Star.
London, England, 1824-04-28 00:00:00

SYNOD OP PERTH AND STIRLING.

STIRLING, APRIL 20.
This day the provincial Synod of Perth and Stirling
met, and alter the serman the Reverend C. Craig, of
St. Ninian's, was chosen Moderator.

A t ter some routine business it was unanimously agreed
that an overture be transmitted to the General Assem-
bly, in behalf of the members of the Church of Scot-
land resident in the West Indies, during the aii mtge.
ments to be made by his Majesty's Government, for an
extended system of religious instruction, &c. in those
countries. It was also unanimously agreed to that r.
memorial, having the same object in view, be presented
to Lord Bathnrst.

The case of the Rev. William M'Gregor Stirling, e
Port, then came tinder the consideration of the Coon:
This was an appeal from the sentence of the Pres:
bytery of Dunblane, deposing him from the office of
the holy ministry. The whose minutes, with the ow.
modals in the cause, were read. _ _ _

Parties having been heard, it was moved by 7,!:.
Thompson, of Perth, and seconded by Dr. Wright, ci
Stirling, that the sentence of the Presbytery be affirmed.
It was afterwards moved by Mr. Masson, of M.Werty,
and seconded by Mr. Caw, of Bothkerinar, that tLe case
be referred simpliciter to the General A..,sembly.
votes being taken, the sentence was affirmed I)) a ma-
jority of ene. Whereupon the neces,ai y ,teas Laving
been taken by the respective parties, the cause was re-
moved to the Supreme Court.
APRIL 21.—The Synod having again met, they took
up the cause of James Campbell, ironi the Presb)tevy
of Dunkeld, when the sentence of the Presbytery ap-
pealed from was read..
The parties were then called to the bar, when there
appeared James Campbell, for himself, and Robert
Hill, writer in Stirling, as his agent. No appearance
was made fur tile Presbytery of Dunkeld. The Synod,
after hearing the comparing party, agreed to reset se the.
sentence of the nest)) tery of Dui keld appealed from.
in consequence of its being founded' upon a sentence of
the lesser excommunication, on acharge of contumacy
by the Kirk Session of Weim, which in that %!age of
the proceeding the Synod judged to have been incom-
petent; remit the case to the Pr.esbytery,enjoininA them
to take into consideration the subject of the petition of
James Campbell, and to give a deliverance theicopot
according to the rules of the Church.

At a public meeting held at Plymouth last week, k
was agreed to petition Pat liameat for the " e,tablis4-
ment of a Court of Requests in that Borough, fur the
recovery of small debts not exceeding five pounds, upon
the general principles of such Acts already passed far
different places in this kingdom."
• LIMERICK, APRIL 21.—Sanday morning the body at
a farmer, named Oakley, was found on the I..ad,about
two miles from Nenagh, with several rear ks of vielerce.
He left Nenagh on the night before, in company with
two others, who are supposed to have perpetrated the
murder ; one of them has been apprehended and com-
mitted to jail, and the other has fled frem Justice.
A Brussels Paper contains an account of a murderer,
who was executed on the 11th at Groningen:—" The
criminal John Quint, although hardy 80 years of age,
was a monster in crime. Soon after he had enter(, the
at my he deserted, was apprehended ; deserted a second
time, and again escaped. On his second apprehension
he was condemned to three yeats' hard Isibour. lie
soon, however, escared, and took lodgings in the house
of a widow, at Noordhorn, which he quitted very
shortly, after having robbed the w idow of everything
which she possessed, and thrown her into a privy, where
she perished. On his arrival at Unwierda, a province
cf Groningen, he robbed the house in which helodged,
and escaped to Rica:yen, where he took up his reg.
deuce with a peasant. lie one day scut this peasant out
with a letter, and, in his absence, drew the wife to a
well, under pretence that he had by accident dropped
a saucepan into it, and watching his opportunity threw
her in ; he then returned to the house, and robbed it of
everything portable; this was on the ;;Oth dinuary,
1823. On the 11th of the following inonli, he intro-
duced himself into the house cf an inhabitant of So-
meren, who resided with his daughter, and having con-
trived to procure the temporary absence of the mao,
killed the daughter with a hatchet, robbeJ the house,
and fled. In the beginning of September, 18`28, he was
arrested at Hanover, and delivered over to the autho.
rities of Groningen. He heard his sentence pronounced
with the greatest song Jroid; but his conscience being
awakened as to the future, he turned ROlll4ll Catholic,
and marched to the scaffold, accompanied by a Priest,
and praying as if from a book, althoagli he knew no:
how to read. This monster died with the obduracy of
a consummate villain."

13IRTII.
April 21, at Stirling, the Lady of Archibald Dow, Esq. of the
Hon. East India Company's service, of a son.