... How LORD SHAFTESBURY EMPLOYED HIMSELF LAST SuNDAY. -The Record denies the soft imhpeachment of Sabbath-breaking which has been cast upon the evan- gelical-Earl. We much fear that in the excitement of this political crisis many of the leading politicians were found occupying the last Lord's Day in consulta- tions as to the course of action to be adopted on the morrow. Amongst others we were ...

... . Tkere are 100,000 families in this city, more or less; and - of this number probably 90,000 are compelled to live upon less-than $1000 a year. This fact may possibly ?? to thlir lot some of the excellent persons who have written comn plainingly upon the hardships of being forced to eke out: ex- istenme upon $1500 or $2000 a-year. We are all too, much in the habi of looking to those above us ...

... (The following appeared in or trdte -dition of Mondia,7/:) BN - Q U T. TO T -DU. OF . AL ?? BANQUET TO THIE DUKE OF M~ALAKHOFF. (From the Times,) Another of these cordial reunioans which mark- the real sin- cerity with whbich the Anglo-French Alliance is preserved in this country in all its truth and spirit took place on Thurs- day evening, and the officers of the two services who are members ...

... d BEQUESTS BY THE LATE MR. WHYTE, BOOKSELLER. a -We understand that the late Mr. William Whyte, cl bookseller, has left some valuable bequests to the a Free Church. He leaves a sum of £7000 to found a a church at the Cowgate-head, £5000 of which is to be ft devoted to the building of the church, and £2000 for Ii an endowment for the minister's stipend. He has also fi bequeathed about £1500 to ...

... TIME OF TRAIUT LEAVRNG EDhNBIRGH FOB UNDERMENTIONED PLACES. MlAY 1858. *;c The abbreviations Within parenthesis-(CaL), (S- C.), (E. cc G.), (N. B.), (E. P. and D.) -signify Caledonian, Scott-i1 Central, Edinburgh and Glasgow,, North British, an, Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee Railways respecti vly. and intimate that the trains start from the termiu:l a these railwvays in Edinburgh at the ...

... The Synod resumed at six ?? Peddie, moderator. CASE OF MR nOOD, DUNDEE. Mr George Hool, a member of the Temple Lane congregation, Dundee, made a serious charge against Mr Thomas Morris, a fellow member of that church, in October last. The session required Mr Hood to lodge his charge in writing, but be failed to do so. lie gave it as a reason why he had not obeyed the request of the session ...

... The committee re-assembled on Thursday at noon -Mr Clive in the chair. I- Mr JoN0soy, counsel for the Border Counties DI, Company, stated that his clients had resolved to ask the committee to affirm the preamble of their bill in conjunction with the line of the North British from 3 Hawick to Riccarton. 4 Mr DLNisoN, on the part of the North British C Company, requested the committee to ...

... 'TH11E OUDE PROCLAMATION. Ihe rollowing is the correspondence between Sir dralies Outramn and Lord Cannin-T relative to the Oode Proclasmation, of which a brief surmmary was givx. in our telegraphic report of Saturday. Froni George Couper, Esq., Secretary to the Chief : ,unmissioncr of Oude, to G. F. Edmflonstone, Esq., . 6rotary to the Government of India. D. Camp, Chimlut, March 8, 1858. r, ...

... FRANCE. PARIS, Weduesday.-At one o'clock to-day the Conference met for the second time at the Minis- ti try of Foreign Affairs. p The Minister of War has sent a very strong tc circular to be read to all the officers in the service fc relative to the late duel. It silently admonishes officers to avoid any quarrels with civilians, and imperatively prohibits officers corresponding with newspapers ...

... AGENTS FOR THE, 'ALEDONlA.Y MERCURY. A'ordeeu .-A. & R. 3EIne, Glasgow -AY. Love .St Attleneurm. Iieoci Sj liare Do. --L. & J. Smith. Greenock .31ra Owen. Do. --et. Pantou. lladdiligtanJ. MiLlen. Do. -D. Wyllie aud' Do- -G. Similes. So!I. Ilawick _I. Biack. ! Aberlatly . Nr F. 3I5:chlsl. Do. -J. Dalgleish. A|lloa - -J. LothkLn. 1nyersk.~S. Gordon. ?? ..-James Swith. tnvczskeit)lgMiss ...

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... lau'qu ,jilftfligna. SPAIN. No --leotion of the Ministerial crisis is announcedr in the Madrid journals of the 11th. The Espe7na publishes a programme of the Queen's approaching f journey to Valencia, from which it appears that her Majesty will set out cn the? 24th, and return to Ma- t drid on the 4th June. The same journal states that the latest despatches received by the Government trom all ...