The following List is taken from the Parliamentary

Enumeration Register of 1811.

*The third Regiment of Lanarkshire Local Militia, (furnished by Volunteers from the Under-ward,) was assembled on the 21st May 1811, for fourteen days' exercise, to the number of 828, (officers included.)

Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed, 2d July 1812.

APPENDIX.

The following is a list of the Roman Catholic Bishops, and Archbishops, Protestant Archbishops and Presbyterian Clergymen, who have officiated in the Cathedral Church in Glasgow, from its conse cration in the year 1129, to 1819.

*Bishop Wardlaw was made a Cardinal in the year 1381.

+ Bishop Blackadder was made archbishop in the year 1488.

‡ Alexander Gordon was elected in 1547, but his election was declared void by the pope. When archbishop Beaton retired into France, at the Reformation, Pope Pius V. filled the papal chair; his holiness is reckoned by Roman Catholics to have been the 225th prelate, who has filled that chair in regular succession from St. Peter the apostle. The present incumbent Pope Pius VII. is, therefore, the 252d in succession from St. Peter.

* Archbishop Boyd feued the Lands of Bedlay to Lord Boyd, and the Gorbals to Mr. Elphin. stone of Glasgow. Archbishop Spottiswood commenced covering the roof of the cathedral with lead; he was afterwards translated to St. Andrews. Archbishop Law completed the lead on the roof of the cathedral. Archbishop Lindsay, and the whole Bench of Bishops were deposed by the memorable Assembly at Glasgow. Archbishop Leighton was translated from Dumblane to Glasgow; having felt himself very uncomfortable, he retired to Sussex, where he died in 1685. +Although Sir Alexander Lauder was the Roman Catholic parson, he retained his benefice tin his death. Mr. Douglas was dean of Glasgow at the Reformation.

Mr. Wemyss was the first regular Presbyterian clergyman in Glasgow.
Mr. Rogers was turned out soon after the Restoration, and replaced at the Revolution.

List of all the Clergymen who were inducted into office in this City between the years 1719 and 1819.*

Dr. Robert Findlay was admitted on 25th March, 1756 and translated on 6th Jan. 1783, on being appointed to the Divinity Chair in the College: he died on 15th June 1814. Mr. Archd. Bonnar was admitted on 17th July, 1783, and translated to Cra. mod on 5th Jan. 1785. Five Minis. ters admitted in 100 years.

Dr. William Craig was the first Minister Dr. William Kitchie was admitted on 1st Oct. 1802, and traps. late to Edinburgh on 1st August, 1808. Four Ministers admitted in 56 years.

One Minister admitted in 37 years.
One.

OBITUARY.

Dr. John Hamilton, 3d February 1780; Dr. John Corse, 5th February 1782; Dr. John M'Call, 9th January 1797; Dr. John Gillies, 29th March 1796; Mr. James Stirling, 3d May 1773; Dr. Robert Balfour, 13th October 1818; Mr. George Bannatyne, 9th September 1769; Dr. William Porteous, 12th January 1812; Dr. William Lockhart, 8th February 1802. The average period of incumbency, of Clergymen in this City, who have died in office during 100 years, ending in 1819, is twenty-five years, nine months, and a fraction. Rather more than three-fourths of the Clergymen had cures before they came to Glasgow.

* Those marked * are serving their respective cures.

+ Dr. Thomas Chalmers was translated to St. John's Churh and Parish on 3d June, 1819.

PROCEDURE RELATIVE TO THE INDEPENDENCE of
ST. JOHN'S PARISH.

(From the Records of the Town Council.)

On the 18th August 1819, the Lord Provost submitted to the Council, the following letter from the Reverend Doctor Chalmers,

" MY LORD,

"Glasgow, Aug. 8, 1819.

"When I received the intimation of my appointment as Minister of St. John's, it gave me sincere pleasure to be informed at the same time, that a letter written by myself to Mr. Ewing was read to the Magistrates and Council previous to my election, as it gave me the flattering assurance, that the leading objects adverted to, in that letter, met with the approbation of the Honourable Body over which your Lordship presides.

"In that letter I adverted to the wish I had long entertained, and which is publicly enough known by other channels, for a separate and independent management on the part of my Session, of the fund raised by collections at that Church door, and with which fund, I propose to take the management of all the existing Sessional poor within our bounds, and so to meet the new applications for relief, as never to add to the general burden of the City by the ordinary poor of the Parish of St. John's.

"And I here beg it to be distinctly understood, that I do not consider the revenue of the Kirk Session, to be at all applicable to those extraordinary cases, which are produced by any sudden and unlooked for depression, in the state of our manufactures. Nor, if ever there shall be a call for pecuniary aid on this particular ground, do I undertake to provide for it out of our ordinary means, but will either meet it by a parochial subscription, or by taking a full share of any general measure, as may be thought expedient under such an emergency.

"Your Lordship will not fail to observe, that if the new cases of ordinary pauperism, accumulate upon us in the rate at which they have done formerly, they would soon overtake our present collec tions. And yet my confidence in a successful result, is not at all founded on the expected magnitude of my future collections, but upon the care and attention with which the distribution of the fund will be conducted, a care and an attention, which I despair of ever being able to estimate effectually, till I obtain an arrangement, by which my Session shall be left to square its own separate expenditure, by its own separate and peculiar resources.

"At the same time, I can also with such an arrangement, stimulate more effectually than before, the liberality of my congregation; and with this twofold advantage I am hopeful, not merely