The first Meeting of the above Suciety, of which the Rev. C, E. Darwent is President, tonk place in the Union Church Lectur+ Hall on Thursday evening last, Mr. J. Kerfoot was in the Chair. The th- book trade was reduced meeting was very well attended, and it was in every way a great success. It augurs well for the future of this Society that it shonli have made such an auspicious debar before the public, and we believe that there is_a prosperous future in store for it. The Lecture, whi h preceded the exhibition of the admirable lantern slides supplied by Mrs. Ivy, Mr. Wheen, and Mr. Mennie, was a short one, but it was full "of interest from heginning to end, cela ra sans dire, considering that the Rev. ©. E. Darwent was the Lecturer, In his felicitous introduction the lecturer remarked that there were experts
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