Relief duty urged as famine devastates Madras districts
Surgeon Major Cornish cautions that half a million people have already died from famine and the worst is yet to come. He describes starving Madras eight million affected across 12 000 square miles, with scarce rice and ruined transport. Government aid is insufficient, calling for large hearted charity and royal example from Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales to win Indian affection.
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Cornish
Russia
Turkey
Balkans
Danube
Madras
India
Prince of Wales
Backward Look at the 1877 Session and Burial Question
Our gallery correspondent notes the 1877 session yielded little political life aside from the burial issue. The Portals Question neared a settlement favorable to Nonconformists, while the Eastern Crisis and Tory obstruction dominated debates. The piece singles out ministers, the seven obstinatives, and figures like Hartington Gladstone and O Donnell as pivotal, concluding the session high and low in equal measure.
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House of Commons
House of Lords
Duke of Richmond
Moat
Marquis of Hartington
Turkey
Russia
Mr. Gladstone
Commons
Gladstone
Mr. Bright
Treasury
Biggar
Parnell
O'Donnell
Death creates vacancy in Westminster London School Board
By the death of Mr H Danby Seymour a vacancy occurs in the Westminster division representation of the London School Board. Under the 1876 Act the board conducts the election to the vacant chair with no ratepayer appeal required.
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H. Danby Seymour
Westminster
London School Board
Two Views on Ismail Khedive and Egyptian Policy
The piece contrasts Mr McCoan’s upbeat view of Ismail Pasha’s reforms and De Leon’s critique. It notes alleged forced labour, high taxes, and a shift from agriculture to large scale building and debt. It cites wages paid in kind, poor conditions for laborers, and profits for the Daira amid European financial scrutiny.
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Mr. McCoan
Egypt
de Leon
Khedive
Ismail Khedive
Pierre
Pasha
Europe
Tougsoun Pasha
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