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12 asked them to submit to an admonition for their part in the election. They respectfully declined, on the ground that their action was within the limits of the constitution; whereupon the Senatus, by a large majority, expelled them. The expulsion touched Mr Stuart and two others in both purse and pride, entailing many grievous consequences, which, however, did not long outlive his restoration and that of his fellows by a Royal Commission. Leaving St. Andrews, he entered the New College, Edinburgh, where as a theological student he had the advantage of sitting at the feet of Dr Chalmers. In 1844 he received the appointment of Classical Master, and shortly after that of Principal, in a first-class school near Windsor. He carried on his studies for the ministry in London, under Drs Lorimer, McCrie, and Hamilton, and completed them in Edinburgh. On receiving from the Free Presbytery of Kelso his license to preach the Gospel, he returned to Windsor, and some months thereafter was called to the Presbyterian church of Falstone, in the upper district of the North Tyne, on the English border. Here he laboured for ten years with much acceptability, success, and happiness, preaching, organising schools, and diffusing a knowledge of literature," until the end of 1859, when he was selected by the commissioners to be the first minister of Knox Church, Dunedin.