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A DUKE WHEN A BABY

... people of Mold that he could remember when, Whig baby, he was taught to look on a Dissenter as much in the same category murderer, and on Dissenting chapel as a den of iniquity to be quickly passed by. The Whig babies of alatergeneration.had not tliese|feeling* ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1878
Newspaper: Burnley Advertiser
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 301 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Mr. Roebuck and Sir Hes'ky Elliot—lt is undoubtedly true, as Lord (iranville remaks, that Sir Henry Elliot was ..

... Viscount Melbourne, very pronounced Whig, was then office. The Whig Prime Minister thought so highly of Sir Henry's abilities that he appointed him in August,* 1341, attache at St. Petersburg. Lord John Russell, another Whig, who took office July oth, 1840 ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1877
Newspaper: Burnley Advertiser
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1155 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE ANCESTRY OF THE LIBERALS

... hundred ago. The Whigs had persistently refused to anything, although in power for many years during the reign of tbe two first Oeorges; but the Liberals of to day ignore what history thus Caches, and the Tories axe blamed for bios 'the Whigs. So was it in ...

Published: Saturday 04 May 1878
Newspaper: Burnley Advertiser
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 559 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DEATH OF MR. ROEBUCK, M.P. Mr. John Arthur Roebuck, sen., member for Sheffield, died early on Sunday morning at his

... editor of that journal. In the country he was a popular favourite, though the plain speaking he had practised towards the Whigs, whom he regarded as false to the cause of progress, lost him his seat at the general election in August, 1837. He regained ...

Published: Saturday 06 December 1879
Newspaper: Burnley Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 515 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

WOOD TOP AND GANNOW WORKING. MEN'S CONSERVATIVE CLUB

... of popular liberties the matter of a solid and comprehensive suffrage, than their noisier and most boastful opponents, the Whigs. He instanced the efforts of Pitt in the cause of reform so far baok 1782, and urged that, had it not been for the excesses ...

Published: Saturday 01 December 1877
Newspaper: Burnley Advertiser
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 288 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE AGE OF REASON

... getting the end of all our Btrife and bickerings, and that a time coming in England when shall no longer governed parties, Tory, Whig or Radical, but by-pure wisdom which, with or without pnb'i oetings, press or Parliament, will with so miicl: perfection ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1877
Newspaper: Burnley Gazette
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 98 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SCOTCH ELECTIONS

... during the almost three-quarters century during which the Whigs were in power from the Revolution. Mr. Pitt, the younger, a Tory, tried again and again to improve matters, but Mr. Pox and the Whigs opposed him. It may amuse, if not interest, our readers ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1878
Newspaper: Burnley Advertiser
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 333 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE CABINET OF SNOBS

... least is oertaio, that the ruling families who have ruled since 1832, have been Whigs ; for of Conservative ruling families there have absolutely been none, and these Whig ruling families must have been immensely popular, or they would not have been applauded ...

Published: Saturday 09 September 1871
Newspaper: Burnley Advertiser
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 638 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MRS. BESANT IN BURNLEY

... to the speech of Lord Btaconsfiold at Aylesbury, which she severely criticised, she referred to what was called the Tory and Whig view of the land question. She contended that there was no country to be found besides England, where tillers of the soil were ...

Published: Saturday 08 November 1879
Newspaper: Burnley Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 302 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MR. LEATHAM ON THE LIBERAL PARTY

... without them they must advance. He no doubt that Whig historians would, with all the advantage «-f glow- ing periods an s, recor. the disestablishment of the Charch of if as the tip-top achievement of Whig policy. They were getting among real questicns ...

Published: Saturday 11 October 1873
Newspaper: Burnley Advertiser
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1030 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE OPENING OF THE CONSERVATIVE CLUB AT WOOD TOP

... The advice of the chairman to the members of the club, and his remarks our member—Mr. Lindsay's statements concerning tbe Whig and Tory Governments of former days, and tbe only ground for having a Liberal Government now and the views of Lord Norreys ...

Published: Saturday 14 September 1878
Newspaper: Burnley Advertiser
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 157 | Page: 5 | Tags: none