... iGLASGOW 1-NfTED PRESBYTERY. IXE £UCLSSLASTICAL anyDUsATIO.A coNDmoN tii 0:?O IR}AiND. ThisPxesbYtery held a special meeting,-yesterday, h .for the purpose of -con'veraing on the ecclesiastical condition of Ireland, a(nd the ,manner in which Bo ' Papiamst is likely to deal wwithit, alidof consider ar ag whether or not it be the duty of the Courtto . give public expression of its iind on the ...

... INVE RA-AY-THE GAS QUESTION. To the Edior of ?? Glasgow Heraid,& Inveraray, 26th October, 1867. Sin,-I observed in your paper two other letters with reference to the above, one froa AIr Scipio Mactaggart, and the other frem a person .suibcribing himself, or herself, The Author of the Original Communication, I t Being otherwise engaged, I hadn't tinne t., rotice these communications until ...

... -- P L :, : . :: 1v ~S _. *. w . UICIePAL 3jtEEN~GS.: -- ?? EIGHTH WAI.- A meeting of the electors of thC above X wtdtoek place last-nigbt in the 3ion Institutio ROoms. A deput~ation waitedron, ' James Brown wjith a, numerously signed requistion, requesting him to eal the mneeting for the pu6poseof considering the cominig election. - BeleWatson stated that owing to Mr Brown labouring, under ...

... FUM.ER PAIITXOULAIRS. A Panis correspondent sends the following :-1 passed to-day by the scene of the accident which occurred to the mail train from Calais to Paris on Sunday morning. It took place a little to the south of Creii, and about fifteen miles from Paris. When 1 passed it on my way here the accident had taken Elace five or six hours. Vae dead and the wounded ad then been removed ...

... OLD TRAVELLEIZS. *VWhen, two hundred years ago, Ir Samuel Pepys desired to go from London to HunItingdon, the first necessity of his case was to purchase a pair of jack. boots-at St Martin's le Grand, a quarter of tlie town famous for those articles of riding gear; and his next care ofas to hire a post-horse. i-ie was not an eques- trian either by nature or habit. Xfhen mounted he was apt to ...

... To the Editor of the Glasgow Herald. SIR,-You will,,I daresay, allow me the usual -privilege of sayingI something in reply to your corre- spondent, Mr M'Fadyen's letter, in yours of 28th curt., seeing he is disposed to throw on metheblame of interfering, causelessly~ in what he evidently assumes was on his and his colleague's part a philan- thropic work of goodness and mercy. Iwas induced to ...

... STRAFER ATHEN-rUJM WAUGU9RALI ADDRESS Bly GEORGE YOUNG. ESQ., MI.P The second session of the Stranraer Athenieum Vwas opened on the evening of Friday last, when the in- augural address was delivered by George Young, Esq., M.P. for the Wigtown burghs. There was a C very large attendance. Provost Guthrie took the I chair, and briefly introduced Mir Young, who was E received with loud applause. ...

... - ? z 7 - -: - - , - , .- , - ; i 1 , - - I 1.1, -1 I ?? - I - ?? ?? ? I I II PRESETATIOX OF THEFRESQ OF THEaTM the^ ?? ea c errd n, freedom (f :tha City. fE- ig wacn Oil the Eight R on. B..Dis i, in presence of a ?? assemblage of ldie andcgentletnea. The members of the Ciy tfo nthowore their civic robe,. took their placs on the plafrm about'two o'lock:- Therewere also present Ithe Lord ...

... BENFEEWSHIRE COUNITY UEETINGS RAAT 'I'RTTRTVQ ROAD TRUSTEES. On Tuesday the half-yearly meeting oe the len. frewshire Road Trustees took place in the Ceat House, Renfrew; Sir R. J* M. Napier presided, The committee minutes showed that Xesn Robert Brown & Son of tbe Fergslie ad Caledonia Fire Clay anm Drain Tile Wtork h4 made an application to be allowed to make rail. way crossing on ?? ...

... (From our own Correpondent) Manchester, Tuesday. ?? -aJrlavlebuni anjstffustice Me31or took 2& ~Bothieprec-edmgtio-rnng the 'prsoners-were- rough ?? he' Court in the -po~lic&a, irded'by4aitrot-gfiltiit# e-seoit The tames, 41be ggsbners ?? Wiliam O'Mears Afent aiadlS ; McU Sak 3p'; Will-,Aag ald, 30; Michael Wlt~me,,32 ...

... ~I z - TUESDAY OCT. 29. THE Manchester Commission for the trial of the twe six ?? ?? prisioners in 'that- city commehced yeste-rday.the Attorher General (Sir J. B. Oarslare) 4pein for the prosebisdzi ano 3DibSxe 'ioar, Q C., fortheac'uised. AitirJuticisBlkbkburn) the presidingjiide i itha Cr'and Jpry, true bills ?? a, ?? len audfour ?? th.ecarge against th 'e Tiirggrisonsbe, daled Mi B. Sejj ...

... - A FENIAN GENER AL. Two years ago Colonel Thomas W. Sweeney, while holding a comhission in' the United States :army, undertook the for'aief2 an idependent military organisitiou ndi tbebtyle of -tb& Irish Republicin Army, tsk~oagn s bti tl th sane time in a 2p.cern that calleditsalf the sh Go- -verrment as Secretarysof War Sseeney, although not himself preseht atantof Waiskirmishes thatthe. ...