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      ties interested to have any controul over . . We are incliffed to think that the last act is the most convenient for proof , and that it is worth while to certify anew under it even places of worship registered before .

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      indictment of Robert Taylor . We expressed our hope in our last Number that this would be the last of these absurd and miserable prosecutions . We are now glad to record as a confirmation of our hope , that the proceeding has terminated abruptly . The prosecutors seem either to have shrunk from

      their responsibility and from the public voice , or to have received an intimation of a sort which they could not disregard ; and the defendant , after coining up several days for judgment , was dismissed , for the present at least , without any motion for judgment , or the imposition of any conditions .

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      Opening of the Unitarian Chapel at JValsalL A New Chapel , sacred to the worship of the only true God , erected at Walsall , Staffordshire , by the Old Meeting Society , was opened on Friday , Nov . 9 , 1827 . The Rev . A . Paterson , of

      Stourbridge , conducted the devotional part of the service in the morning . The Rev . J . Scott , of Cradley , preached an excellent sermon from Psalm xxvi . 8 . Fourteen ministers were present , who , with several friends from the neighbourhood , dined at Mr . H . Cox's , a member of the

      congregation . The Rev . J . R . Wreford , of Birmingham , introduced the service in the afternoon . The Rev . J . Kentish , of the same place , preached an impressive sermon to a respectable audience , from EccIch . v . 1 . On the following Lord's day the Rev . W . Bowen , of Coveutry , delivered two

      appropriate discourses—in the morning from Gen . xxviii . 17 ; and in the afternoon , from Heb . i . 1 , 2 , when the house was crowded to excess . The Chapel is very plain and neat ; it is in an eligible situation , no other place of worship being near , and will accommodate three hundred persons .

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      Removals of Ministers . The Rev . C . P . Valentine , of Diss , has accepted an invitation to become minister of the Unitarian Congregation at Lewes in Sussex .

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      Dr . Henry Davies has resigned the office of Pastor of the Unitarian Congregation at Tannton .

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      Proceedings of Learned Societies . Royal Society . Sir H . Davy having resigned the office of President to this learned body , there was for some time a considerable stir , and no small measure of anxiety , among the Fellows as to the choice of a

      successor . Some fears were entertained that political principles and attachments , rather than scientific qualifications , might preponderate in the election . The matter has , however , been set at rest , for the present at least , by the elevation to the Chair of a gentJeman whose attainments and character eminently fit him for that honourable situation . The

      annual election of officers took place at the Society ' s Rooms on the 30 th of November , with the following result . President , Davies Gilbert , Esq . Treasurer , Capt . Kater . Secretaries , ( £ r . RogET , I Capt . S-abine .

      Council , Davies Gilbert , Esq ., President Capt . F . Beaufort , R . N . J . G . Children , Esq . Sir H . Davy , Bart . J . F . W . Herschel , Esq . Sir E . Hume , 6 art ., V . P .

      Capt . H . Kater , V . P ., Treasure } J . Pond , Esq ., A . R . W . Prout , M . L > . W . H . Wollaston , M . D ., V . P . Thomas Young , M . D . Francis Baily , Esq . Rev . W . Buckland , D D . Lord Colchester

      J . W . Croker , Esq . W . H . Felton , M . D . Rev . E . Goodenough , D . 1 ) . J . Guillemard , Esq . J . A . Paris , M D . P . M . Roget , M . D . 1 e , . Capt . Sabine / •* " « ' « " «

      Society of Antiouaries . This Society has commenced its svt . tings for the season . Its proceedings thus far have afforded little matter of general interest . Royal Society of Literature . At a late meeting of this Society Mr . Lapdseer i'ead a paper on the Pyramids Of Egypt , In which he maintained the opinion that they were erected by Cheops , hjft brother Cephrenes , and a princess who was the daughter of one of these

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      Intelligence . —Opening of the Unitarian Chapel at Walsnlh 67

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1828, page 67, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2556/page/67/