... | b On Tuesday eveningthelRev. James Bardsley, M.A., e of Manchester, delivered an able lecture at and in coa- t nection with the Protestant Institute, on What a t Christian Minister is, and is not, according to the . Teaching of the New Testament, and the Judgment t of the Church of England. Although this was the e title of the lecture, it was mainly devoted to a denuin e ciation of the ...

... , :.IOT - ENERAL .E . I | OOm;H GESRA ABS: EBLIES | ESTABLISHED OHUROIT. .:Qn Monday, the moderator announced' that he hld received a communication for Dr. Woodford, .1 stmting t~m preseuitatlona to the' lib~iar'yf r copy of his edition of ?? 'Catechismo and sug4 gesting'6tpropriety of making a transcript of the minutes of the Weatminiter Assembly of Divfnesf from which le had introduiceY ...

... CITE' PA) I I A(ii-ii , ,> IfAx). TIt I., ifsllii lcoi;11 lileetillg of st. Nicholas Paroli'll sal. ol twas hlde( yester-day- (8eoI'gi' Jlmi i ioll, lcil. Ipeid'i hug. Cronibie, DLI Iiiel IlgiltiL, J Ol1ISt(Ille: i (LgilII, Clark, ]'aul, D. .'. Shirrrs ~hhs, I Willi, ald S~)l ';I'ggart. LShgs ee or- Thle T\yswjrotlil readl hi, Allilinal liciolt oIf tile stile of the P'1oor in thle Parish, fo' ...

... 'WRBST OF SCOTLAND ErIFLE ASSOCIATION. The rife meetings of .8I@'were inaugurated yes- terday with that under the auspices of the West of Scotland Rifle Association at Irvine. This, the sixth meeting of the aociation, bids fair to prove as successful as any of its predecessors, if not more so. The aggregate of prizes offered is over £1100, and the whole entries already exceed those of last ...

... FOREIGN INTELLIGENJE. .Z bUzUTEBRS TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE. TEE GATHERING OF THE CROWNED HEADS. Paris, June 5. The Patr ie of this evening discredits the reported death of the Emperor Maximilian, and says that, according to telegraphic advices received in Paris, he was still alive on the 20th of May. The gala representation at the opera yesterday was very brilliant. Three thrones were erected, on ...

... MONDAY.—(Before R. O. Jones, W. Alexander, and W. D Bushel), Esqrs.) ALLEGED ASSAULT.—Mr. Phillip Bird, wine-merchant, &c., of Bute-road, was charge(1 with an assault un Mr. Harry Couch, Canvasser for the Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian. Mr. Thomas Stephens appeared for the defence, complainant conducting his own case. It appcareù that complainant went on Tuesday morning bst to the house of tile ...

... Further correspondence appeared in the London journals on Monday morning between the Bishop of Salisbury and his recalcitrant clergy on the subject of his lordship's recent charge. The Bishop, having re- ceived an indignant protest against the doctrines asserted by him, replies that, having asked for a patient and dutiful consideration of his views, he did not expect that they would have been ...

... An inquiry has been held in London by Dr. Lan- kester at University College Hospital, relative to the death of Florence Lennox, aged nine, while under the influence of chloroform, administered for the purpose of performing an operation on the eye for the cure of squinting. Sarah Lennox, widow of a gardener, of Burling-on-tlie-IIill, Okeham, Rutlandshire, identified the body of her daughter, ...

... It will be seen from our Parliamentary intelligence that the Government have decided to recommend her Majesty to commute the sentence upon Burke, the Fenian, whose execution was fixed for last Wednesday, the 29th. Public feeling was being strongly manifested in favour of this step not only in Ireland, but in Lon- don and the provinces. A large annual gathering of Quakers from all parts of the ...

... RITUALISM. The following reply from his Grace the Archbishop of York has been received in answer to a memorial, adopted and numerously signed at a public meeting recently held at Birkenhead, by lay members of the Church of England, to protest against the practices and innovations of the Ritualists :— (Copy.) Bishopthorpe, York, May 15. Gentlemen,—I have to thank you sincerely for the memo- ...

... Kits. LONDON CORN MARKET.—MONDAY. Arrivals last week were unusually small. With a very short supply of wheat this morning, especially from Kent and Essex, factors held at Is. to 2s. more, this being a re- covery of last Monday's decline, though a return to genial weather caused a languid trade. Foreign sold freely, espe- cially Russian sorts, at an improvement of Is., though the market closed ...

... DRAMATIC ENTERTAINMENT.—This entertainment will come off on Friday week, June Till. Tickets are going rapidly, and a full honse is confidently predicted. HAY.—On Saturday last, the first crop of hay mown this year in this district, was that on the ground in front of the Union Workhouse. HORD'S THEATRE—This theatre continues to be very fairly supported. Several interesting dramas have already ...