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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 22, 1868
Page
19
The piece argues against State Church links as unequal and repressive. It notes ecclesiastical state control curtails private judgment, free speech, and national equality, urging separation to unlock reform. It endorses truth, education, and liberty over a clerical power structure. The Irish Church article is deferred for future notice.
The British Quarterly July issue receives mixed praise for its Mill Hamilton critique and diverse articles. Notices cover Britomart’s literary pedigree, Westminster Abbey memorials, geology, and Count de Montalembert, with fifty book notices leaning toward mercy.
A compact review discusses the new enlarged edition of Enquire Within upon Everything aimed at ladies, praising its wide circulation and value. It also covers a temperance fiction Sydney Martin and a seaside guide Chats by the Sea, noting their themes, illustrations, and appeal for village readers and families.
Sun heated fires destroyed a silk merchants building in Bowlane and a factory in Tottenham. A sea bathing tragedy near Prestatyn left six of eight boys dead, including choristers. A Battersea boating accident drowned four, with one survivor. An inquest at Notting-hill revealed a fatal poisoning misdosing strychnine. Southwark gangs like the Kent-street Forty Thieves plunder watches and purses.
Report describes robberies in busy thoroughfares where victims are overpowered and beaten. Police have seized the ringleader, captain of the Forty, for trial on three highway robbery charges while other sensational events unfold.
The article reviews the Schools Inquiry Commission findings on metropolitan educational trusts and Christ's Hospital endowment, notes women's eligibility listings in Conside Knutsley and Marsden for parliamentary registration, reports on Orangemen in Coatesland and Killyman staging a Gladstone effigy burn, and describes a Cork arms seizure where six men fled with firearms. It also highlights The Gallery of Illustation performances, arbitration outcomes in Worcestershire wage disputes, and updates on the 1868 registration act with details on revising barristers and court procedures.
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