... THME EPISCOPAL SYNOD AND THE BISHIOP OF BRECBIN. The Synod of Bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church met the other day, in this city, when the subject of the Bishop of Brechin's Charge, and the Declarations and Remonistrances in connection with it, were taken into consideration. At the meet- ing, the following Pastoral Letter, w.hich reads less equivocally than previous documents issued by ...

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... ?EUOND EDITION. MERCURY OFFICE, THUERSDAY, ELEVEN ?? ocr;. THE EANST. Constantinople accounts say that a whole divi- sion1 had there embarked for Montenegro. An insurrection had broken out in the ?? of Canldia. 2000 armed insurgents insist on the re- mloval of Vrely Pacha, and a diminution of the waxes on the Christians. COMMlENTS OF THtE LO:NDONr PAPERS. The Tiwnes, in a leader on the ...

... THE STAMP DUTY ON CH1UQUES, (F~tOM, T~lE EcoNGMIST.) Nei Great differences of opinion appear to exist as. to Mam the effect ?of the regulation recently passed withis- ered gard to the imposition of a stamp upon bankrers' m at cheques. The Act recently introduced into tdiesp House of Commons by M~r Disr leli effected the FbI- to 2 lowving object :-it imlposed a stamp duty upon all fiou drafts ...

... GERM~ANY AND THIE BALTiC. (FROM OURt OWN CORRESSPONflENT.) HA.BUBG, May 29.-As the season advances the arrivals of these who have resolved Upon emigration daily become more numerous, 8o that it wousld ap- pear the attempts of many of the German States to keep people at home against their wvill have hitherto had little effect.. They are nowv, indeed, coming from more distant districts than ...

... BY ELECTRICTELEGRAPH. FRANCE. De Pene is so far better that it is contemplated to remove him to Paris. TURIN. The Times' Tulrin correspondent says-Ac- counts from the provinces and the south of France respecting the silk crop are unfavonrable, and that the disease is again showving itself where it ~existed last year. Prices are slightly low with few sellers. AMIERICA . SOUTrAMIPTON, Wednesday ...

... AGEM?S FOil THE CALEDONIA? HEECCEY. Aberdeen .A. &s It. 3,imeu, Glasgow ?? Love. ; Athennum a Enochl Squ r~ Doc. ?? & J. Smlith. Greenock .. ..3Is Owen. Do. ..W. Panton. ^Hsdding~ton ..J. Mifleu. Son. 1 -lawick II. Black. Aherlady ..:ZIr F. M>itchecll. Do. ?? Dalgtleishl Alloa J. Lothiaxis. ?? Gordon/. Arbroath J.anees Sm~ith. tlnverkeithgMies Campbelh. Do. G. Sutherland. ,Jsdbolrgli ..A ...

... Yesterday, at nooo, a special general meeting of this board was held in the Council Chambers- BIr Lebnrn in tbe chair. The Clerk read a long pe- tition to the Houlse of Commons, stating in detail the reasons vvhy the Board object to Lord Eleho's Road Bill. Mr Trotter of Mortonhall objected to the length of the petition, because whcn such petitions were presented to the House they were told to ...

... SECOND EDITION OF WEDNESDAY'. FRA1NC E. *PARIS, 1st June.-The importance now as- sumed by events in Cbina has determined t>he Emperor's Government to vwithdrawv fromn the Indo -Chinlese squadron, under the orders of V. A.. Rigault de Genonilly, the care of Madagascaar and reunion of Mayotle and Notsite. A naval sub- division is organised for the charge of these esta- blishments. COMMENTS OFi ...

... TIME OF TRAL?S LEAVD?G EDINEURGU FOR UNDERMENTIO2?ED rLACI&S. JL'NE 186S. %t The abbreviations wvithin parentheuis-(Cat), (S. C0), (E. a~nG 0.), CM. B.), (E. P. and D,)-,ignify Osledonlanl, Scattiat Central, Edinburgh and Glasgow, ?? BritshL and Edinburgh, Perth, and Dandeo Railwvays respectively. and intimate that. the trains start from the termini ct the se railwvays in Ediubr rgh at the ...

... -9 HOUSE OF COMXMONS-WEDNESDAY. The Speakier took the chair at twelve o'clock. CASE OF ala WILI;ES. Mir MI. GIBSON said that, as Mr Wilkes had, in his petition, presented last night, fully retracted the charges against Mr Clive, he begged to move that he be discharged from custody. Mfr AYfRTON seconded the motion. M~r OLIVE wished that the retractation had been as ample as the charg~es made ...