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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 03, 1878
Page
7
The French Chambers accepted amendments to the State of Siege Bill and three government measures become law. The Colportage Bill, Press Amnesty, and State of Siege aim to curb arbitrary prosecutions and punishments, ease prior abuses, and end prosecutions against pitied figures including M de Cassagnac.
The Irish Sunday Closing Bill discussion stretched into the early morning as Mr Murphy and Mr O Sullivan led opposition efforts to stall the bill. Despite amendments offered by Government and a final Treasury grant in Committee of Supply, the House failed to progress, with the committee still hearing evidence and Easter unlikely for a report.
The Disserning Deputies plan a jubilee for the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts. An address may be prepared and presented to Earl Russell on May 9, the anniversary of royal assent. If feasible, a public dinner may follow, inviting Nonconformists and sympathisers from all denominations.
The Earl of Leitrim his clerk and car-driver were shot on his Donegal estate while en route to Milford. Assailants used cover of an advertisement and escaped by boat across Mulray Lay. The landlord, noted for liberal yet strict dealings, faced eviction pressures as tenants feared further action. The murder signals persistent agrarian violence in Ireland.
The Commons watches Lord Derby resign after a dispute over mediation with Russia and the Congress. Lord Beaconsfield attends the fallout, while Gladstone presses for assurance that the government acts to maintain the Empire. Irish obstruction lengthens a long, uneventful night of debates.
The Atheneum notes the Religious Tract Society published a history of the Bible by Stoughton and Tennyson receiving three hundred guineas for a ballad. At a Wiltshire Congregational Association meeting a resolution urges total abstinence to reclaim drunkards and curb excess by legitimate means.
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