The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-29 00:00:00

A GEN TLEMANLY SWINDLER.

About two months ago, a person of genteel exte-
rior, nearly six feet high, and about fifty years of
age, arrived at an hotel in this city from Monmouth-
shire, in a fly. On his arrival he alighted and walked
into the hotel, and requested the landlord to pay the
hire of the fly, and the usual fees to the driver ; this
was, unsuspectingly, complied with, and the gentle-
man took -up his platters with mine host, staying
there nearly a fortnight. In the meantime
he conversed with the landlord about taking
a house in the neighbourhood, suitable to
his apparent condition in life; at length he
resolved upon engaging lodgings in the city,
on the plea of economy, until the difficulty
of obtaining a house pleasing to the taste of
a lady-like woman who was with him, and whom he
represented as his wife, about 40 years of age, with
Scotch accent, together with a little boy, between seven
and eight years, could be accomplished. Subsequently
to taking these lodgings he took a house at Portson,
and commenced gardening operations, preparatory, as
he represented, to going there to reside. During his
stay in Hereford he rode out every day, and con-
ducted himself in all respects as a man of fortune.
His real character, however, having arrived, several of
the tradesman whom he had " patronised," pressed
him for the money, and an early day was fixed for
payment. The day previous to that fixed, he
hired a gig and ordered it to be sent a little way out
of town at an appointed hoar, under pre-
tence of going a short distance for a ride.
In order to get away his luggage, a carpet bag (pre-
' viously obtained on trust of a tradesman in the
city), the lodging-house keeper's attention was
diverted to something at the back of the house,
whilst the bag was given to a person waiting outside
to convey it to the gig. Off they started to
Bromyard, and on their arrival he got a man to
take the gig back to Hereford, telling him the
person of whom he had hired it would pay him
for his trouble. The unsuspecting man paid the
gates on his return, and when he arrived at
Hereford, found the owner of the gig, not hav-
ing been paid himself, of course would not pay the
poor man, and he had to walk back minus his dis-
bursements for the tolls. From Brornyard he went
to Worcester, and from Worcester to Birmingham or
London. He victimised the Hereford people t' the
extent of about 1001., having paid for one month's
lodging only.—Abridged from the Hereford Times.

THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION, FOR 1844.
We understand that a leading article, on the present
year's Exhibition of the Royal Academy, by one of the
most distinguished critics of the day, will appear in the
Juno Number of ColGurn's New. Monthly Magazine,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HO USE.

William Clough, master of the brig Bolden, of Shields,
was summoned to answer the complaint of John Whit-
ing, for having unlawfully detained him a month longer
than necessary for the discharge of the cargo of that
brig in the port of London. The question which came
on a few days ago, before Sir Peter Laurin, as to un-
reasonable delay, excited a great deal of interest,
particularly as the Lord Mayor had expressed much in-
dignation at the unpardonable treatment of the poor
families of the crews of the colliers, resulting from the
prodigiously long detention of the vessels in the port of
London. _ _ _

Alderman Humphery was at the time sitting with the
Lord Mayor, in consequence of some serious cases of
smuggling for adjudication, on which the presence of
two magistrates was necessary.
The complainant stated that he had signed articles of
agreement to work the vessel from Hartlepool to Lon-
don and back, at 41. the voyage ; but he had no notion
when he signed that he would be detained beyond the
three market days allowed by the Act of Parliament ;
but twenty market days had elapsed since the arrival of
the brig, and no money had been distributed amongst
the crew, and therefore their wives and children were in
a state of des'itution, and, in some instances, they must
be obliged to appeal to the cold humanity of the unions.
The LORD MAYOR—On what day did the vessel arrive
in the port of London ? Complainant—Upon the 13th
of April.
The LORD MAYOR—Why, Captain Clough, has not
the cargo been sold ?
The defendant said it had been sold on Friday. It
was not, he believed, in his power to oblige the factor,
to whom it was consigned, to sell. The inconvenience
experienced by the delay of vessels pressed heavily upon
the captain, as well as upon the men, but blame did not
attach to the former any more than to the latter.
The complainant (backed by several other men in
similar circumstances) said it happened that the captains
took good care of themselves, for they had a claim of so
much per ton upon the owners for any delay which took
place beyond the three first market days, while the men
were compelled to wait until the factors chose to sell the
coals, without receiving the smallest remuneration.
The LORD MAYOR—As I read the Act of Parliament,
the men must not be detained beyond a reasonable time.
Now seven weeks I consider to be must unreasonable.
If the poor men who are complaining of this oppressivo
course supposed that such detention were contemplated,
they would not have engaged to work the vessel. They
were morally, and in my opinion legally, entitled to
extra pay for this delay, which interferes so lamentably
with their ability to support their families. The captains,
by holding over the cargoes, enhance the price of coal to
the public, and according to the arguments used by the
defendant they may delay in the port of London for six
months, and aggravate beyond endurance the suffering
of the crew with impunity. The conduct of the de
fendant in this case, and the agreement drawn up by
him, are not in accordance with the spirit of the Act of
Parliament.

Alderman HUMPHERY—The public are sufferers by
such conduct to the amount of seven or eight shillings
per ton more than they ought to be charged, a matter
which it would be strange to overlook when such a noise
is made about the duty of fourpence a ton upon the
article. My advice to the defendant is that he pay his
crew for a voyage and a-half at any rate.
The complainant said he would be satisfied with
that arrangement. Since the vessel had come into port
another vessel had made two voyages.
Here one of the crew said that a vessel from Hartlepool
had been ordered not to be cleared of its cargo until the
coals should be sold at twenty-five shillings per ton, and
that vessel had been in the port of London upwards of
six weeks, and might, under such circumstances, be de-
layed a good deal longer.
The LORD MAYOR then asked the defendant whether
he was prepared to agree to the proposition to pay the
man for a voyage and a half. If not, the law should
certainly be put in force against him. The men were
entitled by Act of Parliament to all reasonable informa-
tion, as to the duration of the ship's delay. The object
appeared to be to exclude the public and the crews of
those -vessels from the advantages of the voyages ; and
the offence was the greater, as the Thames was crowded
beyond all example with shipping.
Alderman HUMPHERY—By holding back these cargoes,
the additional pbnalty inflicted upon the public is to the
extent of 40,0001. a-year.
The LORD MAYOR—I shall require an answer from
the defendant on Wednesday, as to his intentions with
respect to remuneration to these poor men, whose fami-
lies must now be undergoing severe privations.
The complainant and the crews of the several vessels
most gratefully acknowledged the benevolent inter-
ference of the Lord Mayor, who evidently considered
that the owner, the factor, and the captain, were all
actively concerned in himlering the sale of coats, for the
purpose of enhancing their price, and thus abridging the
comforts of those who were daily undergoing some pri-
vation or other.

Johan Eivart, the mate of the ship Alexander, from
Rostock, was charged with having been on board that
vessel, with the knowledge that she had stowed away
amongst her cargo a large quantity of tobacco, made up
into parcels, each of which weighed one pound. Two of
the crew had been committed, a few days before, upon a
similar charge. The mate was not brought up with the
convicted defendants, because of the inconvenience likely
to arise from capturing an officer so prominently engaged
in the vessel.
Captain Schroeder, the commander of the vessel, stated
that he knew nothing whatever of the tobacco.
In the course of the investigation it was stated by Mr.

Davis, one of the Revenue officers, that two-thirds Of the
tobacco used in the metropolis were smuggled, and that
the tobacco on board the Alexander was found amongst a
quantity of rags, is which there happened to be extreme
heat, and which would, if the detection had not been
made, in all probability have ignited and consumed
the ship.
The LORD MAYOR suggested the propriety of, in all
cases, making the captain responsible. If instead of the
infliction of a penalty, the captain was sent to prison for
a few months, smuggling would not flourish as was now
the case.

Captain Schroeder said the mate had gone three
voyages with his vessel, and he had reason to be well
satisfied with him and never suspected him, and could
not at that moment suppose him capable of winking at
such a shabby exhibition.
It was stated that some of the steam vessels had been
fined forty times for conveying smuggled goods, and that
20,000 pounds weight of tobacco had been lately cleared
out of the Custom-house in Dutch cheeses.

The LORD MAYOR and Alderman HUMPHERY then
declared the defendant to be guilty, mad fined him 100/.
Mr. Cutler, ono of the officers of the Watermen's
Company, applied to the Lord Mayor for a summons
board
John a
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The LORD MAYOR said he was glad to find that the
Company was about to adopt a proper course.
Mr. Cutler said his object was to have the father made
answerable for having allowed his son to work his skiff
on the 19th instant, on account of which three children
were drowned, without having taken out a license from
the Waterman's Company. He also applied for a sum-
mons for George Scott, who was his apprentice, calling
upon him to answer for having taken eight passengers
on board his skiff, the skiff being licensed to carry no
more than six passengers.
The LORD MAYOR said that, by a little vigilance, the
serious evil of crowding boats would be effectually re-
medied.
Mr. Cutler observed that on Sunday last the Thames
was so crowded with vessels that the navigation was in
a great measure blocked up, and the steamers, with great
difficulty made any progress at all.
His LORDSHIP issued the summonses in both cases,
and appointed that the defendants should be directed to
attend on Friday next.
Captain Rowland, the Harbour Master, waited upon
the Lord Mayor, as Conservator of the River Thames,
and reported to his Lordship, that in the month of April,
as he was employed in raising a wreck about a mile and
a. helf below Tilbury, he observed, on the 25th of
that month, a ship with a signal of distress flying,
towed down by a steamer; and believing that something
was amiss, he manned his boat, and proceeded to the
vessel, which proved to be the John Woodall ; that he
ascertained that the master was absent, and that the ship
was on fire, and, after, due examination, directed that she
should be scuttled as the only means of extinguishing
the fire. That after the vessel had been sunk in shal-
low water, near the bank, he succeeded in raising her
by means of two steam-tugs ; and that if such course
had not been followed the vessel would have been de-
stroyed. Captain Rowland stated to his Lordship that
the navigation was thus cleared of what, if at once blown
up would, in all probability, have beeis, a very dangerous
impediment.
The LORD MAYOR expressed his gratification at the
skill and success of Captain Rowland's experiment, and
said he infinitely preferred the plan of raising wrecks to
that of blowing them, as the latter mode was not only
calculated to obstruct the navigation, but to do much
mischief to the nets of the fishermen, who supported their
families by the use of their nets.
CLERKENIVELL.
Putrid Carroll was charged with the following savage
assault upon Thomas Prince, a coach-maker, residing in
Turnmill-street

The prosecutor appeared in Court with his head
bound up ; he seemed to be faint from loss of blood,
and declared he was suffering great pain. It appeared
frem the evidence that, on the previous night, the m
the wound. pro-
secutor and his father, being perfectly sober, were
passing through Clarke's-buildings, Gray's Inn-road,
when they saw the7prisoner beating a woman, who was
screaming violently. The prosecutor, actuated by
motives of humanity, interfered, and begged of- the
prisoner to desist; but the prisoner immediately knocked
him down. He then ran into his house, which was hard
armedby,
and
with rushed
iron b
out,ars.
Before
i t co m company
prosecutor
with
recovered man,
from the former blow, the prisoner, raising the bar,
inflicted a deep and extensive wound on his head. The
bl ow
ca
himdb n
Connor,
having
been
senseless, and he bled
disarmed of ;1
prof u s 1
Y;
tro
bar,
seized a broom-stick, with which he struck the prostrate
and insensible man on the arms and sides, until he was
bruised all over, and his left arm pi:merle:4. Police-
constable 144 G came up some time after, and, with
much difficulty, secured the prisoner. The prosecutor
was removed to St, Bartholomew's Hospital, where the
wound, which is an inch and a half long, was dressed. ,
Mr. BROUGHTON remanded the prisoner until the re-
sult of the injuries the prosecutor received should be as-
certained,
as in the event of erysipelas occurring, the
wound in the head might prove fatal.
Thomas Bresnahan was charged with stealing a large
quantity of lead, the property of the Commissioners of
Woods and Forests.

In trder to complete the now line of communication
between Oxford-street and Holborn, the Commissioners
of Woods and Forests have purchased several houses in

George's-street, Bloomsbury. Qn the roof of one of f
these houses the prisoner was seen ripping off the lead
between 9 and 10 on the previous night.' The police
hastened to the place—one of them, 140 E, got upon the
roof, whilst the others were posted in the street below.
As soon as the prisoner saw the constable on the roof,
he immediately " gave chase;" the constable followed; at
length the prisoner dipped into the roof, the con-
stable popped in after him ; the prisoner ran along
the space between the roof and the ceiling,
followed closely by his pursuer. At length the consta-
ble was alarmed by a crash, and on advancing a little
perceived that the ceiling having given way, Bresnahan
had partly fallen through, and having been caught be-
tween the joists in falling, remained, like Mahomet's
coffin, suspended in space. The painful position of the
prisoner was much aggravated by the endeavours of his
friends in the room below to pull him down, whilst the
constable strove to keep him where he was. At length
the police came up stairs, and the prisoner was secured.
About a hundred-weight of lead was found piled on the
roof, which had been recently cut from the gutter.
The prisoner was remanded.
William Hogg was charged with the following mis-
chievous conduct.

The prisoner was standing by the window of Mr.
Foxwell, a linen draper, residing at 26, Judd-street, at
three o'clock on the previous day. The shopman de-
sired him to leave, but he struck him on the face, and
then thrust his hand through a large pane of plate glass
value 21. 55., and damaged artificial flowers and ribbons
on the inside to the value of 3/. more.

In default of paying the amount of damage done, the
prisoner was committed to the House of Correction for
two months.

MARYLEBONE.

A girl named Reynolds, alias Ellen Fitzpatrick, was
placed before Mr. Rawlinson on the following charge:—
Francis Cole Himbert, of the Hyde Park Hotel, said
that the prisoner had entered his service about six weeks
ago, representing that she was Ellen Fitzpatrick. She
referred him to Mrs. Dymond, of 22, Frith-street, Soho-
square, for a character. He went there, and that lady
told him that she had had a girl named Ellen Fitzpa-
trick, and could ♦ouch for her honesty and sobriety. Ho
upon these representations, and believing the prisoner
to be the Ellen Fitzpatrick to whom Mrs. Dymond re-
ferred, took her into his service. He had reason to be-
lieve that the prisoner, from the time she had entered
his house, had committed robberies upon the different
ladies upon whom she waited. Unfortunately, however,
he was not in a condition to prove either of those, but he
had written to some of the aggrieved parties, and they
had given instructions to their solicitors. What those
instructions were he was not prepared to say. He wished
therefore, merely to go into the question of the false
character, and he would, therefore, call Dr. Dymond to
prove that the prisoner had never been in his service.
Dr. Dymond, 22, Frith-street, said that the prisoner
was known to the real Ellen Fitzpatrick, but that her
name was Reynolds, and she had never been a domestic
in his house.

The prisoner made a rambling defence, after which the
worthy Magistrate said that she had not even the
excuse of a girl who, getting into work by means of a
false character, was determined to make a good one by
honesty, diligence, and sobriety. She, on the contrary,
had from the house that she had been admitted to, Mr.
Ilimbert's, pillaged all who came near her, and he, there-
fore, felt it his duty to inflict the highest penalty the
Act would allow, which was to pay 201., with 10s. costs,
or go for three months' to the House of Correction.
Mr. Himbert said that there were wages due to her
to the amount of 14 11s. 6d., and her box of clothes yet
remained in his house.

The prisoner directed that her sister, who was in Court,
should receive them.
WORSHIP-STREET.

Monday 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, residing in Monkwell-street, Fore-
street, Cripplegato.
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 Aldersgate-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 persons implicated.
Henry Turpin, 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.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
EDINBURGH, SATURDAY, MAY 25.

THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES IN ENGLAND.

Mr. CUMMING, of London, said that since last year
a most important change had taken place in the de-
signation of the Presbyterian Synod in England.
They had agreed to exchange that portion of their
title "in connexion with the Church of Scotland,"
and immediately agreed to receive a deputation from
a body who were known by the title of the "Free
Church." This had taken place immediately after the
late secession, and the result was that the Synod,
which was recognised as in communion with the
Church of Scotland, had ceased to exist in any way
whatever. It had been said, that the declaration in
favour of the Free Church had been come to unani-
mously, but the true cause of unanimity was because
many of the ministers of the Church of Scotland in Eng-
land were so dissatisfied with the statements made in the
Synod, that they studiously, and by concert, absented
themselves from its meeting. It was not, therefore,
right to suppose that all the ministers who had been
in connexion with the Church of Scotland had alien-
ated from that connexion, or lost their affection for it.
On the contrary, some of the best and ablest minis-
ters in England not only maintained the connexion
unimpaired, but had become more attached to the
Church than they had been before.—(Hear, hear.)
Ile rejoiced that that attachment had become
stronger, and that he had it in his power to say, that
many who had separated in consequence of the ex-
citement, were now rapidly returning within its pale.
There was one church within the Presbytery of Lon-
don which could not contain the number that had
returned, and who were sick to the heart of the at-
tempts made against it.—(Hear, hear.) All that he
wished to ask of the Assembly was, that the
tie which knit the ministers in England to the Esta-
blishment should be as broad and palpable to the eyes
of the public as it could with consistency be made.
The reasons for this were extremely cogent, for state-
ments were circulated in England to the effect that
the churches there were disowned—that the Church
of Scotland had nothing to do with them. All that
was necessary, then, was simply that they should be
recognised—that the Assembly saw in them a useful
outpost of the National Church.—(Hear, hear). He
could make statements to the house which would
prove that some ministers in England had rendered no
unimportant services to the interests of the Church.
It was reported throughout London, that all religion
had evaporated from the Established Church of Scot-
land—that scarcely an evangelical minister was to be
found within its pale--and that tbosexho remained
were absolutely Socinian in their principles. When ap-
plication was made to the Presbytery of L ondon for in for-
-mation on the state of the Church, they gave a true
statement of the facts of the case. The Presbytery
in London had divided itself into two parties—one
half of whom, whose trustees were less specific as to
their connection with the Church of Scotland, re-
mained attached to it, while the other parties, whose
trust-deeds stated distinctly that they should be in
connection with the Established Church, had
alien-
ated itself from it. He believed that, as, soon as
those had light to see their duty, there would be
seven or eight, instead of only three churches in con-
nection with the Church. In Liverpool there were
two churches-,rone retained its connection with the
Establishment, and he believed the other would very
soon be the same.--(Hear, hear.) Several ministers in
England were anxious that something should be done
to rally the scattered forces throughout that country,
and he had received letters showing how desirous
they were that the Assembly should adopt some
measure which would mark the line of demarcation
of such as were ministers of the Church of Scotland.
Many in England were anxious to combine the status
of being connected with the Church 'of Scotland,
while they courted all the popularity of the secession
—they having never formally renounced their con-
nection with the Establishment. He would suggest
that in these circumstances the Assembly woe!,,,' be
pleased to request the scattered minist.ers of the
Church in England to form th.mselves into presby-
teries, and that those TE',7esbyteries should form them-
is.elves, into it synod—composed exclusively of the
licentiates of the Church, and allow the synod to
send a deputation to the Assembly ; or perhaps it
would be still more advantageous that a small committee
of the Assembly were appointed to confer with the
ministers in England as to the way in which their
relation to the Church of Scotland should be recog-
nised.—(Hear, hear.) The connexion with England
was of great importance to the Church, for many
persons came to the metropolis to spend a few years
—perhaps but a few weeks ; and if there was no
Church connected with the Establishment, they
would go either to the Episcopalian Church, and
thus be in danger of forsaking the Church of their
fathers, or they would join those who were hostile to
it, and then return home to exert themselves to its ;
prejudice. But if the Church kept up its connexion
in London, there would be every prospect of;
those who -visited that city being sent home
better Christians and better men. 'JChe connexion

with English churches was also valuable and use
ful in regard to the schemes of the Church. The Epish
copalian Churches entertained much sympathy
wt
the Church of Scotland, there being a general con-
viction that its position was the right and true one;
and that it ought to have their sympathy and co-uPe".
ration.—(Hear.) He had conversed with several ot
the most celebrated ministers of the Episcopalian
Church on the subject—a minister who had sent ten
guineas to the five schemes which he (Mr. C.) be-
ge
lieved he would annually contribute.—(Hear.)
repeated his earnest request that the Assembly shou ?
give some distinct expression, indicating the tie whien
subsisted between it and the Churches in England.
word
Dr. BROWN, of:Greenock,. said, that in every
which had been so well expressed by his Rev. Friel
he most cordially concurred. He would simplY ad
that there was a very crying reason why a committee
should be appointed a 3 requested by Mr. Cumming'
I and that was that from representations made to hire
refrom Liverpool and London, it was absolutely Dee
sary that some deliverance should be given hi,t;
Assembly, in order that those places of worship wi'Le but
formerly were in connection with the Church, ,
which now had separated from it, should be reclaimed
by judicial procedure—that, in short a plea iorequiti
might be entered.
Dr. Coot( said it was certainly of great impertall
to the Church to be on a most intimate footing He
ti
the Presbyterians in England attached to it.
knew there were many zealously attached, and will
by the communications they had sent, showed !1:1
anxious desire to know in what relation they reallf
stood to the Establishment of getting its suPrrt":
that they might manage their churches, and earl 1$
the different offices in a manner consistent with 1
views. The church at Liverpool had given a strilliti
evidenoe of its attachment to the Establishment,
expressing its great anxiety for guidance in this resPe.c.
After a few observations from Dr. Muir and Yrl/1
cipal Macfarlan,
Mr. PRINGLE, M.P., expressed his cordial satisfse:
tion at the readiness with which the Assembly ore
to accede to the request of Mr. Cumming, andeed.
Committee was appointed ; and after some Prue AA.
ing3 of no interest in the evening sederunt, the 4"
sembly adjourned till Monday.

FREE CHURCH—SATURDAY.
Mr. BRIDGES brought up the subject of the i
provement of the church psalmody, gad enforced it, ,
necessity of taking up the matter with more bell:cell
energy than it had been in time past. lie r-4.,,ti0r
the great attention paid to this part of Christian "00.
ship in the early part of the Church's history, in.„ch it
trast with the comparative indifference with Yol" fie
was generally regarded in modern congregations. es,
hoped the subject would be taken up by the Eauthst
tional Committee of the Church, for it was there
it or
should be seriously considered that the rnu3icsilr'
lifications of their schoolmasters might be more net
rally enforced. He proposed a sub-committeelo! tio
the Educational Committee to take the subject SI

consideration.o O4
Mr. MACFARLANE, of Renfrew, said, that L. bop
had music of a simpler kind as a sort of leo".40n„. to
for their congregations, and could interest &as" is
take an united interest in their improve:o%l%o
psalmody, he had no doubt that much god
result.—lt was agreed to appoint a committee'
OVERTURE ON UNIVERSITY TESTS. to
Mr. Sheriff SPEIRS said, it was useless for bim
;;;IWIt
go minutely into the history of these tests, ""
subject had been so amply discussed elsewhere',ooo
was well known that until lately they hAd,,,,J;
virtually abolished in all the Universities of Sc''rths
and that their revival at the present time was n°t,Stheit
purpose of embarrassing those persons who would sat
have been particularly obnoxious to the Senottiloko•
to deny the honour to those who, for conscience 01
had become members of the Free Church of Seogtieei
—(Applause.) All the professors in the Univ 13, of
who had become adherents to the Free Cm"; tests
Scotland, had at one time subscribed these very ogbt
which were now so much spoken of; and theY, °O, to
to be considered, in all fairness, as yet ad:ierifj)°
them in spirit and in substance—(Apr)latlelt oat
great clamour had been raised about the 501701
of doors; and they knew the result d the aPract fer
to the House of Commons. The atter% to
their abolition, in the form of an applicanchs
Parliament, had failed ; but it had failed in
,sorge
way as to leave no doubt that the country s't ie a
would soon set this matter to rights, and tba tesiO
short time they would cease to suffer from thole all
techwhh bore so heavy upon those professors "gott•
n appen to be members of a Church P>°'''t
ment.—(Applause.) The Assembly, at ';:ne Intit
time, was unable to do anything in t„.l-ie matter:o
he trusted that by the next Asser.-2:01,- they w°,,i
subject. ght
better prepared to act upon the. b The,' "AO
remit the overture to a c(mamittee, with instruotelt
upon the subject gr:.nerally and directions t° of lb'
specially over the interests of the mernbe.sinrsities:
Free Church, Who were professors in the U.nri—gtbir
Dr. CANDLISH said he entertained no alaful: tbei.
ever for the result of the present agitation. Si,nbarc'
disruption from the Establishment, the Free ‘-'l. type'
had been the means of extending the cause:oos:
religion generally, and stirring up a spirit
tian brotherhood in many evangelical denornino.4l
and might it not reasonably expect, that by they 'tse
ing forward the question of university tests,
..tiost
accession would be made to the cause of e(lnttst
both moral and religious'.? Even should t:ne 41j*
swell out into popular excitement --- shoo good'
Maule's excellent proposal not be carried soet--Aaat °ll
great good, he had no doubt, would be atteu.
the result. cota'
The subject was, accordingly, remitted to $
mittee.
TOP.f)
DEPUTATION TO THE UNITED ASSOCIATE 5 Of-
o
Dr. CANDLISH said that, in the absence
.014'.
'Welsh, he had merely to report verbally, as nalove•
of that deputation, that, notwithstanding ti'eaiielf4
ante to be made for the difference between tintweet 0
and the body which they visited, upon the
Church Establishments, they with
had been rece;v the
and cordially, and were deeply impressed 7,0
friendship shown them. There could be coot-
render of our principles in thus
+he tVi°
ing that friendly intercourse between frog
.:
bodies, The Free Church had got tee;
them ; and they, in their own peculiar circa—goo 0.
might derive much benefit from their conne'readt.;:
it. He trusted that they would always be, christs4
welcome every denomination of evangeliet the WI,
—that they might draw tighter and tight
e.
of Christian unity—so that our branch of
byterian Church might be found to be 8131113
one soul and one spirit. fiea t°
Mr. HENDERSON, of Glasgow, also tostiwith,
brotherly reception the deputation had Inetif;Dast to
The Assembly then adjourned until ha"
o'clock on Monday.
LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RIILIVA— y jnsinf. a
gratified to find that this company are in t„- ~von
second class carriages—an improvement loThippro.
The third class carriages are also undergoig
went, being now covered over, although Vt.:tol—tic
but so long as the journey occupies eight heurs,,f the ,be
Birmingham and London, there is little f+ter
creased accommodation inducin any .t
.; -
poorest from resorting to these slow conveyance;ji
are indeed sufficiently uncomfortable for the nfliesis
especially in wet and wintry weather.
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ham Journal of ye el

CHANGES IN THE SERVICE.—The Iricilivrncese, ;14,
has been presented to the Chancellor of the u""dens
„/
through him to the Bishop, by the chitrehylar-ntre".4-
the principal part of the lay members, for the lopretop;
Lion of certain changes into the service ; ettell lie h•
ing in his surplice, reading the prayer foil 006 'deb
militant, eausing public collections on ssi,„ll rAi 1-60;
days from the congregation, dismissing the Aelo%*
days, without a benediction, and for certain
alleged to be very offensive in reference to
d regohr,L6,,Pliv'
and more especially in the burial of the •
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Hall, of a son •
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wifeO of John -Wood, Esq., of a son. Vil
dv of
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Sawyer, Esq., a daughter. WO
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On the 27th inst, at Shepton liallet, Sorael'; GrAr A
osfehEodolw(ajtdhaltlorliraocyed Roberts,s Esq., Master of the
tooj,
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Mrs, Thomas Johnston ,of a son. __..-- ..-------**'''
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Mercer, Esq., of Ashford, Kent, to Anne ar:rd 11
daughter of thelate G. E. Jemmett, Esa ofdh l° . ltliti‘ if
Haire,OntlEiesq2.,Bth inst., at St. George's ittooncishei.ilid of
late WilliarnAFrUlanll°lf.
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off Santa Lucia, Lieutenant Eustace Moffat, of
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At Bathford, Somerset, Richard Cowper, ---_!;''Afth 0 i
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ing eon of the late Rev. J. Digby, of .New-P ri4i,l
a 00,2'1 AO
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relict of the late Anthony Ormsby, Esq, 14' 11 lai sri
North Mayo Regiment o?Militin.. Frances ~ 0.
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the youngest daughter of Charles Hayman, fejoha l''
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Bell, Esq., Woburn-place.
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