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The Retr . Ek * Xell took occasion to recommend perseverance in Sunday-school instruction . H . fi found in h \ s own c < mgregation several exemplary members who owed their connexion with it entirely to the Sunday-schooly commenced
by one of his enlightened predecessors , the Rev . J . Tingcombe . A plan had recently beeu adopted at Newport of forming a school-library of instructive and interesting books , particularly a set published by the Irish School Union , The
loan of a volume to ( he diligent scholar was found to be the most effectual sti « - mulant to exertion ; indeed it had brought their school into such reputation that they had more candidates for admission than they could possibly receive .
After several other members had contributed by their observations to the interest of the meeting , Mr . Beard , Sen ., concluded its proceedings by proposing the following resolution , which was carried by acclamation : " That while , as
Unitarians , we contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints , we wish to do so in perfect charity with our fellow-christmns of other persuasions , and with £ ood-will towards all mankind' *
Select pieces of music were performed at intervals , which were appropriate , as well as tastefully performed . D . B . P .
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The Rev , CL < Kenrick , Pastor of the Unitarian congregation , Maidstorie , in compliance with the Advice of hifc medical friends and the wishes of ttife sdcleif , ™ proceeding immediately to the Continent
for twelve months for the re-e&tabltenment of his health . The Rev . BfeNJArtifi * Mardon , M . A ., is supplying his place . We mention this for the information of the Secretaries of Fellowship Funds , &c , whose letters should he addressed ( for the present ) to Mr . Maidon .
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PARLIAMENTARY . Irish Catholic Petitions . HOUSE OF COMMONS . April 14 .
Mr- J . Smith presented a petition from tlie Catholics of Ireland , which was adopted at a Iafte aggregate meeting , and he must conclude that it represented the
opinions of that body of the people , because the meeting was attended by several thousands . In stating the object of the petition he was necessarily led into some short detail . The petitioners complained that the education of the poor was not attended to of late years . Before
the Reformation , the lands of the clergy were chargeable with the expense of educating their poor . Since that time a large portion of them had been partially educated at the expense of the Catholic body , the rest not at all . The petitioners professed to reason differently on their
situation from the commissioners of Irish education . He himself thought that those commissioners had conducted themselves in a very exemplary manner , and that Parliament was greatly obliged" to theni . They , however , recommended that Catholics and Protestants should be
educated in the same schools , and that the schoolmaster should be chosen from the religion professed by the majority . This was a comparatively moderate proposal . He himself objected , however , to forcing people to read any book ; and iti the
case in question , the petitioners pointed out a difficulty ; which was , that they could not read any books without first obtaining leave from the consistory and the approbation of the Bishop . They complained that the House granted iho-
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Ecclesiasticul Preferments . The Right Rev . Wm , Van Mildert , D . D ., Bishop of Landaffy is translated to the rich see of Durham ^ vice Dr . Barrington , deceased . C . R . Sumnrr , D . D ., one of the Chaplains in Ordinary to His Majesty , is promoted to the see of Landaff and the Deanery of St . Pau ? s , vacant by the translation of Dr . Van Mildert .
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The Annual Assembly of the General Baptists will be held on Whit-Tuesday , May 16 th , at the Meeting-House , Worship Street , near Finsbury Square , London . Mr . Briggs , of Bessel ' s Green , near Sevenoaks , Keut , is expected to preach . Divine Service will commence at Eleven o ' clock .
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The Annual Meeting of " The Protestant Society for the Protection of Religious Liberty , " will be held at the City of London Tavern , Bishopsgate Street , on Saturday , May 13 th , at Half-past Ten for Eleven o'clock precisely , when the Marquis of LanSboivi ^ e viHll preside . ^ j ' i ^^^^^^ -
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The Rev . J . R . Beard , Minister of the New Unitarian Chapel , Salford , Manchester , is just about to publish Four Letters in Defence of the Historical Evidence of Christianity , addressed to Mr . Carlile and Mr . Taylor .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1826, page 247, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2547/page/59/
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