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NOTES FROM THE METROPOLIS

... extorted the trust and admiration of all who care for Koform. Mr. Gladstone's pre- eminence is, however, a sore trouble to Whig magnates and ex-officials. Thoy feel that he is not a safe man for them. He might lead them back to power, but would exact ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1867
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
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THE REFORM MOVEMENT

... cause, and defended them from the insults, slanders, and vitupera- tion, so freely heaped upon them by the Tories and recreant Whigs, both in and out of Parliament. — Moved by Mr. H. Sinclair, and acknowledged by Mr. Trevelyan, Mr. Candlish, and Mr. Cowen ...

Published: Saturday 02 February 1867
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
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NOTES FROM THE METROPOLIS

... Cave of Adullam— which greatly daring dined at Lord Grosvenor's on Monday night— will not be without effect on the moderate Whigs. Mr. Bright, also, was greeted with a cheer quite equal in volume to that which ushered in Mr. Disraeli, who, somehow, doea ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 1867
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
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Jtoral lUjrarts

... Tbey could come out as professed Reformers, and say, We are quite as much in earnest about this question of Reform as your Whigs or your Radicals. We are quite as anxious about this question — it's only a question of extent. If yon will give us time, we ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 1867
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
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NOTES FROM THE METROPOLIS

... evening. One of the most happy similes used in the Parliamentary arena was Sir Robert Peel's picture of Sir Francis Baring, then Whig Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, sitting on an empty cash box, and angling for a budget. The same comparison might almost apply ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1867
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
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Kacd pcßorts

... holiness, which should be the characteristic of a Christian Ufe. Besides this, the poor find that tiie richer classes, whether Whig or Tory, Churchmen or Dissenters, are all grasping for the loaves and fishes. Again, thousands are spent in mak- ing an outside ...

Published: Saturday 09 March 1867
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
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NOTES FROM THE METROPOLIS

... support in some honorary post to the next Liberal adminis- tration, after the fashion of the late Marquis of Lansdowne. The old Whigs acquiesce. Their complaints have been stopped by the advance made by the Tories, and household suffrage, with plain and genuine ...

Published: Saturday 09 March 1867
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
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NOTES FROM THE METROPOLIS

... who further aim to keep Mr. Gladstone out of office, because he has shown so decided a tendency to infuse new blood into the whig official party by promoting able administrators like Mr. Stansfield to positions which they think ought to be reserved for ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1867
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
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THE GREAT MEETING.OF THE.LIBERAL PARTY

... would be left entirely in the hands of the Government, and would be passed in such a state as no one could be satisfied with — Whig, Radical, nor Tory — there would be a dissolution, and the question would be decided by tbe constituencies. (Cheers.) And then ...

Published: Saturday 27 April 1867
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
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THE REFORM BILL

... of the people are enfranchised, it matters not much practi- cally by which party in the State it is effected — whether by Whigs, anxious to popularize, Or by Tories, determined, if possible, to remain in power, even at any cost of consistency or principle ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1867
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
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THE STRUGGLE IN CANDIA

... insurrection. When the Whigs were in power, they handed over the lonian Islands to Greece, with the consent of Europe ; and if they were now in office, they wodd induce the cession of Candia to Greece. One of the happiest conditions of Whig Administration, is ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1867
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 1069 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

&sitamt ai |Utos,

... House of Lords, establish a Parliament of London, cleanse the Thames, design Law Courts and a National Gallery, turn all the Whigs into Tories, extinguish Mr. Serjeant Gaselee induce the Queen to re-enter society, make the Fenians' loyal, invent a substitute ...

Published: Saturday 29 June 1867
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
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