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LANCASTER SPRING ASSIZES

... face all the time. I am certain it was him, though his face was as black as up the chimney at the time. I was quite sober.-Mr. WHIG- HAM cross-examined the witness, but did not shake his ?? Seed: I am an innkeeper in Rish- ton, and on the day named I paid ...

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... victim to his zeal in endeavouring to maintain the law. At the time of Job- bing's trial an old law had been revived by the Whigs, which condemned a murderer to the gibbet. Jobbing was the only person, we believe, gibbeted under that act; -but se great ...

Published: Saturday 29 March 1856
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 11810 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE CRIMEAN INQUIRY

... re- quiring to be left to itself to eliminate all the dangerous gases, and become flat, stale, unprofitable, and safe. As a whig, be, when beating about for expedients, naturally thought of a commission, and, as a passed secretary at war of some half century's ...

THE POSITION OF THE MINISTRY

... his innermost heart of hearts than Lord Palmerston himself. It was a bid for popularity and office on the part of the effete Whig, Lord John Russell, and had merely the fate It deserved. The education of the peo- ple is one thing, and parliamentary action ...

Published: Saturday 19 April 1856
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1013 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

HISTORY OF THE PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATION OF PRESTON

... Minister, having succeeded his brother, Mr. i Pelham, in that high office, on the death of the lat- P ter, in 1754. He was a Whig, which party was then T in power. George the Second was King. The elder si Pitt, Henry Fox (father of Charles James Fox), ce ...

Published: Saturday 24 May 1856
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4591 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

HISTORY OF THE PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATION OF PRESTON

... against all. opposition, at six general elections subsequent to the agreement. In l pursuance of this compact, Lord Stanley, the Whig, and John Horroeks, the Tory, were candidates at the election in 1802, and were returned without oppo- sition. Sir H. P. Hoghton ...

Published: Saturday 07 June 1856
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6092 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... falls to the fdoor an inanimate lump of Incarnate cowardice, and most glorious exemplar of the man of peace. The Richmond Whig says,- As will be seen by telegraph. Mr. Brooks, of South Carolina, after the adjournment of the Senate on yesterday, administered ...

Published: Saturday 14 June 1856
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 7140 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

HISTORY OF THE PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATION OF PRESTON

... Hanson's committee were Thir. T. Wilsor, banker, Ir. T. Suaell, attorney, and Mr. T. Emmett, timber merchant, who disliked this Whig and Tory combination. Mr. Joseph Hanson -was the son of a Mr. William Hanson, an eminent manufacturer and merchant, of Can ...

Published: Saturday 14 June 1856
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4912 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

HISTORY OF THE PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATION OF PRESTON

... present member for Westminster, and the gallant hero of the Crimea, visited Preston as a candidate on the invitation of the Whigs. The gallant officer was in a fair way of being elected, but a deputation arrived from the now defunct borough of Rye, demanding ...

Published: Saturday 21 June 1856
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4251 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE ITALIAN QUESTION

... path that points to French despotism, or English political intrigue. We have therefore a fine debate in both houses. The passe Whig statesman mounts'his jaded Pegasus, and cuts a few antiquated gambadoes; the old Tory peer makes, as he always does, a noble ...

Published: Saturday 19 July 1856
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1763 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

IRELAND

... istbelieved, will take place early in August. There are several candi. dates in the field; the Bon. G. P. O'Calisghan, on the Whig interest;; and Captain Henry William Massy, of the. Tipperary Artillery, on the Conservative. ...

Published: Saturday 26 July 1856
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 642 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN NEWS

... United States in that direction. The treasury was empty, and governm mnt had borrowed 500,000 dollars. The' Kingston, Canada, Whig states ttat the feud existing between the two bodies of Orangemen in Canada, a feud that has long been a reproach to the Protestant ...

Published: Saturday 26 July 1856
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3573 | Page: 2 | Tags: News