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^ a bject ap pointed Cor conversation ( Reason * for and against Religious Estehlishfljents ) should vfce postponed «» e < & ? . After a short discussion , this proposition was put and earned . About forty persons , sat down to tea at the King aud Queen . Dr . Morell having takeu ttoe Chair ,, a lively and
interestiag conversation took place on the question — % t Does Religion consist of any thing more than Moral Obligations ?" Several gentlemen delivered their sentiments , and the meeting was concluded by an acconnt of the success attending an attempt to open a place of Unitarian worship at Scannes Hill . Lewes , March 9 , 1829 .
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Removals of Ministers . The Rev . J . H . Ryland has accepted an invitation to become the minister of the congregation of the Newington- 'Greeu Meeting .
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Presentation of Dr . Lardner * * Works to the Rev . Henry Montgomery . The Unitarian Christian Congregation of Sajfbrd , Manchester , have recently presented to the Rev . Henry Montgomery a copy of Lardner ' s Works . The following inscription , written in the work , expresses sentiments in the spirit of which thousands of the friends of religious libertyia this country will heartily
concur : " Presented to tbe Rev . Henry Montgomer y , by the Society of Unitarian Christians assembling for public worship in the IJuitamn # f eetiHgp-house , Green-Gate , Sal ford , Manchester ;—a Testimonial of their sense ^ f the obligations conferred tipon them by his eloquent and effective services on their behalf at their
Anniversary , held December , 1828 ; and more especially of the admiration which they feel off the integrity and talent with whichf in trying circumstances and evil days , he defended , in his native country , the great arid Important cause of Religious Liberty . " Manchester , Feb . 1829 . "
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Catholic Question . Parliamentary Proceedit& 8 . House op Commons . Monday , March 2 $ rd . Mr . , Ban # es divided the Committee upoira . pt amfjn 4 uiei » $ to the effect of excluding , C ^ hp )| c 3 ; from Parliafi ^ ent—for , the tunepdjmejit B 4 , against ' \ Jk 2 Q 7 . Sir itoftpitT Jn < h , js propqted , tfiat the words
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- " ecclesiastical as well as civil" should be added tq the clause of the oath which bound Catholics ' to respect the present settlement of . property—negatived by 27 & t © 114 , Mr . Estcourt proposed that the , words " the present ( Dbufch establishment as established by law" should be inserted in the clause in which Catholics Abjured all intention of interfering with the existing establishments—negatived by 262 to 99 .
Tuesday , March 24 th Mr , Robkrt Dun das , Sir Robert Inglis , and Mr . Thant , attempted to exclude the claqse which affected Scotland , on the ground that it violated the Union Treaty , by admitting Papists . to office— - the amendment negatived by 158 to 45 .
The Marquis of Chandos moved that Catholics should be excluded from the office of First Lord t > if the Treasury—/ or Prime jyiinister , as his Lordship understood it)— -negatived by 218 to . 98 . By a clause in the Bill , a Catholic Minister is precluded from advising on ecclesiastical affairs ; and hence the office
of Prime Minister , it was observed by Mr . Peel , is so much shorn of the patronage which forms its chief strength , as to render it improbable that a Roman Catholic would be called to till it . However , to obviate the possibility of such an appointment , aud the objections to the exercise of Catholic patronage by a Com mission , Mr . ' Pm carried an am end men t to vest it , for the time , in the Archbishop of Canterbury . .
Thursday % March 26 th . The Irish Freehold 3 ill passed the Committee . . Mr . Moore moved various amendments—1 st . To extend tjie oneration of the Bill to all boroughs , cities , and corporate towns in Ireland : 2 d . " 1 * 0 except the Protestant forty-shilling freeholders from its Operations : 3 jjU That the qualification should be raised from 10 / . to 20 / 1 The first and second amendments withdrawn , aud the last negatived by 112 to 16 . The Relief Bill waft read a third ; time in the House of Commons on Monday , March 30 , after a long debate . The Marquis of Chandos divided the House 611 an amendment that the Bill be read six months hence ; which was carried against
him by 320 votes to 142—majority 178 . Colonel Sibthorpe was still more signally beaten in a motion to exclude Roman Catholics frOru the corporati 6 tisnegatived by 233 to 17 . Mr . Sadler wo , iin ; Q > ipJiU 9 Tainent of his parly in the following strains : r ^ tr , the people pf England want no
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1829, page 361, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2572/page/65/
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