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TO CORRESPONDENTS

... yesterday in the House of Commons complained of the tyranny practised by the Whig Government in the dockyards, and also of practices which they invariably adopted to strengthen the Whig interest in the dockyard borougha, Now, air, ideas the point are rather ...

Published: Friday 26 February 1864
Newspaper: Western Daily Mercury
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 586 | Page: 4 | 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

mbuamentaby jottings

... y upon the table. The commissioners themselves were a snug nest Whigs, and of the forty person* connected with them inspectors and clerks, every one, without exception, belonged to Whig party, and some ( lie officers so appointed were ignorant and inefficient ...

Published: Tuesday 28 June 1864
Newspaper: North Devon Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1240 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SUMMARY OF THE WEEK

... as it will show foreign powers that English courts of justice will not be influenced indirect acts of intimidation even if Whig Ministers are thus impressionable. Me. Stansfeld, finding public opinion too strong for him, has resigned his office of Junior ...

Published: Friday 08 April 1864
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1004 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE TAVIST(X'K QAZ

... y near at hand when they should be able to discard the loam towns and enter into actual •poseessipn. Reform was dead; the Whigs bad perormed its obeequies, and the country had not gone into mourning. They had waited long enough for decency's sake, but ...

Published: Friday 20 May 1864
Newspaper: Tavistock Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 251 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SUMMARY OF THE WEEK

... its treatment by the Whigs. Not only are the inhabitants deprived of their constitutionalprivilege of electing their parliamentary representatives, without let or hindrance ; but now they are subjected to a new grievance. The Whig Government embrace all ...

Published: Friday 11 March 1864
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 911 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

EXPECTED DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT

... their existence and although they then escaped defeat, their position ever since has been exceedingly critical. Were they not Whigs, an appeal to the country would undoubtedly have been made ere this. But, with the proverbial tenacity for oflice which ch ...

Published: Friday 28 October 1864
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1074 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... to the effect that the policy of the present Government began thirty years ago by the Prime Minister and enforced by every Whig Government, has led to constant wars which have culminated in burning of and the massacres of Foochow ; that the Government ...

Published: Friday 12 February 1864
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1186 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE VOTE OF CENSURE

... Hall, especially as the members came out. The Liberals were received with yelling and hisses, and cries of Down with the Whigs! Denmark and the Princess of Wales! Disraeli for ever! The people were terribly exasperated with the Government, though ...

Published: Friday 15 July 1864
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 579 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

The Standard

... The Standard. The victory, such it is, does prove, wo frooly admit, ono superiority which tbo Whigs posse** over tho Conservative*. not that all those arts which foolish members mas* upon critical occasion our opponents easily bear away the palm. Members ...

Published: Tuesday 19 July 1864
Newspaper: North Devon Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 287 | Page: 3 | 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

Disallows Omni Etta

... neighbourhood in a few weeks. 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 ellen, sad place such beast-like officers and men Ilan . inclined ...

Published: Friday 29 April 1864
Newspaper: Tavistock Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 326 | Page: 6 | Tags: none