Help organising your research by adding bookmarking your articles. You can review your Bookmarks in the Saved area. *
* We take your privacy seriously. Bookmarks and notes are personal to you and are not public.
... * 31St Larchi, 185S. wt11.blisrd Prosbvterv met on %vmn l- in tIh, ΒΆ1A ?? Y lilA- Y OJr UiLAthCO W. lii The Established Presbytery met on Wednesday in the new Hes- fiu sion House of the Tron Church-Mr. M'Lean, of Calton, Mvle- S rator.H THE HIGH CHURCI. A letter from the Rev. Dlr. Robertson, intimating his accep- tance of the presentation in his favour to the High Church, was I11 laid on the ...
... (From the Times.) Her Majesty's first state visit to the camp this season terminated on Saturday evening, after one of the most un- favourable days for witnessing the evolutions of the troops that could have befallen even at Aldershott, and the day passed off with very little to distinguish it from other days, save those barometrical vicissitudes which checker the mono- tonous existence of all ...
... We find it a sore difficult matter tian weiimagined to de- scribe the very admirable thrashing machine which we recently alluded to, and which we saw at work. As, how-. ever, this invention must very soon become a most import. ant instrument in the hands of our great agriculturists, we must make the attempt to give our readers some little infor. mation regarding it, and we trust that our ...
... THE ORGAN QUEWION. Upon the re-assembling of the Synodsn 'I'hursday morng, Asthe Synod Clerk read an overture from the Newcastle-on-Tyne R~res- bytery, which had been agreed to on the motion of the Rev. Thomas Duncan, on the 1st of April last. It was as follows:- Mlereas a resolution, carried in the Synod of this Churoli, in its meeting held at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the year 1857. specially ...
... A I A 1 -_ v A - _ _ 1 _ I _ I _ , on A shocking case of sudden death of an old and well-known eccentric character of the town of Greenwich-Mliss Maria *dSiter, of Blissett Street-was discovered on the afternoon of Monday week. It appears that the unfortunate lady, who of possessed ample means of living comfortably, had given way of late years to so many eccentricities that two of her rela- Y ...
... a I (From the Greenock Advertiser of Yesterdtly.) 3 SALMON FISHING.-Sahnon made their appearance in the market last week, and were retailed at Is. 6{l. per pound. B They were taken at Mr. Rae's Saltpan's Fishery in the Souid of Kilbrannan, and were in excellent condition. 'This fish is at present exceedingly scarce on the West Coast. Since the advent of easterly winds the markets have received ...
... THE FORBES MACKENZIE ACr AND BILLETING. * (From the Scotsman.) F. DIEPUTATION TO THiE LORD ADVOCATE; tr. ,1 On Wednesday afternoon a deputation from the Scottish tel e Licensed Victuallers' Association, consisting of Mr. William tri s Gillies, chairman; Mr. J. Campbell, one of the directors * da Mr. W. Leitch, law-agent of the association, all of llasgow* da Y and Mr. William Kerr, Edinburgh; ...
... Thc Jonifciteur de to Flotte pinblishes the following report of an l extalfinatill of Colmlmissionser Yell ol board the Inflexible, by an Elnlglisl officer. before the M indarin in question sailed fronm H-long ; iig for C;alcitta. It is inliterestiliu. In answer to questions the ?? said-I w'as boril iu the village of iKoall-Tial, in the pro- villne of Ho-Na'l. it nilether was a batsket maker, ...
... T H E N A V Y. (From the Examiner.) Sir J. Pakington's speech on the Navy Estimates is on the whole satisfactory, and considering the short time he has been in his office, the knowledge he dis- plavs of naval affairs is highly creditable. We have only to object to his makilng it matter of congratula- tion that the force on the African coast for the suppres- sion of the slave trade has been ...
... POLLOKSIIAWS. - - . l- . -. - I . DIl.rsltom3rcn CASE.-A case, -which ;will probably result 1 in the loss of lifo, lbt whether accidental or arisingr from the grossly culpable conduct of one of the parties injured, nust be resolved by judicial investigation, occurred at Cros.ny- iloof, on Monday evening. It appears from our inguriries, thalt on tie eveninig of thalt dlay, alout sevmit o'clock, ...
... - .- - _- . . )e- (From the Carnarvon Herald.) on The following is a copy of a letter received from the Mess ,so Sergeant of the 2d European Bengal Fusiliers. It is rather ns out of date, but will show the exasperation of our brave men at ve at the sight of the unheard-of cruelties perpetrated:- ad 11Subathoo, Dec. 21, 1857. on My beloved Father and Mother,- . . . . . Our ed regiment was one ...
... (From Major Chambre's Recollections of West Indian Life.) IN I was once at Montego Bay when a fine slaver was brought max in by one of our cruisers, with a numerous cargo of slaves, MiE the greater part of whom were boys and girls. They occupied lle 'less space on board than adults, and, consequently, a greater lies, of r number might be taken in the same vessel to the Cuba mar- in ket, where ...