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GENERAL PRIM'S CAREER

... Earl Grey; but rather the fact that he was brother prominent Whig, then Lord Morpeth, afterwards the Earl of Carlisle. But even these good things were not sufficient for gentleman who united Whig principles the blood of all the Howards. The Duke of Sutherland ...

Published: Thursday 15 October 1868
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 3185 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Wit and Humour

... your authority; yet I rather fear that your argument makes agaiust yourself : for if the devil was a Whig, you have admitted that, while he was Whig, he was iv heaven ; but you have forgotten that, the moment he got into hell, he set up for a Tory. The ...

Published: Thursday 29 July 1869
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2107 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

COUNTY COURT

... Court for the Bideford District was held at the Town Hall, on Thursday last, before Mr. Serjeant Petersdorff, Judge. The folio whig cases were heard :— Hatchings v. Sweet. —Mr. Joce, the arbitrator in this case, awarded the sum of to plaintiff. made no charge ...

Published: Thursday 16 February 1865
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 692 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

The late lord of the manor of Sidmoufch, Mr. G. E. Balfour, is reported to have died worth £350,000. The

... smouldering coal and the pit was again closed, and will have to remain so for a week or two. correspondent of the Northern Whig states that Mr. Nicholson, of Balrath, who was fired at in his carriage some days since, when his coachman and female relative ...

Published: Thursday 21 October 1869
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 596 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Report of the Comissioners appointed to in- quire into the electoral corruption practiced at Gloucester in 1857 ..

... against the agents of both parties—there being scarcely any difference in the degree of moral tur- pitude chargeable upon Whigs and Tories. The Commissioners exculpate Sir William Hayter and Mr. Moffatt from the charge of being cognizant of bribery; our ...

Published: Thursday 02 February 1860
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 685 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

North Devon Journal

... division lists shewed 147 in favour of the Ballot, and 254 against it; majority 107. We regret. the fatuity of the leading Whigs in continuing their re- sistance to a measure which is regarded with such general favour by the great bulk of the Liberal party; ...

Published: Thursday 22 March 1860
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 750 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE NEW MINISTRY

... Argyll, Earl Clarendon, and Lord Kimberley. Mr. Gladstone's Government contains three elements it» viz., the Peelites, the Whigs, and the advanced Liberals. Most of the Liberal Governments since the repeal of the corn-laws in 1846 have contained strong ...

Published: Thursday 10 December 1868
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1624 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MR. BRAND'S CAREER as LIBERAL WHIP

... teller when anyone else had to announce the numbers. The year 1866 remarkable for the defection of Earl Grosvenor and other Whigs, and for the opposition to the government bill of Mr. Lowe, Mr. Horsman, &c., was a terrible session for the senior treasury ...

Published: Thursday 16 April 1868
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2444 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Literary Selections

... and responsibility. devoted follower Henry Clay, when he began mingle in politics he heartily espoused the platform of the Whig party, and the claims of Clay the presidential chair. During the administration of Polk, therefore, in whose term the Mexican ...

Published: Thursday 10 December 1868
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1566 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ECONOMY AND RETRENCHMENT

... ECONOMY AND RETRENCHMENT. Many of our readers will remember the leading principles of government enunciated by the Whigs on their accession to office in Retrenchment, and Non-intervention—aud how faithfully they redeemed their pledges and justified the ...

Published: Thursday 01 December 1864
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 860 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Ritualism.—At St. Matthias's, Stoke Newington, the incumbent, Mr. Le Geyt, has very uuwisely determined to ..

... probable ; but remembering how two years ago he made his party and his country take a leap the dark, in order to dish the Whigs, it quite possible that the latter alternative may be correct. This rendered the more probable by the publication of Captain ...

Published: Thursday 23 April 1868
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 798 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

After an adjournment of ten days, to afford Mr. Disraeli ample time to reconstruct the Government, Parliament ..

... informed that Lord Derby's unbroken and unswerving course has been subject to many changes—that he commenced public life as a Whig; abandoned his principles and his party on a question of ecclesiastical reform, which involved more economical management of ...

Published: Thursday 12 March 1868
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1868 | Page: 5 | Tags: none