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The Speech, and John Symonds, Jun

... quoting from return which he had wrung the Government: they were Peter Erie, Q.C., A Whig, salary JE1.500; James Hill, Q.C., Whig, salary, .£1,200; Eov. E. Jones, Whig, salary £1,200. had nothing to say against these gentlemen to their admitted respectability ...

PARLIAMENTARY JOTTINGS

... it was not to be. The Lords suddenly appeared to take an excessive interest in the Representation of the People Bill, and Whigs, Radicals, and ultra-Tories set themselves to find some flaw which would retard, if not set aside, that which the Commons bad ...

Published: Saturday 03 August 1867
Newspaper: Brecon County Times
County: Brecknockshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 751 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

the ARTS, LITERATURE, &C

... immediately concerned in giving victory within the nest fortnight either to the Whigs over the Tories or to the Tories over the Whigs. It cannot bo expected that most Catholics Whig, or Liberal, or Radical, or Democratic opinions, should feel anxious defeat ...

THE BRECON REPORTER

... was the schooner Splendid, of Dublin, bound from Liverpool to that port with a cargo of coals. FODB LIVES LOST. The Northern Whig publishes full particulars of the deplorable wreck of the Tana, at Ballywalter, near Donaghadee, on Thursday morning. According ...

AN ILLUSTRATION

... which, although nominally there was voting of scot and lot, had absolute and entire control. It happened also that a wealthy Whig peer was desirous of increasing his political influence, and he requested me, then young man and without the slightest connection ...

PARLIAMENTARY JOTTINGS

... into eight, ten, or twelve separate Instructions. The bill had first to be argued in the House day by day until the second re Whig had passed. This was an important event, but it was only like launching a vessel for a long voyage, which would have to contend ...

Published: Saturday 13 July 1867
Newspaper: Brecon County Times
County: Brecknockshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 333 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Hr. Bright’s Speech at Birmingham

... too—went for Reform precedents from the Parliament of 1628, for opinions of Lord Somers, and Lord Durham, and ether eminent Whigs on Reform—and altogether took a page out of Hallam. The conclusion of his speech was as fine in its way as anything has uttered ...

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS

... Lords agreeably reminded it of the good old times—about six months ago—when a Tory was a Tory, a Liberal a Liberal, and a Whig a Whig. There could be no doubt of the real Toryism of the Tory peers on this question. The plan which Lord Russell now suggests--the ...

Published: Saturday 06 July 1867
Newspaper: Brecon County Times
County: Brecknockshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1000 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

POLITICAL GOSSIP

... our readers, is an old exclusive Whig club, where Mr. Gladstone is scarcely as yet more popular—such the stubborn nature of old Whigs—than at the Carlton, of which he has never ceased to be member. The device of those Whigs who wished to put away from their ...

OUR MISCELLANY

... the Princes of Wales are sure to be Whigs, and to turn Tories when they succeed to the crown, and the example of George IV. is always adduced as a case in point. But in the days of Walpole and Pelham, though Whigs and Tories held, on the whole, the same ...

POLITICAL GOSSIP

... measure going further in the direction of enfranchisement would be opposed by the Whig section of the Liberal party, and the Radicals are not strong enough to beat the Whigs and Conservatives united. The new American territory, obtained from Russia, has ...

ON THE OLD COLLEGE SCHOOL-ROOM

... Cato you the scene will find, A Play that made two factions blind With rage, and drew, goes the story, Alternate shouts from Whig and Tory. Syphax and I stood up together— You might have floor’d us with feather; Still all progress’d with satisfaction, Till ...