French press mocks visit of Queen Victoria and aims at China trade
Foreign intelligence notes that opposition journals ridicule the late visit of Queen Victoria to England. The National questions the significance of the event while praising the economic aims of a French embassy to China. The Presse outlines a plan to study and expand French commerce after Ning Po treaty openings. The embassy includes practical merchants to gather data for future trade strategy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
Queen Victoria
China
France
The
Presse
Ning Po
Barcelona Factions Battle as Junta Tightens Grip
Dispatches describe the Barcelona uprising with the central junta, firing on Atarazanas and Montjuich positions, emigration rising past 50,000, and garrison forces refuting reports of retreat. Reinforcements move from Vic, Igualada, Manresa, and Berga as deputies debate cabinet unity in Madrid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barcelona
Vinaroz
Cera
Atarazanas
Prim
M. Degollada
Ingurgente
Canaleta
Mataro
Mata
Girona
Vich
Manressa
M. de Lesseps
Riera
Montjuich
Sayas
Molino del Rey
Igualada
Gracia
Vic
Villafranca
Manresa
Berga
Espectador
Seville
Narvaez
Regiment del Principe
Madrid
Lopez
Cortes
Hanover Returns King to London Amid Loyal City Welcome
Citizens formed a mounted guard of honour near Hanover to greet the King as he returned to the city. On arrival in London the King was greeted by artillery salutes. A torchlit procession and loyal salute followed at the palace in the evening.
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Hanover
London
Hibernia Arrives at Liverpool from Boston with 49 Passengers
United States news reports the Royal Mail steamer Hibernia, Captain Judkins, reached Liverpool at two am from Boston and Halifax, after a 113 day passage. It carried 49 passengers and delayed by Halifax, with electio n news and reports of Jackson death rumors, a bank dispute, and several duels in New Orleans and Alabama. Canada news notes Metcalf's return to Montreal, large emigrant arrivals at Quebec, a Beauharnois incident, a Toronto fire, and widespread American cotton sales. Mexican reports say Armijo defeated near Santa Fe by Texans, Santa Anna enraged, and possible Texas independence talks.
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United States
Royal Mail
Hibernia
Judkins
Liverpool
Boston
Halifax
New York
Great Western
Mersey
Jackson
Hetmorrhage
Nicholas Biddle
United States Bank
Milbury
Wetumpka
Alabama
Crockett G. Davis
E. Henry
Canada
C. Metcalf
Montreal
Great Britain
Quebec
Beauharnois
Toronto
Waterloo
Canadas
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Armijo
Santa Fe
Santa Anna
Texas
Insurrection at Aux Cayes in West Indies
From Aux Cayes a report arrives aboard the schooner Elizabeth describing an insurrection among about 600 disaffected negroes four miles from Aux Cayes. The movement, opposed to the revolutionist men of colour, fears bloodshed and possible collapse of the provisional government. British merchants prepare to evacuate by English ships.
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West Indies
St. Dominec
Aux Cayes
Fatmouth
Elizabeth
Reviere
Cnely
Aux Ayes
The Metropolis Charter Changes and Voter Revision
The Metropolis reports a new charter allowing pharmacy and midwifery practitioners to join the fellows by examination, with these professions excluded from the council. Mr Arnold, appointed to revise London’s voter lists, begins Monday at Guildhall, likely aided by an assistant barrister due to numerous objections. Conservatives and liberals filed 1,000 livery objections and hundreds more in household objections.
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Council
Medical Gazette
City of London
Arnold
Guildhall
Metropolitan
Court of Appeal
Abingdon Fire Riots Spark Social Debate
In Abingdon two nights of false fire alarms and a later wheat stack blaze prompt a public warning against incendiary acts. A Berkshire Oxfordshire plea calls for labourers to gain secure land rights, urging reforms to prevent further property destruction and social disorder.
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Abingdon
W. Graham
Berkshire
Oxfordshire
England
Ireland
Berks
Commonwealth
Duffield
M.P
Graham
Ozford Chronicle
Explosion and fatal accident at Bread Street ward gown incident
A gun accident during a ward gown contest led to a man’s fatal left side wound after a gun exploded when the hammer recoiled. The event unfolded amid a political race with candidates and a crowded scene, prompting a coroner’s inquiry and postmortem findings of ruptured intestines and additional injuries.
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the Weekly Chronicle
Wheatley
Liberal
Banyard
Bread Street
Lainson
Hughes Hughes
Oxford
J. George Bannister
James Shaw
St. George's Hospital
Portsoken
Richard Lee Wilson
Cripplegate
Benjamin Lawrence
Agnyth
Bread-street
Pilcher
Victoria Park
Commissioners of Woods and Forests
Metropolis
Oxford Street
Holborn
Ireland
Bukeridge
Plumtree Street
Waterloo Bridge
Belton Street
Monmouth-street
Coventry-street
Longacre
Castle-street
St. Giles’s
St. Martin’s-lane
St. MatthEw, Bethnal-Green
Tower Hamlets
St. Matthew
Bethnal-green
Salmon and Ball
Bethnal-green-road
Shirevill
Sperpptut Renters’ Association
Dean
Hume
Model Prison
Pentonville
Lord Wharncliffe
Duke of Richmond
Earl of Devon
Earl of Chichester
Lord John Russell
Benjamin Brodie
Dr. Ferguson
Major Jebb
W. Crawford
W. Russell
Secretary of State
van Dieman’s Land
James Graham
Howard’s
St. James’s Place
GaAs
Boulton
Yardley-street
Clerkenwell
G Division
St. James’s
Islington
Victuallers
Higgs
St. George’s Hospital
Hyde-park-corner
George Bolton
Henry Wooller
Peterborough-house
Paraon’s Green
Mr. Bagley
Broomhouse
Russel, Banyard
Lisburn road foundation stone laid for deaf and blind institution
Ireland reports the Marquis of Donegal laying the foundation stone on Lisburn Road Belfast for a new institution serving the deaf dumb and blind. Other items note Orange Lodge reorganizations, a Dublin Post critique, and a Phoenix Park incident involving a monomaniac named Thomas Campbell with a pitchfork clashing with guards and police. He was remanded to a later court hearing.
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Lisburn Road
Belfast
Marquis of Donegal
Orange Organisation
Orange Lodges
Killyshandra
Lord Roden
Dublin Evening Post
Phoenix Park
Freeman’s Journal
Viceregal Lodge
Thomas Campbell
Orth-Road
Drogheda
Solway
Moore Lane
Charles Street
Campbell
1300
Kelly
Henry-street
Kemmis
Crown
Scotland Free Church Minute Warns Landowners Over Conscience Rights
The August Edinburgh commission urges wealth and landowners to respect religious liberty amid hostility to the Free Church split. It condemns coercive tactics against ministers and tenants, insisting conscience over state power and warning of social disruption if rights are suppressed. It cites Scotland’s history, calls for peace, and appeals to Lordship to avoid injustice.
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Special Commission OF the
Free Church OF ScotLand
Edinburgh
General Assembly of the
Scotland
Free Church
United Kingdom
Tuomas Chaumeens
General Assembly
Robert Gorpon
Special Commission
Duncan M‘neill
M‘lauchlan
Lochmaben
Sanquhar
Dumfries
Wick
Caithness
Baltic
Peterhead
Fraserburg, &c
Orkney Islands
Caithness Journal
Gramowor
Renfrewshire
Liverpool
Christiana Cochrane
Gilmour
United States
New York
George M‘key
Bridewell
Glasgow
A. P. Uphar
Great Britain
Destruction of US frigate Missouri at Gibraltar fires
Capiz Sept 1 reports the Missouri, a large US frigate bound for Canton, caught fire in the Bay of Gibraltar and burned to the water line. Locust and Malabar steamer crews attempted rescue, scuttling the vessel to prevent explosion as firefighters battled the blaze. The American minister saved his papers, but the ship and many crew were lost.
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Capiz
Gibraltar
United States Navy
Cadiz
Missouri
Orange
Montague
W. Thompson
Art
Bentinck
Locnet
Algesiras
Canton
United States
Bay of
George Sartorius
John Lunn
R. T. Wilson
Newton
Wrecks of the Queen Victoria and Other Vessels
Reports recount the loss of multiple ships in Indian Ocean and Atlantic waters. The Queen Victoria, 715 tons, sank near Rodrigues after a March voyage from Bombay to Liverpool, with several lives lost and some survivors aided by locals. other wrecks include the Eric Thomas Rickfox, Princess Aversta, Amelia Thompson, and the Fantome, with crews saved or perished and authorities responding.
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Lloyd's Books
New Brunswick
Bombay
Liverpool
Usul East India
Rodrigues
Black
James Serle
Robert Plunket
Martin
Morice
Colibri
Bourbon
Mauritius
Eric Thomas Rickfox
Ponte d’Oror
London
Nudbey
Nudby
87Th Regiment
Sherman
Whitby
Princess Aversta
Cape Sable
la Have
Halifax
Wrech
Amelia Thompson
J. M‘neil
J. Gibson
A. M‘nab
R. Wills
Cook
J. Lowe
J. Palmer
Dawson
Her Majesty
Montevideo
Fantome
Haymes
England
Experiments With Air Pillows At Leith Near Lighthouse
A large crowd gathered at Leithae beyond the lighthouse to witness air-pillow life-preservers tested. A sailor and a man carried air-pillows on their chests and floated while a life-buoy hoop allowed others to grasp it. Fifty to a hundred people could be saved by interlinked pillows and boats. Repeated by three young men with success.
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Royal Dockyard
Pembroke
Leithae
Angie
Rainbury Fitness
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Leghorn
Bologna
Freddi
Carabineers
Cardinal Spinola
Rome
Tuscany
Mexicco
the Metropolis
Bagshot
Blackwater
John Turner
Butcher
Yorktown
Miss Attride
Attride
Brewer
Mr. Spencer
Miss Gaff
Kensington
Turner
Tarrant
Hardyrow
Davies
Bristol
Fins
Castine Street
Lydia Groves
Thomas Worthington
Sampson
Groves
Nichols
Mary Ann Worthington
TxHet Marver
Mr. Bipsy
John Anderson
Preston
Bibby
Bootle
Anderson
Enge
Archer
Edge-hill School
Muir
Hewitt
Whitty
Fadzen
Quick
Jean
Golding
Maxwell
Butterfield
Fulmer
St. Paul’s
Westminster Abbey
St. George's
Royal Chapel of St. George
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