France and Britain Face Shifts as Debates Roil Cabinets
French debate on East affairs strains the ministries with M Villemain denying a England Russia secret understanding. Proposals on electoral reform rally national guards to speeches by Lafitte and deputies. Lisbon opens its cortes with lengthy kingly speech. Portugal seeks slave trade resolution and financial reform amid tensions with Britain. Canada set for union. Upper Canada speeches pledge loyalty and defend imperial ties. Boundary talks in New Brunswick promise timely settlement though Maine issues loom.
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Aris
East
M. Villemain
Paris
England
Russia
M. Thiers
M. Guizot
France
de Vere
Liverpool
Oxford
Canada
Upper Canada
Canadas
North American
Lower Canada
United Kingdom
Legislative Council
St. John's
New Brunswick
J. Featherstonehaugh
Ghent
Maine
Feathereaugh
St. John’s
York
Metropolis Tunnel Progress and Masonic Charity Ball
The Toe To Hamet Tunnel advances with rapid diggings near the Middlesex shore and expected completion in two months the approach works will be built by stone steps and a circular road. Meanwhile the Masonic Charity Ball at Freemasons Tavern drew near 500 attendees, raising hopes the proceeds aid charity as bands from the Opera and Quadrille Institute performed.
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Hamet Tunxel
Middlesex
Freemasons’ Tavern
Great Queen Street
Brothers Z. Watkins
Richard Lea Wilson
Staples
Quadrille Institute
Faumann
Laurent
Jun
Keating
Messrs. Dennis and Son
Tooley-street
Allen
Down
Crew
My. Dickson
Stepney
Dickson
Globe
Board of Commissioners
Edward Ernest Villiers
Robert Torrens
Thomas Frederick Elliot
South Australia
William IV
Royan Hostage Society
Chatham-place
Blackfriars-bridge
J. A. Curtis
B. Westropp
Hyde Park
General Court
Opening of Parliament Crowded for Her Majesty’s Speech
The opening of Parliament by the Queen drew a full house with peers and peeresses filling seats including ambassadors from foreign courts. Indian princes sat near the bar as Prince Charles C Capua and Prince George of Cambridge stood on the throne’s right. The Queen arrived with royal retinue, wearing crown and diamonds, and read the speech in clear voice though there was a momentary falter at the passage referencing her marriage to Prince Albert.
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England
Great Britain
Equator
Angola
Cortes
Coimbra
Francisco de San Luiz
Patriarchate of
Lisbon
House of Lords
Prince Charles C. Capua
Prince George of
Cambridge
Duchess of Sutherland
Ushier
House of Commons
Prince Albert
Albert
Saxe Cobourg
Gotha
Spain
Levant
Europe
Teheran
China
India
Indus
Canada
Ireland
Houssé
Commons
Axpd
Concertor
Monteagle
Dunfermline
Seaton
Lord Stratford
Lord Campys
Duke of Somerset
Lord Seasroxp
Duke of
Privy Council
George the Third
Menotrne
Earl of
Camsripee
Duke of Ricumont
Augustus Clifford
F. Barrie
Portsmouth
Gree
Manchester
Wyse
Waterford
Manners Surrey
Lord Cravpse Hastirros
Tyrone
Edinburgh
T. B. Macaulay
Devonport Liberal Ballot Unites to Defeat Dawson Threat
In Devonport and East Stonehouse reformers sealed an accord between Tufnell and Leach to unite the liberal vote against Sir Robert Peel’s ally Dawson. The ballot system proved efficient with about 1,100 polled at two places, yielding a projected liberal majority of 130 plus 140 unpledged supporters, and sparing the town further controversy. Grovor Leach issued a placard thanking supporters and urging rallying behind the liberal candidate.
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Devonport
Messrs
Tufnell
Leach
Robert Peel
Dawson
Admiralty
Thomas
East Stonehouse
Grovor Leach
Wilful Murder at Seend Over Jealous Quarrel
A verdict of Wilful Murder was brought against Isaac Freeme for the stabbing death of James Heritage, a 22 year old labourer of Seend. The event occurred after an evening at the Bell Inn with both men wearing smock frocks and no prior quarrel, with Freeme later admitting the act. Heritage died from his neck wound on Sunday, and Freeme was apprehended after the inquest lasting most of the day.
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Seend
Devizes
James Heritage
Isaac Freeme
Ludlow Bruges
Bath
Freeme
Bell Inn
Pearce
Trowbridge-road
Seend-hill
Heritage
Whitmarsh
George Marsh
Mr. Bevan
Elizabeth Hooper Tucker
Tucker
George Taviner
Mr. Taviner
Canterbury Correspondence and Windsor era debates in Parliament
A lengthy review of the Canterbury correspondence involving Sir E Horsman and Mr Bradshaw. The piece covers the Canterbury speech, retractions, duels, and letters, along with reactions from The Globe and a detailed sequence of exchanges among Horsman Gurwood and colleagues. It also reports royal address proceedings, marriage talk of Queen Victoria, and early parliamentary writs for Devonport Birmingham Edinburgh.
Irish bar summons eighteen gentlemen on Saturday
Eighteen gentlemen were called to the Irish bar on Saturday. Five among them were Roman Catholics.
Railway Commissioners Return from North Wales Inspection
The commissioners with secretary Mr. Amsinck have returned from North Wales after visiting Holyhead and Porthyllaen with Admiral Sir J Gordon and Captain Beechey. They expect rapid settlement of two crucial points the best harbour and the best road to connect England and Ireland as noted by the Railway Magazine.
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Amsinck
North Wales
Holyhead
Sir J. Gordon
Captain Beechey
Porthyallaen
England
Ireland
Railway Magazine
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Portugal
Constantinople
Kiamil Pasha
Mehemet Ali
Porte
Fomanaciente
Alexandria
Albania
Pasha
Erzeroum
Sheil
Persia
Bell
Circassia
THE
the Metropolis
Dublin
Theatre Royal
Abbey
Earl of Milltown
Brabazon
Clements
M. Bellew
Villiers. Stuart
Lord Brabazon
Sir W. Chatterton, Bart
Lord Milltown
Leicester
Charlemont
O'Connell
Morrison’s
Liskeard
Charles Buller
Buller
John Allen
H. B. Lyne
Mere
Knutsford
Peter Langford Brooke
Brooke
Cheshire
Thomas Langford Brooke
Leamington
Canterbury Correspondence
Lady Jersey and
Horsman
Bradshaw
Canterbury
Corporation of
Mr. Roby
Col. Thomas
Molesworth
Jersey
Mr. Bradshaw
Sarah Villiers
Lowndes-street
Belgrave-square
Cockermouth
Oxenford Castle
Lanarkshire
E. Horsman
Col. Gurwood
Albany
Scotland
United Service Club
Pall-mall
J.gurwoop
E. Horsatax
Derbyshire
Colonel Anson
C. E. Horsman
Lowndes Street
Anson
Ordnance-office
Ke. J. Gurwood
F. Horsman
Garwood
Horsiman
Wormwood Scrubs
Gerrwood
Gurwood
Ms. Bradshaw
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