Glasgow Courier. — 1846-01-20 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

NOTE.—The suspender, late minister of the parish of CambusANOTHER at eimea.---Mitchelstown, Jan. 14.—Yesterday, a most nethan, brings under review of this civil court, a sentence of the , barbarous murder was committed in the county of Limerick, about Presbytery of Hamilton in 1840, pronounced on a regular libel, and five miles from this town. and about two miles from the Glen- after a full proof, convicting him of certain heinous offences, inferring his deposition from the sacred office of the ministry. This acurrane pelice-station. The person murdered was a man of the decree is not, and cannot be competently brought under review of name of James Lynch, who rented about 300 acres of land from the late John Lowe, Esq., at 6s. per acre. A large portion of this this Court, on its merits, as we have no jurisdiction in proper land, Lynch had let at 20s. per acre, reserving to himself someecclesiastical causes; but it is complained of solely on the ground, thing about 100 acres. Some years ago Lynch got rather cm- that the Presbytery, at the date of the sentence and of the libel barrassed, and borrowed a sum of money, giving a portion of the on which it proceeded, was composed in part of the ministers of land he held assecurity. The party to whom this security was quoad sacra parishes, who, it is said, were allowed to sit and vote given, was bound by agreement, not to let or till the land; sub- as members ou the pursuer's trial while the legal title of such sequently this agreement ERS violated, and let out to pauper ten- parties to act in that capacity has been since declared incompeapts. Some months ago Lynch paid off the loam and demanded tent in the case of Stawarten, decided by this Court in 1843. possession of the land, free of such tenants as were then in the cc- The pursuer maintains, that it follows necessarila from that decision, that the sentence of the Presbytery in Ins case vats null cupancy, This was refused. Lynch took proceedings against the parties in possession—the consequence was, he received some and void as flowing a non judicc. and that this Court, with reference to the benefice and temporcilities of the office, is bound to set very short tune ago a Roclate netice, which he affected to despise. The final result was, he was shot yesterday (it being the fair day it aside. of this town), a short distance from his own door, and in mid-day, , It is obvious that this plea leads to serious and extensive emit being about one o'clock. Lynch was going to the house of his sequences. If it were sustained, it would follow, that there would son, who was leaving home for the fair, when three men made up not be an Act of the Church Courts, in the ordinary comae of to him, and fired two shots, both balls passing through his spine; , their administrative and judicial powers for a series of years, the third fired, and the ball entered through his ribs, and passed which would not fall to the ground. The proceedings of every through his lungs. Lynch has left a large family to deplore his Church Court, from Presbyteries to the General Assembly, (in- , eluding licenses, inductions, translations, sentences of ceclesiasti, lose, anti nnprovided for, as his was the last life in the lease, and the under-tenants are in expectation of getting the lands without cal discipline, and the like), in which quoad sacra ministers took a , lasing to do with a middleman. This place has been the scene part, between 1834, when the General Assembly first admitted of three or four atrocious; murders in the space of the last four ministers of this class as members of Presbytery, till the secession ' ycare. The murderers of Lynch, after haying perpetrated the of the dissentient members in 1843, would tell to be set aside and annulled by the Civil Court. The Lord Ordinary has rejected sinful deal, retired in the direction of the Gaultee mountains; and, it is supposed, passed into the county of Tipperary.—Co this plea, generally, on the grounds set forth in the Interlocutor, Constautio ; which, it is supposed, require little illustration. 1. kic conceives it to be a point, admitting of no denial in time law