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REFORMERS AND REFORMERS

... another flagrant example of Whig jobbery. Redistribution was so contrived .as to disfranchise Conservative boroughs in a greater degree than Whig boroughs, and to transfer seats to places likely to elect supporters of a Whig-Radical Administration. Mr ...

Published: Friday 05 April 1867
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1118 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Literary Gazette

... Reform Bill of 1785 was defeated by the Whigs because it struck at the root of the nomination system in boroughs, which the Whigs the first to introduce, and which they have long profited. Afterwards the Whigs appropriated, and of course abused, the Tory ...

Published: Friday 05 April 1867
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 5327 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Political Gossip

... cannot help their apostasy, however much we may deplore it; but its effects are terrible. They and their alli-_s the ultra-Whigs, and ultra-Radicals, have left us choice. Better household suffrage at once, subject to rating and the residence clause, than ...

Published: Friday 05 April 1867
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 3971 | Page: 2 | Tags: none