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THE BERWICK ADVERTISER

... which it Mpmlm-my“nml ‘ngaged being rreect 1t for war, as the only course left to us by the « shameful neglect” of—the Whigs! It would be utterly superfluous to add a single word as to the real party against whom the charg: of « shameful neglect” holds ...

Published: Saturday 02 May 1840
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1402 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WEEKLY SUMMARY. RE-ASSEMBLING OF PARLIAMENTCHINA

... and however dish nest and despica’le may be the motives of its origina“tors, or whatever conscquence its suceess may bring to Whig or Tory, at the crisis of snch a ~question as this th re are higher and more important consi lerations than the upeising or ...

Published: Saturday 02 May 1840
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 629 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE RERWICK ADVERTISER

... in schedule A ; and the latter is the Downing Professor of the laws of England at this University, a stanch and well tried Whig of the oid sehgol ; he is otherwise bound to Cambridge by honourable recolleetions, having taken a senior wrangler's degree ...

Published: Saturday 16 May 1840
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 2065 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HOUSE OF COMMONS,

... Aberdeen und the Tories, now that they had taken the job in hand, would rescue the Kirk trom all her embarrassments. What did the Whigs care for the Kirk provided they kept their piaces ; but the Toriesthey would « lay aside all party considerations,” and produce ...

Published: Saturday 16 May 1840
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3232 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WHIG AND TORY FINANCE

... four years of each, the account stands thus :— Last 4 years of Tory government L 1.205,097 940, Last 4 years of Whig govecament 190,733,855 Whig saving in foar years. . L. 15,358,045, In addition to this the Whizs relievel the country in taxation to the ...

Published: Saturday 23 May 1840
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1062 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HOUSE OF COMMONS,

... properly belonged to them, for they did not sit to decide merely whether A or B had a right to a seat in that house,—whether Whig or Tory should have the election,—but to come to a determination “upon a question in itself of the highest importance,— the ...

Published: Saturday 23 May 1840
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 3687 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ENGLISH NEWSN THE QUEEN AND COURT

... were put in practice against Mr Gibson at the last election —bribery, intimidation, and corruption of every description. The whigs in the early part of the day were far a-head ; at halfpast nine they were nearly sixty in advance ; but afterwards they last ...

Published: Saturday 30 May 1840
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1774 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WEEKLY OLI®»

... in len th”—Llord Melgund does not intend to offer Limself again for Hythe, and Mr. Stewart Marjoribanks is mentioned as the Whig candidate to succeed the noble lord.—The Old Ra:nszate Bank has stopped payment, to the surprise and consternation of the town ...

Published: Saturday 30 May 1840
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 780 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HOUSE OF COMMONS

... facilitate the union of counties for the purposes of prisons, and to amend an act ot last session for the Magistrates, was not a Whig measure. It is the Gene- | impmvement ot prison discipline in Scotland. ‘ eal Gaol Act of the dth Guo. IV, (1821), and was ...

Published: Saturday 13 June 1840
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 2522 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE ANTISLAVERY MEETING

... up by the vencrated Wilberforce, they made no way in Parliament —thut is, they were in contivual winerities wnil afier the Whigs came into office in 1606 when the majority in favour ol the abolition of the slave-tiade was literally Irish, ail the Irish ...

Published: Saturday 13 June 1840
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1580 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

| RIOTS AT COCKERMOUTH ELFCTION

... 125 more Whigs to be polled, if they had dared to come to the bustings against the mandate of the U_nlversity authorities ; and there were but twenty Tories, or thereabouts, unpolled. Had both parties, then polled their entire strength, the Whigs must have ...

Published: Saturday 13 June 1840
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 2376 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

VETO DISCLOSURES

... Chalmers, the mouthpiece of the Nonintrusion Committee, talks of the efforts of his old friends the Whigs: — “1 am quite aware of the worthless policy of the Whigs, which is to outde in popuiarity the measure of the Conservatives, whatever that may be. How I ...

Published: Saturday 20 June 1840
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1821 | Page: 2 | Tags: none