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or Island of St. Helena ; and also in time of peace to proceed
from England direct to any of the aforesaid places, and return
from thence once during the continuance of the Assurance,
without paying any additional premium.
Assurances may be effected on the lines of all. persons about
to proceed to and reside in any part of the world on payment
.or a moderate extra premium ; and in all cases the assured
wil be allowed to proceed to and reside in any foreign settle.
ment on payment of such an extra premium as may be considered
an equivalent for the increased risk.
In case of death by the hands of justice or by suicide, although
the party may have insured his own life, the policy shall not be in-
validated, provided it I as been bona fide assigned to any party for a
valuab'e consideration ; and if it has not been so assigned, the legal
representatives of the deceased shall be entitled to receive a sum
equal to the amount which the Society would have given fur the
purchase of the policy on the slay before such decease.
irthe object of any member in assuring his ow❑ life, or the life of
another, has been attained, and he should be desirous to substitute
the life of some other party, the Board of Directors shall have the
power to permit the same to be stone, provided the health of such
other party be deemed satisfactory, and his age do not exceed that of
the member in the place of whom he is substituted.
Policies, after five years' standing, on being deposited with the

Society, may be kept in force by the payment each ;ear of half the

premium, and interest on all arrears, in which case the remaining
portion of the premium may be deducted from the amount assured
when the policy becomes a claim.

The Premiums upon all assurances may be payable annually,
half yearly, quarterly, . or monthly, as may suit the convenience of
parties assuring; and the year may commence from Ist January,
let April, Ist July, or Ist October, according to the time when the
Assurance is effected.
All claims upon the Society, accruing by death, will be paid
within one month after proof of the death of the party or parties
upon whose life or lives the assurance has been effected.

This Society will also grant immediate, temporary, deferred, and
contingent Annuities, with the option, in the casts of a deferred
`Annuity, of the,Subscriber having the whole or any part of his pay-
ments returned, shotild he di-0- before the COMlTlerlCensimt of the
A nin.ity, on paying a proportionate increase of premium.
It will also grant Policies for securing Endowments to Children
on their attaining a specified age, conditioned, as in the pre-
vious case, fur repayment of the premium in the event of the
child's death.

The Society will grant Loans on the security of Policies, whether
on Life Assurance, Annuities, or Endowments; or otherwise, as
may be though. proper. The Loans may be repaid by moderate in.
stahnents, to be agreed upon when they are negociated.
The Society will at all times be prepared to treat on the most
equitable terms for the purchase of its Policies, whenever the assured
may desire to dispose of them.
The Society shall be at liberty to purchase and re-sell any Rever-
sionary and other Interests that may be thought advantageous.
A temporary Capital Stock of 500,0004 will be raised to guarantee
the immediate engagements of the Society in shares of 251. each,
bearing interest at 51 per cent. per annum, which Capital may be
discontinued at the end of five years, or any time after that period,
when the Directors shall consider the income and accumulated fund
of the Society are of such amount as to render its continuance un.
necessary. One-fifth of the divisible profits of the Society will be
set aside and distributed as a bonus to the Shareholders whenever
the subscribed capital is discontinued. An instalment of 2/. per
share to be paid on subscription; and if further calls should be
necessary, the same to be in the discretion cf the Directors, but
none to be made unless on three months' previous notice.

The advantages which the LONDON and WESTMINSTER
MUTU 4L LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY holds out are shortly
these :—The principle upon which it is founded, viz., Mutual Assu-
rance, draws a distinct and Woad line between it anti all Proprietary
Companies. It not only embodies all the new features of the modern
Proprietary Companies, but also preserves the characteristics of
Mutual Assurance Societies, whose success indisputably proves the
excellence of their principle. In addition to which several con-
venient and novel modes of Life Assurance, and Deferred Annui-
ties, are offered in such a way as to enable the humbler classes to
secure every advantage which Life Assurance and other Societies
have hitherto held out to the affluent, or Benefit Societies and
Savings Banks to theworking classes, freed from the exclusiveness of
the former and the many obvisus defects of the latter.
Prospectuses may be had and application for Shares made by ap-
plying to the London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury and Wa-
terloo-place, and all its Branches; and to Messrs. Roy, Blunt, Dun-
can, and Johnston, 42, Lothbury; and Mcssrs, G. and C. Kempson,
Solicitors, 81, Abingdon-street, Westminster,
METROPOLITA/
soc.

LIFE ASSURANCE
.ETY
ASSURANCE.
_Tons.
Join Allcard, Esq. Chrrles Hensler t Esq.
Richard Low Beck, Esq. Joseph Hoare, Esq.
John Burgess, Esq. John Laurence, Esq.
William Clay, Esq., M.P. William J. Lescher, Esq.
James Dawson, Esq, B. Hawes, Sun., Esq ,
Thomas Folvlor; Esq. J. Francis Maubert, Esq.
Francis Fox, Esq, Joseph Pease, Erg., NI P.
W. Storrs Fry, Esq. J. Scholefield. Esq. M.P,
ThoinAs H. Hall, Esq. John Travers, Esq.)
The Directors hereby give notice to members whose Pre-
miums fall due on the sth of April Next, that the same must
be paid within thirty days from that date.
The leading principle of the Society is the appropriation of
the whole of the profits ( undiminished by agency or commis-
sion), by way of reduction in the premiums of members of five
years' standing.

FOR MUTUAL
nutEc

The premiums of members (who are the only proprietary of
the Society) are payable yearly, half-yearly, or quarterly, on
the sth of January, sth of April, sth of July, rnd sth of Octo-
ber, either of which several days constitutes the commencement
of the year to members. Persons, therefore, desirous of enter-
ing the Society as members of% the sth of April Next should ap-
pear at the office on or before that day.
RICHARD HEATHFIELD, Superintendent.
Princes-street, Bank, March 6, 1839.
VICTORIA LIFE
LOAN C

ASSURANCE AND
:OMPANY.
•street, Mansion-house.
;TORS.

No. IS, King William.
DIRIC
Sir JAMES DUKE, Al
BENJAMIN HAWES,
William Allen, Esq.
Benjamin Barnard, Esq
Charles Baldwin, Esq.
J.tmei Coahurn, Esq.
Bryan Donkin, Esq.
Aaron Gold mid, hsq
James Law Jones, Esq.

. P., Chairman.
Esq.. Deputy Chairman.
John Kuil, Esq.
Benjamin Lancaster, Esq.
hom,s Nesbitt, Esq.
Major-General Roberson
Daniel Sutton, jun., Esq.
O'Bryan Bellingham Woolsey,
Esq.
roßs.

AUDI'

John Barnard, Esq. I Edward fireenaway, Esq.
William Hawes, Vag Robert l'earson, Esq.
BANKERS.-11escv. Barnard, Dinisdale, and Co.
PrivstclaNs.—Archibald pilling, M.D. ; 'F. W. Jones, M D,
SURGLONS —James Farish, Esq.; John Dalrymple, Esq,
STANDING COUNSEL—RusseI Gurney, Esq.
SOLICITORS.... Messrs Lake and Curtis.
ACTUARY. Edward Baylis, Esq.
TYE ADVANTAGES OFFERED DV THIS OFFICE.

Policies granted as low as 501.
As Low Rates of Premium as are consistent with security,
which may be paid annually, half yearly, or quarterly.
The whole of the profits equally divided between the Assured
and the Shareholders.
Loans may be effected by parties assured with this Company.
Claims payable in two months after death.
Age admitted in the Policy.
Assurances may be effected daily.
Detailed Prospectuses may be had at the Office.
EDWARD BAYLIS, Actuary.

LICENSED
VICTUALLERS' AND
GENERAL FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY,
ADELAIDE-PLACE, LONDON;
GEORGE-STREET, EDINBURGH;
OLDHAM-STREET, 'MANCHESTER ;
And WASON'S-BUILDINGS, LIVERPOOL.
(EMPOWERED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT.)
DIRECTORS.
CHARLES BLEADEN, Esq., Chairman.
THOMAS POWELL, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
Sir John Cowan, Bart. Sohn Harman, Esq.
Stephen Child, Esq. Henry Jackson, Esq.
Andrew Clark, Esq. William Knott, Esq.
Charles Elley, Esq. John Lund, Esq.
Francis Fuller, Esq. Robert Main, Esq.
William Float, Esq. S. J. Waley, Esq.
William Game, Esq. Joseph Wood, Esq.
PIKECTORS CHOSEN BY THE COMMITTEE.
Mr. Benjamin Bingley. I Mr. Joseph Morgan.
Mr. John Lloyd. Mr. Thomas Osliorn.
ACTUARY-Mr. J. T. Clement.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.

The Directors beg to remind their friends whose premiums
imam' due at Lady-day, that no extra charge is made at this
office for the transfer of policies, and that they will be rated
Si terms which are peculiarly favourable to parties insuring.
LIFE DEPARTMENT.
While this Society enables a person to provide for his family
after his death, it also affords the power of making provision for
himself during life, by granting annuities, either immediate,
deferred, er servivon-hip.
Every member assured for the whole term •f life, whose
policy shall have existed three years, will be entitled to a pro-
portionate share of the quinquennial profits, which may be ap-
plied either by additions t• their respective policies, or in re-
duction of the premiums thereafter to become payable.
Assurers may pay their premiums in any way most suitable
to their circumstances, either quarterly, half-yearly, or an-
ually, and one-half the premium may remain unpaid on interest
for five years, if required.
N.E.—A Committee of Directors, atteisded by a medical
•fficer, sit at the Company's house every Tuesday, from
Twelve to Two •'clock, to grant Assurances, but ens Director
is daily in attendance to render every facility to those to whom
despatch may be an .'eject.

39, ALBEMARLE-STREET, PICCADILLY.
SIGHT and HEARING. —. TESTIMO-
NIALS on the Messrs. S. and B. SOLOMONS' newly
invented SPECTACLE LENSES and VOICE CONDUCTOR for
Deaf Persons.

Frees James Blundell, Erg , M. n.:-
" I have now tried for some time the Messrs. Solomons' newly
invented Spectacle Lenses, and have experienced much benefit ; they
are far preferable to my vision than any other Lens; the relief is
very great, in particular by candle light, and in course of use for a
length of time the clearness et the transparency brings every object
very distinct; they can be fully appreciated only by those who, like
myself, may stand in need of them.

" JAMES BLUNDELL, M.D.
" No. I, Great George-street, Westminster."
We, the undersigned, have been for some time making use of
Messrs. Solomons' newly invented Spectacle Lenses ; the astonishing
relief they afford to imperfect vision gives them the decided prefer-
ence to every other kind of Lens—the clearness of the transparency
brings every object very distinct, and enables individuals to view the
most minute particle with perfect accuracy. They are particularly
pleasant by candle light, as they appear cooling to the sight, and
soften bught and brilliant light.—George G. Sigmond,F..sq., 51. D, 24,
Dover-street; J. Ramsbotham, Esq., M.D., Broad-street-buildings;
E. H. Rarnsbotham, Esq , M.D., New Broad-street; If. Colbourn,
Esq.. M.D., Harleyford-place, Kennington ; G. Charles, Esq..
M.D., Putney; 'l'. J. Pettigrew, Esq., F.R.S., Saville-row • J.
Ellictson, Esq.,F.R S., Conduit-street; tlt. Shillito, Esq,, M.D.,
nev ,• S. D. Robinson, Esq., M.D., Cheltenham; E. H. Allnatt, Esq._,
M. Wallingford •' J. C. Hall, Esq., L.S. M. A.S., Stugeon, Ke
sington ; F. Dally, F.sq., Surgeon, A 3, New Broad-street; Me ors
Griffiths and Duncan, Surgeons, 3, Leadenhall-street ; C, Higham,
Esq., Surgeon, 46, Davies-street, Berkeley-square; A. White, Esq ,
Surgeon, 3, Yarliament-strect ; W. Day, Esq.. Surgeon. Islewerth ;
John Hooper, Esq., Surgeon, 19, Newington-place, Kennington ; E.
Stoddart, Etq., Surgeon, 32, Golden-square: R. Iligham, Lag Sur-
geon, 279, Regent-street; C. Tunally, Esq , Surgeon, Camden Town ;
John Comely, Esq., 46, Great Alie-street ; R. J. Polka, Esq , Su,
geon, Kensington;
Noble, Esq., Surgeon, 36, Albemarle-street;
W. Jones, Esq.,Sur-
geon, 15, awer Broolc-street, Grosvenor-square; W. English, Esq ,
Surgeon, Denmark-hill, Ac. Ac.
In placing the above Testimonials before the Public, the Messrs. So-
lomons, Opticians and Atirists, state that their Invisible Operative
Voice Conductor, by which thousands of Deaf Persons have been.
greatly benefited, is the size of a seven-shilling piece, and when
fixed into the cavity of the ear is soft and easy, and not more per-
ceptible than having a piece of wool in its place, by which the faintest
whisper at a public assembly is heard with distinctness.
t_ These important new inventions are patronised by their Majesties
h,Lie:Kcinnoesgtisteaegrn,udl4,:f2.u&ece.n of Hanover, and their Royal Highnesses the
Princesses Augusta and Sophia, her Serene Highness the Princess
E2ts,t_e_rehazy, t-he Princesses Mary and Moss, and his Grace the Duke of
t °A Albemarle-street.
rtibe_.
sttreet.
eery ce of tTeh gross imposition in the Country it is neces-
no ravellers are employed by the above Estab-
lishment.

COUNTY FIRE OFFICE RETURNS
TWENTY PER CENT.

NOTICE is kereby given, that the above Return will be
allowed to such persons as have completed Seven Years' In
surance during tke last year, in tkeir next Payments of Pre
mium and Duty.

THE LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT,
NEW EDITION,
Uniform with the Waverley Novels,
Published this day, price Five Shillings,
VOLUME THE FIRST OF

J. A. BEAUMONT, Secretary.
80, R egent- street, Picaadilly.

rpHE LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT,
By J. G. LOCKHART, Esq. his Literary Executor.
Second Edition, Revised and Corrected.

IMMEDIATE BENEFITS OFFERED TO THE
PUBLIC.

LIFE ANNUITY RATES,
CALCULATED ®n EQUITABLE PRINCIPLES ! !

To be completed in Ten Monthly Volumes, each with Two
Plates.
Vol. 11. on Ist May.
R. Cadell, Edinburgh : Whittaker and Co., London.

FOR EXAMPLE :
For every 1001. deposited, this Association will grant the An•
nutty placed opposite the Age of the Party depositing.
.From 50/. and upwards, in proportion.

THE PRINCIPLES of PHRENOLOGY,
By SIDNEY SMITH., Price ss. 6d.
Containing a complete Digest of the Science, illustrated by
this ty-oLe wood-cuts, and three plates.
London : Simpkin and Marshall; Edinburgh : W. Tait;
Manchester: G. Simms, Exchange-street; and Forrest and
Fogg, Market-street.

In Svo., price bs.
frEASURES to be ADOPTED for the
EMPLOYMENT of the LABOURING CLASSES
in IRELAND; detailed in an Address to the Electors of Gal-
way; with an Appendix containing Abstracts of the Reports
of some of the Provincial Assemblies in Belgium.
By A. H. LYNCH, Esq., M.P., &c. &c.
London : Charles Knight and Co., 22, Ludgate-street.

NORWICH UNION LIFE INSURANCE SOCIETY.
Just published, in demy Bvo., price One Shilling,
EPORT of the LONDON COMMITTEE
of the NORWICH UNION LIFE INSURANCE
SOCIETY, with an Appendix, containing the First Report
of the Examiners, and the last rendered Accounts of the
Society.
Smith, Elder, and Cu., Cornhill.
*,," Policy Holders are requested to send their respective
Addresses to the Committee, at Dick's Coffee-house, Fleet..
street ; but all letters not post-paid will be refused.

This day is Published,
THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN
REVIEW—No. XVI.

CONTENTS:
1. The Law of Copyright.
2. Works of George Sand.
3. Condition and Prospects of Wallachia and Moldavia.
4. Memoirs of St. T. Coleridge.
.. Justice and Profit of a uniform Penny Postage.
6. Speeches of Henry Lord Brougham.
7. British and Foreign Universities.—Russia.
8. Public Monuments in England.
9. Remedial Measures for Ireland.—Medical Charities.
0. The War in Affghanistan.
R. and J. E. Taylor, Red-Lion-court, Fleet-street.

Just published, Bvo. cloth, price 10s. 6d.,
COUNTEIt-IRRITATION.
By A. B. GRANVILLE, M.D., F.R. S.,
Author of the " Spas of Germany."
Illustrated by One Hundred Select Cases of Spasms, Con-
vulsions, Tx-Doloureux, Rheumatism, Inflammation of the
Throat and Chest, Suppressed Gout, Lumbago, Nervous Head-
aclie, Tooth-ache, &c., immediately and effectually cured by
external means.

" Dr. Granville is entitled to thanks for the introduction
of this powerful remedy, which will prove extremely useful in
urgent spasms and deep-seated inflammation of vital organs,
where rapidity of agency is of the utmost importance. His
cases will be greedily perused by the public at large."—Dr.
Johnson's Quarterly Medical Review.
London : John Churchill, Princes-street, Soho.

THE POST-APOSTOLICAL CHURCH
and its PROFANE BADINAGE.

What! must then a. right-thinking Christian differ from an
Apostolical Christian in the phraseology of his faith and of his
worship ? Perish the effrontery ! though backed by the autho-
rity of only not unanimous Christendom for sixteen hundred
years.

ACOLOSSAL NEWSPAPER.
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Larger than " The Spectator," by 3,292 inches. Larger than
" The Examiner," by 2,636 inches. " THE BELL'S NEW
WEEKLY MESSENGER" and STAMPED LITERARY
SUPPLEMENT, forming Two Complete Newspapers for the
Price of One ! ! will be published on SATURDAY and
SUNDAY, APRIL 6 and 7, 1839. They will contain, in
addition to all the News of the Week, Domestic and Foreign,
Original Political Articles and Criticisms. An Analysis of all
New Books, the whole Spirit and Substance of all the Monthly
Magazines, &c. &c. &c. Together with the Leading Articles,
and the Essence of all the Sunday Newspapers of the same
day. All the Newspapers for the Price of One.
Orders recived by all Booksellers and Newsmen; and at the
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UNITARIANISM.

PRICE sd.

IMPORTANT CASE.—The Secession Presbytery of
Glasgow met on Tuesday, and after some routine busi-
ness, proceeded to a case of considerable importance to
members of every religious society in the kingdom.
The case proceeded on a protest and appeal by Mr. R.
Russell, member of Cambridgosistreet Church, against a
decision of the Session, that he should be censured and
admonished, for having on several occasions, and parti-
cularly on the evening of a communion Sabbath, left his
own church, and worshipped in the Rey. Mr. Harris's
(Unitarian) Chapel.
Parties were called. The records of Session having
been read—
Mr. RUSSELL then read a statement of which we
can only give a short abstract :
Moderator,—l have hitherto been a warm admirer
of the United Secession Church. It is the Church of
my fathers—l was baptised in it. It is endeared to me
by many hallowed associations connected with my child-
hood and early life, a period at which it is well known
the mind is peculiarly susceptible of receiving its deepest
and most lasting impressions. . I
beg now to lay before you a brief statement of thrpri-
vileges which I claim the right of exercising, without,
as I think, giving any just cause of offence, or forfeiting
in any way my character as a Christian or as a member
of the Secession Church. I beg to say, in the first
place, that I hold the opinion that it is necessary, in the
present divided state of the Church, that every
professing Christian ought to connect himself
with sonic particular section of it, and more
immediately with some particular congregation,
whose prosperity and usefulness he is under spe,ial
obligation to promote. This connection, however, in
my opinion, is not to be understood as fettering his li-
berty, so as to prevent him from attending, other
churches, even of other sects, on occasions when be may
be inclined to do so. That spirit of exclusiveness and
sectarianism which would prevent this, ought, I think,
to be for ever eradicated from the mind of Christians.
• • . I submit it to the judgment of' every
member of this Court, if it be at all consistent in those
who abhor and protest against the usurpation of Popery,
who call on Catholics to free themselves from the tram-
mels of their Church, yet, in the face of such an abhor-
rence of priestly domination, to turn round and attempt
to place the very same restrictive yoke on the neck of a
brother . Does not every man feel in
his bosom a principle which despises railing and ridicule,
which resists compulsion, but which, in the hour of
rational friendly intercourse, would readily open to
conviction, and willingly yield to tha genial influ-
ence of Christian love ; and, moreover, is not this one
of the striking features of the Christian religion, that
it teaches its friends freely to intermingle with those of
another faith, in order that its salutary principles may be
more and more diffused, believed, and practised among
mankind. In proof of this we have the Saviour's ex-
ample in attending the Jewish synagogue, and conforming
to the ceremonies of that faith, which he had come to set
aside, and even after the entire abolition of the Old
Testament ritual was effected by his obedience and sacri-
fice, and had ascended to the right hand of the Majesty
on high, some of his immediate followers submitted to
the painful rite of circumcision. The Apostle Paul
became all things to all men, that he might gain
the more. When he went up to the Areopagus on
Mars Hill, and beheld the idolatrous Athenians wor-
shipping their deities, instead of railing on the idola-
trous worshippers, he rather assumed that they were
right in regard to the object of their worship, and,
taking advantage of an inscription on one of their altars
to the Unknown God, declared Him unto them. Now
all this is an exemplification of the principles I con-
tend for, viz., a proper respect for the religious opinions
of those who differ from us ;—friendly intercourse with
them, that the cause of truth may be thereby pro-
moted. Ireland, in our own day, may be brought
forward as an example of the woful necessity and total
disregard of these principles. The vast majority of
the people of that conntry, as you all know, are
Catholics, and Protestants have struggled in vain for
centuries to propagate among them their views of Chris-
tianity, and why ? because, instead. of exemplifying in
their conduct towards them a spirit of forbearance and
kindness, instead of cultivating social intercourse in a
friendly and becoming temper, they assumed the haughty
tone of dictating authoritatively a different faith to them,
denounced and ridiculed, in the most arrogant and insult-
ing manner, the ceremonies which the Catholics have been
taught to believe were sacred, and ought to be preserved
inviolable. As toile expected, the effect of this line of
conduct towards them has been to blue ilietn—talarts-manty
than ever to their original faith, and inspire them with a
deeper hatred of the Protestant religion; and thus a deep-
rooted enmity has been excited between the parties, which
will prevent a reconciliation during, at least, the present
generation. A different experiment, as you know, is now being made on the Government plan of education, where I
they meet on common grounds, hold disputed points in
abeyance, and seem willing to cultivate friendly feelings
where they agree. Believing, therefore, that the conduct
of the Protestants in Ireland towards their Roman Ca-
tholic brethren has been most unchristian, I think that the
less we imitate that spirit, so in proportion are we most
likely to produce those feelings in them, which are most
likely to gain them over to what we consider the truth,
Believing, Moderator, as in my heart I do, that these
principles are the principles of the Bible, and, acting as I
think, in perfect consistency with them, I hold (and this
is exactly where the Sessionand I are at issue), I hold that
church-members who may have a desire to understand the
arguments of those who acknowledge and profess to take
the Bible for their authority and rule in support of their
systems, may, for their own satisfaction, and for the sake
of truth, be allowed to mingle freely and familiarly with
their members, or to attend their places of worship, when
they may occasienally be inclined to do so, without being
chargeable with dereliction of principle for so doing.
From my boyhood I have held these opinions, and am
resolved to hold them still. They are doctrines which
could not give up without destroying the groundwork of
personal religion, and abandoning my highest privileges as
a rational being. Take away from me the right to hear
and to judge for myself, and in my own estimation, I
dwindle into a mere machine, regulated and guided, not
by my own conscience, as I ought to be, but by the will,
and it may be, the caprice of others. Now, this is the pre-
cise position in which I at presentstand with the Session.
lam not charged with immorality—l am not accused of
heresy ; but only of indulging what I conceive to be a
laudable desire to hear the truth of doctrines, which I
deem of the highest importance, questioned and dis-
cussed, fully satisfied that the cause of truth, on what-
ever side it lies, will and must prevail. • • •
I have thus, Moderator, briefly explained my views to
you on this subject. Whether this Court may consider
them in keeping with the Christian character, it is for
you to say. •
The Rev. Mr. Eche, Moderator of Session, next ad-
dressed the Court. He need scarcely say that they came
into this Court not with any fear of their judicial sentence
being overturned. He loved peace, but he preferred the
truth. He respected Mr. Russell as a man, but when
the honour of our Heavenly Master, and the purity of
the Secession Church was at stake, lie "knew no man after
the flesh." Mr, Russell was not ignorant of the Unita-
rian principles ; from peculiar circumstances he knew
them more, perhaps, than any member of this Court, and
could not go there for instructions. . . As to Mr.
R.'s statements concerning the Papists, the national
schools were the means of meeting them on common
grounds, in which no truly Protestant principle was com-
promised ; they might love the Papist, while they de-
nounced Popery ; but Mr. R.'s conduct was a direct com-
promise with Unitarian principles, open and avowed.
He (Mr. E.) would rather go with the Papists, who
hold the supreme divinity of the Saviour, and his vica-
rious atonement, and the sanctifying influence of the
Holy Spirit—than with the man who abolished the
atonement of the Lord that bought him, and extin-
guished the personality of the third person of the Tri-
nity. He called on the Presbytery to affirm the judg-
ment of the Session, and trusted that Mr. Russell would
profit by what he had heard.
The Rev. Dr. Mitchell, at considerable length com-
mented on the inconsistency of Mr. Russell's conduct,
and contended that, for the maintenance of order and
regularity in the Church, the sentence of the Session
should be affirmed.

Dr. 'Tette' stated what appeared to him to be the
views of Unitarians, on the authority of Dr. Priestly.
In common parlance we might call them Christians,
but theirs was not the Christian religion. He concurred
with Dr. Mitchell that the sentence should be con-
firmed, and that a Committee be appointed to deal with
Mr. Russell, in order to bring him to a proper state of
mind.

In the long conversation that followed, the Presbytery
were completely unanimous in favour of affirming the de-
cision of the Session. The lay members also spoke at
length is the same spirit. Mr. Russell's plea of the right
of private judgment and liberty of cowscience, was com-
mented on by several speakers as having nothing to do
with the present controversy. Those who join a society,
it was argued, are expected to submit to its regulations;
if they wish any of the regulations altered, let them over-
ture the Courts for a repeal, and, If not obtained, let them
protest and leave the association for another more agree-
able to their principles. All the members of the Court
having been heard, the decision of the Session was
affirmed, and the protest and appeal dismissed—Mr.
Russell appealing to the Synod. A Committee was
also appointed to deal with Mr. Russell.

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SUBURBAN SPORTS ON GOOD FRIDAY.—The
Lord Bishop of London has interdicted the wrestling
matches, which fir many years past have taken place at
Chalk Farm on Good Friday.

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EVENING EDITION.

CANADA COMPA NY.

The half-yearly General Meeting of the pro-
prietors of Shares in this undertaking, was held on
Wednesday, at the Company's House, St. Helen's-
place, the Governor, CHARLES FRANKS, Esq ,
in the Chair.

The GOVERNOR, after the minutes of the last
Court had been confirmed, read the Report of the
Directors. It stated that the total sales of lata by
the Company in Canada, in 1838, had amounted
to 15,718 acres, at an average of 12s. 3d. per
acre, producing, with the sales of four lots in
Goderich, 9,926/. currency. _After giving other
statements relative to the affairs of the Company,
by which it appears that the quantity of land paid
for to Government, but unsold, was 1,126,000
acres, the Report advtlted to the disturbed con-
dition of Canada, by which emigration had been
materially lessened, as the reason of the falling ofr
in the sales of land. The sales from 1827 to 1837,
had averaged 68,200 acres per annum, but in 1838,
owing to the disturbed state of Canada, only d)cut
15,800 acres had been disposed off. Ttte great
value of the Colony to this country had kin fully
established by the inquiries which had lately been
gone into. The propriety of maintaining the con-
nection with the mother country was also established.
Though emigration had been greatly checked, there
were prospects of an increased.number of settl2rspre-
ceeding out in the spring. After adverting to other
financial statements, the Report alluded to the de-
spatches from the Company's Commission:Or, which
affirmed that in the western portion of Canada, fthg.
land was so fertile that it was the finest wheat-
growing country in America, and capable of sup-
plying Great Britain with any quantity of that grain
at a low rate. The Company have still to pay Go- *
vernment for land under the charter, 79,0001., the
last instalment being in 1813, for which they would
have additional quantities of land in their posses-
sion.

The Report was, after some e4,nr*it ,tion
adopted, and ordered to be printed: A ba!lin,
Place for Directors, and after thanks had !cen
given to the Governor and the Directors,
meeting adjourned.

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