The following resolutions have been sent to us. They are
stated to have been passed unanimously at a meeting of the Glasgow Church Defence and Anti-Patronage Electoral Association, held on Monday last "to consider what steps they ought to adopt in reference to the approaching Municipal Elections"—
" Resolved, 1st. That the present Government have deceived the Church and people of Scotland, and have coolly and faithlessly broken their promises: and as they are using all their power and influence to corrupt and undermine the Church, and are aiming at its destruction as a free and independent institution, they ought now to be regarded as the most determined and inveterate enemies of the Church of Scotland.
"2d. That as the spiritual rights and privileges of the Church of Scotland, secured unalterably by solemn treaty, are infinitely dearer to us than all political considerations and attachments whatever, we are bound to give the Government, and all their supporters, our most determined opposition, and to endeavour by every lawful means to drive them from the possession of that power which they are abusing for the destruction of the beat and most important interests of the country.
"34. That while we will not support any candidates, whatever may be their political opinions, who do not declare themselves decidedly friendly to the great principles for which the Church is contending, yet at the same time we will require in addition to this, as a proof of their sincerity and attachment to the Church, a public avowal of their opposition to the present Gmernment, and their determination to oppose it to the uttermost of their power. "4th. That an address be immediately issued to the friends of the Church of Scotland throughout the country, calling upon them to oppose the present Government at all Municipal and Parliamentary elections, and by every competent means, till they be removed from office.
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