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ELECTION INTELLIGENCE

... gdwird Mini, of the Liberation Society, to stand in I cotru~ction with Mr. Bazley, should ir. Gibson decline to do 0. The Whigs propose to invite Sir Charles Wood,| but as the right hon. gertlenan greatly offended the mill. owners by bis refusal to aid ...

Published: Saturday 10 June 1865
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 579 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... Tn the most powerful days of the old coalition, when opposition Was all but hopeless, and when to oppose the combination of Whig and Tory was to brave persecution asnd oppression, there wvas regularly a candidate in the field. Those who fought for the ...

Published: Saturday 17 June 1865
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 601 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

IRELAND

... ~ountry. Apropoosof Dublin Castle-Lord Carlisle I istheb last Lord-Iaeutenant, or to speak with more certainty, the very last Whig. Viceroy you will have in .Ireland. Trhis you may take:for giahted. It is just possible, if the Tories come into officq . that ...

Published: Saturday 08 September 1860
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 624 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

IRELAND

... full month of genial weather to bring the crops to maturity. In the course of a lengthened agricul- tural notice the Northern Whig thus reports the province of Ulster:- The prospects of the coming harvest in the north of Ireland are much superior to what ...

Published: Saturday 11 August 1860
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 718 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

A MARQUESS IN DIFFICULTIES

... %baitre, a connoisseur in dress, a user of hair oil, and a culler of essences. Circumstances which formed him a peer and a Whig, opened a path for him as a statesman and a diplomatist; he took his path, but he clung to his natural peculiarities, and the ...

Published: Saturday 21 February 1863
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1539 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE IRISH CHURCH

... a long and close embrace, each fancying that the other was a tool, to be used for any purpose of political ambition ; the Whigs, not having the courage to begin to make improvements which they see to be necessary and right, have accomplished little, of ...

Published: Saturday 01 April 1865
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1588 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

PARLIAMENTARY GOSSIP

... breaking the hearts of the reporters these two hours, beating Sir Charles hollow in entanglement; but he is a long. descended Whig, a rising young man, and must be taken care of. Your articles respecting the manner in which the estimates are treated in the ...

Published: Saturday 16 March 1861
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 719 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

LORD HARTINGTON ON THE LAND QUESTION

... says -,rho responses whicb Lord Hartiugton's speech at Sheffield is understood to have evoked, not only from Con- servative Whigs, but from Tories of the Stanley and Disraeli school, has natutally bad its effect. In his speech at Lismore, the future head ...

Published: Saturday 02 October 1869
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 753 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE BOROUGH FRANCHISE BILL

... Commons a few weeks since to reject Mr. Locke King's motion for a £10 county frachise, about the reasonableness of which both Whigs and Torys professed to be agreed five years ago. This week Mr. Baines has brought forward a measure for granting a £6 borough ...

Published: Saturday 14 May 1864
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 744 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

EXTENSION OF THE FRANCHISE

... extended to occupiers, and three out ef the four measures fixed the franchise at £10. Two of tllec bills were brought in by the Whigs, one by the Pelit(,. and one by the government of Lord Derby. in the House are thus publicly committed to tfl pra- ciple of ...

Published: Saturday 27 February 1864
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 690 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

PRESTON EXHIBITION

... in the politi- cal literature of the district may trace, after the cause of the Stuarts was hopelessly lost, the names of Whigs or Hanoverians admitted to the honoureiL The offices were tolerably numerous, and most of themxiwere such as were appointed ...