INTELLIGENCE. Tenterden District Meeting. THE Eighth Anniversary of this Branch of the Kent and Sussex Unitarian Christian Association, was held at Tenterden, on Wednesday, the 19th of October. Mr. George Buckland, of Benenden, read the Scriptures and offered up the general prayer. Mr. Payne, of Rolven den, preached an excellent discourse from Colossians iii. 16: "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another." After the religious services ninetyseven individuals, of both sexes, adjourned to the Town Hall, where tea was provided. After tea Mr. Holden was called to preside. One of the first toasts was the King: to mention his name is now something more than a mere form, this is shewn by the way in which it is received in all assemblies and for whatever purpose met. In the course of the evening speeches on various subjects were elicited by the sentiments proposed by the chairman; but whatever the topic, there were continual allusions more or less distinct to the great question. Was the topic the coming conquests of truth? Reform would do much for the truth, by removing the supports of error. Was the subject colonial slavery? Grant but Reform, and soon will the mandate be given, to let the oppressed be free. Even the passing of the Unitarian Marriage Bill was considered to be contingent on the success of that measure to which all thoughts are turned. City Missions, and Unitarianism in India, were also amongst the topics to which the attention of the meeting was directed. The individuals who took a principal share in the discussions of the evening, were Messrs. George Buckland, Mace, E. Adams, Payne, Ford, and Talbot. E. T. T. since the congregation assembling in this chapel, were unjustly expelled from Street. During this period, they regutheir former place of worship in John's larly assembled for public worship in a school-room, having the services conducted by one of their own members, with the occassional assistance of neighbouring ministers. The attendance on this occasion, and the liberal contributions of many of the members of different churches around them, evinced the steady progress of liberal and charitable feelings. Among the numerous congregations which attended on the various services on the day of opening, and the succeeding Sunday, they had the happiness to number many of the most strenuous and consistent supporters of the Established Church,-and have reason to hope, that many went away impressed with a more favourable opinion of Unitarian Christianity, and feeling that though its professors may differ from them in many of their distinguishing doctrines, they are yet not wholly unworthy of the name of Christians and brethren. The morning sermon, on the day of opening, was preached by the Rev. John Kentish, of Birmingham, who, in a most luminous, eloquent, and powerful discourse, pointed out the grounds of our disseut from the Established Church of this country. He was followed, with great ability, in the evening sermon, by the Rev. Samuel Bache, of Dudley, who, with great force of argument and warmth of piety, illustrated the unity which the Scriptures represent as subsisting between Jesus Christ and his God and Father, with the powerful motives which this doctrine presents to his followers, to imitate his example in spirit and in conduct, and thus become joint partakers with him of the "divine nature." After the morning service, the members of the congregation, with their friends, sat down, to the number of Opening of the New Unitarian Cha- seventy, to a dinner which had been pel, Wolverhampton. ON Tuesday, the 18th instaut, the Snowhill Chapel, Wolverhampton, was opened for public worship. An interval of nearly fifteen years has now elapsed, provided at the New Hotel. On Sunday, the 23d instant, notwithstanding the unfavourableness of the weather, the two services were most numerously attended. In the morning, the Rev. Stephenson Hunter, the miuis ter of the congregation, stated and defended the distinguishing doctrines of Unitarianism; and in the evening the Rev. Hugh Hutton, of the Old Meeting, Birmingham, with the impressive eloquence for which that gentleman is remarkable, pointed out the richness of divine grace, as more particularly displayed in the Christian dispensation. S. H. British and Foreign Bible Society. In continuation of the Lists, printed in our last Number, made up to the 16th of September (not the 6th) we subjoin a List of Fifty one additional Societies adverse to any Alteration in the Consti tution. Acle Branch, Bath Auxiliary, Beccles Branch, Bedfordshire Auxiliary, Bishop-Stortford Branch, Blaenavon Auxiliary, Bodmin Branch Society, Bradford (Wilts) Branch, Bridlington Auxiliary, Bridport Branch, Brigg Auxiliary, Bury (Lancashire) Auxiliary, Chippenham Association, Clerkenwell (South) Association, Corwen Branch, Croydon Auxiliary, Cuckfield Brauch, Dunstable Branch, Exeter Ladies' Branch, Festiniog Branch, Gloucestershire Auxiliary, Halifax Auxiliary, Halifax Ladies' Branch, Hauts (North-East) Auxiliary, Henley (Oxon) Auxiliary, Hitchin and Baldock Auxiliary, Hungerford Branch, Kidderminster Auxiliary, Loughborough Branch, Luton Branch, Malmesbury Auxiliary, Marshland Branch, Merionethshire Auxiliary, Newark Auxiliary, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Ladies' Association, Newport-Pagnel Branch, Pentonville Association, Penzance Brauch, Reading Auxiliary, Scarborough Auxiliary, Ships. ton-on-Stour Auxiliary, South-Shields Auxiliary, St. Columb Branch, Tavistock Auxiliary, Tring and Berkhamstead Branch, Wandsworth Ladies' Associa tion, Weald-of-Kent Auxiliary, Weymouth Branch, Whitby Auxiliary, Woodbridge Branch, York Auxiliary. List of Two additional Societies favourable to Alteration. Brewham and Pitscombe Association, Clerkenwell (North) Association. The above Lists are made up to the 17th of October. LITERARY NOTICE. THE Subscribers to Dr. Priestley's Works are requested to take notice that Vol. I. Part I., containing the Memoirs and Correspondence from 1733 to 1787, is now ready for delivery, at the Unitarian Association Rooms, 3, Walbrook Buildings, near the Mansion House. CORRESPONDENCE. H. C. E. will find all the information we can give in p. 796. We need not remind him that the fact does not necessarily imply the assigned cause. The Editor must hold himself excused from discussing the insertion or rejection of communications, or of parts of communications to which the name of the writer is not attached. The inconveniences of such a practice are obvious. The notice of several publications which have been sent to our office is unavoidably deferred to the next number. We are also obliged to postpone various communications from Correspondents which are intended for insertion. We beg to remind our friends and Correspondents that in future all communications for the Editor, Advertisements, &c., must be addressed, post-paid, to the care of the publisher, Mr. Charles Fox, Monthly Repository Office, 67, Pater · noster Row, and there only. Advertisements from the country should be accompanied by an order for payment in London. American Biography, 346-Theolo- 143, 287 Gloucester, 652 249 Buckminster's Second Volume of Sermons, 277 Burder's Oriental Customs, 536 Burroughs on the Principle of the ib. C. Canada, Dissenters' marriages in, 286 283 Catholics, French, 286 Carpenter, Dr., his reply to the Ec- lectic Review and Mr. Ellis, 551 OBITUARY.-Alcock, Lieut.-Col. Observer Newspaper, extract from, 203 Sacred Histories for Children, 852 |