... ' Merrri'^ay, .~Tzy 5I. .-, The usual monthly meeting of the Council was -held this day-ithe.Lord Prwovot presiding. - : % PREtENT :-Baillies Smith, M'Hardy, Oswald, and TI Fraser; the Dean of Guild; TreasurefElmEl,; -M Dr Christie; Messrs Williams, Shepherd, Cruick- shank, W. Ross, Nicol, H. Ross, Heihderson, and G. Jamieson. Mr George Leslie, Jan., shipowner, was admitted a Buri, A gess of ...

... TESTI MO N IA LS. (From the Saf rday Review.) C tWE have recently had submitted to u s a large collection of S ttestimonials, including among them those which were circel- e lated among the' electors by the candidates for the head- I mastership of two great schools, for more than one Scottish professorship, and for offices in several minor educational for 0 inTsittions recently revived by the ...

... A Special Episcopal Synod was held at Edinburgh on the 0 21st inst. After Divine Service in St. Paul's Church, the Il meceting was adjourned to St. Andrew' s Hall, ]Leith Wynd. ce The Court consisted of the Bishop of Edinburgb, Priinus ; the Bishops of Brechin, Argyle, Glasgow, St. Andcrews, and Aberdeen; Mr Pyper, advocate, attended as their Assessor, t and Mr Rollo, W.S., acted as Clerk.I ...

... PA R L I AM EN T. R0 OUSE OF LORDSTtuead, Jul 13.l BUl50NS.' '1 ThcMar sOfCLANRic~AD asked if it vere true tbat a regi mont, /hich had reiently arrived at Liverpool, had been sup. plied with tunics vithour buttcns.ntl Lord HARD1NGE believed that, througi somr negligeneovart of the carriers of thc 100th Regiment, wmIch hd recently nrved from Canada, had been supplied with tuuico without buttons ...

... IMPERIIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS-Tuedodep Jutlj 13. f Is .(SVpplrnesstarii to Telegraphic e lport in our loot.) f, y c d SCOTCH UNIVERSITIES BILL, F EL Upon tho order of the dayf for the second reading of the Scotch le Unidversities Bill being roa , T d T'ho Dulco of MONTROSE, in moving the second reading of this. cI IS bill, said-Notwithstanding the very great success of the Univer- NV ...

... A meeting of the Aberdeen Free Church Prosbytery was, held on Friday-Rev. Mr Baunatine, Union Chapel, pre- siding. Ar- moinD nrdce yD i. Brownhdhtet btie rmpbi appearyable Speech, t steonde by speia mDavidsn, thtfh Presbytery adth qe- heetion letheir fore opesolOntioacr ogans afusio Coflthe Con lenges; hwasocarriedb 14d to4, tovber banrmedmenot meey Dr Da vidBown nfv of fhsctadaGausieon. ...

... 9 WEDNESDAY, lya 14, 1858. WEDNESDAY, July 14, 158DS THE JEW BILL AND ITS JEWRY CLAUSE. TiLE Jew Bill anrd the Oaths Bill, viz., the Lords' Bill, a enabling the Commons to admit Hebrews to sit and P vote by omitting the part of the Oath of Allegiance to Al which they object; and tIre Commons' Bill, with the P) Lords' aiuenduont, making common sense of the Oaths i taken bv members of ...

... r FRANCE. PARTs, Saturday.-The Xoifteur announces that her Majesty Queen Victoria wi 1 procced to Cherbourg on thc 4th of August, on a visit to the Emperor. Sioty SPAIN. ng. Thc E~poca asserts that the new Parliament will meet on tho IOth of Gctober. The Corrcedpoidacncia saysthe 15th of November the or the lst of December. The government wishcs to give time for urns the rectification of the ...

... INVERURY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATIGlN - The Inverury Agricultural Association's show of stock was held at Inverury, on Friday. The turn-out of all classes of stock was equal, both in point of numbers and quality, to that at any of the previous shows bf this Assooiation. ; The judges were-Messrs Copland, Haddo House; Camp- i bell, Kinnellar; and Turnbull, Smitliston-who discharged their duties ...

... PARLIAIMENT. tI OUSE OF LORDS-TUe-day, Juy 6. 2 JEWS BILL. c The Dule of MARLBouOGo gave notice that, in Committee on t the Jews Bill, he intended to propose the insertion of a clause d prohibiting Jews from giving advice to the Crown respecting t ecclesiastical appointments. ECCLESIASTCAL PATRONAGE. The Earl of HARDWICEE brought up a report of amendments on the Ecclesiastical Commission Bill. ...

... TS ae El DITOR of the ABERDEEN JOURNAL. . Aberdeen, 10th July, 188. g DEilS iSc,-I observe a series of resolutions in this daq's .erad, ornanating fromxa meetinq~of the 1acrediteda mm o te of Graduates and Alumni of iKxng's College, hold at Old Aber- 5 deons on Ist inst., and, as every such meeting is significant, it Bs might have been well had the names of the gentlemen, ceompos- 1e ing the ...

... ' We (Times) have received the following telegram from our Malta correspondent: IALEXANDRIA, July 7.-The Calcutta and China mails have arrived to-day with intelligence from Calcutta to the 3d of Jane, Madras to the 10th, Hongkong to the 22d of May. On the 31st of May, Sir Colin Campbell was still at Futtelghur. The Calpee rebels were advancing upon Gwa- lior. They were not plundering, but ...