The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-28 00:00:00

SINGULAR CASE OF ABDUCTION.

On Friday a young man, named Thomas Robins, dressed
as a farmer's labourer, was brought before Mr. Baillie, the
sitting magistrate, at New Brentford, in the custody of the
police, on a charge of having stolen a quantity of wearing
apparel, consisting of various silk dresses, shawls, body
linen, &c., with a number of books, the property of Mr. G.
Willavyse, an extensive farmer near Newbury, Berks, from
whose employ he had absconded on the 7th inst.
Mr. Willavyse stated that he had known the prisoner from
'his childhood, his father and mother, and other members of
his family, having been for years in his employ. During the
last five or six years the prisoner had also worked for him
occasionally, and at Michaelmas last he hired him as a yearly
farm servant, at nine shillings a week, and lodging, Sec. The
prisoner gave every satisfaction until the night of the 7th
inst., when he absconded with his (witness's) daughter, who
was only fifteen years old, taking with them the articles in
question. He did not discover the abduction until the next
morning, when he galloped to Reading in pursuit, thinking
they would probably have gone by the Great Western Rail-
way to the metropolis. At Reading he could learn no trace
of them, and he consequently returned home. The next
day, believing them to be in London, he went to town, and
applied to the Commissioners of Police on the subject, but,
after the lapse of a week, he again returned home. On the
previous day, however, he received a letter from Mr. Green-
way, the landlord of the Drum public-house, Old Brentford,
inquiring if any member of his family had improperly left
home, as a young man and a young woman, who had every
appearance of being respectably connected, had been lodging
for a week at his house. Witness instantly started for
Brentford, having first obtained a warrant for the prisoner's
apprehension. On arriving at Brentford, he ascertained that
they had taken lodging at the house of a shoemaker in the
town. Having procured the assistance of police-constable
Smith, T 92, he went to the house, where he found both his
daughter and the prisoner, the latter of whom he imme-
diately gave into custody on a charge of felony.
By Mr. BAILLIE—The value of the articles was consi-
derable, as his daughter had removed the whole of her ward-
robe, with all her books, including her Bible and Prayer-
book. Until he discovered their absence, he was not aware
of there being the slightest intimacy between his daughter
and the prisoner.
The prisoner, in answer to the charge, declared all that
had taken place between him and bliss Willavyse had been
with her own free consent.
Miss Jane Willavyse was then called in. She was a fine-
looking girl, about five feet four inches high, of considerable
embonpoint, and about fifteen years of age. She gave her evi-
dence with reluctance. It'was elicited from her that, having
consented to elope with the prisoner, she had at midnight, on
the night of Tuesday, quitted her father's house by means of
her bedchamber window, and descirded by a ladder, which
had been placed for her by the prisoner, taking with her, of
her own accord, the property the prisoner was accused of
stealing. They started on foot to Maidenhead, where they
arrived in the early part of the morning, and rested them-
' selves. They then found that neither of them was in pos-
session of a farthing of money, and they were compelled to
pledge some of her clothes to procure refreshment. Being
fearful of discovery at Maidenhead, they returned to Brent-
ford, walking all the way, upwards of twenty miles, and took
a lodging at the Drum, as has been stated. While at Brent-
ford, they supported themselves by pledging various articles,
but the prisoner had got a situation to go to on Monday, as
a farm servant, at nine shillings a week, at a farmer's in the
' neighbourhood of Brentford.

BAILLIE said, after the evidence of Miss Willavyse,
the charge of felony could not be sustained; and he sug-
gested to Mr. Willayyse the propriety, as his daughter was
so young, and matters had gone so far, of arranging the
affair.

Mr. Willavyse refused to adopt the snggession, and de-
clared his determination to prosecute the prisoner for the ab-
duction, his daughter being under sixteenyears of age,which
made his carrying her off a felony.
Mr. BAILLIE said, under those circumstances, he had no
alternative but to send the prisoner before a Berkshire ma-
gistrate to deal with the case.
The prisoner was accordingly conveyed, on Friday night,
by police-constable Smith, to Newbury, and on Saturday
morning he was taken before a magistrate of Berks, where
the charge of abduction was preferred against him. After
the examination of several witnesses, he was remanded for
the production of other evidence on Friday next, and was
afterwards conveyed to Reading gaol.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.S-
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Yesterday Ilfarga;e7kel7;, a ferocious-looking woman,
was brought up for final examination, charged with
stabbing John llynitnock, a carter, residing at No. 13,
White Horse-court, Turnmill-street, Clerkenwell, with a
knife, whereby his life was seriously endangered.
The occurrence took place on the 6th of May, since
which the prosecutor has been in St. Bartholomew's Hos-
pital. From the position of the wound it was feared
lock jaw would ensue. Yesterday, however, the prose-
cutor, although not yet quite recovered, and having his
head bound up, attende 1 in Court and gave his evidence.
All the circumstances of the case were mentioned in
our paper of the Bth inst. Mr. Cooper, the house-rar•
geon of the hospital, deposed to the nature of the wound.
The prisoner, who has throughout exhibited the most
callous indifference, was fully committed for trial,
William Barlow, an engineer, residing in Church-
street, Limehouse, William Brady, and William TVilson,
genteelly attired persons, were charged with creating a
disturbance In St. John's-square, at two o'clock on that
morning.
Constable 66 G deposed that he sawlliarlow and Ridley
pushing one another against the doors in St. John-
square, and making a noise calculated to disturb the
inhabitants. When he took them into custody, Barlow
off,red him a bribe of ss. if he would set him at liberty.
The prisoners were in liquor.
P. C. Marryatt, 31 G, corrAoratei this statement.
WhPn Barlow was arrested, he became abusive, and
said he paid 15/. a-year taxes to support the police.
Mr. GamExwoon ordered Barlow to find bail ; fined
Ridley 10s. ; and ordered Wilson to put a sum in the
poor-box, which he did, and expressed hia regret for the
misconduct.

James Connor was charged with assaulting police-
constable 35 G.

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The prisoner quarrelled with his sister, in Bleeding-
hart-yarJ, Holborn, on the previous evening, and gave
her a blow, which rendered her insensible, and caused
her to bleed profusely from the nose and mouth. The
constable took him into custody, whereupon the prisoner
knocked him down, and tore his uniform coat and
trowsers so as to render them useless.
Committed for twenty-one days.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Yesterday a man named Thomas Patterson, and Eliza-
beth Patterson, his wife, were placed at the bar before
Mr. Bingham, on the following charge of robbery and
attempted murder, upon a young man named George
Allen, a linen-glazer, residirg in Monkwell-street, Fore-
street, Cripplegate.
The prosecutor, whose face was a mass of cuts and
contusions, and in other parts of his person bore mani-
fest evidences of severe ill-treatment, stated that as he
was passing through Allersgate street, at eleven o'clock
on the night of Sunday, the 19th inst., he was accosted
by a young woman, with whom he ultimately went to
numerous houses, and lastly to a very wretched one,
where he was attacked, robbed, and then wounded. The
whole proceedings were of the lowest and fiercest cha-
racter. At last the prosecutor made a violent struggle,
and succeeded in breaking away and running into Ar-
thur-street, where he met a policeman, and while telling
him of the ferocious attack that had been made upon
him, the' two prisoners passed the end of the street, and
were immediately pointed out by the prosecutor as two
of the persona implicated.
Henry Tarpin, an officer, who searched the prisoners'
house, deposed to finding the outer case of the watch
and the prosecutor's money-bag there, and to the floor
of the room being in several places dyed with coagulated
blood.—Both prisoners were fully committed to New-
gate for trial.
Brown and Smith (officers) stated in the course of the
examination that the female prisoner had belonged to a
desperate gang, which had been routed out by the parish
authorities from Granby,-street, Waterloo-road, where
they had located themselves, and afterwards distributed
themselves in other parts of the metropolis. The male
prisoner' was stated to be very respectably connected,
but had been discarded by his relatives in. consequence
of his marriage with the other prisoner.

SUICIDE.—John Leaman, aged 60 years, an inmate
of the workhouse in this borough, whose habits and
conduct had obtained for him the bestowal of privileges
not usually granted to the paupers, was detected on Sa-
turday last, under circumstances which gave assurance
that he had been guilty of a most •atrocious violation
on the person of a child only nine years of age. This
girl it appeared had been allowed after school hours on
Saturday, to remain with her father in the man's yard
as an indulgenco to her parent. Having missed her, the
father in the pursuit of an inquiry, went to a room in
that part of the yard in which Leaman worked, but was
unable to enter it, as the door •f the room was
fastened on the inside. He asked Leaman if his
child was there, when the girl cried out " I am
here, father." The father then went away, and
presently the girl came after him, and in answer to
close interrogatories he elicited confirmation of his
most painful surmises. Subsequently he encoun-
tered the wicked object of the child's pollution, and
visited upon him the indignant scorn of a man dis-
honoured and wretched, and informed him that he would
cause his imprisonment. The charge was not given to
the authorities of the establishment until the next day,
when, preparatory to other proceedings, the master
stopped Leaman's leave at the gate. On his presenting
himself, as usual, on going to church, Leaman was in-
formed that his leave had been checked. He turned
away, and was not heard of for an hour-and-a-half
afterwards, when it was discovered that he had secured
the door of the room ita before, and finished his career
by self-destruction. He was suspended by the neck
by a rope, and apparently had been dead some time.
An inquest was held on the body on Monday, when a
verdict of " Feb de se" was returned. His remains,
according to law, were interred on Monday night, at
Stoke Church, between nine and twelve o'clock, without
the rites of Christian burial.—Devonport Independent.
CHURCH-RATIM—Lord Denman's decision and
sound reasoning upon it, in the church-rates' cases, set
the points at rest. That Dr. Jennor Fust should hay
given the decisions he did, astonished every reasonable
person ; and that his decisions were completely opposed
both to the spirit of the law and former decisions, was
as clear as that one and one make two. Church bigots
will be quiet now it is to be hoped.—Front a
Correspondent.
It has been ascertained that the pressure of the at
mosphere is, on an average, 15 pounds on ever square inch of
surface. The extent of surface on the body of a man of mean
stature, is computed at 2,160 square inches, which sum, mul-
tiplied by 15, gives 32,400 pounds as the total amount of
weight or pressure he ordinarily sustains—a weight so pro-
digious that, did it not admit of the most indubitable de-
monstration, we could not well credit it. Now, suppose the
mercury in a barometer to rise or fall an inch, this will make
a difference of exactly a quarter of a pound of pressure on
every square inch of surface, and hence will either add to or
remove 1,080 pounds from the average weight pressing on
the body.—Dr. 11. Weatherhead on headaches.
" DOG EAT DOG."—Nearly all the Nisi Prius
cases this term were cases in which attorneys were
either plaintiffs or defendants.--Dubin Paper.

CIVIL WAR IN SWITZERLAND. •
The New Gazette of Zurich, of the 22d May, contains
a circular letter of the Vorort, dated the 13th of the same
month, and addressed to all the cantons of the Confe-
deracy. Its object is to acquaint them with the steps_ it
has adopted in order to maintain tranquillity in the 'Va-
lais, by ordering the various corps of the federal troops
to march into that canton. To this document is an-
nexed a dispatch from M. Meyer, the Federal Commis-
sioner sent into the Valais. This report, which is dated
17th May, says in substance :
" The Grand Council assembled this morning, and will
meet again this evening. Order prevails in appearance,
but in reality the country is placed on a volcano, which
must explode either to day or to-morrow. Both parties
are preparing, and there is much talk about gunpowder
having been distributed in Lower Valais to Young
Switzerland,' and of orders issued to keep ready. The
same has been done in Upper Valais. The impending
arrival of volunteers of Old Switzerland is even men-
tioned. Thus a collision is to be apprehended."
M. Meyer writes at ten at night
" A catastrophe is preparing; the debate in the Grand
Council has been a most stormy one. Violent scenes
are stated to have taken place. The Opposition and
some members of the Conservative party have left the
hall. It had been beforehand resolved to propose the
occupation of St. Maurice, and to appoint a comman-
dant of the troops. The Opposition were aware of that
project. To-night, or to-morrow, Young Switzerland
will march. Under these circumstances I have notified
to the Executive Council that I should assume the title
of Federal Commissioner, if matters required it.
" Quarter to Eleven.—The Grand Council have just
ordered the occupation of the communes that have re-
belled, and the appointment of a commandant of the
Landwehr in the person of M. de Kalhermatten ; it has
issued extraordinary powers to the Executive Council.
and appointed a Committee of three members of the
Council. These resolutions haveebeen adopted by a ma-
jority of forty-two votes."
" The communications," says the Ami de la Consti-
tution, of Berne, of the 22d May, " are intercepted ; the
priests direct the movement. Great and serious dis-
orders are committed. Young Switzerland' is in want
of arms, and ammunition. Letters from the Canton de
Vaud state that the whole western part is stirring. The
arquebusiers of that part of the canton have proceeded
to the assistance of Lower Valais, without waiting the
Government orders. Provisions have been sent. The
people of Vives are coming to the assistance of the
liberals. Never have the affairs of Upper and Lower
Valais presented so much importance as at this moment.
What determination the Vorert will come to is not
known ; but Berne and Vaud have resisted and will not
let any troops pass."
The Paris Quotidienne, a Legitimist and High Church
paper, gives the following account of the cause of these
disturbances, and infers that the civil war will extend
to every canton :
" It is reported that the government of the Valais had
been victorious, and that the people of the Lower Valais,
beaten by the Conservatives, had been obliged to sub-
mit. However great may be the truth of this news, the
affairs of this Canton are undoubtedly in a deplorable
state, and order can be no longer maintained. Catholics
and Radicals are in arms against each other ; and al-
though the first are the more numerous, the others are
better organised, and have little or nothing to lose. To
this we may add, that the latter are sustained by the
Radical States of the Confederation, and that these
States, with Berne at their head, have already proved,
as in the affair of the convents of Argau, how little it
costs them to adopt illegal and violent measures in ob-
taining a triumph for their principles, or rather for their
wilfulness. What is passing in the Valais is, in a de•
gree, the faithful image of the state of all Switzerland.
In every part there is division and disorder, if not fla-
grant, at least in all hearts and in all the governments.
The most anarchical doctrines are set up in opposition
to Conservative opinions, and in face of the Conference
of the Catholic States we find a haughty league of most
of the Protestant Cantons. It is in vain that Bale Town
and Neufchatel endeavour to keep up some appearance
of order ; men's minds are too much excited, and the
present President of the Directory, M. Siegwart Mul-
ler, is as ready to carry his ideas to the extreme as ever
was M. Neuhaus, the late Radical chief of the Con-
federation."

SUPPOSED MURDER and SUICIDE.
Yesterday, considerable sensation prevailed amongst
the inhabitants of the neighbouring village of Bootle,
in consequence of a rumour that a child had been mur-
dered by its mother, and that the latter had then com-
mitted suicide. Upon inquiry, it turned out that the
report was not without foundation, and that there was
but too much reason to believe that both these horrible
crimes had been perpetrated. The facts appeared to be,
that about nine o'clock on Saturday night, a remarkably
fine male child, with long brown hair, and apparently
between seven and ton months old, was taken out
of the canal, near Coffee house-bridge, Bootle.
When first taken out, he showed symptoms of life, but
soon afterwards died. He was very respectably dressed,
having *had on a striped printed frock, flannel petti-
coat, linen shirt, dark check gingham pinafore, black
and white netted worsted handkerchief, blue and white
worsted socks, and a brown bonnet, lined with blue silk.
The canal was afterwards dragged, and the body of a
female, supposed to, be the mother of the child was
speedily found. She was rather delicately formed, and
was apparently between twenty-one and twenty-four
years of age. She was five feet one or two inches in
height; and the colour of her hair was brown. She, also,
was rather respectably attired, having oh a dark printed
cotton dress, lilac printed apron, plaid worsted handker-
chief, stuff shoes, not much worn, black worsted stock-
ings, and a black stuff merino bonnet. A golf ring was
found on the fourth finger of her left hand ; and she was
supposed to be from Liverpool.
There appears very little doubt that the female was
the mother of the child. She was, at all events, its
nurse ; for, in the earlier part of the evening, she was
seen suckling it on some steps near the canal bridge.
There were no marks of violence on the infant, but
there were a couple of large black spots on the right
leg of the female, and a contusion under one of her eyes.
The child was first discovered by a gardener named
Edmund Smeahurst, who happened to be passing along
the canal at the time, and who states that his atten-
tion was directed to the spot by having heard
something like a person moaning in the water. He
succeeded in getting the infant out, and then ran and in
formed the police, who, upon their arrival, found Mr.
Reid, surgeon, in the act of endeavouring to restore ani-
mation. The bodies were conveyed to the Rising Sun
public-house, where they remain at present, and where
they were visited by some hundreds of persons yester-
day. The female was recognised by several, who stated
that they had seen her frequently in and around Bootle.
A carter; amongst others, said ha observed her nursing
the child on Saturday, near one of the Bootle turnpike
gates.—Liverpoo Albion of Monday.

ANDOVBR,—Rumour states that our borough is
likely soon to become the arena of another political con-
test, by the anticipated resignation of Lord W. Paget.
Mr. H. B. Coles, of Middleton House, has for some time
past aspired to the honour of a seat in Parliament by
the suffrages of the electors of Andover. An agent of
the Conservatives has paid a private visit to the town,
making the fullest inquiries confidentially, doubtless
hoping " to catch the weasel asleep;" but we can assure
them the Liberals are stirring and quite prepared for
the struggle, come when it may. The present state
of the register is highly satisfactory, and leaves no
doubt of a triumphant majority.—Hampshireindependent.
DEATH BY CLIMBING.—On Saturday, an inquest
was held before C. Collins, Esq., on the body of John
Harry, of Rhossilly, Gower. It appeared that on the
Wednesday previous he called at Stouthall, the seat of
J. N. Lucas, Esq., for the purpose of gaining permission
to get down some young rooks from the trees adjoining
the park. Not being able to see that gentleman, he was
requested by the housekeeper to call on some other day,
when he would very probably gain permission. It is
supposed that the deceased must have proceeded imme-
diately to climb the trees, and that he laid hold of a
decayed branch at a considerable distance from the
ground, which gave way, for on Friday morning he was
discovered quite dead in the road, his head, on the back
part of which was a wound, having evidently come in
contact with a stone. Verdict, " Accidental death."—
Catniorian. .

DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE PROM PORTS-
MOUTH GAOL.--Within the last fortnight, a plan has
been organised by three desperate prisoners in the above
gaol, to liberate themselves. Tneir names are, Dennis
Kirby, a private of the 49th regiment, committed for trial
for a robbery with violence; William Allyn, for stealing
a piece of print; and John Maclin also for felony. It ap-
pears from information communicated to Mr. Hunt, the
governor, that the prisoners intended to have put their
plan into execution on a Sunday, and that last Sunday
was the day fixed upon for the purpose; but on Sunday
they were all secured. It is usual for the prisoners
all to pass into-chapel before the turnkey, who counts
them as they pass, and when the whole number
have gone in he turns the key upon them, and
awaits the conclusion of the service before he unlocks
the chapel door ; thus all the tenants of the prison are
locked in, including the governor, and every person con-
valescent. It was the intention of the three prisoners
above named to have lingered until the last in going
into chapel, and then to have turned the key upon the
whole community, overpowered Mr. Hill, the turnkey,
and possessed themselves of 'the keys, by which "leans
their liberation would have been easy. When the plot
was discovered, Marlin offered to turn Queen's evidence,
but Mr. Hunt being already, through a secret agericy,
possessed of the facts, dispensed with Mr. Maclin 's ser-
vices. Kirby, the soldier, was promptly sent off to
Winchester gaol, there to await his trial at the next
assizes. Allyn and Maclin were both ironed ; and their
irons will not be removed until their trials, nor then, un-
less ordered out of the country.—Hampshire Advertiser
TRAGICAL EVENT.—Shortly before the royal mail
steamer Trent, now in harbour, sailed from St. Jago ie
Cuba, a very fine-looking black slave went on board,
who on being reported by the purser to the captain, was
told that he could not be taken off the island without a
passport, and therefore must go on shore again. To this
he strongly demurred, and on being urged, he replied in
broken English, " Me go shore again ?" and drew a
knife from his pocket, with which he nearly severed his
head from his body. The unfortunate man had in his
posses ion 200 dollars, three boxes of cigars, and a copy
of " Gil Blas," which were taken ashore along with his
body by the Spanish authorities. It was understood,
adds our informant, that he had the misfortune .to belong
to an unkind master, and that, finding his hope of escape
thus baulked, he had committed the rash and fatal act
above described.—Jamaica Times, March 22.
The Conservative members of the House of Com-
mons propose to entertain the new Secretary of War,
Sir Thomas Freemantle, at dinner, after the recess, as a
mark of the high estimation in which his courtesy, frank-
ness, and obliging disposition are held 17 thew.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
EDINBURGH, FRIDAY, MAY, 24.
UNIVERSITY TESTS.

The overtures on the subject of the University Tests
were read, when

Principal MACPARLAN said—lf ever there was an oc-
casion when it was justifiable to allude to a subject so
unimportant as the personal feelings of an individual, I be-
lieve that this is one. Sure lam that I never rose to ad-
dress the General Assembly or any other body with such
a distressing consciousness of my own inability to do jus-
tice to the subject which I have now taken the liberty to
bring under your consideration. The extent and the im-
portance of the subject appals me. The apathy, to me
unaccountable, which prevails in some parts of the
Church and the country requires no common effort to
dispel; but I take encouragement from the well-known
kindness and indulgence of the Assembly, to which I
have been often and deeply indebted, . from the intelli-
gence of the members, and from the zeal with which I
know, when they are convinced of the importance of the
cause, they will embark in a measnre which involves
the great interests of a national and Christian education
in our beloved country. The overtures upon the subject
show that they have been called forth by a variety of
measures which have been recently adopted by dissent-
ing bodies, by the Universities, and by municipal cor-
porations, for an alteration of the law of the land
in respect to the connection between the Church and
the Universities. And in proceeding to lay before
you my views in connection with this topic, perhaps
the best method of doing so will be first to read
the resolutions which I mean to propose to the
Assembly. I may mention that it was my original
purpose to have moved that we present a petition to
the Legislature. Had the question remained in the
same state that it was two months ago, when a legisla-
tive measure was in dependence, I should have persisted
in my resolution ; but as it is well known that a motion
was made for leave to bring in a Bill upon the subject,
and that that motion was refused by the House of Com-
mons, I think that we should be deficient in consideration
for that respectable branch of the Legislature if we were
now to trouble them with unnecessarily any direct
application. But I think it proper that the Assembly
should adopt a series of resolutions expressive of their
view of the importance of this question, and should cause
these resolutions to be circulated, not only within their
jurisdiction, but that they should be communicated in
some shape or other to the Legislature. Theresolutions
I mean to propose are as follow:-
1. That tho General Assembly regard the moral
and religious education of youth in universities, public
institutions, and parochial schools, as a national object
of unspeakable importance, and productive of the highest
benefits to every country in which it has been success-
fully conducted and maintained.
2. That for this purpose the religious and educa-
tional establishments of Scotland have at all times been
closely connected, to their mutual advantage and secur-
ity, and their connection kept up by a number of Le-
gislative enactments, particularly the Act of Security,
1707, providing, among other safeguards of our national
Church, that professors in Scottish universities " shall
before, or at their admission, acknowledge and profess,
and shall subscribe to the Confession of Faith of the
Church of Scotland, as the confession of their faith, and
that they will practice and conform themselves to the
worship presently in use in this Church, and never en-
deavour, directly or indirectly, the prejudice or subver-
sion of the same."

3. That this Act is not an ordinary statute, but part
of a solemn national compact, insisted on as an indispen-
sable condition of even treating for an union with Eng-
land, engrossed in that treaty as " a fundamental and
essential condition thereof," in all time coming; of, vital
importance to the prosperity and existence of the Church
of Scotland, and not to be altered or abrogated without
endangering the constitution of our country in Church
and State.

4. That the Church of Scotland has hitherto reposed
unlimited confidence in the security and protection af-
forded by this law, confirmed as it has been by the sa-
cred oath taken by all British Sovereigns on their ac-
cession to the throne, and no less by the assurances so
often given and repeated to this Assembly by our pre-
sent beloved and most gracious Sovereign, of having
their rights and privileges, as established by the laws of
this kingdom, inviolably maintained and preserved.
5. That while the General Assembly rejoices is un-
disturbed tranquillity the fullest confidence in the fulfil-
ment of those assurances, they cannot but view with
some measure of anxiety the attempts which have been
recently made in various quarters to deprive the Church
of an essential element of its security, by dissevering
from it the most important establishments of public edu-
cation,—the petitions which have been presented to both
Houses of Parliament for the repeal of that part of the
Act of Security which relates to professors in universi-
ties, and the motion actually, though unsuccessful:y,
made for leave to introduce a Bill founded on those pe-
titions into the House of Commons.
6. That under these circumstances the General As-
sembly feel called on to declare, that they would consider
the repeal of the clause referred to in the Act of Secu-
rity, as a direct attack on their most valuable rights and
privileges, as a fearful obstacle to the training and edu-
cation of young men for the holy ministry in our land,
as inflicting a deadly injury on the Universities of Scot-
land, by shaking the confidence of the public in the
principles of their professors, and as a measure fraught
with peril to the ecclesiastical establishments and educa-
tional institutions, not of Scotland only, but of every
part of the British empire. Such a change they must
earnestly deprecate and oppose on every occasion by all
lawful and constitutional means.

7. That these resolutions be printed, and copies of
them transmitted to all the Members of both Houses of
Parliament.

After a speech from Mr. BREWSTER against the reso-
lutions, and speeches from several other Members in their
favour, Mr. BREWSTER said he had intended to move a
counter resolution, but as he felt that the whole of his
brethren would be against him, he would lot trouble
them.

The resolutions were then agreed to.
MINISTERIAL COMMUNION.

Dr. Coon, after a few observations, in which he urged
the necessity of• ministers taking care not to open their
pulpits to any one who did not entertain the principles
of the Establishment, otherwise the minds of the people
would be bewildered and unsettled, and some risk in-
curred of rooting religion altogether out of their minds
—proceeded to read the following report of the Com-
mittee appointed to consider this subject :
" The Committee are deeply impressed with the im-
portance and desirableness of promoting unity, and
maintaining friendly relations with all who love the
Lord Jesus in sincerity and truth. They feel that it is
of equal importance to maintain the purity of Christian
doctrine and discipline, and to guard the great principle
of an Established Church. To secure those important
objects, the Committee would respectfully recommend
that admission of those other communions to the bene-
fits of the Establishment shall not be left to the discre-
tion of individual ministers, nor granted to those of the
soundness of whose faith we cannot be fully aseured, but
that in every case it shall be required that permission be
asked and received from the Presbytery of the bounds, or
a standing committee of their number, who shall in any
case report to the Presbytery ; and that it shall be borne
in mind by every Presbytery, that such admission is
to be granted only to those who, by the recognition of,
and subscription to a creed or symbol of faith, give un-
doubted evidence that they maintain With us the vital
doctrines of the Christian faith, and the principles which,
as an Establishment, we are bound to maintain."
Mr. Balfour of Clackmannan, Dr. Muir, and Mr. Clau•k,
of Inverness, having expressed their approbation of the
report, it was unanimously agreed to adopt it in the
meantime, and to send it down to Presbyteries for their
c•nsideration.

The Assembly adjourned at six o'clock till half-past
seven in the evening.

EVENING SEDERUNT,

The Assembly met again at half past seven, and pro-
ceeded to take up

THE CASE OF BANFF.

The Acts of this case appear to 'be these;—On the
10th of August last, a presentation in favour of the Rev.
George Henderson, minister at Cullen, by the Earl of
Seafield, was given into the Presbytery of Fordyce, and
sustained by them, and the usual steps ordered to be
taken towards a moderation in the call. The Presby-
tery met for the moderation of the call on the 24th of
August—Lord Aberdeen's Act having received the
Royal assent seven days previous. The call having
been signed by twenty-six persons, heritors and mem-
bers of the congregation, the Presbytery, in terms of,
and in the spirit of, Lord Aberdeen's Act, intimated
that, if there were any objections to be offered, they
were then ready to receive them. A list of reasons and
objections, amounting to fourteen in number, were ac-
cordingly given in, signed by forty-four parishioners ;
and included objections to " the exuberance of hie ani-
mal spirits"—to his preaching being," incoherent, un-
connected, and ill-deduced"—to hie natural defect of
utterance"—to his want of " a musical ear"—and to
the sordid motives which they believed had influenced
the presentee in accepting the presentation. The Pres-
bytery, without giving any opinion of the relevancy of
the objections, allowed a probation of the same. After a
very tedious procedure, the Presbytery, on the 28th of
March, came to the opinion that many of the ob-
jections were very frivolous, and that those objections
only were relevant which related to the alleged fut.
of Mr. Henderson's preaching being " incoherent, n,n=
connected, and ill-deduced," and of his net tieing
distinctly heard because of a defect in his utterance ;
but that in regard to the former of 'these, the evidence
was extremely contradietnry. The Presbytery, how-
ever, resolved, because of the novel situation in which
the recent Act of' Parliament had plaeo.l the law, to
refer simpliciter the case to the Synod of Aberdeen.
The matter having come before the Synod in April last,
the Synod referred the case to the General Assembly.
Mr. Pyper, advocate, appeared for the presentee ;-
Mr.
Penney, advocate, for the objectors; the Rev. Dr. Mourns
and Mr. W. Grant for the Synod.
There was a preliminary point which occupied the
House for a considerable time, viz., an appeal by the
presentee against a judgment of the Synod, dismissing
a petition and complaint against the competency of the
Presbytery to treat this case under Lord Aberdeen's
Act, which was not in existence when the appellant's
presentation was granted and sustained. The Assembly
repelled the objection, and ordered the parties to pro-
ceed to state the merits of the case, whioh they accord-
ingly did.
Parties being removed, a discussion ensued, when Mr.
GIBBON, of Lonmay, moved—" That the Assembly sus-
tain the reference from the Synod of Aberdeen ; find
that there is full evidence that the people of Banff will
not wait upon the ministrations of Mr. Henderson—that
the people of Cullen are affectionately attached to him ;
that he is useful in his present charge ; and that there
is no prospect of greater good to the Church by his
translation to Banfl."—(Laughter.)
Dr. COOK then addressed the Assembly, and after
acme remarks said he wished—he did not make a motion
—that the utter should be seht back to the rroialtery,

with instructions to proceed in the constitutional deed
of ascertaining whether there is ground for the transla-
tion, and to report to the Commission, which meets in •
August, and let them pronounce a decision upon it.
Professor ROBERTSON, of Ellon, said he could come to
no other conclusion than that they should send the eh'
jections back to the Presbytery, remitting to the Pres-
bytery to cognosce and judicially decide upon the ob-
jections, and in the event of appeals or complaints, that
the whole case should be brought up to the Commission
in August, when it should be ready and ripe for decision.
In this motion the Assembly concurred ; after which
they adjourned at two o'clock in the morning.

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