The Sun.
London, England, 1839-06-15 00:00:00

LETHENDY CASE.

(From the Edinburgh Courant of Thursday.)
Yesterday the Presbytery of Dunkeld appeared before
the Court of Session, pursuant to summons, to answer for
their contempt of Court, in ordaining the Rev. dr. Kes-
son to the church and parish of Lei bendy, in violation of
an interdict issued by the Lord Ordinary. The case must
be well known to our readers, having excited intense inte-
rest throughout the Church and the country. The Pres-
bytery were ordained to appear at eleven, but soon after
ten the Court was crowded in every part. • About half-
past eleven the Judges entered the Court, and took their
heats on the bench. The whole of their• Lordships were
present, with the exception of Lord Glenlee.
The LORD PRESIDENT then called for the Rev. Michael
Stirling, of Cargill, to appear.

The-PROCURATOR said he had to state, these gentlemen
were in attendance, and would conic into Court the mo-
ment their Lordships should give direction-.
The LORD JUSTICE CLERK—WeII, that is a direction.
The Reverend Gentlemen then entered the Court.—
Their names are—The Rev. Messrs. Michael Stirling, of
Cargill. Robert Allan, of Little Dunkeld, Francis Gillies,
of Rattrie, William Grant, of Tenandi y, P. Drummond,
of, Kirkmichael, Alexander Wilson, of Caputh, Duncan
Campbell, of Moulin, and the Rev. Mr. Kcsson, of Le-
thendy, who had been separately ordained to appear, as a
separate interdict had b,,en is,ued against his presenting
himself for ordination. There also entered the Court and
took their places at the bar ;Jong with them, the Rev.
Dr. Dickson, Dr. Gordon, Dr. Makellar, of Pencaitland,
and Mr. Balfour Graham, of North Berwick.
The LORD JUSTICE CLERK observed that other parties
besides those summoned to appear were at the bar. He
saw members of the Presbytery of Edinburgh present.
Lord MEADowitaNK said the Presbytery of Dunkeld,
and they alone, had been midair-12d to appear. No other
parties had a right to attend at the bar along with them to
give tiem countenance, and he was clearly of opinion that
they ought to retire.—(Applause, which was checked by
the Court. ) _

Lord MONCREIFF said he did not understand the nature
or the import of these observations. It was a % ery com-
mon higher criminality than the
present, esecnats,forin matters
nor fartoattend with parties at the bar. It
had taken place in the Justiciary Court about ten days or
a fortnight ago, where his Learned Brother himself pre-
sided, and there a gentleman sat during the whole trial
along with a prisoner accused of one of the highest crimes.
It took place at the trial of Mr. Stuart, who was accompa-
nied at the bar by the Earl of Moray ; and having taken
place so recently at the trial of the Earl of Stirling, why
!I's Learned Friend should not permit these Clergymen
to remain at the bar with their brethren he really could not
understand.
Lord MACKENZIE said it was true these Reverend
Gentlemen were not ordained to appear ; but if there
was room for them at the bar, he saw no objection to their
remaining.—( Laughter.)
Lord MEADownsNic said he adhered to his opinion.
The matter then dropped, and the Reverend Gentlemen
were allowed to remain.

The parties then severally answered to their names.
The LORD PRESIDENT read the interlocutor of Court,
ordaining the parties to appear, and asked one and all of
them, whether, by themselves or their counsel, they had
any thing to say, and what, in explanation or vindication of
their conduct?
Rev. Mr. STIRLING—My Lords, as my name appears
firstein the complaint, and as the senior minister of Pres-
bytery, my Reverend Friends have entrusted tome in writ-
ing the following statement, which they wish to be made
in their name, if the Court will permit me :
" My Lords—We appear, in obedience to the citation
of your Lordships, inasmuch as we hold it to be the
duty of all subjects to render their personal corn-1
pearance when cited by the Civil Courts ; and being
deeply impressed with the obligation of giving all ho-
nour and reverence to the Judges of the land, we dis-
claim any intention of di,respect to the Court in what
we have done ; but, in ordaining to the office of the
holy ministry, and in admitting to the pastoral charge to
which in our proceedings complained of, we strictly limited
ourselves, we acted in obedience to the superior church

judicatories, to which. in matters spiritual, we are sub.
ordinate, and to which, at ordination, we vowed obi.
dience."

The LORD PRESIDENT—What has Mr. Kesson to say ?
Mr. KEssoN read the following paper :
" My Lords—ln appearing byre in obedience to the
order of the Court, I beg respectfully to assure your Lord-
ships that I am very deeply impressed with a sense of the
duty I owe to the Judges of the land, and I entirely dis-
claim any intention of disrespect to this Court.
‘• Before the interdict I am accused of having violated
was granted, all the pr..l;rninary sttps had been taken •Nith
a view to my ordination, and as a licentiate of the Church,

I conceived myself as much in duty bound to present my-
self for ordination as the Presbytery were, as ordained
ministers, to perform that spiritual act, in obedience to the
order of our ecclesiastical superiors. In presenting myself,
therefore, to the Presbytery to he ordained and admitted
to the office of the holy ministry, I submitted myself sim-
ply to the Church Judicatories, to which, in spiritual mat-
ters, 1 am subject, and to which, when I obtained my
license as a preacher, I vowed obedience."
These papers were signed by the parties, and ordered
to be received and recorded.

The Loup PRESIDENT then said, as it was impossible
for them to know what explanations these gentlemen were
to make, he supposed their Lordships would take time to
deliberate on the course they were tiow to pursue. He
therefore proposed that they should adjourn the Diet till
Friday next, at, eleven o'clock. in order that they might
have time to deliberate on the course to be taken.
The Court then adjourned.

SUDDEN DEA THS.—Friday, as Mr. Poulson,
of this city, was assisting in waiting on the visitors at a
gentleman's house in the country, he suddenly staggered,
uttered an exclamation for assistance, and was a corpse
almost instantly. He was,a truly honest man, and much
respected.—Sunday, whilst Mrs. Jones, of the Nag's Head
Inn, Bullingham, near this city, was standing in her bar,
she dropped down and expired. Her husband was from
home at the time, and her loss will be severely felt by her
friends.—Hereford Journal.
AMPUTATION OF A HORSE'S TONGUE.—On
the 15th ult. a valuable horse, aged five years, the property
of Mr. Duncan, Golspie Inn, met with an accident which
lacerated the tongue so severely, that it protruded upwards
of six inches from the left side of the mouth. The portion
of the tongue thus exposed to view the animal had lost all
power to draw back into its mouth, and was thus unable either
to cat or drink anything. In this state he was supported
for three days by pouring thick gruel into the opposite side
of the mouth, when amputation was recommended by
Mr. Tindal, V. S., as the only means of saving the ani-
mal's life. This proposal meeting the approbation of the
owner, the operation was immediately performed. The dis-
union was effected at the prmnum, or precisely at the point
which separates the base of the tongue from the free portion
of it. As soon as the hemorrage was arrested, a pailful of
gruel was offered him ; he immediately plunged his head half
way up to the eyes, and by sucking up very little at a time, he
contrived to empty the vessel. A bran mash was then given
him, which he attacked with avidity,seized a portion of it be-
tween his lips, while he seemed astonished that he could
do no more with it. But as the wound in the mouth began
to heal, he contrived to convey it to the throat by gathering
several small portions between the lips and pressing them
against the bottom of the manger, until it was pushed into
the back part of the mouth and swallowed. At the ex-
piration of three weeks the wound in the mouth healed up;
he is now fed and worked in the same manner as the other
horses, and is in perfect health. —lnverness Courier.

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EXPORT OF SHELL Ftsit —Very large-
quan-
ties of lobsters, crabs, and periwinkles are now exported
from Berwick by the London steamers. The two former.
are caught in large quantities by the fisbermee along the
coast, from Holy Island to Berwick, and thence northward,
we believe, to Eyemouth and Burnmoutb, by means of
ingeniously constructed traps of netted twine and sticks,
baited with small fish of various descriptions and placed
among the rocks. The periwinkles, which are of the
small black kind, are found sticking on the rocks, in vast

beds, or shoals, when the tide has recchd, and al.hougli they
form little or no portion of the food of any class of the
people here, many hundreds of bushels are annually sent
by steam to London. where they find a ready market at 4s.
or .ss. a bushel. In the metropolis they are reckoned a de-
licacy by the working classes, and numbers of persons eke
out their livelihood by selling them, boiled in small quan-
tities, in the public houses and other places of resort.
Berwieh Paper.
THE BREAD TAX.—We are rejoiced to find
that the monopolists are much alamned, and that the
fCorhtehimbsyfotrhdeCcliArroonnize.cleie, as well as other papers in their
gnal
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terest, have sent out certain
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Centralu lel I igi bl e
Agriculturals i
dcisotrrness.LeaTgaukee for example the following paragraph, put
ciety, we find, is about to take some vigorous steps
to counteract the mischievous effects of the Anti..
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distribution
by
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:means using
an d tehvee r
cheap pamphlets, to taint the mind; of the labouring
of pa'id wlbeicctbureriss,
population, and prejudice the interests of the soil. It is
evident that the opponents of the Corn-law are laying the
foundation for a
struggle more severe than that in which
they were recently defeated ; and the effort which has in
view the safety of the British farmer in the threatened
battle which is intended, as it were, to station sentinels
over the enemy—is well deserving of encouragement."
DEATH OF PRINCE BORGHEsE.--Intelligence
has just reached us of the death of the above distinguished
Italian Nobleman, at his palace, at Rome. Prince Sul-
mona succeeds his illustrious parents in his titles and riches.
The present Prince, as will be recollected by a considerable
portion of our readers, married the Lady Gwendaline Ca-
therine Talbot, daughter of the Earl and Countess of
Shrewsbury, and sister of the Princess Doris Pamphili, in
1836.