The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-04-26 00:00:00

EVENING SITTING,

Tho Synod ro-a capnabiod at fivo whorl, tailor
the customary devotional introduction, the discussion of
the College report, and its details, was resumed. A very
desultory and irregular discussion took place. Finally
the Rev. Mr. Stewart, proposed, and the Rev. Mr. Mur-
doch seconded, a motion, to the effect that the report be
received, and a committee appointed to select. a suitable
person to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Professor
Campbell, an I to report thereon.
Mr. Barbour proposed that the report be received,
that the Synod express an opinion in favour of retaining
the College, and ►hat the matter be referred back to the
•
committee_toi report on the details. _

Finally, the first motion was withdrawn, and the second
adopted. _

-The repoil on Mr. Gray's scheme for retiring annuities
for ministers was brought up and adopted. It recom-
mended that the scheme should be sent down to Presby-
teries, and, without making it compulsory on them, that
they be urged to give it effect in every possible way',
with instructions to report on the subject to the next
Synod.
The report on the Marriage Law Amendment Bill, now
before Parliament, was brought up and received. It
recommended certain alterations in the details of the
bill. _

The report on the Home Mission was also brought up
and. adopted. It spoke in the most cheering terms of the
progress and prospects of the church in these countries.
The receipts for the year were £63-1 6s Ild, and the
expenditure 4759 13s 61.
The Synod did not adjourn until an advanced hour in
the night.

The treaty of peace, published in the Daily News of
Wednesday, appeared in Le Nord and another Brus-
sels journal on the same day.
The fair at Leipsic now pending, is said to be better
attended, and more productive than any for the last
twenty years.
The Independance of last night throws some doubts on
the authenticity of the speech alleged to have been de-
livered at Moscow by the Czar.
The manufacturers of cotton goods in Saxony are
using every exertion to compete with France and Eng-
land, and the use of machinery is making rapid pro-

gress.
Accounts from Teheran state, that the Americans
were busy trying to convince the Persian Government of
the utility of a treaty with the United States, especially
under existing circumstances.
THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION IN HIIPERT-STREET.—
The government has offered a reward of #4OO for the
apprehension of Foschini, the Italian who stabbed his
four countrymen at a coffee house in Rupert-street, on the
night of the 17th instant. He is described as being about
23 years of age, and about Mt. bin. in height, with light
hair and small thin beard and mustachios. He is slightly
bulk and good-looking; and on the night in question was
dressed in dark trousers and light grey coat, with four
plain white buttons. His unfortunate victims are still
lying in a very dangerous state at the Charing-cross
hospital.
Ihe Journal de St. Petersburg of the 14th, contains a
despatch from General Luders, giving an account of an
interview with the Commanders-in-chief of the allied
armies, whom he invited afterwards to dinner. The
General gave as a toast the health of the Emperor,
Queen Victoria, and King of Sardinia Marshal Pelis-
sier proposed the health of the Emperor Alexander, and
in a long speech expressed his veneration of his Majesty,
and his warm sympathies for the Russian troops. A
great number of officers and soldiers of the armies visited
the Russian camp. General Luders adds that, on the
whole, great cordiality prevailed on both sides.
MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE.—The marriage of the Hon.
Lady Eleanor Sophia Diana Fitzgibbon, daughter of the
Earl of Clare, with the Hon. Francis Cavendish was
solemnised at St. James's, Piccadilly, on Thursday morn-
ing, in the presence of a circle of friends. The marriage of
the Hon. John Fienne, son of Lord Say and Sale,
with
the Hon. Lady Augusta Sophia Hay, fifth daughter of the
Earl of Kinnoull, took place on Thursday morning at St.
George's Hanover-square. The happy couple left town
for the Vines, Staffordshire, to spend the honeymoon.
The marriage of Lady Elizabeth Hay, fourth daughter
of the Earl of Kinnoull, with Sir Frederick Arthur, was
also soleninised at St. George's Church, Hanover-square,
on Thursday morning. After the ceremony a dejeuner was
given by the Earl of Kinnoull.
The last commercial report issued by the house of
Dryssin and Co., St Petersburg, April 12, contains the
following :—The spirit of enterprise is beginning to
speculate on our country more than on any other. All
ventures in this quarter should be guaranteed by a cau-
tious and careful examination of the existing state of
things. It is an erroneous notion that a pressing
demand will immediately clear off the first arrivals of
imported articles at hood prices, and that bulky articles
of export are iu great quantities. Imported articles,
however, have been all along supplied in sntlicieut
quantities, for actual wants, by land carriage, and there
is an export demand at prices very much reduced in
anticipation of the peace. As regards articles of export,
where they would not bear carriage by land, all the
heavy expenses 'connected therewith were produced in
smaller quantities of the stocks on hand for account.
Through the demand for the army in the Crimea the
means of transport have so enhanced the price of both
manufactures and material in the most distant govern-
ments.