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!)) $ LndepenjtenV congregation at St j ^ ots , Hu nting 4 q $ 8 Mrg > . -. ta be classical and resident Tutor at the Highbury dQllegey vice the Rev . John Hooper , deceased , i r Rev , J . K . Foster , of Rochdale , to be Classical Tutor , for the ensuing vear \ in Cheshunt College .
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Ecclesiastical Preferments * Rev . J . Brinklev , D . D ., to the Bishopric of Cloyne > vacant by the death of Dr . Warburton , " Dr . Brinckle y , the celebrated
astronomer , of Trinity College , has been promoted to the vacant Bishopric of Cloyne . The Doctor is a Cambridge nian > and is said to be iudebted to Mr . Goulboum for this promotion . We understand he is amiable and learned , and
likely to do credit to his patrou . "FreemarSs Journal . The Rev . F . Winstanle y to the Vicarage of Isleham , Cambridgeshire , vacant by the death of — - Isaacson .
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Bequests to Lady Huntingdon s Connexion . —The late Mr . John King , of St . John's Street Road , Clerkenwell , who died Jan . 20 , in the 67 th year of his age , has bequeathed To Cheshunt College , ( besides a bequest of Books to the
Library , ) ^ 200 0 To the Provident Fund 100 0 To Spa Fields' Chapel Day-Schools 40 0 To ditto ditto Sunday-Schools 15 0 To the Education Society for the Children of Ministers .. 19 19
And a moiety of his residuary estate to be equally divided between Cheshunt College aud the Provident Fund .
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Intelligence . —Ecclesiastical Preferments , &c . 695
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son ^ e geiiera , l i ^ ter ^ VjM ^ L ¥ C # say , y $ understand that Prof ^^ or ^^ tie h ^ announced t ^ i at he wi ^ tes t hje write r to t > egiu with a potice of the earlier notions entertained on the subject ^ , a , qd to trace
their influence on the couduct and opinions of mankind ; he will then review the hypotheses which have been successively advanced ; and haviug produced his own speculations , he will conclude with a clear exposition of the most improved mathematical theory of the cometary motions . —Scotsman .
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A subscription has been opened at Bengal , for the purpose of erecting a sepulchral monument of marble to the memory of the late lamented Bishop Heber , to be placed in the Cathedral Church of Calcutta . It has also been
determined , if the funds should be found more than sufficient for the expense of the above , to appropriate a portion of them to the purchase of a piece of plate , to be preserved in the family of the brother of Bishop Heber , as an heir-loom for ever .
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John Bunyan . —We copy the following from " The Sunday Times , " of Oct . 22 . No authority is given for the strange statement , and we shall be much surprised if any be brought forward , " The friends of John Bunyan will be much surprised to hear that he is not the author of Pilgrim's Progress , but the mere translator . It was , however , an
act of plagiarism to publish it in such a way as to mislead his readers , but it is never too late to call things by their right names . The truth is , that the work was even published in French , Spanish and Dutch , besides other languages , before
John Bunyan saw it , and we have ourselves seen a copy in the Dutch language , with numerous plates , printed long previous to Bunyan ' s time . What will the Calvin ists say to such an expose" of their friend John ?"
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Death's Doings . — " We took notice , a few days since , in the course of a comment on Mr . Dagley ' s book , Death ' s Doingsy of a series of designs which had
appeared several years ago upon a wall near Turuham Green , and of which no one , at least as far as our inquiries had gone , kuew the composer . We have since been informed , upon good authority , that these sketches were made by a nephew of Mr- Baron Garrow , a youug man , whose spirits had outrun both his own means and the patience oi his relatives , and who was then living , 'in very unostentatious retirement , neatly opposite the spot which Was the scene of his operations . The drawings were worked
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Dr . Fellowres ' s Academical Prizes . [ See p . 126 of this volume . ] We mentioned in the course of last winter , the very liberal conduct of the Hey . Dr . Fellowes , of Reigate , Surrey . This gentleman , who is sole residuary fcgatee of the Baron Maseres , considering it a duty to devote a part of the [ ortune which he owes to the generous
Request of his learned and revered friend , to the promotion of science , has determined , with that view , to institute seveuu prizes—some permanent , others occasjonai and temporary—to be bestowed as m — — ¦ ¦ ¦ W ^ ' ^ - ^ ^ ^ -T 4 fe ¦ ^/ - ^* - f \^ - *^ —*^ - - ^ - ~~* -v ^ r w ^^ ife ^ V K v ^^ ttl
e rewards of superior diligence and Proficiency , among the students of the ^ tural Philosophy Class in this driver-^ y ( Edinburgh ) . Among the prizes for J year , the hrst , of £ 50 , is to be given ur the best essay on Comets . To give
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1826, page 695, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2554/page/59/
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