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POLITICS AMD SOCIETY

... the 1 * ithering-place of the Liberal party iUMtup- It was here that the beautiful Dncheas ana made tlss head-quarters the Whig party luring the struggle between Fox and Pitt; and r»- ...

Published: Wednesday 30 March 1892
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1864 | Page: 5 | Tags: Commerce 

It is more than twelve years simoe the question of shorter Parliaments was last debated in the House of Commons

... Septennial Act. It is their most potent weapon in their struggle against the life of an old man. That Act w as passed by the Whigs in 1716 prolong their own lease power, and to strengthen the Hanoverian dynasty against the designs of the Pretender and his ...

Published: Monday 11 April 1892
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2543 | Page: 5 | Tags: Commerce 

LITERATURE

... were supported Stanley—many the Whigs being what would now cnAed weai-kneed the question—and that compromise included one- clause, designed shot out borough free holders from county voting. The story Stanley's from the Whig racks clearly tal»U Two years ...

Published: Wednesday 27 April 1892
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2364 | Page: 3 | Tags: Commerce 

POLITICS AND SOCIETY

... aspirants, and particularly the Radicals, who know nothing of Mr. George Russell, except that he belongs to a family the detested Whigs, and that was employed by Duke Devonshire defend him from the scandalous attack of the Sfcui.fr, which Mr. Gladstone is well ...

Published: Wednesday 27 July 1892
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2587 | Page: 5 | Tags: Commerce 

POLITICS AND SOCIETY

... only means which the Constitution provides for overcoming extreme cases the opposition of the Lords. This, it said, was a Whig measure; but if Lord Salisbury's contention the correct one as to the nowers the Peers, the House Lords at the present time ...

Published: Monday 31 October 1892
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2460 | Page: 5 | Tags: Commerce