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A STEP IN COALITIONS

... 1763 between the Whigs and the Government of Mr. Pitt. For though tbe Whigs could not be Tories, there was no reason in the world why they should not be Conservatives. Such again was the coalition of between Sir Robert Peel and the Whigs, for there was ...

Published: Friday 19 August 1864
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1174 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

THE TORY FEED IN SOUTH DEVON

... late venerated Lord Lieutenant of Devon, the lord of Powderham and all its cumbrances, was represented by the tories to be whig and the tories then displayed a great deal of zeal in endeavouring to get his character for liberal political views admitted ...

Published: Friday 19 January 1866
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1174 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LORD AMBERLEY ON THE CHURCH

... but it was hardly calculated for the maintenance of office. And this, of course, in Whig estimation is the only thing worth living for. What is the good of being Whig if one is not to have a finger in every pie, with the tolerable certainty of appropriating ...

Published: Friday 08 September 1865
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1157 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SELECTIONS FROM PUNCH

... now will soon o'er, the weary conflict cease, last wUI be redeemed, aud shaU be at i>eace. th« ? 01 111 set at reBt the Whigs will haply say : * the tie is broken between us and Dear Lord Grey. ...

Published: Saturday 19 May 1860
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 251 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

REFORM MEETING IN EXETER

... honestly confessed that he had no faith in the Whigs, for they were Radicals out of office and Tories in—(hear, hear). He would read them the opinion of Sir C. Napier, an eminent man, on Tories and Whigs :— Whigs have all the Tory faults and their own besides ...

Published: Saturday 06 April 1861
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 7291 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE LATE SESSION

... could by any possibility form e ° ut their bod y- is the /'Udjs's rooms compact. Excited by the office, every section of the Whigs and .. carae together and undertook the direction \ . aftairs. But even this motley collec),4l^llduoed oed lldu l^ 4 by unworthy ...

Published: Friday 31 July 1863
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1486 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Naval and Military Intelligence

... avowed foes ef the Monarchy, and of the Constitution, which is based on monarchical rights. It will astonish nobody if the Whigs, who assisted the old days in creating a standing Army, seek to give Parliament the exclusive control of the present military ...

Published: Friday 27 March 1868
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 303 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE BALLOT. To the Editor of The Western Times. Sir, —It is really amusing to hear certain people talk in

... protected by that sovereign remedy the Ballot, without which his vote in the majority of cases must and will be his landlord's, whig or tory. I am not a renting farmer myself but a landlord, and I here confess that to request a tenant to vote as I do, is one ...

Published: Tuesday 21 July 1868
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 356 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

■ —————— O X IRON WORKS AND STEEL ORDNANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, LATE GILL and Co., ENGINEERS, MANUFACTURERS OF ..

... THOMAS KERSLAKE. WEST OF ENGLAND IRON FOUNDRY & IRONMONGERY ESTABLISHMENT, BON Y. 193, HIGH STREET EXETER, ——193, ENGINEER, MILL WHIG HT, IRON AND BRASS FOUNDER, LATHE-TOOL AND BDILER MAKER WIRE WORKER AND WEAVER, BEGS to call the attention of Mill Owners, ...

Published: Friday 19 August 1864
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 254 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

LITERARY EXTRACTS

... ds Magazine. Whig Legislation.—Lord Russell seems to think that England was never so great or so flourishing as she is now '. and he attributes her growth in influence abroad and wealth home to the wisdom of Whig legislation. Was it Whig legislation that ...

Published: Friday 21 April 1865
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1786 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

POLITICAL THIMBLE RIGGING

... POLITICAL THIMBLE RIGGING. Play with the Tories, the Whigs, and the Radicals ! Play, and cheat all of them, Ben ! Fumble them, jumble them, tumble them, humble them ! Twist them again and again Talk of your principle.' while you hood-wink them all; March ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1867
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1317 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE PROPOSED SUBDIVISION OF THE DIOCESE OF EXETER

... this week, and might have been anticipated, is curt refusal. This we say a result that with cur experience of the apathy the Whig Government questions relating to the efficiency of tlic Church we were fully prepared to anticipate, but confess we-are astonished ...

Published: Friday 19 February 1864
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 923 | Page: 3 | Tags: none