... Itffin, to .fbe (9bi-tor. TIIE DECISION OF LORD ARDMILLAIX. Stu,-Your able and lucid criticism on Lord Ard- millan's partial decision and ungenerous remarks de- miands the thanks of all right-minded people, to which sentiment, I am certain, thousands both male and female respond. I am glad to say all my sex whom I meet with, rich and poor, educated and uneducated, are unani- mously of opinion ...

... [REUTER'$ TELEGRAMS.] The Mo~liteur announces that M. Router will fulfil the duties of Minister of the Interior during the absence of Persigay. THE BOUHSE. PARIs, Thursday, 3.35 P.M. m -The Bouse opened firm, but was heavy at the close. Rentes were finally qu6ted at 68-30, or 20c. lower than yesterday._ FRANCE AND MEX[CO. The .Aoniteur publishes the following from General Loretcez, dated the ...

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... LAYING OF THE FOUNDATlON-STONE OF A NEW FREE CHURCH AT CRATHIE. On Tuesday, the ceremony of laying the foun- dation-stone of a new Free Church at Crathic was performed by Lord Dalhousie. The site, which is on the Abergeldic estate, was granted by the late Prince Consort. The church is only about ten minutes' walk from Balmoral Castle. On Tuesday there was a very large gathering present, ...

... THE BRITISH FISHERIM We make the following extracts from the re. port of the Commissioners for the British Fisheries, of their proceedings last year:- of THE BUJSINESS DONE. lax The fee of 4d. per barrel, imposed by the mit 21st and 22d Viet, Cal). 69, upon tbe branding of. in barrels of herrings, has, in 1861, yielded £4422, Co go. in 859, the first year of the fee, it yielded V` £2644, 12s. ...

... I 1. - , , . . tft ? : t , Ili It' . i 9i as ? 6 I OL THE. PROVOSTSHIP AND BELIHAVEN BILL. Sioa,-It is well enough known in. town. now that a spirited contest is expected in, November next for the Provosfihip. I do not intend to say a word as to the meritg of the respective candidates for that office; T but I beg the attention of all electors who do not con- sider the claims of the Established ...

... In the Commons on Thursday petitions against Courts of Church of Scotland Bill were presented from Kirk-sessions of Free Churches, Dunscore, Cockburnspath, Kilmuir, Easton, Abercorn, Kil- morie, Coupar-Angus, Kirkend, Cawdor, Plutcar- den, Old Kilpatrick, Turrifi, Maddesty, Forgue, Dollar and Mluclhart, Galashiels, Free St Cle- ment's Church (Aberdeen), Free Tolbooth Church (Edinburgh), ...

... LORD BELRAVEN'S CHURCH OF COURTS BILL. penall PUBLIC MEETING IN QUEEN STREET H1ALL. canno those Yesterday afternoon, a public meetinig of the thiugi Citizens of Edinburgh was held in Queen Street Of to HUall, to oppose this Bill. There was a large and me ii ciples influential attendance, and the Lord Provost pre' betwe ,sided. Among tlose onthe platform were Bailies who Blackadder and Auchie, ...

... letters to tfe abittr. MADAME LEFEIqVRE AND LORD ARD)MILLAN Sias,-I trust that you will not refuse t o a d distressed sister the opportunity of your wiley 'epic lating journal in order to refute, as far as lies in t' power, the false assertions made in the Scotch Judge'! summing up against Mrs Theresa Yelverton, who I must ever maintain, is one of the most pure.minded'of her sex; and I would ...

... Garibaldi's recent speech at Palermo has called forth the protest of the French Consul there, and the newspapers that published it have been seized. It will be remembered that the General alluded in his speech to the humili- stion of delay in waiting on the French Govern- ment. The Minister of War in Berlin has brought forward a Bill asking credit for the establish- inent of a fleet; and a ...

... WAS TUE FAIR LADY THE PLRSUER OR THE fi PURSUED? th As the vital part of the Yelverton Marriage ou ac Case turns upon the point whether Major Yelver- th ton was the pursuer in the case or the pursued, - the following extracts from the correspondence sh nay serve to solve the question. tim In the first lettter of Major Yelverton to Miss Ye Longworth, (dated in March 1853, he intimates to to her ...

... SABBATH, EXCURSIONISTS & EDINB URGH, . PERTH, & DUNDEE RAILWAY. Our readers will observe from the following correspondence that the Sabbath Alliance have succeeded in getting a stop put to the desecration of the Sabbath, by the permission of excursionists by the Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee Railway to return on that day: - Office of the Sabbath Alliance, 5 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh, July 7, ...