Annuity Tax Debate and Clergy Funding Proposal
A Tuesday discussion in the Town Hall considered abolishing the Annuity tax and paying Edinburgh city clergy from funds such as Bishops' rents or the Exchequer. Councillor Kay pushed a scheme to have Mr Lefevre seek government support for a new arrangement, while Dissenters opposed allocating Crown teinds for ministers' stipends as impolitic.
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Kay
Léfevre
Mr. Kay
Edinburgh
Scotland
Admiral Grenfell
Liverpool
Wexford
Rio Grande
Rio Janeiro
Newroad
London
A Collection of Oddities From Various Lands and Times
A medley of notices and curios from 19th century sources includes statues in Hainburgh honoring Charles II and George IV, a large outang at large in Shrewsbury woods, and weather advice for hands. It cites public expenses, railway lengths, a Repeal subscription, fire losses in London, a Polish anecdote, and scholarly notes on Taylor and Nieemberg.
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Masbrough
Joseph Austin
Longden
General Board of Health
California
London
Thomas Woodward
Fetherd
Cashel
Hainburgh
Charles IT
George IV
Duke of York
Lord Melville
Bruce
Adac Smith
Roverteon
Ourang-Ontang
Trewshire
Reformers Almanack
Duke of Grafton
John O'Connell Esq
M.P
Repeal Association
Bradshaw'n Railway Almanack
Nieemberg
Taylor
Greenock
Pepys
Nary
French National Assembly
M. Antoine
France
Clonmel Chronicle
William Cooke Taylor
Polk
Baltimore
St. Louis
York
Harrisburg
Carlisle
Chambersburg
Bedford
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Massillon
Cleveland
Zaneville
Columbus
A Fragmented Tour Through Old Notices and Local Lore
A garbled correspondent piece from Jerrold's News sketches oddities: a 13 foot tree at Little Grimsby Hall Lincolnshire with a 70 foot spread, late burial mentions in a city precinct, a call for old Roman la w re enactment forbidding burial or burning in cities, a coal hole tax ruling as a window, a Kettering tenement nest discovery, and the Vegetarian Advocate proposing a halfpenny stamp for small periodicals.
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Jerrold
Little Griensby Hall
Louth
Lincolnshire
Rewick & Gedar of
Tabanon
Church and State
Isit
Kettering
Propos
The Will and The Way Poem by Henry Sutton
A reflective poem on temptation and resolve urging moral effort. It proclaims that perseverance and faith empower overcoming wrongdoing, asserting that with will there is a way and Christ strengthens the battle to achieve victory.
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Henry Sutton
Christ
The Old Clock on the Stair in Poetic Tableau
An antique oak clock in a mansion speaks in a voice of time telling “for ever never” and “never for ever” as hospitality, joy, birth, death, and wedding scenes unfold around it. The poem traces Time's unchanging gaze across rooms, stairs, and memories.
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Etaia
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Kentucky
Prichard
House of Commons
Dyce Sombre
Principality
England
the Times
Ireland
Methley
Yorkshire
H. W. Long
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