French and Russian affairs and a protestant meeting note
A collection of brief items reports playful diplomatic anecdotes about a French ambassador, then details charitable pawnbroking in Barcelona and a Paris to Bern railway plan. It notes electric telegraph experiments in France, horse purchases for Spain, a duel in Meudon, Madagascan fossil eggs, and a Paris railroad outline. A Protestant Islington correspondence alleges assault on Mr Miall and calls for defense of free discussion and law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Pauline
Lord Normanby
Belgisioso
New York Tribune
Barcelona
Spain
Marquis de Liro
Our Lady of Hope
Galignant
Federal Council of
Berne
Messrs. Stevenson, Maclean
Stillman
Piedmont
Switzerland
Geneva
Constance
Russia
Neva
Brunel
M. Alaric Falconnet
Venice
Titian
St. Stephen
M. Drouyn de Lhuys
London
Melun
Seinet-Marne
Metz
Nancy
Sarreburg
Strasburg
Paris
Chartres
Nantes
Angers
Creil
St. Quentin
Avignon
Marseilles
Tours
Poitiers
Montereau
Troyes
Africa
Madrid
Meudon
M. Charles Hugo
M. Viennot
Madagascar
Seine
Orleans
Lyons
Legislative Assembly
The
Elysée
Islington
John Templeton
Miall
Vatican
Smithfield
Propeller Sails with Mail to Cape Town on December 15
The Standard notes the first screw propeller of the General Screw Navigation Company will sail with mails for Cape Town on December 15 marking a historic era for the colony. The Gateshead Observer reports the Small Tenements Rating Act has raised Monk Wearmouth shares from £8447 to £15344 and cut the rate from 15d to 8d in the pound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Screw Navigation Company
Cape Town
Gateshead
Monkwearmouth
Marriage a Civil Contract Suggestions for Dissenters
A letter argues that marriage should be split into a civil contract and a religious ceremony. It proposes England adopt a system like France where civil marriage is recorded by a registrar and religious rites occur separately without state involvement. The author urges Dissenters to separate Church and State and register chapels unregistered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
England
A. R
Death Hoax About Wellington and Reefing Sails Innovation
A Times style column notes a hoax report of the Duke of Wellington's death at Walmer Castle, with Apsley-house checks confirming false news. It also reviews Mr H D P Cunningham's Iberia sail reefing invention, praised as time saving and economical, and a morbid obituary of a miserly old lady who left large charitable bequests before dying of natural causes.
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Rumovren
Doxs
Wellington
The
Morning, Herald
Apsley-house
Duke of Wellington
Stamford Mercury
Walmer Castle
Grantham
Belvoir
Lincolnshire
Duke of Rutland
Granby
Forester
Belvoir Castle
Walmer
Globe
Peninsular and Oriental Company
Iberia
H. D. P. Cunningham
R.N
Admiral Moresby
Cutler
London Missionary Society
Spitalfields Ophthalmic Hospital
LadyLuntingdon’s College
Austin
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