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last market-day, 26.

NEWCASTLE CORN M A REEL—May 28

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The supply of Wheat at market to-day was again small,
and prices were full Is. per quarter higher than last Saturday.
The nominal value of malting Barley may be considered the
same, there being no arrivals this week. Oats were in small
supply, and went off freely at an advance of full Is. per qr.
Malt firm in price. Rye a ready sale, and prices a shade higher.
White Peas a very dull sale. Beans and Grey Peas nominal.
Flour in good demand, and prices looking higher.
New. Old.
Wheat, Northumberland 4ss. Y's —s. --..1
---- Norfolk and Suffolk 4os. 5.33....... —s. —,..
-- Berwick and Scotch 45. - s ...... --s. 49'.
Foreign
Rye, Norfolk and Sutlolk
Foreign —s. —s —s. —s. i.:
Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suflblk... —s. —s —s. --s.
Grinding and Feeding 3os. 335.
Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk
51s. COs —s. —,. „.
Beans, Small 325. :351 —3.!—S. ro
Tick 3ls 33s s. s.
Pease, White 4ls. 435. . ... —s. S.
, -- Gray
Oa's, Northumberland, Potatoe 24s 27s
Feed
Foreign —S. —s —3. --4
Flour (per sack)

HAMBURG MARKETS.
HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, MAY 27.
GRAIN.
to 232 oats, Upland to
to 219 Mei..stlotburg to -
to 219 -- Eider 'lO to 11,5
to 225 -- Holstein lO5 to 11.1
to 270 Petersburgh k Riga to
to 249 Malt, Pomeranian 120 to 133
to 228 Buck Wheat to -
to 183 ['ease, Upland, yellow 226 to 264
to 1771 Beans 189 to 210
to —1 Tares 216 to 227

Wheat, Marks 234
-- Mecklenburg 2'o
-- Magdeburg 234
-.. Eider
-- Attilalt, white 216

red
-- Holstein
Rye, Mecklenburg l6i
-- Holstein-- 165
Archangel Archangel
Barley, Mecklenburgh 1(12
Magdeburgh 2.5
-- Lower Elbe

to 163 I Rapeseed to
to 264 1 Ditto Cakes
to —1 Linseed ditto 4l to fld
COTTON.
Carolina and Tennessee...lo to 11% Maranham 12%t01214
Georgia, Ist sort 12 12% Madras 7l IN
2cl ll 11% SuratQ 614 8
3d and 4th 9 11 Domingo 11 111 A
COFFEE.

Mocha 8 to Domingo ......................
Batavia
Surinam 454 5I Porto Rico ......• ..............
Rio 5 6tA Havannah
Bahia
SUGAR.— (Wit
Havannah, White
Brown 75y i))4
Rio, White B% 11%
Brown 6% 7%

18% Discount.)
Bahia, White
Brown
Pernambuco, White
Drown

51A to 644
65,„
6% S
6% 8

61,4 to 101
7t.i
7it

Extract of a letter from Rome, dated the 16th
inst. :—" The Pontifical Government, we: Tied by the conti-
nual complaints from all parts against the conduct of Don
Miguel, has at length decided to request him to choose ano-
ther asylum. It is said that the Infante has made up his
mind to accept one at Modena, which has been offered by the
Duke. I had the following anecdote of the Portuguese Pre-
tender from an eyewitness. Don Miguel one day desired to
be conducted to the falls of the Arno, at Tivoli, but, quarrel-
ling with his cicerone, he forgot himself so far as to make use
of his horsewhip on his guide. Some French artists, who
happened to be present, were so offended by this disgraceful
and unjust conduct, that they expreFscd their sentimeras in
no measured terms ; but they were stopped by the cicerone,
who said, Never mind him, gentleinen, he is a madman.' "

Thursday, at eleVen o'clock, his Grace the Commissioner
held a levee in the Throne room at Holyrood Palace,
which was very numerously attended. The guard of ho-
nour in front of the Palace was formed by the 79th High-
landers ; a number of the police, habited in the garb of the
ancient }eornen of the guard, were stationed on the grand
stair-case, every thing being conducted in strict accordance
with Court etiquette.
After the levee; his Grace entered the state carriage, and
prodeeded by the Calton-hill to the High Church, the fol-
lowing being the order of the procession :
Detachment of the 9th Lancers.
aiy Police in their Uniforms.
Scottish Yeomen of the Guard.
Magistrates and Town Council, in carriages.
King's Trumpeters.
Carriage—Mace-bearer, &c.
Carriage—The. Lord High Commissioner accompanied by
• his Chaplain and Almoner.

His Grace wore a military court dress, and appeared to
be in good health.
The 9th Lancers, under the command of Lieutenant-
Colonel Loughborough, with the fine band of the regiment,
lined the High-street from St. Giles's Cathedral to North
Bridge-street, clown which to Waterloo•place the line was
kept by the 76th and 79th depots. The day being re-
markably fine, the concourse of spectators was more nume-
rous than we have witnessed for some years.
The church was, as usual on these occasions, crowded.
The Rev. Dr. Thomson of Perth, the Moderator, preach-
ed an appropriate discourse from Hebrews xiii. B.—" Je-
sus Christ, the same yesterday, and to-day, and for eVey„.7
After Divine service, his Grace the Commissioner pro-
ceeded to the Tron Church, where the._General Assembly
met and was constituted by prayer.
The Assembly then proceeded to the election of a Mo-
derator, and on the motion of Dr. Thomson of Perth, the
late Moderator, seconded by Principal Macfarlane of Glas-
gow, unanimously appointed Dr. M'Leod, one of the mi-
nisters of Glasgow, to that important office.
The new Moderator having taken the Chair,
His Grace the COMMISSIONER addressed the Assembly
in a short speech, in which he assured them of his Majesty's
anxious and ardent desire to maintain the Presbyterian
Church as by law established, and relied on their assistance
in the promotion of that important object, hoping that in
all their deliberations they would observe that calm mode-
ration, that temperate forbearance, which could alone lead
to wise and salutary conclusions, and which were essential
to the dearest interests of our National Church. His
Grace added, that his Majesty had commanded him to ac-
quaint the Assembly that suitable and permanent accom-
modation would be provided for the meetings of this Vene-
rable Court, and he was also entrusted with the Royal
Warrant for 2,000/. for promoting instruction in the High-
lands and Islands. His Grace concluded by assuring the
Assembly of his readiness to do every thing in his power
for the comfort and convenience of the Assembly.
The Moderator congratulated the Lord High Commis-

sioner on his re-appointment. Met as they were under the
sanction of the law, they felt grateful for this mark of the
Royal favour. In name of the Assembly he begged his
Grace to communicate to his Majesty their thanks for the
expression of his unalterable resolution to maintain the
Church. The communication that suitable accommodation
would be provided for the meetings of Assembly must have
afforded delight to all the members present. They were
satisfied that his Majesty was most anxious to meet their
wishes, and he trusted the Church of Scotland would always
find in him a friend and protector. The munificent grant
for the purposes of religious education in the Highlands
had done immense good in times pest, and caused the lights
of the Gospel to shine on the most elevated mountain, the
most: lowly glen ; and the experience they had had of the,
great good it had done would secure their cautious applica-
tion of the sum now placed at their disposal. The Mode-
rator then returned thanks for his Grace's offer of attending
to their comforts, and added that the Assembly on their
part would make their arrangements suitable to his Grace's
convenience.

Dr. Brunton, as Convener of the Committee for procur-
ing accommodation for the Assembly, said it was usual for
that Committee to report their progress in the object of
their appointment, but that had been rendered unnecessary
by his Grace's communication. On the motion of Principal
Macfarlane the Committee was re-appointed to receive any
communications from his Grace the Commissioner. _

On the motion of the Procurator a Committee consisting
of nine members was appointed, to which all disputed
Commissions are to be remitted and finally disposed of; to

this Committee the parties are each to have the power of
nominating one, who must be members of Court.—After
some routine business the Assemb!y adjourned.

FRIDAY, MAY 20.
At the forenoon sederunt of the Assembly the following
ministers were appointed to preach before his Grace the
Commissioner :—Sunday forenoon, Mr. N. Paterson of
St. Andrew's, Glasgow ; afternoon, Mr. Goldie of Cold-
stream. On the forenoon of Sunday week, Mr. Paton of
Straiton ; afternoon, Mr. M‘Naughton of Kilbride, in the
island of Arran. The remainder of the sederunt was oc-
cupied in devotional exercises, after which the Assembly
adjourned till three o'clock.
In the afternoon sederunt the answer to the King's letter
was read and agreed to, and his Grace the Commissioner
was requested to transmit the same to his Majesty. The
Assembly then proceeded to appoint committees till five
o'clOck, when they adjourned till next day at twelve.

SATURDAY, MAY 21.

ORDER OF BUSINESS.—Me following order of business
wits agreed to.
Saturday.--,-Case of Eskdalemuir.
Monday.,--Ist, The Report of the Committee on
Church Extension ; 2d, The Report of the Committee on
the proposed Union with Seceders ; and 31, The case of

Dreihorn.
Tuesday.-Ist, The Trinity Gask case ; 2d, The case of
Dron p - 3d, Case of Knlpdale and 4th, Some applications

the case of Auchteri:arder.

Wednesday.—lst, The Report of the Committee on the
Synod of Ulster ; 2d, Report and Overtures anent Elder-
ship ; and 3d, Overture anent Presbyterial Visitations.
The Assembly then proceeded to take up the conside-
ration of

THE ESKDALEMUIit CASE.

This case came before the Assembly in the form of a
petition and complaint from the parishioners of the parish
of Eskdalemuir, and heads of families of the said parish in
communion with the church, praying for redress against
cert ;in irregularities and unjust proceedings on the part of
the Presbytery of Langholm and Synod of Dumfries, in .
regard to the call and settlement of the Rev. A. Cunning-
ham, presented to the vacant parish of Eskdalemuir. It ,
also came before the House in the form of an appeal from
the Synod of Dumfries. There was, moreover, a second
and supplementary petition and complant against the in-
duction
of the presentee.
Mr. PENNEY appeared at the bar on the behalf of the
dissentients ; and, in answer to a question-from Dr. Cook,
stated that he wished merely to be heard as to his right to
ask from the Assembly a warrant of intimation to the Sy-
, nod of Dumfries, who bad made no appearance at the bar.
He should avoid entering into the merits of the case at
present. The Learned Gentleman then proceeded to state,
that there being a vacancy in the parish of Eskdalemuir by
the death of the Rev. Dr. Brown, the Rev. Mr. A. Cun-
ningham was presented to that parish. At the meeting of
Presbytery for moderating a call on the 22d December
last, dissents were tendered and taken down by twenty-nine
persons whose names stood on the roll as ratified and ap-
proved of by the Presbytery at their meeting on the Ist
December preceding, these twenty-nine persons being a ma-
jority of the communicants on the roll, which contained only
fifty-five names. in all. The Presbytery, however, in the
face of their own roll, and without stating a single objec--
tion to any of the dissentients, found that there was not a
majority on the roll of persons diKenting, and resolved
to proceed forthwith to the settlement. The dissentients
protested at the time, and lodged their reasons of appeal
to the Synod with the Clerk of Presbytery within ten days.
At the next meeting of Presbytery, on the sth of January,
they (the Presbytery) refused to give the dissentient's ex-
tracts, or to receive reasons of appeal—holding the sentence
of the Presbytery to be final, and not liable to be brought
under the review of any other Court. Against that reso-
lution his (Mr. P.'s) clients took a protest and appealed to
the Synod. It accordingly came before the Synod on the
19th of April. The committee of bills refused to trans-
mit the documents which the dissentients had laid be-
fore them. First, the roll of communicants, which they
said was never before the Presbytery—a very curious
saying indeed, since it was the very roll which bad
been made up and ratified by the Presbytery themselves ;
and second, the petition against the Presbytery refusing
extracts. These were the two documents which the com-
mittee of bills refused to transmit. And what was the
objection ?
.Why, the cuckoo one, that that document
had never been before. the Presbytery. The petition, being
against themselves, certainly never had, because it Was
meant not for them but for the Synod. Against this de-
cision of the Committee of Bills, Mr. Baird, agent for the

on the subject before
co. u. ;eision of the Committee.
iinst that affirmation Mr. Baird protested, and appealed
he Assembly. After Mr. Baird had been -heard seve-
times on the subject, he was asked where was his man-
.? He produced it, and the Synod found that it was
insufficient mandate. The ground upon which they
le to this decision was, that by a most tuiseeable slip of
ae pen, December, 1836, had been written instead of De-
cember, 1835. This was held as sufficient ter iuvalidate the
mandate. But he (Mr. P.) would contend that it was not
absolutely necessary that the mandate should have a date
at all. If it gave ample power to act for the parties,
which it did, then it was a good and sufficient mandate.
Here Mr. P. read the mandate, and contended that he was
entitled, in the peculiar circumstances ofthe case, to ask their
opinion, whether it was good or sufficient—an inferior Court.
not hiving the power to pronounce a judgment which could
not be reversed. The consequence of rejecting the man-
date was, that they refused to receive Mr. Baird's appeal,
or hear him at all on the merits of the question at issue.
The learned gentleman then proceeded to say that the dis-
sentients had taken all the competent means in their power
to bring the ease before the General Assembly, and had
served the clerk of the Synod of Dumfries with reasons of
appeal, but he had also refused to receive them. But since
then other proceedings occurred of a very unusual nature—
proceedings which he would venture to say had never before
occurred in the history of the Church of Scotland. It was
those proceedings which had given rise to the second and
supplementary petition. In the face of that appeal, and
the petition and complaint against their former proceedings,
the Presbytery of Laiigholm had, on the 12th May last,
within seven days of the sitting of the Assembly, actually
completed the settlement. The dissentients, one way or
other, either with or without a warrant of intimation, must,
he contended, have redress from the General Assembly,
otherwise there would in this case, and in many other cases,
be committed a most grievous wrong without any remedy.
Mr. PENNEY, in answer to a question from Mr. Whig-
ham, Advocate, said that there was no notarial instrument
taken by Mr. Baird at the meeting of the Synod of 19th
April, but he could produce ample proof of his averment
that the protest and appeal was refused by the Synod. He
would prove it by the recollection of at least one most re-
spectable member of the Synod.
Dr. COOK readily acknowledged, with respect to the
Synod, having refused to receive the appeal, that the case
was a very bard one, because it was-nt all times desirable, if
possible, that parties should some way or other have it in
their power to state the merits of their ease. But there
were forms of procedure connected with every Court which
must invariably' be observed. Though these forms might
sometimes entail hardships on individuals, yet if they were
all set aside, they would just sacrifice to partial evil the ge-
neral good of the whole comMunity. Th6ugh he had doubts
with respect to the deliverance of the Assembly on the first
petition, he had no doubts regarding the second. There
was a clear distinction between thse two cases—a dis-
tinction of great importance, and which ought to be im-
pressed on the minds of the General Assembly. It ap-
peared to him that an agent should be a person pro-
perly authorized by a document specifying—not merely
what he was to do—but bearing that it was issued at
the proper time. The date of the mandate in ques-
tion, was December, 1836. It, therefore, could not
be; in his humble opinion, a document authorising a person
to appear from any party in May 1836. The Synod took
that view, and found that there was no'appearance accord-
ingly. Whether they were right in this finding was not be-
fore the Assembly at present. It followed from this find-
ing that the Synod could net receive the appeal from that
agent. There was, therefore, no appeal before the Assem-
bly, according to the law of the Church : and, if they now
allowed their regular procedure to:be set aside, they might
just as well, by one sweeping stroke, cancel all the forms
of the Church, and leave every' case to be decided on its
own peculiar merits. But, with respect to the second
complaint, which was.a complaint against the proceedings
of the Presbytary for the induction of the presentee, Mr.
Cunningham, he contended that the sentence of the Synod
was law to the Presbytery—was the only rule by which they
could have been guided ; and, therefore, the Presbytery
could do nothing else than proceed with the induction of
Mr. Cunningham. Whatever, then, the Assembly might
determine with regard to the Synod, the petition, in regard
to the Presbytery, must fall to the ground. He had no
motion on the subject, but such were his feelings.

The Rev. Mr. M'KENZIE, of Comric, said, it was easy
for the Assembly, sitting in the plenitude of their power
to wrap themselves up in the cloak of formality, and insist
upon a strict adherence to the established order of proce-
dure ; but they ought to remember that though they were
a supreme Coiart, they were under the controul of a still
higher Court, where all formality was set aside, and every
case displayed in its own naked merits ; that they might be
insisting on the mint, anise, and cummin, while they wer,e
noglecting the weightier matters of the law, judgment,
mercy, and truth. He contended that when such grave
charges had been advanced against one .of the Snods of
Church, it was absolutely incumbent::on them to make
some inquiry into the foundation.
Lord MoNcttnirF said, he was strongly inclined .to think
that the first petition should be served on the Synod. It
was very disagreeable to one accustomed to the usual forms
of justice to.have to make up his mind on the statement of.
one of the parties merely. He .should like to see both
sides of the question.
After some little farther discussion, it was unanimously
agreed, on the motion of Lord Moncreiff, that the first
petition be served on the Synod of Dumfries, through their
Moderator and Clerk, and on all other parties that the
complainers might think neccattry, and grant a warrant
ac-
cordingly to order all parties to appear at the bar on
Friday next.
The Assembly adjourned about four o'clock till Monday
at eleven o'clock forenoon.

MONDAY, MAY 23.

In addition to the order of business arranged on Satur-
day the Assembly agreed to take up the Report of the
Committee on India Missions on Wednesday.
UNION WITH THE ORIGINAL BURGHER ASSOCIATE SYNOD.
Dr. P. MACrARLANE produced the Report of the
Committee of last General Assembly, in regard to
the proposed re-union of the Associate Synod with
this Church. It stated, that with the view of ascer-
taining the points of difference between each other
and coming to an understanding on the subject, the
respective Committees had had several meetings and
conferences, the result of which was that the majo-
rity of the Assembly's Committee were of opinion that
more information was necessary before they could give in a
definitive report. In reporting this fact, they begged to be
understood that they did not express any opinion as to the
expediency or inexpediency of the re-union, but merely to
recommend that the Committee be re-appointed, in order
that they might be enabled to make a final report to next
Assembly. The Committee expressed themselves unani-
mously of opinion that the course of education enforced by
the Associate Synod, the trials of young men before they
were licensed, and of ministers previous to ordination, were
quite satisfactory ; that the Associate Synod required every
candidate for a license to wive assent to the Westminster
Confession of Faith, and° that every minister was re-
quired to state before induction whether he still adhered
to it. The Committee were, therefore, of opinion, that in
the event of a re-union, the status of ministers of the As-
sociate Synod ought to be at once recognised by the Church
of Scotland, and that their congregations should be ad-
mitted without requiring any specific declaration. The
Committee thought it their duty to state that the points
of difference were the obligation of covenants and the
law of patronage, and concluded by expressing a hope that
the negotiation might terminate in the re-union of their as-
sociated brethren with the Church, on sound constitutional
principles. The Rev. Doctor said the Assembly would per-
ceive from this Report that their Committee had not been
inactive, but had made considerable progress towards a
termination, whatever that termination might be. The
points on which they agreed were of the most essen-
tial importance, especially those regarding the course
of study and trials. With regard to the points of diffe-
rence, the opinion of the Associate Synod had been fully
expressed in a letter already before the Assembly. On the
subject of Patronage he might say that, but for the recent
law of the Assembly, the Associate Synod never would
have thought of a re-union with the Church of Scotland,
and so long as these laws exist, they reserve the right of
expressing their sentiments fully on that subject. The Rev.
Doctor hoped these difficulties would be overcome, and a
re-union take place with the Church of Scotland of a body
of men highly respectable in point of Christian character,
who would form a great acquisition to the Church. In ex-
pressing these sentiments, he expressed those also of a wor-
thy deceased friend, Sir Henry Moncrieff, in his " Life of
Dr. Erskine."
Mr. THOMSON, of Dundee, moved that the Assembly
re-appoint the Committee, in order to the accomplish-
ment clan object which was dear to every member of the
Church.
After some observations from Dr. Cook, Dr. Thomson,
of Perth, and others, the Committee was re-appointed with
the addition of Dr. Dickson, Dr. Dewar, Mr. Hunter, Mr.
and Mr. Whigham.

The Alien Office will be discontinued en and from
the Ist of July next.
NEW MOVING POWER.—A letter from Frankfort
says, a discovery of immense importance has been communi-
cated to our society for the promotion of the Physical
Sciences. The discovery is That of an impulse force, -more
powerful than that of gunpowder or of steam. Our men of
science arc in raptures, and are preparing their reports, which
will be very shortly I.ublishcd. All that we yet know is,
that the moving power is a galvanic machine, the action of
which, it is said, will equal that of steam, without the expense
and without the danger.-