which have been found many of the best friends and brightest ornaments of humanity. We have read the pamphlet with no little interest. It takes a rapid survey of recent scientific discoveries which throw light upon the nature and laws of diseased action, or intimately connect themselves with the healing art, discoveries, says the writer, which place the medical student on a footing very different from that occupied by his predecessors a few years ago. Dr. Holmes is an uncompromising defender of the claims of science in opposition to what he regards, in common with many, as the empiricism, the extravagancies, and the ultra-radicalism of the day; yet he has some animating words to utter to the young student, and bids him "go forward in hope and serene courage." "Go then," says he, "to meet your chosen science, who waits for you like a bride adorned with her ancestral jewels, and crowned with fresh gathered garlands."

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An Exposition of Facts relating to the Administration of the Hawes Charity, at South Boston. By LEMUEL CAPEN, former Minister of the Hawes Place Society. Boston. 1844. 8vo. pp. 26.

The Reply of the Hawes Place Congregational Society, at South Boston, to a Pamphlet entitled "An Exposition of Facts relating to the Administration of the Hawes Charity, by Lemuel Capen, former Minister of the Hawes Place Society." By a COMMITTEE OF SAID SOCIETY. Boston. 1844. 8vo. pp. 26.

THESE pamphlets relate to a subject upon which it might not become us to express an opinion, as we understand that the main question which is discussed in them has been submitted to the decision of a judicial tribunal. This question concerns the legality of a by-law, regulating the admission of members, which was adopted by the vote of a majority of the Hawes Place Society, but which the minority hold has created a forfeiture of the trust devised by the late Mr. Hawes. Mr. Capen writes with an earnestness betokening sincere conviction and a strong sense of duty, while the Reply is written with a clearness and strength of statement that must produce a favorable impression upon the reader.

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INTELLIGENCE.

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

Ministers and Churches. We still have changes in the ministry to record, occasioned by other circumstances than death.-Rev. Mr. Ingersol, who has long been the devoted and faithful pastor of the Unitarian church in Burlington, Vt., and who of late years has pursued his work under the discouragement of painful disease, has been compelled by its continuance, after every attempt for its mitigation, to resign his charge, and seek renovation of his system in less severe labor. We trust that he has not deferred this step too long for his own recovery. A solitary watchman on one of the extreme positions of our Zion, he has served at his post day and night with an undaunted spirit, and a perseverance which has been rewarded by the prosperity of the congregation over which he was placed. Rev. Mr. Bulfinch has felt that duty to himself and his family required him to relinquish the pastoral care of the church in Washington, D. C., and has returned to New England. - Rev. Mr. Alger has dissolved his connexion with the society at Chelsea, of which he took charge as successor of the late Dr. Tuckerman. — Rev. Mr. Buckingham of Cabotville, has relinquished his ministry in that place.-Rev. Mr. Cushing of Milwaukie, W. T., has been visited by an illness of such severity as to render him unable to prosecute his work. Rev. Mr. Barry of Framingham, has been induced by the state of his health to take a year of absence from his people, and has sailed for Europe.

We are gratified by the evidence which our older congregations are giving of interest in the attempts of others to secure the benefit of such religious institutions as they can wholly enjoy. Three applications are at this moment before our community, for aid in the establishment of societies in important positions, where Unitarian preaching is of recent date. Rev. Mr. Harrington is soliciting contributions towards the payment of the amount for which the society at Albany, N. Y. has become responsible by the purchase and repairs of their meeting-house, and has reason to anticipate full success.—Rev. Mr. Cordner of Montreal, Canada, in a visit to the United States, has met with similar encouragement. The congregation of which he is the minister have purchased an eligible site for a church, and have commenced the building, in the hope of finishing it before the next winter. It will be a small, but neat structure. The Unitarian Society at Hartford, Conn., have also presented their case to the consideration of their friends in other cities. They think it important that they should erect a church which would command attention by its good appearance, and therefore propose to expend a larger sum than is usual at the commencement of such an undertaking.-The new society at Southington, Conn., have completed their house of worship, which will be dedicated in the course of this month. — The Second Church in this city, having removed their ancient meetinghouse from the ground which it occupied for more than a century, are vigorously prosecuting the work upon one more suitable to their present wants and tastes. The corner-stone was laid on Thursday

morning, May 30, and the occasion added another to the usual interesting services of the anniversary week. An address was made by Rev. Mr. Robbins, pastor of the church, and prayer offered by Rev. Mr. Hall of Providence, R. I. — We learn with pleasure that a new society has been formed at Somerville (lately a part of Charlestown,) and has made arrangements for the erection of a meeting-house. -We understand also, that the Congregational Society at Brewster, formerly under the charge of the late Rev. Mr. Simpkins, whose place was filled by a Trinitarian successor, and the "Christian" Society in Fairhaven, are both hearing preachers from our body.

The Anniversaries. The week on which the anniversaries of the principal religious Associations in the Commonwealth are held in this city, was this year marked by the large attendance of persons from the country, and by the general character of harmony which pervaded the meetings. The weather was propitious, the selection of a day in the course of the week for a "Temperance mass celebration" drew crowds to Boston, and from these causes, and also, as we believe, from an increase of interest in our various religious occasions, the meetings were more fully attended than usual. We can particularly notice only those which belong to our own denomination. Of these we think the anniversary celebration of the Sunday School Society was the most pleasant. The public meeting of the Unitarian Association was good, but not remarkable for the character or interest of its proceedings. The private meeting of this Association for the consideration of resolutions relating to Slavery, though confined to a comparatively small number of persons, was distinguished by the earnest tone of the discussion and the importance of the subject. The "Collation" was a most agreeable and happy renewal of friendly greetings and Christian sympathies. The administration of the Lord's Supper brought together a large body of communicants, as well as others who did not participate in the ordinance, and all of whom must have felt that the length of the services caused the only qualification of much spiritual enjoyment. The Ministerial Conference was, as usual, both pleasant and profitable. And the Prayer and Conference meeting on Thursday morning gave great satisfaction to those who were present. Our record of each of these occasions must necessarily be brief.

The Collation. On Tuesday, May 28, 1844, the fourth annual festival under this name was held in the extensive rooms over the depot of the Worcester railroad, opposite the United States Hotel. The accommodations for the reception of the company, and for their passage from the apartment in which they spent an hour of cordial recognition to that in which the tables were spread, were superior to what could be furnished last year, and the entertainment, abundant and elegant, yet simple in its character, was arranged to the best advantage for personal comfort and social enjoyment. Eight hundred and sixty tickets, the whole number which the capacity of the hall would allow to be issued, were taken before the hour, and as only a very few of those who held tickets were prevented from attending, nearly every seat was occupied. Of these eight hundred and forty or fifty persons, probably one half were ladies, and one

hundred or more clergymen, who are always invited guests. At two o'clock the company sat down to their repast, after the invocation of the Divine blessing by Rev. Mr. Putnam of Roxbury. Hon. Jonathan Chapman of Boston presided. Thanks having been returned by Rev. Mr. Robbins of Boston, Mr. Chapman addressed the company for a few minutes in a strain admirably suited to the occasion, and called upon others to follow his remarks with their own. Rev. Mr. Taylor, of the Bethel Church in Boston, present by special invitation, Rev. Mr. Holland of Rochester, N. Y., Rev. Mr. Whitman of Portland, Me., Rev. Mr. Thomas, late of Concord, N. H., Hon. John C. Park of Boston, Rev. Mr. Waterston of Boston, Hon. Stephen C. Phillips of Salem, Rev. Mr. Briggs of Plymouth, Rev. Mr. Cordner of Montreal, L. C., Rev. Mr. Bulfinch, late of Washington, D. C., Rev. Prof. Brooks of Boston, Rev. Mr. Gannett of Boston, Rev. Mr. Merrick of Walpole, and Rev. Dr. Parkman of Boston, successively spoke, giving expression to the feelings which the spectacle before them awakened. An original hymn and two original songs were sung by the whole company, in the course of the afternoon. Every thing conspired to render the occasion delightful, and when at six o'clock the President announced that on account of other engagements the company must break up, it was with a universal feeling of satisfaction that they concurred in the appointment of a Committee to make an arrangement for a similar "reunion" next year. While our limits forbid our giving any report of the speeches, we must make one exception in favor of Mr. Brooks, who embraced this opportunity to deliver a message with which he was entrusted by the Unitarian brethren, in Geneva, Switzerland. "Give them our love," was the language of their cordial sympathy; which, if our words can reach them, we as cordially reciprocate.

The American Unitarian Association. — This body held their nineteenth annual meeting on Tuesday evening, May 28. The usual business was transacted in the Berry Street Vestry. Rev. Dr. Nichols having declined a reelection, Hon. Joseph Story LL. D., of Cambridge, was chosen President; the Vice Presidents of the last year were reelected; and also Rev. Charles Briggs, as General Secretary ; Rev. Samuel K. Lothrop, Assistant Secretary; Mr. Henry P. Fairbanks, Treasurer; Rev. Artemas B. Muzzey, Rev. George E. Ellis, Rev. Nathaniel Hall, Directors. The public meeting was held in the Federal Street meeting-house, Judge Story presiding. Prayer was offered by Rev. Mr. Hall of Providence, R. I.; after which the President made some remarks suggested by the recurrence of this anniversary. The annual Report was read by Mr. Briggs, and at its conclusion Mr. Lothrop, in behalf of the Executive Committee, offered a series of resolutions, as affording topics on which gentlemen might speak. The first of these resolutions referred to the validity of the great Protestant principles of the sufficiency of the Scriptures and the right of private judgment, the second to the importance and success of missionary efforts, the third to the condition of our brethren in England and other countries of Europe, and the fourth to the bereavements which had fallen upon us within the last year. Addresses were then made upon one or other of these subjects by Rev. Mr. Stetson of Medford, Rev. Mr. Thompson of Salem, Rev. Mr. Whitman of Portland, Me., Rev. Mr. Robbins of Chelsea, Hon. Stephen Fairbanks of Boston, Rev. Mr. Clarke of Boston, Dr. Salt

marsh of Hartford, Conn., Rev. Prof. Brooks of Boston, and Rev. Dr. Parkman of Boston. The resolutions were adopted, the Doxology was sung, and the meeting was dissolved at half past ten o'clock. The house was filled through the evening.

At the business meeting previous to the public exercises a resolution was offered by Rev. Mr. May of Leicester, involving an expression of opinion on the subject of Slavery in the United States. As the want of time prevented its consideration then, it was brought before an adjourned meeting of the Association on Wednesday afternoon, and gave rise to an animated discussion, which was interrupted by the hour which called many of the members to the meeting of another body. An adjournment therefore took place till the next afternoon, when the Association met in a larger room, and continued the discussion till they were again obliged by other engagements to adjourn to the next day. On Friday morning a series of resolutions with a preamble was presented by Hon. Mr. Phillips of Salem, and was received as an amendment of Mr. May's resolution. This preamble assigned as the cause for any action on the subject the conduct of the society at Savannah in reference to Rev. Mr. Motte, several months since, and described the circumstances of that case as they were understood by the author of the resolutions; which then expressed, in clear and forcible, but calm language, the opinions entertained by this Association upon the institution of Slavery. A discussion ensued, which, with an adjournment of one hour at noon, was maintained till nine o'clock in the evening, when, after various amendments and additions had been rejected, Mr. Phillips's resolutions with the preamble were adopted by a vote of forty in the affirmative, to fifteen in the negative. These resolutions declare, that "while it is not deemed within the province of this Association, in the course of its ordinary proceedings, to entertain any question or adopt any measure in relation to the institution of Slavery, it is felt to be a duty, under the extraordinary circumstances of the case before us, to deliberate calmly and solemnly upon the subject as thus presented for our consideration, and to declare and record the result of our deliberations"; that in such a step we should "proceed upon Christian principles and in a Christian spirit-speaking the truth in love""; that "viewing the institution of Slavery in the light of Christianity, we cannot fail to perceive that it conflicts with the natural rights of human beings, as the equal children of a common Father, and that it subverts the fundamental principle of Christian brotherhood"; that "in its necessary effects upon the personal and social condition, and upon the moral and religious character of all affected by it," it presents "an accumulation of evils, over which Christianity must weep," and for the removal of which Christians should exert themselves to the utmost; that therefore "it is impossible for this Association to recognize the principle, that in the case of any minister or missionary who may be aided or employed by the Executive Committee, it should be deemed a disqualification for the performance of the appropriate duties of his office in any section of the country, that he is supposed or known to entertain, or to have publicly expressed opinions adverse to the institution of Slavery"; that the Association approve the course pursued by the Executive Committee in regard to Savannah; and that "this expression of views is commended to the serious and candid consideration of those who were the occasion