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CORRESPONDENCE

... THE EDITOR OF THE PRESTON CHRONICLE. SiB,-At the meeting at the Corn Exchange, on Tues- day evening, Dr. Drew snubbed the Whigs, and our worthy Vicar rather quaintly referred to the last election, that if there had been fair-play, the second Tory member ...

Published: Saturday 12 November 1859
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1773 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

MEETING OF PARLIAMENT

... supported. WVe have reason to know that at length seine light has broken in upon the exclu- sive circles of the Whig aristocracy and Whig politicians, and that it is acknowledged by them that they can never again take a leading pert in Dte a ministration ...

Published: Saturday 04 June 1859
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1494 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE ELECTION

... certain exclusive and illiberal proceedings of the Whigs, it is not better to try what can be got from 'the Tories. We should have thought a more rational course would have been to have thrown Whigs and Tories overboard altogether, and to have assisted ...

Published: Saturday 30 April 1859
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1958 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

... as by those who had a majority in the Council Chamiber, but still they could like the balance of power re- dressed. Hence Whig and Tory were to be pitted against each other in each ward. As the time for talk passed away, and the season for action arrived ...

Published: Saturday 29 October 1859
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 574 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

PARLIAMENTARY TACTICS

... bearers of historic names, they do not concede to them the exclusive pos- session of intellect. Much of the weakness of previous Whig governments has arisen from an unwillingness to recruit their forces beyond the charmed circle of the titled. We may hope that ...

Published: Saturday 28 May 1859
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 842 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

MINISTERIAL REVELATIONS

... braving public opinion by any indiscreet use of their powerful party organisation. Mr. Disraeli has openly told us that the Whigs were no longer to have the monopoly of reform, and, therefore, there is little doubt but that, if the latter start fairly in ...

Published: Saturday 12 November 1859
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1017 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

IRELAND

... wildly exclaimed, .0O Lord, Lord, and passcdinte thepresenco of his Judge.-Arinegh TaE MORtALITY OF REVIVAnisam.-The Nrlsherw Whig produces some curious facts, fortified by dull and plodding statistics, to disprove the allegation of the Revivalists, that ...

Published: Saturday 01 October 1859
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1039 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Pickings from Punch

... hear; [year ! Oh, 'tis my delight of a stormy night in the session of the As I and my companions a Jew Bill did prepare, The Whigs called out, That's cribb'd from us ; but for them we did not care, For we can shuffle or dodge, my boys-creep under any- ...

Published: Saturday 26 March 1859
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1014 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

THE MINISTRY

... Independent Liberals are represented by Mr. Cobden and Mr. Milner Gibson. The rest of the cabinet may be taken as of the Whig school, pmr ce sidple. Lord Campbell's elevation to the woolsack will excite surprise, as the Chancellorship was the natural ...

Published: Saturday 18 June 1859
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1108 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE LIBERAL DEMONSTRATION

... bravely before Horrocks, and Barrie, and Parker, but which was once somewhat ignominiously lowered, in order to vex the then Whig Mr. Stanley, to Henry Hunt and his cap of liberty, was actually dipped be- fore the banners of St. Wilfrid and St. Augustine ...

Published: Saturday 10 December 1859
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1217 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

ELECTION COMMITTEES

... barefaced corruption. In seeking access to the House of Commons, we do not find much difference, in this respect, in parties. Whigs, Tories, aud Radicals each covet the honour, and there are large numbers of each party who are willing to pay for it. Mr. Leatham ...

Published: Saturday 30 July 1859
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1058 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE REFORM QUESTION

... probable chance of obtaining.-(Hear, hear.) He had a letter written by Mr. T. Taylor, the representative of the Conservative Whigs of Lancashire, in which he said that the present government intend to lower the franchise, in the county from £50 to £20, in ...

Published: Saturday 19 February 1859
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1314 | Page: 2 | Tags: News