... Tuesday, Mfay 25. sh REVIVALS IN AMERIOA. th After devotional exercises, two overtures anent the pre- pO sent religious movement in America were taken up. One AB was from the Synod of Angus and Mearns, and the other lei from the Presbytery of Edinburgh. de Mr Nairn of Dundee delivered a short and very suitable do address. The Assembly then again engaged in prayer. co Dr Candlish read a minute ...

... DOMItgTi INTELLIGENCE. a ENGLAND. THu COURT.-Tlhe Queen and the you~nger members of the 1. Royal family continue at Osborne. Th rince Consort left I Osborne on Thursday, on a short visit to his brother. and' D. daughter in Germany. His Royal Highness landed at Ports- le mouth dockyard from Osborne on Thursday afternoon, andI I. immediately proceeded by the South Coast Railway to Dover,I g ...

... GREAT NORTH OF SCOTLAND RAILWAY, a AN extraordinary meeting of this Cemmpa y was held od n Friday in the Royal Hotel-Sir James D. . H. Eplinstone ia- presiding-for lh e consideraalin and approval of Bills now before Parliaan ent anent the Formarri ne end Bechan an d te the Inverury and Oldmeldrum Junction Railways. Mr Milne, the Secretary, having read the clauses of the ne first named Bill, ...

... -Tan following Correspondence has Passed between the Rev. i r Cheyne and the Congregation of St John'sa:- To the Revei'end PATRICK CHEssuNc, .20 Incuimbent oftheChurch- of St John the Elvangelist, Abe 'ndrdeen. ebes f Du REVEREND AND DEAR Seiz,-We, the unesge Mmeso your Congregation, hoav learnt with exeedn anadseoW, h that an accusation and resentment have been made against vi you by a priest ...

... HONG-KONG, April 13.-Shanghai advices are to the 6th ult. The news is important, and our diplomatic relations with China are now taking a turn which it was no doubt ex- petled by the Ambassadors of the Allied Powers would be avoided. Replies, it is understood, have been received by the foreign.Ambassadors to their communication with the Court at Pekin. The course said to be proposed for the ...

... lWe have advices by the Overland Mail from Calcutta to the 22d April, and Madras to the 28th:- The Overla cd Friend of India has published the text of the proclamation to the people of Oude. The Oade Begum, it is reported, has taken possession of a strong fort in the immediate neighbourhood of Ehyrbad. She has 3000 adherents, and a goodly quantity of treasure. anun Singh has undertaken to ...

... I, Mr Disraeli and Mr Dupre were entertained on Wednes- i Yday at a banquet at Slough, by the Conservatives of Buck- I inghansshire. B l Mr Disraeli said, it would perhaps be remembered that t f a Government supposed to be omnipotent suddenly fell to I pieces with a collapse altogether unprecedented. (A. laugh.) There had been no unseemly eagerness for office on the part i it of the ...

... T meanl Tuesday, layo 15. netiv HOME 5515510&. tip a Dr Simpson road the report of tho Horns Mission Corn- seinb inittee. It stated that there was a, slight falling off in last hold year's revenue. ascribable to thee period of the year at which Me able celloction was made. There was, however, en increase Mi in the number of contributing congregations. Tile entire Dr C receipts for thise year ...

... MAIs. Despatched Box Closes. Holland, Belgium, RusRia, and Prussia Daily. 1.45 P.ss. Hamburg, Bremen, German States,t DeIy. 1.45 ,.M- Denmark, Sweden, and Norway . Is France, Spain (Vigo excepted), and Daily. J10 AM. * Gibraltar .. 1.45 p.M. r Ostend.. Daily. 1.45 P.M. is Lisbon, Spain, and Gibraltar .June 6. 1.45 p.m. - Gibraltar, Malta, ...

... HOUSE OF COM'MONS-F-riday, May 25. Tixo House assembled after the Whitsunitidec recess at a quarter c before four o'clock. Mr W. rATeEN gave notice that, onl thle 224 Jane, he should b move for the appointment of a select Coxnniitts to inquire into the subject of railwvay legislation. V BLEACH OF P'RIVILEGE. k MrCOLIVE thou reneweodtthe subject of theoattackiuponlbun be Ithe Las'fisle ...

... Tiais proceedings of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland do not possess in those days the same intes- rest which belonged to them in less peaceful times. They are net looked for now, ats they once were, with all the anxiety which waited an Indian telegram last summer. Still, neither the Assemblyr of the Esta'* blished Church nor that of the Free Chiurgh seems th to find the business ...

... ITHE POPULkr, AND THE PARLIAMENTTARY. I m Chancellor of the Exchequer, ever since lie came into office, till Thursday week, has been one of the most moderate and discreet politicians imaginable. Hea has introduced his measures very quietly, and in terms i which, as coining from him, might be called exceed- ingly matter of fact. He seemed to have left his budget r e of sarcasms at home so soon ...