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    England-men , and one or two are of the Established Church of Scotland . But granting the assertion to be true , if the professors were bound to inculcate the tenets of the Dissenters , or any doctrines averse to , or dissonant from , those of the State Church , the argument would hold good ; but the fact is , it professes

    to inculcate uo religious tenets whatever , religion being entirely excluded from its course . Now , how a student ' s religious principles can be affected by listening to a lecture upon mediciue , surgery , or auy other science , delivered by a Dissenter , it is difficult to conceive . This point , however , should be established by those who-maiutain that the State Church- requires protection against the London University . New Monthly Mag ,, Jan . 1828 .

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    Trials for Blasphemy . Contrary to all expectation , the City of London , ( perhaps its Solicitor , who may not like to see bright prospects clouded , ) though it does not choose , or is ashamed , to bring up the offenders it couvicts for judgment , goes on to outrage public opinion by fresh prosecutions , which , after one successful trial , would naturally seem wholly useless except for the purpose of more widely diffusing the

    blasphemy . Perhaps it is thought wise to try a legal experiment as to the multiplicatiou of offences , by thus ( after getting a man found guilty of blasphemy ) trying to get him also convicted of conspiring to blaspheme , A full special jury not having attended , the Attorney-General ( glad , it would appear , to withdraw on any terms ) availed himself of his option not to proceed , by which the matter goes over to March .

    On the same day , the 17 th of January , a petition was presented on the subject to the Common Council . Almost all the speakers concurred in reprobating the prove this assertion ? In the official printed list of elected professors there are at least two learned gentlemen who , if we mistake not , are English Protestant Dissenters , and would not scruple to

    avow their ** Dissenterism , " if called upon . And may we not ask , what are all the members of the Scotch Esta ^ blished Church , and the numerous sece * ders from it , when they have crossed t \\ $ Tweed , but Diseenten , Dissenters from the Established Church of England and Ireland ; and are they not as subject to the laws affecting Dissenters aa any English Nonconformist ? Edit , ]

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    folly and impolicy of the proceedings . Alderman Atkins , the prosecutor , was received as he deserved ; and the lea * son will probably produce its effect .

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    Salford Chapel Anniversary . The friends and supporters of the Unitarian Chapel , Green-gate , Salford , dined together on the 4 th of January , at the School-room connected with the Chapel . The Rev . W . Shepherd was in the Chair , and about one hundred and

    twenty persons sat down to table . After dinner the meeting was ably addressed by the Chairman , by Ottiwell Wood , Esq ., of Liverpool ; the Rev . Messrs . Robberds , J . J . Tayler , Beard , Brettell , &c , &c , and the afternoon passed with much enjoyment , affording a high intellectual treat to those who were enabled to be present .

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    Intelligence . —Foreign : Russia . 139

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    RUSSIA . Persecution of the Jews in Russia . In our last number we inserted at length the Ukase lately issued by the Emperor of Russia against the Jews in his dominions . The Jews in London

    had held a meeting on the subject , to consider what relief might be afforded to their suffering brethren . On the first of January , a meeting of Christianswas convened by public advertisement for a similar purpose , at the Ring ' s Head Tavern in the Poultry , at which Apsley Pellatt ,

    Esq ., presided . Several gentlemen addressed the meeting , expressing their abhorrence of persecution , and their anxiety to do something to avert or mitigate the evils which menaced the Russian , Jews . The following Resolutions were then agreed to :

    I . That the persecutions to which the Jews are subjected by the late Russian Ukase , are as unjust towards that illtreated people , as they are repugnant to the spirit of generous Christianity , which forbids its professors to persecute or prosecute any class of their fellow-crea- ' tures .

    II . That this meeting commeuds the spirit which has led the Jews in this country to meet together , for tjie purpose of expressing their sympathy with their afflicted brethren , and approves their de > termination to protest against those op - pr ^ ssions , of which they have for so long a t * me beeu made th

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1828, page 139, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2557/page/67/