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... but what of that ? The nation delights to honour and remunerate Whig noblemen. It would a bad thing for Liberal Government if there were no place of decent emolument where an old Whig could be stowed in comfort and out of mischief. The place of the Lord ...

Published: Saturday 09 July 1870
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 915 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NAMES AND NIOKNAMES

... memory of the existing generation, pretty nearly divided England between them, the Whigs and the Tories—what were they originally both of them but nicknames of contempt ? The Whig, as we are told, derived his title from a Celtic word, signifying sour milk ...

Published: Wednesday 06 April 1870
Newspaper: Maidenhead Advertiser
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 852 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CaOKIIAII UNION

... eau now obtain from their grocer either the cheapest or the rareet productions of each c , itutry in mall quantities, thus Whig the trouble and expense of sending to some distant part, obit h w a formerly necoisairy. ...

Published: Wednesday 29 June 1870
Newspaper: Maidenhead Advertiser
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 535 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

WHAT IS THOUGHT OF THE LAND BILL IN IRELAND

... of England to govern Ireland. The Irishman asserts that the Bill is worse than useless— delusion and a snare. The Northern Whig expresses unqualified approval of the measure of security given to tbe tenant. The Cork Examiner takes a more favourable view ...

Published: Saturday 26 February 1870
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 730 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Reported Important Political Secession.—A wellinformed correspondent writes : Lord Bessborough has thrown up ..

... thrown up his appointment in Mr. Gladstone's administration on account the Irish policy of the Government. old traditional Whig leaving the camp at this moment it sign that others may possibly follow.—Belfast Nev:s Letter. Charity among Sporting Men ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1870
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 676 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

On recent occasion a gentleman was being ferried across loch in the Highland, when he noticed a small ..

... daily expected. He sat for the borough from 1857 to 1859, and was again returned at the last general election. He was a steady Whig, and his vote might always be depended upon Ministers, but never took any public part in political discussions. The Court at ...

Published: Saturday 15 October 1870
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 686 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Summary of Passing Events

... able that the adoption of inch a method equalises the contest, and gives the constituency a chance of being represented by Whig or Tory, as it may prefer. THE following data have been publi-hed with regard to the increase of population in the moat important ...

Published: Wednesday 06 April 1870
Newspaper: Maidenhead Advertiser
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 949 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE CHUBCH PROSECUTIONS

... afforded Mr. George Odger, the president, an opportunity of inquiring whether it likely the fat bishops,” or the Downing-street Whigs,” were likely to pay the expenses of any movement of the kind undertaken by the Land and Labour League. When Mr. Odger was ...

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... the House. Lord Granville's grief and deep feeling were characteristic ; but the pathetic tribute paid to the memory of the Whig statesman by the Earl of Derby, who has the character of being one of the coldest of men, took the public by surprise—as much ...

Published: Wednesday 06 July 1870
Newspaper: Maidenhead Advertiser
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1141 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

The France says that the army contingent for 1870 has been finally fixed at 90,000 men. The death is announced

... antagonists is matter certainly for a genuine Conservative triumph. But if from his election we are able to date the era when the Whig-Liberal and the Radical-Democrat parties split in two, and formed each a camp of its own, we shall have still greater cause ...

Published: Saturday 19 February 1870
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1300 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

AMERICAN ITEMS

... silver. Some foolish people have been writing as if this matrimonial affiance had political importance; bat this is absurd. Whig and Conservative noble families intermarry constantly—as, for instance, the other day the Marquis of Lansdowne was married ...

Published: Wednesday 18 May 1870
Newspaper: Maidenhead Advertiser
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1153 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE SURRENDER OP VERDUN

... check, is to make them understand that one is not going to yield an inch, and strong enough to resist force by force. of our Whig friends have done great harm by holding what is called conciliatory language, and giving way to unfounded alarms. My opinon ...

Published: Wednesday 23 November 1870
Newspaper: Maidenhead Advertiser
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1333 | Page: 4 | Tags: none