French Leaders Debate War Policy Amid Turmoil and News
The French Chamber hears Thiers advocate armed negotiation while Rouher cautions. a weekly Napoleon appears and Buonaparte is named Marshal of France. Reports from Naples describe a church reform push, censorship steps, and clerical tension with state power. Correspondence from Brussels notes Belgian progress and royal countermoves in Austria and Prussia.
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M. Thiers
America
Europe
M. Rouher
Chamber
The
Napoleon
Republic
Paris
Moniteur
Jerome Buonaparte
Marshal
France
Economist
M. Emile de Girardin
M. de Girardin
la Presse
Naples
Italy
English Bible Society
England
Portici
Caserta
Christ
Daily News
British moves to curb trade and govern in India 1861 notes
Anticipatory reports from the overland mail describe new curbs on European trade for Indian fellows and government-set prices for produce. Governors reshuffled to align with the viceroy’s economy policy as frontier discontent and tax-collector oppression spark disturbances. Colonel Lawrence to advance with force. Moultan sick. Nizam’s power tenuous amid British pressure. Bombay prepares to fund Prince Albert's 1861 Industrial Exhibition.
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India
Overland Mail
Bombay
Calcutta
Peshawar
Lawrence
Punjaab
Moultan
Corlandt
Ismael Khan
Nizam
Prince Albert
Atrocities in Cephalonia Reported by Greek Papers
Greek newspapers report that under Sir H Ward forces flogged Cephalonians with a leather cat o nine tails, inflicting wounds on at least three hundred individuals and causing many deaths from resulting injuries.
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Cephalonians
Hoigh Force
H. Ward
Aion and
Patris
Colonial News Notes From New Zealand and Europe
Reports from New Zealand through August describe ongoing Legislative Council sittings, Auckland vessel departures for California, land claim debates, and a Hutt Valley flood. Wellington trade winds up Nelson exports, with grain flourishing. Paris awaits Lamartine’s return as health improves. Constantinople reports Isfahan unrest and Changarnier’s sword. Bolivia discovers a gold region near La Paz. Literary output in 1849 rises and Kossuth's children to be educated at the Theresianum. Ottoman land grant to Lamartine near Smyrna confirmed by Grand Vizier and Rolland.
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New Zealand
Legislative Council
Auckland
California
Wellington
the Hutt
Nelson
de Lamartine
Paris
Legislative Assembly
Journal de Constantinople
Ispahan
Changarnier
Bolivia
la Paz
Wanderer
Kossuth
Theresianum
M.csernecky
Appeal Court of Exchange
M. de Lamartine
M.de Lamartine
Smyrna
M. Rolland
Constituent Assembly
Kossuta
Russia
Daily News
Europe
Settlement of the Herrucee Question Draws Allied Scrutiny
The Times reports a Turkish Ottoman–Allied settlement on Hungarian and Polish refugees. Czar agrees to Porte terms, Poles expelled, and Hungarian refugees confined to a fortified interior town under Turkish surveillance. France and Britain approve with limits, while Poles fear expulsion and relations with the Porte sour. British fleet sails to Masconissi. French fleet return to Toulon is countermanded.
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Times
Constantinople
Ottoman Empire
Nicholas
Kossuth
France
England
Asia
Baron of Titoff
Count de Sturmer
Porte
Turkey
Sir William Parker
Basika Bay
Masconissi Islands
Gulf of Adrymitte
Mytilene
Danubian Principalities Turmoil and Belgrade Hostilities
Dispatches report Servians in Belgrade refuse tribute to the Sultan and summon the Pasha to evacuate the fortress, granting three days for decision. In the attempted storm, a brisk cannonade sets part of the city ablaze while Abbas Pasha travels to the Upper Country to oversee canal irrigation projects.
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Alexandria
Abbas Pasha
Egypt
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Erfurt
Saxony
Berlin
Messrs. Radowitz
Botticher
Messrs. Kubeck
Schénhals
Prussia
Belgium
Enerann
Brussels
Chamber of Representatives
Austria
Vienna
Ionian Isles
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