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Intelligence .- —Parliamentary z Belfast Academical Institution . 6 SB
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A cmnplamt from the congregation of Coothili was beard , and finally referred to the Pi « 9 bytery o € Moiiiigban * ^ weral petitions were then presented from newly erected congregations , praying the Synod
ta take the necessary measures to pro * cure im them a share of the Royal Bounty . Tfcre agent stated , that Bounty h ^ d been r « 0 eived for the congregations of Drumkmgh and Aivaghlone , which had foeeure&ottnriended last year . '
On Saturday , an appeal was lodged against the decision of the Presbytery of Letteikenuy , in the case of a young man who emigrated to America . It appeared id evidence , that after he had received a call frontra congregation in the Presbytery of Huntingdon , in Pennsylvania , a letter
of inquiry respecting him was sent to the Moderator af the Presbytery of fetter * kemry ,. that he had answered it without their adviee r and that their proceedings had b&m subsequently irregular . After a long and animated discussion , a vote
of disapprobation was passed on those members of the Presbytery engaged hi the transaction , and an account of the Synod ' s proceedings was ordered to be transmitted to the Presbyterian brethren in America . -
The congregations of Brigh , Ran daistown and Anaghlone , were removed from the cai'eof their respective Presbyteries , and given in charge to different Committees appointed for that purpose * A memorial was presented from the
Presbyterian inhabitants of Tipperai y , praying t& fee recognized' as a congregation , and to have the ordinances of reli * gion administered among them . The prayer of this memorial was unanimously granted .
Several ' overtures passed the House , among which there was one disapproving of the principles of Socinianism , and prohibiting the ministers of the body from admitting Unitarian preachers into their pulpits ; and another , contradicting the
assertion , in the preface to Dr . Bruce'a Sermons , that the peculiar doctrines inculcated in them are " making extensive , though silent , progress in the General Synod of Ulster , " - —The Synod concluded with prayer *
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^^^^ H ^ i ^^^^^ PARLIAMENTARY . Belfast Academical Institution . HOUSE OF COMMONS . Jt / NJB 10 , 1824 .
Lord Arthur Hill presented the following Petition from the Vice President , Managers , Visitors , and Proprietors of the Belfast Academical I institution : "To the Honourable the Commons of Me United Kingdom of Great Britain
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and Ireland , in Parliament assembled , the Petition 6 f the undersigned * Vice- * President , Managers , Visitors and Proprietors of the Academical Institution *
humbhr sheweth , " That the Proprietors of the Belfast Academical Institution were incorporated by an Act of Parliament passed in the year 1810 . ;
u That they have contributed upwards of 30 , 000 / . for the establishment and supn port of this Institution , which diffuses the advantages of a classical and scientific education over the province of Ulster ;
and provides for the theological education of the candidates for the £ * esby-s teriaii ministry , whose congregations in that province amount to more than hall a million of souls .
" That it is considered very advantageous by that body of Presbyterians ( a branch of the Church of Scotland , from which country their forefathers emigrated to the province of Ulster , in the reign
of James the First ) , that their theolo-r gical students should be educated in their own country , near their families and future congregations , and under the constant inspection of their fathers in the ministry .
" That the great principles of social order , allegiance to the King , obedieoce to the laws , and attachment to the Con- ? - stitution , have ever been inculcated by the Professors of this Institution .
" That the manifest utility of the Institution procured for it , for some time , the countenance and aid of Government * which in various respects contributed to its welfare .
" That your petitioners , while they heartily approve and admire the liberal policy which induces a Protestant Parlia ment to provide for the education of the Roman Catholic priesthood , in their own country , hope that they also may be allowed to lay before your Honourable House , these claims of the Presbyterians on your favourable consideration *
" That having perceived by the votes of your Honourable House , that a commission is about to issue for the purpose of inquiring into the state of education in Ireland , they humbly pray your
Honourable House to employ your good offices with his Majesty , to intreat that he would be graciously pleased to instruct the Commissioners so appointed , to in * quire into the utility , administration and resources c ) f the Belfast Academical
Institution , and to report their opinion concerning the same , to his Majesty . And your petitioners will ever pray . " ( Signed ) Downshire , Vice-President ; James Dromore ^ Visitor ; Vane Londonderry ^ Proprietor ; Lord Arthur Hill , M ; P ., Fitntor > Matthew Forde , M . ft :,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1824, page 635, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2529/page/59/
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