... ASSOCIATION FOR AUGMENTING THE SMALLER LIVINGS IN THE ESTABLISHED CHU.RCH. I ~ -- s A MIETING in connection with this Association was held in . the Parish Schoolroom, Llumsden, on Saturday, Gth Feb., v at 12 o'clock us0o1. Early notice had been given of the meeting, and as it was well known that J. Sheriffs Gordon, : seq. of Craig, wvas to take the chair, and that Professor Milligan, of ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... FrIEE CHUFCH PROBATIONERS- THE WHEEL. To the Editor of the Glasgow Herald. Sim.-Thanks for your kind insertion of the letters respecting the F. C. Probationers which I have read in your paper. Will you insert this one? I have been asked very frequently the system on which the F. C. Probationers are rotated to vacant charges. My answer wan invariably, Our rotatory system is a mystery. ...

... So the Editor of the Glasgoiv Herold. The Middle Class School, Glasgow Mechanics' Institution, 30th Jan., 18GO. Sis,-As'a teacher I have watched with much in- terest, and I must say with considerable amusement, the correspondence which has recently appeared in your columns on the above subject, I have looked in vain in the various communications you have in. serted for a clear and satisfactory ...

... RAILWAy RECEIPTS. UTmord the Time&I The traffo receipts of railways in the Vaited ing. dom amounted, for the week ending February 14, On 13,420 miles, to £685,955, and for the correepondl'g week of 1868, on 13.216 miles, to £660,871, showing an increase of 204 miles and of £25,084. The foilowing are the receipte for the past week upon the principal linee:- Miles Opend, Receipts. 1w sX 1688. ...

... RELIGIOUS MOVEMIENT IN SPAIN'. To the Editor of the GCastqow fferaltd. Sin,-Believing that the religious movement in Spain interests many of your readers, I avail myself of your kindness, and send you extracts from a letter addressed to me by an English gentleman, a mer- chant, who, along with another gentleman (Nfr A. C.) like-mindod, has devoted himself with great earnestness to Spanish ...

... (LASG OW WORKING MIEIN'S ASSOCIATION. SHlOIRTTL'TE MOVEMENi'. A nkeutilg cf the General Connucil of tbe Glasgow UN ulkiog MlenL's Association was loeld on Vdnedsday eveniugiu the ;nrineers' Hall, 102 Trosgite, to con. sider tho movemenit just initiated by the Ediaburgli and Lei6h United Trade3' Council for a reduction of the hours of 3abour. Mr George Millar, viee presi. dkiii., occupited the ...

... EDINBURGH. AND BATEIGATE RAILWAY COMPANY. The half-yearly meeting of thia company was held in No. S South Charlotte Streeu, Edinburgh. yester- ?? Hutchison, of Carlowrie, iiU the onair. The SEuSIETAtY (Ur Jamiesov) read the report, from which we take the following*- Accirsding to the expectation held out by your directors in last half-year's report, the traffic accounts since tbe amalgamation ...