31 Dec 1870
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Newspaper
Church Herald
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 31, 1870
Page
1
A religious advocate warns against dissolving the Church State alliance over an amended marriage bill. The piece defends church prerogatives, urges bishops' leadership, and cautions that legal change could sever Church and State, altering social order and family law.
The essay argues that civil law has long regulated marriage beyond church ethics, while acknowledging time when church and state stood together. It warns that modern progressors claim national law independent of church authority, turning marriage into a political issue amid party divides.
Serpentine hosted 10 000 skaters with no accidents while Long Water Kensington Gardens and Round Pond drew about 5 000. Regent's Park had 20 000 skaters with three inch ice. six head injuries were treated at the marquee and fifteen others at the tent, no one fell through. In St James's Park 10 000 skaters faced dangerous ice with three people plunging in, rescued by icemen.
The update details Saxon bombardment of Fort Avron and Mount Avron positions, Duclair river seizures of six English colliers by Prussians, and French naval efforts on the Seine. It notes German entrenchments near Fort Valerien, Belfort sieges, and troop movements, with remarks on Ducrot's Sedan escape and Times speculation about Paris defenses.
A Vienna correspondent notes widespread agitation in Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Roumania over Prince Gortschakoff's circular and looming Congress actions. Roumania seeks full independence and treaty reconsideration, while Austria fears loss of influence and seeks consolidation within the Paris settlement, with wider implications for Serbia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, and the Danube frontier.
The War Office has ordered torpedo cases for nearly 1500 units from Spencelagh and Archer, ironfounders and engineers at Chatham who have long supplied torpedo cases to the Royal Engineers. General Schenck, the new American Minister to London, has booked passage to England for January 18.
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