Parliament adjourning for Whitsuntide holidays for two weeks
Born Houses of Parliament will adjourn on Monday next for Whitsuntide holidays lasting a fortnight. Considerable progress made with despatch of business. The Ballot Bill emerged from committee though third reading postponed after holidays. Government defeated in Commons as two thirds of Scotch MPs backed Ministers. Liquors Bill read a second time in Lords without division. Opposition led by the Duke of Richmond.
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Commons
Gordon
Scotland
England
Lords
Duke of Richmond
Lords and World Affairs Spectre of Arbitration and Reform
The piece discusses amendments to restrict strict measures on police supervision and adulteration amid licensed victuallers, the Alabama arbitration, and Washington Treaty formality. It notes Granville’s stance against indirect claims, US reluctance to accept Geneva adjudication, and ongoing negotiations. It covers French indemnities, Thiers Council of State revival, Audiffret Pasquier on army service, the Carlist defeat in Navarre, Amadeo’s potential accession, Berlin–Vatican tensions, and Livingstone–Stanley safety rumors.
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Ile
House of Lords
Alabama
Washington
Grant
Geneva Tribunal
Lord Granville
Mr. Fish
United States
Geneva Court
Lords
America
General Grant
Arnim
Duc d’Audiffret Pasquier
Imperial War Department
Army
Rance
Spain
Marshal Serrano
Navarre
Don Carlos
San Sebastian
Amadeo
Berlin
Vatican
Bismarck
Cardinal Hohenlohe
Sacred College
Pius IX
Ife
Dr. Livingstone
Dr. Beke
Livingstone
Mr. Stanley
Report on Stanley and Dr Divingstone meeting at Ujiji
An agent reports natives claim Stanley met Dr Livingstone at Ujiji after forty days travel from Ujiji to Zanzibar. If true, confirmation may reach the coast before Lieutenant Dawson’s relief party sails. A week or two should clear up doubt on the explorer’s fate.
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New York Herald
Ujiji
Zanzibar
Stanley
Divingstone
Beko
Dawson
Monday night defeat on Scotch Education Bill amendment
The Ministry suffered a defeat as Mr Gordon urged to make Bible teaching in Scotland’s public schools compulsory by law. The debate stretched past midnight with an Opposition-led division giving seven votes to the amendment. The piece argues the outcome reflects political artifice rather than educational conviction.
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Tur
Gordon
House of Commons
Scotland
Ephesus
Diana
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Petter
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Tausanne
Switzerland
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Lausanne
Haute Combe
Ausanne
Morley Will
P.v
Arthur Miay
Bouverie-street
Fleetstreet
E.C
Therincipal Weekly Journal
Congregational Union
London, Home, and Colonial Missionary Society
Irish Evangelical Society
Paris
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