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2Jursery Rhymes,

... 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 

Mr. Bright at Blackburn

... studiously conciliatory towards the Liberal Government, and so flavoured with a prescrip- tive tinge of feeling almost worthy of a Whig in some of its sentences, that it will be regarded by many as a bid for office. He said the new Administration is composed ...

Published: Saturday 09 December 1865
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 324 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

----POLITICAL GOSSIP

... reoognise the establishment of the Empire in 1852, he being the actual occupant of the Foreign-office on the 2nd of December. The Whigs came into power five weeks after that event; but bis Lordship adds that doubt- less they would have taken the same cordial ...

Published: Saturday 04 November 1865
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 584 | Page: 5 | 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 

AGRICULTURE., -

... grazier to con- tribute still further to the wants of those on this side of St. George's Channel; for, according to the Belfast Whig, there is an immense increase of cattle-raising, and the number of calves now being reared is said to be by far the highest ...

Published: Saturday 08 July 1865
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1043 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

OPINIONS OF THE PRI)iss. --

... too-went in for Reform precedents from the Parliament of 1628, for opinions of Lard Somere, and Lord Durham, and ether eminent Whigs on Reform-and altogether took a page out of Hallam. The conclusion of his speech was as :fine in its way as anything he has ...

Published: Saturday 23 December 1865
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1050 | 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 

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 

AMERICA AFTER THE WAR

... company—there were about sixty of them altogether—was a prominent and leading man in his State. Many of them belonged to the old Whig party,' and consequently were former friends of Mr. Seward's, and they were all former friends of Mr. Seward's, and they were ...

Published: Saturday 30 September 1865
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1371 | 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 

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