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MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE.
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Miscellaneous Correspondence.
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE .
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Number of Presbyterian Congrega tions .
To the Editor . Sir , In the Supplement to the Congregational Magazine for last December , there is a very curious and ( if correct ) useful table , exhibiting , or purporting to exhibit , lists of the numbers of Churches , Dissenting Chapels , &c , in every county —of the Schools , National , British , and Sunday—and of the contributions raised from each by Religious Societies .
In several , respects it might be usefully reprinted for the Repository ; perhaps in none more so than in the illustration which it affords of a topic from which it draws great consolation . The author , in exhibiting the subscription to the Unitarian Association , says , £ e It will be doubtless gratifying to the friends of Evangelical truth to perceive how little is done in any county by this confessedly opulent party ( the Unitarians ) towards the extension of their views of
Christianity—a pretty certain indication that they possess but little influence over their own minds . ' My present object is to draw your readers' attention to the ridiculous misrepresentation which ( for want of any proper information on the subject ) appears as regards the Presbyteriaus , including in that title the Unitarian as well as Orthodox and Scotch division of that body .
It is pleasant to see tlie € i Congregational" scribe exhibiting the following consolatory results of different periods : Prexb . Indep . Bapt . Total In 1812 , 252 .. 799 .. 532 .. 1583 In 1827 , 204 .. 1205 .. 805 .. 2212 In 1829 , 258 .. 1289 .. 888 .. 2435
I now subjoin the list exhibited of the number of Presbyterian Congregations iu the different counties , and earnestly beg that you will keep a space in the Repository , which ( as you need not copy any lengthened communications , only giving
us the results ) may be only a corner , for giving better information on this poiut ; and that at least some one reader in every county will ( from his local knowledge or the best estimate he can form ) send you for that corner his report of
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the number of Presbyterian places in his county . The " Congregational" will perhaps then place his future list of Presbyterian brethren in a somewhat higher rank of comparison . T . Counties . No . of Presb . Cong . Bedfordshire None Berkshire 1 Buckinghamshire None
Cambridgeshire 1 Cheshire 12 Cornwall None Cumberland 10 Derbyshire 7 Devonshire 15 Dorsetshire 3 Durham 7 Essex 2 Gloucestershire 4 Hampshire 4 Herefordshire None Hertfordshire 1 Huntingdonshire 1
Kent 4 Lancashire 36 Leicestershire 3 Lincolnshire 2 London and Middlesex 15 Monmouthshire None Norfolk 1 Northamptonshire I Northumberland 50 ? Nottin ghamshire 3 Oxfordshire 3 Rutlandshire None Shropshire 2 Somersetshire 7 Staffordshire 5 Suffolk 2 Surrey 1 Sussex 4 Warwickshire 5 Westmoreland 1 Wiltshire 1 Worcestershire 8 Yorkshire 13 North and South Wales 23
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Intolerance of " Bible Society" Meetings . Southampton , Sir , November 18 , 1829 . As your publication is intended to give a correct statement of the treatment Uiii-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1830, page 63, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2580/page/63/
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