Education Bill debate echoes in colonies and UK schools
The Chronicle surveys the education question in South Australia and New Zealand, noting the Bible reading provision and tax-based limits on grammar schools. Lord Aberdare reflects on the 1870 Act, praising compromise, national aims, and the balance between sectarian and nonsectarian teaching in British schools.
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Carmarthen
Wrexham
School Board Chronicle
South Australia
New Zealand
Lord Aberdare
Cardiff
Manchester
British Social Science Association
Forster
John Watts
Watts
Her
Oreign School
Stroud Poll Result and Cambridgeshire Election News
Stroud election shows Mr. Dorington 2817 votes and Sir Henry Havelock 2426, with a 391 majority for Dorington. In Cambridgeshire the Hon. Eliot Yorke is returned unopposed. Exeter Liberals plan a petition against Mr Mills on bribery grounds.
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Dorington
Cambridgeshire
Eliot Constantine Yorke
Earl of Hardwicke
Exeter
A. Mills
Leicester Conservatives Nominate Warner for Next Election
In Leicester the Conservative party named J. H. B. Warner of Quorn Hall Loughborough as their candidate for the upcoming election. He will speak at a working men’s Conservative demonstration in Leicester in the coming weeks as the campaign begins.
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Edward Atkin
Leicester
J. H. B. Warner
Quorn Hall
Loughborough
West Somerset
Vaughan Lee
Taunton
Armerick
Limerick
O’sullivan
Kilmallock
Farmers’ Club
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
Cowen
Nelson-street
Eustace Smith
M.P
Hamond
House of Commons
Mr. Gladstone
Bright
Garnet Wolseley
David Livingstone
Henry Richard
Morpeth
Butt
Conservative
Coup Detat in Spain Shapes War Policy at Cortes
In the Cortes Castelar warned order has been kept except in war zones. He linked Cartagena insurrection to growing Carlist bands and urged immediate fresh reserves. The speaker pressed for state funded public instruction and abolition of slavery as urgent reforms amid a divided modern society.
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Senor Castelar
Cartagena
Fall of Cortes Sparks Madrid Crisis and New Government
A speech extols universal suffrage and law obedience as Castelar’s government is defeated 120 to 100. General Pavia and troops dissolve the Cortes. Serano becomes president with a new cabinet while Castelar denounces violence. Armed clashes occur in Saragossa and Valladolid. Cartagena siege continues and Moriones faces obstacles in Bilbao area.
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Europe
Senor Castelar
Pavia
Madrid
Cortes
Marshal Serrano
Moriones
Senores Sagasta
Topete
Zabala
Balaguer
Garcia Ruiz
Interior
Saragossa
Volunteers of Liberty
Ayuntamiento
Valladolid
Cartagena
Onount Calvary
Santana
Bilbao
Handel’s Messiah Debuts in Paris With Great Acclaim
Foreign notes report Handel’s Messiah performed in Paris to strong approval. The Ameer of Afghanistan declares Abdoola Jan as heir. Twelve Virginias sailors rescued and sent home by the British consul in New York. Mount Vesuvius eruption predicted by Naples Observatory director.
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Handel
Paris
Ameer
Afghanistan
Abdoola Jan
New York
Professor Palmieri
Naples
Mount Vesuvius
Commodore Commerell
Capetown
Germany
Berlin
Galignani
John Anthony Galignani
Hong Kong
Natal
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