The Express.
London, England, 1847-12-14 00:00:00

FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.-REFUSAL
OF SITES.

L 27721 1.-127. DVOA-1.20- :11-17-/-W-i. TO THE RIGHT EON.

LORD WARD.

Mr Lotto Wean,—l take the liberty of writing a
few lines to your lordship in reference to a matter of very
great importance. I presume your lordship is aware there
are some people in thus place that are adheres* of the free
church, and that they am very desirous of having a suitable
place of worship for themselves. Hitherto they have not en-
joyed that privilege, as unfortunately they have not me-
needed in procuring
se, site for their charcb. But they are
waiting patiently, and earnestly looking for it, and I do
humbly trust that your lordship will be pleased to take the
subjectinto serious consideration, and that
,you will see it to
be your duty to grant a site in some convenient spot on your
lordship's estate. lam aware of the high esteem and regard
which all the people in this district Cherish towards Lord
Ward. Ido not by any means regret, but I should rather
rejoice that such a respectful kindly feeling exists to such an
extent ; and I wish It may increase • - - '
/ele regret areastlitegly., en common
your lordship's name is yet in the'
prietors in Scotland ; and that you
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privilege which they so much velar, and which they have
every right to expect at your lordship's hands. Ido ru-
cerely wish that your lordship but saw, for a moment, in the
view of eternity, the very awful responsibility under which
you lie as a site infuser. T,w, my lord, lam done; but
before concludiog, I must humbly, yet earnestly, entreat
your lordship, as you value the spiritual as well as the tem-
poral interests of your affectionate people, and your owe
comfort at death, that your lordship will be kind enough to
great a site for a free church without any further delay.
Begging pardon for the liberty I have taken, I remain, Itc.
(Signed) Dcorari firaw.—Faichem, Sept. 24. 1847. :1
LETTER ll.—awe. DUOALD SHAW TO LORD WARD.
MT LORD WARD —I must respectfully request that your
Icedship will be pleased t• send to me en answer, as aeon as
possible, to my letter of the 24th ult., as 1 have to write
forthwith to the site committee in Edinburgh, in refirence
to free church accommodation in the district of Glengarry.
I do humbly trust that your lordship has taken into serious
eonsideratien the important subject about which I had taken
the li.erty of wri,ing at some length in my last, and that
your lordship's answer will be favouraile. If it were con-
venient, I should be glad to have a conversation with your
lordship for a short time.—l am, Ac. (Signed) DUCIALD
811A14.—Fsichcm, Oct 8, 1847.
Leyxan 111 —LORD WARD TO REV. DrOALD SHAW.
Env. returned no answer to your first letter to
me, because it was not written, I conceive, in • respectful
tone. You now press for an answer, and I will give you
we. As long as the law of the land upholds the established
church of Scotland I shall countenance no other; nor will
I do anything for a Indy whom I hold t t be dieenters,
stirren up et strife, and most unchristian in spirit. Do not
suppose that this is an opinion ba'tily formed. I was in
&Wand when the question was Sot raised, and was tho-
roughly instructed in its meaning and tendency by a clergy-
man who has now seceded; but as I did not adopt my views
hastily, neither shall Ibe induced to alter them. Oue word
more, and I have done, You reticl e in this Olen by suffer-
ernes on my part. If there was a► cltrgyman oft e esta-
blished church here to take ears of my people I should not
permit you to stay here to thwart his labours. There is
none at present, and I prefer your teaching to the know-
ledge that there is no pastor in the Glen. You may forward
this letter to the committee of the free church if you will,
and express at the same time my etmermination to grant no
site to the authors, aidere, and abettors of this movement on
my property • and f axe, rev. sir, your very obedient ser-
vant (Signed) WARD.—Wengarry, Oct. 9, 1847.
• Missionary of the Free Cburrh of Scotland In Glengarry, Inver.

Tag Wasreult —The provincial papers are filled with
disasters to boats and ships, b.th at sea and on chore. The
two Edinburgh London steamers have now arrived.—At
Preetonpans, a somewhat amusing cireumstance occurred
daring the gale on Tuesday morning, which contrasted
strangely with the general alarm which then prevailed. In
a house of two stones, close to the beach, the violence of the
surge upon the gable, and the momentary apprehension that
it would be swept away, induced the family of a fishermen,
who occupied the lower flat, to abandon the home, and seek
safety in some more sheltered habitation. The tenant of the
upper story, however, also a fisherman, was forgotten
amidst the confusion, and having indulged too freely in
liquor the previous evening slept so soundly in the midst of
the gale, that he was unaware that in the worse of the night
the gable of the house had been carried away !—About 12
o'clock on Thursday night, a large portion of the wall of the
fourth story of a house in the Canongate, Edinburgh, fell
into tho close behind with great violence, but fortunately
without causing any casualty. The apartmect more imme-
diately injured wu occupied by an old woman, but beyond
the alarm she received by the occurrence ahe escaped un-
hurt. The cause of the socident is conjectured to be the
loosening of the time by the lute heavy rains, by which the
wall had become unable to sustain the weight of the roof,
which has slipped forward, and is left projecting several
feet over the building, to the imminent danger of the pea-
Irfir:Curhs.—ln 1832 the greatest draught of vessels en-
tering the Clyde was 14 feet; in 1847 the draught ban been
19 feet.