French Power Struggles Amid Cabinet Changes Reported
In a sequence of exchanges between M Dupin and President Buonaparte aims to preserve harmony, while French ministers face a cabinet crisis. Yon resigns amid battles over policing and war orders, as rumors swirl of changes led by Fould or Faucher, and the death of M Bastiat is announced.
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Buonaparte
M. Dupin
Republic
Assembly
Bureau
France
M. Yon
M. Napoleon Jerome Bonaparte
Changarnier
The
Patrie
Chengarnier
Schramm
Odilon Barret
M. Achilles Fould
Leon Faucher
M. F. Bastiat
Germany's Diet Committees Shape a Fragmented Confederation
Reports describe five committees forming the German Diet project, with Bavarian demands for civil liberty andPrussia-Austria power shares. Plans propose a federal council of Austria and Prussia, plus a Bundestag with both estates and a people’s house, while Schleswig-Holstein intervention looms and Hesse Cassel's ruler arrives amid Austro Bavarian troops.
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Prussia
Wurtemberg
Bavaria
Saxony
Hesse
Hesse Darmstadt
Baden
Germany
Federal Council
Bundestag
Diet
Schleswig-Holstein
Breslau
Cassel
Hassenpflug
Ministry of Home and Foreign Affairs
Chiefs pledge loyalty after Smith interview at King William's Town
Sir Harry Smith met with Cape chiefs including Jan Tzatzoe Pato and Sandilli kin at King William's Town. The chiefs expressed preference for British rule and property protection, while Smith warned war if disobedience continued and pledged to protect them as father. The gathering ended peaceably with handshake as a sign of allegiance to the Queen.
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Harry Smith
King William’s Town
Jan Tzatzoe
Pato
Umbala
Umkie
Sawayna
Toise
Johannes
Nonoebie
Jabblar
Ilo-Klo
Sandilli
Tolo
Dodo
Stock
Santo
Cape Town
Kei
Krili
Umzimvoobo
Foreign items from Paris to Cairo and Calcutta
A Paris statue of Liberty prize work by M. Sartoux was seized for display arrests. Papal orders to cover naked statues and possible curbs on paintings. Neapolitan unrest linked to Maz zini dresses. Austrian Geneva network claims 3,000 cantonal passports. A Holstein family mourns amputations in war. Abbas Pasha of Egypt and Hassan Pasha govern from the desert. Calcutta hosts a first balloon ascent with a second planned. Italian migrants in Cairo seek work as Austria Prussia tensions rise. many await war.
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Paris
M. Sortoux
Rome
Messagere Modenese
Clement
Canova
Mazzini
Frankfort
Becker
Switzerland
Geneva
Freiburg
Neufchatel
Holstein
Abbas Pasha
Egypt
England
Hassan Pasha
India
Calcutta
Cario
Austria
Prussia
Italy
Forefathers Day Dinner Highlighted by Webster and Bulwer
New York reports a Forefathers Day dinner at Astor House honoring the New England Society with Daniel Webster and Sir Henry Bulwer delivering speeches. A New York storm caused damage to wharves and ships while discussions on cheap postage continued in Congress. Jenny Lind's arrival and cholera's prominence also appear.
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New York
Daniel Webster
Sir Henry Bulwer
Astor House
New England Society
Webster
House of Representatives
Tzause
Senate
Austria
Washington
Charleston
Jenny Lind
California
Chagres
Epidemic and Mining News From Sacramento Area
Epidemic raged with severity in Sacramento while overland emigrants spread the disease. A steam line San Francisco to the Sandwich Islands was planned. Winter miners to stay in the hills boosting gold output and quartz mining expands. Legislature to consider extra session amid Indian troubles. A Sacramento fire destroyed property worth about forty thousand dollars, five or six buildings lost.
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Sacramento
San Francisco
Sandwich Islands
Sacramento City
Fugitive Slave Holds Off U S Marshal at New York Wharf
A runaway enslaved man from the South reached the New York dock before his master and U S marshal. The master and marshal confronted him but he struck the officer with a powerful blow and vanished, the crowd cheering the fugitive as he fled nearby.
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Starz Catcume
New York
United States
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