Mr. Joist; MAXWELL, as our readers know, is one of
the four Scot- tish Defaulters chronicled in our last Number. Since that exhibitions he has published a long letter in the Courier, of which one passage alone seems worthy of comment, and that comment shall be of the briefest. This is the passage- " An alienation of religious funds to other purposes is an invasion of the laws of property, to which the Legislature is not competent."
If this be Mr. MAXWELL'S opinion, the only ground for astonish- ment is, not that he did not vote for Lord Jour; RUSSELL'S resolution, but that he did not vote against it. If this be Mr. MAXWELL'S opi- nion, he is no Reformer; and the sooner the Reforming electors of Lanarkshire follow the example of their brethren in the St. Andrew's district of Burghs, the better.
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