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... Bishop of Oxfoud moved the order of the day for the House resolving itself into a committee on the bill for the protection of women. Their Lordships having resolved themselves into committee, the clauses were agreed witn certain amendments, and the bill was ...

Published: Friday 15 June 1849
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4612 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LITERATURE

... Condition of the Factory Women, Industrial Schools, Household Education, Condition of the Poor in London,' and other matter of lighter caste, —the engravings, after the German school' place it in position well entitled to the suffrages of the community ...

VARIETIES

... has been offered the Government to Mathew. A Letter Iteun, sayspatient endurance the wretched inhabitants * wonderful; the women are scraping the seaweed fro* the rocks the bench—even their smallest children are employed—to gather evening meal frr** what ...

VISIT OF MR COBDEN TO LEEDS

... give expression to the sentiments of the inhabitants and electors the questions of the public expenditure, extension of the suffrage, forty-shilling freeholds, and peace. A more numerous and enthusiastic gathering has, perhaps, never been held in the hall ...

Published: Friday 28 December 1849
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2169 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE OLD MAIDS OF MORAY

... Eden first lit By morning's virgin smile.* (Applause.) Why forget the Old Maids of Moray ? for them 1 would solicit your suffrages. (Great laughter.) What though we may not be able to disavow that— ' Whyles o'er the wee bit cup an' plattie, They eip the ...

Published: Friday 17 December 1847
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1354 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

LITERATURE

... Spartans. The red Indian is > lot trained as a servant of the State, but as indiv (dual: and the Indian women are degraded and opp reesed, while the Spartan women were considered respected—whatever the ground of consideration m Ight be. The Indian boy is trained ...

Saturday, May 25

... significantly round and said— Ah ! I see it is better to sell music than to make it. CONTRASTS.—LittIe men love tall women, and tall women love little men ; talkative people prefer those of a taciturn cbsracter ; gourmands make a better dinner iii the sociey ...

Foreign Intelligence

... treated , e to.wns, and, above all, the richest and the most populons dties, with the most ridiculous parsimony. The ot suffrage extends in the communes an inverSe ratio to population, intelligence, and wealth. In rural commune, a person may be municipal ...

Published: Friday 18 September 1846
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1706 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Literature

... was sub-tituted for the cape—Dr Touts Visit to the Portuguese Possessions in Southwestern Africa. Earlier Maturity of Women. —With 'women I do not hesitate affirm that intellect, strong will, and extraordinary powers of perspicacity and fitness are of particular ...

Published: Friday 12 June 1846
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3035 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

England

... of cricket was to have been played on Wednesday last at Picket Post, with the two elevens, to consist of married and single women. Portland Breakwater, —Prince Albert went to Weymouth on Wednesday to lay tag foundation of the Portland Breakwater in that ...

Published: Friday 03 August 1849
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2405 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

The Elgin Courant

... Crawford then rose and moved an amendment, the effect, that the resolution should also recognise the principle of universal suffrage. previous question having been '>y Sir James Graham, lengthened and uninteresting discussion followed, which was adjourned ...

Foreign Intelligence

... Parliament on the ult proposed to enact that the election to the As-embly should take place on the 25th instant, universal suffrage and the ballot; that the Assp should be, of members, paid the day. without property qualification; and, fiia'lv, that the ...

Published: Friday 12 January 1849
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1871 | Page: 2 | Tags: none