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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 07, 1850
Page
3
The Montreal Pilot reports the Synod calls on the government and legislature to immediately appropriate clergy reserves and rectory endowments for education. They seek inclusion of academies and common schools with the Bible as the basis of education, urge congregations to memorialize, and appoint a committee to draft appeals and monitor public measures.
The Patriot reports the Wesleyan Conference assembling in London at City-road Chapel with about six hundred ministers. It records vacancies filled in the Legal Hundred, presidential voting divided between Dr Beecham and Mr Fowler, and multiple disciplinary actions, including suspensions, expulsions, and reforms debated by delegates. The piece notes notable deaths, including Rev. Richard Reece, and a controversial intruder claim by Rev. Samuel Dunn.
The Connexional Committee reports on new school buildings at the New Normal Schools in Westminster with costs and government grants. It covers Sabbath and day schools, pupil totals, staff, and funding from pence and grants, plus reviews on financial management and trustees’ assurances. It also notes the Sappath Observance Committee’s call for a formal statement of Conference Sabbath principles and a petition campaign.
A survey shows Canterbury York and Dublin archbishops approving the Privy Council ruling in Gorham. Many diocesan bishops express mixed or hostile views, with Cambridge and Oxford avoiding involvement. About 2,000 clerical dissenters out of 15,000 overall, and limited laity response, mark the agitation’s reach. Four ecclesiastical suits in York address non residence without licence, with forfeiture of revenue confirmed for 1848. Immersion baptism revived in Burntisland and Beaton's fall noted as church triumph.
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