01 Apr 1868
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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 01, 1868
Page
1
The piece argues that despite opposition some groups will not yield to public opinion. It predicts the week’s debate will push the cause of Religious Equality in Ireland further than expected, aided by the earnest liberal readership.
A London pamphlet attacks Earl Grey's plan for Ireland's endowment and calls for Irish disestablishment. The piece notes responses from Mr Bright and Mr Gladstone, references Maurice and Disraeli, and documents growing public agitation with petitions and mass meetings demanding removal of state endowment from the Protestant Church in Ireland.
The Court of Arches judgment in Flamank v Simpson and Mackonochie’s case sets that incense cannot be used in services and elevation of elements is illegal, with candles allowed on the altar. Public reaction leans toward ritualistic practices diminishing, while the Evangelical side doubts gains. The Universities Test Abolition Bill gains unusual support from Cambridge, with figures like Sedgwick Kingsley Tyndall Airy and Dean Alford among signatories. Stephen Bourne, once an advocate for religious freedom and founder of an ecclesiastical journal, dies after a life of public service and Jamaica cotton promotion.
Parliament reports Earl Russell postponed the second reading of the Compulsory Church-rates Abolition Bill to April 23 due to bishops’ absence. The John Bull cites government plans to send it to a Select Committee, risking delayed progress and potential mortmain relaxations.
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