We understand that a case having been laid before John Marshall, Esq., advocate, on the subject of the stipend of the Cross Church minister, he has given it as his opinion that claim for a higher stipend tban the £105 which has for some time past been paid, may be maintained aga

This provincial Synod held its half-yearly meeting in the *«ris|i Church of Forfar, on Tuesday. The Court was thinly there being no elders corresponding members Present. After very excellent discourse the last Mn. "' p i'ator (Mr Greig, Blairgowrie), from 2J Cor. v. 20,—" We ar<

DUNDEE. TRADE REPORT. During the past week our trade has been more animated than for some time past, and the very favourable appearance of our young crops is expected to lead very soon to more decided improvement in the state of our markets. Flax on the spot continues to be more

A serious instanceof the baneful effects of unguarded passion took place at Mains of Edzell, on Thursday, the 26th ultimo, by which a boy of the name of Millar was very severely injured. It is said that John Beattie, the foreman, and the Millar quarrelled about a seat in the sta

Arbroath Presbytery The usual monthly meeting of this reverend body was held in the Old Church here on Wednesday—Mr Simpson of Barry, Moderator. The business, which was entirely routine, was commenced by the clerk reading the minutes of former meetings. A committee w.is then app

SPAIN. Continued changes are taking place in the Ministerial and Court circles, the result of which is to reward or promote the adherents of Queen Christina. The Marquis Uliraflores, who was recently appointed Governor of the Palace, has been made President of the Senate, to mak

(From Vie G< ledonian Mercury.) Ether inhalation,'■which promised to impart such an invaluable aid to surgical science, had not been in use for 12 months, when another and far more effective anaesthetic agent has been discovered. We are not surprised at this result, for when for

I have said that the right bank of the Potomac was covered with a narrow stripe of willow and larch trees. Here the Americans had stationed strong bodies of riflemen, who, skirmishing order, covered the whole front of their army. Behind this plantation, again the fields were ope

. THE GRAIN MARKETS. {From the Morning Post of Saturday.) In the course of the week the arrivals of wheat in the Thames from the northern districts have been, for the time of the year, perfectly trifling, and the show land-carried samples "from the metropolitan and from the home

have had some conversation with a gentleman who visited FoO-chow-foo recently, who had the very best opportunities of making himself acquainted with the commercia' prospects of that port. Our informant (who in every re. spect is a person to be depended upon) states that th e vio