partly otherwise-by many eminent persons from a distance, as well as by ministers and others in Dunfermline, and immediate neighbourhood. Among these may be mentioned the late accomplished traveller, Mr J. S. Buckingham from London, a course on Egypt, and another on Palestine; Mr H. Vincent, from London, do., on Total Abstinence, and on Oliver Cromwell; Dr W. B. Hodgson, from Edinburgh, on the Laws of Health as a Branch of Education, and another on the Circulation of the Blood, with illustrations; the Rev. Mr Hope of Wamphray, on the Baconian Philosophy; Prof. J. H. Balfour, Edinburgh, on Botany; Professor H. Miller, do., on Temperance; Mr W. Lees, A.M., of the Watt Institution, Edinburgh, on Gravitation and its Consequences; the late Mr Hugh Miller, Edinburgh, two on Geology, with specimens; Mr J. G. Stewart of Balgonie, on History, its general principles and mode of study, and another on Democracy; Dr Dewar, Dunfermline, six on some of the different Classes of Living Beings; the Rev. Professor Dr M'Michael, Dunfermline, on Hildebrand and his Age; the Rev. James M'Kenzie, Dunfermline, on Education, and on Rome; the Rev. D. Cooper, Burntisland, on the River St Lawrence, Canada; and Rev. Dr Chalmers, two on the Rhine, with views of the river, cities, castles, &c. (Pp. 452-54.)-St Leonard's Hospital.-In addition to the notice already taken of this ancient institution, the following extract may be given from the Minutes of the Provincial Assembly of the Synod of Fife, at Dunfermline, on the 1st of April 1651: "Ane supplication being presented by James Espline, Elymosinar of the Hospital of Saint Leonard, situate besyde the burgh of Dunfermline, for himself, and in name of the widows thairof,-desyring the charity of the several Presbyteries for reedifying of the said hospital. The Assembly recommends him to the charitie of the several Presbyteries." * (Pp. 463-69, 552-54, 581-82.)—Poor and Parochial Funds. -The following are extracts from the statement of the income and expenditure of the Parochial Board for the management of the poor of the burgh and parish of Dunfermline, from Whitsunday 1857 to Whitsunday 1858, ordered to be published and distributed among the rate-payers, at a meeting of the Parochial Board, held on the 11th June 1858 * Synod of Fife, printed for the Abbotsford Club; 4to, p. 171. |