THE following Report is laid before the Public, in the hope that it will be found to contain a complete and impartial Account of the Proceedings of the momentous Assembly of 1841. The Principal Speakers have obligingly revised their Speeches, except in one or two instances where the pressure of other business prevented its being done; but in no case did the Editor withhold the opportunity of doing so, where he considered that it was calculated, in any degree, to bring out the merits of the particular question under discussion. The Report of the STRATHBOGIE CASE, especially, will be found to be much fuller and more correct than has appeared in any other publication,nearly the whole of the Speeches delivered on that occasion having been revised by the respective Speakers. A carefully prepared Digest and Index have been added, to enable the Reader to make easy reference to the various Subjects and Speakers; as well as an Appendix, containing a List of the Votes on several of the principal questions, and various Documents which could not properly be inserted in the body of the Report. Copious extracts from the Reports of the various Committees will likewise be found in their proper place in the proceedings. The Pauperism Report, as well as that on Foreign Missions, have been given entire. The Editor has to express his regret that the publication of the Report should have been so long delayed; but with the alternative before him, either of a short delay, or of the many defects and inaccuracies necessarily attaching to Reports hastily drawn up and published, he did not hesitate to prefer the former. FOGO MANSE, Dunse, August 1841. J. B. |