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... arouse the Whigs to oppose the measure of their chief, by representing that the bill would be fatal to their political power. According to Mr Disraeli's reasoning, the advent of a large number of voters from the lower orders would swamp the Whig party, leaving ...

Published: Saturday 24 March 1860
Newspaper: Langport & Somerton Herald
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 276 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE NEW CABINET

... in England since the Coalition Cabinet ofLordAberdeen. The Telegraphmakes a similar complaint. In the new Ministry the Whig element so largely dilutes the Cabinet that it is difficult to detect the Radical flavour; but it must not be forgotten that ...

Varieties

... hybrid, the Whig —the Whig is gone. Tbe Whig is as dead as the Dodo —in contradistinction to which lamented bird, perchance, he will be known to future and almost incredulous ages as the Don't-don't! For, of late years, the only thing that any Whig ever did ...

CONSERVATIVE GAINS ON ELECTIONS

... arrives, as soon it will the Whigs will driven out a majority even larger than The following table has been drawn up from year to year, and may he relied upon January 1. 1864. 1863. Conservatives 314 312 307 Reelites 13 Whigs 233 2 Radicals % 240 U>6 ...

DEATH OF THE DUKE OF BEDFORD, K.G. The Duke of Bedford, who has for some months past heen in declining

... public career in the Lower House, voted ou all occasions with the Whig party, and, although an unfrequent speaker in the House of Peers, invariably supported the views and measures of the Whig Governments the death of his father, in October, 1839, he succeeded ...

CONSERVATIVE GATHERING AT. CONGRESBURY

... not think the Whigs eoutemplated- thcraki'of though was happy to say;, ceyetf Whs a', and he. prayed God he never- might be (daughter) for was of opinion, that Whig cajpuletely' out the pale of all intellect (great and he thoftfitif A. Whig,wan truly described ...

Published: Saturday 03 September 1864
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 1579 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

EAST SOMERSET ELECTION

... his speech at Congresbury, from first to last, marked him as an especially fit representative of a country long trammelled by Whig influences factiously exerted. It appears evident, indeed, that he and his fellow-candidate, Major Paget, are carrying the ...

A Conservative Working Men's Association has been formed at Halifax. The Glowworm says that the vacant seat at ..

... revision at Devonport seems to have terminated in a Conservative triumph. Of 221 Whigs objected to by Conservatives were struck off; of Conservatives objected to by Whigs none were struck off. The Conservative gain in Devonport was 142, and at Stonehouse ...

BRIDGWATER

... eT We wa A. was one of the guests at the recent at value of a Conservative hon. baronet P ‘or a period ef 80 years two Whigs. founded an 20 often that wo years pe thrad they have been beaten dake ot the lest end were act for that I te start a second candi- ...

Published: Friday 15 September 1865
Newspaper: Western Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 56 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

EXAMPLES OF CIRCUMSCRIBED INTELLIGENCE

... Whigism, which are, he says, the natiou's true peril, and warned them at Birmingham these words : They (the Conservatives Whigs) may dam the stream, they may keep back toe waters, but the volume is ever increasing, and it descends with an accelerated ...

Buying Peerage—That turbulent old Bishop of Durham, Hugh Pudsey, thus bought of Richard I. the earldom of ..

... did a Whig government do good thing for Ireland? It would require almost antiquarian research to fix the date; yet it is only quite recently that the eyes Irishmen have been opened to the neglect and injustice they hare constantly suffered from Whig adm ...

JOURNALISM IN ENCLANB

... fc, Whigs abolished the Test and Corporattun Aete, the Whigs made Leeds borough, the Wbtga made Mr. Bainn. an M.P., and the present M.P. for Leeds Mill rataina that vpneraUon for land John Ruasell which formed part tha political creed of all Whig hroilien ...

Published: Friday 07 December 1860
Newspaper: Shepton Mallet Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 1223 | Page: 2 | Tags: none