France debates 40 000 man levy and neutrality stance
The Assembly weighs an 8.46 million franc credit to raise 40,000 troops for the northeastern frontier while parties clash over neutrality and future European policy. Sardinian Parliament opens amid Rome tensions as Cape Town lays groundwork for a colonial constitution and governance.
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Germany
France
Count Molé
M. Berryer
Europe
Marquis
Dalmatia
Marshal Soult
Prussia
M. Guizot
Alsace
MM. Daru
Arrighi de Padoue
Mathieu de la Rédorte
Austria
Cavaignac
Lamoriciére
M. de Remusat
Settlement of the German Question Near in London Accord
A Palmerston note signals that Britain will not recognise the Diet and urges peace. Manteuffel and Schwarzenburg to meet at Olmütz with terms for evacuation of Hesse Cassel while preserving pre conflict status. Hessian Landtag to reconvene and Hassenpflug to likely be dismissed. Schleswig-Holstein remains open. Funds rise as pacific prospects grow.
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Lord Palmerston
England
Manteuffels
Prince Schwarzenburg
Odenburg
Olmentz
Bundestag
Cape of Good Hope Draft Constitution Strife
The colonial struggle centers on a draft constitution task assigned by Sir Harry Smith to the legislative council. The council includes the governor, five officials, and six non-official members, with nominees and voting majorities shaping the composition during the process.
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Harry Smith
Andries Stockenstrom
Brand
Fairbairn
Reitz
Municipal Board of
Cape Town
Colony
Andres Stockenstrom
Mr. Fairbairn
England
Legislative Council
Disgraceful Boston meeting greets George Thompson
The Boston crowd at Faneuil Hall booed and cheered as George Thompson spoke briefly, with Abigail Folsom and abolitionist leaders present. The event featured whistling, dancing, and interruptions, while supporters and critics argued about free speech and anti slavery agitation. A New York Tribune critique and hostile notices from Boston papers followed, accusing Thompson of English agitation and political manipulation.
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United States
George Thompson
Boston
Faneuil Hall
Massachusetts
Edmund Quincy
James Russell Lowell
Samuel May
Loyd Garrison
Wendell Phillipps
Webster
Michael Fillmore
Mr. Thompson
Winthrop
Thompson
William H. Channing
Jenny Lind
Fen
John Bull
Abigail Folsom
Theodore Parker
Washington
Stancock
Parker
Frederick Douglass
Neto York Tribune
Boston Apers
Balkneos-street
Sribane
Foreign miscellany of the Vienna Radetzky and French cases
Vienna correspondent reports Radetzky opposing war in Austria as Prussia looms Italy and Hungary rise. He refuses chief command, urges peace. France notes Countess du 8 and priest accused of murder attempt. three die planning suicide. later saved. New Orleans notes M Donagh death. Sucre unrest targets Belzu. Buenos Aires Brazil war talk. Voting Macnixe machine for French Assembly votes.
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Italy
Hungary
Prussia
Department of the Charente
St. Germain
Angouléme
Union
Sucre
Bolivia
Belzu
Buens Ayres
Buenos Ayres
Brazil
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Darling
Palmerston
East India Company
Scotland
Birmingham
Leeda
Manchester
West India
George Thoman
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