Unpaid church rates spark parish clashes and secessions
In Doncaster a vestry dispute over church rates ends with calls for a poll after heated objections to expenses and legality. The Wakefield rate debate mirrors wider church-rate resistance with working class support growing and vows to oppose compulsory levies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheltenham Free Press
Old Baptist Shapel
Maesteg
Bristol
Sostow
Ruscombe Poole
Bridgewater
J. Ruscombe Poole
Rome
R. Poole
D. Nihil
Wakefield
Doncaster
Messrs Price
Robinson
Sharpe
J. W. Surges
Drury
Hastie
Ax Buckley
Church of Christ
Messrs
Pye and Hardy
Hardy
Birley
Sorsby
Baxter
Cooper
Johnson
A Series of Diverse 19th Century Notices from Saratoff and Europe
The item reports on the Huntingdon theatre being demolished for a chapel, Mendelssohn composing a new oratorio to be staged in Frankfort, hydropathic treatment for the Marquis of Anglesey near Richmond, and Benjamin D Israeli named deputyLieutenant for Buckinghamshire. It then recounts a Saratoff baptism for 130 Jews entering Greek Catholic faith with ceremonial processions to the Volga and reception at the cathedral led by a priest.
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Huntingdon Theatre
Saratoff
Volga
Europe
Cerkieff
Pricat
Farewell Address on Religious Freedom by J E Giles Leeds
A public Leeds Baptist chapel meeting thanked J E Giles for his stance on voluntary religious freedom before his departure to Bristol. Speakers urged faithful support for religious equality, condemned church rates, and praised Giles for leading with resolute principles as political and church challenges mounted. Lord Stanuszy suffers severe gout attack at Walton-on-Thames.
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J. E. Giles
Leeds
Friends of Religious Freedom
Baptist Chapel
South Parade
Bristol
Smivers
Tunnicliffe
Giles
Myr Yewpatt
J. Primis
Wesleyan Association
Lennox
Rhuanpson
Three Kingdoms
J. P. Sarrery
Gitts
Maynooth
Germany
John Ronge
Mr Giles
Europe
Free Church of Scotland
Southwark
Miall
Lord Stanuzy
Walton-on-Thames
Progress of Opinion Among Agri Culturists
A Vale of Evesham Agricultural Association meeting showed growing support for sound farming principles with no corn law advocacy. Speakers praised fixed land tenure and capital investment, noting benefits to workers and improvements. Similar views emerged at East Suffolk and Rutland associations criticizing game laws and urging tenant leases.
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Vale of Evesham Agricultural Association
Jord Sandon
F. Woodward
Stockport
Cobden
Randall
Holland
East Suffolk Agricultural Association
Halesworth
Lord Stradbroke
Captain Rous
Westminster
Rutland Agricultural Association
Oakham
G. H. Betts
Ketton
Rince Albert
Crime Trends and Corn Laws in 1844 England and Wales
The 1844 crime returns show a rare two year decline in offenders tried, after eight years of rising crime ending 1842. The analysis links crime to food scarcity and corn laws, noting crime tracks harvest cycles and may rise again with a deficient harvest. It warns that renewed corn law effects could reverse the recent drop.
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England
Wales
Turkish envoy Turers tours Spanish capitals on route to Lisbon
The envoy M Turers has had multiple visits, visiting ministers in the capital and plans to travel to Toledo Granada Cordova Seville and Cadiz before shipping from Cadiz to Lisbon. He will return to France via England. The Emperor Nicholas grants amnesty to eleven Polish emigrants condemned to civil death and confiscation of property.
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M. Turers
Toledo
Grenada
Cordova
Seville
Cadiz
Lisbon
France
England
Madrid
Nicholas
Civin Dearnx
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