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Court and Fashion

... man's name, and Lord John Russell has always maintained that it had the effect of destroying the symmetry of the Whig measure, and fustrating Whig expectations in the counties. The Duke— the Marquis— stood forward as the county member and farmers friend. In ...

LORD HERBERT OF LEA

... the old Whig members, who had intended, we believe, to atand for the Southern Division of the county, laughing at the idea of the young lad from Oxford gaining new-made seat of his native county. How be canvassed—how he won all hearts—how whig became ...

Published: Thursday 15 August 1861
Newspaper: Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette
County: Wiltshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2068 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DEATH OF LORD HERBERT

... aud the ballot; and from this period 1811 took active part, uuder Sir Robert eel, in battering the lame Government of the Whigs. lira I'eel entered upon ofli.ee Mr. Herbert was appointed Secretary the Admiralty, and remained until, in was made Secretary ...

Published: Thursday 08 August 1861
Newspaper: Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette
County: Wiltshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1687 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

EVENTS AND TOPICS OF THE WEEK

... Queen’s Speech, which we received by telegram last week, is not one of which Ministers can boast. Conceived in the’stereotyped Whig mould it makes the most of what little legislation has been got through under Government auspices during the session ; while ...

Published: Wednesday 14 August 1861
Newspaper: Wiltshire County Mirror
County: Wiltshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2086 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1861, THE REQUIEM OF REFORM

... victory for Lord Palmerston, whon we consider that for forty-five years Lord John Russell represented that constituency on Whig principles. vl'bo present majority, however, as compared with majorities on former occasions, is a significant fact. On this ...

Published: Wednesday 07 August 1861
Newspaper: Wiltshire County Mirror
County: Wiltshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 839 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ESS AYS ANI) REVIEWS

... effete, so that if they were now to advertise for a re ti ed young Whig they wonld have as much difficulty in Gading one and rearing him as they would with an infant gorilla. The Whigs, like certain Eastern potentates, having no issue of their own, had ...

Published: Thursday 15 August 1861
Newspaper: Wiltshire Independent
County: Wiltshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2161 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DEVIZES CORN EXCHANGE

... country baa joined in general chorus surprise and disapprobation. All the organs public opinion, great and small, Conservative, Whig, and Radical—with the exception of a few and comparatively insignifioant thiuk-and-thin adherents of the government, concur ...

Published: Thursday 01 August 1861
Newspaper: Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette
County: Wiltshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1541 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CONSERVATISM

... its standing watchword, as opposed to the bureaucracy, centralism, and tho coerced rigid uniformity which the beau-ideal the Whig faction, ami realized with full development iu the present French retjime. The liberty Liberalism is tlmt America and modern ...

Published: Thursday 08 August 1861
Newspaper: Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette
County: Wiltshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1756 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

EVENTS AND TOPICS{OF THE WEEK

... they do now, which causes dissatisfaction in every branch. The course of legislation since it has been in the hands of the Whigs has tended in this direction, and their management of the national finances can only be duc:gd as penny wise and pound foolish ...

Published: Wednesday 28 August 1861
Newspaper: Wiltshire County Mirror
County: Wiltshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1157 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

VARIETIES

... Cabby: ““New oss,’” ow d’ye mean ?” Sarcastic Peeler: “ Why you've got the framework together already —Punch . THE SICK WHIGS. A sinking Monarch once Lis courtiers’ pardon 1f by his dying slow their leisure were dolmd';m’d' From whose good taste this ...

Published: Wednesday 07 August 1861
Newspaper: Wiltshire County Mirror
County: Wiltshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1157 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Nampoßiau 03ossig

... distant. In • pitched battle Lord Palmerston is sure to be defeated. The Liberal-Conservatives now considerably outnumber the Whigs and Liberals, and if backed, as they most likely would be, by a few of the 'independent members,' Palmerston would be inevitably ...

Published: Saturday 31 August 1861
Newspaper: Warminster Herald
County: Wiltshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1401 | Page: 4 | Tags: none