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THE APPROACHING ELECTION

... display itself, the aldermanic body is composedo' fifteen Tories-many of whom have been rejected by the ratepayers-and one Whig I Such are Tory ideas of dividing repcvsentatiom when Toryism is in the ascendant,. and we trust the fact will warn Liberal ...

Published: Saturday 24 June 1865
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1756 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

HORRIBLE AFFAIR AT BARTON-HILL

... with e - our local history. His uncle, and afterwards his cousin, N sat in tbe House of Commons for Bristol in the advanced t Whig interest, the latter especially identifying himself with s othe movement for slave emancipation which the friends of t )the ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1867
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1549 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

EAST SOMERSET ELECTION

... superiority of Conservative financiers. Mr. Disraeli used to tell us that the result was due to Sir Robert Peel finding the Whigs bathing and running away with their clothes. Mr. Grenville says that the strong Conservative Govern- ment of 1841 was one of ...

Published: Saturday 21 May 1864
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1689 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

GLADSTONE AND DISRAELI

... amount of taxation never before heard of in'time of peace, and rarely equalled in time of war IThe. outlay, we were told by Whigs and Tories alike, .would be a purely temporary one, and would eventually produce an efficiency which would enable the Govern- ...

Published: Saturday 12 April 1862
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1510 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

EAST SOMERSET ELECTION

... experience pretty long, W -and he could assure them whether they were electors 01 of the county of Soccerset or of Bath the Whig party If never thouaht of that ; it never entered into their mn timagination to give to every househeolder paying taxes a, ...

Published: Saturday 21 November 1868
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 3506 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

OPENING OF PARLIAMENT

... time, the hon, member ought to have remembered the history of the Whig party for the last 80 years had been that of pledges loosely given and instantaneously broken, In point of fact, a Whig in office was an ugly dog well muzzled. He complained that no hope ...

Published: Saturday 11 February 1865
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 5855 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

NEWS OF THE WEEK

... of the late Government as hopeless, Lord Derby tried the late Marquis of Lansdowne, as a representative of the discontented Whigs, but was again disappointed, the Marquis stating that he could be more useful to the Conservatives out of office than in it ...

Published: Saturday 14 July 1866
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1981 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE CALEDONIAN SOCIETY'S DINNER

... parochial system of education, which lie thought Eaiglishimen would (lo well to copy (hear, hoar), This was a subject wvhichi Whigs and To'ries might treat upon ais one of the questions of the day-tho question of 1How should the people of this country be ...

Published: Saturday 05 December 1868
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1707 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

LAST NIGHT'S PARLIAMENT

... ecclesiastical settlement of Ireland. The hon. gentleman referred to the manner in which this question was formerly used by the Whig Govern- ment, and to their neglect of it during recent years. It was far easier for the Government to read lectures to the ...

Published: Saturday 27 June 1863
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1724 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

THE GOVERNMENT AND REFORM

... Derbyites should settle the question of Reform. The danger of further delay is too visible to be longer ignored; and after Whig Governments have been four times defeated in their endeavours to solve the problem, it seemed to be but fair that the Tories ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1867
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1869 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

WEST GLOUCESTER ELECTION

... administration (a Voice:z It wf;t Am 031H ?? was a very shorti one-hbut during ito there were passed giedri 1-dorms than the Whigs passed ia the previous ten years (loud cries of 'I', hoo, and laughter). He would tell them If they Ilke~i w.hirt they were ...

Published: Saturday 15 July 1865
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 3627 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

THE NEW MINISTRY

... it is not, at first sight, so easy; to find a reply. It is said that the Government has once more become a mere coterie of Whig notabilities, } who pretend to an hereditary right to govern the nation, l b and who arrogantly usurp every great office to ...

Published: Saturday 04 November 1865
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 3825 | Page: 5 | Tags: News