On motion, resolved, that the next meeting of this convention shall take place on the first Tuesday in November, 1826, at half past 10 o'clock A. M. Resolved, 2d, that the next meeting of this convention shall be held in the city of Philadelphia.

Resolved, in order that the contingent expenses of the General Convention may be defrayed, that it be recommended to the several diocesan or state conventions, to forward to the secretary of the house of clerical and lay deputies, at each meeting of said convention, 75 cents for each clergyman within said di

ocese or state.

The committee on the theological seminary made the following report; which was read and unanimously accepted.

The committee of the house of clerical and lay deputies, to whom was referred all matters relating to the theological seminary, having had under consideration the report of the trustees, and other papers referred to them by the house, respectfully report

That they have directed their attention to the mode of education pursued in the seminary, the state of its finances, the number of trustees which it will be proper for this convention to appoint, the impediments which retard its pro

gress, and the means of rendering it more extensively useful to the church.

With respect to the mode of education pursued in the seminary, your committee refer the house, with great satisfaction, to the able and luminous report of the trustees to the convention. The course pursued is, in the opinion of your committee, expanded and liberal in its character, well fitted to render the students able ministers of the New Testament, and to train them up in religious habits, as well as in sound learning.

Your committee regret that they cannot speak with equal approbation of the report respecting the finances. They have not been able, in all cases, to determine whether the sums mentioned as subscribed, have been paid; and they have reason to believe that the expenses of the institution exceed its income. They wish to invite the notice of the convention to this alarming fact, which, they surely need not add, must produce the ruin of the seminary, if measures to counteract the evil be not speedily adopted.

The want of precision in the finan cial report involves a further difficulty with respect to the choice of trustees; your committee being unable to determine the exact amount which has been actually paid, or secured to be paid, by the several dioceses. It does not appear that any monies have been actually received, excepting from the states of Massachusetts, New-York, Pennsylvania, and South-Carolina. The amount received from Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and South-Carolina, is defined, because it has been contributed in money; that from New-York is not equally so, from the nature and condition of the property. There are two questions which it seems proper to meet at the outset, in order to prevent future difficulty: these are, whether all property given by individuals not connected with other dioceses, is to be considered as belonging to that in which the seminary is established; and whether, in case an individual removes from one diocese to another, the amount contributed by him is also to be transferred. Your committee are of opinion that the sums subscribed and paid in each diocese,

ought not to be affected by the removal of the individual donor, but should be considered for ever as a portion of the property contributed by that diocese. And in order to prevent any present or future difficulties in the choice of trustees, your committee beg leave to recommend, that the nominations transmitted to this convention by the several state conventions, be now received without discussion; but that a canon be formed, requiring the several state conventions, in future, to send a proper certificate, exhibiting an exact inventory of the number of clergy, and of the amount of property paid, or secured to be paid, in each diocese; and that, in default of such certificate, any nomination of such diocese shall not be confirmed by the general convention.

While on this subject, it is proper to add, that your committee have been informed, that the diocese of North-Carolina, with a zeal which deserves the praise and imitation of our whole church, have subscribed a large sum towards the foundation of a professorship, of which no notice appears to have been given to the trustees.

The committee were induced to con, şider the impediments which retard the progress of the seminary, in consequence of noticing the fact, reported to this house by the committee on the state of the church, that there are sixty candidates for the ministry in the Atlantic states alone, of which number there are but eighteen at present in the seminary. Why this vast disparity? Your committee are unable to assign more than two causes; some feelings yet remain ing of a sectional character, and the want of means for supporting indigent students.

There appears to be some apprehension on the part of the more distant and less wealthy dioceses, that the students of the seminary will be induced to desert their proper field of future labour, under the idea of having greater advant ages in the vicinity of the seminary. If such an apprehension does exist, your committee are persuaded that the silent influence of time will destroy the illusion. There are no facts, as yet, by which it can be supported; and the love of country, and the influence of early

habits, will gradually create, throughout the union, an indigenous clergy. There is no more reason to apprehend that candidates for orders, educated at the general theological seminary, will not return to their respective dioceses, than that students educated in the northern colleges should thereby be alienated from home. If there be any danger, it is more to be apprehended in the northern section of our country, than in the southern. It may, however, be effectually guarded against, by making the students candidates for orders in their respective dioceses, by greater exertions to support the clergy, which will diminish inducements to emigration, and by enforcing the already existing regulations, which require deacons to be under the direction of the bishops who ordain them.

Your committee cannot but contemplate with pleasure, the delightful prospect of having a general seminary, whither, like the temple of Jerusalem, the tribes of the Lord will go up to testify unto Israel; and they anticipate, with full confidence, that happy period when the north and the south will give up, and the east and the west will not keep back. On this account, as well as for other reasons, hereafter to be mentioned, your committee notice with pleasure, the indication, in the report of the trustees, of a disposition to abolish the branch school at Geneva; and they beg leave to recommend an expression of the sense of this house, approving of that measure.

The second cause which has hitherto prevented the increase of the seminary, will best be considered by adverting to the means to be employed, of rendering it more extensively useful to the church.

And on this head, your committee are decidedly of opinion, that provision should be made, as soon as possible, for placing the students in a situation more retired from the noise, and business, and corrupting pleasures of the world; that the expenses of the institution should be diminished by the most prudent and undeviating economy; that the office of librarian should be given to some indigent student, a provision which may also perhaps be extended, so as to embrace the office of janitor;

Massachusetts, the rev. Samuel F. Jarvis, D. D. the rev. James Morse, Gardiner Green, David Sears, George Sullivan Rhode Island, the rev. Salmon Wheaton, the rev. Nathan B. Crocker.-Connecticut, the rev. Daniel Burhans, the rev. Tillotson Bronson, D. D. the rev. Harry Croswell, Samuel W. Johnson, Nathan Smith, Richard Adams.-New-York, the rev. William Harris, D.D. the rev. David Butler, the rev. Thomas Lyell, D.D. the rev. Wm. Berrian, the rev. John M'Vickar, the rev. James Milnor, D. D. the rev. Wm. Creighton, the rev. H. U. Onderdonk, M.D. the rev. Jonathan M.Wainwright, the rev. Henry Anthon, the rev. Lucius Smith, Wright Post, Nehemiah Rogers, J.Wells, T.L.Ogden, I.Lawrence, D.S. Jones, H. M'Farlan, T. S. Townsend, Edward R. Jones, Stephen Warren, Robert Troup, Philip S. Van Rensselaer. New-Jersey, the rev. John Crocs, jun. Peter Kean. Pennsylvania, the rev. Jackson Kemper, the rev. George Boyd, the rev.Gregory T. Bedell,the rev.James Montgomery, the rev.Benj. Allen, Wm. Tilghman, John Read.-Maryland, the rev. Wm.E.Wyatt, D. D. the rev. John P. K. Henshaw, the rev. John Johns, Nicholas Brice, Tench Tilghman, John C. Herbert, John B. Eccleston.-Virginia, the rev. Wm. H. Wilmer, D.D. the rev. Wm. Meade, the rev. Edward C. McGuire, Wm. Mayo, Hugh Mercer. --North-Carolina, the rev. Adam Empie, Duncan Cameron.-South-Carolina, the rev.Christoph.E.Gadsden, D.D. the rev Paul T. Gervais, the rev. Christian Hanckle, the Rev. Allston Gibbes, Wm. Heyward, Benjamin Huger, Wm. Clarkson, Thomas Lowndes.

A communication, on the subject of the theological seminary, was received by the house of bishops from the standing committee of the diocese of SouthCarolina: whereupon it was resolved, that the house of bishops have received, with much satisfaction, the communication from the standing committee of the diocese of South-Carolina, on the subject of the theological seminary, and that we duly appreciate the zeal and liberality which that diocese has manifested in favour of the institution.

The following resolutions were adopted in the house of bishops :

Resolved, that this house entertain a gratifying sense of the fidelity with which the trustees and the faculty of the general theological seminary have executed the trust committed to them, and respectively fulfilled the duties of their appointment: and while they deeply regret that no other provision than such as is yet inadequate to the permanent success of the design, has hitherto been obtained for it of the members of our church, they still contemplate it with hope, and affectionately commend it to the liberality and patronage of their brethren, both of the clergy and of the laity, as a means of increase to the number of well qualified ministers of the gospel in this church.

Resolved, further, as the opinion of this house, that the general theological seminary, having been established by the whole body of this church, in general convention, seems peculiarly to demand the concurrent solicitudes and exertions to be concentered on it, of all its members; inasmuch as this institution, when possessing the combined and efficient support of the whole church, must be the most effectual means, under providence, of perpetuating the unity of the church in the bond of peace.

At the rising of the convention, the two houses united in singing the 133d psalm; and appropriate prayers from the liturgy were read by the presiding bishop, who closed the exercises with the benediction.

Canons passed in this Convention. Canon I. Regulating the admission of persons as candidates for holy orders, &c.

Every person who desires to become a candidate for orders in this church, shall obtain admission from the bishop, or such body as the church in the diocese or state in which he intends to apply, may appoint, at least one year before his ordination. The first paragraph of the 17th canon of 1808, is hereby repealed.

Canon II. Prescribing the mode of publishing authorized editions of the standard Bible of this church.

The bishop of this church, in any state or diocese, or, where there is no

bishop, the standing committee, is authorized to appoint, from time to time, some suitable person or persons, to compare and correct all new editions of the Bible by the standard edition, agreed upon by the general convention. And a certificate of their having been so compared and corrected, shall be published with said book.*

The next general convention will be held in the city of Philadelphia, on the first Tuesday in November, 1826.

The list of clergy attached to the above journal contains the following numbers :-Maine 2, New-Hampshire 3, Massachusetts 20, Vermont 7,RhodeIsland 7, Connecticut 47, New-York 93, New-Jersey 14, Pennsylvania 37, Delaware 3, Maryland 45, Virginia 34, North-Carolina 9, South-Carolina 28, Ohio 7, Georgia 4: total 360; of whom ten are bishops, respectively, of the eastern diocese, composed of the states of Maine, New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Rhode-Island; of Connecticut, of New-York, of NewJersey, of Pennsylvania, of Maryland, of Virginia, of North-Carolina, of South Carolina, and of Ohio.

In a future number we thall probably insert the interesting report of the faculty of the theological seminary to the board of trustees, by them submitted to the convention, and appended to the above journal.

From the New-York Evening Post. Bensley's Steam Printing Press. We copy the following article from the 33d No. of a new Literary and Scientific Journal, published in London, entitled "The Adventurer of the Nineteenth Century."

Printing-The noble art, which has produced so much good and so much evil to mankind, is indebted, some think,

* The following resolution was ordered to accompany this canon:-Resolved, by the two houses of convention, that it be recommended to every future convention, to appoint a joint committee, to whom there may be communicated all errors, if any, in editions of the Bible printed under the operation of the second canon of this convention; such errors to be notified on the journal of the convention, to which they may at any time be presented by the joint committee.

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to the East for its invention; probably in allusion to the engraved tablets used to this day in China, which have been ascribed to an earlier period even than the commencement of the Christian The discovery of the European mode of printing is claimed by three continental cities, Haarlem, Mentz, and Strasbourg. The good people of Haarlem (who seem to have gained most credit) assert on the authority of one Junius, that Laurentius, the son of the custos of the cathedral of that city, is the man we are to consider as the spring and source of the great art. He relates that Laurentius, about 1430, walking in a wood near Haarlem, began at first to cut letters upon the rind of a beech tree; which for fancy's sake, being impressed on paper, he printed one or two lines as a specimen for his grandchildren to follow. This having happily succeeded, he meditated greater things, and with his son-in-law, Peter, invented a more glutinous writing ink than that heretofore used, and then formed whole pages of wood, and cut letters upon them. Junius says, he had seen (1558) some specimens of the printing by these blocks, in a work entitled, Speculum nostræ salutis, printed only on one side of the paper, with the backs of the leaves pasted together, that they might not by their nakedness betray their deformity. These birchen pages or tablets he afterwards exchang ed for leaden ones, and then again for a mixture of tin and lead, as a less flexible and a more durable substance; of the remains of which types, when the letters were worn away, their old wine pots were cast which are to this hour preserved in a house at Haarlem, that belonged to the great grandson of Laurentius, a man of great respectability. The art was soon generally talked of, admirers increased, and the inventor found himself able to employ a great number of hands in the first display of his discovery. Among the workmen he engaged was one John Faust, who, notwithstanding he was bound by oath not to reveal the secret, had no sooner learned the method of joining the letters, and casting the types, than, on Christmas eve, 1439, he seized the whole materiel of his master's shop, and