Emancipation Planks in Irish Church Debate
A Leeds Mercury report covers a Wesleyan mayor presiding as orator condemns State Church control in Ireland and urges Christianity to break from politics. A Newcastle audience hears Rev Walters praise statistics on Irish Church endowments while Mr Doudney questions figures and audience members press for parish Protestant populations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. R. Scholes
Jones
Ireland
Lord Brougham
Bart Rogwell
John Bright
Trish
Leeds Mercury
W. Walters
Newcastle
W. Sutton
Scotby
Hudson Scott
H. Miller
W. A. Wrigley
W. Park
D. A. Doudney
St. James’s
Scott
D. Doudney
J. Hargraves
Doudney
Walters
Hargraves
Church question looms as session issue in Ireland
Archbishop Manning writes a pamphlet from an English Catholic vantage on Ireland’s condition and its established church. Dublin Freeman’s Journal notes the church question will dominate the session with a motion framed for practical action aimed at religious equality. Meetings of the Protestant defence association occur at Trim Mullaglass and Limerick under Lord Clarina’s chairmanship.
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Westminster
Manning
Ireland
Cardinal Cullen
London
Dublin Freeman’ S Journal
Lord Russell
Kilkenny
Inte
Protestant Defence Association
Trim
Mullaglass
Limerick
Clarina
Wilson
Presbyterian minister taunts General Assembly attendance
A Presbyterian minister who lately served as moderator of the General Assembly said he did not deem attendance necessary believing it to be a meeting of laymen yet he expressed sympathy with the object pursued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Byterian
General Assembly
Irish Church Question Faces Three Avenues of Reform
The Times outlines three options for Ireland’s religious endowment debate. A new endowment distribution among three communities proposed by Lord Russell, Irish Catholic clergy funding from the Consolidated Fund, or diverting church revenues to other uses. parties’ fears and dissenters’ objections shape whether the Premier can push any path.
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the Times
Lord Russell
Consolidated Fund
Ireland
Oxford and Cambridge Universities Tests Act passage
A summary of a bill by Coleridge Bouverie and Grant Duff to repeal tests and alter statutes governing Oxford and Cambridge. It declares the act aims to make university benefits accessible, ends compulsory religious declarations, and limits qualifications tied to faith for degrees and professorships. It also preserves certain college offices and repeals older provisions affecting tenure and eligibility.
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Coleridge
Bouverie
Grant Duff
Oxford
Cambridge
Cambridge Universities
Scotland
Christ Church
Sail Universities
United Church of England and Ireland
Eaid
Public Worship Provisions in University Anglican Church
Provided that nothing in this act extends to the provisions made for the public worship of the Church of England within the said Universities or any college or hall therein respectively.
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Church of England
Protest Against Opening Oxford University to Non Christians
Oxford graduates led by divinity professors and heads of houses urge the Archbishop of Canterbury to oppose abolishing religious tests in universities. They warn the change would secularize fellowships and sever Christian education at Oxford, risking unity of faith and national religious heritage. The Times critiques the memorial and notes the national church issue amid mixed education tensions. The Express mocks the Oxford martyrs as melodramatic.
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Oxford University
Posey
Jeff
Mansel
Greswell
Plumptre
Scott
Heartley
Wynter
Monier Williams
House of Commons
Oxford
the Times
United Kingdom
Church of Rome
Church of England
Rome
Parliament
Express
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