... THE KEY OF THE RITUALISTIC CONFTROVERSY| _ ?? (From the PaU Mdlt Gdz&eU6) If you do not like a sermon or a book there is Le always The easy resource of rot listening to the one and not reading the other. With prayers aid ceremonies it is s altogether different. The question then is whose taste is - to beconsulted if the clergy and the-congregation differ? i, This will gradually be seen to ...

... THE SOOTCH BURGHS. A 11t ?? . - , .. ?? ' -. , .. .. ' ?? ' : ?? :.tlli-rliiot: ,~~si BlIi4 Ji O A i ?? Th. following shown the proposed - t'~tfibiab~zr~~, the re-arrange- Is situatedjtheipopn ationin 1881, ?? of the prinedgm~at: - : - : - \ - :ppiM'4atlb'z''' 'tha ie 6t pid~ ~d ,e Mah ji L - ?? ?? ; ?? z..Fou Chcracteroi- ?? ?? -ia.Dovnt.i, .Sum 5JpopulatX-ion! Falkirkr .. ;.Stirling. 9,030 ...

... MIEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES. A general meeting of the magistrates of the l county of Middlesex was held yesterday at the Sessions- house, ClerkenweDllgreen; Mr. HEaY POWNALL in the chair, and there was a very full attendance of magistrates. On the presentation of the report of the committee of accounts and general purposes, MrL Kemshead took occa- sion to draw the attientoion of she ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAY, MAY 20. | The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at 5 o'clock. it The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented 15 petitions in favour of the Clerical Vestments Bill. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a third time and passed:-v Bodmin Railway. Bill, Ayr Water Bill, Dewsbury, Batley, and, Heokmondwik e1 WaterBill, Hampton Court Unitpld.c0 Gas Bill, and ...

... TO THE EDITOB OF TIM DAILY MEWS. Sr.&,-The chairman of the Master Tailors' Ase sociation of the United Kingdom having at length put in an appearance, it is with a considerable degree of satis- faction that we observe none of the m mis-statements which have appeared in the daily papers are attributed to us; hence we must take it forgranted that even the com- mittee of that association assent ...

... I ., ,. . - I ?? .- TI4e first public meeting held by this association, 'a i pursuanga of a resolution passed at the recent confer- encetook place yesterday evening in St. James's-hall. The hall was crammed in every part an hour before the obmuseneement of the meeting, and soon after seven o'clock the doors had to be closed, so dense was the crowd waiting to be admitted. The appearance of the ...

... q Knibaditp fattfli,qenre#. Z, ? CAMBRIDGE, MI, 16. At a congregation this day the undermentioned degrees were conferred: ; D.D.-Charles Kirkby Robinson, Master of St. Catha- rinesCLlrege. Wm. Henry lyers, John Turnbull, Arthur Woodham Nash, and Wm. Henry Robinson Bevan, Trinity College; Henry Hollingsworth, King's College; Richard Price, Spencer Walters, Thomas Archbold, Tho- mas Green, and ...

... . FRANCE,, I I I (FROM ?? oWN OOr1sPONDENI!,) [Thefollowing appeared in, our Evening. Edition of yesterday;] 1 PA PRIS, W ENESDAY EVesG. The ferocious growlings of':th 'disappointed f organs of the war partycontinue; but I do not I think they deserve for the present the compliment a of an echo. M. Granier doe Cassagnac, the most I truculent apostle of the doctrine of natural frontiers, ...

... j;, ,rD0-Y BRIGHTON, AND SOUT'HCOAST I I- - 2le adjourr.ed special meeting of shareholders .Ald ?? in the International Hotel, London- t s Colonel B.ISUTTELOT, M.P., in the chair. ?CIA5RMN., in opening the proceedings, said-Gen- 1o0vw have to declare the result of the poll on the ecaoen, t to Sir Charles Jackson's resolution. Ksr the andmsdent there are 10,200 votes, and iorthe d1,~l a ...

... - 40 RV*Xbxl only militarp. (FROM TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZTTE.) WAR OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MAy 14. 12th Regiment of Lancers-Lieutenant Edward Albert a Pole to be captain by purchase, vice William Blacker, a who retires; Cornet George Arthur Thompson to be . lieutenant by purchase, vice Pole. a 14th Hussars-Captain Robert Chadwick to be major, by purchase, vice Brown, promoted half-pay lieutenant. ...

... TH1'EM ROYAL COMMISSION ON RAILWAYS. l The first and second chapters of the Report of F this Oommission, which was issued yesterday, pre- I sent a history-of our railway legislation from the l passing *of the Wandsworth and Croydon Rail- way Act in 1801 to the present time. The third I chapter discusses the question whether any funda- mental change in the railway system is called for 3Sby the ...

... The following are the receipts of railways for the past week: Miles open. Recept. 1867 1866 1867 1 1866 Belfast and Northern ?? 180 100 £2869 L2001 DO. Londonderry and Coleraine ?? 8* |61 S968i 07 Belfast and County Down ?? 44, 8 1 787 703 Blyth and Tyne ?? ?? 8 8 s 263l 240 Brecon and Merthyr ?? 8 4 181 1197 Bristol andExeter. 1841 1211 7410 6992 ?? t,8621 82188 39828 Cambrian ?? 100 1 2441 ...