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THE FENIAN CONSPIRACY

... supposed to give rise. Describing the arrival at Belfast on Saturday of a batch of 45 Fenian prisoners from Dublin, the Northern Whig says:— The appearance of the prisoners was the most wretched and miserable that any one could conceive. They were all little ...

Published: Saturday 24 March 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 880 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

POLITICAL GOSSIP. --

... death of the Earl of Gainsborough the Government loses an adherent in the House of Lords. The deceased earl was a consistent Whig or Liberal: his successor, although a Roman Catholic, some years ago identified himselrwith the Conservative party. THE Royal ...

Published: Saturday 30 June 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 857 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

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... forcibly brought before the House by Lord Stanley. But we may remark, in passing, that the noble earl, speaking on behalf of the Whig party, betrayed some soreness of feeling, which may or may not have had its weight in shaping the course he and some other ...

Published: Saturday 21 April 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 977 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

0.-. AN OLD MAID'S REMARKS UPON OLD BACHELORS.I

... by the friendly and sagacious teaching of women, they cannot have risen to the state of manhood, nor know whettoer they are Whigs or Tories. I have closely watched these owls m my own vicinity; and they fly home from midnight to three in tha morning, and ...

Published: Saturday 20 October 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 920 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

PARLIAMENTARY JOTTINGS. ,-+-,

... kingdom to have votes beyond those who are legitimate householders, it would appear that all those who denominate themselves Whigs, as well as the Con- servatives, think that the privilege should be con- fined to ratepayers. There is, however, no outward ...

Published: Saturday 27 January 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1936 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

POLITICAL GOSSIP. ---.-

... much recently of rumoured splits in the Bussell Cabinet. Latest accounts, however, assure us that there is no likelihood of Whigs being parted down the middle this Session at any rate. Motto (quite at the service of the people of Binningharn).- Honour Bright ...

Published: Saturday 17 March 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1079 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

POLITICAL GOSSIP., --

... character, have won him the good will of all men, especially thoae who have devoted their lives to scientific pursuits. A lead- ing Whig, of the gentlemanlike, old-fashioned Liberals, not a modern leveller, said that he cared little about franchises; all he wished ...

Published: Saturday 15 December 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 982 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

OUR MISCELLANY. --+-

... carles. Equal they seem in savageness and spite Will pluck beat size when comes the final fight ?— Or will the terrier of the Whigs be found Torn from his kennel, and in ordure drowned ? C., in the Press. Welsh Fairies.—The Tylwyth Teg are friendly towards ...

Published: Saturday 21 April 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1017 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

POLITICAL GOSSIP. ----

... department of the Board of Trade. department of the Board of Trade. THE celebrated railway king, Mr. George Hudson, THE Northern Whig says There is to be, if there is not already, a vacancy in the representation of Armagh. Mr. Steame Ball Miller, after having ...

Published: Saturday 08 December 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 984 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

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... of boroughs condemned, because they generally return Conservatives; and another class spared because they generally return Whigs. To obtain a really wise and wholesome measure, the leaders on each side ought to stoop to meet each other in honourable agreement ...

Published: Saturday 16 June 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1100 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE LATE ELECTION COMMISSIONS

... who does not use all and every portion of influence he possesses to secure the return either of his friends or nominees. Whigs, Tories, Radicals, are all alike; we do not think there is much to choose between them, except, perhaps, that those who profess ...

Published: Saturday 10 November 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1168 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

I OUR MISCELLANY. I

... Carlton Club.-The Carltea Clab is the great political workshop of the Conservative party, where all the tactics by which a Whig administration is upset, or a Conservative administration is upraised, are planned and decided upon. Members of both houses—men ...

Published: Saturday 26 May 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1167 | Page: 5 | Tags: News