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INTELLIGENCE.
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DOMESTIC . RELIGIOUS . The Report of Manchester College y Yorky Founded at Manchester , February 22 , 1786 . — Removed to York , September I , 1803 . At the Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting-, August 4 , 1820 .
The Committee of Manchester College , York , have the high satisfaction of reporting the good conduct and literary improvement of the Students during the last Session . They feel encouragement to hope that this Institution will continue
to approve itself an important instrument in the hands of Divine Providence , for diffusing the benefits of sound learning , in connexion with the most enlightened principles of civil and religious liberty ; and they trust , that the liberality of those who have at heart the furtherance of
these objects , will enable them to render it still more effectually and extensively conducive to their attainment . But although the Committee have the satisfaction of acknowledging the receipt of a legacy of £ 100 , bequeathed by the late John Worthington , Esq ., of Altring--ham , and a benefaction of £ 21 from
Thomas Dyson , Esq ., of Diss , they are sorry to be obliged to present to their friends the statement of a considerable decrease in the general income of the College . The annual subscriptions , which in 1818 amounted to £ 713 . 7 s ., have last year been only £ 681 . 10 s . The congregational collections amount to no more than
j £ 31 . 16 s . Besides Newcastle and Chesterfield , which have never failed , Bradford is the only place which has this year furnished a supply of this kind : which is the more to be lamented , when it is considered how many advantages might be
derived from the subject being regularly brought before the great mass of Dissenters in our connexion ; not only as it would be a means of keeping up their interest in the Institution , as the probable source of ministers in cases of future
vacancy , but also as it would afford the preachers an opportunity of touching upon various topics , relating to the history of the corruption and gradual restoration of the true Christian doctrine , —the history and general grounds of Dissent from the Established Church of
our own country , —the right and duty of individual judgment , —the sufficiency of the Scriptures , —H , he importance of learn-
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ing , &c , which might agreeably and pn fitably vary , though they might not so conveniently form a part of , the ordinary course of public preaching ; since a spirit of curiosity , leading to serious inquiry , might thus be excited among the younger members more especially , which might be attended by the happiest effects ; while
the whole assembly , of every age and station , would enjoy the opportunity of contributing , according to their respective circumstances , what might be convenient , and no more than convenient , to each individual member . " Not more , " as was well observed by our first Visitor , " from any individual , than what he often
freely expends on the amusements of a single day . " The Benefactions have produced only £ 46 . 10 s . The Exhibitions received from other Funds appropriated to the maintenance of Divinity Students , have been reduced from £ 221 , to £ 161 . Of course , the Committee will be obliged in future to admit on the Foundation , one Student less than would otherwise
have been in their power . The entire Receipts are £ 1486 . 0 s . 6 d . The expenses , in salaries and fees to Tutors , exhibitions to Students , erection of the New Common Hall , repairs , purchase of Books , and incidental expenses , have amounted to £ ' 1531 . 1 : 6 $ . 4 d . being an excess beyond the Income of the year , of £ 45 . 16 s . lOd . The Committee are
thankful , however , to acknowledge their good fortune , in having had a balance from the last year ' s account , of £ 233 . 2 ?* 6 d . y and from this reserved Fund , they have been enabled to discharge the
deficiency , and also to make an addition to the Permanent Fund , of Mr . Worfhmgton ' s legacy , and also of the benefactions , which , together with the surplus produce of the Lsorig Annuities of the year , amount to £ 148 . 6 s 3 d . The balance now
remaining in the Treasurer ' s liauds , is reduced to £ 39 . 0 s . 5 d . The Committee cannot refrain from adverting , with peculiar regret , to the loss which they have sustained by the death of Mr . Wo rthington , whose name
lias appeared in the list of annual subscribers from the first institution of the College in 1786 , and who has besides evinced his zeal for its prosperity , by two liberal benefactions amounting to £ 121 , and by his legacy of £ 100 above referred
to . The library has this year received a very important addition iti a valuable beqiiest of books , by the late Rev . and learner } Joseph Bret land , of Exeter . The Coitt-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1821, page 59, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2496/page/59/
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