Hunger and Famine Across the World and Local Suffering
The piece reflects on hunger as a universal, recurring tragedy in humanity. It contrasts abundant harvests with widespread deprivation, cites India and the American Cotton States, and laments inability to deliver relief while noting charitable responses. It criticizes economic distress and policy failures driving persistent poverty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enoven
Spain
Hourizh
Africa
Asia
Mbora
Denbigh
India
America
London
Haugland
Distress and public justice in English society
The editorial argues frost and unemployment press the poor hardest, urging humane relief without private charity replacing public justice. It criticizes Mr Paynter and supports magistrates Arrowe and Serre for directing cases to religious and medical figures, not the police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Paymer
Westminster Police Court
Inspector Humphreys
Pavyrer
Humpurrys
Paynter
Arrowo
Serre
Royal procession boards St George near Osborne
The Queen and Prince Consort with the Prince of Wales Princesses and royal attendants went this morning on board the St George 90 gun ship at Osborne Moored off Osborne the royal party includes Prince Alfred Prince Arthur Princess Alice and Princess Helena with the Ladies and Gentlemen in waiting for a voyage aboard the vessel commanded by Captain the Hon F Egerton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Osborne
Queen
Prince Consort
Prince of Wales
Prince Alfred
Prince Arthur
Princess Alice
Princess Helena
Walting
St. George
Trincomalee Frigate and Linnet Trials Reported
Naval updates from Chatham note the training frigate Trincomalee commissioned for novices at this port and to be stationed at Sunderland under Commander T Hearn. The Linnet screw gun-vessel completes trials under Captain Scomberg at the Nore. The Aid arrives from Deptford with stores. Sapper Spanton faces 168 days hard labour for disobedience after multiple court-martials. Royal Engineers suspend outdoor work amid frost. Lord Chancellor returns from Torquay. India Council appoints Major-General Sir Bert Napier to the Governor-General’s Council, replacing Sir James Outram. A Garibaldian commission sails to Milan to oversee a Masala expedition gesture, and Eugene de Mirecourt dies in poverty in St Petersburg after London ventures.
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Chatham
Trincomalee
Sunderland
T. Hearn
Linnet
Nore
Scomberg
Deptford
John Spanton
Royal Engineers
Torquay
Tue Inpta
Secretary of State For India
Bert Napier
K.C.B
Bengal Engineers
Governor-General of India
James Outram
Bart
G C.B
Gariwatpi
Bath
Franca Lorrenareve
the Figaro
M. Eugene de Mirecourt
St. Petersburg
London
M. de Mirecourt
Emperor
Victor Hugo
Emile Girardin
Jules Tania
Gaeta siege reports and Sardinian armistice talks
Telegrams from Mr Renter's office report French shelling near Gaeta and shifting hospital moves. Sardinian negotiations aim for surrender by Jan 19 with armistice terms. Italian fleet to back Cialdini if bloodshed resumes. Venice guarded by Sardinia as Great Powers act. Rome urged to await Sardinian aid amid ministerial changes.
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Torin
Gavxetta di Torino
Napoleon
Gaeta
Cialdini
Berse
Sardinia
Venice
Garibaldi
Paris
Morxiye
Constitu Honnel
Adriatic
Romer
Man
Walla
Mgr. Balla
Mer. Merode
Toro Appio
Imperial amnesty decree for Hungary Transylvania Croatia Sclavonia
The Wiener Zeitung publishes an autograph letter of the Emperor dated 7th instant announcing a broad amnesty for Hungary Transylvania Croatia and Sclavonia. It covers acts aimed at altering the pre 20 October 1860 government or connected to such aims and orders ministers to implement the ordinance immediately.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiener Zeitung
Hungary
Transylvania
Croatia
Sclavonia
Dismissal of Safetti Pacha Reversed Amid Balkan Moves
ConsTay TiIno Pie reports the rescission of Safetti Pacha’s dismissal as Hungarian and Polish Garibaldian volunteers reach Pera en route to the Danubian Principalities. Generals Mieroslawaki and Turr are expected, while Servis notes rising unrest. Loan prospects remain doubtful and exchange rates have climbed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jas
Safetti Pacha
Pera
Danubian
Mieroslawaki
Turr
Servis
Paris Bourse Turmoil Tied to Politics and Banking Shock
From Paris a correspondent reports agitation at the Bourse as stocks fall after Berlin’s first message and a sudden Murat visit. The panic centers on a major banking house’s anticipated liquidation and the Bank of England discount rise, unsettling railway shares and Credit Mobilier amid Europe’s political uncertainty. Archduke Maximilian returns to Vienna to brief on Adriatic defense, while a new floating battery, the Pride of Pola, is built with 32 guns and 500 troops. A decree exempts raw material duties, advancing the new treaty of commerce from the 10th of the month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Tourspay
Berlin
Tuilleries
Prince Joachim Murat
Spanish Stock Exchange
Bank of England
Credit Mobilier
Europe
Archduke Maximilian
Vienna
Adriatic
Venetian
Ledo
Malimocco
Pola
Opening of a new era of universal commerce decree
The decree shortens delay to two months provoking concerns among manufacturers who fear selling stock. It boosts distant trade through raw hides furs shells and more while extending commercial privileges beyond England and France to all nations. Duc de Malakoff arrives in Algiers in good health. colonial greetings are cut short by hunger prompting delivery to Paris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conseil d’Etat
Prand
England
France
Belgium
Austria
Zollverein, &c
Duc de Malakoff
Algiers
Paris
Arrival of the Shannon from Lisbon to Plymouth
The Royal Mail steamer Shannon and her captain Abbott arrived in Plymouth from Lisbon with invalids from St Jean d'Acre. After parting from the Trent on the 20th, Shannon faced very heavy weather. She reached Scilly light on the 4th, endured a gale, and suffered hail snow and thick weather near Falmouth. she will wait for tow to Southampton. Nearby a barque was seen steering southward.
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Plymouh
HMLS
Centurion
Lisbon
St. Jean D’acre
Royal Weat India
Shannon
Abbott
Ulr
Trent
Scilly
Falmouth
Southampton
Specie and War News From Europe and Britain
Reports from Liverpool and Berlin cover currency movements and specie exports, Archduke Maximilian’s Berlin funeral escort, Bavarian substitute prices amid fears of war, Paris expropriation costs, and French naval plans. A peasant’s wife rescues her child after a fall in Dragwignan, a dangerous railway collision near Mirfield injures several passengers, with care given to the wounded.
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United States
Reiter
Liverpool
New York
Philadelphia
City of Washington
Ost
Deutsche Post of
Vienna
Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian
Berlin
Hussars
Munich
Bavaria
Paris
Fresco
Toulon
Savoie
France
Moniteur
Dragwignan
London and North Western
Wakefield
London and North-Western
Mirfield
Ancnette
Baythe
Nalaly
Renan Ares
Extraordinary Frost Fair on Hyde Park Serpentine Draws 200000
Hyde Park last night hosted an immense frost fair scene on the Serpentine with an estimated 200000 people. Police and A division helped manage crowds while ice, tents, and vendors formed a vast illuminated spectacle. two ice rescues occurred, one skater injured, and firework displays lit the park into late hours as ice thickness reached 74 inches.
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Serpentine
Hyde Park
Serpentina
Grant
Park
Thomas Kelly
Crescent-place
Brompton
Esther Theeday
Superintendent Williams
Her Majesty's Wells
Young
Williams
Apsley House Gate
Piccadilly
Knight
London
St. Petersburg
Gall
Sparzheim
Humane Society
Empress and Emperor Stroll Paris Boulevards Incognito
An imperial couple walked incognito on a wet New Year with a large umbrella, visiting stalls from Rue de la Paix to Rue Montmartre and back toward Bas Neuve des Capucines. They bought toys and trinkets, paid for larger items, and told dealers to hold purchases. The Empress enjoyed the outing and distributed presents at the Palace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Rue de la Paix
Eilea
Thern Reaeue
All Souls Fellowships at Oxford In Legal Dispute
The inquiry at Lambeth Palace resumed over the All Souls College fellowships. Advocates argued the college must follow the commissioners ordinances while balancing merit with religious and moral principles, amid disputes on examination scope and order of merit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lambeth Palace
Cant
Travers Twiss
Province of Canterbury
Wensleydals
Coleridge
Bovill
H. Cairns
Kenyon
Granville Somexect
All Souls College
Collinge
Commissionera
University of Oxford
The Public Health in London in Deep Winter Conditions
Registrar General report details a sharp rise in London deaths during a cold spell. In the last two weeks of 1860 deaths were 1,269 and 1,407, rising to 2,707 in early January. Measles, scarlet fever, and whooping cough increase, with multiple sub-districts noting fatalities, while pulmonary diseases show excess deaths. Births and barometric, temperature, and humidity readings at Greenwich are recorded alongside local accidents and odd deaths.
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Lon
Kensington Town
Scarlatina
Belgrave
Plumstead
Clapton
Ipally
Terrace-place
Stopne
Green
Marylebone
London
Royal Observatory
Greenwich
the Thames
Tur Exposition at Halifax Death in boiler accident inquest verdict
The foreman of the Albert Street Mill died from the boiler explosion injuries. An inquest returned accidental death and blamed unequal expansion of a butter. Also included are monthly wreck summaries and a distressing distress message from the ship Horatia detailing a voyage from Archangel to the North Sea with four crew lost and the rest exhausted, near wreck in 60 North latitude.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tur
Halifax
Albert Street
Acetic
Messacr
Sza
South Shields
North Sea
Horatia
Jackson
Norwich
Archangel
Dsy
North
London
John Larne
John John Thompson
James Les
Joss Big
Joss Big, Took the Beat On the 21St of January.— Willian ‘Hat
Peter Young
Sam Jones
Jamen Bruce
William Ham
Thomas “Wilson
John Laing
Frederic Maff
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Markstatreet
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Selisbarr Square
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Anthony
Cleopatrs
Cymbeline
Ireland
Balisbury-square
Alderagatestreet
Manila
Rudkivs
Newgate-stresh
Burdake
Twa
Hive
Illiam
Burton
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Sar and
Dial
No. 5
Angel-court
Throgmorton-strest
E.C
Salisbury-square
Strand
Danie. Hoye
the Court
Waval and Military Intelligence
Renter
Garta
Marseilles
Hopital
Terracina
Rome
Everlyn
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Turkey
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