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      Intelligence,

      INTELLIGENCE ,

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      Corporation and Test Acts . The United Committee have held frequent meetings , and their circulars and forms of petitions are now , we trust , widely extended over the kingdom . Deputations from the Committee have had interviews with Lord Holland and Mr . John Smith , and a correspondence has also taken place with Lord John Russell , who is absent from town . It is intended

      to give the earliest notice of a motion m the House of Commons , which will probably be made towards the end of February , so that no time should be lost in sending up petitions .

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      Marriage Act . The Association Committee has settled the form of a bill , which it is proposed to introduce iu the House of Lords immediately . It is founded on the former basis , to which it has been found best to revert , of marrying at Unitarian places of worship .

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      Beverley Meeting of the Clergy . A numerous meeting of the Clergy of that Archdeaconry was held at the Tiger Irin , Beverley , on Wednesday , to take into consideration the propriety of peti > - tioning Parliament against certain pro * -

      visions in the Unitarian Marriage Bill . The Rev . J . Gilby was called to the Cftiair . A series of resolutions , of which the following is the substance , were passed , and petitions to Parliament founded thereon were adopted :

      " That this meeting have Viewed with alarm certain provisions contained in a Bill intended to be submitted to Parliament , entitled , * A Bill for granting Relief to certain Persons Dissenting from the Church of England , in respect to the Mode of celebrating Marriage . ' " That those provisions of the said

      Bill which degrade marriage from a religious to a civil contract , are , in the opinion of this meeting , at direct variance with the doctrines of the Church of England ; and , if passed into a law , will establish a precedent highly dangerous to the stability of the institution of marriage , and , in its consequences , to the best interests of society .

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      " That we consider those provisions which require us to publish the banus and register the celebration of the marriages contracted under the powers of the said Bill , as offensive to our consciences and degrading to our characters ; offensive to our consciences , as compelling us to assist in an act at va * riance with the doctrines of our church :

      * JMUVV Tf M . VRX Vilv > UV / VV 1 1 UV . U \ JM . Ulll VHU 1 Ks * M ^ and degrading to our characters , as re * quiring us to become the clerks and criers of those who reject our ministry , and the beautiful service of the Liturgy as idolatrous . "

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      London University . A rumour is very prevalent among the clergy , that it is intended to make application to the Legislature for ttie endowment of a college in the metropolis , which , like the other great universities , shall be under the controul , and dedicated only to the purposes , of the Established Church . Several private in *

      dividuals , it is rumoured , have expressed their intentions , should the Legislature adopt this idea , to found professorships and scholarships , and to devote sums for annual prizes . This establishment , the heads for the proposed arrangement for which have been already submitted to the hierarchy of the church , is thought necessary , in consequence of the

      determination of the planners and promoters of the " Dissenters' University , " to persevere in the prosecution of this undertaking . The London University , it is falsely said , was not only conceived in Dissenterism , but all its appointments of professors and assistants are , with one or two exceptions , Dissenters . It is hence inferred , that the interests of the

      state religion require some security against the influence of the new University . The fact , however , is not so . Had it originated in Dissenterism , it would not be matter of wonder , when Dissenters are excluded from Oxford and Cambridge . It happens , however , that not one of the professors elected is a Dissenter /* Nine in ten are

      Church-of-* [ Is our respectable correspondent , who may be supposed to have had access to the best information , prepared to

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1828, page 138, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2557/page/66/