The Liberals seem determined to remove one great spot upon their escutcheon. Men of all Protestant sects, Jews, and Freethinkers, have been of late freely admitted to Parliament, bnt an invincible prejudice has hitherto in England excluded all Roman Catholics. They are believed to number nearly 800,000, yet in the last Parliament they seated only one representative, and he was returned for the nominee borough of which Ms nephew is lord. This year, however, Bridgenorth has sent up Sir John Acton, a man who of all others most distinctively represents the English Catholics, and the Isle of Wight has returned the popular favourite, Sir John Simeon.
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Evening Post, Issue 210, 10 October 1865, Page 3
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106Untitled Evening Post, Issue 210, 10 October 1865, Page 3
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