Sympathy with Hungary Across British Cities in 1849
News notes multiple public meetings in Edinburgh Manchester Exeter and Birmingham expressing solidarity with Hungarians seeking constitutional freedoms. Attendees condemn Russian intervention and urge government action while pledging funds for Hungarian refugees and hussars. The US government replies offering potential recognition and ties.
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Eprnsurch
Russia
Austria
Hungary
Cowan
R. Alexander
Alexander Dunlop
Hetherington
Moncreiff
Hussars
Edinburgh News
Edinburgh
Marylebone
Glover
France
Manchester
Friends of Civil and Religious Liberty
Vaughan
Beard
Bazley
A. Watkin
Kershaw
M.P
Henry
Rome
Dr.aughan
Lord Palmerston
Kossuth
Arpad
God of the Nations
Heaven
Earth
Exeter
Reform Institution
Charles Titherley
BraMinauan
Birmingham
Samuel Thornton
London University notes at adjournment of council
University College council adjourned for vacation. Highlights include Duke of Cambridge donating £20 to the hospital and accepting vice-patron role, a £100 anonymous charity gift, thanks to Sir Matthew White Ridley for Lacoon group copy, and several appointments and prize awards in Medicine and related faculties. Examinations list honours in Mathematics Chemistry Botany Zoology and more with multiple prize recipients across colleges and schools.
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University CoLtitece
London
Council of
University College
Duke of Cambridge
Duke of Sussex
Matthew White Ridley
Bart
Wm. Jenner
Wm. B. Carpenter
John Deakin Heaton
Leeds
Walter Bagshot
Henry Mathews
Hereford
Robert Bell
Chelsea
Walshe
Williams
Thomas George Fitzgerald
Henry G. Wright
Parkes
Thomson
Henry Lawrence
Bath
John T. Beasley
Bourne
Lincolnshire
Notices for winding up defunct railways filed two days before
Masters in Chancery require that notices for appointing official managers to wind up defunct railway companies be filed in Chancery two clear days before application. About twenty schemes are in progress. Somnamoluism: Joseph Boukett, a German immigrant in Ship Alley, died after a nocturnal fall while somnambulant, seemingly unconscious at the time.
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Winpinagar
Railways
Joseph Boukett
Ship Alley
Parliamentary Returns on Half Pay and Expenditures
A parliamentary return shows total half pay pensions and superannuations from 1828 to 1848 for army navy ordnance civil service with 1848 totals and compares to expenditures on effective establishments and overall national outlays. The report also covers petitions supporting universal suffrage clergy relief bills marriages bills and other measures. The Criminal Law Commission outlines revisions to indictments warrants juries coroners and hue and cry. 1848 glass imports and exports detailed by type and value.
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Hume
Granance
Navy
Civil Service
Army
Ordnance
Civil Services
Committee On Petitions
Ireland
Republic of Hungary
Criminal Law Commission
Her Majesty
Extraordinary storm sinks herring boat off Kincardineshire
A herring boat returning to Aberdeen from Stonehaven was struck by a sudden whirlwind and capsized near the coast. The crew were rescued after dramatic efforts, but seaman Alexander Mavers was found dead, killed by a lightning flash that struck as the accident happened. His widow and family face destitution.
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Kincardineshire
Aberdeen
Stonehaven
Thom
Muchals
Coast-Guard
Alexander Mavers
Aberdeen Herald
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George Dawson
Raphall
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Jos. Sturge
Alderman Palmer
Councillor Barnett
Councillor Baldwin
Alderman Martineau
Alderman Weston
New York
United States
Republic
L. R. Breisack
New York Hungarian Association
Department of State
Washington
Congress
Joan M. Clayton
L. R. Breisach
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London University
Wesleyan Col
Taunton
Gibsone
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King’s College
Gurney
Brighton College
Powell
Milhill Grammar School
Ambroge
W. H. Edmund's College
Ware
Dendy
W.S. Equal
Amersham Grammar School
Murgatroyd
Bleby
Wesleyan College
Sheffield
Langford
Parfitt
Jimine
Econse Wesleyan College
Olive
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Thomas’s Hospital
Wilkingon
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Bristol Medical School
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Almersham Grammar School
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