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Notes and Queries. QUESTIONS. .For what reasons were the respective colours for Whigs and Tories originally ..

... Notes and Queries. QUESTIONS. .For what reasons were the respective colours for Whigs and Tories originally chosen ? S. M, Can any of your readers give the correct surname of the Prince Consort and the origin of his family ? s/m. South Chaeltox. —Can ...

Published: Saturday 19 December 1885
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 735 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

{From, **lAfe.”)

... the Whigs as well as the Tories, owned large numbers of seats, the holders of which had, of course, to vote just as their lordly patrons** required them. It would appear that about 200 such seats were owned by the Tories, and about 70 by the Whigs. Among ...

Published: Saturday 13 June 1885
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 829 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

... few days ago. At a time when, if the country is to be saved, it is iniSspensably necessary that moderate and constitutional Whigs should support the Conservative party ; it is most disheartening to perceive that the great Liberal magnates are once more ...

Published: Saturday 06 June 1885
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1649 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Notes and Queries

... QUESTIONS, ‘What was the origin of the war 'with* Russia in 1854 ? Twesdale. * * For what we-e the respective colour-* for Whigs and Tories originally chosen? S. M. * * . Can any of your readers give the correct surname of the Prince Consort and the origin ...

Published: Saturday 05 December 1885
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 381 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LESBURT,

... same period The Tories rose erect the champions of freedom, while the Whigs crawled and Hoked the dust at the feet of power.’ And yet in spite of this incontestable evidence, Whig and Radical aristocrats came and told the people tne Tories were the people’s ...

Published: Saturday 21 March 1885
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1600 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

ANSWERS

... electors. But the great feature of this election speech was an attack on O’Connell whom he denounced a traitor. I look upon the Whigs as a weak but ambitious party, who can only obtain power by linking themselves to a traitor.” A few days afterwards, O’Connell ...

Published: Saturday 20 June 1885
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 489 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

IRISH INTELLIGENCE

... addressing a large meeting at Athy the other day, compared the two English parties, and said that while he agreed that the Whigs were all that O’Connell had described them, the people should not lose sight of the crimes and infamy of the landlord class ...

Published: Saturday 11 July 1885
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 591 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ORIGINAL poetry

... and a Con&eevative.— BoH TOe ?°> a number of men were standing Tower discussing what constituted the between a Radical, a Whig, and a Con- After considerable discussion they failed arri ve at a satisfactory conclusion and seeing one Btr° Ur “ coming ...

Published: Saturday 30 May 1885
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1443 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE AMBLE CONSERVATIVE MEETING

... quoted Lord Eoseberry, to prove that there was no National Debt in 1869, that the Whigs commenced that debt, and ran it to scores of millions of pounds, and that the Whigs inaugurated that most foolish interference in continental squabbles, which commenced ...

Published: Saturday 31 January 1885
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1818 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

CJIRISTMA.S CARDS,

... soul, While the Headless Cross shall bide. Notes and O.ueries. QUESTIONS. For what reasons we;e the respective colours for Whigs and Tories originally chosen ? S. 51. Can any of your readers give the correct surname of the Prince Consort and the origin ...

Published: Saturday 12 December 1885
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 932 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SOLD EVERYWHERE

... Peu ny Post.” From Charles Knight’s * tor y England, vol. 8, p. 232, and p. 233,1 obtain Ke t B: On February 26,1829, the whig Lord John supported his party, brought forward his turn for a committee of tlie whole house to con- so much of the Acts 3 and ...

Published: Saturday 07 March 1885
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1946 | Page: 7 | Tags: none