... P]rESBYTflnY OF ABERDEEN, Su ENDOWMENcT SCHRAMi. tis A Speeile Meeoting of the Presbytery of Aberdeen. was hield all in.St Alary's Chapel, enl Wedsiceday-Dr Macphereon, Ilu- tis elevator. 1lo Dr MTAOeAccT addreesedc thle Court, there being alco anlY attendance of thle public. I-l explained thle new arrange- its monittermeod the Provincial plan of working the Endow- ag9 miont Scheme. Scotland ...

... Sr ANDREw's CHIURCH, EIOIN5TJRGON.-WO understand or that at a very, fuli1 icetiog of the Lord Provost's Committee, Mai I held en Friday, it was unanimously agreed to recommend 1 that the Town Council, witle consent of the Fresbytery,ov should make St Andrew's Church a single charge, and ap- Cor point thle successor of the late Rev. Dr Clark to be minister hop -of tlee larger Parish of St ...

... . The Nifgl 11 ?? match hslea bol ?? the 20th day o the January last, oil the faiiou of North Loirmton, occupied by I~ir David Sicluair. The Judgtes-Messrs David Donald Clusliftifrqnlhlr; (leii Andrew Webstor, Bllrtlo; nlid Janmes Sinclair, overseer. Portlithen tho -after careful xamnination, anardied prizes to the candilates as fol- ICo lows :-I Dasvid Mille, failler, Blackhlil, Cove 2 ...

... It THE SUPPLY OF GUANO. Mr Caird of BEsidoon communieates the following interest- ing particulars to tihe Times onl the subject of lhe supply of guano There is no want of it at the Chiuchn Islaids, for I learned froni a shipuiestor whoshns recently returned from there that lie could discern little apparent diminution from the mnss during the in- ?? of sevOlL years ciies his previous visit. It ...

... -VluJ u us .t. CLIFFORD'S PLAN FOR LOWERING SHIPS' B 0 A Tr S. As announced in our last, the above plan was again put r' to the test on Wednesday, under the superintendence of the e inventor himself, and his agent here, Mr Batten. The stea- . mer Victoria having hnd a boat fitted with the apparatus, 'w Mr Clifford, Mr Batten, and several seamen took their 1s places in the boat hangisg by ...

... GU AN 0. cI To the EDITOR of the ABBRDERi JOURiAL. Ti 4' Sir,7-Will you he so good as indulge me -with a shor space in your valuable paper, to say a few words to the Earners in regard to the artiole of Guano. I think you will admit they are, in general, a well-educated sensible class of people, and perfectly-able to attend to their own interests, but in this matter they have miserably failed. ...

... oftie0 6o fun and gle ' Vf f. ?? thereto ar P ecdedll vlsb%4L; Tfe' iaiscnd blall at te Telreshls lc t-ih Al ae Initd I i alled the gulal invedisnionmbers, thtwth eicre h r LI hte~d's nnires, 'ithoui, l~lfff of th Cot rt ?? n at nih e c O,. . aitc ey dth t ?? selt ?? I- auo dceen ofa t ihevaly in th hempar r if~ ala ts gsen a asuc mofreatao1rvliso Ligiis litnofes atanovelty wt h ec n d ao. ?? ...

... EXPEDITION TO THE PEIAN GULF. TITE CAPTURE OF ThJSiflUO. The Bombibss Timess of 2d Jaisnary give's the fo1lewigngar- rative of the capture of Baeshir' and Other operations on thle part of our fleet onl thle Persian Gulf I ?? Loriolk of the expedlithionary force quitted the Presidency onl t e 13th Novsmubcr, the steamners- taking, thle transports in tow, and reached thle golf about thle 20th. ...

... , THE LORD-ADVOCXAE AND THE ABERDEEN UNIVERSITIES. ?? is now a. satisfactory prospect of the matter of W 1University Reform being entered upon forthwith. The of Po reports in the London papers of the answer given by the ParI3 Lord-Advocate to the question put by Mr Layard, on sed t , catin a Friday, ons the isubject of the Aberdeen 'Universities, the , -certainlycdidlnot encourage this ...

... HINTIS TO ANGLERS. The following are some hintg to young anglers which are penned by all old salmon fisher addressed to a northern con- temporary, and which many besides nioviciates may study with profit:- We wvould warn those who have been in the practice of angling for several years, and who raise and hook g eat numbers of iish, but who kill but few, to msake a thorough change in their ...

... THE. DEBATE ON THE BUDGET. per TIL Fikidoy's attack on the fieaicial measures laid be. of fore Parliament the week previbus, was evidently plan- an ned againsb more assailable proposals. The Ministry Th hadl either changed their, mind very much, or kept it theirsecretverywell. Perhapsthelatter. MrDisraeli if i seems to think the latter, ?? Gladstone the former. tho It is not unlikely that they ...

... W SiDA3DY Februar 18,18Si7. P A it L J A M E N T. HOUSE OF LORDS. thn AOiUCULTI)MAL STAT iSc*.-Lord. Stanley of Alder- ;oi ;oy stated, on the part of the Goverskment, and in reply the ~S Liord Wynford, on Tuesday night last' weok, that, po, although the Government were fully alive to the old- on vtantage of obtaining complete statistics of English tho igriculture, the opposition which their ...