We can give Lord Aberdeen a curious piece of information,
of which he had no chance to hear a syllable from Dr. M‘Leod. When the Se- cond Report was prepared, there were twelve endowed and fourteen unendowed churches in Glasgow connected with the Establishment. Now, if his Lordship will take the trouble to compare the seat-rents of these two descriptions of churches, he will find that the mean or average rate is considerably lower in the unendowed than in the endowed; It clear proof that an endowment is not necessary to produce cheap sittings. If a grant of public money were wanted to reduce seat-rents in Glasgow, it should evidently be given to those churches where they lire highest ; in other words, the endowed churches should get a double en- dowment, and the others remain as they are! Such are the contradictions end absurdities into which men run who contend for objects which reason disowns. It is idle to talk of 40,000 in Edinburgh, and 60,000 in Glasgow, who attend no church. The evil lies in the habits of the individuals ; for it is ridiculous to attribute their non attendance to a want of accommodation, in the face of the notorious fact that there are 21,000 unlet seats in the one city, and 19,600 in the other.—Scots-
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