Russia tightens grip as empire teeters on edge of upheaval
Reports describe Russia moving troops homeward with Eastern Roumeli to evacuate in three months under an International Commission. Provisional government, curfews, and stringent police controls create a city of tombs in St Petersburg as assassinations persist and 12,000 people are sent to Siberia.
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Russia
Roumeli
International Commission
Aleko Pasha
Prince Dondoukoff
Czar
Livadia
St. Petersburg
Times
Norman
Europe
Revolutionary Party
Siberia
Russian Nihilists Adopt Positive Reform Program
The piece notes a shift in the Russian Revolutionists from destruction to a set of political aims. They demand inviolability of person and home, press and education liberty, religious freedom, local autonomy, elected provincial councils, inquiry into social conditions, and amnesty for political offenders. The movement may enter a hopeful phase by channeling neutral classes’ frustrations.
Debate on Budget and Gladstone’s Speech Dominates Commons
The Tuesday through Friday sessions reflect a shift in Parliament as Mr. Gladstone delivers a forceful critique of ministers while Mr. Rylands struggles to lead the Liberal side. The tone and engagement rise with Mr. Goschen and Mr. Cileahan, and the Clare election petition debate lasts six hours before a near unanimous division.
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House of Commons
Liberal Party
Rylanda
J King
Mr. Rylands
Mr. Gladstone
Mr. Baxter
W. H. Smith
Treasury Bench
Gladstone
Ritchie
Richard
Rylands
Home Secretary
County Clare
Colman O’lioghlen
Goschen
Cileahan
H. Selwin-Ibbetson
France
Fiji
Her Majesty
Bart
Delahunty
Comet Sighting Seen From Salzburg Arcetii Observatory
A comet signalled from Arcetii Observatory in Salzburg is described as a star of the eighth size and is expected to be visible to the naked eye by the end of May after astronomers’ calculations. Beethoven Pastoral Symphony autograph score sold at auction by Puttick and Simpson for 552 pounds, two pages short of complete. Glasgow University Senate awards LL.D. to Lord Napier Earl of Stair Principal Tulloch W Siemens Lord Advocate and H Japp of London. H A Page praised for De Quincey and Thoreau biographies.
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Arcetii
Salzburg
Puttick and Simpson
Glasgow University
Lord Napier
Earl of Stair
Tulloch
W. Siemens
A. H. Japp
E Q
London
Glasgow
H. A. Page
de Quincey
H. D. Thoreau
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