Consolidation of Tariff Talk and Early California News
A memorial to the Home Ministry urges reciprocal U S Canada tariffs. Reports from New Orleans describe the steamship Louisiana disaster with widespread loss and investigations. The Tuscarora rescue and California convention discuss constitution and anti slavery measures, with a Fremont gold claim and a geologist silver find noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Home Ministry
United States
Canada
New Orleans
Louisiana
St. Louis
Tuscarora
Towley
Liverpool
Philadelphia
Indian River
California
Monterey
Congress
Washington
Fremont
Mariposas
Cape of Good Hope tension over Eurydice visit
Advices from the Cape to October 12 describe an excited colony where shops closed as Eurydice sailed from Cape Town. Convicts remained on Seringapatam and Neptune while scarce fresh provisions forced government seizures of bullocks. Governor and council faced threats as colonists withheld supplies for the naval service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eurydice
Portsmouth
Cape
Harry Smith
Cape Town
Neptune
Commissariat
Seringapatam
Association
Naval Service
Winter Fears Rise From North France Snow and Signs
The Times notes reports from the North of France of heavy snow and other signals pointing to a very severe winter, with broader confirmation in English provincial papers. Telegraphs may open to public use by year end, while Austrian French Belgian and English talks aim to improve German postal service. A Roman discovery describes a semi colossal wrestler statue in Trastevere with near perfect preservation and slight nose restoration by M. Terenani, likened to Apollo Belvidere in height and proportion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Times
Postace
Frankfort
Austria
Belgium
England
Germany
Rome
Trastevere
M. Terenani
Apollo Belvidere
Apollo
Orange intrigues with arms in Dublin crisis
The Dublin Warder summarizes the Grand Orange Lodge report. In March last year amid European upheaval the Orangemen offered loyalty but pressed for five hundred arms as a condition of cooperation. Captain Kennedy planned a private subscription for arms, sending 600 to Mr David Stuart and directing delivery to the Grand Secretary of Dublin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Orange Lodge
Dublin Warder
Times
Europe
Ireland
Orangemen
Dublin Castle
Orange Body
Dublin
Salvation of
Udéimatum
J. P. Kennedy
Orange
David Stuart
Land sales and governance notes from Irish estates and towns
A large portion of the Blessington estates in Ireland sold at auction in Dublin with prices from twenty to twenty two years pur chase and no lots withdrawn. The Castlebar Board of Guardians seek sanction to acquire more land for workhouse inmates to farm with Irish Poor law Commissioners ready to cooperate. Ballycastle coal field opened, cargo arrives in Belfast, reviving long discussed harbour project. Thurles quarter sessions report around 270 ejectment cases, reflecting a surge in ejectments across Dublin superior Courts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blessington Estates
Ireland
Dublin
Castlebar
Newry Telegraph
Ballycastle
Belfast
Thurles
Tipperary
Primogeniture Abolished Elsewhere But England Still Rules
Sid ney Smith argues in The Mother Country that the legal principle of primogeniture has been abolished in most nations, leaving England Spain and Portugal as notable holdouts. The remark places England among a small group still tied to older inheritance rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney Smith
England
Spain
Portugal
Court Officials And Personal News From The Times
News notes include Alfred and Albert at Osborne House with no new additions to their family circle. The Weekly Chronicle denies Sir Charles Rowan will quit as commissioner of police and reports his health is restored as Cabinet discussions continue at the Foreign Office.
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Albert
Osborne House
Weekly Chronicle
Charles Rowan
Police
Foreign Office
George Petre
Royal Irish Academy
Central
Araica
Richardson
Sahara
Soudan
Borneo
Lake Tihad
Interior
Africa
Drs. Barth
Overweg
John Franklin
William E. Parry
John Back
F. W. Beechey
Admiralty Hydrogopher
Francis Beaufort
Morning Herald
Becroft
Benin
Biafra
Friends of Missions
England
United Presbyterian Church
Waddell
Calabar
United Kingdom
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