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    Kifigtm Goltege ^ Landon * . ?" * , ofl >* "H ^ vhqsb 03 b < nao * j , - : » fc . \ n " Re » 6 l < ve 8 < " mor ? Imn ^ h - •» ' nw . tiV-tnv . - .

    « That ^^^^ Hp ^ iffRWlc M * r cation is jn ^ rjktigon ^ fli ^ f ^ nc ^ s , of the Christian | teWgjo » ai d the inculcation of those ftoctrjaes and Duties which are professed and taught by the Established Church . " Then follows a list of gentlemen requested to assist the Committee for promoting subscriptions in the city , including the name , Thomas Alers Han key , Esq ,

    Sir , This advertisement , of which I send an extract , appeared lately in the London newspapers . Allow me to ask , whether the above-named gentleman is not a " Deputy / ' and even a member of the

    Committee ; if he be , whether ^ supposing that his opinions really coincide with the advertisement ) he is a fit person so to remain , however suited he may be to recommend the doctrines and duties professed by the Established Church as essential to education .

    Allow me to ask a question also about the London University . I have lately seen the form for application for admission as a student , and iu one column the applicant is required to state whether he is " a Churchman or Dissenter . " Is it that the proprietors of " the University Chapel * may know whether he is a customer for them or not ? What if the applicant be neither Churchman nor Dissenter ?

    Really , whatever maybe the intentions of the managers of this Institution , they seem to me to have been of late travelling the high road to make themselves very meddling and very ridiculous . What right have they to be asking what the religious opinions of the students are , or

    to set up distinctions and create party divisions by classifying in this way ? The plan of King ' s College is much more sensible and lest ) impertinent than this conduct in an institution whose principal recommendation was its abstinence from all religious distinctions . A NON CON .

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    632 Occasional Ctorrem&nden c * .

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    --. € to Fo * w \ 9 * f Mimnage . :: ¦ '' ; .:::- ^ mm-1 ,. . ¦ . /¦ Stiv * > f > < GttqMm , * tefy * 2 $ 092 % . ; i ? 'My &feti $ Mft / sWfiifao 5 ttf ^ refl ^ rks # .: £ 02 ) ^ ir 'Stfei **^ the ena « ment « f ^ which ^ nkariaiftitnay eacpect some relief ^ in a fotftr ^ scssion of Parliament , reminded fjsr ^ t ^ passages which strikingly discover the application of justice and good sense td this important subject . '

    The first passage may sjerve to styew the practice , half a century % d , of a neighbouring foreign state , which , whatever may be its condition under a monarchy , was then free , prdbably beyond any other country in Europe , from the baneful influence of priest-craft . The Rev . James Granger , sb well and deservedly known by his ' * biographical History of England , " was travelling

    through Holland in 1774 , in the company of Lord Mountstuart . Among the " Notes of Tours , " published in 1805 , froin the autograph MS . or * that respectable clergyman , is the following description ( p . 32 ) of marriages , according to what , i suppose , were then the only legal forms recognized by the government pf the United Provinces .

    " July 30 , we reached Amsterdam , and on Sunday , 31 , we , by the favour of the Baron B—— , brother of Mr . Trevor Hampdeu , saw fifteen couple married . The men and women were at first in separate apartments in the Stadt-house . We there saw the latter , whom the men , after a little time , came into the rooms to , and led into the large room , where they were married , sitting , by a counsellor at law , to whom was joined an asT sessor of the same profession . The Baron

    B 9 who is a Secretary of State , was also preseut , besides other persous who attended ex officio . The persons who were married joined hands , and each couple was asked , in very few words , the important question . After

    they had given their assent , which was noted iu a book by the counsellor who performed the office , the populace , of whom great numbers attended at the door , were admitted as witnesses , and the several couples went out , hand in hand . "

    The other passage to which I referred , contains the project of a law of mavriage , which , unless the justice of , peace were directed or empowered to ejcact an oath or some declaratiqh of reifgipus belief , appears to provide for the pases ^ of all persons who scrupled conformity , oa

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1828, page 632, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2564/page/48/