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BANQUET TO THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER

... Scotland-I heard that we had carried a measure not entitled to such distinc- tion as that for which more than seventy years the Whig party had teiled, since the time when, in the year 1793, .Lord Grey had been defeated by the machinations of Mr. Pitt. It is ...

Published: Saturday 02 November 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4392 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION

... hear.) Why then, he asked, should the Conservative Government he bleamed for following the line of policy pusrsuetd by the Whig Govermment ?-(App!ause.) Every Onp kn~ew that, they broke AIwn the railings pt Hyde Park to assert *wbat they considered P ...

Published: Saturday 22 February 1868
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4488 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE BATTLE OF THE IRON SHIPS

... Com. mons, affords a forcible illustration of the truth of the foregoing observations. Whilst the whole independent House, Whig, Tory, and Radical, professional, and civilian, was in alarm, and full of the importance of the recent battle, the two sapient ...

Published: Saturday 05 April 1862
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1376 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Latest Intelligence

... Confedlerafte Secretary of State does not yet see the necessity, nor approve of the policy of, arming the slaves. The Riclhiond Whig opposes President Davis's proposition to emancipate the slaves af~er service. Butler, in a speech which he made at Fifth Avenue ...

Published: Saturday 26 November 1864
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1277 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE EIGHT HOURS AND ARBITRATION MOVEMENT

... making such laws as they thought right.- (Cheers.) The Rev. J. R. STEPH.nas. explained that he did not seek to interfere between Whig and Tory differences, and did not for one moment wish to oppose any obstacle to Reform. He offered to discuss that question ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1427 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

Borrowed Crifles

... tbe weary onaflot oease, My pledge at last will be redeemed, and I shalt be at peace. And when Reform is set at rest, the WhIgs will baply say: Oh! the tie, the tie is broken between us and dear Lerd Grey. ...

Published: Saturday 19 May 1860
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1263 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE INDIAN TARIFF

... d. He next expatiated upon the qualities of land in India as being well qualified to produce cotton. He next denounced the Whig party as being the first to give in to the repeal of the corn-laws, yet it had been the first to inaugu- rate a reactionary ...

Published: Wednesday 14 May 1862
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1469 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE CAUSE AND CURE OF THE AMERICAN WAR

... to the law which had been. passed, and to which he had provioisly referred. At length it. b-eame a hard contest between the Whigs and the De- ocrat9 (pro-slaveiy) as to who should elect the chief presdent; but somle would not join either of those two parties; ...

Published: Saturday 21 March 1863
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1415 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

NATIONAL EDUCATION

... in the political, social, and theological worlds ; by Churchmen, Dissenters, and Secularists ; by Conservatives, Liberals, Whigs, and Republicans; and by them the programme of the League, which recoguises the necessity of com- pulsory elementary education ...

Published: Saturday 16 October 1869
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1439 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE LATE WALK-OVER

... indeed, with the exception of his late father, who was a Conservative, ino family has been more consistent in its support of the Whig or Liberal party, or been more firm in its support of the principles of civil and religious liberty than the Hoghtouis. Many ...

Published: Saturday 04 April 1863
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1443 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE PEOPLE AND THE PARKS

... drawn as chalking No Popery on a door, and then running away. But any inconsistency whereof the distinguished leader of the Whigs during a lengthened period of agitation on behalf of popular rights may sometimes be accused, is likely to be forgotten in ...

Published: Saturday 11 May 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1611 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

CONTEMPORARY PRESS

... resistance to progress, and the c~-yvof A.d, minlistrattive Ref'orm. The Tories could'support theata _and half the exclusive Whigs, terms could be made with the Irish, and the. country conciliated by, a real improvocuient in departmental organisation.. There ...

Published: Saturday 11 November 1865
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2916 | Page: 2 | Tags: News