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      ttrmrable both to the minister and those who are miuistered to . * ' The two professions of lawyer and physician depend ou their utility for their support , and an efficient clergy would be

      amply and cheerfully recompensed by the people , if teft to * their voluntary . support . Instead of bei » g , as aow , the scourges of the land , and obliged to force a tax so unequal as to half starve the working clergy , and over-pay the indolent .

      4 < May it then please your Honourable House to take the above premises into consideration , atfid free the Chinch from her unholy connexion with oppressive taxation , which uow dishonours and defiles her . Give her ministers the opportunity of receiving- at the hands of her

      members such compensation as their real merits shall secure ; thus awarding to the diligent and exemplary the pecuniary testimony of their services , which , is now in many cases swallowed up by the luxurious and neglectful clergy who disgrace

      our Establishment . Or , should these suggestions not seem to your Honourable House a sufficient remedy for the glaring acts complained of , a ward , such a reform as in your pious care of the Church of England you may think fit . And your petitioners will ever poray , &c . &c . "

      The Editor or his correspondent adds , " It is very well known that the Evangelical or Calviuistic members of the Church are desirous of a reform iu the Establishment . Part of their views it is thought are stated in the above petition . If they are really anxious for what they call au " Evangelical Reformation , " never was there a more favourable time for

      proposiug it to the Legislature , than during the period of general want . Any bonus to the people would be popular - and , after all , the clergy would be sufficiently , nay superfluously endowed , while

      the surplus would supply a portion of the national taxation . Let every incumbent enjoy his incumbency ; but as each drops , let it revert to the occupiers of the soil , and let them make arrangements with the new minister for his future serdo

      v . ^ those want a physician for their souls , or who prefer oue school of teachers to another , act as they now do wjth the mediciners of the body , vk . choose whom they like , and pay him they employ . "

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      churchefc and chapels have been Completed , with accommodation for 1 lj 6 &Q ? peraofcre in pews , and for r 15 * 220 poeir persons In free seats : farther , that seventeen churches and chapels are now ia ? progress , six of which will be complete ^

      in the course of the present , and seveu m the ensuing , year , and that plans have been received for eleven other churches and chapels , atid that plans have not bee a received for seven churches and chapels proposed to be built . The commission have proposed to make grants in aid of

      building sixty six new churches , and cha * pels , and four of these are » ow in progress . They are also proceeding in , that * part of their duty which relates to tb # expediency of dividing parishes , and for obtaining additional burial-grounds for certain parishes * . They have issued Exchequer Bills to the amount of jg 7 ? 7 , 2 € O .

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      Result of General Election as to the Catholic Question * Of 558 Members who sat in the Jast Parliament for Great Britain , There have been re -elected * . . * ,. 417 New Members -.. ' . .. 141 Of those re elected there haVe

      voted for tjhe secon $ r £ adinjj of ' '' the Emancipation Jj ^ l <> f it % " ; ' * ,-i £ 87 Against it e ... ; ... :. ;; .. - , £ •* : \ ;' ^ g Did not vote ..., ,. „ ., . . . . (; £ J 4 Thus we have a certain data to guicte ws a . s to those whose names appear in

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      Int&iligence . —MiscelfaneouL $ 08

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      Bible Society . ¦ > ...... ..... , . « 7 . . .... . , This Society held in May ita annual meeting , at which a legacy from the late Bishop of Durham df ^ 500 was atv-Houneed * The receipts for the yea * ending Lady-day amounted to about . £ 83 , 000 ,

      which is a tailing off from the lastf year of £ -l&fl $ (} . This defalcation is partly awing to the secession of some of the Scottish Branches on account of tf | e affair of the Apocryph a * The Edinburgh Bxblfc Society 6 ^ t s ^ ij ! re 4 tHis ? qi ^ estiaiu and its members are dissatisfied

      with the result ? , Npt contend ; wim ; j ^ e Resolution abandoning the Apoeiyp | i # , they want a declaration that the Soidety will not hojd connexion wi , ti \ f ariy < Jonfdnental Societies which qi . F ^ tt } p ^ e ft , % \ vd to secure their anti apocrypl ^ l d esi gn s they demand that the I ^ oivdpn- (^^ uiwr&e ^^^

      shall be new-modelled ax ^ d i pg ; 9 ^ members in whom they qa ^ fi <) tj ^ s ^ o this end , place confidence . A deputation from the Parent Society was , « H 3 $ t tai > Fmg the Scots to reason , but $ r \ i \ k , onjLy-partial success ; How many Bibles * in pecuniary value , were swallowed up by the expenses of this Deputation *! ^ v

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      New Churches . The Commissioners have published the Sixth Report . In the last . Report it was atatied that forty-she uew churches ?»« chapel * had been completed ^ afford-!« S accot atwod ^ km for 7 ^^ 568 persons , jncluding 4 ^ 343 fme w » t » for th € jwor , 11 now reported that eighteen other

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1826, page 503, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2551/page/59/