Religious Equality and Church Reforms Debate in Parliament
The article surveys ongoing debates on church governance and worship in Parliament, criticizing state control over Episcopalian practice, praising Nonconformist gains in the Census Bill vote, and noting broader European shifts toward religious equality and Protestant influence amid clashes with papal authority. It highlights the Education Bill outcome and calls for continued protest and reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conference Methodists
Burslem
Dr. Rigg
Italy
Austria
Poland
Europe
Registration August and borough voter qualifications in Reform Act
August notice outlines borough voter eligibility under the Reform Act of 1868. Criteria include age, residence and occupancy within the borough, payment of rates, and lodging or ownership details. The text specifies conditions for occupiers, lodgers, and joint occupancy, with registration deadlines and monetary duties for eligibility.
Claims for borough votes and lodger claims notices
Every lodger must deliver his claim to the overseers after 31 July and before 25 August each year and appear before the revising barrister to support it. The overseers must list non paying ratepayers by 22 July, ready for public perusal at Serjeants Inn, London, with notices of claim obtainable on request.
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Boroven Worss
Serjeants’inn
London
Infallibility Crisis Splits English Catholic Clergy and Lay
The Saturday Review notes a coming split as Austrian Catholics drift toward Protestantism unless Vatican Council decrees are repudiated. In England, Ultramontanism meets firm resistance among clergy and laity. Father Suffield refuses to sign a pro encyclical petition, warning against papal overreach and political implications for Catholic liberty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saturday Review
Rome
England
Rymer
St. Edmund's
Ware
Father Suffield
Westminster Gazette
Prosecution and church affairs dominate headlines
The Church Times reports a fresh prosecution against Mr Mackonochie by the Church Association. the Bishop of Honolulu arrives in London and resigns to the Archbishop of Canterbury. the Archbishop of York refuses to consecrate a new Thixendale church over a super altar. a city tunnel near Bishopsgate opens as a garden attracting over 30,000 visitors in July amid a peacock display. Lord Harrowby’s census amendment on religious professions passes 43 to 39, with bishops voting split. Yorkshire agent notes strong dissent among society reformers on education Britain tax proposals.
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England
Christendom
Convocation
House of Lords
Bruce
Friends of Religious Equality
London
Liberation Society
House of Commons
Lords
Lingworth
Liberal Party
Church Times
Mackonochie
Church Association
Honolulu
Cuurcuyarp
Bishopsgate
Lord Harrowby
Duke of Leinster
Marquis of
Kildare
Kixeter
Manchester
Britain
Yorkshire
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Boroven Qualifications
Jaly
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