on Saturday morning, October, 24th, Sydney was thrown into a state of considerable excitement and alarm. The loss of the in-fated Dunbar, with so many familiar I to friends and acquaintances gone in her total wreck, but nine weeks previously, was still fresh in memory. And now o- the Catherine Adamson, the Queen ...

... 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 ...