Though thirty-three voted in the Congre gational Union Assembly against the amalgamation uf that body anil the Evangel- | ical Union of Scotland, yet when the question was put a3 " the rinding " of the Assembly, it was carried «<:/« > l on. The representatives of five churches, four iu Glasgow and oee iu Dundee, haw, however, lodged the following protest, by which it appears that they will claim to be the " Union " and to treat the majority as seceders :—"For the churches which we represent we protest against the j resolution which has ju-1 been declared . carried; and further protest that the carrying out of the resolution will involve a secession from the Congregational Union of Scotland ou the part of those churches which acted on it ; that on such secession taking ' place the remaining churches of the Union will alone belong to and represent the said \ Congregational Union of Scotland, and have ' ri»ht to its whole assets and estate, power, and privileges." The amalgamation will bo consummated in the autumn after the Evangelical Union have held their animal Assembly. j

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