Queen Victoria's visit to France sparks panegyric press response
Foreign intelligence reports French newspapers praising the Queen's pending visit as a boon to Franco British understanding. Journals hail renewed cordiality between monarchies, with forecasts of peace and mutual respect. Dispatches describe Paris preparations, royal entertainments, and a grand review, while press commentary debates political motives and the historical significance of such royal diplomacy. Spain and Barcelona tensions, Madrid government fragility, and mutinies threaten stability alongside reports of a Toronto murder and harvest optimism across provinces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Journal Des Debats
Victoria
France
Paris
England
Tuileries
Palace Royal
Versailles
Hotel de Ville
Palais Royal
Flora
Loa Presse
la Presse
Madrid
Aston
St. James’s
Spain
Espartero
Vincennes
Sebastiani
Rostolan
Oregon Territory Settlement Drives From United States
An expedition of about a thousand persons is marching toward the Oregon territory as part of several similar movements this year, aided by government counsel. Mr. Calhoun’s February senate advice urged settling quietly with citizens until strength is built to secure the possession. Meanwhile postmaster Wickliffe was stabbed but survives. John Quincy Adams tours the province amid high enthusiasm. Canada debates Sir Charles Metcalfe’s acts, including a Customs collector appointment in Toronto and pardons to rebel leaders, with conservative press praising Mr Stanton’s Queen’s printer appointment as a sign of justice to his party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Regiment del Principe
Madrid
Infanta
Moderados
Narvaez
Concha
Serrano
Moderado
Journal Des Débats
Telegraphic
Barcelona
Montjuich
Prim
Mouch
Mendizabal
Aston
England
Spain
Union of
Free Corps
Ametler
Lerida
Evaristo San Miguel
Saragossa
Charles Metcalfe
Beauharnois
St. Lawrence
Toronto
Kinnear
Lewiston
Oregon Territory
United States
Calhoun
Senate
Wickliffe
Baltimore
John Quincy Adams
Drs
Rolph
Duncombe
Morrison
Mont. Somery
Upper Canada
Stanton
Queen's
Stauton
Westminster Abbey
Westminster, Abbey
Gell
Edward I
City of London and Tower Hamaets Cemetery ComPany
George and Vulture Tavern
George-yard
Lombard-street
Deputy Green
Shearman
Tyars
Old
Horton
Lonpox sRipGe
Messrs
Scovell
Topping’s Wharf
Ward and Dryson
Drysalters
Watson's Telegraph
Thames
St. Olave’s
Messrs. Scovell and Co
Father Mathew
Theobald Mathew
Carmel
Manchester Square
St. Giles’s
Marylebone
Spanish Place
Piquet
Countess of Clare
London
Stafford Jerningham
Dalling
Sisk
Moore
Jabez Burns
J. S. Buckingham
Buckingham
Orchard Street
Division of Police
Brown
Ireland
Norwich
Birmingham
Liverpool
Dublin
Hanwell
Insurrection spread reports from Bologna and Swiss civil tension
The Augsburg Gazette notes Bologna insurgents fled to plunder nearby regions, battles ensue with a detachments capturing leaders. In exile Wacsicz and Petroniewicz retain honors at Widdin. Nicholas plans Sebastopol visit. Espartero seeks Hamburgh permission. Swiss Zurich Gazette reports civil war flare at St. Maurice and La Balma, patriots move, two artillery pieces seized, liberal precautions defend against coups.
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Wacsicz
Petroniewicz
Widdin
Baron Lieven
Michael
Nicholas
Vosnesensk
Sebastopol
Don Cossacks
Espartero
Hamburgh
Senate
Zurich
St. Maurice
la Balma
Barman
Illiersthal
Switzerland
Athens coiners gang in Greece arrested in August report
A letter from Athens dated August 10 states a gang of twenty six coiners, composed of Greeks, Turks, Italians and French, was found and handed to justice for minting Greek crowns and French two franc pieces. Over two hundred connected parties, many from higher social ranks, have since been arrested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Massacre of Nestorian Christians Reported in Mosul Region
A Levant mail summary reports three religious orders and foreign agents inciting Nestorian Christians to fortify their mountains. Kurdish chiefs and local forces attack, killing several brothers of the Patriarch and mutilating his sister, while the Patriarch seeks refuge at the British vice-consulate in Mosul.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Levant
Constantinople
France
England
Servia
Grant
Mr. Badger
High Church Missionary Party
Pacha
Mosul
Ben
Mohammed
Registration of London voters stirs reform debate
The Metropolis reports the approaching city registration for London, detailing large objections to both householders and liverymen by Liberals and Conservatives. Many names face challenge amid changes in residence, description errors, and new legal avenues for appeal, signaling a protracted revision process.
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Londox
Lorimers
British Schamine Society
Freemasons’ Tavern
Thomas Wakley
Mason
Art-Union Exhisition
Royal Academy, British Institution
Society of British Artists
Painters In Water Colours
Art-Union of London
Suffolk Street
Westminster Hall
Duke de la Victoria
Eadia Espartero
Pantechnicon
Belgrave Square
Haydon
Pantheon
Oxford-street
Dodd
Italy
St. George
Asylum workforce and finances report quarterly summary
The quarter shows 981 patients with employed male and female workers in multiple trades, plus 163 unemployed males and 188 unemployed females. The cash balance, receipts from parishes and county, and tradesmen bills are itemized, with a surplus after deductions. Water supply savings and expanded medical lectures are noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aundry
London
Conolly
Regent’s Canal Company
Pavine
St. Pancras
Gordon-square
King’s Cross
Euston Square
Howarth
Douglas
Thornley
Blackfriars
Loxpon Hospital
George the Second
Samaritan Society
Barthotomzn
Thespian Corps
Richardson’s Theatre
TrRrivic
Bermondsey
Millicham
Middleton
Kent Road
Inventions Explode Powder By Electrical Machine
A London report describes R W Thomson's electrical exploding device using a sealed dry air box and dried chloride of calcium to keep the atmosphere moisture free. The model can detonate multiple charges from a Leyden jar power source, promising simpler blasting for excavating works.
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Dovhee
Dover Curris
R. W. Thomson
Thomson
Driffield
Hicaway Bowsery
Munper
James Armstrong
Great Driffield
Little Driffield
King’s Mill
Armstrong
Hiesway Rosser
Lambton
Kirkwhelpington
Morpeth
Gateshead
Halifax
DreEavrut Miri
Hollins Mill
Sowerby-bridge
the Dale
Messrs. Waterhouse
Friendly Inn
Halifar
Hereford
Childe
Grange
Wigmore Road
Palmer
Stevens
Richard Tittley
Leintwardine
N. Lanwarne
Malden
Kingston
Ewell
Southampton Named New Mail Port for Peninsular and West Indies
A post office notice from the postmaster general states Southampton will replace Falmouth as the port of arrival and departure for Peninsular Mediterranean Oriental and West India mails starting the 18th. Mails to be forwarded from London to Southampton by morning departures. West Indies mails on the 2nd and 17th. Brazilian packet remains from Falmouth.
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Her
Southampton
Peninsular
Mediterranean
Oriental
West India
Falmouth
West Indies
London
Vigo
Oporto
Lisbon
Cadiz
Gibraltar
Malta
Greece
Ionian Islands
Egypt
India
East Indies
Marseilles
East India
Ireland Repeal meeting faces heated rhetoric at Dublin
In a climate of thinning crowds and rising tension, John O Connell addresses a Dublin Repeal meeting railing against the press, government agents, and landlords. He vows peaceful resistance, hints at a bloodless revolution, and outlines plans for further meetings and a three hundred member provisional parliament. Rent totals reach £1097 6s 8d.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dustin Repeal Association
Aithig Steele
Daunt
Ray
John O'Couset
M‘ardle
O'Connell
George Gordon Bennett
Times
John Bull
O’connell
Doneiny
Steele
Liberator
Frank Dwyer
Waterford
Glasgow
Manchester
Mallow
St Liverpool
Belfast
Albany
N. Y
Boston
Kinsale
Clontage
Londonderry
Ulster
Mr. O'Connel
Dublin Weekly Register
Morning Chronicle
Somerville
England
Tara
Ireland
Feargus O’connor
Laughrea
Connemara
Tipperary
Doheny
John Howley
Mr. Howley
Orange Party
Orangemen
Collegegreen
Mysterious Bridgeton Deaths and Calton Fever Surge
A Bridgeton tradesman's family is thrown into distress as a bride-to-be vanishes at night and is found drowned near Rutherglen bridge after two days. The Glasgow Guardian notes a mysterious tragedy, while the Glasgow Chronicle reports a ten-year-old boy’s death in Craigdaroch, Australia, and reveals a confessed murder by Charles Edgedeth later deemed not credible. The Chronicle also highlights alarming influenza and fever progress in Calton, urging soup kitchens and parish aid reform as deaths and funerals surge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridgeton
Rutherglen-bridge
Glasgow
John Murdoch
Craigdaroch
South Australia
Charles Edgedeth
Adelaide
Glasgow Chronicle
Calton
Wright
M‘kinlay
G@lasqgaw Chronicle
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Foreign Intelligence
Canada
the Metropolis
King's Cross
Kingham
Battle-bridge
Brezier
North London Hospital
Hudson
Higgs
Carey-street
Lincoln’s-inn-fields
Betsy Sophia Jackson
Baker
St. Clement's Parish
Matthew Brady
Catherine
Borough Court
Elizabeth Clayton
Bradys
Newtown
Pat
Brady
Harris
Clayton
Manchester Guardian
Scotland
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