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    whether having a ( lead fund they should assist it . To do so was to promote even their principal object , the" Repeal of the Test and Corporation * Acts . It would have been much more pleasant to hav £ had the state of the fund declared . It was very inconsistent to announce by their acts that they had funds for such an investment , yet attempt to conceal their having funds at all .

    Mr . Wilks opposed the resolution . He pro f essed himself one o f the wannest supporters on principle of the London University , but the warmer his feelings were , . and the greater the importance of the object proposed to be assisted , the more should he mistrust himself , lest the warmth o f the moment should lead him

    from his better judgment . He considered it no investment , as there was not likely to be . any return , at least he never contemplated it on his own shares ; and as a donation he thought it would be a most dangerous precedent to make it , at all events , without full deliberation . He therefore moved as an amendment the postponement of the matter to the next General Meeting , and , that notice should be given of it to each Deputy .

    Two other Deputies supported the amendment . They thought the fund should not be diverted from its original object without more consideration . Mr . Richard Taylor said , if he had any notion of the object of the fund , it was for the protection of Dissenters from persecution and oppression for opinions' sake , and he could imagine no greater persecution than the one as to education in our Universities . He should

    be very sorry , if , as a Dissenter , he had not considered this subject long ago . He must assume for their credit and honour , that every one there had been considering it , and that no one could venture to say he was taken by surprise

    on such a point . It appeared the strangest perverseness in Dissenters thus to come and throw cold water aud delays in the way of the benevolent views of so many friends of liberty and education , who were standing forward in so good a work . Those who had not the means

    of assisting individually should rejoice in such an opportunity of supporting it . As to not knowing the state of the fund , whose fault was it ? The Treasurers and the Committee did not conceal the fund , it was the order of the general body that they should . The accounts had been once moved for and lost by a great majority . If it was their wish to know the fund they could easily vote it . Mr . Montgomery stated ,, that he

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    should oppose the motion and vote for the amendment , as the accounts were not produced . Mr . E . Taylor complained that the last and other speakers , who professed themselves favourable to the measure , but voted against it , had not taken ther fairest course on this occasion . He had moved for the production of the accounts

    on purpose to prevent that questiou clashing with this , and had withdrawn his motion with their concurrence , and at the geueral request aud feeling that it should be so withdrawn , and that the two questions would not be blended . If persons really favourable to this disposal of the money voted against it on another ground , they ought to have brought that point to a vote first .

    Mr . Wilks having replied on his amendment , The Chairman put the question , and on a show of hands declared the amendment carried . Thanks were then voted to the Chairman and the other officers for their services during the past year , and the Chairman returned thanks .

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    Anniversary of the opening of the Salford Chapel . On Sunday and Monday , December 31 and January 1 , was held the Second Anniversary of the opening of the Unitarian Meeting-House , Salford , Manchester . The religious service * on the occasion were conducted by the Rev . Dr . Hutton , of Leeds , and the Rev . R . B . Aspland , of

    Chester . They were of no ordinary excellence , and were heard with deep interest by numerous and respectable audiences . Collections to the amount of £ bO were made towards the liquidation of the debt on the chapel . £ 350 of debt , however , still remain , for the discharge of which , the Salford Society appeal to the liberality of the Unitarian public .

    After divine service on Monday , about 200 persons sat down to dinner , in the school room connected with the chapel ; Ottiwell Wood , Esq ., of Liverpool , in the Chair . To that gentleman the meeting was greatly indebted for the animation and interest which attended it . The feelings that prevailed , the sentiments that were uttered , were of the most gratifying character .

    The Rev . J . Beard took occasion ta congratulate the company on the present aspect of affairs , in connexion with the Unitarian Church in Salford . In comparing the condition of the Sunday-school at the present time , with that of the

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    Intelligence . Salfbrd Chapel Anniversary . 137

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1827, page 137, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1793/page/57/