Parliament adjourns for Whitsuntide recess in Lords and Commons
The Houses of Parliament adjourned for Whitsuntide with Lords to June 8 and Commons to June 5. This avoids a Derby Day adjournment vote. The week’s notable events include rejection of Fowler’s Contagious Diseases Acts repeal and a small government defeat on Ireland education oversight as Playfair and Cross join the national education committee.
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Lords
Commons
Thomas Hughes
Fowler
Playfair
Cross
Commissioners of National Education
Ireland
Callan
Continental politics and legal cases sweep European actions
The piece reviews legislative efforts in Britain and Ireland including the Elementary Education Act amendments, the O Keefe v Cullen trial with a verdict for damages, and anticipated appeals. It covers France under Marshal MacMahon, the Vatican’s reaction, and the Religious Corporations Bill, plus U S Chief Justice Chase’s death and state funeral.
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Stansfeld
Lord Cairns
Bentinck
Geneva
Forster
O’keefe
Banco
Whiteside
M. Thiers
France
Marshal MacMahon
M. Dufaure
Duc de Broglie
Vatican
Pius IX
Italy
Chamber of Deputies
Rome
Holy See
College of Cardinals
Riario Sforza
Naples
Chase
United States
Discomfiture of M Thiers and the Versailles Crisis
The Right and Right Centre at Versailles triumph with a 14 vote majority against M Thiers and his government. Thiers resigns. Marshal MacMahon assumes the presidency and forms a new government to uphold the Assembly decrees. The crisis unsettles but stabilizes within the constitution as monarchist hopes rise and threats of insurgency recede.
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Chase
Free Soil Party
United States
New Territories
Colonel Fremont
Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
America
Washington
Grant
Versailles
M. Thiers
Republic
Marshal MacMahon
Assembly
Cassar
Republican Party
France
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England
Wales
Bouverie-street
Fleet-street
E.C
Heobald
Brothers
Miall
Corn Exchange
SHARP
Messrs. Sharp and Co
Poultry
London
Westminster
Lothbury
Anthur Miall
Pencipel Weekly Journal
Reading
E. Storrow
J. Pickering
Gateshead
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