Register,' that the friends of liberal Christianity have come to the resolution to establish a school to prepare young men for the ministry,' somewhere in the Western States. They claim also, that a large portion of the better minds of the South deeply feel the need of more rational, elevated, and impressive religious views,' and 'are utterly dissatisfied with the prevalent theology, and have little, if any, regard for it.""

TESTIMONIAL OF RESPECT TO THE REV. CHARLES Wellbeloved, OF YORK.-A most interesting and gratifying meeting was held at York, at the close of the annual examination of the students educating for the Christian ministry in Manchester College, in that City, over which, for thirty-seven years, the Rev. C. Wellbeloved has presided as Principal and Theological Tutor. The annual dinner of the trustees and friends of the College, took place on Thursday, June 25; Robert Philips, Esq. of Heybridge, Staffordshire, in the chair, and Offley Shore, Esq. of Norton Hall, near Sheffield, Vice-President. After some preliminary toasts and addresses, the Chairman said, I now rise to propose the health of an individual, whose name has only to be pronounced to ensure your rising from your seats, and receiving it with all honour. The toast is-" To the health of the Rev. Charles Wellbeloved." [The company rose and greeted the toast with several rounds of applause.] And, sir, if I were to attempt at all to express our feelings on this occasion, or if I were to attempt, in the presence of that gentleman, to delineate his character, I feel that I should utterly fail. I must ask you, therefore, to lay your hands on your own hearts, and to say each what he finds there; and if he does not say that no occasion could have occurred in which he felt a more deep interest, or if he could have wished himself to be elsewhere than in this room, he is not the man I take him for. Gentlemen, for thirty-seven years has Mr. Wellbeloved presided over this institution,-I need not say with great ability, because that is undoubted; but I will say, with so much urbanity of manners, and with such excellent feeling towards his pupils, as to engender in the minds of every one of them feelings of grateful affection and respect. I

feel that, on this subject, I must leave to other and abler hands than mine the further privilege of addressing you; and I now call upon Mr. Mark Philips and the Rev. J. G. Robberds to approach this table, and take their part in this most pleasant duty. [The health of Mr. Wellbeloved was then drunk, with the full honours of "three times three," and "one cheer more"; all the company rising.]

Mark Philips, Esq. M. P. and the Rev. J. G. Robberds, then advanced to the table, and placed before the Chairman the handsome and massive silver salver, with the purse of two hundred sovereigns placed upon it. The cheering having at length ceased, Mr. Mark Philips said: Mr. Chairman, and Gentlemen,-I wish, very sincerely, that it had fallen to the lot of some other individual rather than the unworthy one who now addresses you, to be called upon, as I happen to have been, by a large body of those with whom I had the happiness of being associated in former times, as a lay student, within the walls of this institution, and also by a large body of those who, both antecedently to my having been a student and subsequently to that period, have themselves appeared there in the same capacity; I say, having been charged by them to express on this occasion, I fear in a very feeble and inadequate manner, their feelings of respect and veneration towards our excellent friend, Mr. Wellbeloved, I feel exceedingly embarrassed at having had assigned to me a duty, which, while it includes something that is agreeable to me, is yet of a mixed character, and partakes also in some degree of a painful nature,-painful, because it reminds me that this is the last occasion we shall have of doing honour in this place to one who has commanded our esteem and respect ever since we have had the happiness of knowing him. When I look back to the period when I was myself a student in this Institution, I of course was, with most others of that time, and like most of those settled there now, a young man. It was not for me at that time to be able to say that I had formed those opinions which would induce me properly to appreciate the character of any individual. I had not at that time sufficient character of my own to appreciate rightly or sufficiently the character of others, and I could not appreciate

sufficiently the character of our excellent friend; yet I always entertained for him the most grateful respect. Although, like other young men, I may have at times occasioned him, pain I hope not, but perhaps anxiety, I have always felt that his reproof was just, and that his conduct was such as entitled him to our warmest esteem. Riper years and more mature judgment have enabled me better to appreciate that character; and I can say it with the most unfeigned respect, that I do feel the present moment to be one of very great pain indeed, in being called upon to be one of those who are now taking leave of him as the Head of this Institution, as our respected Tutor and Principal. But there is no reason why, because of this separation-painful as it is to both parties, and forced upon us by circumstances over which we have no control -why that intercourse, which has so long subsisted between us as a body and him as an individual, should be in any way interrupted, much less terminated. We trust that there will be many opportunities, and that there will be as much inclination as opportunity for renewing our acquaintance, and for seeing him frequently amongst us. And, although our Institution is about to be re-modelled, I am sure we feel there is too deep a value in the suggestions which he can make to us, as we have felt for those which he has, from time to time, already made, not to desire that he should come amongst us as frequently as his time and other engagements will permit; and he may rest assured, that there is not one individual about this board, and not one individual in that locality to which the Institution is about to be removed, who will not hail and regard him as a friend, and be delighted at all times to meet him. It is at all times a most embarrassing thing to speak, in the presence of an individual, of the excellent qualities of that individual himself. I will abstain from doing it on this occasion. I feel that it would be impossible to do justice to Mr. Wellbeloved's character, were I to attempt it; and I am perfectly certain I shall best consult his own feelings if I abstain, as much as possible, from anything like eulogium, which would fall from me in any but an agreeable manner to him who would so justly deserve it. Passing, then, to the occasion which has brought us together, I appear here, at the re

quest of fifty-one lay students who have contributed to this piece of plate; and Mr. Robberds is here too, on behalf of seventy-one divinity students who have been educated within the walls of the College; and I say, on behalf of the lay students, that, appearing as their representive, I wish it were in my power, more adequately than I am capable of doing, to express the feelings which I know to animate their breasts. Permit me to say, that if I fail in the expression of their sentiments and opinions, the fault is wholly in my own deficiency, and not in them. Deeply do I myself feel the obligations which this meeting lies under to the respected individual to whom I am requested to present this tribute of our respect, our esteem, and admiration. I have been permitted to mention the fact, that there are those upon the list of subscribers who have an hereditary interest in the maintenance of this establishment; for, among the list of students, I find fathers and sons alike subscribing, thus affording an interesting trait in the character of the proceedings on the present occasion. I may mention also, that we have on that list the name of an individual now on the other side of the Atlantic; I will not mention his name, but I am sure, that great as is the distance which separates us, he lives in grateful remembrance of his respected tutor. I trust to the eloquence of our excellent friend, Mr. Robberds, to represent, in a far better manner, the feelings and opinions of the divinity students, than I feel I have been able to do on behalf of the lay students; but [said Mr. Philips, addressing himself to Mr. Wellbeloved] permit me, my dear sir, to say, in tendering this tribute of respect to you, that however unworthy, as in point of value we are aware it is, we hope you will accept it as a kindly memorial, which I trust will tend to perpetuate those kind feelings which have existed towards you for so long a time, perhaps in a greater degree than you yourself may be aware of, on the part of those who, though you may have lost sight of them for a time, thus evince the views they have ever entertained of your character, together with those agreeable recollections connected with their former acquaintance with you and with the Institution. If it had been our desire to have presented you with anything of extraordinary value, I am

aware that if an effort had been made to accomplish such an object, it might easily have been fulfilled. We know, however, too well, your wish and desire that there should be nothing extravagant in the memorial which we have the happiness of presenting to you. I have the satisfaction to state, that the individuals who were deputed to get the commission executed, have fulfilled that duty more faithfully than I have done in attempting to give expression to the feelings of those whom I represent on this occasion. The sum we have raised is only £300, of which we have ventured to lay out £100 in the purchase of this piece of plate; and, sir, I have to request you to make use of the remainder in this purse, in any way that may be most acceptable to your own feelings and wishes.

The Rev. J. G. Robberds next addressed the meeting in the following terms:-Mr. Chairman, and Gentlemen, I suppose it is because I am one of the oldest of those who have enjoyed the advantages of studying under Mr. Wellbeloved, in preparation for the Christian ministry, and also, perhaps, because I am the father of two sons who have enjoyed the like advantage, that I have been selected to represent, on this occasion, the whole body of divinity students, over whose education Mr. Wellbeloved has presided, and to express, however inadequately, the sentiments of respect, of esteem, of veneration, and of affection, which we all feel for him. Many years have passed over several of us since we were numbered among his pupils, and our relation to him since that time, in the opportunities which we have had of intercourse with him, has been much more that of friends than of pupils; but I am fully persuaded that the eldest of us have not forgotten how much we owe to him. Nor do I fear that I shall go beyond the feelings of those who have most recently left him, how much soever my words may be dictated by feelings of personal esteem, of gratitude, and affection. Yet I am not a little restrained in the expression of those feelings, by the circumstance that I am speaking in his presence, and by the recollection that he is one of those who find it apparently much easier to act in such a manner as calls forth the admiration and the esteem of others, than to bear being reminded of their worth. On such an occasion, however, as the present,