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... done to all the users and consumers of cotton by the two Governments of America.-London Review. CONSERVATIVE REACTION.—The Whigs will not in- terpret the Conservative reaction truly unless thev leain that the Conservatives always gain, and we will add ...

Published: Saturday 02 November 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1501 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

THE LATE 'SIR JAMES GRAHAM.j

... and two years afterwards he was returned for Carlisle on Whig principles. His abilities soon became apparent after he entered the House of Commons, and he was deemed a great acquisition to the Whigs, a political party then hourly gaining strength in the ...

Published: Saturday 02 November 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 756 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

MR. BRIGHT AND THE CONFERENCE

... became law, and it is, I think, universally felt that the arrangement then made can no longer be defended or maintained. Three Whig Governments, one Coali- tion Government, and one Tory Government have within the last ten years admitted this. The Queen has ...

Published: Saturday 23 November 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1041 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE LATE SIR JAMES GRAHAM

... year of his birth being 1792. The descendant of an ancient Scotch family, he was born at Netherby, and like many of the young Whigs, was educated at West- minster School. From there he went to Queen's College, Cambridge, and very speedily entered upon public ...

Published: Friday 01 November 1861
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1386 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE SATURDAY REVIEW

... and beauty elevated above them, they would no doubt soon work together as-ably and harmoniously as a Mor- mon household. The Whigs have already cemented a large number of such useful connexions. Besides their offici 1 alliance with the amiable Globe, they ...

Published: Saturday 23 November 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1028 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

TOWN TALK

... degree at Cambridge, and young men are much wanted in the House. His opponent was a Mr. Addington, a grandson of the Doctor of Whig jokes-Lord Sidmouth, a weak man, who shared and followed the prejudices of poor old George III., and ac- quired undying un ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1018 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

OUTLINES OF THE WEEK. —*—

... Although, from 1841 to 1846, he held office as Home Secretary, under Sir Robert Peel, he ended life as he had begau it- a decided Whig; and his name is identified with the Reform Bill of 1832, the Repeal of the Corn Laws, and other prominent liberal measures ...

Published: Saturday 02 November 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1054 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

REVOLUTION V. THE HOUSE OF LORDS

... in the hands of the working classes; and Conser.- jEL vatives are not alone in exclaiming against such a change. ne; The Whigs, says the liberal S pecfctor Ihave yet to X of learn the necessity of devising a scheme of representation Wats for the working ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1861
Newspaper: North Wales Chronicle
County: Caernarfonshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1308 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE THREATENED NEW REFORM MOVEMENT

... the lower and middle classes, but the class of nobles enjoys no mono- poly of power. It was, no doubt, and is the aim of the Whigs to confine powcer to a few great families. Their system is oligarchic-a system much more exclusive and tyranical than that ...

Published: Saturday 02 November 1861
Newspaper: North Wales Chronicle
County: Caernarfonshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1469 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

JHE GUARDIAN

... that his death would be sudden. As a politician, Sir J. Graham made for himself a distin- guished name. He commenced life as a Whig, but after- wards coquetted with Peel, Derby, and Palmerston. He was never, absolutely, a popular man, but always regarded ...