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Letters the Editor. ELECTORS OF NORTH DEVON You will shortly be called upon to record your votes a General ..

... their own. You know as well as I do, that whatever may be their subdivisions, the great national political parties are the Whigs n ths one hand, and the Tories on the other, aud such shall refer to them here. The greab Tory cry at the coming election ...

Published: Thursday 01 October 1868
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 4209 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. ADDRESSED TO THE EDITOR. SIR LARRY'S RABBITS. g; must not presume to occupy much of ..

... Colyton ; there, I hear, some thirty years ago trie late Baronet of Shute brought the venerable Earl ? to Shute to raise the Whig furore of that day to utmost, and all the tenantry to a man marched poll as thorough-going Liberals, and Sir William roie wore ...

Published: Friday 02 October 1868
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2681 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Political Gossip

... with those the electors of Northampton. Tbe opposition to Sir John Pakington in Droitwich is, we aie wtil assured, nothing but Whig-Radical filibuster. The good people of that borough are loi well aware the services already rendered to the nation the War ...

Published: Friday 02 October 1868
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 900 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

AN ELECTOR'S REPLY MR. ACLAND. To the Editor the Exeter and Plymouth Gazette. Bideford, September 29th, 1868. ..

... if not soon removed with unspari. g hand, it needs prophetic vision forecast her future. Had this ordinary contest between Whig and Tory my vote must have been recorded in your favour.. I would have forgotten my politics my desire to do honour to the ...

Published: Friday 02 October 1868
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 6107 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE TAVISTOCK GAZETTE

... 12 miles of his property, from which he derives £BO,OOO a year, has excited considerable local dissatisfaction. The Northern Whig comments upon it as an instance of the 'generosity and liberality of our Irish absentee landlords.' The Marquis and his pr ...

Published: Friday 02 October 1868
Newspaper: Tavistock Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 4590 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE CHURCH OF SAINT MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS

... blemish. The sermon was of episcopal brevity, and had nothing in it to disturb the equanimity of high church or low church, whig or tory. It was delivered with freedom and energy, but the wide and lofty space in which the preacher spoke was so exhaustive ...

Published: Friday 02 October 1868
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1941 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS

... The Earl Carnarvon sacrifiord not merely bat the political connections and friendships of his lf etim* rather than dish Whigs the expense ot and honour; and for this reason, if for no jjher, big utterances on public affairs will always com- the attention ...

Published: Tuesday 06 October 1868
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1828 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

EAST DEVON ELECTION

... dog-tax was pat on the Liberals. This was untrue, tho Act imposing the tax was passed ia March 1867, nine months after the Whigs went out of office, and Sir L. Palk and Lord Courtanay were parties to it. had been twitted by Sir L. having said that any ...

Published: Tuesday 06 October 1868
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 4973 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

A FRAGMENT FROM A NEW EDITION OF SHAKSPEARE

... heart's ease Till they have gained a glorious victory, Aud therefore are they very dangerous. I'd rather fight some dry old Whig Than staud the brunt with such a Liberal! But come to my right hand—this ear is deaf— Aud tell me truly what thou think'st ...

Published: Tuesday 06 October 1868
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 202 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

CLERICAL INTOLERANCE

... whose name we spare, is obliged to go without his pound of flesh. When the lease falls in, Irish Church and Methodist Chapel, Whig, Tory, and Radical will possibly be names which will need a dictionary antiquities to explain them. The Methodist congregation ...

Published: Thursday 08 October 1868
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 900 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE ELECTIONS

... country last year. The leader whom Mr. Acland followed was able but a wandering politican—ono who had gone from Tory to Whig, from Whig to Radical, from Peel to Palmeraton, and from Palmer3ton to Bright—perhaps to-morrow he would be a Mill, an Odgers, a ...

Published: Friday 09 October 1868
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 7194 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE ELECTIONS

... his Ciningsby— Taper and Tadpole—who sagaciously decided that the course of policy for the Conservatives was Tory men and Whig measures. J. W. Sillifant, Esq. moved, in a neat speech, in which he told the people that those who supposed he was a Tory ...

Published: Friday 09 October 1868
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 6897 | Page: 8 | Tags: none