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APPRENTICESHIP IN THE BEGINNING OF THE CENTURY

... He professes to be a moderate Conservative. The other candidates were Mr. Skipton, moderate Whig, and Mr. Greer ultra Liberal, a Radical from the start. The Whig nowhere on the poll, and thenceforward it was a gallant race between Messrs. M'Cormick and ...

Published: Saturday 07 April 1860
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 239 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE GUARDIAN

... those sordid influences which Are so much deprecated in the present body. As the former measure was such a beau ideal with the Whigs 48 to lead them to consider it a final one, how comes it 'that they attempt such a revolutionizing of the old con- stituency ...

WILL THE CHINESE FIGHT?

... sharp short fight at Tien-tsin, and the old Chinese Tory will again disappear for a little interval, while the old Chinese Whig, not a very progressive creatnre, takes up the difficulty. These are the probabilities of the case and, although it is commonly ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1860
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 494 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

EXTRAORDINARY RATES OF FARM PRODUCE

... and farm is in some instances up to a point. which far exceeds the rates paid in the days of the First Napoleon. The Northern Whig remark*:— Butter is a ready sale at 124s. the cwt. for prime, being the highest price known for 40 years past; and pork sells ...

Published: Saturday 14 April 1860
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 548 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

TLLK GUARDtAN

... himself in one capacity more than another, it was in the threefold one, of reviler of the upper classes- of apologist of the Whigs, and of stout defender of the French Emperor. One might conclude that he has little of the Englishman in him-so well does he ...

MR. BRICHT AT MANCHESTER

... the present bill to pass, so that the question of Reform should no longer obstruct his battles with his old antagonists, the Whigs. Others among the Tory opposition would also willingly give it their support; but he feared the policy of lukewarm Liberals ...

Published: Saturday 21 April 1860
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1445 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

EPITOME OF NEWS

... Exhibition Memorial. Lord Stanley has accepted the chairmanship of the Court of Annual Sessions at Lancaster. The Northern Whig states that last week Mr. Gladstone withdrew his name from the Carlton Club. The execution of Castles, convicted at Bedford ...

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... been elected. I thought, at that time, have ever since thought, and still do think, that the last named measure was a j jb !—a Whig and Tory job,-wrung, however, from the Government of the day, by the people, who would no longer silently submit to the tyranny ...