descendants of the old Scotch Covenanters, have never
been silent regarding slavery; and there is not a Quaker
who owns a slave. He looked, upon the Fugitive Slave
Law as the dying struggle of the system; and he
predicted that the planters must either extinguish
slavery, or a bloody revolution would. Besides the
expression of welcome to Mr. and Mrs. Stowe, the
meeting adopted a resolution against slavery. At
Edinburgh, on the 20th, Mrs. Stowe was entertained at
a grand banquet in the Music Hall; the Lord Provost
presiding. A sum of £1000 collected under the title of
the "Uncle Tom Penny Offering" was handed to
Mrs. Stowe as the contribution of Scotland in behalf of
the slave, to be used at her discretion; and a silver
salver, the gift of a few ladies, was presented to her
personally.

In testimony of their approval of the public conduct
of their member, Mr. William Scholefield, the
non-electors of Birmingham presented him with a massive
silver cup, at a meeting held on the 15th; the Mayor in
the chair. At the same time, and in the same spirit,
the flint-glass makers presented Mr. Scholefield with
four glass goblets and a jug.

Obituary of Notable Persons

ADMIRAL Sir THOMAS LIVINGSTONE died on the 3rd inst., at
his seat Westquarter near Falkirk, in his 84th year.

LORD SKELMERSDALE died on the 3rd inst., at Latham House,
in his 83rd year.

PROFESSOR SCHOLEFIELD, of the University of Cambridge, died
at Hastings on the 4th inst., in his 64th year.

MAJOR-GENERAL GABRIEL, C.B., of the 7th Dragoon Guards,
died on the 15th inst.

DR HARLESS, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine in the
University of Bonn, one of the greatest medical notabilities of
Germany, has just died, at the age of eighty.

MR. JAMES ROCHE, well known as a most learned and copious
contributor to the "Gentleman's Magazine," under the
signature of "J. R.," died lately at Cork, in his 83rd year.

REAR-ADMIRAL SIR THOMAS FELLOWES, C.B., died on the
12th inst., in his 75th year.

COLONIES AND DEPENDENCIES.

The accounts from our Colonies and Settlements
are comparatively unimportant.

In India a painful disaster has befallen a body of
British troops sent against a robber chief who held an
island near Donabew. It consisted of 350 sepoys and
140 seamen and marines. It arrived at Donabew on the
1st February; and on the 3rd, after a hard march, the
guides told Captain Loch they were in front of an
outpost of the enemy. The jungle was very dense, and
only two men could walk abreast. Suddenly a tremendous
fire was opened on the forces from an unseen foe; Captain
Loch waved his sword, and was about to lead his men
forward, when he fell, shot dead. The force was driven back,
with the loss of its commander, and Lieutenant Kennedy
and 57 officers and men killed and wounded. The sepoys
behaved remarkably well, and covered the retreat.
When the mail left Rangoon, Captain Tarleton was
about to proceed with a strong force to avenge the fate
of his shipmates. Captain Loch was a very brave, able,
and promising officer.

There is no further intelligence from Burmah.

The West Indian news contains the gratifying fact
that the yellow fever, which lately raged, has nearly
disappeared from all the islands. Immigrants from the
East continued to arrive in British Guiana. The
Combined Court had provided for the continuance of
immigration, and had requested the governor to make
arrangements with the Home Secretary of State to
secure the importation of at least 4000 such immigrants
annually.

PROGRESS OF EMIGRATION AND COLONISATION.

A meeting was held on the 20th inst., on the invitation
of the Archbishop of Canterbury, to take measures
for raising contributions towards the Endowment of
Additional Colonial Bishoprics. The Archbishop
referred to a statement which was made at a meeting
held twelve years ago under the auspices of his
predecessor,—that the spiritual wants of the colonies would
require an addition of ten or twelve bishoprics to be
founded and endowed by the bounty of the mother-
country,—as a statement which would have appeared
too sanguine at that time to be fulfilled, not to the
extent of ten or twelve bishoprics only, but to the
extent of fifteen. The object of those at whose instance
the meeting was called, was to give an account of their
stewardship, and to show their gratitude for past
liberality, as gratitude, it was said, was often shown by
asking an extension of that liberality for the purpose of
increasing the episcopate in the colonies. The report
of the council for colonial bishops was then read, from
which it appeared that there were now twenty-five
bishoprics in the British colonial empire; that the
number of clergy ministering within the limits of the
fifteen bishoprics founded within the last twelve years
had risen from 274 to 502; that negotiations with her
Majesty's Government were pending relative to a
bishopric at the Mauritius, and that it was thought
desirable to establish bishoprics at Graham's Town, and
Natal, in Africa, at Perth, in Western Australia, and
at Kingston, Canada West. Taking the necessary
expenses into account, the council appealed to the
church for a contribution of £45,000. The Bishop of
London moved—"That the remarkable success with
which it has pleased Almighty God to bless the efforts
recently made for the extension of the episcopate in
the colonies, and the happy results which have ensued
therefrom, ought to be regarded as a call and
encouragement to proceed in the same course, till every
province of the colonial empire of Great Britain shall have
its own resident bishop." The question, he said, was not
a question of episcopacy or of no episcopacy, but
whether care should be taken that the episcopal church
should not be without its bishops. If one lady had
contributed £35,000 for the establishment of one
bishopric, a sum found sufficient for two, he anticipated
that others would not be found wanting in Christian
munificence, and he would not limit himself to the
narrow margin of £45,000, as contingencies should arise.
The resolution, having been seconded by the Earl of
Chichester, was agreed to; and resolutions moved by
the Duke of Newcastle and the Bishop of Oxford, and
seconded or supported by the Bishop of Cape Town,
Sir J. Pakington, M.P., and Mr. Cardwell, M.P.,
were also adopted.—The Duke of Newcastle and Sir J.
Pakington adverted to the necessity for an extension of
the episcopate with reference to what had come under
their observation in office.—The Bishop of Oxford
described it as altogether a modern idea that the
attempt should be made to set up a church with
presbyters and deacons, and when there was a sufficient
number of these to send a bishop.—The Bishop of Cape
Town, in an impressive address, explained the
circumstances which rendered a division of his diocese
necessary. It stretched from the island of St. Helena
to the colony of Natal, which were 3,000 miles distant
from each other; of three years he had been out of
England, he had been travelling two and a half; and,
though he had travelled 4,000 miles during nine
months, there were continental parts of his diocese
which he had been unable to visit.—The proceedings
terminated, after an announcement that £3,000 had
been subscribed.

The Government Emigration Commissioners have
just issued a notice that all government emigrants will
be required to sign a written agreement, that if they go
to the gold-fields, or quit the colony within four years
after landing, they must pay to the colonial government
a proportionate part of their passage-money, at the rate
of £4 per adult for each year wanting to complete four
years from landing.