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THE TIMES AND OUR FOREIGN AFFAIRS

... a time to do anything which will tend to weaken his power; and yet past history has proved nothing to be so hurtful to the Whigs as the suspicion that they are friends of what is termed the Ensrlish party. Let but the suspicion be indulged that England ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1850
Newspaper: Hertford Mercury and Reformer
County: Hertfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 716 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

(Original MEETING of THE HERTS. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. CTo the Editor of the HERTFORD MERCURY) Sir, —In your ..

... sound financial reform—a reform which is as much object of necessity as the change in the parliamentary representation. When Whig and Tory governments can be constrained, the election of proper representatives, to reduce, some millions, the present vast ...

Published: Saturday 05 October 1850
Newspaper: Hertford Mercury and Reformer
County: Hertfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1254 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

IRELAND

... charge upon the estates. Incendiarism the County of Down.—lncendiarism is a'-rain appearing in the county of Down. The Belfast Whig contains accounts of the destruction by fire of three dwelling-houses and some outoilices within the past week. ...

Published: Saturday 12 October 1850
Newspaper: Hertford Mercury and Reformer
County: Hertfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 176 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Odds and Ends

... edit newspapers are enabled to carry on tea-table gossip at considerable distances. Mrs. Prewitt, editress of the Yazoo City Whig, writes to Mrs. Swisshelm, who presides over the fortunes of the Pittsburgh Saturday Visiter :— We receive your paper reg ...

Published: Saturday 26 October 1850
Newspaper: Hertford Mercury and Reformer
County: Hertfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1967 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Hertford

... distinguished by a resort to stratagems varied as were ever introduced into any contest. For all this, the victory of the united Whig party has been decisive. Tory opposition, and Liberal defection (fortunately, trifling in extent) have failed! The bug-bear ...

Published: Saturday 02 November 1850
Newspaper: Hertford Mercury and Reformer
County: Hertfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 608 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION

... selected by the party, who were certain to secure the majority liberal votes. On Monday morning the Whig party issued its list. Mr. Randall, the retiring Whig Councillor, had declined to stand again, on account of ill health, and another gentleman vvas brought ...

Published: Saturday 02 November 1850
Newspaper: Hertford Mercury and Reformer
County: Hertfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1952 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

READ BEFORE YOU VOTE !

... the Town Council must he conducted on political grounds ! Another Tory leader also told you air Whigs were unfit for office, because they were Whigs. The Whigs were thus compelled to fight for the seats in the Council on party grounds; and now that the Tories ...

Published: Saturday 02 November 1850
Newspaper: Hertford Mercury and Reformer
County: Hertfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1958 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ARMA VIRUMQUE

... With them the horrid Whigs circumvent. Ne'er mind 'em. Whigs —the loudest bark .- no bite Asses may roar, but are not lions q&ito. Now comes the tug of war r like a huge rock Amid the foaming billows, in the fight Stands the Whig interest, giving shock ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1850
Newspaper: Hertford Mercury and Reformer
County: Hertfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 525 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PUBLIC DINNER AND PRESENTATION OF THE WORKING-MEN'S TESTIMONIAL TO THE MAYOR (YOUNG CRAWLEY, ESQ.)

... comprised persons of all classes of the community, and all shades of politics ; and assured them that the Town Council, although Whig, conducted the business of the town without political bias, and With a desire to promote the interests of the inhabitants lar-re ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1850
Newspaper: Hertford Mercury and Reformer
County: Hertfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 7653 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HERTFORD TOWN COUNCIL ELECTION

... hands the Tories, and only seven years ago they were told in that place that the Whigs were not lit to hold seats there (hear, hear). The tables were now turned. The Whigs knew thai the position of their opponents had been maintained the exercise of undue ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1850
Newspaper: Hertford Mercury and Reformer
County: Hertfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3413 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

News of the Week

... extinct. The English baronetcy descends to Mr., now Sir Thomas Parkyns, of Ruddington, near Nottingham. Through life was a Whig and something more, till within a few months of his death, when amongst his private friends and confidential correspondents ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1850
Newspaper: Hertford Mercury and Reformer
County: Hertfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1998 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PAPAL AGGRESSION

... Such rank and precedence it was not in the power of the Lord-Licutena it either to confess or to withhold—whether he were a Whig or Orangeman it was his duty to treat them according to the dignity which it had pleased the Sovereign to recognize In their ...

Published: Saturday 16 November 1850
Newspaper: Hertford Mercury and Reformer
County: Hertfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 897 | Page: 4 | Tags: none