On Friday, (the 15th instant,) the First Division of the
Court of Ses- sion, by a majority of 3 to I, passed the note of suspension and interdict at the instance of the suspended ministers of the Presbytery of Strath- bogie. It will be remembered, that immediately after the meeting of the Commission in December, this interdict was applied for and granted, to the extent of withholding the churches, churchyards, school-houses, and bells, in the parishes of the suspended ministers from those ap- pointed by the Church to officiate in them during the suspension. On that occasion the further prayer for suspension and interdict was re- fused. That prayer is now granted to its full extent, involving the fol- lowing points. 1. The Court have suspended the resolutions, sentence, and proceedings of the Commission of the General Assembly. 2. They have interdicted and prohibited the Presbytery of Strathbogie from meeting as a Presbytery, in obedience to the Commission, for the pur- pose of supplying ministerial services in the parishes of the suspended ministers, or otherwise acting on the sentence and deliverance of the Commission. 3. They have interdicted and prohibited all other Pres- byteries, and all ministers and probationers to whom the Commission authorizes application to be made, from coUperating with the minority of thc Presbytery in supplying these ministerial services.—Edinburgh Paper.
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