... OPEN-AIR EVANGELTSTIC M1EETINGS AT HUNTLY. sr, METINGS took place in the Castle Park, Huntly, on Wed- tr Jy nesday and Thursday, similar to those of last year. The po ar- arrangements ales were pretty macis the same as last year, co lie a large Marquee being provided is case of rain and for see- ed tional prayer-meetings, while refreshments were liberally supplied in the Gordon Schools to the ...

... GENERAL SYNOD OF THE SCOTTISH EPISCOPAL!1 I C 11RHUR C HH I YESTERDAY week a General Synod of thle Episcopal Church in Scotland opened its sittings in Edinburgh. A s it is now nearly a quarter of a century since the last General Synod was held-namely, upon the 29th of August, and continu- ed by adjournment till thes 6th of September, 1838-we may!1 mention that by the 32d canon of the present ...

... NOTES ON THE WEEK'S NEWTS. SIR JAMES I1UDSON ON T'ILE STAVL Or l'J'T. The British Minister at Turin has addressed a corn- munication to Earl Itussell descriptive of a recent visit which lie had made to the South of Italy. In Umbria I and the 1Marches, he says, he found the whole country awake1ned to a newV life. Everything betokened energy and prospeity. Ancona, instead of exhibiting the lazy ...

... THn ABmuWi BURARY ORDINANCES. Trig petitions against the recent Ordinanices Of tico Seottisle UTniversities' Comsnsnisoners hoIviag 'bean remitted to the Conssaiiosionero by the Priv Conil, a hearing of partie took piaco within the Hopetooin Rooms, Queeo tet Edinburgh, en Monday, Of the Commisinioners, there were present :-Tlce Lord Justice-Clerk presiding; the Lord jnstico.Geiieralt Lord ...

... NUMBER AND IIEGISTERE]D TONNAGEB OF SATL GAND STflAM VESSELS IN GRIEATBTA, IRELAND, THIE ISLE OF.MAN, AND CHANNEL ISLANDS, ON 31ST DECEMBER, 1861. l -- VWlSEUS. STEAM VSSsKLS. I 1-r s -Ti fo n - t sr n -,lETO A I'TM IT 1P lPOPlnU'PR Irlo-T-z Pf Opllms--Th following letter anuoars in the 11ttSLAN7I, ITV11e iou 5' - . SAILING VETsAMSE VESS Of asid cder 50 | Abov 50 tone. Of acd der 60 Above 50 ...

... SCOTCH AND ENGLTSII SHARMINC. K - - t 'Inn followinig latth r, front a thorongitly ypractical English it ngnlieulltaedoIt, T rll. ewtt Davis, will heo reed with interest, and illcoroborte ileview we(Ecnetist) leave often apresseel of the importe ance of kneaes end frt'e'doie of saltian o Lot tesant-fartetrs; to the aelaneseeeeeet of Eniglish egrieni- Fg utuirn. This is, pserhaps, ...

... RAILUL7AY COOMMUNICNTION TO FRASERBURGH. .tAI.atYlvA X tUUfl1tU1 N A MEETING of those interestedi ite extension of railway 3 coosscsscieatioo to Fraserhuergh was held in, tine Harbocr kit Commsissoiners' 1-all, son Friday Wooek. Tliers Was a isreg kis attendance. Baillis Chalmers, was called to thle chair. qo Thle Chairmsan said-Most of those present wooild relsmsn to inst that the procceedng ...

... I CRTUDEN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. TgE Society's first Show for the season was held in the Parish Schoolroom, on Saturday the 19tb instant. Owing to the roughness of the weather, parties from a distance an d werc deterred from bringing their specimens ; and for the same reason the attendance of visitors was fewer than in tformer years. The specimens exhibited for competition fo twere, without ...

... The Town Council of Edinburgh have, following the pre- cedent of 185?, allowved their principal officials a sum of usonev oasis and a fortnight's leave of absence, to see the £xhibition. The allowances range from five guineas to the civil and criminal officers up to forty guincas to the City Clerk. Mr Neil Colquilasun. Canipbell, advocate, iq to ho Sheriff of Ayrsliire, in room of the late Mr ...

... TOWN COUNCIL IPROCEEDINGS. dreonayet, Jim~e SO. A SrECIAL IIIEENTOof the Council Was held this clay- the Lord Provoqt 5,residillf. a e 1frEsiFN-T-Bitillies IIir'lsdy, Ft-ae., daau,,i'50l, atil l'rqrstarl: tine D)elit of Guild; thle Cito Treasiirero Messrs W~iiams, A. Fraser, CruicksltoRIih. Itac- leitinoin Adamiiison, Wvigl i , Iluistidon, St veltS, Lesieo, Piiterson, andn Wntsn POLICE AND ...

... ENGLAND. Tlee confidential ( andsiviable understanding which cxiASta betwen herMajesy aind the Prince iii Was IiS at sourcet Of cinch e-olssolatisn to thu Quelen. The dutifulatnino thle Prince, whom lier Majesty constantly consults onl oill important mnatters cenisocteil with the State, is siost isarked, or1 it soull ba agratification to thel' Queen's IsYal Isubjects and respectful ...

... 1T a swamis we foundeight bodies of Alabamians close ts. gether, anti in such a horrible state of decompo-ition that hardly a man satw them without turning away his he3d 'Their clothes were on, but the bodies were so swollen that they fittod as tightly as the skin itself. In several cases the flesh had already been eaten off by vermiu and the head stnd skull were bare. It wvas a disgusting ...