Refine Search

Countries

Place

Reading, Berkshire, England

Access Type

587

Type

457
108
14
8

ADVICE TO A YOUNG CLERK BY AN OLD ONE

... though public servants have no politics, you cannot help feeling gratified at the change, as your family have always been Whigs or Tories, the case may be; your grandfather, the member for So-and-so,having been the intimate friend and some time the private ...

Published: Saturday 17 March 1866
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 702 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

DEATH OF THE EARL OF DERBY. The Earl of Derby died Enowsley Hall at seven o'clock on Saturday morning, in

... to the politics of hi« family, who had for some time been enrolled among the Whig houses, and it was soon clear that he would prove formidable rival to the rising young Whig of that period, Lord John Russell. It was not, however, until 1824 that be made ...

Published: Saturday 30 October 1869
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2476 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CONSERVATIVE GAINS ON ELECTIONS

... Derby fifteen votes. In point fact, there is strong reason to believe that when the day of account arrives, as soon will,, the Whigs will be driven out by majority even larger than this .—Bath Chronicle. ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1864
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 537 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Message from the Sea.—A bottle was picked up on Cliristcliurcli ledge a few days since, by James Bartlett, ..

... utmost to excite the rabble of London and of the country against the Tories for the very acts they would have upheld in the Whigs. Never have J seen the spirit of partisanship meaner or more malignant.—From the correspondent the New York Timet.—Kepublican ...

Published: Saturday 01 September 1866
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 632 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WALLINGFORD

... only two candidates then in the field will be the present member, Mr. Malins, Q.C. (conservative), and Sir C. W. Dilke, Bart. (Whig). The contest is likely to be a severe one. Rifle Corps.—The members of this corps assembled Tuesday evening last, and proceeded ...

Published: Saturday 29 April 1865
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 771 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

READING

... Reform, but looking the melancholy events that are passing America : let once be understood by the constituencies that the Whig Government is identified with schemes for a large extension of the franchise, and for secret voting, and well know what result ...

Published: Saturday 30 January 1864
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 729 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DEATH JAMES SHERfDAN KNOWLES. A telegram brings the news of the death, at Torquay, Devonshire, of James ..

... their father to the grave. His second wife— once celebrated as actress —Miss Elphinstone, survives her husband. The Northern Whig of Belfast says:—For many years Mr. Knowles was a martyr to rheumatism, which aim' st entirely robbed him of the use of Lis ...

Published: Saturday 06 December 1862
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 761 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BASINGSTOKE

... essay SK^ »d other where people looked for Were almost the only books struck P wit P h ftTSi'fi&SS all were Whigs and Tories both admired and Whig influence, was placedl in pY,• some powerful of the* pocket borough of JalneTe wfs returned member lor Edinburgh ...

Published: Saturday 18 February 1860
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1388 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MR. BRIGHT, M.P., AT ROCHDALE

... us, and we must make our selection. Some people say there is no difference now between Whig and Tory. Well, I don't quite believe that, though there are some Whigs very like some Tories (laughter); but in the two candidates that are now offered to yon ...

Published: Saturday 15 April 1865
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1854 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MR. BRIGHT AT MANCHESTER

... the present bill to pass, so that the question of reform should no longer obstruct his battles with his old antogonists the Whigs. Others among the Tory opposition would also willingly give it their support, but he feared the policy of lukewarm liberals ...

Published: Saturday 14 April 1860
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 828 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE BISHOP OF OXFORD. To the Editor of the Berkshire Chronicle. Sir, —As the report the Bishop of Oxford s

... es, to give your third vote to Sir Charles Bussell, who has gallantly come forward to rescue the county from the attempted Whig monopoly. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, A Berkshire Elector. TO THE AGRICULTURISTS OF BERKS HIRE. wish you have more ...

Published: Saturday 29 April 1865
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 827 | Page: 5 | Tags: none