26 NOVEMBER 1842, Page 7

SCOTLAND.

At the meeting of the Commission of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, on the 16th, Dr. Cunningham moved that the ma- jority of the Presbytery of Garioch be served with a libel preliminary to suspension, for having proceeded to the settlement of Mr. Middleton, presentee who had been vetoed ; and a similar course was adopted with respect to Mr. Middleton himself; protests being handed in against the proceeding. The Commission then took up the case of Daviot, where there is a curious cross-question. There are only ten male heads of families communicants in the parish, out of a population of about 1,800 souls ; and six of the ten have vetoed the presentee, Mr. Clark; but it was alleged that the six were tainted with schismatical opinions. A committee now reported, that there was schism in the parish, and an unwillingness to attend the church ; but that those who do not attend are "the flower of the parish ; and further, that these six communicants who had vetoed Mr. Clark were not tainted with the schism. Mr. Dunlop made a motion to sustain the rejection of Mr. Clark, and to appoint a committee for cooperating with the Presbytery of Inverness, and conferring with Government. The motion was carried.

On Thursday, Mr. Dunlop read the draft of the memorial to Govern- ment, according to the resolution adopted on Wednesday— It enumerated a number of grievances, which, it is said, have arisen in con- sequence of the decisions of the courts of law ; and, among the evils arising therefrom, stated, that there are at present complaints for breaches of interdicts against fifty ministers and elders ot the Church, &c. The draft was approved of; and, after a good deal of discussion as to the mode of transmitting it, the Special Commission was instructed to do so in any way they thought beat.

This closed the business of the Commission; which then adjourned.

The Convocation of Nonintrusionist clergy assembled in Edinburgh on Thursday week ; and business began with a sermon from Dr. Chalmers. The admission was by ticket only, and the tickets were very cautiously issued. The proceedings were kept secret ; and there is no more complete account than this from the Edinburgh Observer- " The number who assembled on Thursday last are variously stated as 450 or 460; of whom, probably, one-half are guoad sacra ministers. [Ministers of districts set apart from parishes by church-regulation, but not by law, and therefore held not to be cognizable as ministers.] The first sederunt was oc- cupied in making up a roll, reading letters from absentees, &c.; and the only thing of importance that took place was the rejection of a proposal to intrude Messrs. A. Dunlop and J. Hamilton, advocates, as legal advisers of the Convo- cation. Daring the last two or three days there have been various statements made as to the diversities of opinion among the persons assembled ; the most prominent of which was that three hundred of them had declared themselves prepared to go out of the Church ; the time for doing so being still a subject for further consideration. Some were for retirement in the course of the pre- sent week; others for deferring till after the Assembly; and a third class (canny lads!) for deferring the adoption of any resolution, collectively or indivi- dually, sine die; it being the general feeling that Government should be of new plied with applications for legislative interference to settle all differences."

The strike continues in Ayrshire. On the night of Wednesday week, a body of two hundred rioters eluded the vigilance of an armed guard, seized one watchman and kept him at bay, while they broke into a house occupied by some new workers in Foundry Lane. About a dozen entered the house and brutally assailed the inmates with blud- geons and iron bars. One of the sufferers, an old man, afterwards died of the injuries which he had received. A party of yeomanry were Speedily brought to the spot, but the rioters had made off.

The Paisley Advertiser of Saturday states that the number of the unemployed had risen from 7,022 to 7,372.

A body of the unemployed in Greenock, 110 in number, perambu- lated the town on Friday, begging: their collection amounted to 4d. each. On Saturday they repeated the process.