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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 31, 1850
Page
3
The article notes the drop from 10 500 000 electors in 1848 to 3 250 000 under the new electoral law and questions if universal suffrage remains intact. It mentions houseless beggars and repris de justice as excluded groups and cites conservative press reaction. Spain faces royal orders restricting press freedom and banning publications that threaten social order or privacy.
The Austrian Cabinet calls a general assembly at Frankfort to restore the Bund, while Prussia pushes central ratification through a Central Commission. Cassel delays tariff changes as German states clash over duties and the Zollverein. Austria declines Prussia’s plan for a central power conference. The Cassel congress debates customs and unity among German states as political economy ideas spread.
Despatches from Marseilles report the draft convention closing the dispute between the English and Greek governments was signed in Athens on July 18 with France’s representative present. The Greek government accepted promptly. Also dated: New York advice on July 7 notes President’s death commemorations in Washington with General Scott commanding US troops and Baltimore volunteers. No decisive political news, but expected fate of the slavery compromise and cabinet changes. The New York Courier adds President Fillmore held cabinet talks. a new cabinet may form by Monday, with Ewing possibly retained. Cabinet wishes not to advise on reorganization. President plans to follow Taylor’s New Mexico policy.
Paris sees weekly pleasure trains to Dieppe Havre Rambouillet Calais and more with 2000 travelers last week and a double train planned. Baltic fleet divisions sail with 10000 troops. Arctic expedition updates report health and hope. press law raises French paper prices while names of diplomats circulate. Hungarian exiles settle in Iowa as a colony forms. spiritualist rappings draw crowds in New York and Western cities. Niagara Table Rock collapse described with 150 200 feet long sections. gaslight study confirms carburetted hydrogen. Cholera persists in Malta as the 44th Regiment suffers. Port Arthur prep for exiled O’Baien.
News briefs report a major Philadelphia fire destroying 400 houses and £200000 worth of property with 19 bodies found, hospital deaths, and dozens missing or wounded. Other items note Texas border tensions, cholera sweeping St Louis Cincinnati and Mexico, and political maneuvering around a presidential election with Santa Anna as a candidate.
Early Tuesday morning a gas explosion in the Commonade coal mine near Airdrie killed nineteen of twenty workers who had just entered the galleries. The lone survivor saved himself by clinging to the shaft chain as the basket was destroyed. The victims lacked Davy lamps.
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