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Committee and Council in General Council.

Intense interest was excited by this mysterious sudden notice. The members of the General Council were all anxiety and excitement. Macintosh was received with great deference, but he seemed restless and uneasy; a sort of pre-sentiment appeared to possess him that all was not as he would wish. The aged Chief of the Council, then over seventy, -- tall, dignified, and rendered the more interesting by a dash of feebleness from severe rheumatism, had an expression of deep thought in his gravity, which made Macintosh cower before his piercing eye.

Mr Ross arose, and addressed the assembly as follows: "My friends, Five years have elapsed since I have been called to preside over the National Committee; and your approbation of my conduct in the discharge of my official duties is manifested by the successive re-appointments which you have bestowed upon me. The trust which you have reposed in me has been sacredly maintained and shall ever be preserved. A traitor, in all nations, is looked upon in the darkest colour, and is more despicable than the meanest reptile that crawls upon the