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... maternal uncle, Mr. Wm. Joseph Denison, who be- queathed to him the bulk of his wealth. His lordship was a supporter of the Whig party. The deceased was a patron of the turf, and had a princely racing stud. He is succeeded in his title and extensive landed ...

Published: Saturday 21 January 1860
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 307 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

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... the weary conflict cease, My pledge at last will be redeemed, and I shall be at peace. And when Reform is set at rest, the Whigs will haply say: x A the tie, the tie is broken between us and dear Lord Grey. FOR THE ORERA STALLS.—So Mario and Mongini take ...

Published: Saturday 19 May 1860
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 308 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

FROM THE MORNING STAR

... men especially obnoxious to the Liberal majority in the Commons, and to the popular party throughout the country—the one, a Whig sinecurist; the other the very champion of aristocratic privilege against the rights of the people. All technicalities apart ...

Published: Saturday 19 May 1860
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 371 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

DEATH OF LORD MACAULAY

... his essay on Milton, in the Edinburgh Review, drew upon him the attention of the entire reading public. The leaders of the Whig party, in acknowledgment of his literary superiority, appointed Mr. Macaulay a Com- missioner of Bankruptcy, and in 1830 he ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1860
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 815 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

FROM THE OBSERVER

... most prominent is Lord Qverstone—also a great financial authority,-who joins Lord Monteagle and Sir Francis Baring, two former Whig Chancel- lors of the Exchequer, in resisting the abrogation of this profitable tax. But it is to the strong declara- tion of ...

Published: Saturday 19 May 1860
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 389 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE GUARDIAN

... and vigorously, and the nation will applaud them. It is the beginning of the end that we witness in the discomfiture of the Whigs in the.practice of their own principles. Going back to the Reform era of 30 years ago, who so loud as they for economy and ...

THE GUARDIAN

... those sordid influences which Are so much deprecated in the present body. As the former measure was such a beau ideal with the Whigs 48 to lead them to consider it a final one, how comes it 'that they attempt such a revolutionizing of the old con- stituency ...

THE REVIVALS IN THE NORTH,

... THE REVIVALS IN THE NORTH, The Northern Whig gives the following account of the suicide of a Heviyal preacher in Coleraine, at the close of last week: William M'Beth, the unfortunate victim., was for many years known in Coleraine as of very indifferent ...

Published: Saturday 02 June 1860
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 479 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

DEATH OF VICE-ADMIRAL SIR CEORCE R. BROOKE PECHELL, M.P

... the House of Commons by the electors of that borough in 1835. During his parliamentary career he had uniformly supported the Whig administration. On all occasions while in Parliament he displayed a strong and most natural interest in the efficiency of the ...

Published: Saturday 07 July 1860
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 444 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

WILL THE CHINESE FIGHT?

... sharp short fight at Tien-tsin, and the old Chinese Tory will again disappear for a little interval, while the old Chinese Whig, not a very progressive creatnre, takes up the difficulty. These are the probabilities of the case and, although it is commonly ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1860
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 494 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

EXTRAORDINARY RATES OF FARM PRODUCE

... and farm is in some instances up to a point. which far exceeds the rates paid in the days of the First Napoleon. The Northern Whig remark*:— Butter is a ready sale at 124s. the cwt. for prime, being the highest price known for 40 years past; and pork sells ...

Published: Saturday 14 April 1860
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 548 | Page: 2 | Tags: News