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POLITICAL REMINISCENCES

... Reform Bill, foreseen its opponents but denied its Whig advocates, who then deprecated repeal of the corn Laws as much as the Tories—again transferred the Government of the country to Whig hands. In Whig hands it has, for the most part, since remained ; ...

Published: Saturday 29 October 1864
Newspaper: Leeds Intelligencer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1433 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Michaelmas Term.—On Tuesday, on the opening of the common law offices the termination of the long vacation, the ..

... to Westminster Hall. What the Radicals think of the Whigs.—At a meeting of the Northern Reform Union, held at Manchester on Tuesday evening, the following complimentary observations respecting the Whigs were made by various speakers. Mr. Pope trusted the ...

Published: Saturday 29 October 1864
Newspaper: Yorkshire Gazette
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 791 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

REFORM AND THE DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT

... majority is composed mainly ot Whigs, who professed on the hustings to be favourable to an extension of the suffrage. The Reformers have always been too ready to trust to Whig leadership. On this question it is clear that the Whigs will not advance if they ...

Published: Saturday 29 October 1864
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1387 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LITERATURE

... the Whigs._ As, however, he makes this assertion without attempting to adduce any proof beyond some reference to Ireland and Italy, the reader not bound to believe it. Indeed, a fair comparison of the political conduct of the Tories and the Whigs would ...

Published: Saturday 15 October 1864
Newspaper: Leeds Intelligencer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3306 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

PARLIAMENT

... which appear to indicate that her Majesty’s Ministers were meditating a coup de main. Whig candidates are slyly feeling their way in certain constituencies where Whig has not dared to show his face for many years before, and where success could only be ...

CONSERVATISM IN LEEDS

... CONSERVATISM LEEDS. Iv 1834 the Whig organ iv Leeds asserted that if man should go with a lautern and candle through every moor and marsh, every waste and wild, eveiy borough and boundary of the West Riding in search a Tory, he would not be able to find ...

Published: Saturday 15 October 1864
Newspaper: Leeds Intelligencer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1329 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

KNARESBRO'

... revised the lists for this borough. Mr. Markland, of Leeds, appeared for the Conservative party Mr. Walker, of York, for the Whig-Radicals. The Conservatives made nine objections and sustained four; the Radical party seven and sustained two. The Conservatives ...

Published: Saturday 01 October 1864
Newspaper: Yorkshire Gazette
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 143 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

NORTH-RIDING ELECTORS

... these statements yon are mistaken. Had the first been true, Whig landlords would have hardly found it necessary to post sentries in the polling booths, to see that their tenants plumped for the Whig candidate. Nor would an agent of the other side have told ...

Published: Saturday 22 October 1864
Newspaper: York Herald
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 536 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE COALITION IN EXTREMIS

... has come. At any sate the end of the Whigs is fast approaching. The present Government, it will be remembered, was not the result of healthy party move, but the offspring of an unholy intrigue between the Whigs and John Bright. England, said Mr. Disraeli ...

Published: Saturday 08 October 1864
Newspaper: Leeds Intelligencer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1545 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

NORTHALLERTON

... Conservative gain on the revision of 13. This the Conservatives consider a great achievement, it is well known that the present Whig member (Mr. Wrightson) has withiu the List few years expended upwards of £50,000 the purchase of land, building houses, &c ...

Published: Saturday 08 October 1864
Newspaper: Yorkshire Gazette
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 235 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

THE SMALL AND THE GREAT

... so-called Liberals are not really libera!. Bat he cannot thus, at the first biush, say that the so- called Whigs are not really Whigs, because the words Whig and Tory convey to him no meaning except as the arbitrary names of the two parties. Before he knows ...

Published: Monday 03 October 1864
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1815 | Page: 4 | Tags: none