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      was Instructed by the Bishop of Down , ( Di \ Mant , ) to prevent his undertaking &vf religious service , Presbyterian Prayer in the Churchyard of the Established Church uot being tolerated by law . — Canonically , the Irish . Bishops may be

      right , but there is not surely a man m the three Kingdoms -who will say that they are not morally and politically wrong . Their intolerance will , we presume , lead both Catholics and Presbyterians to provide Burial Places of their own . Consistency requires this of them ;

      as it does of the Protestant Dissenters of England and Wales , and especially of the Unitarians , who cannot attend the Burial-Service of the Established Church

      without hearing and appearing to join in prayers which contradict the first principle of th ^ ir faith , the first principle , as they conscientiously believe , of Revealed Religion , h . 1 '

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      The Westmoreland newspapers record the recent death of an industrious and saving clergyman , of the name of Mathson , at the age of 90 , the minister of Patteesdale , in that county , for 60 years . During the early part of his life , his benefice brought him only £ 12 a year ; it

      was afterwards increased to £ 18 , which it never exceeded . On this income he married , brought up four children , educated a son at the University , and left upwards of £ 1000 behind him . With that singular simplicity and inattention to forms which characterise a country life , he read the burial service over his

      mother . He married his father to a second wife , aud afterwards buried him also . He published his owu banns of marring

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      A Society has ^ been formed at North Shields , and similar ones are said to be forming in several places in Northumberland and Durham , for Mutual Protection

      against Clerical Claims . Their object is to establish a fund for defence against the illegal encroachments of the clergy , in their exaction of what are called Easter Offerings , Surplice Fees and Church Dues .

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      The Rev . William Buckland , Professor of Mineralogy and Geology in the University of Oxford , was , at the late Anniversary Meeting , elected President of the Geological Society of London .

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      A monument is about to be erected in the Fir Park , Glasgow , to the great Reformer , John Knox .

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      At the Open Meeting of the Committee of the British Catholic Association , held at the Freemason ' s Tavern , on Monday , the 5 th of January , 1824 ; The Earl of Shrewsbury in the Chair ;

      It was Resolved—That the exclusion of the British Catholics from the Elective Franchise , and the office of Justice of the Peace , is a penal infliction severely felt by the British Catholics , and wholly unmerited by them .

      Resolved . — That the thanks of the British Catholics be presented to the members of both Houses of Parliament who have advocated our cause ; and that they be earnestly requested to continue their exertions for the removal of all the disabilities under which we labour . ^^^^ Mi ^^^ tfflfllttfl ^ Hfl ^ M ^^^^^ tt " **

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      The following is from an American paper , under the head of Quebec , Nov .

      5 , 1823 : " Yesterday , an inquest was taken in the gaol , on Anne Donohue , alias Goldsmith , who had been committed on the 18 th of August last , and died early on Sunday morning . She had scarcely been out of bed since her confinement , and died of extreme debility . The Jury , composed half of prisoners ,

      in conformity to the statute , returned a verdict that she died by the visitation of God . This unfortunate woman was the great niece of Oliver Goldsmith * the celebrated poet , and grand-daughter of his brother , the clergyman , to whom he dedicated his poem , * The Traveller / and whom he has depicted as <« ¦¦ a man to all the country dear , u passing rich with forty pounds a year , ' *

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      The personi calling themselves Evangelical in Eugtand , are wont to represent a missionary spirit as the test of vital godliness , forgetting that if in this respect they are better than some others , the Roman Catholics are much better

      than they . The following intelligence is from Rome , dated Jan . 22 : " According to the accounts of the Missionaries in the Eastern Kingdom of Tonquirt , Christianity makes great progress there . The Mandarins of the first and second

      class favour the labours of the Missionaries and protect them in the exercise of their religion , the disturbers of which are rigorously punished . The learned men , in particular , are easily instructed , and break their idols to pieces after a few conferences with the Missionaries .

      In June 1821 , a whole District sent Deputies to ask to be instructed in the Christian faith . " ^ m ^^ m ^ '

  • Citation
    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1824, page 123, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2521/page/59/