The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-03 00:00:00

SPORTING.

LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHASES (coocianran).—Wkaralnke.
THZ LIVIRPOOL SPRING CCP, added to a haadicap
sweeps. 0(15 NOW. cads, 10 ft. One mile and a half. (12 subs.)
Mr. id. Blake's Ball/o.ns 4 yrs, 7st 71b ....... (Murphy)l
Lord Chesterfield's Lady Lurewell, 4 yrs, Tat Ilb .. (0. Oates) 2
The following also started, but were not placed : Brown Fly, Dip.
thong, Liston, Sir Martin, Spectator, and King Faber. Betting:
2to 1 es& mat Lady Lurewell and Liston, and sto 1 web agst Bal.
linatad and King Fisher. Won by bah a [moth ; Lady Lai ewell
beating King rusher by a bead; Liston and Spectator &nab and fifth,
well up. The other' were batten nff. After the race, 40 sad 6010 1.
was taken about Bailin/gad fur the Chester Cup.

:B.—'l'wevanar.

Business Was confined to the following bets;-70 to 10
apt Flatesteber for the 2,000 Guineas Stales; 2,000 to 80 apt Glen
teaddel for tbeehester Coy ; and 400 to 10 ant lieverlee, 500 to 10 ends
ere Keratin and Flab:etcher, and 200 even between itasiult and Flat-
catcher, for the Derby. Thirteen' was very thinly attended.

gab) inittlistna.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

DRUMMOND AND ANOTHER O. TER ATTORNIY-GENERAL
FOR IitZLAND.—CHARITY-TRUST FOR PROTESTANT Dts-
RENTERS IX 1710; WERR UNITARIANS INCLUDED?—This
is an appeal from a decree of Sir Edward Sugden when he
was Lord Chancellor of Ireland. The decree was pronounced
in January, 1842, upon the hearing of an information filed
by the Attorney-General of Inland at tie relation of the
Rev. Robert Quin, George Mathews and others, against the
Rev. W. H. Drummond and nineteen oti.er,, including fire
unitarian ministers. The information filed in 1840 stated,
among other things, that in and previous to the year 1665,
presbyterian clergymen of the church of Scotland professing
trinitarian doctrines were placed in pastoral charge with be- •
nefices in Ireland ,• that on the passing of the Act of Uni-
formity (17 &18 Car. II.) several ministers having parochial
benefices in Dublin and elsewhere in Ireland withdrew from
their cures, and with some of their parishioners formed
five noneniforming protestant congregations according
to the presbyterian forms, and erected five meet-
ing houses in Dublin, and being all agreed in the doctrine of
the trinity as an emential article of faith they united in one
ecclesiastical Association, known by the name of " The
Dublin Association or Presbytery," that these congregations
enjoyed much harmony, their pastors teaching the doctrine
of the trinity, until the year 1702, when one of them, the
Rev. Thos. Emlyn, having avowed unitarian opinions, was
removed by the presbytery of Dublin, and was subsequently
prosecuted, found guilty, and sentenced to fine and impri-
eonment for having promulgated unitarian doctrines in •
book entitled "An humble inquiry into the scripture ac-
count of Jesus Christ, &c. ;" that the protestant dissenters of
Ireland from 1665 to 1735, and subsequently, were all (ex-
cept' Mr. Emlyn) agreed among themselves and with the
established church on articles of faith, and dissented from
the church only on questions of church government. The
information then stated that Sir Arthur Longford, with
other memben of the mid five congregations, believers in the
trinity, subscribed large sums of money for the
charitable purposes stated in • deed of trust exe-
cuted in the year 1710, for securing the fund, which deed re-
cited that the founders, '• from • pious disposition and concern
for the interest of our Lord Jesus Christ and the welfare of
precious souls, had designed, &c., to set on foot a fund for the
support of religion in Dublin and the south of Ireland, by
Gestating protestant dissenting ministers against unreasonable
prosecutions, and for the education of youth for the ministry
among protestant dissenters, and for assisting poor protestant
dissenting congregations," Cte The deed set forth rules for
the management of the fund, and in one of them trustees
thereof were named, being the ministers and two members
of each of the said five congregations and other perons, in-
cluding the Rev. Joseph Boyse by name. The information
stated that all thine trustee, believed in the doctrine of the
trinity, and that, up to a recent period, the charitable fund
was applied for the benefit of trinitarian protestant dis-
senters, but that lately two of the congregations, in Strand-
street and Eunice street, and their rebutters, abandoning
their ancient faith, adopted and taught unitarian doctrines,
while the other congregations of Mary's Abbey and Usher's-
quay and their ministers still maintained their ancient
faith. The information further stated that it was incon-
sistent with the trust deed and with the intention of the
founders of the charity to apply any part of the fund in
support of preachers of doctrines at variance with belief in
Jesus Christ and with the doctrine of the trinity ; yet that
the present trustees, the majority of whim are unitarians,
applied the greater part of the fund in support of unitarian
doctrines at variance with the Trinity as held by the estab-
lished church, and by the said original five congregations.
The information prayed that the charity might be established
and administered according to the true meaning of the trust
deed and the intention of the f .unders as therein expressed;
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and that it might be declared thus, milifstegsN others
teaching or holding what is cornmerllp celled ' ' be-
rattter
lief and doctrine wen not fit obieitt of
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that such of the present trustees all hag'
a. at
variance with those of the founders might be '
The defendants severed in their enterers to the inf
those of them who were unitarians, and Idioms rretppresentas
in this appeal by the two reverend appellants, to
the effect that all protestant iiiTnete in Ireland at did
for several years before and after e,ilaus at the trust
were not agreed among theleselve mouliraktba a tabliehed
church upon articles; of faith, and ' . disannal
principle recognised: by the protestant emociated
in Dublin in 1710 on- - ' - " - , and io,

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