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THE CHARITIES COMMISSION

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

THE WEAKNESS OF THE OPPOSITION

... Ministry except its chief who not for the moment out of favour, Mr Gladstone with the Tories for praising reform, and with the Whigs for clipping his praises, Sir George Grey with everybody in the House for his jelly-fish obstinacy, which yields to a squeeze ...

THE LATE JOHN FAIRRIE, ESQ

... Walter, and Robert Baine, Gabriel Weir, James Ramsay, John Rodger, Robert Steele, and many more, who held aloft the Whig banner in days when Whig and Tory did not agree. He was one of the ablest writers of the party, and it is even now no unprofitable occupation ...

Published: Thursday 09 June 1864
Newspaper: Greenock Advertiser
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1615 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... lighting. The negro troops stormed the Confederate forts. Butler had not reached Petersburg before the assault. The Richmond Whig of the 15th inst. reports the defeat of General Sheridan Gens. Fitzhugh Lee and Hampton, with heavy loss. No particulars received ...

MODERN POLITICAL PILOTS

... walking Stamford. Mr Gladstone and Gibson are compelled to subside into the and the John Ball, muttering, sulkily, that tho Whigs always get the best of iu in scramble. A quarter of hour of silent and reflective study follows. At the end of that time the ...

SERIALS FOR JUNE

... injury of study, A political article on The Crisis of Parties” concludes an admirable number. It prophesies the downfall of the Whig Government, but unfortunately its vaticinations are founded chiefly op the B|>eecb upon the suffrage which Mr Gladstone has ...

Published: Tuesday 07 June 1864
Newspaper: Greenock Advertiser
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 945 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

HOUSE OF COMMONS

... of the Board of Charity Commissioners. At considerable length the Hon. Member denounced the Board a gross Whig job, and its office was a gross Whig snuggery. It not only entailed a considerable charge upon the country, but owing to the reckless and profligate ...

Published: Saturday 18 June 1864
Newspaper: Greenock Advertiser
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2886 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... the Hoard of Charity Commissioners. At considerable length the Hon. Member denounced the Board as a gros* Whig job, and its office perfect Whig snuggery. not only entailed a considerable charge upon the country, but, owing to the reck- less and profligate ...