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THE LIBERAL REGISTRATION

... .. 0 37 0 Ditto (non resident) 1 0 22 1 90 9 177 17 9 17 81 160 Whigs and Tories expunged 160, Liberals 81, leaving to the Liberal party a majority of 79 on objections. New Claims. Whigs Liberals Do not and Tories Do not allowed. count. allowed. count ...

Published: Saturday 24 October 1857
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
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THE DEBATE ON THE BALLOT

... and his zealous Whig ally. This utter scorn of a most important question was followed by its utter condemnation pronounced in the lobby of the House by the votes of no less than two hundred and fifty seven members of all shades of Whig and Conservative ...

Published: Saturday 04 July 1857
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1609 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE NON-ELECTORAL MOVEMENT

... working classes are now induced to look mainly to themselves for the realization of those promises, of which certain Whig statesmen and Whig agitators were lavish, as long as their own accession to power and influence depended on the popular supports. The ...

Published: Saturday 02 May 1857
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
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STATISTICS OF THE LATE CONTEST

... unpolled, aud that all who had ld redeem P led^'Sir lghtto [ f a upon a majority of hundreds, even if all the seceders-all the Whigs and all the Tories lent together, as they did, a coalition against him. a mhforitv JUB T?I Pf tations was left S»If„T al' ...

Published: Saturday 04 April 1857
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 508 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE INFLUENTIAL VICTORY

... weeks since has Samm: yed *°* * d to c pregramme; and the curtain now falls upon a grand and h T com P a arrayed in mixed Whig umformS '. aud exultin confederates arab. only remains for Sir Joshua Walmsley to go elsewhere, and for the inhabitants of ...

Published: Saturday 04 April 1857
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1697 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Bettering

... for to-morrow (Friday), 10 a.m. Both Whig and Conservative committees have been busy during the week, and there is a general rumour that Mr. G. W. Hunt, the Conservative candidate, will be opposed, but it said the Whigs do not intend to bear the cost bringing ...

Published: Saturday 12 December 1857
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
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SIR JOSHUA WALMSLEY IN LEICESTER

... will only mean an extension of the landed influence, and a proportionate reduction of that ot the Borough constituences. The Whigs seem inclined to measure the right of suffrage by a strictly educational test, acting on the idea, that a good education n ...

Published: Saturday 27 June 1857
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1695 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE JOURNAL AND THE MAGISTRACY

... election, and a second petition, as humble clients and allies ot the renegade Leicester Whigs, for the purpose of returnln-g to Parliament two members of pure Whig sentiments, who were diametrically opposed to them upon every question on which it was possible ...

Published: Saturday 16 May 1857
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 963 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE LIBERAL REGISTRATION

... the influentials, acting under the direct countenance, and as • would seem, with the cordial concurrence of the Leicester Whigs. How far the Conservative element is mixed with the movement, would at present be premature to affirm. But this at least is ...

Published: Saturday 18 July 1857
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1030 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE TOWN CLERK OP NORTHAMPTON

... government, from which, while itself iv power, it took especial care exclude every individual, suspected even a tendency towards Whig or Radical opinions. Again and again we have been told, that no possible harm would or could accrue to society from the adoption ...

Published: Saturday 28 November 1857
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1545 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Correspondence. TO THB EdITOB OP THE LEICESTEB MeBCTJBT. Sir, —Permit me few words to inform your corresp° n ent

... render this declaration some* superfluous; but as your correspondent persists in that a compact has been formed between the and Whig parties in Leicester upon this subject, instanced my presence at Neal Dow's lecture, proof of' fact, I desire to give to his ...

Published: Saturday 13 June 1857
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 370 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

MR. MARKHAM'S REPLY TO MR. LATCHMORE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LEICESTER MERCURY. Sir, —Although several of your ..

... —During and ever since the late election the most malignant and unprovoked attacks have been made through the organ of the Whigs upon the great body of the people and those staunch friends who fought their battle, by aspersing their conduct, and then taunting ...

Published: Saturday 18 April 1857
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
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