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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 01, 1875
Page
9
A grandmother and two granddaughters from London stay at Salterns near Portsmouth. One daughter’s religious awakening is deepened by a fisherman's pious daughter, while the other remains worldly. Events shift hearts and the tale ends well though it feels overly didactic with universal conversions.
The obituary honors Miss Hannah Lawrance who died at her Barnsbury home at eighty. A dyed in the wool Nonconformist and literary figure, she preserved old dissenting traditions, wrote on medieval history, and contributed reviews to the Atheneum and British Quarterly. Her intellect matched her modesty, and she cherished remnants of a bygone era.
The passage notes a woman laid to rest in Abney Park Cemetery beside her ancestor and her friend and pastor Rev. Nun Morgan Harry, formerly minister at New Broad Street Meeting House. It also mentions Dr. Stafford described as Pastor of the Congregational Church Meeting in New Broad Street.
The section reports the death of M Schneider former president of the French Corps Législatif and the death of Rev James B Miles. It notes the Danish king's arrival in Copenhagen, New Zealand’s Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister Bill passage, Vatican queries for a Brazilian bishop, and U.S. political and naval developments. It covers Abyssinia siege losses, Hungary and England trade denouncements, Ghent elections and Belgian Liberal surge, and French electoral bill debates with Gambetta.
The Royal Geographical Society held its second meeting of the season at London University theatre with Sir Henry Rawlinson presiding. Colonel Grant presented on Mr Stanley's Exploration of Lake Victoria Nyanza noting Stanley’s 1874 Zanzibar start with 300 followers and a 720 mile trek to the lake’s northeast corner.
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