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      f or His Majesty , Ms Heirs , and Successors , from time to time , by Order in Council , to direct and declare by what persons , and in respect of what offices , trusts , and commissions , an ( * * what manner , and at what time , and under what Regulations , the said Declaration shall be made and subscribed : And that

      in case any persou appointed to any office , trust , or commission ) shall neglect or refuse to comply with the several ? Directions and Requisites , so as aforesaid made , the appointment of such person to any such office , trust , or commission , shall be void .

      Clause F . —Provided nevertheless that no act done in the execution of any of the offices , trusts , or commissions , aforesaid , by any such person omitting or neglecting as aforesaid , shall , by reason thereof , be void or voidable as to the rights of any other person not privy to such omission or neglect , or render such last-mentioned persou liable to any action or indictment .

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      Unitarian Marriage Bill . No decision has as yet been received 4 > n the subject of this measure . The superior importance of the great question affecting the civil rights of all Dissenters has left little time for the discussion of the minor interests of particular bodies .

      Meantime we present our readers with the following effusion of the historical knowledge and practical divinity of the Archdeacon and Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Leicester .

      House of Commons . March 14 , 1828 . A petition of the Archdeacon and Clergy of the County and Archdeaconry of Leicester , was presented aud read ; setting forth , that marriage being the foundation of every personal and social relation , as well as ifne perpetual symbol of the unity which is betwixt Christ and

      liia ; church , the JL « e £ islature of this nation lias never , save firing the short interval of the Usurpation , allowed any marriage to be considered as valid ' which hath not % em solemnised by an act of the church , hereby ratifying and perpetuating the urtity * which is between the Church and the Nation , in procuring that every child of the Nation be formall y a child ' and gift of the church ; that , in conceding the fullest toleration td Ha subjects , which is thai ; of not obliging -them to worship in tire congregation- of the Church , ( but admitting w * e pic * -of conscience ; and

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      thereupon allowing them to adopt some other mode , ) the Legislature has still retained this parent bond , not extending that indulgence which she has granted ro the Nonconformists with respect tt > other spiritual offices to this also ; that , whilst the marriage office recognizes , it is true , all the great articles of the faith , ( which it would be treacherous on this as

      on any other occasion of public service to withhold , ) such is the form prescribed , that no explicit confession of faith is required from the subjects of the service , and the only intimation of religious opinion which proceeds from their mouth is conveyed in certain well known , undoubted , a » d unexpounded words of Scripture , the tenour of the office being

      that of acknowledgment , supplication , intercession , and thanksgiving , uttered by the Church in their behalf ; that , as there is no assignable injury in the continuance of the requirement , but a manifest dereliction of grave principle , as well as of nearly unbroken and stronglyguarded usage , in the abandonment o f it , a dereliction which they canuot help regarding as the prelude to many others equally painful and unbecoming , the

      petitioners humbly pray the House not te constitute them mere recorders of aa act which they can £ u £ deem a most derogatory celebration of so holy an institution , much leas to desecrate the institution itself , by pronouncing it a mere civil contract , and its violation consequently » civil , . not religious , misdemeanor ; the petitioners do therefore humbly pray , that the Unitarian Marriage Bill may not pass into a law .

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      Somerset and Dorset fiatJIYearty Association , This next Meeting of this Association will be held atTauntoti , on Good Friday , April 4 th . The Rev . Mr . Ciee , of Bridport , has kindly consented to preach iu the morning , atrd it is probable that there wHl also be an evening service . E . WHITF 1 EM > , Sec .

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      & 8 S Intelligence . — Unitarian Marriage BHL

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      Somerset , fyc ., Unitarian Association The third Annual Meeting of the Somerset , Gloucester , and Wilts Unitarian Association will be held on Friday , April 4 , at Frenchay , near Bristol , when the Rev . Hugh Hutton , of Birmingham , is expected to preach . Service to commence at eleven o ' clock . H .. E . HOWSE , Jun .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1828, page 282, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2559/page/66/