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Churches, 1842

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English Extracts. the Irish Church Establishment. To the Right Hon. and Hon. the House of Commons

Australasian Chronicle · Thursday 10 February 1842 · page 4

The petition of the undersigned inhabitants of Ireland, Humbly Showeth—That no law can be more afflicting, nor any practice more oppressive, than…

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Letter to the Rev. E. B. Pusey, D.D., Regino Professor of Hebrew, Canon of Christ Church, late Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, &c., &c., &c. Church of the Conception, Dublin, September 16, 1841

Australasian Chronicle · Thursday 10 February 1842 · page 1

REVEREND SIR—The Saunders' newspaper of last Tuesday gives a letter from Dr. Pusey to a clergyman of the diocese of Dublin, commenting upon an extract from a sermon preached by me in aid of the…

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Church Grants

The Sydney Herald · Friday 11 February 1842 · page 3

COLONIAL Secretary's Office, Sydney, 8th february, l842. The following descriptions of Grants of Land and Town Allotments, which have at various periods been…

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Bathurst. the New Church

The Sydney Herald · Friday 11 February 1842 · page 2

THE township of Bathurst, which now assumes an important position in the colony, and is the centre of a very extensive district, has, strange to say, been behind many less…

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Scots Church, Jamison-street.--the Memorials. to the Editors of the Sydney Herald

The Colonial Observer · Wednesday 16 February 1842 · page 1

GENTLEMEN,--With reference to certain articles which appeared in the Colonial Observer of yesterday I crave your indulgence whilst in the briefest, manner I attempt to give a simple statement of the…

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The Irish Church

Australasian Chronicle · Thursday 17 February 1842 · page 1

Notwithstanding the boasting of the Tories, the state of Ireland rather alarms them. Amongst the projects which have been lately broached to smooth their way, the old plan of making the Catholic…

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Valedictory Address Presented to the Reverend William Cowper, Upon His Embarkation for England, 18Th of Febbuary, 1842. Together with His Reply. Address. To the Reverend William Cowper, Senior Chaplain of New South Wales, and Minister of St. Philip's Church, Sydney. Reverend Sir

The Sydney Herald · Saturday 19 February 1842 · page 4

ON the part of your friends and fellow-colonists, who have deputed us to present to you this tribute of their affectionate regard—and more especially on the part of…

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Presbyterian Church

The Colonial Observer · Wednesday 23 February 1842 · page 164

Yesterday evening, at 7 o'clock, a numerously attended meeting of the members of the Scots Church, Church Hill, was held for the purpose of taking into consideration…

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The Presbyterian Church

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 24 February 1842 · page 2

On Tuesday evening a meeting of the Members of Dr. Lang's Congregation was held in the Scots Church, Jamison street, for the purpose of taking into consideration the present state of…

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Domestic Intelligence. Presbyterian Church

Sydney Free Press · Thursday 24 February 1842 · page 2

A Meeting of the persons connected with Dr. Lang's Church, Jamison-street, was held on Tuesday evening, when, alter an address from Dr. Lang and some discussion among the…

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Doctor Pusey. To Doctor Pusey. Church of the Conception, Dublin, September 27th, 1841

Australasian Chronicle · Thursday 24 February 1842 · page 4

Rev. Sir—With the tone of your last letter (which I have read in the Morning Register of the 25th), and with your elucidation of the error, as to names, upon which the main argument of your letter,…

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A Sketch of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic of Spain, by Frederick Mitchell

Sydney Free Press · Saturday 26 February 1842 · page 4

IN the southern aisle of the cathedral of Granada, a sombre Gothic facade attracts the eye, amid that glaring pile of while--washed Corinthian architecture. The…

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The Oath of a Roman Catholic Bishop. (From an American Paper.)

The Sydney Herald · Monday 28 February 1842 · page 2

THE following oath, taken by a Roman Catholic Bishop, is translated from the Latin of a very authentic copy. It was published in the London Christian Guardian for May,…

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Church Doings in South Australia

The Sydney Herald · Friday 4 March 1842 · page 2

BY a report of the Church Building Committee at Adelaide, which has recently come to hand, it is highly gratifying to find that notwithstanding the discouragements…

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Catholic Institute and Society for the Propagation of the Faith

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 8 March 1842 · page 2

On Sunday evening the usual monthly meeting of the above societies was held in the schoolroom, Castlereagh-street; the Very Rev. F. Murphy in the chair. After the business of St. Patrick's Society…

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Australian Methodist, Society

The Teetotaller and General Newspaper · Saturday 12 March 1842 · page 1

A public meeting, in connexion with their opening service, was held by this society on Monday evening, the 7th instant; at which their principles and intended plan of operation…

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The Irish Church

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 15 March 1842 · page 2

Lord Alvanley's letter on the state of Ireland is evidently the production of a far-seeing man, strongly impressed with the dangers which threaten the empire from Ireland…

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The German Mission at Moreton Bay

The Colonial Observer · Wednesday 16 March 1842 · page 191

Our readers will doubtless recollect that the strange and unwarrantable procedure of certain members of the Synod of Australia in regard to the management of this Mission…

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The Catholics in India. Translation of part of a Letter addressed by a Roman Catholic Missionary to his Superior in Rome, and received by that Superior in May, 1841

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 22 March 1842 · page 4

Each day enables us to penetrate more fully into the hostile dispositions of certain magistrates. We can judge of them from facts. In the beginning of the year 1839 an order, issued by a magistrate,…

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Thanksgiving and Prayers for the Safe Delivery of Our Gracious Queen and the Birth of a Prince of Wales. Circular Letter of the Very Rev. the Vicar General to the Catholic Clergy of New Holland

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 22 March 1842 · page 2

Almighty God having been graciously pleased to bless the nuptials of our beloved Sovereign Queen Victoria and the Prince Albert with an infant Prince of Wales, heir apparent to the throne of Great Britain,…

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