... KILMARNOCK U. P. PRESBYTERY, I A meeting of the U. P. Pesbytery of Kilmarnock was held in the Hlal of King Street Church here on Tuesday. The Rev. Mr Orr, Fenwick, officiated as Moderator. ALLEGED RITOALITIC SERViC'E IN TRINITY CHURCH, DIViNE, Some busineseg of a routine character having been disposed of, The Rev. Mr HXILrTON, Kilmarnock, said it was most unexpectedly that he appeared just now ...

... BESPECTABLE PAWNBROKING. (From the Spectator.) It was Lord Palmerston, ewe think, who de- fined ?? dirt as useful matter In the wroang place. It wvas rather a rash definition, for it would seem by the curiously rapid suc- cess of a funny little 2d weekly paper, called the E3xchani'ge oancd Hart, which within the first half-year, we believe, of its publication, was able to guarantee to its ...

... The Cashier of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary re- qucets us to acknowledge receipt of the following contributions for the past year:- From the employvs of Messrs- Virtue, M'Oallum & Ramsay, EHoward St., .6 0 4 TheAvonhead Coal Co.,Avonhead Colliery, 2 4 0 Colville& Gray, Clifton Works, _ ?? 5 9 0 D. Swan, Jui., & Co., Maryhill, ?? 3 3 0 Wm. Black & Sons, Stanerigg and Airdrie- bill Colliery. ?? . ...

... FA4TES OF THE VICEROY OF EGYPT. . The Viceroy of Egypt celebrated the anniversary of his accession, on January. 18, byea series of festi. vities, A new palace, which is said to have cost about one million bterling, has been built by the' Viceroj at Gezireb, opposite the more ancient part of the city of Cairo, and on the other bank of the Nile, It is designed partly in the Saracenic style, by ...

... TEE BURNSFERGUSON CONTROVERSY A Scotch minister, of' wbich 'denomination we know not,.has been preaching a sermon against the great poet of his country, Ropert Burns. Scotland, which is renowned for an austeie'piety of the Cal. vinistic type, is reniarkable also for : large amount : of jollity and bonlwmmie, which unfortunately betray themselves sometime in a highly reprehensible fashion. ...

... PAROCHIAL BOARDS AND THE VALUA- TION OF RAILWAYS. MEETING OF rOOR LAW DEPUTATIONS, A meeting of representatives from Parochial Boards of parishes in which there are railways for the purpose of considering the state of the law re. garding the valuation of property, and particularly the position of Parochial Boards with reference to deductions claimable byranlway companies under the 37th section ...

... Last night, in the Public Hall, Joseph Baker, Eaq. of Woodside House, Old Monkland, very kindly re-delivertd his lecture on the Origin and Hietory of the Violin, for the benefit of the Ladies' Benevolent Society, here, which he de- livered some weeks ago at Coatbridge for tile benefit of the Ladies' Benevolent Association there. The lecturer said at the outset that some might wonder why be ...

... Writing from Calcutta on the 12th of January, the correspondent of the Tioue3 says-I have been present at many public dinners and banquets in the TowH Hall of Calcutta, but never at one at once so brilliant and so affecting as that given Sir Jobn Lawrence last night. While the more thoughtful of the general community, the bishop and Church clergy, and the Calcutta Missionary Conference, have ...

... S. To the Editor of the Gfavolo Herald. Glasgow, 14th January, 1869. SIR,-I vwas gratified to find that tberecent letters in the Herald as to Early Steam Navigation have led Mr James Steel, ef Liverpool, to give, in your impression of the 1st instant, an interesting ac- count of a trial made by the late Mr John Wood, shipbuilder, Port-Glasgow, with a screw in the pro- pulsion of a ship's ...

... GLASGOW LANDLORDS' AND HOUSE FACTORS' A8SOCOTION. The annual general meeting of this association was held in the Lower Hall ofthe Athenseum yesterday ?? Riobard M'Aulay presiding. Mr Jae. Wbittun, Secretary, read the directors' report of their psoceedings for the past year, the most impor- tant of which were made public from time to time. The report was unanimously approved of, together with a ...

... THIE COLLIERY EXTLOSION NEAR WIGAN-THII{TY DEATHS, (Froehiour own Correcsendent l l Wigan, Friday. n Wben our parcel was despatched yesterday the e exploring party which had descended to search for g the bodies of men who were known to be in the mine n were still bard at work, and it was not till late in d the evening that the full extent of the catastrophe was known, and it was found that to ...

... 05140,'ZOAV MONDAY MORNIN'G, APRIL 26. WVE publish this morning some interesting tetails of the war in New Zealand, iueludissg a graphlic account of the defeat of tho rebel c hief To Kooti, and the capture of his strong- h1l)d at Nagatapa. iT ord Hyde, eldest s5in of the Earl of Claren- doss, was elected M.P. for Brecon, on Satur- day, by a majority of 07 over his Conservative opponent, -Lurd ...