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The Customs and Inland Revenue Bill (the Budget) having passed through all ita stages unopposed, in the House ..

... reasons which they have entered upon the journals of the House. The names include no one of note; if we except the recreant Whigs, Lords Normanby and Monteagle. The Appropriation of Seats Bill will probably pass the House of Commons with do other alteration ...

Published: Thursday 20 June 1861
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 449 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

(Obituary. Death a Companion of Sib Walter Scott.— Mr. James Skene, Rubislaw, Aberdeenshire, died at Frewen ..

... and up to 1841, under the Melbourne Ministry, was Chief Secretary for Ireland, where he was universally beloved. When the Whigs came again to power in 1846, he was appointed Commissioners of Woods aud Forests, and succeeded Lord Campbell as Chancellor ...

Published: Thursday 08 December 1864
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 480 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Lord Palmerston's Diart.—The main fact published by the Athenceum is quite true, although not to the extent ..

... seems to have been originally designed in its present form chiefly to explain why he left the Tories and took office under the Whig Earl Grey; a change which, according to Lord Palmerston's chivalrous sense of honour, could only be justified by the fact that ...

Published: Thursday 26 August 1869
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 510 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Me. popular preacher has returned from his temporary sojourn in Germany, and recommenced his ministerial duties ..

... Exchequer to impose an additional duty on spirits, and being “ at length convinced of the bad faith and dis- honesty of the Whigs in everything connected with the interests of lreland,” has sagely resolved upon a pledge, “at all fature elections to use ...

Published: Thursday 02 August 1860
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 593 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

North Devon Journal

... of many of their wannest friends and staunches t supporters; they have Ixv trayed a weakness which seems to be inherent in Whig Administrations—heaping honours and emoluments upon placemen, to the neglect of those disinterested adherents to whom they ...

Published: Thursday 31 October 1861
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 543 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE NEXT AMERICAN PRESIDENT

... and the old Whig parties, they have absorbed mukitudes of the rank aud file, but lave attracted few of the leaders, The experienced and trained statesmen of the Democrats are with Mr. Douglass or with Mr, Baeckenridge; those of the Whigs follow Mr. Bell ...

Published: Thursday 01 November 1860
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1450 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Ecclesiastical

... administered to Prebendaries, the priest-vicars, and the the choir then formed a procession, and the deaa conducted to the Whig stall in the Cathedraiby the Rev. Chancellor Harington and the Venerable Archdeacon Bartholomew; after which the prescribed ...

Published: Thursday 11 July 1861
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 647 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

North Devon Journal

... pence for principles and beer for brains. Unfortunately, neither party in the State is impec- cable The excuse pleaded by the Whigs, in ex- tenuation of their guilt, is, that they have generally resorted to corrupt agencies in self-defence—a lame excuse, ...

Published: Thursday 07 June 1860
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1439 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE REGISTRATION—PROSPECTIVE GENERAL ELECTION

... party that is committed to an anti-national and retrogressive policy. We sometimes hear that the distinctive appellations of Whig and Tory, Liberal and Conservative, have ceased to have any signification—that few men are prepared to stand by the old party ...

Published: Thursday 03 September 1863
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1384 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

North Devon Journal

... and partly to their memories of Sir Robert Peel, have idea that Tories, for some reason or other, govern more strongly than Whigs. The Tories always enter office with a liazy prestige of that sort, and this time the Recess has helped greatly to clear it ...

Published: Thursday 14 February 1867
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2475 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THIRTEEN PEOPLE POISONED

... ate some of the refuse of the veal, also showed symptoms of poisoning for two or three days, but he is recovering.— Northern Whig. ...

Published: Thursday 12 July 1866
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 588 | Page: 6 | Tags: none