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London, England, 1841-10-06 00:00:00

BRECHIN.

A requisition, signed by the most respectable mer-
chants, manufacturers, and other inhabitants of this town,
having been presented to the Chief Magistrate, praying
him to call a public meeting of the inhabitants, the meet-
ing was held in the Town Hall on the 27th ult. The
attendance was very numerous, comprising the most in-
fluential gentlemen engaged in manufactures, millspin-
ning, and other branches of trade, and most of the other
respectable inhabitants of the town. Resolutions were
moved, and unanimously agreed to, expressive of the
distress among the manufacturing and trading popula-
tion, and an address to her Majesty adopted. Petitions
were also resolved on to both Houses of Parliament to
the same effect.

An address to the Queen has been forwarded to Lord
Melbourne for presentation to her Majesty, nearly 1,000
signatures having been adhibited to it.
YEOVIL, SOMERSETSHIRE.
A public meeting of the inhabitants of this town was
called on Friday last, and a memorial to the Queen
unanimously adopted.
. . .

An Anti-Corti-law Association has been established
at Barnard Castle, whiMi will continue to hold its meet-
ings every fortnight till the alteration of the Corn-laws
is effected. The Society already can boast of 300 mem-
bers. Such Associations should be formed in every con-
siderable town. Their influence would be fatal to Peel's
G overnment. —Tyne Pilot.

ELECTORAL REVISION IN MID

DLESEX.

The Revising Barristers, Messrs. Walpole and Shad-
well, held their Court yesterday, for the County of
Middlesex, at the Vestry-room, Limehouse, for the pa-
rishes of All Saints, Poplar, St. Anne, Limehouse, Rat-
cliff, St. Paul, Shadwell, Bromley, St. Leonard, and St.
Mary, Stratford-le-Bow.
Agents—Messrs. Coppock, James, and Anderson ap-
peared for the Liberals ; and Messrs. Adey, Turner, and
Payne for the Tories.
(Before Mr. WALroLE.)

In the case of JOhn James Collis and others, who claimed
as trustees in the receipt of rents and profits arising from
tho freehold Baptist chapel, Blue Gate-fields, who was
objected to by the Tories,
Mr. Adey contended they had no right to the elective
franchise.

Mr. Coppock, at some length, defended the claim,
lea►ing it in the hands of the Learned Barrister to de-
cide the point at issue between them.
Mr. WALPOLE delivered his judgment as follows:
John James Collins has claimed to vote as a trustee
in the receipt of the rents and profits of a freehold Bap-
tist chapel. There is no question about the facts. The
only question is upon the point of law, or rather upon
the construction which ought to be given to the Act of
Parliament. In considering this question it ought always
to be borne in mind that no trustee was entitled to vote
before the Reform Bill was passed, for by the statute of
Henry VI. (8 H. VI. c. 7) it was expressly provided
that " he which could not expend forty shillings by ;he
year should in no wise be a chooser of the Knights for
the Parliament." And it was as expressly declared by
the 18th George 11. c. 18, that no person should vote nn-
less he was in the actual possession of the property, or in the
receipt of the rent and profits of it for his own use. Now
both these statutes are still in force, except so far as they
are repealed or altered by the Reform Act, or unless they
are ineonsistent with the provisions thereof (2 W. IV.,
c. 45, c. 75.) But is there anything in the Reform Act,
which has repealed or altered these previous statutes? Is
there anything in its provisions which' can be called in-
consistent with them? The 22d section is relied upon to
show that there is. But that section is not a new one,
for it is a transcript from the statutes of W. IV., c. 7. and
8, which was in force at the time when the Reform Bill
was passed; and it is qualified and controlled by
the 26th section which is also not a new one ; for it
is a transcript from the 18th Geo. 11. to which I have
already referred, and which was also in force when the
Reform Bill was passed. Now, it is admitted, and, in-
deed it cannot be denied, that these two sections when
they were contained in two Acts of Parliament
amounted to a disqualification of all persons who had
no beneficial interest—and how can they have a differ-
ent operation, because they aro combined in the same
statute. If a trustee was prohibited from voting on
account of them in 1830, how can he vote by virtue
of them in 1841 ? It is impossible for any subtlety to
make out the distinction. I was given to understand
however, that these votes have been allowed for se-
veral years in the county of Middlesex ; and it
therefore becomes a most serious question, whether it
would be right or proper for me to disturb it. Per-
haps I should, if I were sitting alone. But as Mr.
Shadwell has always taken a different view, which he
is still inclined to adhere to, I will nor give rise to the
monstrous anomaly that a qualification which is good in
one parish is bad in another. For these reasons, and for
the sake of uniformity, I shall adopt the decision which
has previously been made.
In Mr. Shadwell's Court, no case of interest to the
public occurred.
The following was the result of the day's business :
I imehouse.—Liberals, 7 objections taken, 3 sustained,
1 withdrawn ; Tories, 10 taken, 4 sustained.
Poplar.—Liberals, 6 taken, 6 sustained.
Shadwell.—Liberals, 2 taken, 2 sustained ; Tories, 11
taken, 6 sustained. •

Bromley.—Tories, 5 taken, 3 sustained, I withdrawn.
ltatcliffe.—Liberals, 4 taken, 4 sustained ; Tories, 13
taken, 7 sustained.
Stratford-le-Bow.—Tories, 6 taken, 3 sustained.
The trustee cases objected to by the Tories, and ad-
journed from Monday for the Barrister's decision (Mr.
Walpole) were yesterday all allowed.
The Court will be held this day at the King's Head,
Enfield, for the parishes of Edm.,nton, Tottenham, En-
field, South Mims, Hadley, and Frier Barnet.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
WOOLWICH GARRISON RACES-TUESDAY.

The higher powers being at length propitious, the
officers of the garrison have resolved on the permanent
establishment of their races, and as the " sinews of war"
are abundant, and the course as well adapted for the pur-
pose as it is pleasantly situated, we see no reason why
they should fail. The experiment commenced yester-
day, and, albeit the weather was showery and the coin-
men little better than a swamp, t very good company
attended, consisting, however, of civil and military resi-
dents. The racing commenced at one o'clock, and as
neither the Stewardsnor the jockeys had the fear of Lord
George Berland: before their eyes, it was spun out until
five. It began with
The Garrison Stakes of 3 soya. each, and 40 added.

Mile and a-half Heats.

Lieut. Price's b g Abel, 5 yrs, 12st 2lb
Lieut. Gambier's Winona, 2 yrs, 9st 6lb
Lieut. Montresor's Ada, aged, I Ist I Ilb
Capt. Warde's Norgrove, aged, 12st 41b 4 dr
Won in a canter.
The Hurdle Race Stakes of 2 sovs. each, and 40 added.
Mile and three quarters.
Lieut. Cocks' ch g Syntax, aged, 12st (Lt.Wellan) 1 1
Lieut. Thomas' Imperial, aged, 12st 2 2
Capt. Warde's Azalia, 6 yrs, 12st 3 ~ 3
The first heat was closely contested, and the second
was won easy. _ _

Sweepstakes-of 2 sovs. each, and 23 added. Mile heats.
(Five Subs.)
Limit. Montresor's Ada, aged, 11st 1 llb
Lieut. 'Mundy's Kitten, 4 yrs, lOst 41b 2 2
Lieut. the lion. C. West's Matilda, 6 yrs, 1 Ist 91b 3 dr
Won in a canter.

THE OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN, A SPORT-
ING NOVEL.—The reading world will hail this new
production with unusual delight, for it possesses
that greatest of attractions, the charm of novelty.
We have had fashionable novels, satirical novels, nauti-
cal novels, and nearly all other sorts of novels without
end, but we are here presented with the original of what
promises (judging from the success of this first effort)
to be a very numerous class—" The Old English Gen-
tleman"—a Sporting Novel. The author is well known
in the sporting circles, and he has made this interesting
story (pourtraying the habits and peculiarities of " a
fine old English gentleman") the vehicle for the most
racy and energetic descriptions of all our English Field
Sports, from the highest to the lowest, that have ever,
perhaps, appeared in print. The absolute novelty of the
subject, and the stirring nature of the incidents) and
characters of the work, will make it eagerly run after
by all classes of ordinary novel readers, while the
sporting sketches are so striking, spirited, and true, that
every sportsman in the kingdom must at once join in
he tallyho !
EDUCATION COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY
COUNCIL.—Her Majesty has appointed Lord Wharncliffe
(Lord President of the Council), the Right Hon. Sir
Robert Peel, Bart., the Duke of Buckingham, the Right
Hon. Henry Goulburn, Lord Stanley, Lord Granville
Somerset, and Sir James Graham, Bart., to be Members
of the Committee on the subject f Education.

THE .CHURCLE OF SCOTLAND.
HOW THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND MAY LE EXTRICATED

FTIOM HER PRESENT UNSEEMLY POSITION, WITUOUT

OFFENCE TO EITHER PARTY.
Lord Cunningham, in the case of Cambusno.than,
has given a pretty intelligible hint, that all the
acts of the Church Courts, since the introduc-
tion, by the Church alone, without consent of the
State, of the quoad sacra Ministers, are vitiated
by the presence of an element making no com-
ponent part of the Church Courts, as by con-
stitutional law established. Let this doctrine hold
good, and the veto law itself, with all its consequences,
is swept from the records of the Assembly, and the
Strathbogie ministers in particular are in stain quo ante
helium. The field being thus cleared of all obstructions,
and of that increasing obstruction in particular—deposi-
tion by the majority inflicted upon the minority from time
to time as disobedience occurs—the parties may shake
hands ; and, in the attitude of mutual obedience to the
law, petition the Legislature for such measures as by
i mutual concessions may be condescended upon. Some
of the more violent in the ranks of the majority may
deem such an admission of illegality as doubly Erastian,
and therefore may be disposed to consider the cure pro-
posed as worse than the disease. They may instance the
various regulations which the Church has f-om time to
time adopted by consent of presbyteries, without any di-
rect sanction from the civil power sought or thought of.
But in answer to this I observe, that regulations of dis-
cipline and constitutional changes are widely different.
The Church has a charter, sanctioned by the Union, in
which her constituent parts are minutely described, and
fixed by the law of the land, as well as agreed to by the
Church herself. She consists, for example, and must
consist of Church Courts, viz., sessions, presbyteries,
synods, and general assemblies, and these courts must
consist again of parish ministers with cures of souls and
stipends, together with lay elders, whose qualifications
axe likewise pointed out by law. Now, in all her Char-
t•r, Confession of Faith, or Form of Process, there is
not one syllable said on the subject of the quoad sacra
ministers. These are only of about nine years stand-
ing, but of sufficient antiquity to obliterate as with
a sponge the proceedings of Assembly since 1833.
Let us suppose, by way of reductio ad absurduni,
that the General Assembly, under the regula-
tions of the Barrier Act, were to direct that
in future all schoolmasters were to be members
of Church Courts, and to have votes accordingly,
would not such an act be illegal ; and if proceeded upon,
would it not vitiate all Church Court proceedings, unless
sanctioned by an Act of Parliament? The moment you
overstep the boundary in regard to church constitution,
established and defined by law, you are no longer an
established Church ; you have broken the contract without
consent of parties, and you may abolish as well as alter.
you may reduce your Church Courts to three instead
of four, to two instead of three, to one instead of two, or
you may have no Church Courts at all ; and will not this
be accounted not only a breach of contract, but an anni-
hilation of your very existence as an Established Church?
How was the principle applied during the civil wars in
the reign •f Charles 1., when no General Assemblies
were held at all ? Why, on this very account all the
proceedings of the Church during that period are re-
garded by the Church as of no authority whatever—
they are null and void. The Act against Symony,
the Barrier Act, and the subsequent Act against
Pluralities, &c., are of a very different descrip-
tion ; these are merely internal regulations,
whilst the constituent parts remain unchanged.
And these, and such Acts as these, are fairly and fully
within the power of the Church herself ; she is not
overstepping her power in making them, but in adding a
new class and description of members to her Church
Courts she is manifestly trangressing. True, the Church
may be extended—two ministers may be substituted
for one, and two lay elders for one, but not without the
concurrence of the civil power. Yet this extension does
not alter the nature of her Courts—they are still as by
law defined—but your only half Ministers, or quoad
sacra class, are without the pale, they are proselytes of
the gate, and may not, cannot, legally enter her Courts.
Now, upon the supposition that both parties were
convinced, as Dr. Chalmers in the candour of his nature
has acknowledged, that a great mistake has been com-
mitted in the enactment of the Veto law, and that, with-
out any effort on either -side, or on both sides, of the
Church herself, the Veto law were declared a nonentity-
is there not here a beautiful ground of friendly and
kindly agreement betwixt the two contending and vitu-
perating parties. Look at things as they are at present
—wild beasts tearing and worrying each other, rather
than Christian ministers of the gospel of peace. " You
are an Emden I and are attacking me ; yes, you are
threatening to have me, and the majority who
act with me, turned out of oar livings." " You,
again, on the other hand," says the Moderate, " you
are a rebel against the law, and are proceed-
ing against us from time to time, even to our
deposition, in as far as in your power lies, from
the office of the Ministry." " You began it," says the
one. "It was you," says the other. " Who began ?"
says the public—very much (if I may be permitted the
allusion) like the story of the Boy and the Bull, who,
when he was holding on by the tail, and administering
chastisement, kept constantly admonishing the bellowing
quadruped that it was he who began the quarrel—
Quid rides ? mutate nomine de to
Fabula narratur.
Now, is this a desirable attitude for a reformed, a
Presbyterian Church, to be placed in ? What must
be, what has already been, the incalculable injury
which religion has sustained, and must yet sustain,
if this most lamentable state of things con-
tinue ? Our blessed Saviour's name introduced
to sanction, as it were, the most uncharitable,
unchristian inventives ! The wrath of man may ulti-
mately be converted to the praise of ' God, but in the
meantime it operates confusion and disseverment. Both
parties avow their wish to have Me law of patronage as
it now exists altered, and to have such checks adopted as
shall prevent intrusion upon any congregation against the
will of the majority. The only question then is—How is
this will to be ascertained and taken ? Chalmers says,
there may be twenty ways ; why then dot condescend
mutually upon one out of the twenty, and, side by side,
Cook with Cunningham, and Candlish Witt Mearns,
ait upon Sir Robert Peel, or whoever may be Prime
Minister, with a coalition measure for a Parliamentary
enactment ?

But we voted, some may say, for the admission of
these quoad sacra ministers into the‘Church in 1833,
and how can we, in 1842, submit to have our proceed-
ings vitiated ever since on account of this our own vo-
luntary act ? Why, the writer of the3e remarks did
the same ; and he voted not only for these, but
likewise for the Veto Act itself at the following As-
sembly, and yet, in perfect consistency, he can re-
nounce both.

The admission of the quoad sacra ministers he was
then made to believe to be competent tor the Church
to do ; and ,if not competent, he was told that an Act
of the Legislature would be obtained ; and the Veto
law he considered (and publicly avowed this opinion),
merely as an experiment of a similar nature, to be law
only till challenged and proved to be incompetent.
Now, as [the Veto law has been declared, by what he
conceives to be competent authority, to be ultra vircs,
and as the quoad sacra chapels have not only no sanction
from the Civil power, but are likely to be challenged by
this same power, he considers himself entitled to make
the above proposal, on the supposition that such chal-
lenge shall be made good, and on that supposition alone.
The writer of this article may be incorrect in his
views ; if so, he should be glad to be put right by argu-
ment, and not by ridicule. lie conceives the matter
now—on all hands, and on both sides—to have assumed
an awfully serious aspect ; and most fervently does lie
join with the well-wishers of the Church on both sides
in praying that a Church which has long been the or-
nament and the defence of the State, at the same time
that she is deep-rooted in the hearts as she was foun-
ded in the blood of the people—that the Church of his
forefathers ever since her foundation—a Church, too, as
an humbleminister of which helms spent the best and the
happiest part of his life—that the Established Church
of our native land may not only survive her present
sufferings, hut come out of the furnace purified from all
t hat is objectionable in patronage as it now stands, and
bearing down through centur.es yet to come the motto,
" No Intrusion." G.
St. Andrews.

WRECK OF A SEVERN TROW, AND LOSS
OF FOUR LIVES.—We grieve to have to record the fol-
lowing melancholy catastrophe. The Severn trow Sis-
ters, Joshua Goulding, of Arlingham, in this county,
master, employed to convey timber from Bristol to
Bridgewater, for the Exeter Railway Company, left
Bridgewater, on Monday last, on a return voyage to
Bristol, with a very fair wind. On arriving at the
Holmes, a fresh breeze sprang up, which caused the peak-
halyard to part, and the trow ran before the wind, with the
main and foresail up, when a squall came off the land, and
drove her down almost in an instant. The persons on
Board consisted of the master, his wife, and two children,
a passenger, and four crew, in all nine ; and of these we
deeply regret to say, the woman, the two children, and
the passenger, all met a watery grave. Mrs. Goulding
was standing on the hatchway at the moment the trow
began to sink, and it is supposed that with the natural in-
stinct of a mother she rushed below to drag her children
from their bed, and endeavour to save their lives, when,
before she could return, the vessel was engulphed, and she
perished with those she meant to save. The passenger was
also below at the time, and shared the same fate. The
captain and crew clung to the boat for several minutes
before they could get on board of her. A tremendous
sea was running, and they were driven before the wind
across the Channel, into Newport river, expecting that
every moment wouldd be their last ; but they happily es-
caped with their lives, having, except the clothes they
wore, lost everything they possessed. The trow was the
property of Mr. Paul Legge, of this city, to whom her
loss is a serious calamity, as she was not insured. She
was only on her fifth voyage when she was wrecked.--
Gloucester Journal.

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HOUSE FLlES.—These troublesome little in-
sects may be effectually destroyed without the use of
poison. Take half a teaspoonful of brown sugar, half
a teaspoonful of black pepper, and one tablespoonful of
cream ; mix them together, and place it in a plate in
the room where the flies are troublesome, and they will
soon disappear.