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THONIAS'S LIFE OF NAPOLEON.

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CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASSEMBLY'S COM-
MISS' ON.
(From the Inverness Courier.)
We have taken some pains to ascertain the feeling of
our townsmen, and of the inhabitants of the North
generally, on this question, and we can consci
entiously say that it is almost unanimous against
the dominant party in the Commission. Those
who express any approval of the Veto At t, qua-
lify it by admitting that they consideF it only as a
stepping-stone to the total abolition of patronage.
The poorer classes in the country parishes regard it as
investing them with power to appoint, as well as reject,
and this is a fertile source of dissension and disappoint-
ment. It seems also very unjust to depose the Strath-
bogie ministers, and leave Dr. Bryce and his friends
untouched. "If you have a good principle," says
Dr. Chalmers, " carry it out as far as it will go."
Now, Dr. Bryce is clearly as guilty in principle as
those whose conduct he defends and applauds. Yet.
the Commission pass by the higher offenders—if of-
fenders they are—and pounce upon a few secluded
clergymen, enshrined in the affections of their people.
and whose only fault was that they practised in their
own conduct what they inculcated from their pu pits—
obedience to the law of the land, Until a settlement
has been made of the jarring and contradictory claims of
the Church and State, it would certainly have been
more decorous, more just, and more Christianlike in
the Assembly, to have bowed in silence, and awaited
calmly the deliberation of Parliament. Why appeal to
the Court of Session or the House of Lords, if it was
intended to disregard their decision ? It is always
dangerous to raise metaphysical distinctions as to the
question of obedience .to power. Sociatt-f
would be at an end if there was no confidence in
the ultimate authority of the law. Even if instances
of abuse did occur in the exercise of patronage, few
as these have beer of late years, it would have been more
becoming in the clergyman to consider the advantages
as well as the disadvantages, incident to an endowed
Church. The people may have no voice in the choice
of their pastor, but on the other hand they have not
the expense of maintaining him. The State provides
for the religious instruction of the people under certain
Conditions, and those conditions, so far from being bur-
densome or painful, have conduced to raise a body of
respectable and pious clergymen, long considered an
honour to their country.
PRESBYTERY OF STRATILBOGIE.— Our accounts
from the seven parishes of this Presbytery, whose
ministers were suspended by the Commission of the
Assembly, with respect to the proceedings which
took place on Sunday, state that the parishioners con-
tinue attached to their own proper clergymen,—while
those deputed to perform the very obnoxious duty of
supplanting them, have, in general, met with rathar
a cool reception. The Rev. Mr. Topp, Elgin, who
could find no place in the village of Mortlach, preached
in a grain loft at the distillery at Dufftown, to a
congregation of about 30 or 40 ; while the parish
church was filled as usual, to hear Mr. Cruickshank
the parish minister,—and the collection for the poor
vri's larger than usual. At Cairny, the Rev. Mr.
Cowie preached to a large congregation of his affec-
tionate hearers, who have expressed themselves de-
termined to adhere to him, notwithstanding the singular
and extraordinary means used to draw them away. The
Rev. Mr. Anderson, appointed in his place, preached
in a house at Corse, to a congregation of about
fifty. At Huntly, the Rev. Mr. Walker preached to a
congregation of above nine hundred ; the collection for
tkp,poor being about 2s. 6d. less than the average.
H4Fe.Mr. Candlish from Edinburgh had a large con-
gregation, amounting, it is supposed, to 700 or 800,
a part of the court of the Gordon Arms Inn having
been fitted up for the occasion. At Keith, Mr. Cun-
ningham, from Edinburgh, preached on the part of
the Commission, and was well attended ; but his hearers
were chiefly of the Secession and other parties ; the
parish church was well attended. At Rhynie, Glass,
and Botriphnie, there was nothing particular to remark.
—Aberdeen Journal. (Tory Paper.)
The Aberdeen Tradesmen's Association in connec-
tion with the Church of Scotland, on-Monday adopted
resolutions approving of the conduct of the Church, and
pledging themselves to stand by their Clergy, and to do
what in them lies to obtain trom the Legislature a proper
settlement of the differences which at present exist
betwixt the Church and the Civil Courts.
MoItTLACH, DEC. 30, 1839.—Printed notices were
extensively circulated among our parishioners, on Satur-
day, intimating that public serviee, in accordance with
the sentence of the Commission of the General As
sembly of the Church of Scotland, would be per-
formed by the Rev. Alexander Topp, of Elgin, in the
large grain premises at the South end of the vil-
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4' vacant" parishes of Strathbogie. The attendance,
however,at the grain premises, viz, the distillery, was far
frOm being what the Reverend Gentleman who " per-
fortned"(as their handbill hath it) and his party expected.
His congregation consisted, from a census taken on
the spot by one of the audience, of twenty-one male
adults (some of whom were Roman Catholics, some
strangers), six female ditto, and about a score of
children, who diverted themselves, during the time
of worship, by irreverently playing " hide and seek"
among the empty vats, occasionally diversifying their
enjoyment by a bout at snow-ball, sub .Jove. Our
excellent and talented young clergyman, Mr. Cruik-
shank, preached in his own pulpit, to a very nu-
merous congregation ; indeed, we have seldom, at
this season, seen the Church so well filled ; and the dis-
course, which was most impressive, was listened to
with the utmost reverence and attention. Happy are
we to have it thus demonstrated, that the parishioners
of Mortlach evince that respect for their own clergy-
men and the laws of the land, which is so becoming to
them, both as Christians and as Scotchmen.—Aberdeen
Constitutional. (Tory Paper.)
ANTI-VETO MEETING AT ABERDEEN.--At three
o'clock on the afternoon of Saturday, the Court-
house was crowded in every part by an assem-
blage of the most respectable and influential gentlemen
we ever saw convened on any public occasion in Aber-
deen. The meeting took place in consequence of a re-
quisition addressed to the Lord Provost, requesting him
to call it for the purpose of deprecating the continuance
of the unseemly collision between the Church Courts
and the law of the land, and of considering what steps it
may be proper to take, in order to put an end to it.
Thomas Blaikie, E,q., Lord Provost and Chief Magis-
trate of the city of Aberdeen, occupied the chair. The
following are the resolutions passed at the meeting :-
1. That this meeting do express their firm adherence
to the principle of a National Established Church, their
grateful sense of the benefits which have flowed from the
Church established by law in Scotland, and their earnest
desire that it may be preserved and extended.
2. That, regarding it as the sacred duty of an Es-
tablished Church to promote peace and good will among
men, this meeting deeply lament the heats and conten-
tions which have, in different parts of the country, re-
sulted from the resolution of a majority of the General
Assembly to maintain and enforce a recent act of the
Church, commonly called the " Veto Act," which has
been judicially pronounced by the highest Civil Tribunal
of the kingdom to be illegal.
3. That this meeting, while fully recognizing the
right of parishioners to state and substantiate, before
the competent Church Courts, every reasonable and
well-founded objection to a Pres.artee, disapprove of the
Veto Act, which introduces a principle foreign to the
constitution of the Church, and the maintenance of
which is, in the deliberate opinion of the meeting,
fraught with consequences hurtful to the prosperity ana
extension of the Church—to the just influence and inde-
pendence of her Clergy, and to the best and highest in-
terests of tile Christian people of Scotland.
4. That, deeply impressed with these sentiments, and
anxious, as far as in them lies, to avert the evil conse-
quences which must result from the present anomalous
position of the Church, the meeting consider it their
duty to make this public profession of their opinions, in
order that die deliberate convictions of so large a body
of she attached friends of the Church may have their
proper influence in other quarters ; and, with this view,
they resolve tha a copy of these Resolutions be respect-
fully laid before the General Assembly of the Church
at its first meeting ; that the same be immediately com-
municated to the Lord Advocate, and to the Members
cf the Legislature connected with this and the neigh-
bouring districts ; and, if it shall afterwards be consi-
dered expedient, that petitions, founded on these resolu-
tions, be presented to both Houses of Parliament.—/bid.
, D.
NON-INTRUSION MEETING IN TEE EAST CMURCII.
—Last night a meeting, on the subject of Non-intru-
sion, was held in the East Church, at half-past six
o'clock. The church was crowded in every quarter.
On, the platform, and around it, were the Rev.
Messrs. Cunningham and Candlish, from Edinburgh,
the Very Rev. Principal Dewar, Professor Brown,
the Rev. Messrs. Davidson, Tweedie, Spence, Bryce,
. Forbes,A Allan,ir Arthur D,
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Primrose,
Fordyce of Cuish, Messrs. Ross, Mitchell, and Duncan,
Advocates ; Collector APLaren, Dr. Henderson,
Messrs. Watson, W. Henderson, James Henderson,
W. Clark, P. Gray, Councillor Philip, Messrs, W.
Morrice, T. Meston. Neil Smith, Jun., w. Rettie, A.
Thom, &c. &c.—lbid.