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... sickening influence of free trade is rapidly spreading in those boroughs which have hitherto been regarded as the strongholds of Whig power and popularity, we have only to regard what has taken place of late in Boston,' Knaresborough, and Scarborough, to be ...
... was to be employed, in its official capacity, to announce and defend new Parliamentary Reform Rill, or to announce and defend Whig bill to re-enact the corn and navigation laws. Bets of oysters and champagne, without anyodds, were freely offered and taken ...
... THEIR INCOMES. (Continued from our last) We now turn to the bishops of seven years standing, most of them, be it observed, Whig appointments. The Bishop of Worcester (Dr. Pepys) complained bitterly to the Commissioners, in 1544, of his net income being ...
... gentleman for many years represented the eastern division of Yorkshire, for which vacancy now occurs. In politics he was a Whig, though one of strong Protectionist feeling, having voted on all occasions in favour of protection to British industry. ...
... proprietors in Ireland, as the whole empire is injured by their present ruined condition. We say, therefore, that the policy of the Whig Ministers towards Ireland has been most unwise— that they ought to have looked upon the Irish landlords as the best instruments ...
... eminent loyalist, at Worce*ter. When the wine was tiiculated round the table, Judge Paine gave a toast, The King. Some of tlie Whigs were about to refuse to drink it; but Mr. Adams whispered to them to comply, saying, v We shall have an opportunity to return ...
... beat Wingrove Cooke at the last contest, and perhaps Mr. Hawkins may come in. The Liberals are disunited; for some of the Whigs stood aloof upon the late occasion, thinking Win•rove Cooke's ballot and free-trule doctrines rather extreme. There must, ...
... hair-dresser, tea-dealer, horseclipper, dealer in tobacco, coffee, and cigars, and dogbreaker. The iVoodvillc (Mississippi) Whig says, that three children, on their way home from school, yvere set uDon pack bloodhounds in pursuit of runaway negroes', killed ...
... democrat 3C.363 Phillips, free soil 27,803 64,166 Briggs, Whig 57,364 Total coalition majority . 6,802 If the people, therefore, vote as they did at the last election, Mr. Winthrop, the Whig candidate, will be defeated, and Mr. Boutwell, the candidate ...
... opinions of the Right Hon. Thomas Mimer Gibson, M.P. for Manchester ? Time was when he was a red-hot Tory; then he became a Whig ; then ramping Radical;—what is he now? Has he cut Cobden and Co. ? We really can't tell ; but some people do say that he ...
... possible to exempt •the nomination boronghs of the Whigs Calne is the scene of bribery, nor Arundel, nor Tavistock ; simply, because no mere bribery could make head against the absolute power of the Whig landlords, ■who nominate the members for those boroughs ...
... reputation a departure from the ordinary rules of judicial advancement. If they should put on the judicial ermine while the Whigs are in power, they must owe their fortune to the pity of their opponents or to some embarrassing collision of personal claims ...