Call for Flexible Clergy Rights and Church Disestablishment
A historical argument proposes open access for clergymen of all sects to refuse services, arguing the need for a new law if current rules are repealed. It condemns desecration of churchyards, supports disestablishment, and questions keeping Prayer-book rites while enabling nonconformist worship and marriages in parish churches.
Church and State on the Continent in Turmoil
Long dispatch notes the exiled Bishop of Paderborn escaping confinement and seeking residence in Venlo and Rome while clashing with secular authority over deposition. It covers Vatican politics, pilgrimages, and liberal ultramontane reaction amid German church strife.
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Paderborn
Wesel
Venlo
Holland
Congo
Breslau
Lourdes
Francis Stolberg
Missionaries of the Sacred Heart
Issoudun
Bourges
Florence
Jesus
Disestablishment up for Colonial Office review
In reply to Mr Jenkins M P Mr Lowther Under Colonial Secretary says the Cape Parliament act abolishing ecclesiastical grants has not yet reached the Colonial Office but when it arrives there will be no objection to lay copies before Parliament. The recent mail brings the intelligence.
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Cape
St. David's
Connop Thirlwall
St. David’s
Viscount Melbourne
National and Provincial Bank
Newport
Monmouthshire
Lord Cranmore
Cardinal Manning
Prince’s
House of Lords
Lord Oranmore
Prince of Wales
Chiswick
Duke of Richmond
St. Alban’s
Mackonochie
London
St. Alban's
Jenkins
M.P
Lowther
Colonial Office
Studies and Atlantic Telegraphy in Contemporary Studies
Dr Farrar plans a residence in Italy to pursue Studies on the Dawn of Christianity. Mr F W Chesson writes a work on Atlantic Telegraphy with a Canada legislation review for the Atlantic cable. Two divers clearing a wreck near St Honoret Island are seized by a giant octopus but alarm Bell sound and divers cut the creature to pieces. measured three metres.
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Farrar
Italy
F. W. Chesson
Canada
St. Honoret
Religious Dispute Over London Minute At Wesleyan Conference
At Sheffield August the Wesleyan Conference discussed whether the London District minute on ministers attending political meetings has binding force. The president ruled it effective though not formally enacted, prompting calls for frank dialogue before third readings of stations. Nonconformist ministers sent a greeting emphasizing unity and collaboration against secularist trends.
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John Bond
Second London
J. Bond
London
The
Liberation Society
Alexander M’aulay
Marshall Randles
Jobson
Church of England
H. W. Holland
Times
Stacey
Sheffield
Wesleyan Coconference