SCOTLAND. The two branches of the Secession Church in Scotland have united, after a separation of seventy-three years. Their respective synods are dissolved, and their powers conferred upon a new body, composed of both parties, and entitled" The United Associate Synod."

FRANCE.

The following classification is abridged from the French newspapers. Of 199 suicides, or attempts at suicide, lately made in Paris and its environs, within three months, 137 were of men, and 62 of women. Of married persons 102, célebataires 97. The motives are given as follow: The lottery and gaming, 28; fear of reproach, 6; domestic chagrins, maladies, disgust of living, 65; disappointments in affection, 17; poverty, 47; motives unknown, 36;-146 actual suicides; 53 attempts.

INDIA.

The Governor-general has issued a highly useful and paternal order, dated April 15, 1820, for securing cadets, on their landing in India, from the expenses, impositions, and bad advice to which they have hitherto been exposed. An officer is appointed, whose duty it will be to supply cadets with servants; to see them settled in quarters; to protect them from the impositions of native agents; and to superintend a mess and other suitable arrangements for their accommodation. The officer is autherized to advance to the amount of 200 rupees for necessary expenses, to be repaid by monthly instalments from the cadet's pay. The arrangement is at present confined to Calcutta; and it is optional to the cadet to avail himself of it, or not, as may be desirable.

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GAELIC SCHOOL SOCIETY. THE sole object of this excellent institution, our readers are aware, is to teach the inhabitants of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland to read the sacred Scriptures in their native tongue. For the accomplishment of which object, the Society maintains Circulating Schools, in which the Gaelic Language only is taught.

The Ninth Annual Report states, that by means of the efforts of this institu. tion, many of the cottages in the High lands and Islands of Scotland,which had never before contained a copy of the sacred Scriptures, now possess them; and that the habit of reading the sacred Oracles in their own mountain tongue is now established in many families, where, but lately, not one inmate knew a letter.

The Circulating Schools, instituted and supported by the Society, are scattered over the Mainland, from Caithness and Sutherland to the Mull of Cantyre, and in the islands, from the Butt of Lewes, in the North, to Jura and Colonsay, in the South; and though they are still too few for the exigen cies of the population, it is gratifying to find that they exist, in full operation, at so many points in each of the Highland Counties.

The number of stations on the Mainland is at present above thirty; the returns from most of which are very gratifying. We have only space for an average sample.

At the two Circulating Schools, for instance, in the parish of Farr, in Sutherland, one hundred and two pupils are reported to have received instruction during the last winter, independently of those who had been taught to read before that period. "The teachers," says the Rev. David M'Kenzie,' the minister of the parish," are still' diligent and attentive; and their labours, in their respective stations, will, I trust, prove a singular blessing to the rising generation. At Langdale, your' teacher has distributed thirty-six Bibles, forty-eight Testaments, and thirty Psalm-books, from your depo-' sitory at Thurso. Several copies of the Gaelic Scriptures have been introduced to the district by persons who purchased them in the sonth country, suppose Donald M'Leod has distributed nearly the same quantity at Strathy and Skelpie.-It is general in this parish to read the Word of God as a part' of family worship, morning and evening. I find that parents who cannot read in these exercises, cause the younger branches of the family, who have been taught at your schools, to' take this part of worship. I have frequently exhorted them to this practice, and, I am happy to find, not without some effect."

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Another parochial minister, the Rev. A. Macbean, writes from Ross-shire: "The number of scholars attending at Langwell was thirty-six, and at Kilmchalmaig thirty-seven, I spent several

hours in examining each school, and I think I may say that I never spent time more agreeably; hearing young creatures of four years of age beginning to read, and others more advanced, even up to fifty years, reading the Old and New Testament and the Psalm-book, with correctness, understanding also what they read. The portions of Scripture and the Psalms recited were very numerous. Sometimes the recitation was by alternate verses to each in the class; at others, the scholar repeated the whole chapter or psalm, and convinced me that each had the whole by heart, from beginning to end.. Indeed, I was not able to hear the half of what each scholar had to say. I recommend ed to the teachers to persevere in the excellent plan of storing up portions of Scripture and Psalms in the minds of the scholars, from a conviction that, however slight the present impression may be now, at some future period it will bring forth the happiest fruits. The selection of the pieces appeared indeed very proper, each one recited having a tendency to fix some important truth in the mind.

"The change introduced by your excellent institution is visible in more ways than, one. Not only has a new era dawned upon our dusky hills and tempest-beaten glens, as to spiritual knowledge, the knowledge of the blessed God, but the ameliorating effects of your schools are conspicuous as to external cleanliness of person, dress, and furniture. Even in the school-room, neatness and cleanliness are visible. The very desks and forms were scoured as clean as when they came from the maker; and the appearance of the scholars, in this respect, was very pleasing. These habits, acquired in infancy, will not be abandoned in riper years, but will transfuse themselves into the whole mass of the community.

'I should have mentioned, that several heads of families, both men and women, attended the examinations. The parents of the children, who recited chapters and psalms, seemed in a kind of ecstacy when hearing them repeat the passages of Holy Writ; and all present were frequent and loud in giving thanks to God, who had put it into the hearts of good and blessed men (such were their epithets in Gaelic) to send such a treasure to their sequestered corner,"

At another school (Dornoch) there were six heads of families, one of them upwards of fifty years of age, and who had four of his children attending with him. There were thirty grown-up young men and women, several of whom had learned to read the New Testament with ease.

An interesting statement of facts was given in the Report of last year, respecting an extremely necessitous district, within the boundaries of Glenelg, in the county of Inverness, on the west coast. At the last examination of the school, there were present not fewer than one hundred and twenty-eight scholars, nearly eighty of whom read in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament. At this station, where there have been about one hundred and forty on the list at one time, men and women of more than twenty years of age have not been ashamed to learn their letters, and have shewn great earnestness to become acquainted with the fundamental principles of religion as recorded in the oracles of Divine Truth. Out of the number taught, one hundred of dif ferent ages are able to read the Bible and Psalm-book with considerable ease; and one hundred more, some of whom are beginners, will, with attention, soon be able to read the New Testament. Such are the blessings conferred on those remote districts by this Society. "It is truly a gratifying sight," writes the Rev. C.Maciver, "and is cause of the greatest thankfulness,to see a population of four hundred souls, who were ac customed to pass the Sabbath day in idleness, and perhaps worse, now meet and hear the Scriptures read to them. I am requested by these poor people to express their gratitude to your Society for the inestimable advantages they now enjoy."

At Southend (Cantyre, Argyleshire,) the teacher assembles the children every Sunday morning and evening, in the presence of their parents, examines them, and assigns them passages of Scripture, and Psalms and Hymus, to be learned by memory during the week. These children formerly wandered idly about the fields on the Lord's-day, their parents too often as careless as them. selves about the eternal welfare of their souls.

At another Highland School, (Drimarben, near Fort William,) the youngest scholar at the examination was