THE General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland and the Free Church met in Edinburgh on Tuesday, the 22nd day of May. The opening ceremonies of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland were attended with the usual pomp and show. There is something, to say the least of it, in all this gorgeous pageantry and ceremony out of keeping with the opening of a court of Christ’s professing Church. The Moderator of the larger Church was Dr. P. D. Thomson, minister of Kelvinside Church, Glasgow. The High Commissioner for the year was Mr. John Buchan, M.P., who thus acted for the second time as the King’s representative. The Moderator of the Free Church Assembly was Rev. Duncan Macdonald, Milton Free Church, Glasgow.