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THE WAR IN GERMANY

... compliance with his own view of the necessities of his position, he proposed to offer high office to several members of the Whig party and even to certain members of Lord Kussell's Govern- ment. He should, therefore, have to ask from his own sup- porters ...

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 

BRECON

... £5,000, but be attended week after week, and assisted on the committee. Don't let them put forward that clap- trap that the Whigs are friendly and the Conservatives opposed to the working classes. ...

Published: Friday 19 October 1866
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 296 | 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 

111'1 bECOiN O EDITION

... power, and to the ex. perience which can only be acquired in power. The Star says the negotiations with a few of the mild Whigs and with the Adullumites have broken The Herald says 1 The fact that Lord Derby had completed all the arrangements for the ...

Published: Friday 29 June 1866
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 352 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

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... the elec- tion law. You will ? you will ? said the sovereign people llien I say if I am denied the right of woting for the Whigs after hanD gone the whole ticket for the Democrats, there ain't no universal suffrage, that's all; it's a one-sided business ...

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 

Sfto; & J-ltqthjjii (gintromit -----------''''-....---_.',--

... as the stock piece of starring political agitators, and as a convenient cry for the Whigs, when their places and pay were in jeopardy. But in spite of it the Whigs have fallen over and over again, and the Conserva- tives have occupied their seatb-and ...