... 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 ...

... (From the Times' New York Correspondent.) The draught as it was contrived yielded from $9,000, 000 to $10,000,000; but not only was it an egregious failure initself, so far as the making of mesn -was concerned, but it convinced the most stub- born in the Government of the utter hopelessness of such an expedient hereafter. Hence it is that the President falls back upon the old plan, and ...

... TEJE PARISIAN ZADKIEL. ?? trso E onsd, tle Paris-ian seer, are now ?? exorbitanlt, and the nuae-rose demi'oe by which admission ii, gained to his Sanctum as ?? in number as those olf thi Nsenilly carniilbus on aI surnmerh Sanday. When -:I ;:ci- eudietion' ?? only live francs, one might wait for one:'s tutu nearly an hourr in the antechamber before an en-hiears, could he granted ; but now that ...

... (From omz on Correspolent.) Liverpool, Saturday. SAILING OF THEF SCOTI.A.-Tbe British and North Am en- can Royal Mail steamship Scotia1 Captain Judrkius, sailed fl-day for New York with the usual mails. Besides these' she also took out 100 passengers, and a full cargo. EXTRAORDINARIY ADVENTURES OF A ROY. At the Police Court, on Thursday, a young man nsamed Thomas Greenock, who stated that he ...

... MORNING NOVEMBER. TUJESDAY MORXMTG, NOVEMBER 10. |TiE OlympLmu arrived at Queenstown yesterday with I |news from New York to tbo 29th ult., which is not so late by one day as the advices received, via Cape I ILace, by the City of Limerick. Of couerse, there is t no further information, regarding the repulse of the c Confederates at Look-Out Mountain, by General c Hooler, on the 29th ult. It is ...

... I FROM, WhA'; 1lT.,1N'l' 1-ONI TJf1{ CLIYDE FODI I i S I:\N :'Z.Al A: ND. .1 . . - .. . . . _ . * . I . I I Tol 1:11) 'twa-> I:M . now oeing despatchede by 'o 'a of t i ' carries with s'1. cn 1e c itoa~lrdl eoyac'c to Sourthland, a ship ment e2S h.!i- ii.f .eocns ig-lnm.uacuc as illustrstting the rapid Ioa nn 'rc'ial pjr'pcrits of New Zealand. The advance- Ictcnt of the cyste-rn of ...