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TO THE ELECTORS OF LEEDS

... mastiers; rif the cry of Reform never f meant any thing with rtaire, or was raised only to please tired Whigs, and is to be abandoned because the Whig placemen abair- don It ; if the name cmnly and not the substance of popular repce- sentatlon was all that ...

Published: Saturday 02 December 1837
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2622 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

PICTURES IN PARLIAMENT

... regard as elementary rights. Histories of these times are plentiful. We know just when the Tories were turned out and the Whigs came into power, know also what measures were passed and what rejected ; but histories written long after the events —however ...

Published: Tuesday 02 October 1906
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 229 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LOVE AND THE

... throwing of confetti. Vd sooner sec her look a peach In matrimonial rig-out Than hear a statesman make, a c To keep some dry old Whig ° tl The hustings, with their tone And, now and then, their unct l Can never hope to hold their With weddings a function- How ...

Published: Friday 09 October 1931
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 199 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

POLITICS AND SOCIETY

... the Whigs onthit I occasion, and that there is some reason to fear that t 'Whig ' cave is being formed behind the Government Many rumours are current *on the subject, most cf them of an exaggerated character, but the ties which unite the Whigs to the ...

Published: Monday 10 July 1882
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3137 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

Former Speakers

... the dates of their election, party, constituency, and the titles they assumed on vacating the Chair:— 1835: James Abercromby Whig Edinburgh—Baron Dunfermline. 1839 : Charles fehaw-Lefevre—Liberal North Hampshire Viscount Eversley. 1857 : John Evelyn De ...

Published: Monday 04 June 1928
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 174 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

YORKSHIRE DOWN

... great tacticians. They passed the ball with wonderful precision, but with the rearrangement of the team, Simpson, the left whig throe-3naHor taking Wal'd’* place, and Atkinson ropping back from the forwards, caused the man in possession hold when opportunity ...

Published: Monday 07 January 1929
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 175 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TO THE IMIAIIITANTH OF LEEDS

... townspeople, it A.wcaused wondsrful sensation, and | pr-sducod no inconsidvimblc exhibition of Ul-uature on the part of our Whig opponent candidates and your newly appointed I c!.itrchwardens have undergone marvellous deal of abuse those short tempered ...

Published: Saturday 16 April 1842
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 865 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE MERCURY

... shall stand or fall; and that, u he ai it has been repeatedly asserted that a coalition had sI ny taken place between the Whigs and Radicals, he had no al it hesitation in (1-claring tihat his party had sought, and di th would ever seek, a coalition with ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1821
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 942 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

TO THE OPERATIVES OF THE BOROUGH OF LEEDS

... Ballot. len and Brother operatives! ie aware of such men who advocate such ptiociples, for we hn10 that if we leave the Whigs, or tie Whigs leave us, that tlie Toe1 party will come again to the head of affairs. What then I Why, no Reform, no hopes of Reform-but ...

Published: Saturday 16 September 1837
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 591 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE LEEDS MERCURY

... Commnons. His first great act supplied an additional and most powerful element of antago- nism between the Old Whigs and himself. The Old Whigs desired I'arlianientary Reform as little as the Tories themselves. They had no objection to use it as a party ...

Published: Wednesday 23 January 1867
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2055 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

RECORDS OF THE CENTURY

... exciting good deal publio interest. For we icarn in another cdunm that Mr. Fox mads a speech a rery numerous meeting of the Whig Club the Crown and Anchor, in the Strand, in which announced that intended to present the discussion of that motion, and try ...

Published: Saturday 09 March 1901
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 219 | Page: 8 | Tags: none