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      Glasgow University . We are glad to learu that Mr . Thomas Campbell , who U not more distinguished as a poet than as the friend aud a 4-vocate of liberal principles , has been unanimously chosen Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow * This choice is in the Students , and the election is a cheering proof of the devotion of these youtha

      to the cause of civil and religious liberty . They have chosen Mr . Campbell against the wishes , it is said , of the Professors . The Tories would rather have had Mr , Canning , notwithstanding his late Whig tendencies : he is a Minister of State , and there are abundant believers , both in Scotland and England , in the worth of every minister for the time being .

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      Glasgow Unitarian Missionary Association . At a Meeting of the Uuitariau DivU nity Students of the Glasgow University x held Nov . 15 , 1826 , Rev . George Harris in the Chair , It was resolved * 1 . That a Missionary Society be formed , and be called the Glasgow University Unitarian Missionary Society .

      2 . That the object of the Society be to disseminate the truths of the gospel , by preaching and distributing religious tracts at the places round Glasgow where no regular minister is stationed . Our correspondent informs us that the places where this Association intend to commence their operations are Paisley , Carluke and Falkirk .

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      Scotch Church System . It seems that there are many respectable people in Scotland , who think that their Church System wants Reform as well as ours of the South . They have established an A nti-Patronage Society ; and at a late meeting , Mr . Sinclair made the following remarks , which will apply quite as well to England as to Scotland : " We hear the inhabitants of Scotland

      universally panegyrized as being a religious , moral , loyal and well-educated people ; and yet they are excluded from the exercise of every elective right , with a jealousy as anxious , and a vigilance as unremitting , as if they were the most disloyal and irreligious of any people . They have Magistrates over whose appointment they have no controul ; they have Representatives , in whom they have

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      no election ; they have Pastors , in tho choice of whom they are so far from being consulted , that an individual , most justly obnoxious and unpopular , may be forced upon them , if necessary , by the point of the bayonet . My brethren ,

      surely those things ought not to be . For my own part , ( am decidedly convinced this country never will attain that high moral feeling a religious people ought to exemplify , till a popular spirit be infused into all our institutions , both civil and religious , "

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      FRANCE , The Jesuits . The disputes or discussions relative to the re-establishment of those good fathers , the disciples of St . Ignatius , of Loyola , which have so often made us yawn , are now beginning to make us laugh . Letters received by persons in

      Paris from their friends at Amiens , state , that the procession of the vow of Louis XIII . has been the occasion of considerable merriment 5 and that the same Jesuits who duped M . Dupin , at St . Acheuil , have played a trick upon the Cour Royale of Amiens . The secret satisfaction enjoyed by a sarcastic people like the French , can easily be imagined ,

      at seeing an illustrious body whom they are accustomed to respect and even to fear , publicly duped in a manner which admits of no excuse . Last year there was a mission at Amiens , and the Cour Royale positively refused to join the procession of the missionaries , ( or Jesuits , which is the same thing , ) who were going to fix up a cross . This year the

      Jesuits convoked the Cour Royale to attend the procession of the vow of Louis XIII . * On the same day and at the same hour when Charles X . was carrying the statue of the Virgin in his arms to Notre Dame , the Cour Royale of Amiens was playing as ludicrous a part . The procession , of which this Court formed a portion , had no sooner left the church , than the good counsellors of Amiens discovered , to their great mortification ,

      ? hi one of his eccentric fits , Louis XII f ., who was somewhat crazy , took it into his head to place the kingdom of France under the protection of the Holy Virgin , and the object of the above-mentioned procession wastJto pay court to the Virgin . Charles X . this year presented a silver statue of the Virgin to the church of Notre Dame , in Parto .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1827, page 141, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1793/page/61/