The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-08 00:00:00

CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.

At a.meetingof the Glasgow Church Defence
and Anti-Patronage Electoral Association, held
on Monday, the 3d October, to consider what
steps they ought to adopt in reference to the
approaching municipal elections, the following
resolutions were moved, seconded, and unani-
mously agreed to—namely :
Resolved-Ist. That the present Government have
deceived the Church and people of Scotland, and have
coolly and faithlessly broken their promises; and as
they are using all their power and influence to cor-
rupt and undermine the Church, and are aiming at
its destruction as a free and independent institution,
they ought now to be regarded as the most deter-
mined and inveterate enemies of the Church of Scotland.
2d. That as the spiritual rights and privileges of
the Church of Scotland, secured unalterably by
solemn treaty, are infinitely dearer to us than all po-
litical considerations and attachments whatever, we
are bound to give the Government, and all their sup-
porters, our most determined opposition, and to en-
deavour by every lawful means to drive them from
the possession o ' that power which they are abusing
for the destruction of the best, and most important
.'uterests of the country.
.3d. That while we will not support any candi-
dates, whatever may be their political opinions, who
do not declare themselves decidedly friendly to the
great principles for which the Church is contending,
proof of their sincerity and attachment to
yet r.t the same time we will require in addition to
this a s a
the Church, a public avowal of their opposition to the
present Government, and their determination to oppose
it to the uttermost of their power.
4th. Viet an address be immediately issued to the
country,
of the Church of Scotland throughout the
upon them to oppose the present
Government at all Municipal and Parliamentary
elections, and by every competent means, till they be
removed from office.
JOHN WHYTE, Chairman.
Glasgow, Oct. 3, 1842.

REFUSAL TO PERMIT THE IM-
PORTATION OF CATTLE.
(From the Guernsey Star of Monday, Oct. 3.)
COURT OF CHIEF PLEAS, GUERNSEY, OCT. 3.
Th 3 Assembly of Chief Pleas was held this day, his
Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, who has a de-
liberating voice, but no vote at the meeting, was pre-
rent during the whole of the sitting. The Court hav-
ing, at a meeting of the Royal Court on the 24th of
SE ptember, heard counsel on the petition presented by
the town Douzaine, praying for the repeal of several
ordinances, some of them restraining, and one of them
prohibiting, the importation into this island (Guern-
sey) of cows and heifers from France, passed the fol-
lowin g ordinances :
"1. That no foreign—therefore no English—bull
shall b e imported without the permission of the Court,
under intin of a fine of 100 livres tournois, and con-
fication of the animal.
" 2. That all foreign female calves, heifers, and
cows, ii nported into the island, shall be marked with
the lett n. F on the left shoulder and right thigh, by
being branded with a hot iron.
" 3. That on the arrival of such cattle to the island
information thereof shall be given to the harbour-
master before they are allowed to quit the quay, un-
der a penalty of 30 livres tournois, and that they shall
there be branded under his direction, the importer
paying 10d. per head for the cost of the operation.
4. That such cattle shall be slaughtered within
six months of their importation, under a penalty of
100 livres tournois.
4‘ .5. That all calves born of foreign cows in the
island', shall be slaughtered within two months of
their th."
Our time will not permit us to notice at any length
the pa r eedings of the Court of Chief Pleas in this,
but we shall do so in our next, especially in regard to
the spit indid piece of legislation which they have per-
formed .in regard to foreign cows. IVe must satisfy
ourselvtis.. at present with assert-bog that the Act whicii
they hav e passed will satisfy no one, and must either
exist as a dead letter, or be speedily and uncondition-
ally rope: led. One thing, however, we cannot allow
to pass without a word of reprobation. The Act
directs tb, at foreign cows, landed in this island, shall
be brande i. Now, this is an operation which inflicts
great pain upon an animal, and which ought not to be
for one in tant tolerated. Some years ago the Court
forbade the practice of bleeding calves and oxen, be-
cause it wa s cruel, and yet, by their present ordinance,
they give ti eir sanction to a much more painful prac-
tice. Let the members of the Court consult their
own feelings, and then declare to which they would
most object—to suffer a moderate bleeding, or to be
branded with a red-hot iron.

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LuwEs.—DE.,..Eßmvam SUICIDE.—An inquest was
held on Wednesoay at the Snow Drop (a house so
called in consequence of its being the site of an ava-
lanche, attended with loss of several lives five years
ago), before Mr. G-ell, Coroner for East Sussex, on
the body of Samuel Ullman, bargemaster and collec-
tor of tolls in the Ouse Lower Navigation. From
the evidence adduced, it appeared that about eleven
o'clock on Monday roornictg the deceased was found
hanging in a stable occupied by Mr. Cooter, in the
Cliff Chalk Pit, and on the body being cut down, his
throat was discovered to have been severely cut, but
net sufficiently to destroy life. It would appear that,
finding the first attempt at self-destruction ineffectual,
he carefully fastened the stable-door by means of a
rope, and. then suspended himself over the door by
means of a handkerchief fastened to a nail. When cut
down deceased was quite dead. It further appeared
in evidence that the deceased had of late been very
melancholy, owing to his inability to balance his
accounts as collector to the Ouse Navigation Com-
pany. The Jury returned a verdict, that- " Deceased
destroyed himself while insane." Deceased,-who is
of a highly respectable family, has left a wife (who is
dangerously ill) and ten children to deplore his end.