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London, England, 1839-12-16 00:00:00

whatever.l Nothing frightened by this interdict, i
and believing that they are acting in accordance
with the law which most Churchmen profess to 1
obey, these ministers not only have entered a pro-
test against the whole proceedings, but have pro-
nounced them illegal, arbitrary, and oppressive, and
have threatened the Moderator with an action for
any damages they may sustain in consequence. It
appears from the debate that Dr. CHALMERS,
in the first fit of indignation against
these " idolaters of the law," as he sarcastically
describes them, was disposed to visit this " act of
disloyalty" with the highest infliction, that is depo-
sition, for attempting " to shake the nerves of the
Clergy of the Church by threatenings of confisca-
tion and imprisonment, to induce them to cpiail be-
fore the judicatories of the civil power." As the majo-
rity of the Presbytery, however, persist in these at-
tempts to intimidate the Assembly, probably the next
step will be to depose them, and thereby strip them of
their worldly property, as well as of their spiritual
power. As affairs stand at present, the suspended
Clergy certainly have the law on their side, and
they are likely to have it so long as the Lords Spi-
ritual and Temporal exist. Presuming on that they
have issued through their agent the following denun-
ciation against the President of the Assembly :
I, Alexander Peterkin, writer in Edinburgh, Procu-
rator for the Presbytery of Strathbogie, and the Rev.
John Cruickshank, minister of Glass, the Rev. Wil-
liam Masson, minister of the parish of Botryphnic,
the Rev. William Allardyce, minister of the parish of
Rhynie, the Rev. James Walker, minister of the parish
of Huntly, the Rev. James Thomson, minister of
Keith, the Rev William Cowie, minister of the parish
of Cairnie, and the Rev. James A. Cruickshank, mi-
nister of the parish of Mortlach, being a majority of the
said Presbytery, do hereby represent to you, the Rev.
Henry Duncan, D.D., Moderator of the Commission
of the General Assemby, which met in an adjourned
meeting thereof at Edinburgh, on Wednesday the
eleventh day of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-
nine, as Moderator foresaid, and through you to the ma,
jority of said Commission who have concurred ia and
voted for the several sentences pronounced at the said
adjourned meeting of Commission, having reference to
the said parties, that the said sentences, and all the pro-
ceedings therewith connected, are incompetent, arbitary,
ilegal, and oppressive, being in evident contempt of
he law of the land, as declared in the sta-

tutes of the realm, and in decrees of the Supreme
Civil Judicatories of this country, and in violation also
of the standing laws of the General Assemblies of the
Church of Scotland, in violation of the rights and
duties and most injurious to the character, interests,
and feelings of the parties aforesaid. And therefore
I, as Procurator foresaid, do hereby protest that you,
and all who by their votes in passing the foresaid sen-
tences, have been accessory thereto, and have con-
curred therein, shall be liable to the said Rev. John
Cruickshank and others aforesaid, each and all of then),
in all cost, skaith, damage, and expense, which they
have thereby incurred, or may incur in consequence
Iherrof, and that you shall farther be liable, conjunctly
and severally, to them thereonent in all the legal con-
sequences which may result from the said illegal pro-
ceedings. And hereupon, and upon all and sundry
the premises, I take instruments as Procurator foresaid,
in the hands of the Notary Public hereto subscribing,
in presence of witnesses ; and this schedule of protest
I deliver to you pe)mnally, sitting as Moderator fore-
said, of said meeting of Commission of Assembly, in
open Court assembled, this twelfth day of December,
eighteen hundred and thirty-nine years, betwixt the
hours of eleven and twelve o'clock forenoon.

The revolution in the Canton of Tessin (Ticino),
Switzerland, of which we published an account
last week, copied from the Morning Chronicle, is
confirmed by reports in the Paris Journals of
Saturday. This revolution is the triumph of the
Catholic party, as that of Zurich was of the Pro-
testant. The details are of no general interest.

We have received Madrid Journals of the sth,
6th, and 7th inst. General ;VIA EoTo had arrived
in the capital, where he was well received by the
QUEEN REGENT. Nothing was talked of but the
election contest, as it was believed that the incle-
mency of the weather would suspend, of necessity,
all military operations. The Funds were still de-
clining, the Five per Cents. Active being quoted
on the-.7th, or 28 cash, without much demand.
'We.subjoin 'from the Eco de Arragon of the 9th
inst. a summary of the latest news from the theatre
of war :

" Espartero's army occupies precisely the same posi-
tions as before. On the Bth eight Carlists presented
themselves at Saragossa as deserters from Cabrera, and
the letters from Alcanis state that desertion prevailed
in the Carlist chief Bosque's ranks. Letters from
Daroca of the sth, announce that on the 3d Cabrera,
with five battalions and 600 cavalry, quitted Esternel
tie Canizar and the environs, marching towards Cabra,
which he entered on the evening of the 3d. The same
letter adds that the Carlist chief Alegre, who was mak-
ing excursions from Segura to levy contributions, had
suddenly pounced upon the village of Villar de los Na-
varre, in the very centre of the Christino lines, and
had pillaged several houses for the second time. The
Eco de dragon says that Martin Barrea, alias Zur-
bano, is to blockade Segura. On the 2d O'Donnell,
Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the Centre, was
at Teruel, pursuing the Carlist Chief Arevalo, who was
with three battalions and 400 cavalry, near Villel. The
first division of the Army of the Centre, after taking
the Carlist fort of Castry, marched to besiege Chulilla.
The activity of the Carlist troops near the Ehro, and
on the frontiers of Valencia and New Castile had
caused corresponding movements of the Christinos."

The discovery of the Bonapartist plot—the
probable settlement of the Eastern question—the
war in Africa—and the political gossip to which
the approaching meeting of the Chambers naturally
gives rise, occupy the columns of the Paris Jour-
nals of Friday and Saturday. In defending the
Government from the attacks made upon it by the
Opposition Press, the Moniteur reviews the social
state of France since 1830, and asserts that the
revolutionary mania has been gradually declining
since that period. We have not room for the de-
fence of the Moniteur, which is temperately and
well written, but which withal contains no fact or
argument unknown to our general readers.
The Temps states that twenty-eight letters writ-
ten in cipher by Prince NAPOLEON LOUIS BONA-
PARTE were seized, and the key to them found
among the papers of the Marquis de CROUY-
CHANEL. The same journal adds that the Prince,
on learning the seizure of his letters, had offered, or
caused to be offered, to the French Government to
leave London immediately, and to retire to what-
ever part of America might be designated, stipu-
lating as a condition of his departure, that his letters
should be torn up, and that the names of the per-
sons compromised in them should not be divulged.
The Semaphore of Marseilles of the 9th inst.,
contains some interesting news from Tunis, the
publication of which the crowded state of our
columns obliges us to postpone till to-morrow.
ABD--ELKADER, it appears, is endeavouring, by
every means in his power, to secure the co-opera-
tion of the BEY in his attack upon the French.

Admiral RousSIN has arrived in Paris.

The following extracts, including the latest intel-
ligence, are from the French papers of Saturday :
The Deputies begin to arrive in great numbers at
Paris. The ante-chambers of the Ministers are much
frequented.

The Council of Ministers Las not yet begun to dis-
cuss the speech from the Throne.
M. Pierre Legarde, calling himself short-hand writer
to the Capitalc, has been placed under arrest this morn-
ing by virtue of a writ issued by M. Zangiacomo. M. Lc-
garde was arrested once before, and on a statement having
been given in several journals that he was the Editor of
the Capital, that journal replied that no person of that
name was concerned in editing the journal, and that the
person in question had a very humble employment in
its office.

It was reported today at the Palais that the Chan-
cellor and the Grand Referendary of the Court of
Peers have applied to the balonnier of the order of Ad-
vocates in the Royal Tribunal of Paris, for a list of
those advocates who might be officially appointed to act
as counsel for the accused of the second category of
the affair of the 12th and 13th May.
As the opening of the.session draws near, the Council
of Ministers meet very frequently.
_

M. de Lamartine has arrived at Paris.
The Major-General commanding the departments of
; the Meuse and the military sub-intendant of Bar le Duc,
I are gone to Conmerey to proceed with the organization
of two squadrons of the Bth Regiment of Chysseurs,
which are to go to Africa. . .
I,:.nns journal, announcing that everytlaw pr,
paring for the departure .of the troops of the garrison,