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THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS

... constitutional Whig party, with a view to formiiar, a M Government in co-operation with them. No authentir, lists o of a new Cabinet can be expected before the begin'ning of c next week, Until the result of his communicatior. with the Whigs is decisively ...

Published: Saturday 30 June 1866
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1444 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

pARLIAMEARY INTELLIG

... lower classes. In the same way there was very little distinction between a Liberal Couserva- tive and a Conservative Liberal, a Whig and a Liberal, a Liberal and an advanced Liberal, and an advanced Liberal and a Radical, although there was a clearly - defined ...

Published: Saturday 14 July 1866
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 11584 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

IN MEMORIAM

... there, But we, to cheer their hour of gloom, Will gaily bid them banish care And write Resurgam on the tomb I For though Whig lordlings start aside, And scheming lowe defeat the Bill, ald England never will abide Long to be ruled by Tory will. And vainly ...

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 

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 

THE THIRD DERBY GOVERNMENT

... . LonD DEnnY has been unsuccessful in his desire to obtain new blood for his third administration from the reactionary Whigs who have virtually raised him to power. Mr. Lowe's endeavours to carry over a little coterie to the Tory camp ended in that ...

Published: Saturday 07 July 1866
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1362 | 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 

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 

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 

NEWS OF THE WEEK

... of the late Government as hopeless, Lord Derby tried the late Marquis of Lansdowne, as a representative of the discontented Whigs, but was again disappointed, the Marquis stating that he could be more useful to the Conservatives out of office than in it ...

Published: Saturday 14 July 1866
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1981 | 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