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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 16, 1879
Page
4
The discussion centers on mixed education in Ireland with emphasis on Catholic colleges, clerical pay, conscience clauses, inspection, and university funding. Lords Granville Beaconsfield and Emly exchange views as the bill advances to a third reading.
The O Connor Don recounts Lord Fitzmaurice proposing a joint motion to fund prizes and scholarships to improve the university bill. He argues equality of treatment requires more than prizes, warning funds would not create a true university and could injure Catholic colleges. He lists objections to the scheme and questions its fairness.
The speaker defends a bill to fund higher education for Catholic students by extending secular education funding, not endowing theological schools. It would concentrate access through affiliated colleges chosen by the Senate, with flexibility to adjust clauses to preserve the original aim of wider, non-sectarian university education.
In the North of Ireland large gatherings voiced strong opinion against sectarian Irish University education funding. The Government was warned in special resolutions not to countenance such a policy and the House of Commons was reproached for tolerating the obstructionist party.
The Pall Mall Gazette discusses Lord Emly's call for educational equality for Roman Catholics and questions why English Nonconformists do not demand the same. It cites Oxford Cambridge prizes favoring churchmen and Keble College as English precedent, argues Catholics could fund their own colleges, and cautions against waiving public policy for poverty claims.
A joint committee of the Canterbury Convocation met at Lambeth Palace to amend and prepare a joint report for the Queen. The meeting follows a planned Convocation in Westminster Abbey on the 31st inst, with York’s archbishop summoning the Northern Convocation for the 30th inst to finalize the Crown report. The Vestments Rubric remains untouched awaiting litigation in the Ridsdale case along with Burial Service and Athanasian Creed.
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