The County of Essex Association was held at Earls Colne, May 20 and 21. Mr. Rogers and Mr. Pilkington preached on the Tuesday, and on the Wednesday Messrs. Wessley and Wilkinson. Messrs. James of Thorpe, Goodrich, Francis, Padney, &c. engaged in prayer. The following resolutions, amongst others of more local interest, were passed unanimously :

That the Circular Letter prepared by Mr. Pilkington, on Spiritual-mindedness, be adopted and printed.

* Fifteen of these were dismissed from the church at Taunton, to form the new church at North Curry.

be transmitted to their Lordships, signed | the British constitution and the House of by the President of the Association.

That this Association, feeling it to be very important to the promotion of its plans, that at least one representative from each church should be present at its annual services, affectionately requests the churches to secure this object by defraying, if necessary, the attendant journeying expenses.

Brunswick an increased attachment on the part of five millions of our fellow-subjects; while we believe it to be perfectly consistent with the maintenance and extension of pure religion.

Resolved, That it is desirable, that in their future letters the churches return a report of the number of scholars receiving education in their respective Sabbath schools.

In the Scilly Islands, the Society occupies seven stations :-two in St. Mary's, the principal island of the group, and to which Mr. C. Rogers chiefly devotes his attention; and one in each of the several islands of Trescow, Bryher, St. Martin's, St. Agnes, and Sampson. The labours of the off-islands are sustained by Messrs. M'Farland, Nicholls, and Webber, under the superintendence of the minister at St. Mary's. Sabbath schools are attached to most of the stations, in which upwards of 200 children are receiving instruction. "In reviewing the whole circumstances of another year," Mr. Rogers observes, in a re-quested to draw it up. cent letter to the Committee, "I can truly say, there is great cause for gratitude to God, and ground of encouragement to the Society to persevere in its labours for the benefit of the people. The Gospel has been, and is preached; great numbers hear, and many are spiritually benefited. Many hnndreds would be destitute of the means of salvation but for the Baptist Mission; and a more interesting or important station can. not be found within the sphere of the Society's exertions."

Resolved, That the next Association be held in Broadmead, Bristol, on the Wednesday and Thursday in the Whitsun week, 1829; and that Brother Saffery be requested to preach the Association Sermon. The Brethren Winterbotham and Viney are appointed the other preachers; and in case of failure, Brethren Aitchison and Daniell.

Resolved, That the subject of the next Letter be "The Justification of a Sinner before God, in its Nature, Cause, and Effects;" and that Brother Newman be re

Clear increase during the year, six.

BRISTOL.

The Bristol Association was held this year at Salisbury, on the 27th, 28th, and 29th of May. The Rev. G. Gibbs, of Unicorn-yard, London, preached from Rom. viii. 2, 3, &c.; J. S. Bunce, from Zech. iv.

6, 7;

W. Winterbotham, from Heb. v.

7, 8, 9; and T. F. Newman, from Zech. iv. 7. The Brethren Winter, Viney, Anstie, Good, Hyatt, Evans, and Roberts, were engaged in the devotional services. The Circular Letter "On Social Prayer" was read and approved.

Resolved-That, as an Association, we cannot separate without expressing our satisfaction that, during the past year, the sacramental test imposed by the Test and Corporation Acts, so long a disgrace to the statute book of England, and so calculated to foster the feelings of dissension between the members of the Established Church and conscientious Nonconformists, has been repealed.

This measure we regard as an indication of more just and liberal feelings on the part of the Government; as likely to secure for

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On Wednesday, April 30, 1828, the eighteenth annual meeting of the Hertford

shire Union was held at St. Albans. In the

morning the Rev. E. Steane of Camberwell preached at the Independent Chapel; in the afternoon a public meeting for the transaction of business was held at the Baptist chapel, Joseph Gutteridge, Esq. in the Chair. After the report had been read by the Rev. W. Upton, one of the Secretaries, the several resolutions were moved and seconded by the Rev. E. Steane, J. Conder, Esq. Rev. E. Daniel, J. Proctor, Esq. and the Rev. Messrs. Stewart, Raban, Smith, Parker, Lockyer, and Upton.

Hitchin preached in the same place, and In the evening the Rev. J. W. Wayne of the Rev. Messrs. Harris, Anthony, Daniel, Jones, Raban, Watts, and Thompson engaged in the devotional services.

MELBOURNE.

On Thursday, June 12, 1828, the annual meeting of the Melbourne Association of ministers and churches was held at Saffron Walden; when two sermons were preached; the former by the Rev. J. Snelgar, of Cambridge, on the universal Dissemination of the Gospel; and the latter by the Rev. J. Hopkins, of Newport, Essex, on the Covenant of Grace. The subject of conversation after dinner was, "The best means to prevent detraction."

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ORDINATIONS, &c.

TOTTENHAM.

Mr. Godwin, Classical Tutor of Bradford Academy. Arrangements had been made for Dr. Steadman to have preached one of the sermons on this occasion, but, in con

that effect.

On the following day Mr. Jordan, late a student at Bradford Academy, was ordained pastor of the church at Masham. Mr. Acworth delivered the introductory discourse; Dr. Steadman, who, with considerable difficulty, was conveyed to the pulpit, delivered the charge; and Mr. Godwin preached to the people.

On Thursday, June 12th, the Rev. J. J. sequence of severe indisposition, he was Davies was publicly recognized as the pas-prevented from fulfilling his engagement to tor of the Baptist Church at Tottenham ; on which occasion, after the reading of the Scriptures and prayer by the Rev. T. Price, the Rev. W. H. Murch stated very luminously the nature of a Christian Church, and advocated, but with a very liberal spirit, the principles of Dissent. Mr. Davies made a statement of his religious sentiments. The Rev. W. Newman, D.D. offered up the ordination prayer. The Rev. T. Griffin delivered the discourse to the Minister, and the Rev. F. A. Cox, LL.D. closed the service by prayer.

In the evening, after prayer by the Rev. I. Mann, A.M. the Rev. Jos. Fletcher, A.M. of Stepney, preached to the church and congregation; and the Rev. Henry Paulin concluded by imploring the Divine blessing on the services in which they had been engaged, and on the connection which had been publicly recognized.

read in the

Appropriate hymns were morning by the Rev. I. Mann, and in the evening by the Rev. Mr. Brawn of Louton.

BOX MOOR, HERTS.

On Tuesday, May 6th, the Rev. Maurice Jones, late Student at Stepney, was publicly recognized as the Pastor of the Baptist Church meeting at Box Moor, near Hemel Hempsted, Herts. The service commenced in the morning at half-past ten, with reading the Scriptures and prayer by the Rev. J. Edwards of Watford; the Rev. Joseph Ivimey of Eagle Street, London, delivered the introductory discourse; the Rev. Jos. Hobbs of Berkhamstead offered the ordination prayer; the Rev. W. H. Murch, Theological Tutor at Stepney, delivered a most judicious charge from Col. i. 7.; the Rev. Thos. Hopley of Hemel Hempsted concluded with prayer.

Service was held again in the evening, when the Rev. E. Daniel of Luton read and prayed; the Rev. Isaac Mann of Maze Pond addressed a very forcible sermon to the Church from Rom. xv. 32. ; and the Rev. W. Upton of St. Albans closed the services with prayer.

MASHAM, YORKSHIRE.

On Sabbath-day, May 4th, a new Baptist Chapel was opened at Masham in the North Riding of Yorkshire. The preachers on this occasion were, Mr. Holgate of Pateley Bridge, (Ind.) Mr. Acworth of Leeds, and

The whole of the services on both these occasions were numerously attended, and on the Sabbath-day collections to a considerable amount were made towards liquidating the debt on the chapel. There is here a prospect of doing much good.

PONTESBURY.

On April the 15th, 1828, was opened a new place of worship for the use of the Baptist denomination at Pontesbury near Shrewsbury. The Rev. Mr. Cooke, Oswestry, preached in the morning; and Rev. Mr. Ke t, Shrewsbury, afternoon and night. Collections were made, and notwithstanding it was an extreme wet day, 117. 2s. was realized. The place has cost 300l. and near 1007. has been subscribed in the neighbourhood, with the exception of a few pounds in Oswestry and neighbourhood. This place is lent to the trustees of the late Mr. Goff to teach a free school in, and their Schoolmaster is a Baptist Minister, who preaches in it twice on Lord's days, and other places adjacent. More than eighty children in the day school, and seventy in a Sabbath school. The friends of education, and the conversion of sinners, no doubt will lend their assistance to clear away the remaining part of the debt. It will seat 300 hearers, is well attended, and the prospects are encouraging.

NOTICES.

The Ninth Anniversary of the Baptist Church, Rye Lane, Peckham, will be held (by divine permission) on Wednesday the 6th of August, when three sermons will be preached, that in the morning, at eleven o'clock, by Mr. Upton of Blackfriars, in the afternoon at three o'clock, by Mr. Davies of Walworth, and in the evening at half-past six o'clock by Mr. Heap of Bury Street. After each service a collection will be made.

The Rev. Mr. Blundell is, we are informed, appointed resident Minister of the Protestant Dissenter's Grammar School church and congregation, Mill Hill, near Hendon.

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Portugal.-During the past month Don Miguel has completed his treason by causing himself to be proclaimed king by his slavish banditti, the Cortes.

"There is no language," says an evening paper, "sufficiently strong, no terms suffieiently expressive to convey all we feel and think with respect to this arch-traitor. His treason has all the qualities of baseness, of meanness, of immorality and irreligion. It is not redeemed, it could not be redeemed-but it is not even palliated by a single trait of virtue or even of courage. All is of the blackest dye. That his success will be permanent--that the crown will be firm upon his head we do not believe, and assuredly we do not desire. Treachery so atrocious, and treason so infamous, deserves the most signal punishment; and we shall be greatly disappointed if that punishment be long delayed."-Courier, July 7.

The Ambassadors of all nations, except those of Spain and the Pope, have now with great propriety quitted Lisbon; for, technically speaking, their functions ceased, when the Court to which they were accredited changed its master. It is painful to think, how many a noble spirit may fall a sacrifice to the political struggles of that divided country.

are struggling to obtain that, of which they are already in the possession. But the mischief lies in the reaction of these abortive efforts on the exasperated passions of the country whence they originate-here alas they act as wind upon the troubled waters. What can be done for Ireland? is a question pressed upon our attention by the intelligence continually received from that unhappy country; the desirableness of doing something, is equalled only by the difficulty of knowing what to do.

On Monday morning, July 21st, at the Archiepiscopal Palace of Lambeth, His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury closed his connection with all sublunary scenes. His Grace was in the 74th year of his age, and had enjoyed the high honour of Metropolitan for upwards of three-and-twenty years. Besides being Primate of all England, he was Lord of Trade and Plantations, an official Trustee of the British Museum, a Governor of the Charter House, and a visitor of All Souls and Merton Colleges, Oxford. He was uncle to the Duke of Rutland, brother to Lord Manners, and father to the Right Hon. Manners Sutton, the present speaker of the House of Commons. We leave to his biographer the task to trace the history of his actions, and to delineate the features of his moral and official characters-but without invading his province we may be permitted to advert to a single circumstance. consequence of serious illness, he has for some time been unable to attend his parliamentary duties; but one of After the most violent the last acts of his senatorial life was contest, Mr. O'Connell has been return- his unqualified assent to the repeal ed as the elected member for the county of the Test and Corporation Acts, a of Clare, în place of Mr. Fitzgerald, its fact which sheds a lustre on his meformer representative-returned to a mory, and which deserves to be grateParliament where he is precluded from fully recorded by all the friends of occupying a seat, unless Catholic emanci- civil and religious liberty throughout the pation is a nonentity, and the Catholics world.

DOMESTIC.

Ireland. We need not, however, travel so far as Portugal to witness scenes of turbulence and distress; our services and our sympathies are wanted nearer home. What can be done for Ireland ? is a question in point of political interest which seems to take precedency of every other.

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AUGUST, 1828.

THOUGH Our Chronicle this month extends to eight pages, instead of four, yet we have been compelled to abridge considerably the addresses which, at the public meeting, were received with so much approbation. On this subject, however, our regret is diminished, by concluding that most of our readers have seen these interesting speeches, as they are reported at large in "The World" Newspaper.

The Chairman rose and said, he should not occupy the valuable time of the meeting by any observations respecting the object of the Society; he should embrace another opportunity of laying before them some gratifying information in the mean time he would call upon the respected Secretary to read the Report.

After reading the Report,

THE Annual Meeting of the Baptist Irish wrongs to redress, deficiencies to supply, Society was held at the City of London Ta- and claims to fulfil. There had been a time, vern, on Friday, the 20th of June. A very and it was not far distant, when it was numerous and highly respectable company scarcely possible to contemplate the state of partook of breakfast at six o'clock, after Ireland with any thing like pleasure; in which they retired to the large room. Upon surveying the length and depth, the eye of the motion of the Rev. Joseph Ivimey, the mind could scarcely rest upon any spot Captain Gordon was unanimously called to with complacency and delight. That period the Chair. After singing and prayer, by had, in a very great degree, passed away; Mr. Peacock, it was now very difficult to say, whether the pain which must still be felt on account of the evil yet remaining in that country was equal, in the degree of intensity, to the pleasure that was derived from the knowledge that so many means were in employment to do away those evils, and impart those blessings which it was the desire of the Christian's soul that Ireland should enjoy. The pleasure enjoyed in this respect The Rev. I. Birt, of Manchester, said, was heightened by many considerations, and that in addressing the Chairman upon a it struck him that one of the most obvious subject connected with the interest and was the variety of Societies, and the means welfare of Ireland, his feelings were similar which they employed to promote the inteto those of the Apostle when he addressed rests of that country. At first this might king Agrippa on the subject of Christianity. seem rather a singular topic to advert to, There was no man better versed in the affairs as an advantage either to Ireland or to any of Ireland than the gallant Captain in the other country; but when the peculiar conchair; and if it were a source of comfort dition of the inhabitants of Ireland was to the mind of the Apostle, that he was to considered, he was persuaded it must be defend the system of Christianity before felt as the wise arrangement of Divine Proone who was thoroughly versed in the an-vidence. Not only were there Societies cient customs of the Fathers, it must, in a employed for the various purposes which proportionate degree, be a comfort to him the necessities of Ireland required, but there (Mr. B.) to plead the cause of Ireland be- was a distinct Society for all her distinct fore the present Chairman. It was not requirements. This obviated what would surprising if the advantage of Ireland-if otherwise be an almost insuperable difficulty the improvement of her moral and spiritual in the way of benefiting Ireland, namely, condition, should excite a lively interest; the idea that there was a collusion, and a for not only had she the common claims desire to bring over those who were of one upon philanthropy and Christianity, but she kind of religion to the profession of another, combined all that could excite the attention rather than impart to them a real advantage. and engage the sympathies of the inhabit- It was impossible for the inhabitants of ants of this country. If, in a Christian Ireland, when they saw Christians of difsense, we were bound to regard those at a ferent denominations pursuing a common great distance as our neighbours-if there object, to suppose that there was any secwas not a human being who was not a neigh- tarianism, because the interests of sects and bour, and consequently had a claim apon parties must be kept in the back ground by our humanity, certainly we were more par- that arrangement. Another advantage which ticularly called upon to support those within arose from a multiplicity of Societies was our reach. Ireland, then, had especial this-a diversity of means was indispens

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