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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 09, 1874
Page
2
Champs of Mechlin and Mons Pacca are cited as impatient figures amid talk of a pre Christmas consistory to nominate bishops and a post New Year cardinal nomination. A brief Rome fever report circulated and was denied, noting the pope’s illness and a six day interruption in using Revalenta Arabica.
In Newcastle Central Hall Andrew Common chairs a Liberation Society gathering with Sir Henry Havelock and others. Speakers urge disestablishment and disendowment as vital reform, calling for political action to back measures ending state church influence and endowments.
The meeting endorsed progress toward a 100000 pound special fund to expand operations and urged prompt action across districts. Rev James Wilson seconded while committees were formed to organise regional friends and appoint local agencies. A vote of thanks closed the conference.
At the Liberation Society Conference in Newcastle on Tyne a large Central Hall gathering, chaired by R Spence Watson, heard Henry Havelock urging abolition of church establishment as unjust and socially divisive. Carvell Williams and Illingworth backed disendowment with calls for persistence to achieve final disestablishment. Addresses were given by MP Burt and Rev Marmaduke Miller.
A Sunderland meeting led by Sir Henry Havelock argued for disestablishment to root out Church evils, following views from the Brighton Church Congress. Lectures in Preston and Rochdale urged disendowment and cautioned against Irish Episcopal precedent, with various local meetings noted. Daventry hosted a lecture on America and religious equality.
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