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CLECKHEATON LIBERAL REGISTRATION ASSOCIATION

... widely extended. He re- garded the Conservatives as one and all opposed to the progress of the people, and very many of the Whig party as being little better. He considered the present House of Commons as wanting in commercial enlightenment, and related ...

Published: Tuesday 21 May 1867
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2636 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE TOTNES ELECTIONS AND BRIBERY

... been lately favoured on the vexed question. What under present circumstancee should reformers do ? The veteran chief of the Whigs, wise by experience, and calm in his comparative seelusion from the jar and tur- moil of the fray, judges more justly than ...

Published: Monday 20 May 1867
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 853 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

CONSERVATIVE BANQUET IN LEEDS

... however select such administration might he, for their failures had been less ignominious and less damaging than those of the Whigs and the Radicals, (Cheers.) Whatever might be the nature of the bill, he sincerely hoped that the power of England would never ...

Published: Thursday 31 January 1867
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2679 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

POLITICS IN MUNICIPAL MATTERS

... make your analogy complete, that in liss Dr Homoopath bad introduced his principles in oppo-itioat Dr. Allopath, just as Dr. Whig did his in ?? t' Dr. Tory, then I at once admit, in the event ?? b7 yourself, that having more faith in aliopathy, I sloteu ...

Published: Friday 22 November 1867
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1859 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT

... that we witnessed on Fri- da*and found'to be ratified on Mouday. I doubt whether the Conservative party, or some of the old Whigs for that matter, realise the vastness of the change. The former assembled on Friday in great numbers, as you know, each baving ...

Published: Thursday 23 May 1867
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1996 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE SETTLEMENT OF THE MYSORE QUESTION

... Indian Secretaryship, although it was to be gathered from the previous correspondence that it was not the intention of the Whig Government to perpetuate or to prolong the native Government of Mysore, no orders had been passed with respect to the disposal ...

Published: Friday 17 May 1867
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2089 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE WEATHER

... it will doubtless tend to make the returns lens than they promised to be. Otherwise our reports con- tisspu in eyvry way ?? Whig. TO ADVERTISERS. 1PREPAiD ADVE]RTISEMENTS. Advertisements under the following heads, viz, ,%ICOe bg ipriate ktontract, ...

Published: Saturday 07 September 1867
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1055 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

WHAT THE REFORM BILL WILL DO IN THE COUNTIES

... Chrasicfe.) 'When boltsehoid suffrage is enjoyed in the boroughs, what stand can be made against the dmamnd for it in countiesP The Whig theory used to be that the borough Members represeuted the occupiers, and the county members the owners of England. 'The a ...

Published: Tuesday 30 April 1867
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1062 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

CONSERVATIVE BANQUET, AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE

... prerogative of the Crown? or the rights and privileges of the House of Lords? Nothing of the kind. The fact simply was that the Whig franchise of 1832, which for years its authors bad surrendered, discredited, and discarded, had now altogether disappeared ...

Published: Tuesday 12 November 1867
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1132 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS

... rs tasibs tm-alded in bosth years. RiEiOliti.-The 2iai1si saysS some severe tlhiiugs (1 political parties- aeving (If both Whigs ?? rh~m they e uld of:t this moment be hnppy to lesre refuse alone it it w ould only do the same by Ihelli, and sas~ertll6g ...

Published: Friday 08 February 1867
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1077 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

MEETINGS OF THE OPPOSITION

... In the old days of the Grenvilles, the Rock- iuglaems, aud the rortlauds, party action meant the action of a i fcv powerful Whig or Tory families, who arranged. their proceedings behisid the scenes, and then led their followers into the field, to victory ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1867
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1411 | Page: 9 | Tags: News