The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-03 00:00:00

EVENING ED IT lON.

averse to any thing that can betoken the slighest want
cf respect for the Assembly. I say this the rather because
I have been rather astonished from some correspondence I
have bad from Scotland, to find that something he was
, supposed to have said—because I was a witness
'r of all he said—was put down most grossly
erroneous. Nothing could be more respectful and
( correct to that body than the whole of the Learned At-
/ torney-General's arguments. I shall join with him, as I
mit
a sure he will join with me, in the deepest sorrow, if
I shall be considered that any thing he has said in his argu-
-1 usents, or that anything I am now saying, is to have the
effect of perpetuating those conflicts which have been going
on, which must have been a matter of great affliction
to many, and which, if continued, must be much
' more so. But, my Lords, any want of respect
I could show to that Assembly—:any irreverance, any
mockery, any slander, any attempt to revile them or to
hold them up to any thing that was disrespectful and
irreverent, would be a mere joke compared to the attempts
made by some who take the opposite view of this case to
what I do, and who, God knows, without meaning any
more than I do any thing disrespectful to that
body, think they are taking the wisest course
to establish their principles by holding out indi-
cations that the Assembly will pursue its own course—
that the Assembly will disregard the authority of the Law—
that that Assembly of Christian ministers will be parties to
the fomenting of discords—that the last thing they will
think of, will be the peace of the Church committed to
their care, and that the only thing they will think of, will
be the victory of the Churchman over the Supre ne Judges
of the land—over the Judges, and over the Law itself, by
setting up Acts of their own which they have:no title to pato.
against Acts of Kir g, Lords, and Commons—the statute law
of the country. My Lords, I defend the Assembly against
the arguments of their advocates. I protest on the part of
the Assembly as a body of Christian men, of whom the
bulk are Christian Ministers, against the imputations
thrown out upon them by the course of defending them
that has been adopted in this House: and I say that my
hopes of them, my confident expectations of what will be
their conduct, are wholly the reverse of those that have
been expressed at the bar—that it was an injudicious line of
argument to take on their behalf, and an act which I am
Imorally certain would be rejected and spurned by the
Assembly itself. My Lords, the Assembly will do its
dx:y —the Assembly will show its veneration for the esta-
\blished authority of the law—the Assembly will rest satis-
Sed with having entered its protest, and indicated upon its
I own records its own opinions, but will, with its inferior
judicature, the Presbytery, render a willing, a respectful
obedience to the law of the land, as pronounced
by the Court of Session, and as confirmed by your Lord-
ship's House. With this view the Noble and Learned
Lord moved the confirmation of the order of the Court
below, and then sat down, having spoken as nearly as pos-
sible three hours.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said that he should state what
he had to say on the question to•merrow morning.

PORTSMOUTH AND CAMBER

QUAYS.

The Committee on this Bill met to-day at twelve
o'clock, but were unable to proceed to business in conse-
quence of the absence of the " selected Members."
At one o'clock Mr. BARING said they must adjourn, as
there was only one of the selected Members in attendance
three at least h .ng required by the rules of the House.
Ihe Csni mittee then adjourned till Tuesday next at
Cvek e o'clock.