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tive of extensive good , by introducing i mprovements in the construction of places of confinement , and regulations calculated to preserve the health and promote the moral and religious interests of the criminal . It is needless to add , that in these philanthropic labours , Mr .
Venning eminently shared ; and long , very long , will the wretched and the guilty confined in the prisons of the Russian " empire have reason to revere his name and bless his memory . "
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Lately , at Maurecort , near Poissy , department of Seine-et-Oise , M . Gosselin , a native of Caen , department of Calvados , aged 78 years ; the author of various works in favour of religion and of political liberty : the most considerable of these is L' Antiquite Devoilee , &c . i . e . " Antiquity Unveiled by the help of Genesis , the source of the Pagan Mythology
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DOMESTICManchester Fellowship Fund . „ The subscribers to the original institution , known by this name , and hitherto jointly supported by the two congregations in Cross Street and Mosley Street , have thought it advisable , that two separate congregational funds should be established . In consequence of this resolution , a distinct association has already been formed , in connexion with Cross-street Chapel , for the purpose of raising and supporting such a fund . Application for aid from this fund may be addressed to the Rev . J . Grundy , President . J . G . R . Manchester , April 3 , 1821 .
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Monhwell Street . The Rev . S , W . Browne , A . B ., formerly of Pembroke Hall , Cambridge , and more recently pastor to the Old Meeting-House Congregation , Birmingham , was on Monday last elected successor to the late Rev . Dr . James Lindsay , pastor to the congregation assembling for public worship at Monkwell Street ,. London .
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and Rites . " Four editions attest the merit of this work , in which the author labours especially to combat the error * of Dupuis , who endeavoured to carry back the origin of the Zodiack to more than 15 , 000 years . M . Gosselin ,
cultivating himself the little domain on Which he depended for subsistence , handled by turns the spade , the plough , and the pen . He was a good Grecian , and translated the Theogony of Hesiod . He lifted up the veil of the Greek mythology , and discovered in it the truths and facts of
the sacred history , often disfigured in the traditions of Paganism , and drew from thence new evidences in favour of holy writ . This worthy old man , who baa left some unpublished MSS ., has bequeathed to his executor the sum of a thousand francs for printing them . —M ^^ MMta ^ -.
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Rev . J . T . Law , M . A ., ( eldest son of the Bishop of Chester , ) Chancellor of Lichfield and Coventry , vice Outram , deceased .
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Intelligence *—Manchester Fellowship Fund . Jews' Free School . 253
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Preferments , The Rev . Dr . Butler , head master of Shrewsbury School , collated to the Archdeaconry of Derby . The Rev . W . Jennings , of East Garston Vicarage , Berks , presented by Sir 1 ; rancis Burdett , the Patron , to the "ving of Baydon , Wilts .
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Jews * ' Free School . The Fourth Report of this valuable institution is now before us . The following extract will give pleasure to the Christian reader : tc The school , established in April , 1817 , opened with two hundred and sixty scholars , half of which were ignorant of
the alphabet , and the remainder knowing but very little more : since that period about one hundred and fifty boys have passed the school , and may be considered as having acquired sufficient education to carry them respectably through life : while several have laid the ground and exhibited talents for superior acquirements .
At this time the school contains two hundred and sixty-two boys , and is arranged in the following manner : rc Hebrew . Ninety boys translate prayers and the Bible , one hundred and ten read the prayers ; sixty-two are all that remain in the lower classes ; the greater part of whom are very young , and but recently admitted . ^
_ 66 English . One hundred and sixty arc in the advanced classes , spell words of three syllables and upwards , read lessons from Scripture and the Bible ; cypher in the first four rules , both simple and compound ; some of these are capable of working in the more advanced rules in
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1821, page 253, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2499/page/61/
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