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CORRESPONDENCE

... by prescriptive right, the Conser- vatives, or those spendthrifts under the hypocritical cloak of a guasi Liberalism, the Whigs, may tax us in any con- ceivable manner, and we only grin and bear it with the best grace possible, because wo know that ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1861
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3714 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE AMERICAN DIFFICULTY

... countryman in the nigger melody, they were still only knocking at the door. Are we not accustomed to see our most stupendous Whigs ready, whilst in opposition, to die on the floor of -the House of Commons in the cause of Reform, and then, when they get ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1861
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1149 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

EASTER DUES

... havel little' spare timrn n'his'hands,!he could like to talk i little to 3im' onthe 'subject of Easter duesk5 jne ferthing . of whig he also informed him, he.never intended to pay. 't -( aiztq and applause.) He was 'ow determiined that h''would never pay those ...

Published: Saturday 02 February 1861
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 13353 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE BERKELEY PEERAGE CASE

... to be acknow- ledged a baron by tenure. The claim was not, as we have said, adjudicated upon ; his political services to the Whig party obtaining for him at the coronation of Wil- liam the 4th, a peerage by the title of Lord Segrave, and he was subsequently ...

PARLIAMENTARY GOSSIP

... breaking the hearts of the reporters these two hours, beating Sir Charles hollow in entanglement; but he is a long. descended Whig, a rising young man, and must be taken care of. Your articles respecting the manner in which the estimates are treated in the ...

Published: Saturday 16 March 1861
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 719 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

CONTEMPORARY PRESS

... candidate for a seat in parliament, that he eared nothing for politics or political principles, but would support any miestry, Whig, Tory, or Radical, that would make Gal- way the packet station for America. Pythias is of a kindrid opinion with regard to ...

Published: Saturday 23 March 1861
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 847 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

TIVERTON ELECTION

... -(Lauighter.) You whigs have had power since 1832. You pledged yourselves to economy and retrenchment but I mave never seen you carry it out. The expenditure in 1836 amounted to little moore than £40,000,0ot) a Zear; but what is it now ? You whigs have made a ...

Published: Saturday 30 March 1861
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4414 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... sympathy with the cliques and facotions into which the Corporation is divided, and care not whether dwi the new alderman is Whig OrTory, D~issenter ?? Chilean, el provided he has earned by labouirs' ?? Iattet e the honour, 'and has intelligence and character ...

Published: Saturday 30 March 1861
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6870 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

MR. ROEBUCK AND THE SHEFFIELD BLADES

... his temper and bearing in parliament utterly unbearable. Having passed the turn of life, without getting any- thing from the Whigs, who never give anything out of their own circle when they can help it, Mr. Roebuck broke ofl; and supported Lord Derby, at ...

Published: Saturday 06 April 1861
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 912 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

LITERARY EXTRACTS

... Macaulay, as may be verified by refer- ence to the 6th volume of his IHistor -I of Enlgland, are- canvassed actively on the whig side 1 A FAIR REMARK.- A middle-aged young lady is so angry with the government for asking her how old she is, that she declares ...

GARSTANG FARMERS' CLUB

... acqrraintance with him bad satisfied his hr was own mind that they would have to go very far indeed w at before they could find, Whig irs be was-(a 1aug1h)- ti and a better member of parliaruent.-(Elear, hear.) He was g the convi nced-for he hid had several ...

Published: Saturday 13 April 1861
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5445 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE CHURCH AND DISSENT

... justice and fair- ( any ness. That was what he (the Vicar) had heard tromn a C isito member of the House of Lordti-himself a Whig. We A We had fought the battle on the part of the Church, but it lo -all was too late in the session, and government had got ...

Published: Saturday 13 April 1861
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5326 | Page: 6 | Tags: News