Trade Diversion and Blockade Impact on Baltic Routes
The piece notes a redirected trade flow from English to Russian interests via new channels, burdening merchants and raising Russian goods’ value for English buyers. It highlights convoys through Tilsit Memel and Konigsberg, with Russians exporting hemp flax tallow grain copper while returning coffee sugar cloths wine and olive oil. Salt trade grows with Riga prices. It estimates £2,500,000 extra transport cost to Memel due to Russian peasantry. It ends with Ricardo urging strategic blockade and targeted destruction of war goods while avoiding excessive disruption to English industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tilsit
Memel
Konigsberg
Russia
Riga
Ricardo
England
Chief of the Staff Appointment in the Crimean War
The article notes Major General Simpson sails from Southampton aboard the India mail as the new Chief of the Staff to Lord Raglan. It argues the position enhances the command structure, with Simpson aiding orders and ensuring staff efficiency without independent command.
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Tagus
Southampton
India Mail
Simpson
Crimea
Morning Chronicle
Lord Raglan
Sir John M Neill Named to Scotland Commission of Inquiry
The Edinburgh Courant notes the selection of Sir John M Neill as chief presiding officer for the commission into the army commissariat in the Crimea. His forty year career includes Persia diplomacy, Scottish Poor-law leadership, and the Western Highlands inquiry. He received the Lion and Sun order in 1834 and was made a civil Knight Grand Cross of the Bath in 1839.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M‘neill
G.C
Scotland
Edinburgh Courant
Crimea
Lord Palmerston
East
Persia
Russia
Teheran
Ighlands
Islands
Highlands
Bath
Debates on Crimean War Policy in the House of Commons
Commons debates condemn mismanagement of the war and call for radical reform as Layard attacks ministers while Palmerston defends the government. Lord Raglan’s handling of medical care, recalls to Crimea, and army promotions are critiqued amid supply votes and pressure for decisive action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House OF Lords
House OF Commons
East and West India Docks
Baltic
Matins
Charles Napier
Lord Lucan
Craven Berkeley
Lord Palmerston
Germany
Asia Minor
French Republic
Mr. Layard
Lord Raglan
Balaklava
Lord Raglin
Horse Guards
Palmerston
Europe
Italy
England
Cavendish
Pex
Crimea
Layard
J. G. Painarmors
E. Warner
Major Rein
Murrough
Lord Paumgrston
Committee of Supply
Crimean War News and Naval Warnings Across Europe
The flotilla reports on uprisings at Gibraltar Valetta and Constantinople with banners of British valor and the limits of shore access. Military spending soars to 29,618,961 with inflation of 10,445,958, while detachments prepare for Malta and a Crimea march. General Niel arrives in Paris with siege updates and medals for Crimea heroes near completion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weekly Chronicle
Gibraltar
Malta
Valetta
Foulques de Valleret
Pierce Egan
Tom Cribb
Constantinople
England
France
Ordnance Department
Rome
Woolwich
Grenadier Guards
Coldstreams
Scotch Fusilier Guards
Crimea
Portsmouth
Frederick Smith
Niel
Paris
Sebastopol
B. Wyon
Balaklava
Bentinck
77Th Foot
East India Company
East India House
Withussia
Saumarez
Herbert
7Th Foot
T. Kelly
Rifles
G. Voke
1St
Royal Regiment
B. Silk
P. M.sweeney
The
Scotsman
Edinburgh
Nasmyth
Silistria
Charlotte-square
Royal Commission reports patriotic fund payouts and wartime relief
A Royal Commission report on the Patriotic Fund outlines weekly £2,149 in aid to wives, families, and dependents of over five thousand soldiers at the war front. Russian fund releases 100 to 500 roubles to officers’ families, with wounded receiving 50 to 300 roubles. Irish MPs with militia postings include Greville, Dunne, O Connell, and more. A Hythe musketry school trial shows a self breech loading carbine firing sixty rounds in seven minutes at 100 yards with full water immersion not hampering power.
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Royal Commission of the Patriotic Fund
Central Association
Russian “ Patriotic Fund
Layard
M.P
Dundas
Drummond
School of Musketry
Hythe
Euphrates Arrives at Marseilles and Crimea Reports
Intelligence notes the Euphrates reaching Marseilles from Constantinople with dates to the 12th. Baron de Bruck met the Sultan. Baron de Koller arrived. Crimea reports a thaw, firm Russian sorties, and mined southern forts. The allied fleet readies for joint attack. French cannons shell Balaklava. Omer Pasha returns to Eupatoria. countermines and night sorties are described.
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Euphrates
Marseilles
Constantinople
Baron de Bruck
Baron de Koller
Crimea
Omer Pasha
Balaklava
Eupatoria
Army Service Act debate and Pole sentiment touches India
In the Lords on Tuesday the Army Service Act Amendment Bill faced critique on recruit numbers with calls for full militia and coercion. Discussions touched India frontier duty, Poles, and militia enactment issues before the bill passed after second and third readings. A petition from Charlotte Jones described calumny charges, heavy costs, and imprisonment in Cardiff gaol.
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House OF Lords
Earl of Elcensor
Asia
India
Tiflis
Georgia
Earl of Harrowing
Lord Panmung
Idia
Malmesbury
Ean
Gray
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Parliament
Prince Menschikoff
Bricur
Charlotte Jones
Merthyr
Tydvil
Linndaff
Cardiff
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