27 OCTOBER 1906, Page 2

On Friday week the Commission appointed to allocate 'the property

and funds of the Free Church of Scotland between the two existing sections of that Church issued their Report. Certain churches in Glasgow and elsewhere are given up to the Free Church, and arrangements for joint use in certain country districts are proposed. The Assembly Hall and the College buildings in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen go to the United Free Church, while the Free Church receive the offices in Edinburgh for the purposes of their College, together with a sum of £3,000 to equip it. A yearly sum of £3,000 is allotted to the Free Church for College expenses and for bursaries. Provision is made for legacies being treated along with the general funds, and of these the Foreign, Continental, and Jewish Mission funds are given to the United Free Church, though the Commission promise to allocate later a sum to the Free Church for similar purposes. On the whole, the decisions seem to us to be fair, though it is likely that both sides in the dispute will make complaints. The Com- missioners have fulfilled their duty of looking in their, inquiry both at the fact of the House of Lords' judgment and the equities of the situation.