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      men of the legislation of the most polished nation of Europe in the 19 th century , affixes the punishment of death to a profanation of the tost-of sacramental elements . The priesthood is unusually active , and common report ascribes the

      evils under which the country is labouring to the Jesuits . The rites of sepulture are vexatiously refused to the bodies of such persons as during life were suspected of hostility to the Church ; and no occasion is passed by of insulting and troubling the Protestants . Intelligence

      lias been lately received that , in the town of Nerac , in the South of France , containing a population of about 5 , 600 , of which nearly half is Protestant , the Protestants have been deprived of a church , which was granted them in 1804 , and which they have occupied ever since . It was an old convent , and the authorities

      liave summarily determined that it is still church property . On this decision , the Cure * of Nerac took possession of the chapel , ordered Te Deuna to be chaunted in token of victory , and declared from the pulpit of his new conquest , that " the hand of God had scourged the heretics from his temple . "

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      the kingdom , having proved that on the one hand the classification of the Protesv tant livings according to their mepmes , resting almost exclusively on tlie original foundation , required a rectification , because , in process of time , through the altered prices of things , &c ., it has under .

      gone modifications which , in many cases , do not correspond with the extent of the livings ; and that on the other hand not only the number . of livings with small endowments is too large in proportion to the better ones , but there are even some on the present income of which , no clergyman can subsist , without being much distressed in his circumstances .

      Now that these evils may be gradually remedied as far as the existing means will allow , his Majesty , our most gracious King , has been pleased , by a general pJau for the improvement of the Protestant livings , sanctioned by him , to make the following general regulations : —

      All the Protestant livings m the kingdom shall be divided , according to their income , into three principal classes ; each class rising 300 dollars above that below it , and each class to be divided into three subdivisions , differing 100 dollars from each other as far as the uncertainty of the receipts depending on casual circumstances will permit .

      To this end , from 1 st July , 1824 , all Protestant livings which were at that time uuder 300 rix-dollars shall be raised to that value , by a fixed increase , to be paid out of the public treasury either for ever , Or at least till they can be incorporated with other neighbouring parishes . Hanovery Jan . 15 .

      His Majesty , in order to ameliorate the condition of the evangelic parochial clergy , has ordered that they shall be divided into three classes , each of which is to have three subdivisions , in such a mauner that the minimum of their income shall be from 300 to 400 crowns , and the maximum from 1100 to 1200 crowns .

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      Communications have been received from Messrs B . Mardon ; D . Eaton ; R . Aubrey , Jun ; H . B . ; Almost a Christian ; Kenilworth ; a Subscriber ; Anonymous on Quaker Unitarians ; and Anonymous—Poems . We have received two more packets from our American Correspondent , the analyzer .

      " The Puritans / ' and several other papers and some intelligence are , mucn w > our mortification , unavoidably postponed . The following corrections should have been made in the Stanzas on Riego , ( pp-304 , 305 , ) viz . Stan . 1 , line 8 , for " the stranger's sword , " read the invader ' s sward . Stan . 6 , line 3 , for "his fame , " read his faith .

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      P . 296 , col . 1 , 23 lines from the top , dele the comma after the word possess . ^ P . 298 , col , 1 , 21 line * from the top , place a comma after the word " Scripture-

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      384 InteUigence * -+-Foreign : Hantnxer . —Correspondence .

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      HANOVER . We alluded , p . 124 , to some recent regulations of the enlightened King of Hanover , having for their object the equitable administration of Church Revenues . We now give the extracts from the German papers which supplied us -with this information . The higher clergy

      of England and Ireland will not feel much gratitude to the Hanoverian Sovereign for setting an example of intermeddling with ecclesiastical livings . The maximum of the income of the clergy of Hanover must astonish , if it do not alarm , our own dignitaries .

      Hanover , Jan . 14 . The information which has been collected within some years past ^ respecting the incomes of the Protestant livings in

      Correspondence.

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      Errata.

      ERRATA .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1825, page 384, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2537/page/58/