... ___1 _: J : a lL_£___ _ ?? . The annual meeting and soiree of the friends of the Glasgow City Mfission was held in the Merchants' Hall last night- John Hendersmn, Esq. of Park, in the chair. The Rev. Mr. Batchelor opened the proceedings with prayer, and the company returned thanks m a Psalm. After a few words fromn the Chuairman, The Rev. Mr. ScoTr, Secretary to the Mission, read the report, ...

... (From the Times.) Another Congress meets next week in Paris to settle, if possible, the still debated question of the Danubian PrineL palities. Every one will wish success to its labours, if it Le only for the sake of hearing no more of the war in the East and its accompaniments. But it ia possible that the Con- gress will be the scene of some bitter encounters; for the diplomatists who ...

... PARIS, Saturday.-The Patrie contains the following paragraph at the bead of its leading column :-The uncertainty which prevailed as to Lord Cowley's mission is in the way of being , cleared up, It appears to be beyond doubt that it has produced no positive result. Commercial operations of importance in France are suspended during the continuance of warlike preparations. The decrease in the ...

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... HARBOURS OF REFUGE IN SCOTL&1D. The Report of the C- nimssioners appointed to a complete the inquiry in the terms recommended in ti the Report of the Select Committee of the Hruse of t) Commons, in 185S, on -arhours of Refuge has been a published. The following is the portion of ite dscti It ment which refers to this section of tle United King- tl dom. ti The traffic on the east coast of ...

... 61 qtrt aub jf asir.ja'a. 1, ?? &- Cisc Majesty the Quleis an n idi~l RoeCdl Highness the Xrinee Consort, at.companied by the Princesses Alice and Helena, took a drive on Saturday afternoon in an open carriage and four. Major-Ge:c~ral tlic lion. C. Grey and Colonel the lHon. A. liordirge ltteded on horseback. Tile Prince Consort left flickjn,_b ;un palace at half-past nine o'clock on Saturday ...

... -1f''Guip FRANCE. From among the various contradictory reports touching -the result of Lord Cowley's mission, the following from a Vienna letter of March 9, published in the Havso Correspondence, is thought to be very near the truth:- The mission which the English diplomatist came to fulfil here is closed, and it can be declared not to have been crowned wvith success in the real meaning of the ...

... no . I-. ?? ' - ?? F . . .o the Editor of the Gtaspow Herald. SIR,-I believe it will give very great satisfaction to a large number of the subscribers to the intended monument to Sir William Wallace that the late design by Mr. Noel Paton has not been approved of, and that the subject is again open for something more suitable to perpetuate the name of the hero, and the arduous struggle for ...

... MR. JOHN EWARD STEPHENS.. (From the Times.) This individual, formerly assistant-surgeon in a cavalry regiment, subsequently managing director of the Lonxdon and Eastern Banking Corporation, and now a private person- age living at ease upon the interest of X20,000, seems to be among the most favowed of mankind. In the space of les than four years he contrived, with his associate Colonel Waugh, ...

... To the Editor of the Glasgortw Hetrald. d SIR,-It was with the greatest satisfaction that the mem- o bers of the medical profession read the very able editorial t article which appeared in your impression of Thursday last, d on the vexed yet most important question of the registration of the causes of death. for thus bringing the subject before It the public in a tangible and effective manner, ...

... I f (From the lfercantile Test.) L The rights of the mercantile public, and of the press of e the United Kingdom, are at present in peril with respect to t the free publication of that essential branch of ineicantile information--the Custom House. trade lists. e These trade lists embrace statistical returns of. all experts t and imports of goods, and duties paid; and that class of: information ...

... TLUB; OFl f''N6 LEAVEIN EDBURWI 1' UNDERM NTIONED PLCES. MARCEl .8539. ?? The abbreviations within parenthesis-(CaI.), (S. C.), (E. san G.), (N. B.), IF. P. and D.)-signify Ctledonian, Scotishr Central, Edinburgh and Glasgow, North British,4 au Edinburgi;, Perth, and Dundee -Railways respectively andintinatethat the trains star't fron the termini ffr these railways in Edinburgh at the hours ...