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NOTABILIA OF LEEDS ELECTIONS

... Government—Mr. Baines, who had hitherto supported the Liberal Whigs in Leeds, heading a party of the I*issenters to vote for Mr. Sturge. The Conservatives, however, by joining the advocates of the Whig Education Bill, again carried their favourite, Mr. Beckett ...

Published: Saturday 06 June 1857
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 987 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

GENERALITIES

... honest Liberal, in or out of office, will assist them to accomplish. The Whig Edinburgh Review, in an article on the political state of things, looks upon the Premier as the Whig centre of unity, and in glowing language, in which Mr. Gladstone and Lord ...

Published: Saturday 25 April 1857
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1733 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

In all probability Sir Colin Campbell will be s u JT ceeded as Inspector General of Infantry by Sir Freder*

... wounded. VTesteTday night week, th e of musketry was incessant—not bhu?k cartridge, but ft charges of ball and shot. The Northern Whig has Deel tne y formed that whtfe the troops were clearing the streets, pursued the crowd at the bayonet's point, and {hat ...

Published: Saturday 25 July 1857
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 758 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

A CONTRAST

... but exceedingly stupid under- whip to the Whigs for some time. It impossible that such a man, but for his name and connexion, could have got beyond a tide waiter-ship* He would have been of no use to the Whigs, even in the contemptible post he recently ...

Published: Saturday 19 December 1857
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 945 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

GENERALITIES

... Bill—that is, he would abolish the Whig boroughs which the Reform Bdl left. The Whigs extinguished the Tory close boroughs, but kept their own ; and now that the counties were found to be generally Conservative, the Whigs wanted to tamper with the county ...

Published: Saturday 04 April 1857
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2064 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

COMMERCIAL

... 1856, the same quantity fetched 355. In an elaborate notice of the state of the crops in the north of Ireland, the Northern Whig states that the grain continues to make surprising progress, and that barley, of which a greater breadth has been sown than ...

Published: Saturday 08 August 1857
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 504 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

POINTS—POLITICAL AND SOCIAL

... he not been suspected by the Whigs—who were inclined to try their strength on the point with Peel's Government —of intriguing to secure the dismissal of the Whigs, and of advising the dissolution of Parliament, and the Whigs took the opportunity to punish ...

Published: Saturday 25 April 1857
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1937 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE

... Conservative, contests the city with present representatives, Admiral Berkeley and Mr. Price. Grantham.—The Hon. F. Tollemache is a Whig candidate, in opposition to Lord W. Graham. Greenock.—Mr. Dunlop retires. Great Yarmouth.—'lhe Conservative candidates are ...

Published: Saturday 14 March 1857
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2355 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE NEUTRALITY OF PARTIES AT THE PRESENT DAY

... show that we have entered into a new phase of political experience, and that a highly informed public opinion, instead of Whigs and Tories, Radicals and Conservatives, is destined to pioneer our future course a3 a people. Indeed, we believe that the very ...

Published: Saturday 26 December 1857
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1179 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

The last Case of Crim. Con , let us hope, has

... the admission of Jews to Parliament, and the abolition of church rates. It is somewhat satisfactory to perceive that any new Whig members who like the field for vacant constituencies feel themselves compelled to make a stand in favour of the ballot. Mr ...

Published: Saturday 05 September 1857
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 701 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

POINTS—POLITICAL AND SOCIAL

... amount down once for all may be adopted, in place of throwing a life-charge upon the public. A witty writer in the Northern Whig naively points out that Her Majesty is the most energetic of ladies. She was delivered of a daughter a week or two ago ; and ...

Published: Saturday 23 May 1857
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1925 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE LATE ROBERT HALL, ESQ., M.P

... object of his, more mature years, his melancholy fate has excited the most lively regret among all classes of the community. Whig and Radical, throwing aside any angry feelings which an election defeat might have engendered, deplore bis untimely end. For ...

Published: Saturday 30 May 1857
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 872 | Page: 4 | Tags: none