Ireland Harvest Hope Amid Blight and Tenant League Rise
Latest reports from Cork Galway Sligo and North Tipperary show potato blight fears receding as wet weather aids crop recovery. The Tenant League expands with committees and provincial meetings moving away from Dublin to Belfast and local associations forming nationwide. Emigration from Cork and other ports continues as estates auction plans grow under the Encumbered Estates Act with vast incumbrances and property transfers. English tourists flock to Killarney Glengariffe Wicklow Connemara and Kingstown as Irish tourism booms.
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Cork
Galway
Sligo
North Tipperary
Tenant League
Dublin
Belfast
League
Ireland
Liverpool
Limerick
Waterford
Encumbered Estates Commission
the Advocate
Killarney
Glengariffe
Wicklow
Connemara
Kingstown
Three Candidates Named for City Recordership Vacancy
The City Record is vacant due to the death of Hon. C. E. Law M.P. Three contenders are listed: Mr Serjeant Merewether town clerk, Mr Edward Bullock Common Serjeant, and Mr Russell Gurney the Commissioner.
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City RecordEersair
C. E. Law
M.P
Serjeant Merewether
Edward Bullock
Russell Gurney
Church Establishment (Ireland) Abolition Bill in House
House of Commons debates include the Church Establishment measure for Ireland’s abolition, a Friendly Societies alteration bill, an Inspection of Coal Mines bill in its favor, and a post office move to rescind a late order.
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Church Establishment
Ireland
Friendly Societies
Post-office
Notices of Motion in the House of Commons for next cession
A list of principal motions awaits debate in the next session. Bills cover enfranchisement of copyholds, municipal governance, Catholic relief, tax relief, railway affairs, Irish land valuation, church access, education, franchise expansion, entailed estates, and tax relief for tenant farmers. Other motions request parliamentary control of crown revenues, open churches, and financial mechanisms for stock and taxation.
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House of Commons
Aglionby
Anstey
Bass
Humphrey Brown
Sharman Crawford
Ireland
Viscount Duncan
Colonel Dunne
Great Britain and Ireland
Ewart
Richard Fox
William Johanson Fox
England
Wales
Benjamin Hall
Philip Howard
Burgess Hall
Hume
Sir James Brooke
Borneo
Farquhar
Her ‘Moresty
Honourable East India Company
Dyaks
West India
Locke King
Locke
Colonel Sibthorp
Great Britain
Slaney
Lord Dudley Stuart
Colonel Thompson
America
Royal assent given to numerous bills and post office reforms
The session approved many public and private measures including the Duke of Cambridge Annuity and Stamp Duties. Lords debated the Sunday post office suspension and its effects on communications for judges. Parliament prorogation featured a grand scene with Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and foreign envoys in a ceremonial opening.
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Marlborough House
Ireland
Consolidated Fund
House of Lords
Campnery
Justice Williams
Lord Campbell
Commons
Lanoy- Chere
Treasury
Queen Victoria
Morning Chronicle
Parliament-street
Peeressen
Europe
Asia
Christendom
Duke of Wellington
England
Prince Albert
Spraken
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