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GREAT REFORM MEETING

... to endorsement (hear, hear). Take another man, my friend 0 Mr. G63chen (applause), These tire not seen taken from old t 5- Whig families, or who have attained a position simply be- ly cause they were blessed with a connexion and a name, bat bb they ara ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1866
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 3581 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE FENIAN CONSPIRACY IN IRELAND

... expected that the evidence e of an informer will lead to the detection of nearly all con- i cerned in the plot. The Northierai Whig ?? Monday the firat arrest ill consequence of the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act was made in Belfast; Thu police, whether ...

Published: Saturday 24 February 1866
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 3371 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE GOVERNMENT REFORM BILL

... regards the middle classes, there is, we believe, very little difference of opinion as to the merits of the measure. After both Whigs and Tories have admitted the necessity of suffrage extension, there can be few politicians who can honestly assert that the ...

Published: Saturday 17 March 1866
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2799 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

REFORM

... accurately indicated in our last. We regret to say that we were equally correct in foreshadowing the policy of the half-hearted Whigs and disappointed place-holders who had evinced their hostility to progress, A coalition between the enemies of the working-classes ...

Published: Saturday 24 March 1866
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2878 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE REFORM BILL

... Mr. Disraeli, and adopted by Earl Grosvenor, threatened a most disastrous split in the ministerial ranks. The reactionary Whigs asserted that upwards of forty Liberals would vote against the second reading of the Bill ; and while there was no doubt that ...

Published: Saturday 31 March 1866
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 3367 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE REFORM BILL

... minis- terialists would follow him in his desertion to Toryism. A coalition Cabinet, composed of Conservatives and renegade Whigs was confidently spoken of in the clubs. Earl Russell and Mr. Gladstone were marked out for political extinction ; Reform was ...

Published: Saturday 14 April 1866
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1534 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE

... of his fellow- c ountrymen. WEconld not be that a Bill of this character could have been brought in without consulting the Whig party; and there could not bo muchb danger in a Bill brough t ini~ by 'a member of the house of Bedford, and eupported by 11 ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1866
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 6832 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE REFORM BILL

... without taking immediate action in one of two ways. In the first place, they can resign, leaving the Tory party and the renegade Whigs to form a coalition Government. On the other hand, they can make a direct appeal to the constituencies upon the question of ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1866
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2064 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE BUDGET

... andMr. Gladstobe parts with them the more willingly inasmuch as the tax is admittedly a bad one. Exactly 25 years ago, when a Whig Govern- ment first attempted to deal with the abuses of Protection, the proposal to reduce the duty on foeeign timber was one ...

Published: Saturday 05 May 1866
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1257 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

NEWS OF THE WEEK

... concocted, with the hope of eatching the Adul- lamites, substituting an £8 for a £7 franchise in -. boroughs. If the lalf-hearted Whigs do zlot iil- prove of this plan, the Opposition will submit y another, allowing tile reduced borough franehise to :r stand ...

Published: Saturday 19 May 1866
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2022 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE REFORM BILL

... process to the towns containing adles than 8000 souls is to be condemned as the weak and 'al illiberal proposal of mere Whigs, and all the boroughs . I under 10,000 inhabitants are to be threatened with the CC fate of their smaller brethren. As a similar ...

Published: Saturday 26 May 1866
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1816 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

DEFEAT OF THE REFORM BILL

... question, but would e regard a defeat as destroying a vital principle of the Bill, w as equally unsuccessful. The reactionary Whigs and crotchety Liberals found that they could place the c Cabinet in a minority; and the Conservatives weret naturally delighted ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1866
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1473 | Page: 5 | Tags: News