Ottoman Diplomats

Synopsis

In a petition to the French parliament, five French citizens asked to modify universal suffrage, by changing the conditions of age and domicile. Furthermore, being a lettered man had to become a new condition. Glavany wonders what the final outcome would be, but notes that it would not have any practical consequences. According to him, it would only accentuate the incompatibility of the Senate and the Legislative Corps even more. In Luxemburg, universal suffrage would be discussed in committees instead of during parliamentary debates. Glavany also reports about French reactions to the future Vatican Council. The French ambassador in Rome, De Banneville, informed cardinal Antonelli about the French government’s intention not to agree to any interference of the Council in the rights of the French state. He did not want the Council to call civil marriage into question. In the meantime, French Minister for Foreign Affairs, Napoleon Daru, was on a mission in Rome. Also Vienna was worried about the Council’s possible decisions. It was said that the Hungarian and the Austrian bishops as well as multiple German bishops would oppose papal infallibility and new dogmas in general. About Vienna, Glavany refers to the discharge of marquis Pepoli, and the flagged relation between the Austrian and the Italian governments. The British government had again to take measures against Irish unrest, provoked by Fenianists, in reaction to the Land Law. Glavany shows his sympathy for Gladstone, by expressing that he understands the impossibility of changing the terrible farming conditions in Ireland from one day to the next. Fenianism counteracted the positive changes.

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