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... the day passed over peaceably; and from no quarter have we heard that anything disagreeable had occurred.— Belfast Northern Whig of Tuesday. ABOLITION OE THE LORD - LIEUTENANCY.—The High Sheriff of Dublin, Mr J. M‘Donnell, who is governor of the Bank of ...

IRELAND

... neighbourhood, the day passed over peaceably; and from quarter have we beard that anything di-a/reeable had occurred—Northern Whig of Tuesday. Mbrdrr krar Portadown.—A most cold-blooded Tuesday week, the victim being Mr John Woolsey.a gentleman rather opulent ...

Published: Thursday 28 March 1850
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 509 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

EXTENSION OF THE FRANCHISE

... amusing illustrations of what elections cost, lie had found that in Harwich 94 Tory votes cost £6300; 81 Whig votes cost £2OOO. Nottingham, Whig votes coat £12,000; 144 Tory votes cost £5900. What better remedy for this than the extension of the franchise ...

PROGRESS OF PROTECTION. From the Scottish Agricultural Journal

... the mouth of its chairman, Mr Davidson of Tulloch, any thing but a protection meeting, this assemblage at which the quondam Whig farmers of this important corn district listened with avidity to such addresses as those of General Munro and Dr Mackenzie ...

TAXATION AND EXPENDITURE

... reduction in his own salary of £ll,OOO a-year, as Lord Chancellor, on account of the cheapness of food. His correspondent was a Whig, and something more, for he was a red-hot Radical. By these free-trade measures they had lowered the value of the produce, ...

SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS. THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS. ( From the Daily News.)

... toss with a million at a time. Yet this is to be made a Ministerial question. Then economy is not a Ministerial question. The Whigs first came is on the Civil List. They stick in on the African squadron. Out of the Civil List they have contrived to save a ...

HOUSE OF COMMONS

... supported him. Sooner or later, however, he believed every one would carried : the reaping time was coming of seed long sown the Whigs had been preaching the doctrine of democracy for the last 150 years. Mr ROEBUCK said the measure had been opposed in the spirit ...

Published: Thursday 07 March 1850
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2151 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PROGRESS OF IMPROVEMENT IN IRELAND

... of these arrangements, the Irish people are deeply indebted to the of Clarendon. THE BELFAST QUEEN'S COLLEGE. The Northera Whig has the following statement : We are glad to be able to state, for the information of the friends of agricultural improvement ...

THE TERMINATION OF VICE-ROYALTY

... lord paramount wherever paragraphs have power. And this brings us to the notice of the unseemly mode which the Government, Whig or Tory, have adopted of giving the first annunciation of great public measures—not from their high official positions, not ...

FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT

... of the national budget. For some months past, it has been known that we were to be blessed with that rare phenomenon under Whig rule—a surplus of revenue to the extent of nearly two millions; and speculation has been upon the stretch to know what was ...

FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT

... of our pursuing our present policy. The division list shows a curious state of Parties. The majority is chiefly composed of Whigs, with a sprinkling of old Tories, and a few of the Peelites. But the great majority of the Protectionists have voted in the ...