The Commission of the General Assembly of the Church of
Scot- land has resolved not to oppose the inquiry into the state of its funds ordered by the Government. On the contrary, the Clergy and Church Courts are to give the Commissioners all the information they require. It appears that, at the meeting of the Commission, held onWednesday, Dr. Chalmers distinguished meeting by a High Tory speech. He called the supporters of Government " hackneyed practitioners in politics, lurking, low-minded underlings of office, unencumbered by truth and honour, and therefore the better qualified to transverse the promises Government had made—men who needed concealment, cajo- lery, and trickery to support their cause—trimming, shuffling politi- cians."
Dr. Chalmers may limey that this language is becoming to a minister of the Christian religion; but it will disgust all rational and right- thinking persons ; and is more appropriate to the sphere of an Orange Club, the Duke of Cumberland in the chair, than to an assembly of the real friends of the Church of Scotland.
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