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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 19, 1849
Page
5
A committee of about twenty Metropolis residents aims to promote public reading of Mr. Miall's Lectures on the British Churches in five or six locations starting in January. They seek assistance in securing rooms or chapels and invite supporters to contact Secretary John Templeton at 24 Basing-lane Cheapside.
Ashburton letter argues against a full Sunday postal halt while proposing minimal Sabbath work. He suggests doubling or quadrupling stamps for letters sent on Sunday and requiring two stamps for urgent newspapers to keep some communication while preserving most postmasters’ Sunday rest.
A 1849 letter from St. John's Woop argues dissenters should not oppose church-rates in public vestry. The writer asserts vestries serve State Church members, so dissenters must refuse to pay rather than participate. They urge consistent Dissent and fine-tuned principle over public brawls to influence policy.
A petition to the Archbishop of Canterbury is enclosed by The British and Foreign Bible Society and Cheap Bibles. The document appears to request aid or approval related to the society’s work.
A petition from the Society of Journeymen Bookbinders dated Dec 7 1849 requests Archbishop of Canterbury to order examination of wages paid to contractress workers for Bible Society editions. They claim wages are low and misleading, citing 5s 6d to 6s weekly for sixty hours, while contractress denies this and asserts 10s weekly.
The Archbishop informs Mr. Dunning that he has had no part in Bible Society management or committee meetings. He cannot interfere in the wages question now, leaving the matter to the committee to judge, Addington, Dec. 8, 1849.
The principal houses in Bristol have agreed to close their establishments the day before Christmas Day easing the holiday schedule for the city.
A critique of Governor Edward D Oyley the first Jamaica governor in 1660. The piece condemns his use of Bibles and bloodhounds against enslaved people, mocking Carlyle's rhetoric while arguing blacks benefited from gradual education despite brutal colonial methods.
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