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Churches, 1841

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Church of England

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Friday 26 November 1841 · page 2

The following is a copy of a Letter from the Lord Bishop of Australia to the Secretaries of the Diocesan Committee, dated October 1st 1841:— GENTLEMEN.—In continuation of those Letters…

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Catholic Soldiers and Sailors

Australasian Chronicle · Saturday 27 November 1841 · page 2

We have great pleasure in inserting the following letter, both for the sake of correcting the mistake into which the reporter of the Birmingham meeting had inadvertently fallen, and also of laying the true…

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Church of England

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 November 1841 · page 2

The annexed letter from the Lord Bishop of Australia to the Secretaries of the Diocesan Committee, should have appeared in our last publication, but owing to the crowded state of…

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The Chronicle. Tuesday, November 30, 1841. New Zealand.—martyrdom of a Catholic Missionary

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 30 November 1841 · page 2

WE have been favoured with a letter from a highly respectable correspondent in New Zealand which gives an account of the martyrdom of the Rev. Pierre Chanel, a missionary stationed at Fortuna,…

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Hymns of the Church-yard

The Colonial Observer · Thursday 9 December 1841 · page 2

Ah, me ! this is a sad and silent city; Let me walk softly o'er it, and Survey Its grassy streets, with melancholy pity ! Where are its children ? whore their gleesome play ?…

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St. Mary's Catholic Seminary

Australasian Chronicle · Saturday 11 December 1841 · page 2

On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday last, previous to the [?] for the Christmas holidays, the young gentlemen attending the St. Mary's Catholic Seminary were publicly examined; the classes in…

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Roman Catholic Calumny. To the Editors of the Sydney Herald

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 16 December 1841 · page 2

GENTLEMEN,—A letter headed "Intolerance and Injustice" appeared in the Australasian Chronicle of November 30th last, signed by E. M. Butler, a shoemaker and Roman…

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The Executive Council and the General Church Act. to the Editors of the Colonial Observer

The Colonial Observer · Thursday 16 December 1841 · page 4

GENTLEMEN--May I inquire through the medium of your Journal what has been done with the money that was subscribed towards the Gaelic Church some months ago ? There is no word about the Church now, nor…

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Select Poetry. a Churchyard Scene

Sydney Free Press · Saturday 25 December 1841 · page 4

IT was a gloomy Sabbath eve-- I felt in dreamy mood, And wander'd to a lone churchyard To join its solitude ;…

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SPIRIT of the Anglican Priesthood

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 28 December 1841 · page 2

Most of our readers may or rather must, remember the strong testimony borne by the Rev. Sidney Smith, of facetious notoriety, in a recent hot controversy between the Protestant chapters and the…

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The Wesleyan Mission

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 30 December 1841 · page 2

On Tuesday a most numerously attended and highly respectable meeting of the Sydney Branch Wesleyan Missionary Society was held in the Wesleyan Chapel, Macquarie street;…

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The Legislative Council and Tee Presbyterian Church. to the Editor of the Colonial Observer. Sydney, 27th December, 1841

The Colonial Observer · Thursday 30 December 1841 · page 98

SIR--I shall feel obliged by your inserting in your next number the following copy of a letter which I have this day addressed to the Honorable the Attorney-General, on…

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