Domestic News Looms Sparse This Week
The week’s general domestic news is unusually scanty with political affairs nearly blank. Members of the House of Commons meet constituents, though notable features are landlords voicing clear positions, such as Sir T Acland.
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Hrouse of Commons
T. Acland
East Africa slave trade and imperial power shifts
A review discusses Sir Bartle Frere appointed to probe East African slave trade and open lines with Livingstone. It notes 80,000 to 90,000 taken annually via Jeddah, plus German and Russian naval advances, and calls for fleet reconstruction. It also covers Australian telegraph progress and French parliamentary results, plus Prussia's diet clashes over church state, and the Papacy’s decline amid German empire consolidation.
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Osborne Morgan
Quarterly Review
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Dr. Livingstone
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Zanzibar
Kirkham
Abyssinia
Jeddah
Egypt
Livingstone
Stanley
Kirk
Moffat
Sheffield
England
Reed
Admiralty
Europe
Germany
Russia
London
Adelaide
Java
Port Darwin
Legislative Assembly
Melbourne
Daily News
France
National Assembly
Brittany
MM. Forcade
Schneider
Thiers
Count de Chambord
Bismarck
Berlin
Times
German Empire
Prussia
Alsace-Lorraine
Free Elections in France Signal Democratic Shift in Spirit
The Sunday elections filled seven National Assembly seats across France, with results favoring Republicanism. Monarchy candidates faded in Indre et Loire Vosges Gironde Oise Normandy and Algeria while M Martin won in Morbihan Brittany. Thiers restoration of order and fiscal recovery praised amid cautious support for continuity until change becomes necessary.
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France
M. Martin
Morbihan
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Indre-et-Loire
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Vosges
Gironde
Oise
Normandy
Algeria
Bordeaux
M. Thiers
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