INTELLIGENCE. DOMESTIC. RELIGIOUS. The Report of Manchester College, York, Founded at Manchester, February 22, 1786. Removed to York, September 1, 1803. At the Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting, August 4, 1820. THE Committee of Manchester College, York, have the high satisfaction of reporting the good conduct and literary improvement of the Students during the last Session. They feel encouragement to hope that this Institution will continue to approve itself an important iustrument in the hands of Divine Providence, for diffusing the benefits of sound learning, in connexion with the most enlightened principles of civil and religions liberty; and they trust, that the liberality of those who have at heart the furtherance of these objects, will enable them to render it still more effectually and extensively conducive to their attainment. But although the Committee have the satisfaction of acknowledging the receipt of a legacy of £100, bequeathed by the late John Worthington, Esq., of Altring ham, and a benefaction of £21 from Thomas Dyson, Esq., of Diss, they are sorry to be obliged to present to their friends the statement of a considerable decrease in the general income of the College. The annual subscriptions, which in 1818 amounted to £713. 78., have last year been only £681. 10s. The congregational collections amount to no more than £31. 168. Besides Newcastle and Chesterfield, which have never failed, Bradford is the only place which has this year furnished a supply of this kind: which is the more to be lamented, when it is considered how many advantages might be derived from the subject being regularly brought before the great mass of Dissenters in our connexion; not only as it would be a means of keeping up their interest in the Institution, as the probable source of ministers in cases of future vacancy, but also as it would afford the preachers an opportunity of touching upon various topics, relating to the history of the corruption and gradual restoration of the true Christian doctrine, -the history and general grounds of Dissent from the Established Church of our own country,—the right and duty of individual judgment,-the sufficiency of the Scriptures,--the importance of learn ing, &c., which might agreeably and pre fitably vary, though they might not so conveniently form a part of, the ordinary course of public preaching; since a spirit of curiosity, leading to serious inquiry, might thus be excited among the younger members more especially, which might be attended by the happiest effects; while the whole assembly, of every age and station, would enjoy the opportunity of contributing, according to their respective circumstances, what might be convenient, and no more than convenient, to each individual member. "Not more," as was well observed by our first Visitor, "from any individual, than what he often freely expends on the amusements of a single day." The Benefactions have produced only 46. 10s. The Exhibitions received from other Funds appropriated to the maintenance of Divinity Students, have been reduced from £221, to £161. Of course, the Committee will be obliged in future to admit on the Foundation, one Student less than would otherwise have been in their power. The entire Receipts are £1486. Os. 6d. The ex penses, iu salaries and fees to Tutors, exhibitions to Students, erection of the New Common Hall, repairs, purchase of Books, and incidental expenses, have amounted to £1531. 16s. 4d., being an excess beyond the income of the year, of £45. 16s. 10d. The Committee are thankful, however, to acknowledge their good fortune, in having had a balance from the last year's account, of £233. 23. 6d., and from this reserved Fund, they have been enabled to discharge the deficiency, and also to make an addition to the Permanent Fund, of Mr. Worthington's legacy, and also of the benefactions, which, together with the surplus produce of the Long Annuities of the year, amount to £148. 6s 3d. The balance now remaining in the Treasurer's hands, is reduced to £39. 0s. 5d. The Committee cannot refrain from adverting, with peculiar regret, to the loss which they have sustained by the death of Mr. Worthington, whose name has appeared in the list of annual subscribers from the first institution of the College in 1786, and who has besides evinced his zeal for its prosperity, by two liberal benefactions amounting to £121, and by his legacy of £100 above referred to. The library has this year received a very important addition in a valuable bequest of books, by the late Rev. and learned Joseph Bretland, of Exeter. The Com mittee have it in contemplation to prepare and print an arranged catalogue of the aggregate library, as well for the use of the students, as for the information of the public; particularly of those who may be disposed to make donations or bequests of books not yet in the possession of the college. The number of Students last year was fifteen, of whom nine were on the Foundation. None of the Divinity Students had completed their course. The annual examination took place on the 27th, 28th, and 29th of June last; when the first Prize for Diligence, Regularity and Proficiency was adjudged to Mr. John Howard Ryland, a Divinity Student, in the first year; and the second and third, to Mr. Richard Martineau and Mr. John Chatfeild, Lay Students, in the first year; Mr. Philips's Prize for Proficiency in Classical Literature, to Mr. Ryland; the Mathematical Prizes offered by " A Friend to the College," in the senior class, to Mr. W. H. Tayleur, a Lay Student, in the first year; in the junior, to Mr. Ryland. The Elocution Prizes, both that for Improvement during the Session, and for the Delivery of his Oration, to Mr. George Cheetham. The examination this year was held in the New Common Hall, which was pronounced by all present to be a very important and valuable addition to the College buildings. The number of Divinity Students, in the present Session, is fifteen, of whom Messrs. Wawne, Wilson, Cheetham, Heineken, Owen, and Smith, are in the last year of their course; Mr. Edmund Kell, M.A. (from Glasgow, son of the Rev. Robert Kell, of Birmingham,) in the fourth; Messrs. Evans and Shawcross, in the third; Messrs. Payne and Ryland, in the second; and Messrs. Beard of Portsmouth, Wreford of Bristol, Tagart of London, Worthington of Leicester, in the first. There are also seven Lay Students. The Committee have the greatest satisfaction in announcing, that their highly valued Classical Tutor, the Rev. John Kenrick, after spending more than a year in visiting some of the German Universitics, has resumed his station in the College, and proposes to make considerable improvements in the plan of study under his direction. The Rev. John James Tayler, who so worthily filled the department of Classical Tutor during Mr. Kenrick's absence, is settled as Minister of the Chapel in Mosley-Street, Manchester, as successor to the late Rev. and highly respected William Hawkes. Since the last Report, the Rev. Charles Wallace is settled as Minister at Hale Barns and Altringham, in the room of Mr. Jevons, removed to Walthamstow; and the Rev. James Taylor at Rivington in Lancashire, as successor to the late Rev. Nathaniel Hibbert, Applications for the admission of Divinity Students on the Foundation, must be addressed either to the Rev. Charles Wellbeloved, York, or to one of the Secretaries at Manchester, before the first day of May: they will be decided upon at the York Annual Meeting of Trustees on the last Wednesday in June, when such candidates will be preferred, as, from their testimonials, appear to be most eligible. The Divinity Students on the Foundation have every expense of lectures, board and lodging, defrayed for them. In order to secure, as far as is possible, the respectability of the Students for the Ministry with regard to character and literary attainments, it is a rule of this Institution, "That no candidate shall be admitted on the Foundation, but on the recommendation of three Protestant Dissenting Ministers, residing in the neighbourhood where he lives, who shall certify, that at the commencement of his course he will have attained the full age of sixteen; that on their personal examination, his moral character, natural endowments, and classical proficiency, are found to be such as to qualify him for becoming a Student for the ministry; and that the profession is the object of his own voluntary choice. His ability to read Homer and Horace, will be considered as essential to his admission." It is further determined, "That no candidate shall be eligible as a Divinity Student on the Foundation, unless he be acquainted with the practical rules of arithmetic, as far as vulgar and decimal fractions, as usually taught in schools; and unless the same be certified by three Dissenting Ministers, residing in the neighbourhood in which the candidate lives." The Committee beg leave again to call the attention of the public to the advantages which this Institution offers for the completion of a course of liberal education. Between the ordinary close of a school education, and the commencement of studies strictly professional, or of the occupations of civil and active life, an interval occurs during which it is of the utmost importance to the future character, that the mind be cultivated with more enlarged and varied knowledge than is attainable at school, and be guarded by a superintending discipline, from the danger of having its moral principles corrupted. With this view, the Trustees, in pur. suing their primary object, the education of Dissenting Ministers, have endeavoured to render the Institution at the same time subservient to the liberal education of youth in general, without distinction of party or religious denomination, and exempt from every political test and doctrinal subscription. The course of instruction for the Christian ministry comprehends five years; but it is so arranged, that, with the single exception of the study of Hebrew, the whole course during the first three years is equally suitable for Lay Students. In the first year the Students are instructed in the Greek and Latin Classics, in Ancient History, and in Latin and English Composition; in the Elements of Plane Geometry, Algebra and Trigo nometry. In the second year, they proceed in the Greek and Latin Classics, and in the practice of Composition in English and Latin; and read a course of Modern History, in pursuing which their attention is particularly directed to the History and Principles of the English Constitution, They are instructed in the Geometry of Solids; of the Conic Sections, and of the Sphere; and in the higher parts of Algebra. Lectures are also given on the Philosophy of the Mind, on Ethics, and the Elements of Political Science. In the third year, they are further instructed in the Greek and Latin Classics, and in the Belles Lettres; in some of the higher branches of Mathematics and the Newtonian System of Physical Astro nomy. Lectures are also delivered on Logic; and on the Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion. An extensive course of Natural and Experimental Philosophy and Chemistry forms a part of the business both of the second and third Sessions. The Rev. Charles Wellbeloved, Theological Tutor, and the Rev. John Kenrick, M. A., Classical Tutor, reside near the buildings, in which the Students are lodged and boarded. The Rev. W. Turner, M. A., Mathematical Tutor, resides in the College with his family, and undertakes the charge of the domestic establishment. The terms for Lay Students are 100 guineas per annum, which sum defrays the expense of board and lodging, and every other charge connected with a residence in the College. Letters on the subject of this Institution, may be addressed to George William Wood, Esq., Treasurer, Manchester, or the Rev. William Turner, Visitor, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, by whom, or by any of the Deputy-Treasurers, subscriptions and donations are received. JOSEPH STRUTT, President, General Baptist Chapel at Cranbrook, in Kent. old one had for some time been found too THIS Chapel was erected in 1808. The small for the then increasing congregation, and had been left to the Baptists on condition of their not singing Psalms or Hymns in it at their public worship. This restraint and other inconveniences produced a determination to erect a new place of worship. A subscription was begun, which soon amounted to 815, to which was added a collection, from a few churches in the connexion, amounting to 1087. The new chapel (to which there is a good burying-ground) cost upwards of 19407. Thus a debt of more than 1000. remained; which, by the donations of liberal individuals, has been reduced to 7007., for which the place is mortgaged. Hitherto no application has been made to the Unitarian public on behalf of the congregation at Cranbrook, nor would any be now made had not the circumstances of the congregation been so changed as to render it absolutely At the time the debt was necessary. contracted, the raising 354. per annum to pay the interest was not attended with any difficulty, as the congregation was large and respectable, and supplied by acceptable ministers who received no pebut the affairs of the Society have since cuniary remuneration for their services; taken an unfavourable turn. A number of persons, among whom are its former ministers, having adopted the opinion that public prayer, singing and preaching are improper, and ought to be discontinued, have seceded; which has placed the Society in new and highly disadvantageous have continued steadfast, they are left Though the majority embarrassed with a debt; deserted by some whose pecuniary assistance it was just to expect, (they having been a principal part of the original projectors of hitherto served them gratuitously as mithe chapel,) as well as by those who had raising an income for a new minister. nisters, and are under the necessity of With diminished numbers and resources, ally what is necessary to pay the interest it seems hardly practicable to raise annuof the debt, and make a competent provision for a minister. Thus situated, circumstances. they feel themselves impelled to lay their Unitarian brethren, which they request case before their General Baptist and they may be permitted to do through the medium of the Monthly Repository, and they hope it will be thought worthy of attention and countenance. Cranbrook is a principal town in the Weald of Kent, and may be considered as a central situ ation. Village preaching may be and is carried on with considerable success to the cause of truth in its neighbourhood. Though Baptists, the Society allows of open communion. The belief in and worship of the one God the Father, through Jesus Christ the Mediator, allowing to every man the right of private judgment, form the leading feature of this Society. A Fellowship Fund has lately been established. If the burden of the debt on the chapel can be removed there is good reason to think the cause will prosper at Cranbrook. The changes which have brought the congregation into its present situation could not have been anticipated when the debt was contracted. With this statement they appeal to the generosity of their friends and of the Unitarian public, and will be grateful for any assistance which they may be pleased to afford them towards the removal of the debt on their chapel, and trust it is no improper recommendation of their case, to say, that they have always cheerfully met and assisted every church that has made similar application to them. THOMAS PAWSON, WILLIAM BUSS, Protestant Dissenting Ministers. The Ministers of the Three Denominations have not been inattentive to Mr. Brougham's Education Bill. A committee specially appointed in July last has watched its progress, and on Wednesday the 24th inst. an Extraordinary General Meeting was held to receive its report. After much amicable discussion, the same committee was instructed to continue its sittings, and to confer with the mover of the Bill, the prime minister, and other persons of authority and influence, and to communicate with other Dissenting bodies; and also to convene the body whenever it may seem proper, in order to submit to them Resolutions and Peti. tions (if they should be necessary) in opposition to the measure. The last meeting of the Ministers had been convened by the Reverend Secretary, Dr. Morgan, to take into consideration, as a matter of course, the propriety of an address to the Queen on her accession. Some difference of opinion prevailing as to this measure, the final determination of it was postponed to the annual meeting in April. A different account of this meeting had crept into a newspaper, called the New Times, but better known by the name of The Mock Times, in its leading article of Jan. 8, as follows: "We are credibly informed that at a late general and numerous meeting of the Ministers of the Three Denominations, it was actually proposed to offer an address of congratulation to her Majesty; but the factious movers of the question had miscalculated the reception which it was likely to experience from an assembly of sensible and well-educated men. Instantly, on the announcement of the motion, the far greater part of the ministers present left the room, contemptuously abandoning the measure to the individuals who agitated it; but who from their weakness and insignificance found themselves unable to effect their object." This mis-statement was brought forward, as a question of privilege, before the regular business, as soon as the Chairman (the Rev. Dr. Winter) had taken the chair; upon which it was resolved unanimously, that the Secretary be empowered and directed to communicate to the Editor of the aforesaid paper, and to the conductors of other journals, at his discretion, that the above paragraph is false and calumnious. MISCELLANEOUS. DR. W. HALES-In a review of this gentleman's learned "Essay on the Origin and Purity of the Primitive Church of the British Isles," the Anti-Jacobin Review, for November, passes a high culogium upon him. The writer says, "Under the well-bestowed patronage of Baron Maseres, Dr. Hales first tried his strength in some mathematical works, the abstruse nature of which has alone prevented them from being in many hands." His great work, the New System of Chronology, in 5 volumes, 4to., is much extolled. as a theologian he surpasses all praise! "The errors of Popery, (says the AntiJacobin,) the fanaticism of the Methodists, and the CONCEALED ATHEISM OF THE UNITARIANS, all attracted his attention, and have all felt and shrunk from the effects of his powerful argumentation. His ac But curate knowledge of the Hebrew language enabled him, on the latter subject, (qu. "the concealed Atheism of the Unitarians"?) to bring forth the latent strength of Hebrew expressions, to the confusion of his opponents, and to the satisfaction of his fellow-christians."-This passage would justify a little pleasantry; but another in the same article, which we proceed to quote, represses every feeling but that of sympathy: "What we surmised at the outset of this critique we are now assured of by our Irish correspondents. Dr. Hales is literally no more. He yet, indeed, lives, but in the same state as our late revered monarch, and from the same cause, the loss of a beloved child. He has come to his end, like a fruitful tree in autumn, the branches bending down with their produce." LITERARY. highest class; and under him a new series of the "Annals" commences with the present year. The New Monthly Magazine which we characterized (XV. 601) as "improving," has cast its slough, and appeared with freshness and some degree of brilliance in the first number of a new series, under the advertised conduct or Mr. Thomas Campbell, the poet. Sir Richard Phillips, the proprietor of the original Monthly, inveighs bitterly against the unfairness of taking advantage of his title to get a work of opposite principles into circulation. He also attacks Mr. Campbell, not quite correctly, as a pensioner; his small pension having been given him, we believe, by the Fox ministry, (Mon. Repos. I. 221,) as the pure reward of merit. Another ground of complaint is the liberal remuneration offered by the New Monthly to contributors, said to be not less than ten guineas a sheet. Mr. Campbell's salary as editor is asserted by his censor to be £300 per annum, indepen MR. BUTCHER is now employed in composing a volume of Prayers for Family and Private Devotion, in which he proposes to avail himself of the hints offered by G. M. D. in the last Number_dent of his own communications. To of the Repository. The Second Part of the Rev. C. Wellbeloved's edition of the Bible will be ready for delivery by the end of February, at 187, High Holborn. In our Catalogue Raisonnée of modern Periodical Publications, we did not introduce scientific works of which we considered ourselves incompetent judges; otherwise we should have pointed out Mr. BRANDE'S Quarterly Journal of Science, which is one of the most respectable philosophical journals that ever appeared; and DR. THOMSON'S Annals of Philosophy, which sustains the same rank as a Monthly, that the other holds as a Quarterly, Magazine. This latter work is now resigned to the Editorship of Mr. RICHARD PHILLIPS, whose attainments in chemistry are well known to be of the account for the expense incurred in adver Order of the Lancashire Magistrates against The Lancashire Magistrates have done some memorable things; but though we knew historically a little of their corporate character, we were still unprepared for a recent decree of theirs against the Press, through our monthly publication. We here insert a statement of the case, as it has been transmitted to us by our respectable correspondent, Mr. Henry Taylor, of Bold Street, Liverpool. "On the first of the present month, (January,) Mr. Henry Denison, of Liverpool, sent twelve Numbers of the Monthly Repository to Lancaster, to be given to a prisoner in the gaol there, who was "That the keeper of the gaol, and the officers thereof, do prevent the introduction, or reading of any seditious or blasphemous or indecent publications, |