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A PARLIAMENTARY DEBUT

... took his stand in the presence of the Whig dignitaries of whom he bad spoken evil, and of the puzzled country gentlemen, who could not undefatand how their Toryism was more democratic than the politics of the Whigs, who were wont to drink to civil and ...

Published: Saturday 19 November 1859
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 555 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

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... IrclattU. COMMERCIAL FAILURE.—The Northern Whig alludes to the suspension of an eminent commercial firm in Belfast, with heavy liabilities; but as names are not given, it is unnecessary to particularise until the facts appear ia a more authentic and reliable ...

Published: Saturday 23 July 1859
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 81 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

PERSONAL. -

... superior thrift, and took his leave. Unfortun- ately for Hopkins, he happened to be a whig, and was, moreover, concerned in various loans to a government composed of whigs this may account for the exacerba- tion of Pope in the following lines from Epistle ...

Published: Saturday 24 September 1859
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 434 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

! SIR JAMES'S DEEDS

... manfully, and fought with a courage the memory of which yet remains and when, by means of a combination of Protectionists and Whigs, Lord John Rus- sell was placed in office, Sir James helped to preserve the ministry in their free-trade career. Those were ...

Published: Saturday 12 November 1859
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 179 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

DEATH OF MR. HENRY HALLAM

... After leaving the university he took up his residence in London, joined himself to the whigs, and acquired his first reputation, as a contributor to the great Whig Review established in the northern metropolis. ...

Published: Saturday 29 January 1859
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 572 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

(From the Daily News.)

... Tory scheme of electoral change. Large and liberal promises were held out vaguely of concessions to popular worth and loyalty. Whig biddings were characterised as niggardly and narrow, and even Radical proposals were stigmatised as wanting in comprehensiveness ...

Published: Saturday 05 March 1859
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 215 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

ETELANU

... the Viceregal office should be dispensed with. This communication has spread a panic among the citizens, and the old cry of whig treachery is raised, as an underplot, having for its object the abolition of the Viceroyalty, is said to be darkly shadowed ...

Published: Saturday 02 July 1859
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 238 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

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... wasted in party discussions, and by the general election. The Reform Bill of the Conservatives satisfied few, and that of the Whigs was not brought forward. Questions of pressing importance were passed over. For all practical pur- poses Parliament might as ...

Published: Saturday 31 December 1859
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 726 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

ELECTION INTELLICENCE

... 1. EAST WORCESTERSHIRE ELECTION. — The nomination took place at Worcester on Saturday, the candidates being Mr. Calthorp (Whig), and Mr. Pakington (Conservative), and the show of hands was declared by the high sheriff to be in favour of Mr. Calthorp ...

Published: Saturday 26 February 1859
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 285 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

LATEST ELECTION INTELLIGENCE

... ELECTION SONG. BY A FREE AND INDEPENDENT. I've a vote! I've a vote! for no matter which side. To neither whig, tory, nor rad am I tied: Up, up with the hustings !—'tis a gold mine to me; I've a vote! I've a vote! independent and free I heed not dishonour ...

Published: Saturday 07 May 1859
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 237 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

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... friends reside in Glasgow, whither she was bound, but her birthplace was Malta, where her father had been a soldier.-Northern Whig. MR. FREDERICK DOUGLASS IN HALIFAX - This well-known anti-slavery agitator, who, it has been said, is mixed up with the Harper's ...

Published: Saturday 17 December 1859
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 678 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

T O W N TALK

... after two months of parliamentary honours, is replaced by an old gentleman, who has grown in twenty years from a tory into a whig, and something more. At Cheltenham the Berkeley influence wanes, for there is a doubt as to the return. At Dover we find that ...

Published: Saturday 07 May 1859
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1588 | Page: 2 | Tags: News