THE ACCESSION OATH.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10517, 27 July 1910, Page 4

THE ACCESSION OATH.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyiught.J (Per Press Association.) Received July 26, at 9.35 p.m. London, July 26. Three hundred Scottish petitions against the Coronation Declaration Bill have reached the House of Commons, also a- petition from 2500 Canadians in favor of the existing declaration. The Bishop of Manchester, presiding at a crowded meeting in support of the maintenance of the Protestant succession, declared that he was aware the terms of the declaration were offensive to a large number of the King's subjects, but there were occasions wlien it was the truest charity to speak plainly. The declaration in its present form was the real bulwark against the horrors of civil and religious war. Dr Clifford, in a letter, remarks that the Bishop of Chichester gets near what is wanted in suggesting that the. declaration shall assert that the Pope has no jurisdiction in England.