Appleton's annual cyclopedia and register of important events: embracing political, military, an ecclesiastical affairs; public documents; biography, statistics, commerce, finance, literature, science, agriculture, and mechanical industry . sults of the general election were the returnof 51 Conservatives, 39 Junimists, 31 Inde-pendent Liberals, 5 partisans of Joan Bratiano,4 Socialists, and 42 Ministerialists. Ex-PremierBratiano lost his seat. The success of theBoyar party compelled the Government toabandon its project of dividing a part of thepublic domains among the landless peasantryin lots
Appleton's annual cyclopedia and register of important events: embracing political, military, an ecclesiastical affairs; public documents; biography, statistics, commerce, finance, literature, science, agriculture, and mechanical industry . sults of the general election were the returnof 51 Conservatives, 39 Junimists, 31 Inde-pendent Liberals, 5 partisans of Joan Bratiano,4 Socialists, and 42 Ministerialists. Ex-PremierBratiano lost his seat. The success of theBoyar party compelled the Government toabandon its project of dividing a part of thepublic domains among the landless peasantryin lots of from four to eight acres. The Con-servatives, under threats of a dissolution, agreedto allow the ministry to proceed with its billsfor establishing a national bank and a goldcurrency, and making the higher judiciary irre-movable except for cause, and promised not tooppose the foreign policy of the Cabinet. Thecompromise ministry, nevertheless, could notstand, and on December 31 the Parliament wasdissolved, and new elections were appointedfor Feb. 4, 1889. ROUTLEDGE, GEORGE, an English publisher,born in Brampton, Cumberland, Sept. 23, 1812;died in London, Dec. 13,1888. He served as anapprentice to Charles Thurnam, in Carlisle, in. Ml/GEORGE ROUTLEDGE. 1827-33, and then entered the employ of Bald-win and Cradock, at a salary of £60 a first his special duty was to collect books fromother publishers for the country booksellers forwhom that house was agent, and later he wasgiven charge of the bindery. In September,1836, he began business on his own account inRyders Court, Leicester Square, as a retailbookseller and purchaser of books at sales, sup-plving new books as they were ordered. Hisfirst book, The Beauties of Gilsland Spa(1836), proved a failure, as it depended uponlocal sale entirely. In November, 1837, he wasgiven charge of the documents in the Tithe-Office, where he remained for four years, be- RUSSIA. 7-2:; ginning with a salary of £80 a year. Mean-while he
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