Through good report or ill report it is not the voice of man that he listens for, but the still small voice within. To do His will and to earn the praise of being "a good and faithful servant," is all his aim. Let us remember this, at the close of our Twenty-Sixth Volume and of 1858: before the bells peal forth the tidings of a New Year. Sweetly come the sounds, hopeful and courageously speaking of coming harmony, although across the tumult of Troubled Waters.

"Ring out false pride in place and blood,

The civic slander and the spite;

Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.'

29th December 1858.

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

Appointment of Rev. John Caird to be one of Her Majesty's Chaplains in Scotland. -The Gazette announces that the Queen has appointed Rev. John Caird to be one of her Majesty's chaplains in ordinary in Scotland, in room of Dr James Paul, deceased.

Presentation. The Earl of Mansfield has presented the Rev. Patrick Macgregor, M.A., now minister of Glengarry and Glenquoich, to the church and parish of Logiealmond, in the Presbytery of Perth, vacant by the translation of the Rev. Adam Milroy, to the parish of Monedie, in the same Presbytery.

Parish of Watten. The Rev. Donald M'Caig has been inducted into the pastoral charge of the parish of Watten, as successor to the Rev, G. M. Davidson.

Presbytery of Edinburgh.-This Presbytery met in the Presbytery Hall, according to appointment, and ordained the Rev. James Adam, A. M., chaplain of the Night Asylum, to be minister of the church of Canowindra, in the Presbytery of Bathurst, New South Wales. The Rev. Dr Fowler, convener of the General Assembly's Committee on Colonial Churches, presided, and conducted the ordination services in a very able and impressive manner.

Presentation. The Town Council of Glasgow has presented the Rev. David Brown, Scoonie, to be assistant and successor to the Rev. Dr Barr of St Enoch's. St George's-in-the-Fields.-A letter was read from Mr Stewart Wright, resigning the charge of St George's-in-the-Fields, he having been appointed to a Chaplaincy at Madras. The resignation was received, and Mr Wright loosed from his charge, it being an instruction to the Clerk to express the regret of the Presbytery at losing so excellent a clergyman.

Ordination for Ceylon.-The Colonial Committee of the Church of Scotland having appointed the Rev. Mr Young, assistant at Aboyne, to a charge in Kandy, in Ceylon, the Presbytery of Kincardine O'Neil, at their meeting on the 17th ult.. ordained him to that important sphere of labour. The appointment is a lucrative one, and the rev. gentleman goes out with the rank of a Crown Chaplain.

Died, at the Manse of New Abbey, on the 16th ult., the Rev. James Hamilton, minister of the parish, in the 78th year of his age, and the 46th year of his ministry there.

END OF TWENTY-SIXTH VOLUME.