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... Statesmen in their Second Childhood. FOB A PREMIER. Twaddle, twaddle, little Pam, ij' While you utter Here I am, Up among the Whigs so high, What a pretty boy am I! FOR A FOREIGN SECRETARY. Write letters cross, And threatening force, You silly old party ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1865
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 178 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

OUTLINES OF THE WEEK. i

... cheerfulness, and have declared their intention to carry on the war to any extremities. The following extract from the Richmond Whig will give an idea of the sentiments of the people and the desire of the press to buoy up the spirits of the army and to represent ...

Published: Saturday 14 January 1865
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1318 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

- .JOTTINGS OF A RAMBLER. I '

... guest. The family of the Cokes have ever been greatly BBspecfeed in Norfolk; but it was only in 1837, jwhat was called the Whig batch of peers iw&s made, tliat the eldest representative was > irs^ed to the peerage underthe title of the Eatl, Iøf Leicester ...

Published: Saturday 14 January 1865
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1378 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE MEMBERS FOR BIRMINGHAM AND THEIR .CONSTITUENTS

... this United Kingdom. That bill- that question—is not dead it takes shape again, and somehow or other, the Tories, and those Whigs who are like Tories—(laughter)-entertain uncomfortable feelings, which approach almost to a shiver (cheers and laughter). Now ...

Published: Saturday 28 January 1865
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 3320 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

TOPICS OF THE WEEK. 4 -

... suffrage as the true goal of the Reform movement. To each strong Radical strophe of Lord Amberley's there was, however, a cautious Whig antistrophe which took something from its force. Lord Amberley thinks the uneducated should be excluded from the franchise ...

Published: Saturday 11 February 1865
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1076 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

T O W IT T ALK

... well coached in the theories of his house, and was Liberal enough you know lip liberalism is the very back- bone of great Whig houses. He objected to church-rates being imposed upon Dissenters, al- though he admitted he was a sincere admirer of the ...

Published: Saturday 18 March 1865
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1325 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

TOPICS OF THE WEEK. --

... saiatnat a Bout 300 Yankees crossed the river opposite Columbia on Friday, but retreated to the north side immediately. -Richmond Whig. TpE REVENUE RETURNS.—Each succeeding quar- terly return of the revenue, says the Times, gives occasion for tittering the same ...

Published: Saturday 15 April 1865
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1560 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

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... Peelite Conservatives cheered be- cause they remembered Lord J. Russell's Edinburgh letter and the tardy conversion of the Whigs; the Whigs cheered because they gladly gave the credit to Mr. Cobden rather than to the Minister; and the Protectionists cheered ...

Published: Saturday 22 April 1865
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 930 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE EARLY LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

... to say gave him more pleasure than any subsequent success in life. He served three months, and on his return was nominated a Whig candidate for the Illinois legislature, but the county being Democratic he was beaten. His own election precinct, however, ...

Published: Saturday 06 May 1865
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 922 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

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... not willing to fulfil the pledges uf 1859 and 1860. When it is a questiou of reform or foxpnlsion from office, he >'aY8, the Whig s a'e-men will decide h, fIIvur of tefoi m. Tnis is the only effectual mode ot dealing with thll1, and he hop it will be ...

Published: Saturday 27 May 1865
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 176 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

EPITOME OF NEWS. --eo:-

... procession this year. There was a smart shock of earthquake in Kingstown, Jamaica, on the evening of the 11th ult. The Richmond Whig, whose motto is Sic semper Tyracnis, has dropped it at the request of the Provost-Marshal General. Leotard, the accomplished ...

Published: Saturday 27 May 1865
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1554 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

TOWN T.A. H. IC

... Joan Russell was made an earl per saltum, but then he had held the Premiership, and was, besides, of a ducal and a governing Whig family. The same bird of night tells us that the Ministry intend to propose the grant of a pension of £1,000 a year to the ...

Published: Saturday 03 June 1865
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1311 | Page: 2 | Tags: News