(From the EdiriCurgh Advertiser.) PRESBYTERY OF EDINBURGH. At a meeting of thei'resbytery on Tuesday, Dr. Chalmers and Dr. Dickson, the committee appointed at the last mzeting of Presbytery to confer with Mr. Tait, gave in their report, which stated that Dr. Dickson addressed a

TDB WAY TO WIN HIM; Or HOW to CHEAT DEVIL in the DARK! (From the AfOrning Post.) "I am bound to say, in my own justification, that I begged my Right Honourable Friend to use extreme caution in his communication and by no means to commit hi mse lf i n w h a t he said."—Lor d ALTHO

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(Continuued from our paper of yesterday.) CITY OF WESTMINSTER. The 40th clause of the Reform Act was frequently ( l ow e d during the day, and was impressed upon the officers by the Revising Barrister. It is as follows t " And be it enacted, that on the 9 9th day of Angust, in t

(From the Morning Herald.) The illegal resistance to the Assessed Taxes may, indeed, be considered at an end; but the constitutional battle against those war imposts will be strengthened instead of weakened by that ev2nt. The war of petitions will succeed to the war of " passive

SWANSTON was instructed to apply to his Lcirdship under the following circumstances :—M r. Wiley presented a petition to the Court of Review, upon which the Court made an order; the assignees wished to appeal, and a special case was granted by the Court. In the conclusion, howev

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THE MINISTERIAL WAR THREAT. (From the Guardian.) There is a pause in the note of preparation, and we shall doubtless be informed duj course that Lord Palmerston'a thunder has fear-hound the Russian armada in Sebastopol, and stayed the career of General Witt with his legions upon

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