West Indies immigration debate and its costly fallout
A speaker denounces mass coolie immigration to British Guiana and other West Indies colonies, arguing it destroys local society and morality. Describes famine, disease, beggary, and social collapse among Georgetown residents, blaming officials, planters, and religious promoters for importing Indian labor.
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Trinidad
Jamaica
British Guiana
West Indies
Africa
Scotland
Madras
Calcutta
Belgravia
East
India
Georgetown
Sahib
Wilson
East India Company
London Concerts and Civic Proposals Highlight Week
Last Wednesday’s London concert received praise as Herr Ernst impressed with violin feats and Herr Formes captivated with a bass voice. Debutant Miss Kell impressed in Le Nozze di Figaro aria Porgi amore and is seen as a rising vocal talent. The Court of Common Council discussed sympathy for the Queen Dowager and debated Holborn hill improvement, baths for the laboring classes, and public health facilities. A lecture advocating abolition of the death penalty drew a large, supportive audience with a follow up on War versus Universal Brotherhood planned for December 12.
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London
Herr Ernst
Herr Formes
Kell
Exeter Hall
le Nozze di Figaro
Porgi
Amore
Miss Kell
Court of Common Council
Batus
Wasu- Houseb
Market Improvement Committee
Holborn-hill
Skinner-street
Alderman Salomons
St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields
Goulston-square
St. Marylebone
St. John
St. James
St. James Piccadilly
Church-street Chapel
Edgware Road
Jabez Burns
Universal Brotherhood
French Assembly debates 1849 military contingent and reforms
The article reports on the 1849 military contingent debate in the French Assembly, rejecting reductions from 80,000 to 40,000 or 60,000. It notes Minister d Hautpoul's stance, plans for future reductions, Algerian needs, and cholera in Gray. It also covers Zaatcha victory in Algeria, penalties on death, health issues of the President, a canceled troop review, and a Spain queen pregnancy.
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M. de Falloux
Nice
Charivari
M. E. de Girardin
le Presse
the Elysée
Republic
Louis Napoleon
M. de Girardin
Economist
M. d’Hautpoul
Europe
Algeria
Gray
Upper
Saone
Alaska
Algiers
Zaatcha
M. Salvatier Laroche
M. Turers
M. Victor Hugo
Tuer Groud
Paris
Moniteur
National Guard
M. Carlier
M. Dupin
National Assembly
Assembly
Spain
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East Indies
Hyderabad
Mongwhyr
Cabool
William M‘naghten
Neville Williams
Foreign and Colonial News
France
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