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A FORTUNATE WHIG

... A FORTUNATE WHIG. Mr. William Cowper, now Vice President of the Board of Trade, is to appointed First Commissioner of Public Works, which place has been kept open for him nearly two months. Mr. Cowper, who is nephew of the late Lord Melbourne, and step-son ...

Published: Saturday 04 February 1860
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 257 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A monster prayer meeting has been held in the Botanic Gardens, Belfast. The Northern Daily Whig estimates that ..

... A monster prayer meeting has been held in the Botanic Gardens, Belfast. The Northern Daily Whig estimates that 20,000 persons were present. Pedestbianism. A pedestrian named J. Barfield alias the Sussex Wonder, performed the remarkable feat on Wednesday ...

Published: Saturday 07 July 1860
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 267 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

SARDINIA

... Palk. In his politics he was decided Whig, in favour of Bank, of protection to American manufactures, of internal improvements at the cost of the national Government, and of the other cardinal articles of the Whig creed, all of which are now obsolete ...

Published: Saturday 02 June 1860
Newspaper: Windsor and Eton Express
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 719 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ANTECEDENTS OF THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

... success at the bar Springfield. In politics, to which, while following his profession, he paid great attention, he joined the Whig party, and was a warm supporter of Henry Clay. 1846 he was elected to Congress, and continued to belong to it till 1849, He ...

Published: Saturday 01 December 1860
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 538 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PENSIONS AND SINECURISTS. To the Editor of the Berkshire Chronicle. Sir,—On Wednesday, the 3rd instant, Mr. ..

... provide for himself and family? I confess I never heard of him as a public man, excepting a thick and thin supporter of the whig-radicals when in office, for which he is now about to be rewarded. It is pleasing to find that the learned Serjeant is not ...

Published: Saturday 13 October 1860
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 355 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

' THE CA.BINET. the air of Cere's the maiden of blushing fifteen. Haw's to the statesmen who role o'er the

... Cere's the maiden of blushing fifteen. Haw's to the statesmen who role o'er the realm— uncommonly clever! verr fine thing have Whigs at the helm, And thev'd all like to stay there for ever. fl f re ' to them all, great ones and small, ®bo promise so much and ...

Published: Saturday 11 February 1860
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 276 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

TOPICS OF THE WEEK

... the view of perpetuating M afomily” act upon it, can only be reprded a matter choice. . . We observe that Mr. Beaumont, the Whig candidate for Newcsstle-upon-Tyne, has been returned by considerable majority over Mr. Contain, the advanced Liberal, the ...

Published: Saturday 08 December 1860
Newspaper: Windsor and Eton Express
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 777 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ORANGEISM IN IRELAND

... Commons, is a disgrace to the name of British statesmen and a British parliament. The following passage, says the Belfast Whig, will give some idea of the temper and language of the address Let us tell our beloved Queen, in respectful terms, that ...

Published: Saturday 01 December 1860
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 483 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Porttg. ANSWER TO LORD MACAULAY'S ENIGMA. A YOUNG LADY. Yes. His shudderine word, at which we tremble and quake ;

... perhaps quaere?), represented by the House of Commons. }| At the rebuke likely to be administered, if her Majesty knows what a whigging means (no bad thing, by the way, to administer to a delinquent judge of Lord Palmerston's appointing). On she does. 4ln ...

Published: Saturday 05 May 1860
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 494 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

BEADING VOLUNTEER RIFLE CORPS. To the Editor of the Berkshire Chronicle. Sir,—Having seen bills announcing that ..

... gory Shall stir up war 'twixt Tory. In hot July, When throats are dry, Our town thy cooling draught shall never fail. Tho' not Whig. I'll take my swig,— And sing thy praise in Harry Simonds' ale. An Old Reading School Boy. READING HORTICULTURAL SHOW. the ...

Published: Saturday 04 August 1860
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 602 | Page: 5 | Tags: none