22 APRIL 1843, Page 5

SCOTLAND.

The Moderates still obtain new majorities in the election of Com- missioners to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. " The belief continues to gain ground," says the Glasgow Argus, "that the Moderates will have a considerable majority. That party, it is under- stood, are to propose Principal Macfarlan [of Glasgow University, a leader of the constitutional party,] as Moderator ; and Dr. Chalmers was elected a member of Assembly by the Presbytery of Edinburgh, in order that his supporters might bring him forward for the same high office. The name of Dr. Lee has also been mentioned, but appa- rently without any authority."

Efforts are continued to prepare churches for the seceding ministers ; but with what success is doubtful-

" With regard to the subscriptions in aid of the Free Presbyterian Church,'" says the Edinburgh Weekly Journal, "there appears some discre- pancy between the urgent and rather desponding appeals of the Nonmtruston papers, and the assurance of Dr. Chalmers that subscriptions and donations are coming in thick and fast, 'like a set rain, at the rate of 1,000/. a day.' It is intended to raise 300,0001. for the building of six hundred churches, which are to be erected and finished by the end of May. This, we incline to think, will prove an architectural impossibility ; at least if the edifices are to be of such solidity as to last for many future May-days."