rolls was kindly provided for them, at the expense of Mr Radcliffe, whose zeal in this cause is worthy of all praise; religious exercises were engaged in, and after the meeting many remained for conversation. A large number have, in connection with these meetings, been persuaded to go home to their friends, while others have been received into various asylums and reformatories. We had occasion in a for⚫mer number to call attention to the efforts of Lieutenant Blackmore, for the recovery of the same class in London. It is pleasing to see them entered upon here with such ardour and perseverance, and it must be specially cheering to the benevolent promoters of the movement to witness so much visible success to their endeavours. The good work, however, is little more than begun; and it is the paramount duty of all who lay claim to the feelings of ordinary benevolence, not to speak of Christian principle, to help it forward by every means in their power. BRITISH SYRIAN RELIEF FUND. WE previously called attention to this subject, and are glad to record that decided action has been taken upon it in Edinburgh and elsewhere. The number of sufferers from the recent massacres, and the greatness of the destitution which they have left behind, urgently call for the active sympathies of British Christians. The meeting in Edinburgh, on the 16th of last month, was earnest and hopeful. Stirring addresses were delivered by the Lord Provost, who occupied the chair; by the Very Rev. Dean Ramsay; by Dr Hattie, an American missionary who had recently escaped from Damascus, and who gave an interesting account of his perils and sufferings in connection with the disturbances at Lebanon; by the Rev. Dr Johnston, Edinburgh, who submitted a clear and instructive statement regarding the origin and history of the Druses and Maronites, and their respective tenets; and by Mr Anton, of Syria. The chairman mentioned, in his opening address, that already L.20,000 had been subscribed in England towards the fund. It is hoped that in this northern part of the island a proportionate sympathy will be manifested in a cause which belongs to no particular denomination, but to humanity. ITALY. IN the preface to last year's volume, it was stated that we were evidently entering upon a year which would be charged with great events. The vaticination is more than realized. The close of 1860 finds Garibaldi again in retirement, after a most brilliantly successful career, in which he has given freedom to the Two Sicilies, and added eleven millions to the subjects of Victor Emmanuel. These are great doings; and while we give all honour to him who was the chief instrument in achieving them, it becomes us with devout thankfulness to recognise the directing and sustaining hand of Him whose are the sceptres of the earth, and who will not suffer injustice and oppression to go unpunished. THE CARDROSS CASE. WE have simply time, before going to press, to notice, respecting this case, that, in the estimation of Free Churchmen, and of many other leading Dissenters, it has assumed a graver aspect by the interlocutor lately pronounced by Lord Jerviswoode, which goes to the effect that the spiritual sentences complained of must be put aside, lest their existence should be pleaded in bar of any civil redress which might be given to the complaining party. A meeting of the Free Church Commission was held on the 21st of last month, when the report of the Committee on the case, recommending that the Lord Ordinary's interlocutor should be reclaimed against, was submitted, and its adoption moved in a long speech by Dr Candlish, which proposal was unanimously agreed to. The meeting also appointed a large and influential committee, who should bring the case in all its bearings before the people of the Free Church in various parts of the country-Dr Begg, convener, Cairo to Suez and the Red Sea, Canada, Union of Churches in, 383; Prince of Canton de Vaud, Prayer-Meeting in, 64 PA Raleigh's Chariot of Israel, 30; Redford's Light Serials, 221; Sinclair's Bottle, 514; Smith's Taylor's Voice of the Sea, 219; Tholuck's Com- Vinet's Studies on Pascal, translated by Smith, Wallace's Gloaming of Life, 255; Words to the Young's Province of Reason, 361. Cardross Case, Cheever, Dr, of America, Chiniquy, Father, Christian Women and the Service of the -Christian, The, and the Papal Churches in Scot- land before the Reformation, Church, Spiritual Independence of, 92,570 David's Introduction to Saul,. 503 567 DEMISSIONS:-S. Stobbs, 185; A. Thomson, 521. 479 61, 152 Edmond (Rev. J.), Address at the Induction of, 538 .88, 231 Educational Discussion at the late Social Science 552 568 Episcopal Church in Scotland, 141, 190 Erskine Monument, Inauguration of, 42 Escalante, Case of, 142 CONGREGATIONS, NOTICES OF;-Mitchell Street, Above her Station, 220; Anderson's Discourses, Bonar's Records of Revival, 220; Brown's Peden Cairns' Memoir of Dr Brown, 312; Campbell's Danesbury House, and three Others, 471; Daw- Fairbairn's Hymns and Poems, 179 Gaussen's Lessons for the Young, 177; Gerlach on Hanna's Wycliffe and the Huguenots, 315; Harry Idols in the Heart, 33; Illustrated History of Leitch's Lively Hope, 472; Leitch's Unity of the M'Cosh's Intuitions of the Mind, 309; Macfar- Narrative of Mount Pleasant United Presby- France, Revival in, 36; Religious Societies of, 316. PAGE Nova Scotia, Union of Churches in, Oliphant, Esq., The late William, Piece Work, Influence of, on Operatives, 236; Sicily, 331. Portsburgh Mission Church, Edinburgh, 563 48 Rome-Its Religious Features, 541 39, 134, 180, 224, 327, 421, 560 1 Popery and the Gospel, 498 49 44 Prayers to the Virgin,". 334 97 Preachers and their Pay, 550 Preaching before the Queen, 480 Presbyterian Churches in Australia, Union of, 168 PRESBYTERIAL NOTICES:- Confession of Christ. By Rev. A. Lind, 145 193 By 241 C. Friskin, 88; R. Gray, 88; H. T. Howat, Ancient Relations French and Scottish, READINGS FOR THE HOME CIRCLE:- The Good Hope of the Christian. By Rev. J. Sin Offerings and Trespass Offerings, Steele (Rev. T. B.), Memorial Notice of, Students' Missionary Society, 530 352 523, 525 250 397 474 Synod, Meeting of, 173, 285; Proceedings of, 258, 318, 332, 365, 419. Syria, War in, Theatres, Preaching in, 306, 354, 382, 406, 431 192 426, 474 428 222 24 Theological Hall, Opening of, Tricentenary of the Scottish Reformation, 188, I. John the Baptist, 12.-II. 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