... RENEWAL OF THE NORTHMO GRJEN DISTURBA NCES. DISGCACiEFUL SCENE IN THE CHURCH. r i We regret to have to record another most disgraceful a a occorrence which took place in this church on Friday. e About ten o'clock the Rev. James Hunt entered the . a church, carrying in his hand a large wooden cross, and 1. mattering a sort of prayer, being accompanied by the 5 e woman Cottey, 'who for some ...

... EXTRAORDINARY WHALE HUNT IN I TH'E FRITH OF FORTH. The Scotsman deecribes an extraordinary whale hunt in the Frith of Forth. On Saturday. a ' school of bottlenoses appeared in the bay between Newhaven and Grantuon, ar.d no fewer than twenty-one of them were captured. In the morning the crew of a Prestoupans fishing blat observed the whales between that place and Inohkeith; and being provided ...

... THErXE are a good many opinions in London as to the proper mode of observing Good Friday. There is one class to whom it is a day of peculiar solemnity; there is another which looks upon all special observances as superstitious j whilst, apparently, the great majority accepts it simply as an extra holiday, free from some of the austere restrictions of the regular London Sunday. A small section ...

... I EXHIBITION OF FRENCH AND FLEMISH PICTURES_ [SECOND NOTICE.] ANOTHER famous Belgian is Alfred Stevens, whose strong individuality may be disliked but cannot be questioned. Willems affects the elevated antique and Stevens the bourgeois nineteenth-century type. He is always familiar, yet, as a rule, by no means vulgar. His rooms generally have a, look of the Quartier Brdda, the damsels who ...

... THE TORNADO CASE. 71T the EDITOR of the PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-I have read in your impression of yesterday the answer of D. F. C. to my former letter, and I hasten to send my reply. In my letter I stated that Messrs. Isaac had been interested in the cargoes of two vessels, the Stephen Hart and Springbok, condemned (on different occasions) by the Northern prize courts, on the ground in ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS. THE Canada Railway Loan Bill has now passed both Houses of Parlia- ment, having been agreed to last night on its final stage by the House of Lords, under formal protest from Lord Lyveden. Lord Russell joined the Duke of Buckingham in supporting the bill, and the Commander-in-Chief gave testimony to the military advantages of the railway. There was some talk about agricultural ...

... There is no American news by the Atlantic telegraph this morning. The Paris correspondent of the Times, who in his letter published yesterday expressed the opinion that the French people were unfavourable to war, now says that a change has come over them. The tone of the German press, the demonstrations of the Berlin meetings, and the arrogant and insulting language used towards France are ...

... Friday, 2 o'cocck. Thiq ObtlTia'ald Orwd. REUTER 'S TELEGRAMS.' ITALY. FLORENCE, April I2.-In yesterday's sitting of the Senate Court, the public prosecutor delivered a long address demanding the dismissal of Admiral Persano from his command. Count Cibrario has arrived from Vienna. THE LUXEMBURG QUESTION. The Times, in its second edition, publishes the following telegram LUXEMBURG, Ap;i i II ...

... DIPLOMACY IN THE YUNGLE. THE work of a consular agent in Africa not only requires diplomatic qualifications of a high order, but demands something more: namely, an occasional resort to artifices which are scarcely in keeping with the dignity of representatives of the British Crown. A very important portion of his duty is to sustain the part of general peacemaker. - When two savage tribes ...

... REFORM. The Tieies says that there is but one moral to be drawn from the recent confidential communications between certain Liberal members and their constituents. The amendment thrust upon the House of Commons by Mr. Gladstone, and urged for adoption by him with all the ardour of an impressible nature, was supported by the mass of his followers simply as a party mancmuvre. Every Liberal ...

... (liom the ManchesterExaminelr. York, Wednesday. The position of the directors of the North-Eastern Railway, and the engine-drivers and firemen who so suddenly turned out a week ago, remains much the same as it was on Monday, with the exception, per- haps, that the company, from their own statements' appear to be gradually and rapidly surmounting the difficulty in Which they stood. The ...

... FrE Sy-NOD OF GLASGOW AND AYRt. ..g ~ (For iorning Sedenlit see Sixth Paae.) EVENiNG SEDERUNT. 'rho Synod restumed inL the evening-M BlM'Gregor, Aifr the transaction of some routine business, the Cour2t prreeded to take up '!FE CARE OF nMR W. . a;MTTll. pscti,; were called to the bar, *hnen there ap- d l or the ?? Buchanan, Dr V'r11 . rr,,ecsor Douelas, Mr Freer, Mr Howie, e g'r (slis ieldc). ...