The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-22 00:00:00

TURKEY.

Letters from Constantinople of the sth state that
the Ottoman Minister for Foreign Affairs has pro-
tested against the entrance of the Russian troops into
Transylvania, through Wallachia or Moldavia, on
the footing that it is a direct and flagrant violation of
the treaty of 1841, which secures the integrity and
autonomy of the Sublime Porte, inasmuch as in the
present disturbed state of Hungary, lawless free-
booters may with, impunity invade the Ottoman ter-
ritory, cause serious annoyance by these irruptions,
commit depredations, excite confusion, and stir up
rebellion. The protestation of the Divan has been
followed by the of Sir STRATFORD CANNING and
General Auric, who have come into the field as the
advocates of the rights of Turkey, which have been
violated most audaciously by Russia.
The reply of the Russian Minister is said to have
been couched in terms most offensive to the SULTAN.

HOUSE 67:1? LORDS.—(THIS DAY.)
The House sat again to-day to hear Scotch appeals,
and also to give judgment in two cases which have
lately been argv.et before their Lordships. The Peers
present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, and
Lord Campbell.
BAIN V. BLACK AND OTHERS.
Their Lordships gave judgment to-day in this case
which was argut td before them during the course of last
week upon appe:ll from the judgment of the Court of
Sessions in Scot! and. The following are the facts of the
case upon which their appeal was founded:—For a con-
siderable period prior ,to the year 1833, all additional
places of worstip in connexion with the Established
Church of Scotland, not being churches of parishes
erected by decree of the commission of Teinds, under
authority of the statute 1707, cap. 9, were placed on the
footing without any parochial district
of chapels of ease,
attached thereto, or a kirk session belonging to it to ex-
ercise spiritual discipline and government in the congre-
gation; and :.they were served by ministers not having
seats in any of the judicatories of the church; the con-
gregation, and the bounds assigned as the peculiar sphere
of the minister's service, being subject to the exclusive
spiritual jurisdiction and pastoral superintendence of the
minister and scision of the parish within which such
places of worship are situated. The condition of such
chapels 'of ease was considered to be so unfavourable
and disadvantageous, with reference to the promotion
of religious instruction and the providing of pastoral
superina endeuce, that comparatively few persons could
be indi iced to contribute towards the erection of
such pl sees of worship; and during the lapse of the
precedit ,g century, while the population of Scotland
had net .rly doubled, and fully live hundred places
of won hip had been built by voluntary contribu-
tion ire connexion with different Presbyterian non-
establisbc,s I communions in Scotland, professing the same
doctrine, acid adhering to the same standards with the
Establis'ned Church, which places of worship had the
benefit c ,f kirk sessions, and of ministers on a footing of
Presbyt arian parity with tbeir brethren, only 63 addi-
tional p laces of worship, on the footing of chapels of ease,
had beet t erected by voluntary contribution in connexion
with the Established Church of Scotland. In the year
1833, the General Assembly of the Established Church
passed, • with only one dissentient vaice, a de-
claratory enactment with reference to certain places
of wor ship in the Highlands, built with funds
voted by _Parliament under_ the, sth Geo. IV.,
c. 90, but ut.st erected into parish churches by that
statute, or by the Court of Teinds, by which enact-
ments -the Ar,sembly erected the PoToral districts