... Tows qoNCIL PrROC.E DINGS.. A meeting of Town Council was held yesterday- ?? Provost presiding. After the reading Of the minutes of last meeting, Mr.C GRaHnA, who was recently re-elected Deacon Convener, made the unual declaration and took hie TUB rROPoSAL FOR A NEW oITY' HAL. The LonD PROVOST reminded the. meeting that nothig had been done with regard to the memorial *presented to the Conlcil ...

... ARCHDEACON DENISON AND THE SHOWMAN. -At a harvest home at East Brent, over which he presided a day or two since, Arch- deacon Denison related an adventure he had just had with a travelling showman. The showman had waited upon him, it seems, to ask leave to set up a booth, wherein to exhibit during the harvest home, the most beautiful specimen of human nature that an archdeacon had ever set ...

... TEE NEW ZEAL&ND WAR. (Fron the London Gazette.) WAP. OFFICE, August 19. The Secretary of State for War has received a de- spatch, with its enclosures, from Lieutenant-General Sir Duncan Cameron, KC.B, commanding her Majesty's Forces in New Zealand, of which the fol- loowing are copies:- Head Quarters, Auckland, June 7, 1864. My Lord,-I have the honoar to report that the Tebel natives, af ter ...

... COA.TBRWGIE. 4TEI ADINInSTRATIVE; BkTTALIONL nV. - OFFICIAL INSPECTION AND PRESENTATION OF PrnizEs. On Saturday afternoon the above battalion assem- bled on Cowheath Park to undergo the annual offi. cial inspection by Colonel Young. The assembly. took place at 4 P.5B., and the strength of the respec- tive companies was as follows:- Bank Coeinaniea Officers. Sergts. and1 File. Total. 29th ...

... I . HERA.. OFICE, Mondar M rtnig. B Y TELBGBA P H. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCEl ! [REuEiRs TuLEGRAM. FRANOO. . Paris, Aug. 20. The Pincess Ozartorieki died yesterday. The King of Spain has ?? Christina, who came to Paris yesterday. His Majesty will not go to Havre, bat will leave, it is believed, to -merrow for Bayonne and Pampelurs The Constltutionnel, of this evening, contradicts the rumiour that ...

... LATESTa FROM AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE SCOOTIA. (romour oweiorreawor ant.) Liverpool, Saturday, August 20. The British and North American Royal Mail steamship Scotia, Captain Judkins, arrived this afternoon from New York, having sailed thence with the usual mails on the 10th instant, Besides the mails, the Scotia also brought 140 passengers, and had $69,000 in specie on freight. The intelligence ...

... GRlEENO( ?? ETABLISuEED 'PRESB mi:T i nu rneeting of this Preeb8ter? . i t&at Rev. Mr. Bryce, L lideratee- meeting were read and sit m.m0. , -nt0~y robe~rtsonhbanded in us apit litiueue Ct 5 elder from the Large c 1 also appeared as presip | kf 4l% Parish COngregatioD, G-ree ' Mr pm tqe @, 12oun and Mr. John Sloan~ \ ' :,¶um..ljite99 Ci tioners within the bounda :f ' ?? for the examination ...

... GLASGOWV FsIrE PlIES1:YTERY. li krdinary Monthly meeting of this rev. Court irshld yestrresy -Ak. ]Fihnlay, moderator. 'tI auWet,-, were read and confirmed. - L' N C ID ii: so TIE l;EV. DELNC MU3[ACrF.EC OR, UP IOPE ST1EET CHURCH. 8T1fler, appeared frorn the congregation of itr Church, Dandee, for the purpose of -'ttieg a call from that congregation tothe Rev. 21N i;Oirtrgor, oi ?? Street ...

... THE AMERICAN PEACE 'NEGOTIATIONS. 1 A correspondent of the .ivcw Y-rk Coerseercio Ad- e-crti-er, writing from NiagaraFalls on the 21st July, says:- Sandershas left for Washington, with aproposition to this ?? if Mr. Lincoln will publish a proclamation of armistice, with a call for a conven. tion of all the States, the South will agree to it, and, come into convention. This not succeeding, it ...

... A LiovNSS AT LAIRGE.-WOmbWell's mena- s gerie is now exhibiting in the West Marlands, . Southampton. The West Marlands is a large It open space of ground in the centre of the town. h On Saturday evening the keeper was shifting *r the lions from one den to another, and two of N them, about half grown, jumped over thfe h keeper's shoulder and escaped. One was bt eaded and driven back to his den ...

... L A TE ST N 1WSO, HERALD OpPIOE, Saturday Morning. BY t EL ABAr H. FOREIGN.INTELLIGENCE.. IREUTEWS TLEGPAM.] Faris, Aug. 5. The IDing of the Belgians arrived here yesterday evening. It is believed that his Mijesty will remain five days. The Emperor is expected at St. Cloud on Sunday next. DENMARK, 'Copenhagen, Aug. I (Noon). Furlough baa been granted to all recruits who are now undergoing ...

... en The Vienna correspondent of the DcyTdell h, ;s writing on the Oth imot, ?? week hss not hebeen allowed to pass without some clerical scandal. in I have repeatedly given you storiea of prison disci- pline, as Isiercised by the Sistersof the Good Pastors in the houses of correction entrusted to their cars. h We have just had a trial, in which some of the worst h features came out i mncrallto, ...