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THE POSITION OF PARTIES

... centuries is scen to be, at present, a most anomalous one. This is generally admitted, and is the subject of comment on all sides. Whig and Tory alike con- fess that their case is without parallel in the history of the past, and that the future offers nothing ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1999 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

PROTECTIONIST PROSPECTS

... ought to be, at least, a duty of 8s. per quarter upon foreign wheat; not for revenue pur. poses, as was once proposed by the whigs, or in order that an equivalent reduction might take place in the general taxation of the county; but that it might increase ...

Published: Saturday 02 February 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1812 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE FREEHOLD LAND MOVEMENT

... period? One of the members vras Lord Morpeth, a Whig, and the other was ;ayself, who was always called a liberal or a radical,- (Great cheering.) So then the West Riding of Yorkshire was representitd by a Whig and a Radical. So be it, I bavo no objection ...

Published: Saturday 02 February 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 13675 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

LECTURE ON THE PRESENT AGE

... ancestors were less humane than their posterity. The implacability of hostile factions was such as we can scarcely conceive. Whigs were disposed to murmur be- *cause Stafford was suffered to die without seeing his bowels burned before his face. Tories reviled ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1689 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE ADDRESS TO THE CROWN

... predominating vehemence. Shew a good a, front, and make believe that we are in earnest, was ite, the argument used. The Whigs are squeezeable; F of and we have now the lucky opportunity of pointing tto for to low prices and immense imports, as evidence ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1485 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... lodging till next day, 1it was so unpleasant travelling. This is 9high life below stairs with a vengeance. The aristoc- racy, Whig and Tory, are continually striving to lodge their families upon us-it is so unpleasant working. They cannot dig, but are not ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4316 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

TABLE TALK

... the community might more rea- sonably trust them for the conservation of property than either the Conservatives or the Whigs. Whig govern- ment under Lord Melbo.urne was a lottery: and all pro- positions of the time for shaving the fundholder, for tam- ...

Published: Saturday 02 March 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2614 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

TORY HOPES OF REACTION

... and, finding that his former chief has abandoned the struggle for domination, and being reluctant to join the mere debating whigs, he has taken his post for the nonce as a volunteer among those who, whatever may be their failings, seem indisposed to rust ...

Published: Saturday 02 March 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1615 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

PRESTON INTERMEDIATE SESSIONS

... and also with having in his possession one other counterfeit sixpence, well knowing the same to be false and counterfeit.-Mr. Whig- ham conducted the prosecution; the prisoner was unde- s ?? Harrison, of Stanley-street, Preston, | c deposed that on Friday ...

Published: Saturday 02 March 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1068 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

WHO SHALL PAY THE TAXES?

... to the declarations made in the late debate, in justification of their conduct. The natural and instinctive tendency of the Whig and Tory parties is toward re- action, if not fusion; and the whole thing that can arrest this backward movement is determined ...

Published: Saturday 02 March 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1450 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

WIGAN

... scope to the Wigan Tory press, last week, to wind their horns and ring&*e changes on the clandestine pro- ceedings of the Whigs, as if the party whom they serve were entirely free from blame in this business. We be- lieve that the question of the necessity ...

NATIONAL EXPENDITURE

... expenditure-simply be- cause it is one which the people, of all classes and parties, have at heart; and because he deemed that Whig resistance to it would assist in damaging the ministry, and in preparing the way for a return to power of the Tory protectionists ...

Published: Saturday 16 March 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2053 | Page: 4 | Tags: News