30 MAY 1874, page 11

British Expeditions For Viewing The Transit Of Venus.

A LREADY the first of the English parties for observing the IA. Transit of Venus on December 9, of the present year, has sailed from our shores. It will not be long before the......

The Old Scotch Moderates.

T HE Duke of Richmond's Bill for the Abolition of Lay Patronage in the Church of Scotland casts a vivid light on the change which has come over that institution, and recalls an......