Crowded Nonconformist Meeting Supports Irish Church Disestablishment
A large Darwen assembly backing Mr Gladstone's Irish Church resolutions caused crowding and disruption as speakers urged disestablishment. The meeting passed a petition to the House of Commons and heard pro and con arguments from several ministers and local figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Green
T. H. Marsden
J. E. Thorold Rogers
Rev. T. Davies
Church
United Kingdom
Ireland
House of Commons
Gladstone
Buacxsurn
Exchange
Blackburn
Edward Harper
Whittaker
Gregson
Beads
Beade
Mr. Gladstone
Gopalmina
Godalming
Charles Buxton
Guildford Onslow
Buxton
Onslow
Church of England
Canterbry
East Kent
Canterbury
Henry James Tufton
Edward Dering
Kent
Mr. Disraeli
Opinions on the Irish Church Debate in Preston Meeting
The letter from Hon. F. A. Stanley MP notes altered views after experience in Ireland and calls for waiting on Earl Russell's Commission. It quotes Rev. A Starkey praising abolition of the Irish Establishment and argues that the Irish Church fails to win Irish trust, urging self reform and voluntary support over state establishment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. A. Stanley
Lord Stanley
Preston
Stanley
South of
Ireland
Earl Russell
Whalley
M.P
Belfast
Spooner
Maynooth
England
Mr. Disraeli
A. Starkey
Oldham
Liberal Party
Miall
Dublin
Opposition to Coleridge Bill on University Tests
The Bishop of Oxford chaired a Buckingham Town hall meeting against abolishing university tests. MPs Hubbard and Herbert, Archdeacon Bickersteth, Oxford Professor Burrows, Cambridge Rev G Williams, and others spoke urging preservation of the National Church’s role in education and warning against non belief and sects outside the Church of England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mgetine
Cupan
Corn Exchange
Provost Hood
J. Rankine
J. M. Douglas
Laird
Foote
Hay
Bailie Duncan
Barr
Duffus
Gladstone
Haney
Mason Jones
Thomas Pidduck
Mechanics’ Hall
Jones
J. N. Worsfield
Charley
Worsfield
Preston
Carlissly
Mr. Gladstone
Captain Ferguson
Wilfred Lawson
Oxford
Town Hall
Buckingham
Coleridge
Mr. Hubbard
Percy Herbert
Archdeacon Bickersteth
D.D
Burrows
G. Williams
Cambridge
Percy Barrington
Church of England
England
Weich