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THE WHIG AND TORY

... THE WHIG AND TORY. Measures, not men, is an aphorism that must endorsed with a difference. The administrative functions of Government are often more important than the legislative. In this country the main abuses in our laws have been removed. The ...

Published: Thursday 21 April 1864
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2096 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

A large emigrant ship was wrecked off the Irish coast on Thursday, but the passengers, to the number were rescued

... but the passengers, to the number were rescued by a steamer. The vessel was bound from Liverpool to New York. The Northern Whig states that Mr. William of Belfast, has set aside £10,000, to be called the SortKo Trust, for the material, intellectual, and ...

Published: Thursday 04 August 1864
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 102 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Death of the Duke of Cleveland.—The Duke of Cleveland expired on Wednesday afternoon at o'clock, at his seat, ..

... the greatest danger. The deceased peer died without issue, and his brother, Lord Harry G. Vane, succeeds to the title. A New; Whig Peer.—There is a rumour in political circles .that prior to the next meeting of Parliament a new pOtar will be created in the ...

Published: Thursday 15 September 1864
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 408 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

(Obituary. Death a Companion of Sib Walter Scott.— Mr. James Skene, Rubislaw, Aberdeenshire, died at Frewen ..

... and up to 1841, under the Melbourne Ministry, was Chief Secretary for Ireland, where he was universally beloved. When the Whigs came again to power in 1846, he was appointed Commissioners of Woods aud Forests, and succeeded Lord Campbell as Chancellor ...

Published: Thursday 08 December 1864
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 480 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ECONOMY AND RETRENCHMENT

... ECONOMY AND RETRENCHMENT. Many of our readers will remember the leading principles of government enunciated by the Whigs on their accession to office in Retrenchment, and Non-intervention—aud how faithfully they redeemed their pledges and justified the ...

Published: Thursday 01 December 1864
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 860 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE TORY FEED AT EXON

... condemns. But it was no part his duty to suggest a policy ; he had simply to find fault—to say all manner of evil against the Whigs, and to eulogize the Tories, who, if they took office *°'jiorrow would be compelled to carry out the lews of their predecessors ...

Published: Thursday 31 March 1864
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1095 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Imperial Parliament

... the Board of Charity Commissioners. At considerable length the hon. member denounced the Board as a gross Whig job, its office as a perfect Whig snuggery. It not only entailed a considerable charge upon the country, but owing to the reckless profligate ...

Published: Thursday 23 June 1864
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 3538 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Literary, Scientific, Historical, &c

... Kidd's Tori on Chloroform. A Queer Christian.—Parson Brownlow, a cordial hater of the South, says in his paper, the Knoxville Whig and Rebel Ventilator—Had we our wish we would throw hell wide open, and place all such beast-like officers and men upon inclined ...

Published: Thursday 12 May 1864
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1674 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

LeUert the Editor. THE REPRESENTATION OF THE NORTHERN DIVISION. Winscott, Torrington, N. Devon, March 22, 1864. ..

... —which I always acknowledge with feelings of gratitude for their kindness—yet not one vote was obtained from any of the great Whig landowners, whose tenants had orders to plump for Buller. I fear not for Mr. Trefusis' seat, and prepared to do my best to ...

Published: Thursday 24 March 1864
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 3962 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Foreign and Colonial

... Thurlow Weed and Thomas Acton, the police commissioner, see danger ahead, and they wish to avoid it if possible. The Richmond Whig says:—' A million of dollars would lay in ashes New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Waahiugton, and all their ...

Published: Thursday 28 April 1864
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 5122 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Crimes and Casualties

... Kingstoue, near that city, and various damage has been sustained oy timber in different parts the county.- The Belfiist Northern Whig says that a farmer belongiug to Saintfield, the county Down, when standing in the cattle market, was struck by lightning and ...

Published: Thursday 26 May 1864
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2699 | Page: 3 | Tags: none