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    youQ # muriate *^ to tl \ £ nseful directionsforstudy , the fruits of experience , winch he has given to pulpit students , and to the . great excellence of his personal character . We said of Mr . Orton in our First volume , p * 258 , and we repeat in our Last , that he \ v&s an

    ad-» Mrer and imitator of the early and arore rigid Nonconformists , and may indeed be denominated not improperly THE LAST OF THE PURITANS , " For this eulogium we remember receiving

    at the time , now twenty years ago , a reproof from Mr . S . Palmer * tbe editoT of the " Letters to Dissenting Ministers , " in the review of which this sentence appeared , on the ground that we had attributed to Mr . Orton an

    emclusive liOfKvur * August . Dr ^ Jo k rir Taylw . P . 483 . The scandalous tract in which this learned and pious divine was described as being in hell-flames 5 was by John Macgowan * minister of the

    Baptist congregation in Devonshire Square , London , the same author who did not hesitate to publish a tract with the profane title , " Jesus Christ the Eternal God , or an Infamous fmpo $ ~ tor . ' The name of this firebrand is

    now nearly forgotten . We hope Mr . Edward Taylor is mistaken in saying that the " Vision" above referred to " is still plated and circulated by Calvinists / ' the later editions having

    a plate descriptive of the scene imagined . Certain weare that the majority of the respectable ministers holding Calvinism in the metropolis would disavow this wicked fraud upon vulgar readers .

    " Result'ofGeneral Election * P . 503 . The state of the Irish representation with regard to the Catholic question is thus calculated in the newspapers : "A table has been published of the late elections in Ireland , with

    respect to their influence on the question of Catholic Emancipation , from which it appears , that of the county members returned ,, 44 are for , 16 against , and 4 doubtful ; of the city

    members , 9 are for , and 2 against ; and of the borough members , 11 are for , 10 against , and 4 doubtful . With respect to the old members not reelected 17 wfere / Jw , and 18 against Catholic Emancipation . " *< Rev . Mr . Snow" P . 505 . This gentleinaQj who has now returned to

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    tftfc b ^ soin of the Churchy \ va 3 ^ of the party that about ten years ago [ see Moiu Respos . XIV 143 and ' 433 also , XIV , 21 v 223 seceded from 4 he Establishment , under the guidance af the Rev . Geo , Baiiag . They became , generally , Sabellians , giving up

    the third person of the Tmityi Some of thenVMr . Snow amongst ti * e rest became Baptists . Most of them have * \ ve hear , returned to th&r former prir ^ ciplesv thougii all have not reunited themselves to the Churcti of EnglamL Mr . Evaiis , of JohnStreet , King ' s Road , has recanted hisAntitrinitarianisntt Mr

    Kemp has left off preaching anclis gone again into Parliament ; and Mr . Snow ' s penitence has satisfied the Bishop of Bristol . What else dan be expected from mysticism when it is let alone } Had these seceders been persecuted , they would probably htave remained constant in their Nonconfornaity , and have been at the head of a new and

    large body of Nonconformists * Septemb * eii . American Sense af the Word Solicitor . P . 525 . From the paragraph in our Transatlantic correspondent ' s communication , under the head " Intelligence" it would appear

    that his countrymen use the word < c solicitor" in its etymological meaning . In England , the term is synonymous with attorney at law . Ati English solicitor would think it odd to be asked to collect names of subscribers

    aad subscriptions for a religious as * sociution . Persons thus employed upon ; a salary are invariably callod Collectors . " Character of Job Orton : ' P . 531 . Mn Jevans is informed that the

    authority for the anecdote relating to Mr . Orton , Mon . Repos . IV . 337 , was . the late Rev . W . Severn , of Hull . ?' ¦ BUhop ffeber . ' " P . 564 . . It / b omitted in this short obituar ^ accGuflt that Bishop Heber published a ftw years ago a complete edition of tae works of Bishop JereBoy Taylor , with a life of the author . TWlife has sto « e

    been published separately in two small volumes , and is worthy of both Bishop Taylor and Bishop Heber . " Lotd Giffordr P . 666 . The following particulars of Lord Gifforo fe life arc from the newspapers . •* His Lordship was a native of txeter . His father was a respectable tradesman , carrying on the grocery business in that city > and dted , l « aV *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1826, page 708, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2555/page/8/