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VARIETIES, Literary and Philosophical, 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domestic and Foreign, 
Authentic Communications for this Article will always he thankfully received,. 
W E noticed in our last the liberal 
design of the heads of the esta¬ 
blished Church, to extend to the whole 
Population the benefits of education, in 
the first elements of learning. To do 
complete justice to the sentiments which 
dictated this measure, and to the cha¬ 
racter of the present Archbishop of Can¬ 
terbury, we feel ourselves bound to give 
place to the preamble of the published 
resolutions passed while Ins Grace pre- 
sided in the cliair. If the same mild, 
liberal, and philosophical, spirit were in¬ 
troduced into the practice and admini¬ 
stration of the LAW, the English people 
would truly begin to feel the blessings 
of that civil liberty of which they boast, 
and to attain which they have made 
such enormous sacrifices. At a meet¬ 
ing held on the 16th of October, the 
Archbishop of Canterbury in the chair, 
various published resolutions were passed, 
and were premised by the following de¬ 
claration : 
“ That the national religion should be 
made the foundation of national education, 
and should be the first and chief thing taught 
to the poor, according to the excellent liturgy 
and catechism provided by our church for that 
purpose, must be admitted by all friends to 
the establishment. For, if the great body of 
the nation be educated in other principles 
than those of the established church, the 
natural consequence must be to alienate the 
minds of the people from it, or render them 
indifferent to it, which in succeeding gene¬ 
rations may prove fatal to the churcli and to 
the state itself.-*-It must, indeed, be admitted 
in this country of civil and religious liberty, 
that e-very man has a right to pursue the fan 
of education that is best adapted to the religion 
which he himself professes. Whatever reli¬ 
gious tenets, therefore, men of other per¬ 
suasions may think proper to combine with 
the mechanism of the new system, whether 
tenets peculiar to themselves, or tenets of a 
more general nature, they are free to use the 
new syscem so combined, without reproach or 
interruption from the members of the establish¬ 
ment. On the other hand, the members of 
the establishment are not only warranted, 
but in duty bound, to preserve that system, 
as originally practised at Madras, in the form 
of a church of England education. The 
friends, therefore, of the establishment 
throughout the kingdom, are earnestly re¬ 
quested to associate and co-operate, for the 
juipose of promoting the education of the 
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poor in the doctrine and discipline of the 
established church. It is hoped that such 
co-operation will not be wanting, when the 
object in view is nothing less than the pre¬ 
servation of the national religion, by ensur¬ 
ing to the great body of the people an edu¬ 
cation adapted to its principles.” 
We are at the same time gratified in 
observing, that the friends of Mr. Lan¬ 
caster are every where continuing their 
exertions. 
Allied to the above, among facts agree¬ 
able to the philanthropist, may be men¬ 
tioned the progress and success of Mr, 
Andrew Wilson,' in the art of stereo¬ 
type printing, by which correctness, 
ciieapness, and permanence, is secured 
to school-books and classics in general, 
Mr. Wilson has alreadv stereotyped 
several hundred volumes of the books of 
the greatest sale, and most e.stahlished 
character in the language j and his suc¬ 
cess in those he has printed, warrants In's 
proceeding through an entire course <,f 
useful and elegant literature. Ac this 
time he invites the names of subscribers 
to an elegant stereotype edition of the 
British Essayists, in thirty volumes, f<3r 
six pounds, containing the same letter- 
press as the old edition in forty-five 
volumes. 
Sir Richard Phillips purposes to 
publish in seventy monthly volumes, a 
new, revised, and enlarged, edition of the 
great Universal History. Every means 
of conferring perfection on the work will 
be adopted, and the history of all modern 
nations will be brought down to the pre¬ 
sent time, according to the best autho¬ 
rities. As the former work has long been 
out of print, and an improved edition has 
long been a desideration, he concludes 
he may obtain, without difficulty, the 
names of subscribers, either by direct 
communication to himself, or through the 
medium of booksellers, whose attention 
is earnestly invited to this notice. The 
work will ofcourse be handsomely printed, 
in octavo, and the maps and embellish¬ 
ments he produced in the best modern 
taste. The price will be twelve shillings 
per volume, and the whole will be finished 
within six years from the period of its 
commencement. It is also intended for 
the convenience of a certain class of pur¬ 
chasers^ to divide the whole into two 
hundred 
