... FREE CHURzO SYNOD OF ABERDEEN. Too X TEE UNIVERISITY QUESTION, ait II [The late hour at which the discussion on this question Suer took place osa the night preceding our last, precluded our cei v giving snore than the briefest noet ef it. We therefore re- Fiat 3vert te the subject.] Thle The next business on the paper, was an overture to memio- pern riahees the Royal Commissioners in favour of ...

... WEDNESDAY, October 27,1858. NOTES ON THE WEEK'S NEWS, SLAvE LIABOUR AND FREE. - Certain statements made at one of the meetings of the Social Science As- sociation have given rise to a discussion on the compa- rative cheapness of slave labour and the labour of free I negroes. The Cuban slave is said to be hired for IS l hours' work a-day, for six days in the week, at the rate I of 3s 9d a-day, ...

... SYNOD OF ABERDBE N. p TnH Very Rev, h yo of Aberdeen mnet yesterday in tie by sc- West.Church. Divine service was condubted by thieretir- it. ing Moderator, thle Rev. James Peter, of Leslie, who preach- Thb ed an appropriete discourse from Luke c. 68-70. TheD appoi Synod leavingpbeen constituted, and tho roll made uili, a neev Tihi -Moderator was elected-Mr Middleton, Glenmutick, being with ...

... TIHE COURT. )n YESTERDAY week, his Royal Highness Prince Alfred, at- N- tended by Lieutenant Cowell, arrived at B; slnoral, having come direct to Perth, and posted thence to Blalmora]. On Wednesday, the Queen, the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princesses Alice and Helena, attended by Lady Churchill, Miss Stopford, Colonel Ponsonby, Major Teesdale, and Lieutenant Cowell, went to the top ...

... feo Tue annual Ward Meetings, for the nomination of candi- Ji dates for the Town Council, wore held on Monday evening. NThere was little interest in the proceedings at any Zf them .d-little indication of rivalry in the clafims for' office-and gfew topics of public concern strirring to give rise to a warm contest, The meeting of THE FImRS WARD took place as usual in 'the Court House. The ...

... ;rY LECL3IC19 TELEGtA-APH. e, BI .LN, Monday.-ThoUnited Legislative bodies voted unani- e, mously, and without discussion, a resolution affirming the ne- st cessity of the Regency. Tho sitting has been brought to a close s amidst hearty cheers for the King and Princo Regent. LE LISBON, 25th Otobor.-This mo rning, at seven o'clock, the Le shipCharles and Georges was restored, and th ...

... LORD CANNWG'S DEFAECE. ad THE Government has, after much delay, and with ap-s ps-arent reluctance, published the Governor-General's t dd reply to Lord Ellenborough's despatch. These two t documents -thc condemnation and the defene-give t _ us the purely moral and the purely political aspects of u the Indian question, in so far as the Kingdom of Oude p is concerned. They indeed form between ...

... THEn character and operations of this wonderful institu- tion can never be devoid of interest to the people of this country. The great success which has apparently attended it, and the grave fundamental errors that seem, according to ordinary principles of economy, to enter its organization, have puzzled the most sagacious heads. It was regarded as a great national stock- jobbing institution, ...

... - -------I-- MAL THE INDIAN IAIATL. TirE intelligfence of the transference of the Indian Em- bj pire from the halds of the Company to those of the f: Imperial Government seemis to have been received with c( less interest thaii might have been expected. We U, would infer, from the 'imes' Calcutta Correspondent, tl that the main source of anxiety among the educated cc natives who havo invested ...

... 1- THAT we are as a nation by nature gihen to strong i- drink, seems to be a conclusion to *hhich social econo- f- mists and reformers are driving very fast.' We are 1, overpowered by statistics at every turn. The Chancel- lor of the Exchequer pockets the revenue in much the ;e same spirit as the old church-wardens did those pro- i- ceeds of the *church ales, on which the more pious l a- ...

... - - - --I . FRANCE. Sim Thes Emperor, on Wednesday, took the command of the troops ten in the camp of Chalons for at grand field day, and the precision brac with which thle varied manmuvers were executed was exceed- ingly remarkable. The char-ges of the cavalry, both in separate 0015 - regiments and whoen the whole 32 squadrons were uuited, are the adescribed as mnagnificent. Thle masterIK ...

... it w - BURSARTY COMPETITION. n Tril Annual Bursary Competition commenced on Monday, it and the result was declared at a meeting of the Town a- Council, with Dr Cruickshank as representing the College, t- in the Council Chiauber yesterday evening. There weret d we understand, 98 competitors, being two more titan last d year. The average age of the competitors was 16 years. ii -o The following ...