170 Rio de la Plata ditto ditto 1,000,000 171 Association for assisting to work Mines in Mexico and other parts of Spanish America 1,000,000 172 Indemnity Mutual Marine Insurance Company 5,000,000 ditto 5,000,000 181 United Empire and Continental Life Assurance ditto 182 Protector, Fire ditto ditto 5,000,000 185 West of Scotland Life Insurance Annuity and Endowment ditto 1,000,000 186 Scottish Union Fire and Life Insurance ditto 5,000,000 187 Grand Commercial Assurance Company and Guarantee Association 188 British Annuity Company Brought forward 223 Portsmouth, Plymouth, Devenport, and Falmouth Steam Packet Company 224 London and Leith Steam Packet Company for the Carriage of Goods 225 London, Brighton and Devon Fishing and Steam Navigation Company 226 Westminster Fish Company 227 Metropolitan ditto ditto 228 British Fishing 229 Thames Tunnel 230 Ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto, Greenwich to Poplar 233 West India Company 231 Columbian Pearl Fishery Company 232 St. Catherine's Bridge Suspension Company 234 Association for Reclaiming Bogs and certain Waste Lands in Ireland 235 London Brick Company 236 British Patent Brick ditto 237 Bognor New Town ditto 238 London and Manchester Van Company 239 British Distillery ditto 240 St. Ives' New Pier ditto 241 Sandwich New Harbour ditto 242 New North Road ditto 243 Journal ditto 244 Newspaper Investment ditto 245 Hammersmith Bridge ditto 246 Tontine Bridge across the Swale ditto 247 London Sub-way ditto 248 Plymouth Public Baths ditto 249 Scottish Wood Stapling ditto 250 Joint-Stock Wine ditto of Scotland 251 Ditto ditto Company for the Manufacture of Paper, Edinburgh 252 Respectable Concern that will realize, without risk, 40 per cent. the first year, and from 50 to 60 per cent. may be obtained the second and following years; apply to Mr. Henry Bloomfield, 11, Old Jewry, 1000 Shares of £10 each (Times, Feb. 2, 1825) 10,000 Total of the Capital as far as the amount has been ascertained £157,104,050 PARLIAMENTARY. The Parliament met on the 4th instant. The King's speech was conciliatory and satisfactory, except that measures were recommended against the Catholic Association in Ireland. The debates turned upon Ireland, and in both houses allusions were made to the late decrees for securing religious liberty in Hanover, the King of which appears so much more enlightened than the ministers of the King of Great Britain. On the second day's debate in the Commons, Colonel PALMER amused the House by an allusion to Captain Rock, (Thomas Moore's celebrated book in favour of the aggrieved Irish,) and to Mr. Irving, the popular Scottish preacher in London, at whose church he had met some of the ministers, and whose exhortations in behalf of tolerance and clemency he hoped the ministers would follow. Mr. HUME gave notice on the 7th, of a motion on the 3rd of March for a Select Committee to investigate the Church Establishment of Ireland. The chief discussions since have been on the bill of the ministers for putting down the Catholic Association of Dublin. These lasted four nights, during which both sides of the House exhibited a splendid eloquence peculiar to the House of Commons. The argument was, we think, on the opposition side; we need not say that the votes were on the other side. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT's speech is allowed on all hands to have been masterly; and the hearers of the debate pronounced it to have been the best delivered during this great contest. One of the members read from the newspapers the report of the Bible Debate in Ireland, when a Catholic Priest personated a "Socinian," and pronounced that on Protestant principles his argument was conclusive. The ministers' bill against the Catholic Association is now in progress, and will no doubt be carried, though petitions, signed by thousands upon thousands, are presented against it, some of these by Irish fréeholders, landholders and capitalists. A curious fact has come out, that the Marquiss Wellesly, the Lord Lieutenant, has sent a document to the Cabinet in which he attributes the present peace of Ireland to the Catholic Association. Attempts have been made to raise the "No Fopery" cry, and to get up Anti-Catholic petitions, but without effect, except as regards a few of the ru ral clergy. The bill against the Usury laws has been lost, chiefly through the the activity of a few members of corporations and country gentlemen, against the political economists and the majority of the ministry. The Unitarian MAR. RIAGE BILL was read a first time, without an observation, on the 23rd instant, on the proposal of Mr. WILLIAM SMITH, and is to be read a second time on the 4th of March, when the ministers in the Lower House will have made up their minds as to the course to be pursued. There is a probability, we should hope, of the bill passing the Lower House; of its reception from the Upper House, the experience of last year allows us to form a tolerably accurate opinion. It seems to have been judged expedient, by the supporters of the Bill, that no further petitions should be presented. LITERARY. In the Press, and will appear early in Autumn, Four Volumes of Sermons, by the Rev. PHILIP DODDRIDGE, D. D., agreeably to a clause in his will to that purpose, and four MSS., which will be furnished by the Family.-Such an acquisition will be duly appreciated by the religious world. Archdeacon WRANGHAM is said to be engaged in preparing for the Press, Walton's Prolegomena, with additional notes. Cambridge, Dec. 31.-The prize for the Hulsean Dissertation for the year 1824, is adjudged to James Amiraux Jeremie, B. A., Scholar of Trinity College. Subject, "The Doctrines of our Saviour, as derived from the four Gospels, are in perfect harmony with the Doctrines of St. Paul, as derived from his epistles." Friday, Jan. 7. The following is the subject of the Hulsean Prize Dissertation for the present year: "In what respects the Law is a Schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ."-New Monthly Mag. p. 61. FOREIGN. HANOVER The KING of this Country has lately issued edicts in favour of Religious Liberty, and of an equitable administration of Church Revenues. Were Ireland Hanover, how little cause would the Irish have to complain! Proclamation, George IV., &c. It having come to our knowledge, that some doubts are entertained respecting the interpretation and application of the first paragraph of the 16th article, of the act of the German Confederation of the 8th of June 1815, which is to the following effect; "The difference of the Christian religious communities, cannot lead to any difference in the enjoyment of civil and political rights, in the countries composing the Germanic Confederation;" we are induced to issue the following declaration and ordinance : 1. The several professors of the Christian faith, enjoy a perfect equality of civil and political rights in the kingdom, and, in conformity with the said article, the notion of a predominant and of a merely tolerated church, is entirely abolished. 2. All Christian religious communities have a right to the unobstructed and free exercise of their religious worship, and every clergyman can require the surplices, &c. only from the parishoners of his own persuasion. Consequently, 3. Those inhabitants who belong to a different Christian persuasion from that of the parish, are to pay the fees, &c. only to the clergyman of their persuasion, to whose parish they are positively annexed. Fees can be required by a clergyman of a different persuasion, when he has been required to perform an official duty, and has really performed it. 4. On the other hand, all dues to churches and schools, which proceed from houses, farms, and other landed property in a parish, without regard to the personal qualifications of the professor in respect to his religious belief, are still to be paid to those entitled to them by every possessor, even if he belong to a Christian party different from that of the parish. 5. Contains regulations for the entries in the church books. Hanover, Dec. 18. AMERICA. Two new Unitarian Churches have been crected, one in Boston and the other in Salem, Mass.; the former has been recently dedicated to the worship of the only living and true God. Mr. William H. Furness has accepted the invitation of the Unitarian Church in Philadelphia to become their Pastor, and is to be ordained the 12th of January next. It is expected that the Rev. Dr. Kirkland, President of Harvard University, will preach on the occasion, MEXICO. "It is decreed that the traffic of slaves, under whatever flag or nation, is for ever prohibited in the territories of the Mexican United States." "Evangelical" alarm.-" The Evangelical Witness, pablished under the patronage of the American Evangelical Tract Society," has the following" Item of Intelligence" in the Number for April last: --"The sixth Number of a Unitarian Journal, entitled The Christian, &c' has been issued in Philadelphia.-The Socinian editors congratulate their readers on the approximation which the res. pectable theological school at Andover,' is making towards the truth that is in Jesus,' i. e. towards Socinianism. They assert, that Dr. Murdock, in a dissertation lately delivered in that Divinity school, has given up every thing like Calvinism. We fear there is too much reason for their exultation. SOCINIANISM MAKES ALARMING PROGRESS." A new plan of religious instruction has been adopted in Transylvania University, Kentucky, by an unanimous vote of the Academical Faculty, and the Board of Trustees. By this measure, the ministers of every religious denomination, in Lexington, are invited to preach in turn, during the academical session, in the chapel of that University. In this list are included the ancient people of God, the Roman Catholics, the Episcopalians, the Presbyterians, the Congregationalists, the Baptists and the Methodists. "It is believed," says President Holley," that this is a measure eminently calculated to unite public sentiment, to secure public confidence, to advance the interests of truth, to extend Catholicism, and to excite a spirit of emulation in the cause of religious liberality." SWITZERLAND. At a late meeting of the students in Theology, the Bishop of Basle earnestly exhorted the pupils of the Catholic persuasion "to preserve amity and good feeling with their Protestant class-fellows, under pain of being refused ordination." PRUSSIA. The King has just issued an order (28th Dec. 1824) relating to the Censorship of the Press. To Englishmen this is so odious an usurpation of power, that we can hardly speak of it with cool. ness but really there is some discrimination, not to say humour, in his majesty of Prussia's rescript. "-editions are uot allowed of works that generally attack the foundations of all religion, strive to render important truths suspicious, contemptible or ridiculous, or dare to represent to the people the Christian religion, the Bible, as well the historical as dogma. tical truths contained therein, as objects of doubt or even derision, by which the base of all religious sentiment is undermined.-1, at the same time decree, that with respect to works intended for a more confined circle of readers, or only for savans, all undue and bitter attacks are avoided and suppressed, which do not tend to the direct support of any opinion, or to the calm refutation of sentiments in opposition, and stigmatize as heretics those who entertain opposite religious opinions."— -" What," exclaims the Editor of the Journal des Debats, at Paris, "would become of the Etoile if it was published in Prussia?" And what, we ask, would become of the Evangelical, Congregational and Baptist Magazines, and the long list of intolerant and abusive periodicals? RUSSIA. The Jews. The measures lately ordered by the Emperor of Russia relative to the Jews in Poland, and the desire expressed by his Majesty to make them apply to agriculture, give an interest to a communication from the south of Russia, by which we learn, that about five miles from Nikotajeu, in the Government of Cherson, there has existed for several years a Jewish village, with very fine fields and pastures, built and inhabited by Israelites. This village, Jese Nahr, in the vicinity of which there are six other smaller villages of the same kind, most of them with Hebrew names, is inhabited by about fifty families. Their fields are diligently and skilfully cultivated, though there is not a Christian peasant in the whole village. They have good artisans and workmen of every description, aud are now building a synagogue. As soon as the harvest is over, those who understand a mechanical trade are allowed to go into the neighbouring towns to exercise it, furnished with a passport from the magistrates. The women endeavour to earn something during the winter, by getting work from the inhabitants of the towns, which they make at home. The young colony is indebted for its origin and present prosperity to Nahum Funkelstein, who was in the sequel, its chief bailiff. Though he is a rich man, he set his brethren the example by keeping his own children assiduously employed in agricultural labour, and by this, and through indefatigable industry and patience, he has brought the little community to its present thriving condition. TURKEY. The Bible. It is rather a singular coin cidence, that while the Pope and the Roman Catholic clergy are making such great exertions to suppress the Bible, the Grand Seignior should issue a firman for the same purpose, from which the following is an extract : "Know that it is ascertained, that books have been printed in Europe, viz. Bibles, Psalters, Gospels with the History of the Apostles at the end; two or three thousand of each sort, with a tract in Persian; and there have come to my capital two or three hundred of each sort, with four or five of the Persian tracts. And as it is my duty to prevent entirely such things when they happen in my kingdom during my reign, let these books be returned to Europe; and if hereafter any of them arrive at the custom-houses, let careful search be made and advice sent to my capital, in order that none may be sold or bought. Likewise, let no Turk whatever take any of these false books; and when any of them are found, let them be taken and cast into the fire that they may be burnt, and let them not be bought or sold in any country." Another account states-"The Grand Seignior has issued a firman prohibiting the circulation of the Scriptures, which had been translated into the Persian language, The firman was put into the hands of the Cadi, who sent for the chiefs of the different Christian sects, told them what the Sultan's orders were, and ordered them to cause all their people who had any of these books in their possession to deliver them up, threatening to hang any man who should be found The Cadi to keep back any of them. also ordered the sequestration of the copies of the sacred scriptures." NEW PUBLICATIONS IN THEOLOGY AND GENERAL LITERATURE. Antichrist detected among reputed Orthodox Christians. By the Same. 8vo. 4d. The Restitution of all Things. An Essay. By the Rev. James Brown, D. 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