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Madame George Sand is dangerously ill, at her country house rendered celebrated by her writings—Nohant. The ..

... would meet on Wednesday afternoon to determine as to what action they would take. Mr Layard, Somerset Beaumont (brother of the Whig member for South Northumberland), Miall, and other gentlemen are mentioned as candidates. It is not likely, without there is ...

Published: Friday 09 November 1860
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 237 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

AFTER-DINNER SPEECHES AND TOPICS

... light is desired. We mean the Franchise and National Finance. What care the people of Bristol about Tory views compared with Whig intentions? It is almost trifling with them to speak of the past and keep silence upon the future. The Reform Bill of last ...

Published: Thursday 15 November 1860
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1085 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

... in the Liberal interest, in the field for the representation of this borough in Parliament, viz.:—Mr Somerset A. Beaumont, a Whig ; Mr Carstairs, a more advanced Liberal and Dissenter; and Mr Peter A. Taylor, a Radical and advocate of universal suffrage ...

Published: Friday 16 November 1860
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1711 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

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

Published: Thursday 22 November 1860
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 539 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Topics of the Day

... Beaumont polled votes, and Mr Carstairs received the support of 1,500 electors. The former gentleman, who is understood to be a Whig moderate opinions, was consequently elected. The drain of gold from this country continues. Seventy thousand sovereigns were ...

Published: Saturday 08 December 1860
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 787 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MR HORSMAN, M.P., AND HIS CONSTITUENTS AT STROUD, LAST NIGHT

... him. He asked—if the Queen sent for Cobden and Bright, would Mr Horsman join them (Mr Horsman—No.) He would not support the Whig, which was the best; then would he support Lord Derby (Mr Horsman did not answer, but merely shook his head.) The Chairman ...

Published: Friday 04 January 1861
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 3363 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MR HORSMAN AND HIS CONSTITUENTS

... defend. All this will be en dorsed by any one who has watched the hon. mem ber's career. Ever since he took office under th( Whigs he has been in a statB of transition. Before he was something more than a Liberal—a flaminj Radical, famous for his sweeping ...

Published: Friday 04 January 1861
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1045 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Spirit of the Press

... sympathy with the Tory party. He never could induce himself to act with the Radicals, much he respects them ; and, as to the Whigs, he says distinctly that he has opposed them on every great—and we might add on every little—measure of the session. By his ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1861
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2018 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A VICTIM TO REGULATION

... again have such another outrage on our civilisation as the miserable death of this wretched victim to regulation.—Northern Whig. ...

Published: Tuesday 22 January 1861
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 741 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MR SMITH O'BRIEN ON INVASION

... influence, and for which it wonld be as easy to return to Parliament a Repealer as to return Whig or a Conservative, in case such were the desire of the population whom Whigs and Conservatives now represent. An occasion recently presented itself in which every ...

Published: Monday 04 February 1861
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2127 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

COUNT PERSIGNY AND THE DU DIMANCHE

... confining itself, as the English to the reproduction of opinions, whether Liberal vative, aristocratic, or democratic, Tory, Whig, &tfPJf attacks the very principle of our institutions, and fly dynasty itself, I felt myself bound, if I was to rem U fill ...

Published: Monday 18 February 1861
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 506 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

REPRESENTATION OF BATH

... advanced with rapid strides; and this, he thought, they ought to keep pace with. Who could place his hand on his heart, whether Whig or Tory, and not acknowledge that tens of thousands were worthy ofthe franchise who did not now possess it ? The honest mechanic ...

Published: Friday 22 February 1861
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2783 | Page: 3 | Tags: none