text:  Upon the accidents of such events as may arise for the next five years whether fitted or not fitted to revive discussions in which many of the Non-seceders went in various degrees along with the Seceders depends the final (and in a strict sense the very awful) question What is to be the fate of the Scottish church? Lord Aberdeen's Act is well qualified to tranquillize the agitations of that body; and at an earlier stage if not intercepted by Lord Melbourne might have prevented them in part