text:  Upon the whole therefore we look upon Lord Aberdeen as a national benefactor who has not only turned aside a current running headlong into a revolution but in doing this exemplary service has contrived to adjust the temperament very equitably between 1st the individual nominee having often his livelihood at stake; 2dly the patron exercising a right of property interwoven with our social system and not liable to any usurpation which would not speedily extend itself to other modes of property; 3dly the church considered as the trustee or responsible guardian of orthodoxy and sound learning; 4thly the same church considered as a professional body and therefore as interested in upholding the dignity of each individual clergyman and his immunity from frivolous cavils however much against him they are interested in detecting his insufficiency; and 5thly the body of the congregation as undoubtedly entitled to have the qualifications of their future pastor rigorously investigated