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      Sir J . E . Smith . On March 17 th ,, at his house in Nor * tvich , in the 69 th year of his age , Sir James Edward Smith , M . D . F . It . S ., President of the Linnaean Society , Member of the Academies of Stockholm , Up- » gal , Turin , Lisbon , Philadelphia , New York , &c , &c . We hope next month to present our readers with a memoir of this eminent and highly-valued man .

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      Rev . W . Wklls . In Brattleborough , ( Vermont , U . S of America , ) diedjDec . 12 , the Rev . William Weils , D . D ., aged 83 . This excellent man was in early and mature life the minister of a congregation of Dissenters at Bromesgroye , in England . He emigrated to

      America about thirty-five years ago , and for more than twenty years was the pastor of the church in Brattleborough . § tored with those rich treasures of theological information which aie the products of a long and studious life , he had none of the pride or pomp of erudition ,

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      believing that he c uld in no way bettatf serve the great can « e of truth and pietythan by preaching Christ and him crucifi ? d , by plain and practical illustrations of the pure morality and perfect simplicity of the Christian system While bia capacious mind embraced in its

      benevolent wishes , and m its fervent aspirations * the whole family of man , he acknowledged no human master iu matters of conscience , and still less did he presume to mark out the limits of the power , the justice , or the mercy of tne God and Father of our Lord Jesns- Christ . . The

      " daily beauty" aud moral elevation , of his character were , of course , more peculiarly obvious to his family and immediate neighbourhood ; but he had a name and a praise in many of the churches on both sides the Atlantic ; and a large

      circle of able and candid men , of different denominations , regarded him as combining , in an eminent degree , the prinirtive simplicity of the patriarchal with the paternal dignity of the apostolical cha- * racter . [ From the Brattleboro * Messen ~

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      he was opposed to religious tests of every kind . He wished to extend the principles of an Act , the 5 th of his present Majesty , which" enacted that per- * sons taking office in the Customs and Excise should not be compelled to take any oath but the oath of allegiance . The 1 Corporation Act was passed in the reigr * of Charles II ., with a view to check the sectarians who had deposed Charles I . It contained a clause making it

      imperative on all persons taking offices in corporations , to receive the sacrament of the Church of England . The Commons consented to this clause , as a sort , of setoff to a concession they obtained from the Lords in regard to the absolute power in corporations which they had wished to give the King . It was remarkable that Hume thought the sacramental clause of so little consequence ,, that he omitted it from his abstract of tb < $ Act . The object was indeed not , t <*

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      Corporation and Test Jets . HOUSE OF COMMONS , Tuesda y , Feb . 26 . Afti ; r a great many petitions had been presented from Protestant Dissenters prayfng for the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts , —

      ' Lord John Russell rose to bring forward his promised motion on the subject . It was thirty-eight years since Mr . Fox made a similar motion ; and in that time a great progress in liberality had been made by the public mind , especially among the middle classes . Even Mr . Pitt , who , in 1790 , strenuously opposed the attempt of Mr . Fox , a few jtears afterwards' completely changed his mind , and expressed a wish that the Test and Corporation Acts should be repealed . It might be asked , if he removed these Acts , what of her tests he would propowj ? Jflia .- answer was , that

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1828, page 272, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2559/page/56/