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Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries

... Bench under the Govern. ment of Lord Mielbourne, The learned gentleman, as may be judged from his promotion, began life as a Whig, and fought a severe but unsuccessful contest ?? University withthepresent Lord Chief Justice Lefroy and Recorder Shaw. Soon ...

THE LAW OF COCK-FIGHTING

... is reported that fighting has been renewed at Murlreesboro, both belligerents having been heavily reinforced. The Richmond Whig Contains a violent article upon England for refusing to co-operate with France for mediation in America, and says, England ...

Published: Sunday 18 January 1863
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2577 | Page: 15 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

TOPICS OF THE WEEK

... place, though very willing to be bribed, not having the face to stultify itself by taking a rich Tory so very soon after a rich Whig, and the Dake of SOMERSET, moreover, having exercised for a SEYMoUR all the influence which peers are constitutionally supposed ...

Published: Sunday 25 January 1863
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2087 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries

... within the last 3ear or two, when he voluntarily retired from public life. As a matter of course he was much mired up in the Whig intrigues of his day; but upon the whole, and especially of late years, his fairness and moderation have commanded the respect ...

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES

... than a hundred. The triumph is an important one, for though it be true it is not, like Southampton, a seat wrested from the Whigs, it is the exchange of an unsteady and unsafe Conserva. tive for one who will not allow sentimental feelinga or one-sided ...

Published: Sunday 15 February 1863
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3475 | Page: 15 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

... the Ministry and those in power in Devonport towards the Whig candidate, this may be con- sidered as one of the greatest party victories that has taken place in any borough for many years. The Whigs had, to a certain extent, everything in their favour, for ...

Published: Sunday 15 February 1863
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1631 | Page: 15 | Tags: News 

Mr. Kennedy's Songs of Scotland

... second rebellion in 1715. This moat important periodof twenty. seven years, during which the animosity of the two parties of Whig and Tory, or rather Jacobite, ran sD violent and strong, Mr. Ken. nedy illustrated by. some of the most approved and popular ...

Published: Sunday 22 February 1863
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 565 | Page: 12 | Tags: News 

TOPICS OF THE WEEK

... PRiNcE and PRINcEss's carriage, instead of being escorted, shall lead, so as to get on the faster. This is a mistake, and a Whig-like return for the costly preparations which every one in the line of the procession is making. It is as ungracious an idea ...

Published: Sunday 01 March 1863
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1732 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

LAW AND POLICE

... in Poland, and calling upon the English Governo snesit tp make a formal declaration, in concert with sany other powers ,W~h~i~g ?? such a course, that Russia has forfeited all right to the possession of Poland. Lord Harrowby, Mir. DieonaOO -.P, M~r ...

Published: Sunday 22 March 1863
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1741 | Page: 6 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

TOWN EDITION

... that the rising in San Domingo is an unimportant affair. ENGAGEMENT AT PORT HUDSON. NeW YORX, MARCH 19 (EvHXIXG).-The iichmond Whig of the 17th inst. says that the bombardment of Port Hudson com. menced at two o'clock on the 14th inst. At twelve o'clock at ...

Published: Sunday 29 March 1863
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3107 | Page: 15 | Tags: News 

LITERATURE

... Admiral to resist any bias fronm either of these co-operating forces, and to serve England, whose Government had now become Whig, and was not responsible for his command. The position was trying, but the Commander was equal to the occasion. There is a ...

Published: Sunday 03 May 1863
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2148 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PROVINCIAL THEATRICALS

... place in the Court-house, Wakeifiold, odi Monday last, before a pretty numerous atttendauce of froehollers. Major Fawkes, the Whig candidate for the office, haviag retired from the contest at the end of last week, no oppositicz was offered to the return ...

Published: Sunday 10 May 1863
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 11793 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture