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    ~ Lancashire t tyc , Missionary Society * The Annual Meeting of the Lancashire and Cheshire Unitarian Missionary Society will he held iu Manchester on Good Friday next , April 4 . A sermon will be preached in the morning , in the

    Cross Street Chapel , in aid of the funds of the Society , by the Rev . J . Brettell , of Rotherham ; the service to commence at eleven o ' clock ; aud in the afternoon the members aud friends of the Society will meet in the School-room of the Mosley-Street Chapel for the dispatch of business .

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    London University * On Wednesday , Feb . 27 , a very numerous meeting of the proprietors of the London University was held at the Freemasons' Hall , Lord Aucklaud in the Chair . Among the Members of the Council preseut were— -the Dukes of Norfolk and Leinster , Mr . Brougham , Mr . Warfourton , Mr . J « Smith , Sir Francis

    Burdvtt , Mr . Hobhonse , Alderman Wuod ; Dr . Birkbeck , Mr . J . B . Lousada , and Mr . Macauley . — -A very interesting report was read . It stated that the original amount of capital subscribed would fee sufficient to bring the scheme of academical' education into full operation . The building would be sufficiently ready in October next for the commencement

    of studies . The Council had abandoned the . idea of forming a botanical garden , and , with respect to the anatomical lectures , recommended the foundation of a hospital over which they should Uave controul , iu the vicinity of the University , —The balance-sheet was theu read , from which it " appeared that the total receipts , including donations , amounted ,

    © n the 31 st of December , 1827 , to 71 , 20 ^/ , while the expenditure was 58 , 1157 . 12 * ., leaving a balance of 13 , 089 / . 8 « .-r-The ttev . Mr . Burdbr , in the course of a discussion which ensued , suggested the establishment of Lectures on the general evidences of Christianity , without touching upon the doctrines of particular sects , —as a means of meeting the objection to the University on account of its

    omission . of theological instruction . — Mr . Brougham , however , dissented from this suggestion ; he saw no difference between lectures and the appointment of Protocol's for religious studies . No two sects could be found to agree in their dennUton of what Christianity was . —Dr « Birkacck afterwards recommended au appropriation from their funds for the erection of a hospital near the University ; but after some conversation , tli *

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    meeting appeared to think a . separate subscription for that purpose would be a better plan . —Mr . John Smith and JVIr Warburtoti immediately gave 100 / . each towards building a hospital .

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    Society for Propagating the Gospel . ( From the Examiner . ) In answer to a question in a recept number , —What are the objects of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts ? I beg leave to state that the Society was originally incorporated by a charter from King William 111 ., for the maintenance of a learned

    aud orthodox Clergy , to propagate the Gospel in his Majesty ' s Foreign Dominions . According to their own reports , the affairs of the Society have been wisely managed , and that it has prosecuted with unwearied zeal the purpose of its incorporation , and its missionaries have disseminated a kuowledge of the gospel

    over the great Continent of North Amcr rica ; where , it is pretended , ^ ui increasing- affection for the clergy and Church of England is everywhere visible ;—asr sertions which caunot be believed by the persons who make them : for it is a matter of lamentation among the clergy in Euglaud , " that they are men whose opinions are reluctantly received . "

    Eye witnesses , however , to the state of Church affairs in America , tell a very different tale . Dr . Mayhevv , who wrote in 1760 , affirms , " that there is less religion in those parts of America where the Society ' s money has been expended , than there would have been had it been

    sunk in the ocean . ' * As it was in tho . se days , so it is now . " Large sums , " as the Editor of the Morning Chronicle has justly observed , " are spent on Episcopal clergymen ( whose talents and acquirements would never render them objects of choice ) $ and the consequence is , that the Church is rich in pastors without flocks .

    It is not generally known , that through the representations of this Society , more than Fift y Thousand Pounds from . the public purse are annually , sent to the North American Colonies alone , for the erection of Churches and the mainte ^ nance of a long list of Bishops , Bishops '

    Chaplains , Military Chaplains , Archdeacons , Ecclesiastical Commissaries ,. . and nominal Missionaries , in a country where nine -tenths of the . population are . Dissenters , and consequently they preach , if they do preach at all , to nearly , empty walla ; and for the building of . colleges and flcuoolhouaes , and providing pipfes-j

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    Intelli gence . —London- University , £ 83

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1828, page 283, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2559/page/67/