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Politics & elections, 1826

17 stories in Sydney's papers

Parliament Intelligence. (Debates continued.)

The Monitor · Friday 9 June 1826 · page 1

MR. PEEL, in commencing the observations which he was about to address to the house, professed his total incompetence to follow the hon. gentleman who had just sat down, into the details which he had given, and into which indeed…

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Imperial Parliament. House of Lords (Thursday, Feb. 9.)

The Australian · Wednesday 12 July 1826 · page 4

The Earl of LIVERPOOL was disposed to give all the information in his power, and conceived that the best mode of doing so, would be to take the Report of the Committee, to state its suggestions one by one, and to explain what…

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Opening of Parliament. House of Lords (Thursday, Feb. 2.)

The Australian · Wednesday 12 July 1826 · page 3

The Speaker, accompanied by the Gentlemen Usher of the Black Rod, and followed by a great number of the Members, of the House of Commons, entered the House of Peers, when Lord Gifford read the Commission, and…

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Imperial Parliament. House of Lords, Tuesday, February 7,1826. Silk Trade

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 July 1826 · page 4

The Bishop of Chester presented a petition from the Silk Dyers of Macolesfield, praying for relief, and also for a repeal of the Act of 1824. Laid on tho table. ORDER OF PROCEEDINGS…

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Imperial Parliament

The Monitor · Friday 21 July 1826 · page 1

HOUSE OF LORDS, FEB, 2, 1826.—THE Speaker accompanied by the gentleman usher of the black rod, and followed by a great number of the members of the House of Commons, entered the House of Peers, and at…

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Debates in Parliament LORDS.—(Tuesday, March 7.) Slave Trade Abolition

The Australian · Saturday 29 July 1826 · page 3

The Earl of BATHURST moved the adoption of the resolutions (see House of Commons' Debates, March 1, in this day;s paper) lately adopted by the Commons—Lord Calthorpe said he lamented to see the resolutions of the Commons adopted by the…

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Imperial Parliament. House of Commons, March 10. Supply

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 5 August 1826 · page 4

The House went into a Committee of Supply. Mr. Herries moved a vote of £420,000 for the charge of the Army Extraordinaries of the year. Mr. Hume said, that a part of this sum went to the support…

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Imperial Parliament. Hos[?]e of Commons, March 13. Miscellaneous Estimates

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 August 1826 · page 4

The Home then resolved itself into a Committee of Supply, when Mr. Herries mond that a sum not exceeding 38,000[?] be granted for defraying the expenses of ordinary winks and…

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Van Diemen's Land News. Imperial Parliament. House of Commons, March 11

The Australian · Wednesday 16 August 1826 · page 3

The House resolved itself into a Committee of Supply. Mr. Hoston moved the sum of £11,912 for the expenses of the Civil Establishment of New South Wales. He observed, that the resources of this Colony were now almost adequate to meet…

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Imperial Parliament. House of Commoons, May 9. Petition of Mr. Buckingham

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 September 1826 · page 4

Lord J. RUSSEL sai that he rose to present a pe[?] of considerable importance relating to government in India. The same matter bad, on a former occasion, been brought before the house by his bon. friend, the member for Durham;…

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Imperial Parliament. House of Lords May 8. Catholic Claims

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 27 September 1826 · page 4

Lord Dudley and Ward presented a petition from the Roman Catholic inhabitants of Roscommon, praying to be relieved from those disqualifications under which they laboured. The petition, he observed, was signed by several…

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Imperial Parliament. House of Commons, April 20. Necro Emancipation

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 October 1826 · page 4

Mr. Hume postponed until to-morrow, the presentation of a petition from an individual, a resident of the Island of Jam[?]ca, praying for a compensation in case of Negro Emancipation…

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Imperial Parliament. House of Lords, May 18, 1826. Criminal Justice Improvement Bill

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 1 November 1826 · page 4

The Earl of Liverpool moved the third rending of the Bill, for the improvement of the Administration of Criminal Justice. The Earl of Malmesbury did not mean to oppose the Bill,…

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Progress of the Elections

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 1 November 1826 · page 4

In most of the Boroughs, and in some of the Counties, the Elections have already commenced, and in some have been concluded as soon as commenced, because, under the peculiar circumstances of the times, no one has come forward to oppose the Members first proposed…

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Gradual Formation of the Present Constitution of Parliament. [From "Spence's Inquiry into the Origin of the Laws and Institutions of Modern Europe."]

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 15 November 1826 · page 4

The constitution of Parliament under William I. and his immediate successors, has been considered at some length. There is reason to think that it was the intention of Edward the First or his advisers to have confined the office of the…

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New Parliament

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 25 November 1826 · page 3

MEMBERS RETURNED IN ADDITION TO THOSE ALREADY PUBLISHED IN OUR JOURNAI — Andover-Sir John Walter Pollen, and T.A Smith, Etq (not Sir J. N Keut, as stated by mistake)…

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To Mr. Frederick Robinson, On the proofs of the Prosperity, which has flowed from his fine unreformed Parliament. Kensington, July 17, 1826

The Monitor · Friday 8 December 1826 · page 5

MR. FREDERICK, WHEN you made your speech on the 23d of Feb. 1824; when you uttered your attack on the Parlimentary Reformers; when you talked about the "ancient portals," I instantly…

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