... SYNOD OF LOTHIAN AIND TWJEEDDALE. ma . I I e - ?? _ r-1 S -d l-. - - The half-yearly meeting of the Synod was held yesterday. The Rev. Mr. Monilaws preached from Luke ii. and 10th, ti and the Rev. Mr. Gray, Kirkurd, was appointed to succeed him as Moderator, The Rev. IE Henderson addressed the en Synod on the subject of the India Mission, and received the co thanks and encouragement of the ...

... The usual monthly meeting of this Trust was hel yes ter- day-the Lord Provost presiding. After the minutes Of last meeting had been read and con- firmed, the minutes of the Committee of Management, and other committees, relating chiefly to matters of detail, were read and approved without discussion. RPED RAILWAY CoMMLHUWATSON TO THE Quas>YB. [he Parliamentary Bills Committee reported that ...

... LETTER FROAM. LADY IN MISSISSIPPI- FIGHT IN A CHURCH. We have been favoured with the following extracts fromj a letter to a gentleman in Saltcoats. from his sister in Mississippi:- A week has passed since the date of my letter. but how great a change in so short a time ! Knowing how stories grow, I thought I would relieve you of all uneasiness. I wend on Sunday morning, with Mir. and Mrs. A, ...

... The following appeared in only a part of our Edition of Yesterday _7 London, Monday Night, The annual banquet given to the Ministers of State, her Majesty's Judges, and the great dignitaries of the land, came off, as usual, in the Guild HaiL The following were among the company ?? and Lady Palmerston; the ?? Mayor and Lady Mayoress; Durejand Duchess of Somerset; Marquis of Salisbury; Earl ...

... FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 20. IS connection with the IKing of Italy's tourthrotugh- out the southern provinces of his kingdom, il which I I. I I A As - - -4-t ._ n^1 1- zx + 1, 1 he has been most enthusiastically received by the people, the Government has done a very graceful act in proclaiming an amnesty to all political prisoners. The official Gazette, in which the -Royal decree is published, ...

... TIHE two great Powers of Germany-Austria and Prussia-have, it is said, given the same instructions WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 25. 1~ ~ ~ ~ ~ _ , _ to their representatives at the Federal Diet in refer- ence to the Schleswig-Holstelin question. The right of the Prince of Augustenburg to the Duchies is not conceded by the Houses of Hapsburg and Hohenzol- lern, and it is probable that this ...

... v o7 ~1 , OL iER '1,1e-Tj~1 -~ ?? zc ?? : titlion wfkas v-ccvchddo. en lrid l:iy lost, a. the ralge . t' c,X cj-env.for a° )'enlidit g-did scrf pia (croSS , cll (11i5 ?? :rcr-\ Ti~s-1!,e 10ll ji ee nteld ly . !. C( tvge 'Jltikle, Nvatc:h'nafere Hvoit -v Street, GUltson'. ?? e the seconvd Col-p'aiiiy of tele same altteli-n. *1 ?? 220) andl I;Ot vacis, lives 1;;nico at e:lh -- io biedrno . see ...

... FRIENj)LY SOCIETY FEASTING. The Registrar of Frierdly Societies announces that lie shall feel it to be his duty to compel the restoration of any funds applied in payment for feasting, whether charged openly oreas icadeutals. Mis report, jost issued, shows how extensively this misanpplication of ?? still prevails The secretary of one societywrites-3 The £18, 16s, lid, put dowrn as ...

... TUIE INSUIUI7ECTION IN- POLAND. ?? ?? .. . . I ?? __ - __ x-r-- I The (tc-.os pub11lisl1cs thle following news front Wilna.: t isfur-aviell bs duiring the lest fortnight, ordered the c dleportation to Sib~eria of 1010 persons belonging to different c classes of society. Anmong this number are SI. Thomas n kiulhak. who hoe abeadly passed IS years in Siberia; Alex- tinder Zdallowirc, professor ...

... COMMIISSION OF THE FREE CHU1JUI- TV.- f ~ PA __ : I. ,. I I .. .. The Commission of the General Assembly of the Free Church met yesterday-the Rev. Dr. Candlish, Moderator. THE EIG5HLANDS AND Is,.ksNDS. Mr. MI'LAcuc LAX made a statement with reference to the Highlands and Islands. and remarked that o'n account of the unfavourable weather on the day when the collection was made for the Highlands ...

... T2IE rOLISII INTSURREEC'TION. THE NATIONAL UOVETZMUNT. The Ticsrr LlozW of Out. :1 gives tb, ?? a:cuiunt of the preserit owrginlatiion of the Polisb Nation'al GGovern- merit I ine Nfatacixal Govecrinar;nt constiss of seven members, which chonge freo'.ae30iy so~id occording to the cuirrent of po~pular opinic'. Al--gsiole of the Uoveral-ueni, and le- !endent of it. is the Suiprcne Court of ...

... GENE-RAl AL RAIL W AY T E 'l INIJS. To lisa Editor of i/s Glapgoso HUor;0d. Sev,-The desirability of a general terminuls for the several railneve connecting this great city with the north, south, rud eastern counties of Scotland, and the whole oi England, is nov.w so generally admitted that discussion on that point appears to be at an end. The only open question now is, Where can that ...