Brought forward 683 Patriotic Coal Company of Dublin 585 Egis 686 Landlord and Tenant's Life ditto Society £270,062,240 10,000 ditto ditto Sir Wm. Kaye ditto Company Elving 500,000 ditto ditto of Ireland .. Darling 1,000,000 Ogle 250,000 690 National Inclosure Company for recovering Lands from the Sea, and bringing into Cultivation those extensive tracts from which the Sea has retired 691 West London Water Works 692 Brighthelmstone ditto 693 Norwich ditto 694 Aberdeen ditto 695 Vigo Bay 696 Lisburn Gas Company Perring 200,000 20,000 ditto 80,000 697 Patent Distillery and Rectifying 698 London Woollen Cloth Manufacturing ditto 699 Union Worsted 700 New Brighton Company between Seapoint and Dunleary ditto ditto 100,000 701 New Aberdovey Town 702 London Genuine Snuff Company 703 United Kingdom Tea Agency ditto Buttivant 200,000 704 General Dying and Printing ditto 200,000 705 New Bridge over the Thames at Lambeth 706 Athenæum and Oriental Garden, Brighton 707 London Palais Royal 708 Fire Proof Paint Association 709 London Booksellers' and Publishers' Company 710 Dublin Glass ditto 711 Kerry Coach 712 Scottish Stone ditto Spean ditto 713 London Carrier 714 Society for Building Lincoln's Inn Place, from Carey Street to Pickett Place, in the direction of Serle Street 715 Imperial British Shawl Company 716 Telegraph Company for establishing a Communication from Liverpool through Coventry, Birmingham and Manchester, to the Eastern and Western Coasts, also to Holyhead, Edinburgh and Glasgow ditto Pearce 10,000 100,000 Company's Office .. 22, Finch Lane 75,000 THE Durham Chronicle of Sept. 10, has the following paragraph, in reference to the letter which appeared in our num ber for August, p. 474: "A writer in the last number of the Monthly Repository, signing himself' Philo-Unitas,' recommends that a place be opened in Durham for Unitarian worship, and advises, if his plan be carried into execution, that the worship be liturgical. We are as much surprised as the writer that the respectable sect of Unitarians have not before this had a chapel in this 100,000 £274,507,240 city, as it would be a great accommoda- THE new Bishop of SALISBURY (Dr. tion to take place in November, when Burgess) has announced his first ordinathe candidates are to be examined as to their qualifications in reading the Liturgy and the delivery of Sermons, by commissioners appointed for that purpose. Bible Discussions in Ireland. Dr. Doyle's pastoral prohibition of these contests (see Mon. Repos. p. 541) seemed to indicate that they had come to an end; but a late singular occurrence may occasion their revival. Dr. MACSWEENY, Professor of Theology in the College of Carlow, has resigned his situation in order that he may become the champion of the Catholics at public meetings, without opposing his diocesan (Dr. Doyle). His object would appear to be to enlighten the people of England, whom he regards as strangers to the Catholic argument. It is not stated whether he means to come over to this country. That time may not be wasted in declamation, he proposes that the discussions which he contemplates should be carried on in a logical manner; the controversy to be decided by 100 judges, 50 Catholics and 50 Protestants, he to have the naming of the Protestants and his antagonists the naming of the Catholics. He hints, with great naïveté, that as he has deprived himself of his living to enable him to embark in the controversy, it would not be amiss if his opponents, in case of his success, provided for him some compensation; but on this he does not insist! We shall wait with no little curiosity to hear of the effect of this polemical proposition. FOREIGN. AMERICA. American Unitarian Association.-A Society, under this appellation, has recently been formed; the objects of which are to "diffuse the knowledge and promote the interests of pure. Christianity throughout our country;" inviting the union and co-operation of liberal Christians throughout the United States. Ac. cording to its constitution, an annual subscription of one dollar shall constitute a person a member, so long as such subscription is paid; and a subscription of 30 dollars shall constitute a person a member for life. Its annual meetings are to be held at such times and places as the executive Committee, to be appointed by the Society, shall deem advisable. The following copy of a circular, just issued by the Committee, will best explain the spirit and wishes of this new institution: "At a meeting of gentlemen from various places, held in Boston the 25th day of May, 1825, a proposition was made for forming some bond of connexion and co-operation among the Unitarian Christians of the United States. After deliberate discussion it was thought that the time had arrived when such a measure would be generally acceptable, and greatly conduce to the extension of correct religious sentiments. A Committee was accordingly appointed to draft articles of association, who reported a Constitution; which having been considered, was unanimously accepted. The Association was then organized by the choice of officers, and a subscription immediately opened. "The executive Committee of the Association, to whom are entrusted the management of its concerns and the accomplishment of its purposes, present to the public the following brief exposition of the objects it is designed to promote. They wish it to be understood, that, in accordance with the second article of the Constitution, its efforts will be directed to the promotion of true religion throughout our country; intending by this, not exclusively those views which distinguish the friends of the Association from other disciples of Jesus Christ; but those views in connexion with the great doctrines and principles in which all Christians coincide, and which constitute the substance of our religion. We wish to diffuse the knowledge and influence of the gospel of our Lord and Saviour. Great good is anticipated from the co-operation of persons entertaining similar views, who are now strangers to each other's religious sentiments. Interest will be awakened, confidence inspired, and efficiency produced by the concentration of labour. The spirit of inquiry will be fostered, and individuals at a distance will know where to apply for information and encouragement. Respectability and strength will be given to that class among us, whom our fellow-christians have excluded from the controul of their religious charities, and whom, by their exclusive treatment, they have compelled in some measure to act as a party. The more immediate purposes of the Associa tion may be thus enumerated : "1. To collect and diffuse information respecting the state of Unitarian Christianity in our country. "2. To produce union, sympathy and co-operation among liberal Christians. "3. To publish and distribute books and tracts inculcating correct views of religion, in such form and at such price as shall afford an opportunity of becoming acquainted with Christian truth. 4. To employ missionaries, especially in such parts of our country as are destitute of a stated ministry. "5. To adopt whatever other measures may hereafter seem expedient, such as contributions in behalf of clergymen with insufficient salaries, or in aid of building churches, &c. &c. 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D. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications have been received from Dr. J. Jones; Messrs. Frend; Bakewell; S. Spurrell; Marsom; M'Cready, of Cork; E. T., and J. P.; Plain Truth, and A Consistent Sceptic. Some of these arrived too late for insertion this month according to the wish of the writers. ERRATA. P. 516, col. 1, line 18 from the top, after the word "opposite," add the words "to those." -518, col. 1, line 18, dele the inverted commas after the word "executioner," and place them two lines below, after the word 66 expression." Monthly Repository. No. CCXXXIX.] NOVEMBER, 1825. [Vol. XX. Mr. Bakewell on the Doctrine of "the Final Perseverance of the Elect," as held by the Modern Swiss Calvinists. SIR, Downshire Hill, Hampstead, Oct. 12, 1825. HAVING been publicly chal- belief was himself, the hero of the lenged in the Monthly Repository (XIX. 673) to prove by fair citations from the writings of M. Malan, or Calvin, or any Calvinistic author of credit, their assent to the doctrine, that "when a man is become one of the elect, he cannot afterwards fall from salvation, whatever crimes he may commit," I shall beg permission to introduce to the notice of your readers a small publication, entitled Conventicule de Rolle par un Témoin digne de Foi. This publication contains an undisguised avowal of the above doctrine, and is one of the greatest curiosities of modern religious literature: it comes from the pen of no less a personage than M. Cæsar Malan, of Geneva, at which place I purchased it soon after its appearance. Rolle is a small town in the Canton de Vaud, where, in the year 1821, a few persons, among whom were three pastors of the canton, assembled in a private house to receive religious instruction from M. Malan. Conversations intermixed with prayers and discourses were continued two days. To this meeting the people of the canton gave the name of Conventicule, and the novelty of the thing excited much attention in a country where there are but few objects of public interest to attract notice. No friend to religious freedom can deny that all men have the right to assemble peaceably for religious instruction in what manner they best approve, nor could any just ground of offence be taken against M. Malan and his friends for assembling in a private house. A considerable time afterwards, M. Malan published a narrative of the proceedings, which he entitled The Conventicle of Rolle, by a Witness worthy of Belief-at the end of it his own signature is given at full length. Who would expect, from such a title, that the witness worthy of VOL. XX. 4 N story, in which is related in the third person how condescendingly he spoke to one, how graciously he smiled upon a second, how kindly he advised a third, and how fervently he prayed for all? It surely requires no small degree of religious vanity to write in this manner. Christ has said, “If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true." M. Malan would have done well to have recollected these words. In an early part of the conversation at Rolle, M. Malan endeavours to instil into the minds of the new converts, clear ideas of Calvinistic charity, by describing an allegorical picture which he drew when in England; for his knowledge of the language being imperfect, he was compelled to employ his pencil. In this picture he represented the Church of Christ built upon a rock, and the dome which covered it was called the communion of saints. To depict the state of those whose faith differed from his own," he drew in the shade beyond the rock a high and shining pillar, without any base, on which he wrote salvation by works. This pillar he surrounded with broken columns, of which the Devil wished to form a church, of dust and ashes: these columns were called Socinians, Arians, Pelagians, Rationalists, &c.; their shafts were joined by a cement* of pride and ignorance, and their approaching ruin was preparing by a river called Truth, which was washing away the sand from under them. When the good man for whom the drawing was made, sighed as he looked upon these broken columns of the Devil's church, M. Malan comprehended his meaning, and wrote on one side, God is all powerful" (mind, not to * M. Malan does not inform us in what manner he represented the compo sition of this cement. |