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The end to which our leaders have conspired has been attained, —Sir Stafford Northcote sits as the unopposed ..

... Never mind how many people there are iv place—never mind how is otherwise entitled to be represented, the question is, is it Whig or is it Tory ? If the former there are nine arguments out ten against its beiug enfranchised, —if it is Tory then there are ...

Published: Tuesday 15 May 1866
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1517 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TO LE LET, Furnished, the whole or part of , COTTAGE, with a large, productive uanlen, Brad tfont, Barnstap/'. ..

... Thursday, the 21st day of March instant, at Three o'cl-»ck in the Afternoon precisely, at Narracott and Cowlas Woods, the folio whig superior ASH & ELM TIMBER, POLKS, ,td FAGOT WOOD; Namely:— Lot I.— 8 TKKKS. LOT 8. —10 Ash Trees. do. | „ 9.—10 do. „ do. „ ...

Published: Thursday 14 March 1861
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 1222 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

The Parliamentary Session for 1862 commences this day. The formal Opening will be, of course, by Commission ;

... feather breaks the camel's back and the present is assuredly a felicitous opportunity for practically reverting to the old Whig doctrines of economy and retrenchment. We have written upon the presumption that rumour speaks correctly as to the Chancellor ...

Published: Thursday 06 February 1862
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1472 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

North Devon Jonrnal. Barnstaple, Thursday, March 29, 1866 As our readers are aware, the Reform Bill, now before ..

... against the Government. Rumours are also current of the defection of the Grosvenors, the Cavendishes, Leveson-Gowers, and other Whig noblemen, Who have declared their want of sympathy with Reform movement. Time will show how far rumours have any foundation ...

Published: Thursday 29 March 1866
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1639 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

North Devon Journal

... Bulwer Lytton, and an argumen- tative and statesmanlike defence of the Lord Russell, measure by The best answer to the recreant Whig would probably have been, the Citation of one of his speeches in favour of Reform but the noble lord evidently hit the m in ...

Published: Thursday 03 May 1860
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1681 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Railway Traffic Returns for the past week, together with the receipts for the corresponding week of last year:— ..

... for any one to obey the dictates of judgment rather than the demands of faction. He presumes tbat Mr. Potts belongs to the Whig party; probably, because in his printed address to the electors, 1859, he stated that he came forward as a supporter of Lord ...

Published: Thursday 17 July 1862
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1662 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

On Monday evening the House of Commons resumed the discussion of the great question of Reform, on the motion of

... standing still, much less retrogression ; even delay is dangerous at this momentous crisis. In some small boroughs a few imbecile Whigs may make common cause with the Tories and endeavour to repress public opinion, upon the pretence of resisting the inroads of ...

Published: Thursday 28 February 1867
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1854 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NOTES ON PASSING EVENTS

... not discover itßelf very distinctly in their opposition in Parliament; and perhaps it just as well th they should keep the Whigs and Libeials in check adverse criticism rather than by active co-operation on great questions. ...

Published: Tuesday 05 June 1866
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1564 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Spirit of the Press

... are perfectly innocent. The Assassination Plot is to be used by Mr. Johnson as was the pretended Popish Plot by the Whigs, and the real Rye-house Plot by their adversaries, to destroy victims as innocent as Stafford and more innocent than Russell ...

Published: Thursday 25 May 1865
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1424 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

The Tories axe in ecstacies at the success of their champion at Devonport, and the more sanguine are already ..

... foulmouthed champion would not have succeeded with the electors had not local influences favoured his pretensions. The talk about Whig dictation, attempts to use Devonport as nomination borough, &c, would have been regarded as electioneering claptrap had ...

Published: Thursday 19 February 1863
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1649 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

North Devon Journal

... English Court. is now on a visit to the Tue election at Newcastle has terminated in the return of Mr. Somerset Beaumont, the Whig can- didate, by a large majority over bis Chartist oppo- nent.—Mr. Layard has fought the battle energeti- cally in Southwark ...

Published: Thursday 13 December 1860
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1550 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Spirit of the Press

... much by Lord Derby, though he is not over particular which way it is, as by Mr. Disraeli, and his band admirers. Since the Whigs have been in office, these people say, there has been no progress. With ineffable assurance those who write like this overlook ...

Published: Thursday 29 October 1863
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 3394 | Page: 6 | Tags: none