396 Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



REV. w. D. CONYBEARE'S PRELIMINARY ADDRESSES TO THE 



COURSE OF LECTURES ON THEOLOGY, DELIVERED AT THE 

 COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION OF BRISTOL. 



A Collegiate Institution for the diffusion of the superior branches 

 of Education has been recently established at Bristol, by the joint 

 subscriptions of a proprietary body : it has been placed under the 

 superintendence of a Principal and Vice-Principal, who are distin- 

 guished graduates from the University of Cambridge. As it was de- 

 sired to place the Institution on an extensively useful and liberal 

 basis, impartial admission to the advantages it offers is conceded 

 without distinction to the members of different religious commu- 

 nities : at the same time a large portion of the Council (being 

 members of the Established Church) have felt it their duty in no 

 manner to neglect the providing due means for the religious in- 

 struction of the pupils, belonging to the same persuasion, in the 

 tenets of that Church. They have accordingly formed themselves 

 into a special committee, for the purpose of arranging an appro- 

 priate course of Theological Lectures. The Rev. W. D. Conybeare, 

 who is Visitor of the College and Superintendant of its Examina- 

 tions, has undertaken the commencing course of these lectures, and 

 recently delivered three preliminary addresses, which are now in 

 the press, and will shortly be published by Mr. Murray. The sub- 

 jects are : 



I. On the proper application of classical and scientific educa- 

 tion to the purposes of theological instruction. 



II. On the natural evidences of religion as deduced from the 

 several branches of science. 



III. On the argument from analogy, and on the peculiar evi- 

 dences and doctrinal character of the Christian revelation. 



As Editors of a Philosophical Journal, our concern is of course 

 principally with the Second Part. In this we understand the author 

 has endeavoured to exhibit a compendious and condensed view of the 

 arguments derived from the proofs of design in the physical organiza- 

 tion of the universe, following the steps of Ray, Derham, and Paley, 

 but with a special view to point out the additional illustrations de- 

 duced from the more recent discoveries of science. As delivered to a 

 collegiate body, one of the objects of which must naturally be con- 

 sidered as directed to scientific instruction, it has been the aim of the 

 author of this address so to treat his subject as to present its inferences 

 as applications arising from the facts developed in the several sciences 

 exhibited in a systematic arrangement. Thus the heads of his sub- 

 divisions are Dynamics j the Cosmical sciences ; Astronomy, and 

 Geology : those relating to the constituent principles of Nature, 

 Light, Heat, Electricity, Chemistry; and Animal and Vegetable 

 Physiology, including under the former an article on Entomology. 



DR. WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY. 



The Proprietors of the Edition of Dr. Webster's English Dic- 

 tionary publishing in this country, have purchased from the family 

 of the late Rev. Jonathan Boucher, Vicar of Epsom, the valuable 

 and voluminous MSS. which he had, during the last fourteen years 



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