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LONDON GOSSIP

... prerogative and dismiss Captain Carey, as she can, from the sernice. To this Her Majesty is most decidedly opposed. The number of Whig peers in the next generation will be greatly reduced if this secession to the Conservative side goes on. The seceders are already ...

Published: Friday 08 August 1879
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 520 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE TICHBORNE CLAIMANT

... Tichborne was wrongfully convicted and deprived of rank and of his estates, and blaming also the heartless in- difference of both Whig and Tory leaders to his unhappy condition, recommends all honest men and women in Not- tingham to labour with hand and heart ...

Published: Friday 17 October 1879
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 587 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

ECHOES OF THE WEEK

... punish him for his manly independence I It is curious how differently small boroughs are regarded at various times. When a 'Whig or a Conservative takes refuge in one, it is denounced as a rotten obstacle in the way of the Liberal majority. Not so when ...

Published: Friday 29 August 1879
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 2473 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

SIR HENRY DRUMMOND WOLFF AT HOME

... he supposed that the acting editor of the OxI, a gentleman highly skilled in his profeesion would allow aspiring diplomats, Whigs, Tories, or Radicas,1 to infringe the proper limits of journalism. The editor, indeed, edited severely, and held a somewhat ...

Published: Friday 25 July 1879
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 757 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

LONDON GOSSIP

... abandon s the politics of his fam ly. C There were some very ominous absentees froem Lord I b Granville's dinner. three great Whig proprietors seem fol- t lowing in the steps of the two ?? Ailesbary, 5 Fitzwilliam, and fortescue. X Lord- married a charming ...

Published: Friday 21 February 1879
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 696 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

JONATHAN HARTOP, ESQ., ON THE YORKSHIRE NESTOR,

... served other Whigs the same, and I heard that they cried out lustily, 'Sacheverell and the church, Ormond for ever, i and d-n all foreign government.' Well, and in Wilt- shire great numbers of men marched about with drums and 5 abused your Whig justices; ...

JONATHAN HARTOP, ESQ., OR, THE YORKSHIRE NESTOR

... now, they toasted amid shouts, and halloos, and tally-hos to their hearts' content, foxhunting, the speedy downfall of the Whigs and all foreigners, and other congenial toasts. But a few days had elapsed since King William had paced with feeble steps up ...

OLD PARLIAMENTS

... supported by a majority of the House of Commons. We find in 1694 a ?? Lord Ecejer, a Whig Lord Admiral, and a Whig Chancellor of the Exchlequer, furnished with two Whig Secretaries of State. After the union with Scotland, in Queen Anne's time, a Scotch ...

Published: Friday 24 October 1879
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 3422 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

SIR JOHN FENWICK

... and had at various times been the holder of local dignities amon-st others those of Mayor of, and member for, Newcastle. The Whig Government sought to propitiate Blachett by offers of cfficial posts, but without suocess. The fate of the scoundrels whose ...

Published: Friday 24 January 1879
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 2355 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

ECHOES OF THE WEEK

... as applic- able at certain periods to the Whigs as to modern Conservatives. The only shadow of consistency in thl attack upon Lord. Beaconsfield was the re- ?? that lie moved too swiftly when he dished the Whigs in 1867; but the charge was a direct con- ...

Published: Friday 07 November 1879
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 2555 | Page: 4 | Tags: News