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adherence to the comprehensive and liberal principles on which it was founded . The Session of Parliament opened with a blunder on the part of Ministers , who , by putting a very unsatisfactory and cold-hearted allusion to the distresses of the country into the King ' s Speech , managed to combine against themselves the fragments of several discordant parties in the House of
Commons . Some members voted with them , but protesting on this particular point ; others against them , but with an assurance of general support . They deserved , and ought to have calculated upon , the effect of such an allusion , even if the better principles of humanity and duty had not indicated to them a different course . The amount of distress may have been exaggerated ; but there can be no doubt of the population of this country being in a
condition which most imperatively demands a great and general effort for its amelioration . Physically , mentally , morally , how much is yet to be done for the people before our assuming the title of a Christian nation is any thing better than an impudent mockery ! Unsparing retrenchment , the removal of all restrictions upon commerce and industry , and the means of universal education—these are necessities , at least in the view of Justice and Philanthropy , which cannot be too soon supplied .
It is Dot our intention to record or comment on the proceedings of Parliament , except as they immediately relate to questions of Religious Liberty or Philanthropy On Monday , 22 d , Mr . R . Grant presented a petition from about 600 Jews , residing in and near London , praying for the removal of the civil disabilities which attach to members of their community . These disabilities arise from the operation of the oath of abjuration , and of the declaration imposed by
the Test-Act Repeal Bill . They consist of exclusion from seats in Parliament , the enjoyment of the elective franchise , all corporate and government offices , the profession of the law , and many subordinate situations . Mr . Grant estimated the number of Jews in this country at near 30 , 000 . He was supported by Mr . Ward and Mr . O'Connell , and opposed by Sir R . Inglis , who deprecated the " separation of the last link that existed between the legislature and the religion of the country . " The petition was ordered to
be printed . To us it appears that the removal of gross injustice should rather be regarded as the formation of a link between Legislation and Christianity . At any rate , even the Member for the University of Oxford might consent to spare the new part of this link of the old chain ; that portion which was forged by the Dissenters' Relief Bill . But there are people to whom every atom of intolerance is precious , whether new or old , accidental or designed . It will become Dissenters , who have been the innocent occasion of the Jews
being put into a worse conditipn than heretofore , to watch the progress of this application , and be in readiness to promote it , if needful .
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The Rev . D . Davison requests us to state that the Collection Sermon at Jewin Street , for the Spanish Refugees , preceded that at Finsbury Chapel , referred to in our last number . Communications , some of which would have appeared this month but for the reason above assigned , have been received from N . ; N . I . ; J . T . Bache ; D . ; P . ; Edinensis ; A Catholic ; Philanthropos ; R . S . ; E . Higginson , Jun . ; D . F . ; an Unitarian Convert ; J . ; M . B . ; Unitarian Christian ; a Liberal ; Rev . J . Fullagar ; T . Compton ; Rev . H . Clarke ; Philanthropos ; Rev . H . Bowles ; A . E . ; and Pedagogus Clericus , who should forward his testimonials to the Unitarian Association Committee .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1830, page 216, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2582/page/72/
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