SCOTLAND The annual meeting of the General Assembly of the
Church of Scotland, at Edinburgh, commenced on the 21st instant. The session was opened in the Assembly Hall, with the usual formalities, by Lord Belhaven, the Lord High Commissioner. The Assembly elected as its Moderator, Dr. Robertson, Professor of Church History in the University of Edinburgh. The subjects discussed this session have been, generally, of local interest. But the state of education did not pass unnoticed. A resolution was adopted expressing regret that no progress had been made towards the improvement of the schools, or in the provision for the teachers ; and the Schools Committee were instructed "to lose no opportunity to promote the success of any measures that may be proposed calculated to promote the efficiency of the parochial schools, and the interests of the schoolmasters, consistently with the instructions of former years."
The Assembly of the Free Church also met on the 21st. They elected Dr. Julius Wood as Moderator, and continued their sittings pari passu with those of the Established Church. Here also the subjects discussed were local in their interest.
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