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ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITEBATUBB

... party names, the words Whig and Tory, although they are not much above thirty years old, having been pressed to the service of many successions of psrties with very different ideas fastened to them.” Explain the origin of the words Whig” aod Tory,” and examine ...

Published: Tuesday 02 September 1856
Newspaper: Belfast Mercury
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 339 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

STOCKS AND SHARES

... represent the Council and its Members to their readers as practising the expedients resorted to only fraudulent bankrupts. The Whig yesterday, in its comments upon the Council meeting of Monday, affected to feel the greatest alarm for the safety of the municipal ...

Published: Wednesday 03 September 1856
Newspaper: Belfast Mercury
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1175 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MR. ROEBUCK AND HIS CONSTITUENTS

... great parlies that then divided tbe House of Commons and the kingdom. On the one side 1 saw predominant in power the great Whig party of tbe realm; on tbe opposite benches saw, diminished in numbers, cowed in spirit, but still powerful in their hold opon ...

Published: Monday 08 September 1856
Newspaper: Belfast Mercury
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 3725 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FASHION AND VARIETIES

... should fate capricious Deny you bread, Your rich good friend grown avaricious. Will ** cut you dead.” Where’er a statesman. Whig or Tory. Talk? load and long, serving country for the glory, .. With yearning strong; Needing no Sovereign to regard him, Look ...

Published: Monday 08 September 1856
Newspaper: Belfast Mercury
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 653 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE WATER QUESTION

... ratepayers who have to pay the piper? *' Fourthly, is fact, that you have so mismanaged former Acts of Parliament, that neither Whig# nor Tories would trust you with another? Fifthly, is it fact that there is more pure water running to waste through Mr. Howie’s ...

Published: Tuesday 09 September 1856
Newspaper: Belfast Mercury
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 999 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

AGGRAVATED IRDECENT ASSW&T

... Lord Dunkellin, on the Whig, will be candidates for the vacant seat. Should silent member, not hundred miles from Galway, observe that passive mood so characteristic of the roan, and refrain from throwing his weight into the Whig scale, the contest will ...

Published: Saturday 13 September 1856
Newspaper: Belfast Mercury
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2061 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

OUR CONTEMPORARIES

... procession of Democrats, but of Neapolitan Constitutionalists —of men whose opinions are about as far advanced as those of old Whigs and members of the Fox Club England. We will not confine tbe test on our own side to the metropolis, but the King of the Two ...

Published: Thursday 18 September 1856
Newspaper: Belfast Mercury
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1525 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE BELFAST DAILY MERCURY. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20. 1856. LITERARY GOSSIP

... Campdeo-bill, as has already done those chambers in tbe Albany, henceforth sacred to sight-aeers so long tbe abode of the great Whig annalist. People are beginning to wonder again whether any fresh marvel is to be expected soon from the most accomplished author ...

Published: Saturday 20 September 1856
Newspaper: Belfast Mercury
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1696 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE LACAN AND THE WATER SUPPLY

... bare been itching to write. Haring resolred, I had great cogitation as to the paper I should honour. I dare not reuture on the Whig, for many reasons. As to the News Letter , if carry out its riews, I should not take off ray beard on Saturday night, because ...

Published: Wednesday 10 September 1856
Newspaper: Belfast Mercury
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 5225 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FASHION AND VARIETIES

... the most pleasing events the history of the borough, owing to the entire abandonment of political feeling by Conservatives, Whigs, and Radicals, Churchmen, Dissenters, and Ro. man Catholics, all desirous of “ doing honour to the brave.” Tbe spacious ball-room ...

Published: Thursday 25 September 1856
Newspaper: Belfast Mercury
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2994 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE BELFAST DAILY MERCUEY, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11. 1856

... but we are sorry to say that he leaves us quite in the dark upon that point. All w? can learn from him is, that he is neither Whig, nor Tory, nor anything else but Mr. Roebuck, a sort of political party sole, lib explanation, in which he informs the people ...

Published: Thursday 11 September 1856
Newspaper: Belfast Mercury
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 3211 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BELFAST BOARD OF GUARDIANS

... was also the leading paper in assailing other gentleman who had tendered collect tho rate. Last year that same journal (the Whig), with the assistance of Achates, made such attack upon the party to whom alluded, that the guardians were induced not to give ...

Published: Thursday 04 September 1856
Newspaper: Belfast Mercury
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 9473 | Page: 3 | Tags: none