Ireland Synod debates college decrees amid secrecy
The concluding synod sittings in Ireland raised debate over college decrees. Reports claim a near decisive vote, while others insist colleges are effectively condemned though details await papal ratification. The New University senate list is announced with notable clerical and public figures.
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Evening Post
Limerick
the Post
Dublin Evening Post
Queen’s University
Ireland
Whately
Baron Pigot
Lord Rosse
Queen’s Colleges
Cork College
Slattery
Cashel
Delany
Cork
Galway
M‘hale
Tuam
O’donnell
Belfast
Cullen
Denvir
Down
Blackfriars bridge sinking raises closure fears
Sunday reports show further decline of the centre arch toward the Middlesex shore at Blackfriars bridge causing large crowds to gather. If additional subsidence occurs, authorities may close the bridge pending action.
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FountaHer
Blackfriars
Blackfriars Bridge
Middlesex
Persecution of British Subjects in the Ionian Islands
A violent religious persecution endangers the lives and property of a small Baptist church in Zante. British subjects Pelacussy and Keynigos face banishment and mistreatment amid clerical and police complicity. Keynigos, once a deacon, now preaches gospel in secret, with several houses attacked and protests calling for Protestant expulsion. The incident prompts cries that toleration in the Ionian Republic is finished and evangelical instruction becomes untenable.
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Zante
Pelacussy
Keynigos
Arnold
Prissus
Reynigos
Ionian Republic
Jealousy and suicide at Darlington leads to fatal tragedy
A young innkeeper William Coates killed himself after discovering his wife’s alleged infidelity. In the coroner’s inquest we hear he placed a double barrel gun in his mouth and died in his bedroom with a note to the coroner about his planned act and equal division of possessions between his two children. Temporary insanity verdict recorded.
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Darlington
William Coates
Wreck of an Indiaman and loss of life on the coast
A passenger aboard the East Indiaman Indian describes the ship's voyage from England to Bombay, striking the Cargados reef, breaking up, and the survival ordeal. Thirteen crew perished. survivors endured two days on a raft, subsisting on scarce provisions before reaching a Mauritius-bound vessel.
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England
Bombay
Cargados Reef
Peter Martin
W.N.W
Mauritius
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