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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 23, 1879
Page
7
In Scotland, 17 of 40 Liberal MPs favor disestablishment while 13 back the leaders and 4 oppose or are unknown. The Free Churches north of the Tweed and Kirk clergy are united against Liberal candidates, making Establishment a test in Midlothian and beyond.
Durham colliers nearly unanimously refuse a seven and a half percent wage cut, pushing the county toward widespread colliery closures by week end. About 40,000 miners may lose work, risking paralysis of local iron industries and port shipping, though arbitration is possible.
The column honors George Hadfield and John Crossley as veteran advocates of evangelical truth and religious equality. It notes Principal Harper of the United Presbyterian Church and their roles in Scottish Voluntary Controversy and England’s Liberation movement, marking a passing generation and urging rising leaders to follow.
Two young missionaries depart England for Zanzibar and will join Aden by the London Missionary Society secretary. Dr Mullens offered to go to Zanzibar to study mission needs and oversee the journey into the interior. Directors on the 17th ruled he will not go beyond Zanzibar unless vital mission interests require his presence.
Reports state that George Eliot is in delicate health and unfit for much intellectual labor. Medical advisers doubt it would be prudent for her to undertake any fiction writing for several years.
The piece describes a Monday night in the Commons after Easter recess with 110 MPs present for a Greek frontier vote, Gladstone delaying Mentmore departure, and a tone of shifting political morality. It notes Harcourt and Manners clashing, the Civil Service Estimates debated, and a City of Glasgow Bank bill proposed to ease bank re registration limits.
A petition forwarded to the Colonial Office by Canada’s Roman Catholic bishops asks Parliament to endow Ireland’s education system with public money for primary to collegiate levels based on religious grounds. The plea argues religious liberty in Canada while noting Quebec’s Catholic predominance complicates Ireland’s comparison.
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