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... that he would have the support of the independent section of the electors. Mr Powell's object of liberating the borough Irons Whig thraldom was made as difficult of achievement as possible. No device was thought too dishonorable, no dodge too unworthy —this ...

Published: Saturday 21 November 1868
Newspaper: North Wilts Herald
County: Wiltshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1103 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

REMEMBRANCES OF THE PREMIER

... King James, for civil and religious freedom ; rememb -r the example of our forefathers, bishops, and barons, and good old Whigs, who always looke Ito ancient landmarks, clun h to the fundamental principles, held fast ancient charters, and so built up ...

Published: Saturday 07 November 1868
Newspaper: West Somerset Free Press
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 1099 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Dear Mercury, The election contests throughout the cnuntrv prove the untruthlulness of a remark that hae ..

... would be easy to take the election addresses and speeches and show that we have amongst us decided Tories, equally decided Whigs, and unmistakable Radicals. But I have lately been led to cogitate upon party colours, and here I think distinctiveness cannot ...

Published: Saturday 07 November 1868
Newspaper: Cheltenham Mercury
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 996 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FACTS FOR THE WORKING-CLASSES

... Factory Acts, 13th and 14th Vict. c. 54, 1850.—Lord Ashley. To render more stringent the provisions of the last act. Sir G. Grey (Whig Home Secretary) insisted on clause increasing the weekly toil of women and children by hours. In spite of this concession the ...

Published: Friday 13 November 1868
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1257 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

EAST SOMERSET ELECTION

... for the fine phrases, and clap-trap oratory, and cajolery,” Mr. Hughes would call it, of writers in magazines, and effeminate Whig orators, who affect to be inspired by a new-born zeal for the working man and the labourer. The nomination for Mid-Somerset ...

Published: Wednesday 25 November 1868
Newspaper: Frome Times
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 1027 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE BRIBERS AND THE BRIBED

... mak* mutual coucetutions. by which prowecutions of the worst oases were abandon. d. A 'tory in would be paired off against a Whig malefactor io Yorkshire. These convenient arrangements aid now cease Electloa petitio,s have become like Iwo bet In.oks, which ...

Published: Saturday 14 November 1868
Newspaper: Langport & Somerton Herald
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 995 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Address of the Protestant Association to the Electors of the United Kingdom. g GENERAL ELECTION is taking pl ..

... representatives who were not opposed to Maynooth, *he result of which was that almost every eandida{c who came forward, whether Whig, Tory, or Radical, declared that at heart he had always been opposed to the Grant, and was ready to p himself against it.”—Lord ...

Published: Wednesday 25 November 1868
Newspaper: Wiltshire County Mirror
County: Wiltshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 966 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

PIMA OQURT

... Bhamo route, in the direction of Calcutta. A? the Standard Theatre manic effect never previously Peen upon an English stage is Whig exhibited. A play called Danger, now performed, gives a modification of the ordinasy railway sensation. The incidents ...

Published: Saturday 28 November 1868
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 1445 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE BRISTOL DAILY POST, MONDAY, NO'

... DAILY POST, MONDAY, NO' always advocated the interest and the welfare of the great names of this country, and said that the Whigs when in power had, by reducing the duties on foreign wines, legis Wed for the rich, and not for the poor (cheers). He asked ...

Published: Monday 09 November 1868
Newspaper: Bristol Daily Post
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2104 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

EAST SOMERSET

... electors of Bath, that the Whig party never thought—it never entered into their imaginations—to give to every ratepayer vote. Every ratepayer in the towns, whether paid shilling rate or a £lOO rate, now bad vote. Did the Whigs ever think of this? (“ Ves ...

Published: Saturday 21 November 1868
Newspaper: Bristol Times and Mirror
County: Bristol, England
Type: | Words: 3931 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

HELSTON

... amusing. I think lam a Whig. But then the Tories are so moral, and morality is my forte. I must be a Tory. But the Whig 3 dress so much better, and an ill- dress'd party, like an ill-dress'd man, must be wrong. Yes, lam a decided Whig. And yet — l feel like ...

Published: Thursday 19 November 1868
Newspaper: Royal Cornwall Gazette
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 7284 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

STROUD

... which it should be kept, they had spent a little more money than was B]»ent before for inefficiency. Look at the army. The Whigs had held office several years to the Conservatives' one. Compare their tenure of office for one year. How much had they done ...

Published: Saturday 07 November 1868
Newspaper: Gloucester Journal
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1424 | Page: 8 | Tags: none