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    Provincial Meeting" of Presbyterian and Unitarian Ministers in Lancashire and Cheshire . On the 18 th of June , the Provincial Meeting of Presbyterian and Unitarian Ministers in Lancashire aud Cheshire ,

    was held at Chowbent . At eleven o ' clock , a . m ., the service in the Chapel was introduced by the Rev . J . Hhicks , of Liverpool , before a numerous congregation of friends . The Kev . J . J . Tayler , B . A ., of Manchester , afterwards preached from Isaiah lxi . 11 , " For as

    the earth bringeth forth her bud , and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth ^ so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations . " The valuable pastoral sermon delivered from these words will be pub * lished in accordance with the unanimous

    wishes of those who heard it . After the service , the business of the Association was conducted . The Rev . J . Ft . Beard was appointed the supporter for the next year . The Secretary read a Report of the operations of the Committee during the past year , from which the following is extracted :

    " Your Committee pioceed to lay before you the following results of their investigations with respect to the present state of the Unitarian interest iii these two counties . In Lancashire there are thirty-eight congregations ; thirty of Which have Sunday or other charity schools connected with them . In

    Cheshire there are thirteen congregations , nine of Which have Sunday or other diarity schools connected with them : making a total in the two counties of ftfty-one congregations and thirty-nine schools . The number of children educated id these schools is about four

    thousand two hundred at the lowest average . The tmnVber of books in the libraries connected with these institutions has not been accurately ascertained ; but from the imperfect information which your Committee have received , they conjecture they amount to be between eight and nine thousand * , "There are two Book

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    and Tract Societies in Lancashire ; one at Liverpool , and one at Manchester . There is a * Lancashire and Cheshire Unitarian Missionary Society / which supports a permanent Missionary , and is

    assisted by ten or twelve ministers in the neighbourhood of Manchester . There is a half-yearly meeting of ministers , entitled the Bolton District Association ;' and two monthly social meetings of ministers—one for Manchester and its

    viciaity , the other for Bolton or its vicinity . There is the c Widows' Fund , ' for the relief of ministers' widows and incapacitated ministers . Many congregations have fellowship funds and other benefit societies connected with them , a full return of which , it is hoped , will be obtained before the next Provincial Meeting .

    " As the Parliamentary discussion of the late act of justice towards our brethren of the Roman Catholic communion approached , your Committee felt anxious that the voice of the Unitarian public in these two connties in favour of that act should not be withheld ; and they accordingly issued a circular

    recommending every congregation to petition Parliament on the subject ; aud it affords them pleasure to announce that tweuty-three congregations did petition . A petition signed by thirty five ministers was also sent ; iu acknowledgment of which the Secretary received the following letter from Lord Holland : " ' 11 th March , Berkeley Square . " « SiR ,

    * ' * I Shall hare great pleasure in presenting your petition from the Assdciation of Presbyterian aud Unitarian Ministers In Lancashire and Cheshire . Such petitions do great service to the cause of religious liberty , aud not less credit to those who sign them , and by signing them , she * w that they are anxious to extend the benefits they enjoy to those with whom on speculative points they differ mo&t widely . " ' 1 have the honour to be , with many thanks ,

    ' * Your obedient , humble servant , "' Vassal Holland . " 4 Rev . E . Hawkes , Secretary ^ &c . . - - ' : ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦! In the course ot the business of the meeting , the following resolution was passed : . ? " That this meeting has a peculiar pleasure in recording the satisfaction which they feel at the ample manner in which the Legislature of this country has at length relieved their Catholic

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    dtoncr wet » e the Chairman ; the Rev . Messrs . Selby , of Ljrtiti ; Wright * of Kirkstead ; Philp , of Lincoln ; Latham , of Lutton ; Walker of W isbeftch ; Lee , of Bostou ; and Mr . Pifchey Thomson , from the United States , who detailed various interesting particulars relative to the spread of Unitarianism in America , G . L . Boston , Juty 6 , 1829 .

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    Intelligence * " — Lancashire and Cheshire Provincial Meeting . 583

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1829, page 585, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2575/page/67/