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Politics & elections, 1829

12 stories in Sydney's papers

English News. Close of the Session of Parliament

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 3 January 1829 · page 8

In consequence of the extraordinary and dextrous rapidity with which the business of parliament was to Monday last concluded, we are authorized to state, that two petitions were prevented from being laid before…

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English News. Close of the Session of Parliament

The Sydney Monitor · Monday 5 January 1829 · page 8

In consequence of the extraordinary and dextrons rapidity with which the business of Parliament was on Monday last concluded, we are authorized to state, that two petitions were prevented from being laid before…

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Loctrine of Summary Commitment, for Constructive Contemps of Parliament, and of Courts of Justice

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 3 February 1829 · page 3

IN 1790 (May 21), complaint was made to the House by General Burgoyne, of a libellous publication in one of the morning papers, signed 'JOHN SCOTT,' a member of the House. In his defence,…

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Imperial Parliament[?] House of Lords.—[?]

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 June 1829 · page 3

The Marquis of Anglesey presented about 30 petitions from the Roman Catholics of several parishes in Ireland; 10 petitions for a repeal of the Subletting Act; and 12 against the New Vestry Act…

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Latest English News. Clare Election

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 July 1829 · page 3

As a ballot for a Committee to try the merits of the petitions respecting the return of Mr. O'Connell for the county of Clare stood for this evening, the gallery was not…

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Clare Election Committee

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 16 July 1829 · page 3

MARCH 5.—At eleven o'clock this Committee reassembled. The room was soon considerably crowded, but Mr. O'Connell was not present. Mr. F. Pollock, previously to the commencement…

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Imperial Parliament. House of Commons, Feb. 19th. Arrest for Debt

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 August 1829 · page 3

Mr. Hume rose to move for some returns on the subject of a rest for debt. The Hon. Member obserrved, it wa extraordinary that in England, where the privileges of the sub…

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Select Poetry. (From the London Magazine)[?] [?] Written at the Opera in Vienna, on Seeing the Duke of [?]Ch[?]adt, Immediately after the French Election Riots; in which the Pa[?] [?]sed cries of " Vi[?] Napole[?] [?]" I.

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 31 October 1829 · page 4

Oh! hear them not, fair boy [?] nor head their prayer; Their hollow hearts, their changeful creed, distru[?] Who raise a bigot-temple,—worship there,— Then stamp its shallow idol into dust!…

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Mr. O'connell in Parliament

The Sydney Monitor · Monday 23 November 1829 · page 4

The intense curiosity exhibited by all the Members of Parliament, Whig and Tory, on Friday night, when Mr. O'Connelr appeared in the House of Commone for the purpose of…

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British Parliament. House of Commons, June 5. CANADA

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 November 1829 · page 3

Mr. Labouchere ro[?]e to move for an address to his Majesty for copies or extacts of any communications between the Colonial office and the Governors of Upper and Lower Canada, in pursuance…

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Trial by Jury. The following Petition to the House of Commons will be presented by an influential Member very early in the next Session. to the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament Assembled. the Petition of Edward Smith Hall, of the Colony of New South Wales Most humbly sheweth

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 28 November 1829 · page 2

THAT your humble Petitioner arrived in the Colony of New South Wales about eighteen years ago, recommended to the then Governor (the late Major General Macquarie),…

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Trial by Jury. The following position to the House of Commons will be presented by an infiuential Member very early in the next session. to the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdon of Goday [?] and Ierland, in Parliament Absemble. the Petition of Edward Smith Hall of the Colony of New South Wales

The Sydney Monitor · Monday 30 November 1829 · page 2

Most humbly [?] THAT your humble Potitionor [?]val in the Colony of New South Wales about eighteen years ago, recommended to the [?] Governor (the late Major General Mosquoris),…

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