Fund Board, in 1752, with a view to counteract the Arian tendencies of the time. It has two Professors, viz: Rev. J. M. Charlton, M. A., Professor of Theology and Philosophy, and Rev. F. E. Anthony, M. A., Professor of Classics and Mathematics. The regular term of study is five years, though students for whom the full course is deemed undesirable, are admitted to an abridged course of three years. The curriculum includes theology, mental and moral philosophy, biblical criticism, hermeneutics, New Testament exegesis, Hebrew, Chaldee, Church History, and Homiletics; with the Classics, Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. The College is open to young men of all denominations, of good moral character, as lay students. Each candidate for the ministry must be recommended by his pastor, and the Church to which he belongs, and by some other minister to whom he is known; and must pass examination upon his religious principles and purposes, as also respecting his mental attainments. This being satisfactory, he is admitted to three months probation, which resulting favorably, he is fully admitted. The fee for each class is £3 38., ($15.75) one half of which is deducted from the term bills of the sons of ministers. The receipts of the College for the last year were £886, 15s. 9d. Expenditures, £1,210, 3s. 6d. The number of students, during the current year, is seven

teen.

2. ROTHERHAM INDEPENDENT COLLEGE. This is at Rotherham, West Riding, Yorkshire, and was established in 1795, on its present plan, under the celebrated Dr. Edward Williams; though it had existed from 1756, in a modified form. The course includes all the subjects required to qualify students for literary degrees in the University of London. Every student is required to be a member of some Independent Church.

The ordinary period of study is four years, though it may be extended, in special cases, to six; which is the limit.

There are two Professors, viz: Rev. F. J. Falding, D.D., Professor of Theology and Hebrew, and Rev. C. C. Tyte, Professor of Classics and Mathematics. Income for the current year, £957, 1s. 7d. Expenditure, £1,083, 7s. 2d. Number of students, fourteen.

3. BRECON INdependent College. This is at Brecon, or Brecknock, S. Wales, and was founded in 1760, and is intended to educate young men for the Congregational ministry. The candidates must be single men, between the ages of 18 and 24, whose piety is attested by their pastor and the Church to which they belong, and at least two neighboring ministers; and must be able to read Virgil and New Testament Greek, with proportionate knowledge of other branches.

The course of study includes the Latin and Greek Classics, Hebrew and French; Ancient and Modern History; Homiletics, Biblical criticism, Mathematics, Natural and Mental Philosophy, Church History and Divinity.

The Professors are Rev. J. Morris, Professor of Theology, and Rev. W. Roberts, Professor of Classics, &c. Income last year, £764, 19s. 10d; Expenditure, £777, 17s. 4d. Number of students, twentyfour.

4. CHESHUNT College.

This is at Cheshunt, Herts, (14 m., N. London,) whither, in 1792, it was removed from Talgarth, in Wales, where it had been established by Lady Huntingdon, in 1768; on the 24th August of which year it was publicly opened by George Whitefield. The principles of this College are Calvinistic, being set forth in fifteen articles, to which tutors and students are required to give assent; though young men are left entirely free as to their denominational choice. Candidates must be unmarried, not over 28 years of age, whose piety is well attested by their pastors, and churches. There are three months of probation, and four years in the term of study. The curriculum includes Hebrew and Syriac, New Testament

Greek, Biblical Literature, Church History, the Fathers and Theology, in addition to the ordinary studies of a college.

The Professors are Rev. R. Alliott, L.L.D., Professor of Theology, and W. B. Todhunter, Esq., M. A., Professor of Classics and Mathematics. Number of students, twenty-two.

Income for last year, £1,899, 16s. 7d.; Expenditure, £1,755, 13s. 2d. This College has several scholarships, and has absorbed the late Newport Pagnel College. 5. AIRDALE COLLEGE.

This is at Undercliffe, near Bradford, West Riding, Yorkshire, where it was founded in 1784. Candidates must be recommended by their pastors and churches, and must pass examination in the 1st books of the Eneid, of the Anabasis, and of Euclid. Probation is one year, the whole term of study being five. The curriculum includes Theology, Biblical criticism, Homiletics, History, Classics, Logic and Mathematics, with Hebrew, Chaldee and Syriac.

There are three Professors, viz: Rev. D. Fraser, L.L.D., Professor of Theology; Rev. R. G. Hartley, M. A., Professor of Classics, and Rev. H. B. Creak, M. A., Professor of Mathematics. Number of students the current year, fifteen.

6. HACKNEY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.

Hackney is a suburb of London, 3m. N. N. E. of St. Paul's. This institution was founded by Rev. John Eyre and Charles Townsend, in 1796. The curriculum resembles those before detailed. The term of study is four years.

There are three Professors, viz.: Rev. John Watson, Professor of Theology; Rev. S. Ransom, Professor of Classics and Hebrew, and W. Watson, Esq., Professor of Natural Philosophy.

The number of students is seven. Expenditure, £958, 12s. 3d.

7. LANCASHIRE INDEPENDENT COLLEGE. This is at Manchester. It was established in 1806 at Manchester by the late Rev. W. Roby; removed to Blackburn in 1816, and restored to Manchester in 1842.

Terms of admission are similar to those already detailed. The curriculum extends to five years, and embraces Theology, Biblical Literature, Greek and Latin Classics, Philosophy, Mathematics and Logic.

There are three Professors, viz.: Professor Rogers, in Theology; Professor Newth, in Mathematics and Logic, and Professor Hall in Classics, &c. The Chair of Biblical Literature is vacant. The number of students is thirty. Several scholarships worth yearly from $125 to $170, are open to the students, and indigent students are aided from the funds of the institution.

8. THEOLOGICAL HALL OF CONG. CHURCHES OF SCOTLAND.

This Theological Academy was established at Edinburgh, in 1811, for the education of ministers for the Congregational churches of Scotland. The students, for the most part, are instructed in general studies at the University of Edinburgh. The curriculum of the Theological Hall is restricted to Theology, Philology, Hermeneutics, Biblical Criticism, Homiletics, Church History and Composition of Sermons. The regular course consists of four consecutive terms of eight months each. When elementary education is needed, a fifth year may be added, and for students who have been through the University, three years are considered sufficient.

There are two Professors, viz.: Rev. W. L. Alexander, D.D., Professor of Theology; and Rev. A. T. Gowan, M. A., Professor of Church History and Sacred Literature. Income, £928, 6s.; expenditure, £603, 8s. 4d. Number of regular students, nine.

9. SPRING HILL COLLEge.

This was founded, at Birmingham, in 1838. Its receipts last year were £2,099, 16s. 7d.; expenditure, £2,052, 19s. 5d.

The plan of education comprises two courses; one properly Theological, occupying four sessions; the other includes Hebrew, Aramean, Greek and Latin,

English Literature, Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, &c. &c. Examination for the first course is in the Hebrew of Genesis, or the Psalms, and the subjects included in the B. A. Examination of the University of London; except Chemistry, Physiology, Botany and Modern Languages. Candidates for the second course are examined in the 6th book of the Eneid, the 1st books of the Anabasis, and of Euclid, with Arithmetic and Algebra as far as fractions.

Every candidate must declare, in writing, that he is a Dissenter, and that he believes in the Unity of God, the Divinity of Christ, the Atonement, the Divinity and Personality of the Holy Spirit, the necessity of regeneration, the plenary inspiration of the Scriptures, and the Divine authority of Infant Baptism.

There are two Professors, viz.: Rev. T. R. Barker, and Rev. H. Goward, M. A., L.L. B. There are fifteen divinity students. Provision is made for the aid of indigent students.

10. NEW COLLEGE, LONDON. This institution, at St. John's Wood, was founded in 1850, by the junction of Coward, Homerton and Highbury Colleges. Its income last year was £4,785, 11s. 2d.; expenditure, £4,931, 5s. 5d.

The term of study is five years; a literary course of two years, and a theological course of three years. Students who have taken the degree of B. A., or are otherwise competent, dispense with the first.

Every candidate is required to be a member of some Congregational Church, and to have completed his sixteenth year. Indigent students are aided, to the amount of from $100 to $200 per year, according to the state of their funds and the College's. There are also three Pye Smith scholarships, and one Mills, and one Henry Foster Burder scholarship, of the value of $150 each, tenable for three years, and open to competition. There is also one John Yockney scholarship, of the value of $100 per annum.

There are six Professors, viz: Rev. Robert Halley, D.D., Professor of Theology and Homiletics; Rev. John H. Goodwin, Professor of Theology and Greek Testament; William Smith, Esq., L.L.D., Professor of Classics; Rev. S. Newth, M. A., Professor of Mathematics and History; Rev. Maurice Nenner, Professor of Hebrew and German, and Dr. Lankester, F. R. S., Professor of Natural Science.

The number of students for the ministry is fifty-three.

The following summary condenses the facts above given :—

By a comparison of this table with that on p. 185 (April No.) of this Quarterly, it will be seen that in our six Congregational Theological Seminaries in this country, we have a total of 265 students; or an average of 44.1 students in each institution against an average of only 20.6 in each of these of our denomination in England. We graduate this year, from our six Seminaries, sixty-six persons-an average of eleven each; while, if we estimate the average course of the English institutions at four years, and suppose the students to be evenly distributed through the classes, they will graduate this year, from their ten Seminaries, fifty-one persons average of but little more than five each.

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Doubtless much time, strength and money are wasted, both there and here, in the undue multiplication of small and feeble institutions; which by no means make up in territorial convenience for the losses which they necessitate in other directions. The lesson has a hint for the future; both in the father land and here.