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be added. The friends from a distance may aid this very praiseworthy attempt to improve the social and moral condition of the labouring classes by contributions of newspapers, periodicals, &c., which may be directed to the care of Mr. Hough, Chapel House, StrangeWe regretted not ways, Manchester. having space last month for a report of the two very able and useful introductory lectures delivered by Dr. Beard. The second of these lectures on the four pests to the working man-the dramshop, the quack - medicine-shop, the pawn-shop and the prison - made a deep impression on a large audience of working men and women.

Edinburgh. The annual meeting of the Scottish Unitarian Association was held at Edinburgh. But few representatives appeared from other congregations, but 150 persons, members of the Edinburgh congregation, were present at the public tea-party. The minister, Rev. R. Shaen, presided. With the exception of Edinburgh and Aberdeen, the prospects of Scottish Unitarianism do not appear to be encouraging. The funds of the Tract Society do not In addition exceed £20 per annum.

to speeches appropriate to the occasion,
essays were read by one or two young
men, and recitations and music diver-
sified the evening.

Education in Ireland.-The Irish Pres-
byterians, dissatisfied with their con-
nection with the Belfast Academical
Institution, have resolved on erecting

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a new theological college for the edu-
cation of their ministry. They sent a
deputation to the English government
soliciting an endowment for this col-
lege, and it appears they met with a
favourable reception. A special meet-
ing of the Irish General Assembly has
just been held at Belfast, to receive
the report of this deputation. In this
meeting it was resolved, by a majority
of eighty-seven to thirty-two, to accept
government endowment, on condition
that the professors so endowed be com-
pletely under the control of the church ;
to request that the right to the endow-
ment be secured by Act of Parliament;
and to ask from the government the
establishment of a number of bursa-
ries, to excite proper emulation and
diligence among the students of this
church! These demands occur to us
as very unreasonable, and the more so
as one of the three colleges provided
for by the late government is to be
erected in Belfast, and is to have the
Rev. Dr. Henry, a member of the as-
sembly, for its principal. Irish Pres-
byterian rapacity is not easily satisfied,
and we regret that the government has
shewn any disposition to concede these
demands.-Biblical Review.

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MARRIAGES.

1846. Oct. 12, at the Unitarian church, St. Peter's Square, Stockport, MARTIN HART to MARIA CLARKSON.

Oct. 20, at the Conigree chapel,
Trowbridge, by Rev. Samuel Martin,
Mr. WILLIAM PEGLER to Miss ELIZA-
BETH HILL, both of Trowbridge; and
Mr. JAMES COLEMAN to Miss FRANCES
LINE, both of Trowbridge.

Oct. 27, at Wavertree church, JOHN
HANCOCK GRUNDY, Esq., of Torquay,
to MARIA, daughter of the late John
HOLMES, Esq., of Greenock.

Oct. 28, at the Unitarian chapel,
Strangeways, by Rev. J. R. Beard,
D.D., Mr. HARRY RAWSON, stationer,

to EMILY, eldest daughter of the late Mr. Charles HEWER, of Guernsey.

Oct. 28, at the Dissenting chapel, Gorton, by Rev. G. H. Wells, M.A., Mr. WILLIAM AVEYARD to Miss ELIZABETH BURGOYNE, both of Gorton.

Oct. 29, at the Unitarian chapel, Baffin's Lane, Chichester, by Rev. J. Fullagar, Mr. OLIVER, of Fleet Street, London, to FRANCES, daughter of Mrs. MOLESWORTH, of the former place.

Nov. 5, at the Unitarian chapel, Royston, Herts, by Rev. A. Macdonald, Rev. S. F. MACDONALD, of Dorchester, to Miss FANNY E. STALLYBRASS, late of Bishops Stortford, Herts.

OBITUARY.

Lately, Mr. SIDNEY WALKER, formerly Fellow of Trinity College; and under that simple announcement lies a very touching story. Mr. Walker was a classic of the first order, and obtained his fellowship at Trinity because his attainments in that kind were so great as to override the short-comings which had previously been held as presenting a bar to that honour. In the course of the studies which had procured him this distinction, Mr. Walker became stone-blind: but his familiarity with the localities of Cambridge supplied the want of sight; and many who read this notice of his death will remember the sightless scholar steering himself as easily through its streets as though he were not, himself, in the dark. Mr. Walker's fellowship was one which he could not hold for a longer period than three years without taking orders; and he had scruples which that interval was variously employed in seeking to satisfy. When the time for decision came, he took the course which must have a record over his untimely grave, to the honour of his memory. Poor and blind, with a profession to seek and no eyes to seek it, he left the nest where he was furnished for life-amid congenial minds, the books he loved, every thing that could minister, with no effort on his part, to his tastes and comforts to go out into the wide, noisy world; where we suppose he lostas how could he do otherwise?-his

way. Once or twice only, in the many years that have succeeded his renunciation" for conscience' sake," we have casually crossed him in the crowd of circumstances, and we knew then that he was a man groping his way almost helplessly. But we had long lost sight of him, when his pale face and frail figure were suddenly brought once more before our memory by an obituary paragraph. Mr. Walker had died at the age of 50.-Athenæum, Oct. 24.

Nov. 9, at Woodhouses, Godley, Cheshire, in her 42nd year, JANE, the wife of Mr. Thomas HIBBERT. Though bound to life by many ties of conjugal and maternal love, she beheld the approach of death without fear, and at last yielded her spirit to God who gave it, with calm resignation and in Christian hope.

Nov. 11, at Wisbech, in her 69th year, Mrs. ELIZABETH SPRINGFIELD. She was for many years a zealous supporter of the Unitarian faith and worship.

In her last hours she found comfort in believing God's free and unpurchased mercy, and died in peace.

Nov. 18, at Richmond Terrace, Barnsbury Road, Islington, J. EVANS, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law, eldest son of the late Rev. Dr. Evans, of Islington, aged 50.

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Throughout this Volume, and in this No. especially, we find our space much less than our wants, and are obliged to postpone and omit many articles for which we should be glad to find room. We have a drawer full of unused articles, and a large pile of unreviewed books. Enlarge the size of our Magazine we cannot. It is already larger and more costly than (if we regarded our own interests) we ought to give. In this and in preceding Nos. we have not inserted some articles of Intelligence, the writers of which have thought fit to send them also (generally without giving an intimation of the fact) to another Unitarian periodical. In this department it must necessarily sometimes happen that we are anticipated by our weekly contemporary; but our correspondents ought not to do us and our readers the wrong of offering us that which is already given to another. The sending of an article is a complete transfer of the right of ownership to the Editor who is asked to print it. This is we believe the law, we are certain it is the morality, of the case.

For our next No. we have, amongst other papers, a valuable historical article on Calvin aud Servetus. The new Volume will contain the Memoirs of the late Rev. ROBERT ASPLAND, and a series of valuable papers entitled Pictures from Genesis.

We ask our friends to use their influence to promote the circulation of the CHRISTIAN REFORMER. It ought to be larger than it is.

GENERAL INDEX.

Acton, late Rev. Henry, manuscripts of,
49, 184.

Akerman's Numismatic Illustrations, re-
viewed, 680.
Albert, Prince, 537.
Alexander, Bishop, 377.

American intelligence, 58, 185, 251, 310,
433, 500, 563. Collections of Psalms

and Hymns, reviewed, 172.
Anniversaries, 383.
Anti-State-Church union and the volun-
tary principle, 26.
Aristocracy of England, reviewed, 301.
Armstrong, Rev. G., sermon by, review-
ed, 551.

Arnold, Dr., his monument, 215, 371.
Neander on, 667.

Aspland, Rev. R., poetical tribute to,
96. Tributes to the memory of, 103,
312. Extracts from his Sermons, 107.
Obituary of, 119. Address at the
interment of, 158. Funeral sermon
for, 159.

A. T. on the Unitarian controversy, 368
-on Theodore Parker's views of in-
spiration and miracles, 546.
Autumn, 673.

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Belsham's, Mr., definition of the word
Christian, 262.

Berne, a Sunday at, 27.

Berry, Rev. Charles, testimonial to, 448.
Biley's Supplement to the Hora Pau-
linæ, reviewed, 176.

Binney, Rev. Thomas, two sermons by,
reviewed, 554.

Blakely on the Trinity, reviewed, 688.
Bohn's Standard Library, 242.
Bolton District Unitarian Association,
380, 695.

Bradford, Yorkshire, new school-rooms,
506.

Bristol Lancasterian Schools, 507-
Ragged School, 755.

British Quarterly Review, notices of,
181, 365, 557.

Brock's Letter to the Vicar of St. Mary,
Swansea, reviewed, 179.
Brougham's Lives of Men of Letters and
Science, reviewed, 549.
Buxton chapel, services at, 508.
Byron in death, 356.

Carlyle's, Thomas, Elucidations of the
Letters and Speeches of Oliver Crom-
well, 35.

Carmarthen Presbyterian College, 566.
Carpenter, Dr. Lant, 350.

Carpenter, Rev. P. P., Address by, re-
viewed, 554.

Casewell, Rev. J. D., tract by, review-
ed, 619.

Catholic order, a new, 636.
Chapman, Rev. E., sermon by, reviewed,

52.

Charitable Trusts' Bill, 383.
Charity, misapplied, 287.

Charles Elwood, reviewed, 171.

Cheshire Presbyterian Association, 311,
436.

Christian, who is a, 78. Definition of

the word, 262.

Christian Brethren, in Lancashire and
Cheshire, 623, 752.

Christian union, German and English
efforts after, 621.

Christian Tract Society, 438.
Church-building Society, 60.
Church establishments, 399.
Churches of Rome and England, 740.
Clark, Dr. Samuel, of St. Alban's, an-
cestry of, 321.

Clergy, crimes of the, 382. Learning of
the, in the sixteenth century, 401.
Cobden, Richard, 548.

Cogan, Mr. R., on the learning of the
clergy in the sixteenth century, 401.
Colman's What is Religion? reviewed,

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Dana's, Mrs., Letters, reviewed, 487,620.
Dawson's Selection of Psalms & Hymns,
reviewed, 616.

Death and Love, 164.

De Lamennais' Translation of the Gos-
pels, 237.

Departed, to the, 545.
Derby election, the, 632.
Destructives, intellectual, 33.

D. J. on the Greek article, 739.

Dob Lane, new school-room at, 626.
Dream, a, 336.
Dreams, 461.

Drummond, Dr., presentation of his por-
trait to, 186.

Dublin University Magazine, reviewed,

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Edinburgh election, the, 501.
Edinburgh Review, notice of, 555.
Education, in England and Europe, 406.
Review of pamphlets on, 423, 494.
Unsectarian, 568, Controversy on na-
tional, 569, 636. A religious, liberal
and full, 740. Quarterly Review on
national, 748.

E. H. H. Review of discourse by Rev.
J. H. Thom, 225—of Life and Corre-
spondence of David Hume, 577-of
White's Life in Christ, 681-of What
is Religion? 741.

Emerson, criticism on, 557.

E. T.'s review of Memoir of H. Ware,
Jun., 142.

Evangelical Alliance, at Manchester,
128. Dialogue on, reviewed, 365.
Proceedings of, 628. Pamphlet on,
reviewed, 747.

Everett, President, 473, 563.

Famine, Christian and Jewish Prayers
against, 700.

Fichte's Nature of the Scholar, reviewed,
359.

Finch's Scripture History, reviewed, 499.
Foreign words, on the use of, 610, 689.
Foster, John, 653.

France, state of religion in, 257. Pro-
testant Church in, 372.

Free Church of Scotland, architecture
in, 573.

Fullagar, Rev. J., on oaths, 369.

г. Review of Carlyle's Letters and
Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, 35-of
Norton on the Gospels and Stuart on
the Old-Testament Canon, 202 — of
Theodore Parker's Discourse of Mat-
ters pertaining to Religion, 385. Obi-
tuary of Dr. Meeson, 703.

Gannett, Rev. E. S., sermon by, review-
ed, 52.

Gathercole v. Miall, 253, 353, 375, 507.
Geneva, the cathedral of, 730.

Gentle reproof, 295.

German, Translations from the, 499.
Gervinus's Mission of the German Ca-

tholics, reviewed, 425.

Gisburne, Mrs., appeal in behalf of, 187.
Gloucester, Unitarian chapel at, 126.
Grand St. Bernard, 271, 329.
Greek article, the, 739.

Green's Questions on the English Lan-
guage, reviewed, 303.

Greenwood's Sermons on Consolation,
242.

Griselda,a Dramatic Poem,reviewed, 489.
Grote's History of Greece, reviewed,
449.

G. V. S.'s review of Tentamen Anti-
Straussianum, 153.

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Who is a Christian? 78.
Translation from the German of Less-
ing, 219. Review of Dr. Wordsworth's
Diary in France, 257. Pulpit privi-
lege, 375. Review of Gervinus on
Mission of the German Catholics, 425
-of President Everett's Addresses,
473. Neander on Arnold and Blanco
White, 667.

Heap's Plain Christianity, reviewed, 364.
Hebrew and English Dictionary, review-
ed, 361.

Heineken, Rev. N. T., tablet to the
memory of, 701.
Hero-worship, 46.

Hewley case and the Independents, 696.
H. H. P.'s review of Newman on De-
velopment, 462.

Higginson, Rev. E., discourses by, re-
viewed, 686. Lectures by, 701.
Holden, Rev. Lawrence, tablet to the
memory of, 636.

Holy song, the wrongs of, 21.

Hook, Dr., on the Education of the Peo-
ple, reviewed, 494.

Hopkins's Exercises in Composition,
&c., reviewed, 52.

Howitt's, Mary, Citizen of Prague, re-
viewed, 301.

Huddersfield, Unitarianism at, 314.
Hume, David, 577.
Hyde, schools at, 762.
Hymn, 280.

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Jean Paul-Life, 81. Parting and meet-
ing, 101. The passions, 141. Joy, 262.
On seeing an infant's coffin, 652.
Jews, important movement among the
190.

John, St., the testament of, 219.

Johns, Rev. J., lines inscribed to, 228.
Juvenile criminals, reformation of, 123,
Georgics of Life, by, 296.
705.

Juvenile Miscellany, notice of, 57.

K. on the obelisks of Rome and their
connection with Scriptural history, 65.
Review of Grote's History of Greece,
449. On the age of the Philopatris
of Lucian, 641.

Katterns, Rev. D., and Regium Donum,
242. Lecture by, reviewed, 684.
Kay on the Education of the Poor, re-
viewed, 406.

Kell, Rev. E., sermon by, reviewed, 745.
Kenrick, Rev. John, on Zumpt's Latin

Grammar, 49. Portrait of, 508. His
Essay on Primæval History, reviewed,
513.

Knott, Rev. Henry, sermon by, reviewed

554.

Knowles, Rev. F., on the Trinitarian
Controversy, 554.

Lancashire and Cheshire Provincial
meeting, 433.

Lardner's, Dr., monument in Hawkhurst
church, Kent, 719.

Lawes, Henry, the friend of Milton, 17,
97.

Legal decision, interesting, 252.
Leman, Lake, 529, 601.

Le Page on Redemption, reviewed, 553.
Lessing, translation from the German of,
219.

Letters from the Mersey, 92.
Letters from an English Presbyterian
minister at Rome, 193, 415.
Lewin's Mead Domestic Mission, 691.
Lindsey, Theophilus, pilgrimage to the
church of, 607.

Little Magazine, 620.

London Domestic Mission, 699.
Love and Death, 164.
Luther, 484.

Maclellan, Rev. R. E. B., verses by, 400.
Madge, Rev. Thomas, his Sermon on
the death of Rev. R. Aspland, 159.
Manchester District Sunday-school As-
sociation, 254, 315. First annual re-
port of, 337.
Manchester New College, 188, 415, 503,
573, 746.

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