Whit Monday Enjoyed by London as Banks Shut
Bright weather drew crowds from London to suburban attractions along the Thames. Bank holiday joy filled trains and steamboats with record crowds as recreation venues across the metropolis and its outskirts reported heavy patronage.
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Crystal Palaces
The
Thames
London
Holiday calm masks global shifts and political shifts abroad
London faces a light set of charges as government and finance move, while France, Spain, and Germany adjust prefects, finances, and leadership. MacMahon, Bismarck, and the Czar tour capitals as Spain opens its Cortes. pacific policies, church state separation, and slavery abolition promise reforms amid ongoing conflicts with Carlists and Modoc Indians.
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London
Thomas Henry
Bow-street
France
M. Thiers
National Assembly
Marshal MacMahon
Berlin
Prince Bismarck
Versailles
Spain
Senor Figueras
Qcuba
Porto Rico
Cortes
Madrid
Persia
William
Russia
Vienna
Alexander
Pius IX
Patitc
Rome
Modoc
Captain Jack
France under centralised rule and looming political change
The piece warns that France's centralised government under Thiers and successors risks turning into a police state as officials at all levels are coerced to support the executive. It notes the potential for a Left Centre or Bonapartist shift, the weakening of Thiers, and a possible return to free trade and fiscal prudence amid political maneuvering.
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Bouyerie-street
Fleetstreet
H.C
France
Iranco
M. Thiers
Times
England
Duce de Broglie
Marshal MacMahon
Duc d’Aumale
Duc d’Audiffret- Pasquier
M. Magne
Duc de Broglie
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