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claims of one or defend the privileges 

 and immunities of the other, does not 

 come within the province of this work. 

 I here need only add to iny observations 

 respecting a town in which I resided for 

 many years, that it has exhibited a degree 

 of partizanship in its public bodies scarcely 

 exceeded in any other place since the pass- 

 ing of the Reform Bill. 



I, among many, have lived to lament 

 the unhappy division caused in our Church 

 by the propagation of tracts, and the 

 revival of obsolete observances, emanating 

 from the sister University; but I can en- 

 tertain no apprehensions for the stability 

 of that mode of worship which has ob- 

 tained for so many years, while it is sup- 

 ported and defended by such clear, prac- 

 tical, common- sense views, as have been 

 advocated by a Whewell, a Sedgwick, 

 or a Philpott I can see no danger to its 

 established form that is, free from the 

 Laud-like innovations that would lead us 



