Rome and Vienna Move Toward New Constitutional Orders
The Contemporaneo reports Mazzini joins the Roman Constituent Assembly and reforms abolish privileged jurisdictions, suppress ecclesiastical courts, and establish a Rome Court of Appeal and Cassation. Austria publishes a new constitution dissolving Kremsier, granting civil liberties, press freedom, and a two-chamber diet, with broad reforms including serfdom abolition and national rights.
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Rome
M. Mazzini
Constituent Assembly
Court of Appeal
Court of Cassation
Mortmain
M. Sterbini
Austria
Contemporanea
Sardinia
Tuscany
Journal Des Débats
Castel Nuovo di Monte
Duchy of
Modena
Cereto
Chamber of Deputies of
Turin
Buffa
Switzerland
Alessandria
Duke de Dino
Italy
Gaeta
Mola da Gaeta
Naples
Mola
Prussia’s Second Chamber Showcases Right Wing Programme
The Right with 171 signatures proclaims a constitutional monarchy under the Hohenzollern line and pledges to revise the 5 December constitution only via Section 112. Grabow wins the Second Chamber presidency by a small margin, while ministers warn of a state of siege and looming conspiracy against the monarchy.
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Pontits
Vincke
House of Hohenzollern
M. Grabow
M. von Unruh
Left
Democratic Party
Russian Demands Bosphorus Passage After Dardanelles Refusal
Letters from Constantinople and Smyrna report M Titov the Russian minister pressing for passage of a fleet into the Mediterranean. The Divan and great powers advised rejection, Russia vows to force the passage. A Berlin note approves Russian interference in Transylvania. An imperial ukase orders no salary petitions in 1819 to fund army consolidation.
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Constantinople
Smyrna
M. ‘Titov
Sublime Porte
Bosphorus
Dardanelles
Mediterranean
M. Titov
Russia
Kolner Zeitung
Berlin
Transylvania
Berlin factions push schemes as state of siege awaited
Hatched in Berlin the leaders of a conspiracy await the raising of the state of siege to advance their plans. Ministers say they cannot declare the siege until laws for order and personal freedom are passed and hope the chambers approve. Count Arnim named Foreign Minister. Count Bruhl sent on a secret mission to Olmius.
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Berlin
Count Arnim
Ount Bruhl
Olmius
German States Back Directory Plan For Empire Head
Plenipotentiaries from Bavaria Saxony Hanover and Württemberg favor a seven member Directory with Austria and Prussia holding two votes each while Bavaria has one. The National Assembly rejects the Directory and keeps hereditary empire head while authorizing constitutional revisions. Armistice end prompts 20 000 troops moved to the frontier with Prussia supplying 10 000 and others providing the rest.
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Bavaria
Saxony
Hanover
Wurtemberg
Germany
Austria
Prussia
National Assembly
Malmée
Denmark States It Will End Armistice Pact March Twenty-Six
The Danish Government informs the Prussian Government that the Danish Majesty does not feel bound by the armistice convention signed at Malmée on August twenty six, 1848. With seven months duration, the agreement expires on March twenty six.
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Malmée
Foreign Miscellany and Rumors of Empire Reform
A collection of dispatches notes envoy journeys from England via Paris to Marseilles for Egypt passage, Austrian fleet appeal to the Sultan backed by Russia, English and French opposition. Also a Vienna court sketch describes Emperor Franz Joseph at six, studying two hours, smoking after dinner, attending theatre, and his unique habit of smoking.
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Tunoven Bayrr
England
Paris
Marseilles
Egypt
Charles Napier
India
Herrina Tug Porg
Constantinople
Adriatic
Russia
France
Hauits
Emperon
Austria
Oluwiitz
Sophia
Vienna
Italy
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Kremsier
Empire
Aanbieg
Supreme Court of Justice
Turkey
Central Germany
Denmark
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