The Sun.
London, England, 1817-10-15 00:00:00

tLEEDS AUXILIARY SOCIETY.

On Monday last, the Anniversary of the Leeds
Ladies Auxiliary Society, for Promoting Chris-
tianity amongst the Jews, was held in our Mu-
wal as to -take the
Chair, and 'he 'Opened' t4ci business of the (1,4,.,by
ent-e, jog' into a short detail. of the proceedings Of
.Providence towards 'the Jews, from 'the call of
Abraham, to their present dispersion. The.re-,
port being read, by the Rev. AL Jackson, the
meeting; wiWlarger than on any other
former occasion,: were after Wards. addressed
,by
the 11ev. S. Hawtrey, one of the gfatnitous Se-
cretaries- and Chaplain to the Institution--R-ev.
C. Simeon 0.1 Cambridge, Rev. Win. .111-arsli, of
Colchester, and by the Rev. Messrs. Jarratt,
Cheap, B'ickworth, tlollist, -Ste. and the most
lively iotertat Appeared to be excited. It.gave us
great pleasure' to observe so large a number of
Clergymen present, anti tve cannot-but -express -a
hope, that the. eloquence and argument. drawn
forth by. the occasion, will be found, by the funds
of next year, .to have been by no means, spent in
vain„ The translation of the New Testament in-
to Hebrew text, uniform with the ancient Scrip-
tures. of the Old, seems a -g.ret event iu the his-
„tory of the Society, and while we consider the
Members of our own Church peculiarly called
,ttpou to exert themselves on behalf of a Society,
managed by those of her Communion, we think
those of other religious persuasions should recol-
lect that the cause is that of humanity, of the
Christian faith, nay of God himself.

The sum of IU. Os. 7d. was collected at the

door, after the Meeting; and after a most inipres-
, sive Sermon, at St. James's Church, on Friday
evening, by the Rev. C.- Simeon, •the sum of
32/. 10s. 641. was added to the fiords of the So-
ciety.—Besides which about 501. was subscribed
by a few individuals, for the educttiou • of two
Jews, - recommended to Society. by Leander'
Von-Ess; the Luther. oldie, present day.
•We mentioned that the Coliethion..on Sunday,
in Leeds, amounted to 571. . • •

On Sunday the stit instant two Sermons were

preached at Bradford and one in Horton Chapel,
by the ilev. C. S. Hawirey, minister'olthe Epis-
copal Jews' Chapel, London, on behalf of the
London Society for promoting Christianity
amongst the Jews. This very eloquent and im-
pressive preacher was heard with the most serious
attention whilst urging the claims of the Jews
ulf6ti his crowded audiences.—=Anti on Tuesday
tire ith inst. a public meeting of the friends of the
Society Was field in the Sunday Sch'ool Roam, iu
Bradford, and numerously attended, when the
afiove Gentleman was joined by the Rev. W.
Their communications
Marsh, of Colchester.
cited the most lively interest in favour of the dis-
persed seed of Abraham' :
tut to pervade.the whole, meeting, both as to the
duty of.contribnting_ to' the4nnds of the society,
and the tiltiraate success of its labours..—Tile col-
lections' exceeded 401.—(Eht.)

. .
• FlRE.—Monday night, ahoui twelve o'clock,
the house of Mr. BAY Less, High-street, Borough,
coin and hay-tatter, was discovered to be on fire,
by smoke issuing from the vaults under.ehe b9uSe
where a quantity of hay Wks clepobited. The pro-
herty got out of the house, end the family re-
moved before the tire spread, It was three o'clock
before the fire was got tinde'r; considerable
damage was done to the prewiscs.