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CONTEMPORARY PRESS

... candidate for a seat in parliament, that he eared nothing for politics or political principles, but would support any miestry, Whig, Tory, or Radical, that would make Gal- way the packet station for America. Pythias is of a kindrid opinion with regard to ...

Published: Saturday 23 March 1861
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 847 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE TIE DIVISION

... calculated on a good majority, having been promised all the votes of the Galway contractors, together with those of the moderate Whigs. Some- body, or rather some score of somebodies, must have re- pented in the eleventh hour, and hence the singular fact of ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1861
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 841 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

EARL RUSSELL ON EDUCATION

... before the House of Lords his views upon the .education of the people. During his long and useful.public life, the veteran Whig leader has given considerable attention to this most important subject. ?? only as a statesman, but as a citizen, he has done ...

Published: Saturday 07 December 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1755 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

Second Edition

... [By BRITISH AND IrIsH MAGNETIc TELEGRAPH]. ANOTHER STEAMER FOR THE CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT. Belfast, Saturday.-The ivorthern Wh-ig of this morning says that the Heroine, one of the steamers plying between this port and Bangor, has been sold to an agent of ...

Published: Saturday 13 June 1863
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 843 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

THE REPRESENTATION OF PRESTON

... as a pirate hoisting a-false flag ? Yet, Sir Thomas presses this good old watch-word, which has beern the rallying point of Whigs and Radicals, for somn generations, into his own service, and, with this strange device on the Conservative banner, he asks ...

Published: Saturday 22 March 1862
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 873 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

LORD DERBY'S RETIREMENT

... e changes and party struggles of our land. To him we are indebted for some of the best measures that were passed by the _ Whigs a generation ago. He established the present id system of national education in Ireland ; he introduced ie the Irish Church ...

Published: Saturday 29 February 1868
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1808 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

SIR CHARLES WOOD'S RETIREMENT FROM OFFICE

... being gradually converted to the principles of Free Trade, Sir Charles Wood was rising in importance in the councils of the Whigs ; and i when the Tory party fell to pieces, and the statesmen who had composed is began to quarrel bitterly among I themselves ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1866
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1906 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE PASSING OF THE REFORM BILL

... the satisfac- tion they feel at having accomplished what the Whigs tried in vain to achieve, regard with most painful mis- givings a change of such magnitude as has just taken place. The Whigs do not hide their chagrin at having their favourite hobby taken ...

Published: Saturday 17 August 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1891 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

PROSPECTS OF THE SESSION

... delayed in order that it may be used as a weapon of party defence. -The Tories are willing to agree to all, and more, that the Whigs can bring themselves to give, but they wish to have it brought forward and passed at once, in order to have it out of the way ...

Published: Saturday 04 February 1860
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1864 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE MANCHESTER ELECTION

... which, since the dissolution of the parliament that came into existence in 1852, have been held, one or both of them, by the Whig representatives of the Conservative party, have at length reverted to the advanced school with which Manchester is historically ...

Published: Saturday 30 November 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1844 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

COBDEN VERSUS PALMERSTON

... our opinion that the time ws ill- I chosen for shaking the position of a minimter, or opening a gate for the opposition. The Whig ministry is cer- tainly not what it ought to be; but what a Tory mi- nistry would be we may infer from the conduct of the l ...

Published: Saturday 09 August 1862
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1756 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

OUR COLONIAL SYSTEM

... which is of no party, but which as a tax question, interests all. Organic reform in our con- stitution is tabooed equally by Whigs and Tories, but it may not be impossible to collect from the honest and independent men of both parties a party for administra- ...

Published: Saturday 08 February 1862
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 973 | Page: 2 | Tags: News