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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 13, 1850
Page
17
The scene closes with a royal oath and banquet after officials signed the protocol. Polish deputies refuse the oath, ten resign from the senate rather than attend, and a tax refusal trial begins for 42 National Assembly members with 36 present.
Reports from Denmark, Switzerland and Greece describe wartime costs, refugee movements, and shifting mediation. Prussia Austria pressure, Italian refugees moving via France, and Greece facing British naval pressures and arbitration options as tensions persist in the region.
Letters from Nimrod note Layard’s excavations at Nineveh and Khorsabad with walls of limestone blocks and winged figures. destruction and plans spark interest. Gorgon sails for Tigre Island. later orders to surrender in Chile. Inundation devastates Rhine, Belgium, Holland. Liege churches flooded, Emmerich bridge lost. Liberia treaty grants perpetual peace, free commerce with restricted duties, abolition of slavery to be legally enforced. Geneva reports Visetti arrested for plotting Maszini’s assassination.
In Athens and Patras unrest grows as Greeks express anti British sentiment. Constantinople reports 35 000 to 36 000 Russian troops in Wallachia and Moldavia and Turkish unease at Nicholas I extending influence over the Danubian Principalities. The Russian Embassy gates opened on New Year’s Day drawing Greek devotion to the czar. The Greek population dominates Constantinople and crowds fill Stamoul and Pera streets.
The Liverpool Mercury cites New York letters asserting no tariff rise by Congress and a state of cordial ties between governments. It claims a rail and ship corridor across Panaitia will be open to all, with implied future political shifts. The piece also notes a rumored Brazil kingdom with Prince de Joinville, and reports 16 000 political prisoners in Austria in December.
London and provincial press representatives met the Chancellor of the Exchequer to press repeal of the advertisement duty. A deputy noted possible use of duty repeal to ease agricultural distress by allowing cheap stock advertising, while another group pressed for more general land tax equalization, though the minister warned the topic was too large to decide now.
Henry Vinegar at Peterporovert reports a series of lectures on liberal reform drawing large crowds. The city’s clerical and political figures united in applause as two extra meetings were added and a Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association planned. An accompanying note recounts MP Nannon Escarzoy Maz G Tuonmeson narrowly escaping a Coventry fire after a candle left burning.
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