The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-23 00:00:00

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland com-
menced its proceedings on Thursday last. The Marquis of
Bute, her Majesty's new representative, arrived with his suite
at the Royal Palace of Holyrood on Monday ; and on Wed-
nesdayafternoon, according to usual custom, was waited upon
in the Levee room by the Lord Provost, Bailies Hicharthoe,
Thomson, Johnston, and Wilkie, Dean of Guild Ramsay,
Treasurer Sir William Drysdale, and Convener Scott. A se-
lect company, about forty in number, afterwards dined with
his Giace, amongst whom were the civic party, Lord Greenock,
Lords Mackenzie and Murray, Sir George Ramsay, Sir P. Al.
Threipland, Sir James Gibson Craig, Sir James Campbell,
Sir George Macpherson Grant, Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Sir
Adam Hay, Sir F. W. Drummond, Sir C. D. Fergusson,
Rev. Dr. Gordon, Mr. Sheriff Spiers, the Dean of Faculty,
Colonel Hutchinson, R.A., Colonel Emmet, Colonel Hill, 53d
Foot, Captain Nunn, North British Staff, &c. &e.
On Thursday the Palace lard at Holyrood was thronge,'
with fashionables and equipages far beyond any similar OCCA-
sion. Long before eleven o clock, the hour fired by the Lord
High Commissioner for holding his first levee, the Throne.
r.,om was filling with visitors, and by noon no fewer than six
hundred and eighteen gentlemen.lay and clerical, waited on his
Grace—a number which greatly exceeds the attendance at any
Commissioner's levee within these :15 years.
The Assembly having been convened and constituted with
prayer, the clerk read over the names of the members, when,
on the motion of Dr. Gordon, Dr. Welsh was alpointed
Moderator of the Assembly.
Her_ Majesty's Letter to the Assembly was then read. It

strongly recommended concord and barniony in their proceed.
ings ; and expressed deep regret at the distress at present pre-
vailing among the working casses in Scotland, and recom-
mended them to inculcate upon their flocks the duty of contri-
buting liberally to the necessities of their poorer brethren.
THE STRATHBOGIE MEMBERS.
There was then read the Report of the Committee on Irre-
gular Commissions. Among other cases, the Committee re-
presented that, from the Presbytery of Strathbogie, there were
two separate returns—the one containing the names of the Rev.
Mr. Dewar of Bellie, Rev. Mr. Leith of Rothiemay, and Major
Stewart (from the Minority) ; and the other, the Rev. Mr.
Thomson of Keith, the Rev. Mr. Walker of Huntly, and Mr.
Edmond (from the majority of the Presbytery.)
Mr. DUNLOP said that with regard to all the commissions
noticed in the Report, except one, he begged to move that they
be referred to a Committee to be afterwards appointed for the
disposal of disputed commissions. There was one commission,
however, with respect to which he took leave to say that the
office-bearers of the House would better have discharged their
duty with reference to the dignity of the Assembly had they
taken no notice of it.—( Hear.) He thought that, where
members had been deposed by a solemn judgment of the su-
preme tribunal of the Church of which they were office-bearers,
the Assembly ought not to have been troubled with commis-
sions in favour of persons from whom they had taken away the
only character in which they could show their face in that
House,—(Hear, hear.) He begged therefore to move that the
names of the Rev. James Dewar, the Rev. H. Leith, and
Major Stewart, be put upon the roll, as the representatives of
the Presbytery of Strathbogie.
Mr. CAUMENT, of Rosskeen, said he was inclined to be even
more severe upon the office-bearers than Mr. Dunlop had been.
For his part he thought they might as well have reported a
commission from any seven scavengers or tinkers. —(Laughter. )
In fact, he would have been less offended, and would have
considered the dignity of the House less insulted, by a commis-
sion from seven scavengers than from seven men who had been
deposed by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
Dr. Coos—l must acknowledge my regret that this question
was not kept in abeyance until it should have been seen whether
there was a possibility of our uniting together and removing
those causes of dissension which are so painful to every friend
of the Church. But since the question has come before us, I
beg to say that the very essence of our proceeding is, that we
do not hold that these men were deposed at al,—that we never
held them to be deposed—and supposing the consequences to be
that we are deposed ourselves, from this we never will depart.
—( Hear, hear.) This is the ground we take. I may be
wrong in this view ; but having this view I must enter my
dissent, and endeavour to carry others along with me, against a
motion which does imply that we are to resist the law of the
land, and that we can trample it under foot—provided we can
say that it has reference to a spiritual privilege. Now I don't
think so. If I thought 30, I would agree with my reverend
friends on the other side ; but I conceive that it is a matter
connected with a civil right in which I am bound to obey the
law of the land; and having pledged myself to this, let the
consequences be what they may, I am determined to adhere
to it.—( Hear, hear.)
Dr. CII A LM ERS—TIII9 is the first time in my life that I ever
heard it asserted that the dissent of a minority superseded the
sentence of a court passed by an overwhelming majority.—
( Hear, hear.) That such a proposition should ever be
thought of is an instructive fact. It discovers to what
a fearful extent of anarchy and disorder the enemy
within—whether by the instigation and encouragement of the
enemy without, 1 cannot say—are resolves to plunge the
Church of Scotland; to strip her of the last vestige of that
authority which belongs to every distinct body governed by
distinct office-bearers. Never, I would say, has the character
of the outrage inflicted upon the Church come out in such bold
relief as at the present. moment. It is making a farce of our
present General Assembly. It presents a strange contrast
between the impotence of our doings and the pageantry of our
forms—between the absolute nothingness of the Assembly and
the mighty notes of preparation,-the pealing of the clarionets
with which we were conducted into the House on the present
occasion. I must say, there is not a heart that beats with
more gratification, or feels more elevation than my own at the
countenance given to our venerable Church at the present by
the high and honourable of the land; but ours will lee the fault
if, untrue to ourselves, if untrue to our privileges, we
shall allow our Church to become as sounding brass and tinkling
cymbal. And to use the language of an old proverb, if a man
deposed in the most regular manner, by a sentence of the So,
preme Court of the Church, shall be suffered to sit in the Ge-
neral Assembly, we shall become an astonishment and ark his-
sing to all passers by.—( Hear, hear.)
After a short-speeels from-Dr. BRYCE agathiit the motion,
The vote was taken, when there appearea--
For Mr. Dunlop's motion 215
For Dr. Cook's motion .„
85
Majority for Mr. Dunlop's motion
Mr. EDMOND (elder from the majority of Strathbogie) then
presented himself at the table and laid down a document, which
we understood to be a protest.
Mr. CUNNINGHAM starting up—Moderator, n ho is this ?
Mr. EDMOND said, he was the Commissioner from the ma-
jority of the Presbytery of Strathbogie.
Mr. BISSET of Bourtie—l demand in return, who it is that
asks the question?
Mr. CUNNING nAm--I am a Member of the House, and I
presume pretty well known.
Mr. BISSET—The other gentleman, in the estimation of
all on this side of the House has a title to be a Member of
Assembly equally valid with your own, and he is at least equally
respec'able.

Mr. CustsixcitAx—l trust that the House feels that it has
been grossly insulted by the protest offered by this individual.
As to the individuals deposed by the last General Assembly,
that Court was quite competent to have inflicted a still more
severe sentence if it had deemed that necessary.—(Laughter
from the right.) But I think it is now proper that some notice
should be taken of the conduct of this Mr. Edmond. I there-
fore think it would be fit and proper in this house to find that
he is no longer an elder of this Church—(Cries of " Hear,
hear, from the left, with partial applause from the galleries,
answered by loud manifestations of surprise from other quarters. )
Dr. Coox—What is the dignity of this House? The dignity
of this House is to act with solemnity and justice as the Supreme
Ecclesiastical Court. I rise merely to say that I wish to enter
my protest against the vote that has just been come to ; and I
suppose there will be no objection to that.
Mr. H. BRUCE was a little surprised that those gentlemen
who now discovered groundslor deposing Mr. Edmond, should
not proceed a step farther and depose the whole minority of the
Assembly, who entirely concurred in the views entertained by
Mr. Edmond, and in the mode by which he had given effect to
the same.--( Hear, hear. )
Principal DEWA R said, that fully agreeing as he did with
Mr. Dunlop as to the impropriety of presenting this commis-
sion, and tendering the subsequent protest, still he thought, on
the whole, the best course would be to throw it over the table
without any farther notice.

Mr. ROBERTSON of Ellen said, if Mr. Edmond was guilty of
an act of contumacy in presenting his protest, he was guilty of
a similar act of contumacy in presenting his commission. As
they had not found fault with the first deed, it was too late, he
thought, for them to turn round and censure hint for the second.
Mr. DUNLOP then said, that to save farther discussion, he
would agree to withdraw his motion.
The Assembly then adjourned till Friday, when it met, at
twelve o'clock, and as is usual, devoted a gi cat part of the se-
daunt to devotional exercises.

On Monday the Assembly are to take up the overtures anent
Patronage.
Dr. liaxcE said that he saw from the list of business for to-
morrow, that it was intended to receive a deputation from Ire-
land. He begged to give notice that Lefore the order of the
day for the reception of the deputation was read, he should
submit a resolution in regard to certain proceedings of the Ge-
neral Assembly of Ireland, which were no doubt well known
to the House through the public journals, and take thc-sense of
the House in some shape or other on that subject.--(Laughter
from the left side of the house. )
Dr. APKILr,Ait gave notice that it was intended on the
earliest day convenient to propose a resolution in regard to the
encroachmeAts of the Civil power. If Tuesday waa approved
of by the House, it would be agreeable to the parties who bad
charge of the resolution.
Dr. Coop, in connection with this intimation, gave notice
that on the same day he intended to move a set of counter re-
solutions, the ohket of which was to restore the harmony and
peace of the Church.

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THE RIOT AT STOCKPORT.
At a Court of Inquiry (assembled daily since the 11th inst.,
Sundays excepted) of which Colonel Whiuyates, Royal Horse
Artillery, is President, and Lieutenant-Colonel Goidie, 66th
Reg., and Lieutenant-Colonel Cockburn, 60th Rifles, are
members, the circumstances of the late riot at Stockport, no-
ticed in the Naval and Military Gazette of 2d and 23d April,
are undergoing a strict investigation, which it is thought will
terminate in favour of the soldiers, as it appears that the men
on many occasions were wantonly insulted, not only by the lowest
of the inhabitants, but also by the police, who should have pre-
vented it,—indeed, the latter, by many petty annoyances, ex-
cited the men to riot, interfering with them in town when their
officiousness was uncalled for.

Arising out of the above occurrences, another case is also
under investigation, namely the arrest of Captain Philipps,
some time a prisoner (an officer very much beloved) for some
intemperate language to his senior in command. There is
every likelihood of Captain Philipps being acquitted of the
charge preferred against him.
Another case arising out of the Stockport affair, and also for
investigation is,—the report of a private soldier of the Gist
against an officer, in which he charges him with suggesting and
countenancing the riot previous to its taking place, by speaking
publicly to the men in the guard-room and other places at
Stockport, telling them that they should not allow civilians to
beat and ill-treat any of their comrades with impunity, but keep
together and give them a good thrashing. The men rather
100 closely followed his advice; the result of which was—riot,
the removal of the detachment, the arrest of Captain Philipps,
and the present Court of Inquiry.—Naval and Military
Gazette.

On the 15th instant a party assembled at Cussaei
near Toulouse, to celebrate the wedding of a young empire
of the commune, but were kept waiting for the broth, r-in-law
of the bridegroom, who was an orphan, and had been brought
up by the former. At length the expected guest arrived, but,
instead of entering the room, ke stopped at the door, and
levelled and fired a gun he had brought in his hand at the
bridegroom. who was so severely wounded in the head by one
~fthellugs, with which it was charged, that, although he was
not killed on. the spot, no hopes of saving his life were enter-
tained. The bride and one of the guests were also woun,:ed,
but their injuries are only slight. The assassin made his
escape during the confusion he had created. He had been ad-
verse to the marriage, not from having any objection to the
Young woman or her' family, but because it would render ne-
cessary a partition of an estate held in common by the bride•
groom and his sister, the wife of the assassin.
Yesterday morning William Dalby, aged 65, re-
siding at No. 5, Green Harbour-coUrt, Doctors' CozalP°l'.;, •
while washing and shaving, retired to the end of the 'room, in
which his daughter was at the time, vitt.
severed his head from his bod/,. t a razor nearly

MONEY MARKET and: CITY NEWS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF Tun DAY.
TIMES.—The reduction of the rate of interest on
Exchequer bills from 24-d. to 2d., which is now officially
announced, has be( n generally commended as a proof of
the acuteness and attention to business of the present
Administration, who have lost no time in remedying the
blunder eommitted by the last.. It will be remembered
that when the advance from Id. to 21d. was made by,
the Whigs. it was the general opinion that Id. was need-
lessly thrown away, and that a rise to 2d. would have
been quite sufficient with proper management to keep the
bills in circulation. By again taking off the id. the pre-
sent Ministers have brought Exchequer bills to their
proper value, and done away with the anomaly of keep-
leg up the unfunded at a, higher rate than the funded
debt, which should always bear higher interest, as
the capital is liab:e to fluctuation. The time also
at which the operation is effected is no -less Com-'
mended than the principle of the measure, as Exchequer
bills are at such a high premium, that there is not
the slightest chance of the announcement of reduc-
tion being followed by a demand for payment. Some
indeed have expressed an apprehension lest the reduc-
tion of the interest ot; English unfunded securities
should give a new impulse to investment in Foreign
stocks ; but so decidedly unpopular have such stocks be-
come, and so many severe lessons of experience have
been learned by those who dealt in them, that the ap-
prehension does nat seem to be well founded, and the
common opinion is, that the only tendency of the re-
duction will be to drive people to invest. in the English
funded securities. As a practical illustration of the dis-
inclination to have anything to do with Foreign bonds,
it may be mentioned, that while Consols since February
have advanced about 3 per cent., Dutch stock has ad-
vanced only 1, although it is by far the most secure
stock of those that are commonly dealt in. It was re-
marked yesterday that the operation had been pretty
generally anticipated ; and this accounts for the eoznptee
ratively small decline that has taken place in the val-ue
of Exchequer-bills. Indeed the June bills have for
sometime commanded a lower price than the Mareh bills,
in consequence of such anticipation.
SUN.—The reductiOn on the rate of interest on
Exchequer Bills still finds favour in the City. A dis-
tinction has, however, been made to-day in the rate of
premium between those which fall due in June, and
those for which no immediate necessity exists to provide
fur. The difference is but trifling, the Bills still running
being at the former rate of 37, 39, and those in.
which the alteration is about to be made 33, 35. When
it is considered that a large portion of the latter dee
scription will not be renewed, but actually paid off to
money, and that the whole are blended in this quotarlon„
the premium being totally sunlcon the latter, the Peewee
able state of the Money Market at present will be
perCeived.

- The improvement in the Funds, consequent upon this
announcement, has been Well maintained, although busi-
ness has been upon the most limited scale, and Consols
left off, nominally, at 921.921 for Money, and 921 for use
Account. Bank Stock, 167 168, and India Stock, 249 2501,
The prices of the Foreign Securities were, Belgiasi,
102 103 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 521
the Five per Cents. 101 1011, and Brazilian. G 7 C`,f;
No bargain having been made in Mexican to-il•,,y, a quo-
tation cannot be given.
It is understood that a meeting of tho 'Chaim Bond-
holders is to be held on Monday, to rev.ave a proposition
from Senor llesaleF, who, it is stater',,
on behalf of the Gov. rnment. T is now in London
Lae creditors of this re-
public have patiently waited Tor nearly fourteen years
for some payment on ace
it is considered that t acct of their claims; and when
te home creditor has been paid in
fall, such patience must be looked upon as most exem-
plary. The City in settling their claims, which has
hitherto taken place, has been submitted to, in the firm
belief in the integrity of the Government, and in the re-
sources of the country, which hitherto was held by
those likely to be well informed, not to have been mis-
placed. 71'he difference between the demand of the con-
ditions, and the offer made by the Republic, is too trifling
to stand in the way of any nation seriously inclined to
actly fairly ; and if Senor Rusales be fully credited, one
of the debtors to this country may shortly be cleared off,
and in an honourable manlier. It is satisfactory to be
able to state this fact to parties who have for a long
period held the bonds, having paid full value for themm,
un.l which have never formed a ground for speculation..
The Share Market was firm, and rather more was
doing, London and Birmingham, 180 182 ; BiluninOpLai
and Gloucester, 52 54 ; Great Western, 92 9:3
Half Mares, 64 641; South Western, 631- 64; Gosport,
63.1- 641 • North Midland, 66 68 ; the Nett ;flares, 321
F the
332 ; outl —astern. 2941- 29 ; the Scrip, 7i; Eastern
Counties, 9 ; Blackwell, 11 111 t1".2 New Shares 9 ; and Brighton, 361 36'1 per slim. ,
Spanish are the only bone,, w}:.ich find a place in the
oftic:al lists to-day.
Fide per Cent. Active Bonds,
with the Coupons from, 1837, being marked 232 ;
and the Stock bepriftg
f th
Three per Cent. interest, formed
from 1837 to 1840, four years, 224
per pom
cent,e Coupow

TRIBUTING BILLS AGAINST
THE ARMY IN BIRMINGHAM.
BIRMINGHAM, SATURDAY EVENING.—This morning, at
the police-office the Magistrates were engaged investigating a
charge against a man named Samuel Hines, which caused con-
siderable interest. The room was quite full, and amongst
those present were, Mr. Joseph Sturge, some of the officers of
the Staff, and many of the Society of Friends.
Sergeant Walter Crone'', of the Ist Royal Foot Guards, ap-
peared to prefer the complaint, and stated that he was on duty
in Smithfield the day before, beating up for recruits, when he
was interrupted by a great crowd, who collected around him
an:: his party. He saw the prisoner delivering a great quantity
of bills among the people, who were using violent language.
He heard the mob say, "To hell with the Queen," "To
hell with the Government," " To hell with the soldiers."
He applied to one of the head officers of police to know
what he should do, and was told that he must apprehend
the prisoner, or any man who obstructed him in the exercise
of his duty. He then proceeded through the fair,
and the prisoner came close to him, delivering his bills, and
he (witness) took one of them out of his hands, and found it
was an advice to the people not to enlist. It was headed
" Hints to the Army," and all through was against enlisting.
When he saw the nature of the hill, and fount his passage ob-
structed by the people, he took hold of the prisoner and brought
him into the ranks of his party, and then called a police-officer
and gave him into custody. He could not swear the prisoner
was with tho mob when he made use of the language against
the Government and the soldiers. The prisoner did obstruct
him by causing a crowd to assemble around him. He (the
Sergeant) was not a police-officer, but he considered that it
was his bounden duty, as a soldier, to protect the Government ;
and when he found the nature of the bills which were being
delivered out, he thought he ought to take the prisoner up.
Mr. MuncAti, the prisoner's attorney, cross-examined the
Sergeant, who' said he should not have interfered with the
prisoner had it not been for the bills which he was delivering.
He caused a great crowd to assemble about him, and the peisple
obstructed him in his passage.
Mr. Gem, the Magistrate's clerk, said there was quite suffi-
cient against the prisoner to warrant the Magistrate in remand-
ing him, until they could learn from the Crown what was to
be done with him. They must take the opinion of the Attor-
ney and Solicitor-Generals upon the subject.
Police-constable 173 then produced a large bundle of hand.
bills, which he took out of the prisoner's apron. One of them
was headed, " Rhymes for the army ; blood, battle, and plun-
der." The second was the ease of a poor woman, named
Crassman, a soldier's wife, who applied some time ago for re-
lief to the Magistrates of London, having been left in -4 state
of great distress by her husband, and who lately left this coun-
try.for India.

Mr. Gem said the prisoner could be admitted to bail to ap-
pear to answer any charge which might be preferred against
him, on the receipt of the Government instructions.
Mr. Morgan sa►d Mr. Sturge would be bail for the prisoser's
appearance. _ _

• Mr. Joseph Sturge then rose and entered into 204 sureties
fur the prisoner's appearance.
Hines also bound himself in the same sum, and left the office,

Irbtrb Vilition

SUN-OFFICE, Seven o'Cloch.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—It is impossible to read the debates in
the French Chamber of Deputies upon the question
of the Right of Search, and the opinions which those
discussions have elicited from the Parisian press, with-
out perceiving that the unmeaning clamour against
this country, which is rife amongst a great portion of
the people of France, may eventually prove too
strong for the good sense and moderation of its
Minister. It has been proved by Mons. Guizot
that France has hitherto had almost an
equal share with England in carrying to
its present stage the treaty that has now
become the subject of dispute ; and the speech of
the French Minister is adinitted even by the National
to have obtained "considerable success,' which could
only have been the consequence of the strength of
its facts, and the convincing nature of its arguments.
M. Guizot proved incontestibly that France and
England had for some time proceeded almost pari
pasgu towards the completion of the treaty, and that
the Ambassador of the former Power acted in per-
fect concert with the Minister of the latter.
It is now pretended that the French Government
'vas not bound by the acts of its representative
at the British Court ; but it has been clearly shown
that three successive Ministries were aware of what
was going on, and took no steps whatever towards re-
pudiating the act of their agent. Nothing could
have been easier than that M. Sebastiani should have
been at once instructed to refrain from proceeding
in the arrangements hewas entering into with the Bri-
tish Government ; but he wasallowed to go on—commu-
nicating every
.step he took to the Cabinet of France—
without receiving any indication of the latter's disap-
proval of the engagements into which he was entering.
The distance between London and Paris is not so
great, nor wag the affair so immediately pressing, as
to have called for such precipitancy as to furnish a
pretext to France to shield itself under the allega-
tion of a want of sufficient communication between
the French Ambassador and his Government. It will
be really impossible to deal in diplomatic matters with
countries whose accredited agents are liable to have
their acts disowned, whenever the passion or preju-
dice of the people may prevent the Government from
fulfilling the moral obligations to which it has ren-
dered itself liable.
STANDARD.—The publication of the Report
on the state of mines is of incalculable value, and we
should be the last to depreciate its value ; but allow-
ing all praise to the Report as far as it goes, we may
be permitted to regret that it does not go the whole
length of reporting upon all the mines of Great Bri-
tain. The ill effect of this deficiency is of more im-
portance than at first sight appears. The Report, as
far as it goes, presents, with little variety, a mass
of unmixed cruelty and suffering ; it is only inci-
dentally we find; as in the case of the Duke of
Buccleuch's collieries, from which women are
excluded, any traces of humanity—of care for the
physical or moral condition of the collieries. Now
this a sort of induction, leading to the dreary con-
clusion that mining and humanity are incompatible,
forcing to the shocking alternative of abandoning
what constitutes a chief source of the wealth of the
country, or forgetting our duty as men and Christians.
Although there can be no doubt which branch of this
alternative ought to be chosen, were it indeed
peremptory, it is to be feared that the right choice
would not be made by any promiscuous com-
munity that exist, or that ever did exist.
The duties of humanity and religion would be forgot-
ten, when the effect of remembering them must be so
great a sacrifice as that of the whole mineral wealth
of Great Britain. It is, therefore, a subject of regret
that the general tenour of the Mining Report is so
universally gloomy as to create an impression that
reform is almost desperate. Despair is, however,
a bad counsellor ; and he is, therefore, of all the
agents of the enemy of mankind, the most frequent
and active adviser. But good and vigorous-minded
men never listen to despair, and they will eagerly
seize upon any rational ground of hope upon
which to fight the battle of their Master and
their fellow-creatures. Looking at the facts dis-
closed, as to the physicial condition, the quality of
the labour, and the social circumstances of miners, it
is impossible to see any reason why they should be in
so much worse a state than their fellow-citizens over-
ground, if it be not that they are hidden from the ob-
servation of the world, and thus deprived of the pro-
tection of the grand inquisitor and sole guardian of the
weak—public opinion. The Mining Report has done
much to bring the mines within the jurisdiction of this
benign guardian ; but it has not, as we have reason to
believe it might do, furnished the remedy, as well as
exposing the injury to which humanity is subjected.

ELECTION COMMITTEE.
(THIS DAY.)
LYME REGIS.
The Committee met this day at the usual hour, and
proceeded with the scrutiny into the votes, which, as it
consists entirely of the details connected with the quali-
fication of each individal voter, is quite destitute of in-
terest. Some anxiety, however, is felt as to the result
from the numbers being so nearly balanced ; the sitting
Member, up; to the present time, is only in a majority

of one.
The vote of a man named Ayland, occupied the Com-
mittee the whole of the day ; the argument in reply to
the objection not having been heard at half-past three
o'clock they adjourned. The Committee on this petition
is the only one now sitting.