Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...inconsistency of urging the Non-Conforming Scotch and English to disestablish the Episcopal Church in Ireland, and at the same time to recognize the Catholic Hierarchy. So Cardinal Cullen, resolved to accept nothing less than the full measure of his demands, orders the Catholic members of Parliament to side with the Tories to defeat the bill of the Ministers. Gladstone falls by the ingratitude of those whose chief benefactor for five years he has been; nor are the students of Dublin sufficiently free from bigotry, or sufficiently under the influence of independent thought, to refrain from insulting the statesman...
...that Sir Edward was the son of General Bulwer, entered Trinity College, Cambridge, at an early age, and was graduated at Trinity Hall; he delivered the Chancellor's prize poem, and began his literary life when quite young. From the same source we learn that he was elected to Parliament as a Liberal, and afterwards as a Reform candidate, - the date of his being raised to the peerage, etc. For this the said journal deserves much thanks. But it is surprising to me that none of our magazines or weekly papers have, as yet, given a more extended account...