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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 04, 1850
Page
2
The Rev. W. H. Anderdon Vicar of St. Margarets faces Protestant unease as pupils and a teacher join the Catholic church and convent. Observers fear he may follow Eyre Bathurst in Kibworth in renouncing his £1300 benefice to embrace Catholic faith.
Frederic Bayis completed studies at Rotherham College and was ordained as a missionary to Mpahee in the East Indies by the London Missionary Society at Above Bar chapel Southampton. The ceremony drew a large congregations with the involved clergymen delivering prayers questions and charges to the new minister. Ian Rev. Davin Loxton received a renewed call to Mount Zion Chapel Sheffield with plans to begin work in November. CutaweL now Hainaurt Forest Bazaar raised over £20 for the British School alongside examinations and a public tea.
A circulated claim of a free substance gas for lighting and heating is likely water gas tied to Donovan and Dover, as a French inventor’s scheme failed once English capitalists heard the readout. London bank founders plan Westminster branch closure at 4 pm from next month end of day. Vue Society for the Suppression of Vice robs two Holywell Street booksellers of illegal works with one title surrendered for destruction.
A commercial traveller and Nonconformist correspondent argues opium consumption rises due to abstinence group members. He cites Bristol pilots near Avon and Severn quays as teetotalers using opium, and offers further examples to support his claim while signing as a nonteetotaler.
The Central Committee extends the Working Man's Memorial fund deadline for Sir Robert Peel to September 17 1859. Contributions are urged from all to honor Peel's service to the indigenious and welfare of the community with funds sent to the Bank of England or the committee office at No 454 West Strand.
Deragrury or gup Canterbury colonists sail from the East India Docks aboard the Cressy Beymour Randolph and Charlotte Jane carrying 00 emigrants for the Canterbury settlement New Zealand. Each ship includes emigrant homes and even English singing birds to be released on landing. The note on the Eastern Counties Railway reports a strike dispute and a cautious reply from directors. The Summer Circuits witness a sharp drop in civil business due to the Local Courts Act and its successor, with Liverpool cited as an example of reduced docket loads for Justice Cresswell.
The Postmaster-General issued a Sunday operation notice for England and Wales. Post offices will close to the public on Sundays from 10 am, with limited open hours for early or late deliveries. inland letters prepaid or unpaid deposits allowed, and foreign letters prepaid with stamps. Metropolitan and provincial deliveries began shortly after 9 am and ended by 1:30 pm. Further orders to follow.
A vacancy in the borough representation arises after Mr. Robinson's death with two candidates, Savage of St Leonard's Kent and Mr. H D Seymour of Knowle near Shaftesbury, debating protection and free trade while Mrs Meryweather Turner seeks another bid. Also reported is the mysterious disappearance of Brigton tradesman Palmer from Belmont Clifton after purchasing at an auction, with no clue despite police involvement. A miner, W B Walton, inherits the Bell estate near Hexham, valued around £100,000, as heir and executor.
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