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The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser provides further commentary on its on-going argument with the Australasian Chronicle. The sectarian debate eruprted over a lecture delivered in late September 1841 by Roman Catholic Bishop John Bede Polding. The Chronicle, a Catholic newspaper, supported Dr Polding's views on the colony; the Monitor, whose sympathies lay with the Church of England, opposed them.