Juries Bill Sparks Debate In Lords And Commons
Lords and Commons engage over the Juries Bill amid talk of mixed juries and fewer jurors. Sir J T Coleridge supports a majority verdict and seven jurors but stops short of full change. The measure, described as complex, faces extended scrutiny likely after Easter. In the Commons, Vernon Harcourt attacks current expenditure as excessive and calls for cuts.
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Lords
Commons
J. T. Coleridge
Vernon Harcourt
Debates on Civil Service Reform and European Affairs
Parliament considers restoring 1868 spending levels to cut two million. Gladstone agrees to a select committee on Civil Service costs. Galway election trials yield mixed results with priests not convicted but proceeding with public indictments. Wales strikes near settlement. coal prices stay high affecting industry. French news reports remaining billions to Germany and French evacuation after July. Thiers may secure Chamber majority while Royalists seek control. Exciting Assembly debates expected as Right wavers grow.
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Gladstone
Harcourt
Galway
Court of Queen’s Bench
Duggan
Messrs. Brogden
South Wales
Dowlais
Paris
Berlin
Germany
France
National Assembly
Committee of Thirty
M. Thiers
Spain Proclaims Republic After Amadeus Abdication
The Cortes proclaims a Spanish Republic with Senor ligueras as head and Castelar and Pi y Margall in key posts. An amnesty is declared and no immediate bloodshed marks the transition, while military and royalist opposition looms amid questions of federal or unitary structure and colonial ties.
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Madrid
Cortes
Spain
France
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Deputies
Senor
Ligueras
Castelar
Pi Y Margall
Interior
Ichogaray
Coun
the Times
Senor Castelar
Duc de Montpensier
Isabella
Marshal Serrano
Serrano
Senor Olozaga
Porto Rico
Cuba
Senor Figueras
Republic
New World
Republic of Spain
Church of
Rome
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Fleet-street
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Sharp and Co
Poultry
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Lothbury
Arthur Miatu
Fleetstreet
Simcockes
Liverpool
T. P. Wills
Esday
Spanish Republic
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