Disraeli and Bright Urge Treaty Respect and Disarmament
A parliamentary debate condemns treaty breaches and warns against war as a path to political collapse. Jacob Bright urges national disarmament and restraint while Gladstone faces uneasy continental guarantees. Taxpayers fund wars, and republican sentiment grows as Monarchy’s grip weakens. The speaker urges government courage to act.
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Disraeli
Europe
Jacob Bright
Gladstone
Manchester
Bright
The
Times Today
Royal Court Updates From Windsor and Dublin
Her Majesty keeps birth day on May 20. Goschen Stansfeld take oaths as First Lord of the Admiralty and Poor Law Board President. Halifax joins Education Committee. Macleod and Stuart sworn as Privy Councillors. Knighthoods awarded to Boxall Sterndale Bennett Benedict and Elvey. Queen thanks Dublin for marriage address and hosts grand Windsor ball for servants. Royal progress includes Claremont visits and Princess Louise wedding events with crowds cheering. Queen to open Royal Albert Hall. sermon by Rev G H Wilkinson at Windsor private chapel.
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Windsor
Goschen
Stansfeld
The
Admiralty
Poor Law Board
Viscount Halifax
Committee of Council On Education
John Macpherson Macleod
John Stuart
Privy Council
Boxall
Sterndale Bennett
Benedict
Windsor Castle
Louise
Leopold
Beatrice
Claremont
Marquis of
Lorne
Colonel Maude
Wampton Wick
Prince Christian
Duke of
Saxe
Royal Albert Hall
G. H. Wilkinson
St. Peter's
Pimlico
Royal family notes and public affairs from Windsor to Leeds
Royal visitors at the Castle plus doves gift for Princess Louise. Rumors of the Prince and Princess of Wales visiting Ireland in August. Emperor Napoleon visits Windsor. Charities and donations reported. Cabinet, judiciary and political moves, and press reporting on speeches and licenses fill the page.
London correspondent notes speech reports may be curtailed
The Scotsman cites a London lead saying after twelve o'clock reports of speeches will be cut, risking midnight oratory. A recent long debate was not reported and MPs must rewrite for Hansard. It also highlights unusual compression of a Cabinet Minister’s speech. The City Press denies Morley, M.P. baronetcy rumors.
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London
The
Scotsman
House of Commons
Hansard
Morley
M.P
Charity Organisation Society meeting debated charity reform in London
The Earl of Derby presided at the second annual meeting at Willis's Rooms St James's urging directed aid to curb imposture and pauperism. Clergy and MPs backed extending the society's machinery while a Friday conference at the Society of Arts discussed Poor-law reform and house to house visitation.
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Earl of Derby
Friends and Supporters
Charity Organisation Society
Willis
St. James’s
Clapham
Paddington
Marylebone
Andrew Johnston
M.P
Canon Nesbit
Eastwick
Manning
London
Seton Karr
Earl Grey
Earl Cadogan
Lord Eliot
Lord Henry Lennox
Charles Trevelyan
Cecil Raikes
Society of Arts
Michael Hicks Beach
Holland
Organisation of Charity
Stallard
J. G. Talbot
W. H. Smith
G. Hardy
Goschen
Walter Sterling
Westminster
Uncivilised Chinamen Shake Hands During Holiday Debt Paying
A remark notes a supposed similarity in celebrating holidays by settling debts and forgiving foes with a round of handshakes, reflecting biased language about Chinese people and holiday customs.
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Herve
Amy Sedgwick
Lady Churchill
Princess Louise
A. Sedgwick
Prince and Princess of Wales
Ireland
Viscount Powerscourt
Prince of Wales
Chiselhurst
Barmah
Captain Spry
Mundella
Paget
Richard Wallace
Samaritan Free Hospital
Miss Ryland
Queen’s Hospital
Birmingham
Earl de Grey
Army and Navy Gazette
Childers
Hertfordshire
Sir J. Stuart
Greene
Q.C
Bar
John
Menotti Garibaldi
Montmartre
Chambers
Marquis of Normandy
Australia
Queensland
Leeds
Working Men’s Association
England
Daily News
Robert Peel
Sydney
Marshal Canrobert
J. S. Mill
Society of Arta
Bruce
Charles Dilke
Leeds Mercury
Charity Organisation
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