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... A new Triennial Act formed part of the constitutional settlement with William and Mary—the “glorious” Whig revolution. It was in 1716 that the Whig Parliament. elected under the Triennial Act, prolonged itx own existence from three to seven years. Thirty-one ...
... William IV. to create more than forty peers the outeido. The enterprise seemed revolutionary, dangerous, deplorable even, to Whig Ministers themselves. Wha-t. would they have thought the suggestion of creating, in Majoaulay's words, barons battalions and ...
... teach 200.000 tons.. The figure is, th,eve&®C>-. the actual one.. fit tmilj; by the enemy added that of tonnage last by ardent whig- tea risks, the total fe §40,000 tons.— ...
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... makes delightful reading, even when it provokes very active disagreement. Mr Bliss has two obsessions —he cannot away with Whigs and frotestants. Yet making allowances for his prejudices, the volume has both charm and style. ...
... IMPORTATION OF FLAX FROM RUSSIA. IMPROVED FACILITIES. The London correspondent the Northern Whig, Belfast, says negotiations have been progressing for some time past between flaxspinners and the Foreign Office and the Russian Government with view to ...
... years as a soldier William's life was near the end, and Marlborough Watched jealously over the the Princess Anne. Some of the Whigs entertained the idea of thrustim? her aside and of putting the Elector * Hanover on the throne in succession William. For once ...
... Balfour. Mi Donald T Mackintosh, of the Sootsman, *■' Kingussie, we are asked to if* & PP ...
... which the Whigs had rejected. From this episode dates Chamberlain's active antipathy the Whigs and his hankering thought that more might be obtained from a weak Tory Government faiced by strong Liberal opposition than from Liberal Ministry under Whig restraint ...
... ACORNS TO OAKS FROM SHILLINGS TO POUNDS SEE How THEY GROW. hr steady and secure growth of your Willing, invest them In National Whigs Certificates which can be obtained from any Money Order Post Office or Rank, or through a Savings association. ...
... Budge!. Why should credit them with power to stand their promise to reform? The Government have been playing game with the Whigs, and if Sir Edward Grey himself does not see through the trick i- alone in blissful ignorance. No answer lias been given Government ...
... ary trations for Banffshire, for this , are:—Conservatives enrolled. 27; enrolled. 11; majority Conserve 1 enrolments over Whig, 16. ...