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Churches, 1845

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Saint Andrews Scots Church School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 September 1845 · page 3

THE ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of a new school-house at St. Andrew's Church, Sydney, in connexion with the established Church of Scotland, took place on Wednesday…

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A Fragment on the Irish Roman Catholic Church

The Examiner · Saturday 20 September 1845 · page 52

DEATH interrupted Sydney Smith in the preparation of a pamphlet on this subject. Happily, however, it was so far advanced as to admit of publication as a "fragment;" and though the late canon residentiary is now…

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Sydney Smith on the Catholic Question. (From the Times.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 September 1845 · page 3

THE re-appearance of Sydney Smith on the political stage, and on the very eve of an impending Irish debate, is, to say the least, rather startling. Every body thought he was dead…

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Original Correspondence. Christ Church. To the Editor of the Australian

The Australian · Tuesday 23 September 1845 · page 3

SIR,—Any one who has attended the new church in St. Lawrence Parish, cannot but be struck with the rapid strides which Puseyism is making in this Colony, or at all events in some of the…

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Progress of the Oxford Heresy--st. Laurence's Church

The Examiner · Saturday 27 September 1845 · page 57

WHEN the celebrated work of the elder D'Israeli came out, its main attraction was immediately appreciated. The "Curiosities of Literature" contained the secret history of so many eminent persons, and threw so strong…

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Catholic Soldiers

Morning Chronicle · Wednesday 1 October 1845 · page 2

IN the Australian of yesterday, we find the following communication :— To the Editor of the Australian. SIR,—Will you have the goodness to contradict,…

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Presbyterian Church in Australia

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 October 1845 · page 5

AT the meetings of the General Assemblies of the Free, and of the Established Churches of Scotland, in May last, allusion was made to the course adopted by the Synod of Australia in…

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Letter from the Rev. Christopher Eipper, Presbyterian Minister of Braidwood, to the Chairman of the Immigration Committee, 18th September, 1845

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 October 1845 · page 8

Sir,—Understanding that a Committee of the Honorable the Legislative Council has been appointed to take into consideration the important subject of…

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Council Papers. Church of England Schools. Expenditure

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 October 1845 · page 6

RETURN to an Address from the Legislative Council of New South Wales, dated 19th September, 1845, requesting his Excellency the Governor would be pleased to direct,…

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Grand Roman Catholic Festival in Nottingham

The Sentinel · Wednesday 8 October 1845 · page 1

On Sunday last a most-novel spectacle for this country was witnessed in the town of Nottingham on occasion of the celebration of the festival of Corpus Christi by the Roman Catholic body in their new and magnificent…

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Grand Roman Catholic Procession and Festival in Nottingham

Morning Chronicle · Wednesday 8 October 1845 · page 4

On Sunday last, (May 25) a most novel spectacle for this country was witnessed in the town of Nottingham, on occasion of the celebration of the festival of Corpus Christi by the Roman Catholic…

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Progress of the Oxford Heresy.--st. Lawrence's Church

The Examiner · Saturday 11 October 1845 · page 75

WE have received several communications in reference to a seemingly angry discourse delivered on Sunday last by the Rev. W. H. Walsh, on the subject alluded to in our last Saturday's Examiner, in a letter…

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Prospects of the Church in France

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 18 October 1845 · page 4

It must be a cunning gipsey that can tell the fortunes of the Church of Christ. It is the "glory of God to conceal the word," according to the saying of Solomon. And of a truth it is…

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Van Diemen's Land, Liabilities of St. Joseph's Church

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 25 October 1845 · page 4

THE REV. J. J. THERRY.—From letters and papers received per Waterlily from Hobart Town, we perceive that a public meeting of those friendly to the liquidation of the debt incurred by the Rev…

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Church of England Lay Association

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 November 1845 · page 2

YESTERDAY, being the first Monday in November, the members of the Church of England Lay Association for New South Wales held their first anniversary meeting…

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South Australian Extracts. the Roman Catholic Faith. (From the South Australian, October 14.) " Vindication of the Doctrines of the Catholic Church."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 November 1845 · page 2

IT appears that, at the opening of the Roman Catholic School on Sunday week, a very remarkable document, bearing the above title, and signed "Francis, Bishop of Adelaide." was…

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Catholic Emancipation in Norway

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 8 November 1845 · page 3

Norway, the black north of the whole European world, only so short a distance behind Great Britain in toleration ! And toleration was wrung out of Britain by O'Connell without thanks. We confess…

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"A Vindication of the Doctrines of the Catholic Church

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 8 November 1845 · page 4

"In order to manifest in the strongest terms the abhorrence in which the Catholic Church has always held, and still continues to hold the following religious tenets, which excusable ignorance, or almost…

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Opening of the Catholic Schoolroom, West-terrace

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 8 November 1845 · page 4

On Sunday last, that indefatigable body of Christians the Catholics opened their new School-room, West-terrace, as a temporary place of worship, it being the Bishop's intention shortly to erect a cathedral…

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Sir Robert Peel and the Catholic Prelates

Morning Chronicle · Wednesday 12 November 1845 · page 3

When an unlucky nobleman, in felling timber, cut off his toe, with an axe and died of lock-jaw, Cobbett called him an ignorant man. The deceased, he said, was one of the class who are in the habit of…

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