Glasgow Courier. — 1848-05-23 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

EVENING SEDERUNT.  The Synod met again hi the evening. and afar resuming consideration of the subject of the grant to the Evangelical Society of Geneva, approved of the report.  A leiter was read from the lies. Thomas Adams, late of Peebles, containing a declinature of kis connection with the United Presbyterian Church. and he was accordingly declared to be no longer a minister or member of that Church.  Dr. HARPER then moved resolutions to the following effect:— that university tests were not only sectarian, unjust, and impolitic, but were totally insufficient for ascertaining the religious principles of persons appointed to professorships; that the Spied regard the entire abrogation of these tests as desirable, and were of opinion that the force of public opinion acting on those who possessed the right of nomination would be the most available check against the admission of unqualified persons into the national ani versifies.  Mr. PATERSON (Kirkwall), seconded the resolutions, which were agreed to, and a committee was appointed to consider that and other public questions. The Monza...row then thanked the Synod for the manner In which they had supported him, in their deliberations, and the Synod adjourned till May next.  HIGH COFRT OF JUSTICIARY FRIDAY, MAT le.  William Perry pleaded guilty to three several acts of theft from various houses in Edinburgh, and WAS sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment. Alexander Edington, carter, pleaded guilty to a charge of °doable homicide, in so far as, in March last, the accused did recklessly drive his cart at a furious rate along Leith Walk, by which it upset, and a person named Andrew Bathgate was thrown therefrom on the ground, and was so seriously injured that be shortly afterwards expired. Several witnesses testified to the good character of the prisoner, and the Court, considering the whole circumstances, passed sentence of two months' imprisonment.. James Reid pleaded not guilty to a charge of theft and housebreaking, in so far as, on 14th April last, the prisoner broke into a slaughter-house near King's Stables, Edinburgh, and stole seven pounds of beef. The charge was found proven, and, having been previously convicted of theft, the prisoner was sentenced to seven years' transportation. Jane If silUn, Elizabeth Thomson, and Elizabeth Graham, pleaded guilty of being actors, art and part, and Thomas Brown of being principal, in a charge of robbery and reset of theft, committed In December last in premises In Leith Wynd, by which a traveller from Manchester was rifled of /..80. Each of the prisoners was imatenced to seven years' transportation. Jester Whiteness, James lbdd and Peter Merry, were charged with stealing a watch and £l4 from a person In a stair in Shaltspeare Square. Whitecross pleaded &By as libelled, and the other two prisoners guilty art and part. Whiteerosa and Sherry having been previously convicted, the former was ,senteneed to ten, and the latter to seven, years' transportation; Todd reoeived sentence of fifteen months' imprisonment. James Aitchison sod Andrew Kelly pieadod guilty 4t sobbing a boy, nine years of age, in Leith Street, of the sum of threepence, by grasping him by the throat and pressing their hands on his mouth. Kelly was sentenced to eighteen, and Aitchison to twelve, months' imprisonment.