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The New Opposition Whipper-in

... Bouverie William Brand, M.P. for Lewes, is an announcement of no little importance in a party sense at this junoture of politics. Whig whippers-in must, of course, get tired of their work like other persons, and covet a comfort- able retirement at a convenient ...

Published: Saturday 06 October 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 479 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

The Reform Bill

... con. cerned in giving a victory within the next fortnight either to the Whigs over the Tories or to the Tories over the Whigs. It cannot be expected that most Catholies of Whig, or Liberal, or Radical, or Demo- cratic opinions, should feel anxious to ...

Published: Saturday 21 April 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1106 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE APOLO0T OF THE YAM0OT3

... Him that is th* highest bidder For my vote, the man for me In no party name I glory, Stand not inthe category Vifchnr of a Whig or Tory But I always give my voice For a liberal politician Answering to my definition. Liberal hand's the one condition For ...

Published: Saturday 27 October 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 242 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

OUR MISCELLANY. -+--

... the Princes of Wales are sure to be Whigs, and to turn Tories when they succeed to the crown, and the example of George IV. is always adduced as a case in point. But in the days of Walpole and Pelham, though Whigs and Tories held, on the whole, the same ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1698 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

POLITICAL GOSSIP. --

... the decline of the Irifih population not to the 11 three bad harvests, but to twenty ysars of pJmost unbroken Whig rule. The purpoe'a of Whig Cabinets was, he said, to be thus expressed:—Drive human beings away to America, send in cows, and so make Ireland ...

Published: Saturday 27 October 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 831 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

Mr. Osborne at the British Association

... Woolnoagh was 73 years of age. Curious Discovery in a Prisoner's Cell.— In the gaol of a northern county, Bays the Northern Whig, considered one of the best-managed institutions of its kind in Ireland, a gentleman ia at present under. going a sentence ...

Published: Saturday 08 September 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 386 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

TOWN TALK. |

... concerned. The Whigs, for some reason or other which it is not easy to understand, have never been o liberal to those who make literature in its various forms their calling as have been the Tories. Of this, the opposition which the old Whig Govern- ment ...

Published: Saturday 07 July 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1131 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Lord Brougham's Address

... debates on Reform, which led to no measure; and it is to be regretted that attention was not given to the acceptance by the Whigs, at the private meeting in December, 1829, of the proposed household suffrage with a year's residence, which might have been ...

Published: Saturday 13 October 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 590 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

POLITICAL GOSSIP. --+-

... is the Whig.— If you attempt to vote twice, said the questioner, I jahall ha.v& vou arrested for a violation of the election law. You will-30n will, said the sovereign people.— Then I say if I am denied the right of wot- ing for the Whigs after havin' ...

Published: Saturday 25 August 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1136 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

MR. BRIGHT AT ROCHDALE

... Stanley-from the Opposition. Sappose that all the old Whigs-and I do not speak of them without respect, because, in past times, the country has had great service from many of them-but suppose the old Whigs were quietly deposited, with all symbols of national ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 3342 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

FACTS AND facetiae

... Amerioa, the following are as good as any:—One was concerning John Tyler, for whom it was to be expected, as an old Henry Clay Whig, Mr. Lincoln would enter- tain no great respect. A year or two after Tyler's accession to the Presidency, said he, contemplating ...

Published: Saturday 29 September 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1540 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

- AGRICULTURE. --+--

... AGRICULTURE. STATE OF THE CROPS IN IRELAND. —All the letters of our correspondents this week, says the Northern Whig, again refer to the check given to the progress of the harvest by the broken, unpropitious weather in the close of last and the commencement ...

Published: Saturday 08 September 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 867 | Page: 4 | Tags: News