UNITARIAN CHAPEL, BROOK STREET, MANCHESTER. This elegant chapel was opened for public worship on Sunday, the 1st of September, when sermons were preached, in the morning by the Rev. James Martineau, of Liverpool, and in the afternoon by the Rev. J. G. Robberds, of Manchester. UNITARIAN CHAPEL, CROFT, RISLEY, NEAR WARRINGTON. This chapel, raised by public subscription, as an expression of sympathy on behalf of the congregation deprived of their former place of worship by process of law, and forced to cede the property of their forefathers for no offence but the exercise of their religious liberty in the duty of free thought and sincere worship, was opened on Friday the 27th September, when a sermon was preached by the Rev. J. H. Thom, of Liverpool. BRITISH AND FOREIGN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION. Extract from the Report of the Committee, 1839. In proceedings connected with the Civil Right department, your committee have little more to do than repeat the brief statement of the last year-that the Wolverhampton Chancery suit still remains waiting the Lord Chancellor's judgment, which he has postponed till after the decision of the Appeal in Lady Hewley's Case in the House of Lords. That case has now been heard in part, the Judges having sat four days in the House of Lords, during which time the counsel for the appellants had finished the statement of their case; but as there was no probability that the counsel for the original relators would conclude their arguments during the time which the Lords and the Associated Judges could then give, the further hearing has been postponed. It is now expected that the hearing of the cause will be continued in a few days from this time. Your Committee are not altogether without a hope that the Appeal will be in some measure successful-that the preceding judgments in the case will be in part at least, if not wholly, reversed: the singularity of the tests which those judgments have set up —the principle involved in any test-and the difficulties experienced by the Master in Chancery in applying it so as to find unexceptionable new trustees, furnish some ground of hope that the present trustees will not be ejected from their posts, whatever directions may be given for the future administration of the charity. In the mean time it is greatly to be lamented by all parties, that the deserving beneficiaries of Lady Hewley's Trust should be so long prevented from enjoying the fruits of her will. |