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Sydney · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1837

34 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 2

Election for the Chairaian of Quarter Sessions

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 9 November 1837 · page 2

SERIOUS matters for consideration present themselves on this very important subject. In the first place, the most extraordinary…

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The Election [?]Airman of Quarter S[?]ions

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 9 November 1837 · page 2

A Meeting of the [?] of the district of Sydney, for the el[?] of a Chairman of Quarter Sessions, was held at [?] Police Office on Tuesday, Colonel Wilson in the [?] There were twenty-five…

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The Election

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 9 November 1837 · page 2

The election of a Chairman of Quarter Sessions for the ensuing year terminated yesterday at the various Benches throughout the Colony where Courts of this…

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Literature and Science. REVIEW. New South Wales ; its Present State and Future Prospects : being a Statement with Documentary Evidence, submitted in support of Petitions to His Majesty and Parliament. By James M'arthur. London : D. Walker, 1837

The Colonist · Thursday 9 November 1837 · page 7

ACCORDING to our promise, we proceed to lay before the public an outline of the recent work of Mr. James M'Arthur, and of offer some general observations on the various questions which…

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Election of the Chairman of the Quarter Sessions

The Australian · Friday 10 November 1837 · page 2

Tuesday being the day appointed for the election of a fit and proper person to fill the office of Chairman of the Courts of Quarter Sessions for the ensuing year, a strong muster of the Justices…

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The Election

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 November 1837 · page 2

INTELLIGENCE of the result of the election on Tuesday, at the various Benches throughout the Colony, reached Sydney by the Thursday's mail: Mr…

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New South Wales; Its Present State and Future Prospects; Being a Statement, with Documentary Evidence, Submitted in Support of Two Petitions to His Majesty and PARLIAMENT.—London: D. Walther, 42, Picadilly 1837. Preliminary Political Principles of our intended Review of Mr. James M'Arthur's "New South Wales."

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 15 November 1837 · page 2

IN order to avoid being misapprehended in our "REVIEW" of Mr. M Arthur's book, we consider it prudent to state our fundamental views of good Government over a…

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Colonel Gibbes and the Election

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 November 1837 · page 2

IN another column will be found a letter from Colonel Gibbes explanatory of his conduct relative to the election, at which Mr. Justice Ryder cut a pretty…

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Review of Mr. James M'Arthur's Book. New Southwales; Its Present State and Future Prospects; Being a Statement, with Documentary Evidence, Submitted in Support of Two Petitions to His Majesty and PARLIAMENT.—London: D. Walther, 42, Piccadilly, 1837. (Continued from last Wednesday's Paper.)

The Sydney Monitor · Monday 20 November 1837 · page 2

IN our last article on Mr. M'Arthur's book, we commented on the contempt Mr. M'Arthur seems to entertain for constitutional public meetings convened by…

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Review of Mr. James M'Arthur's Book. New South Wales; Its Present State and Future Prospects; Being a Statement, with Documentary Evidence, Submitted in Support of Two Petitions to His Majesty and PARLIAMENT.—London: D. Walther 42, Piccadilly, 1837. (Continued from last Monday's Paper.)

The Sydney Monitor · Monday 27 November 1837 · page 4

The following is an extract from Mr. M'Arthur's Book, Page 26— "Looking at the Colony in its penal character, it is most material to trace to their origin the errors…

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English News. Dissolution of Parliament

The Sydney Times · Saturday 2 December 1837 · page 3

ON the 17th of July, the young Queen of England acquitted herself admirably in dissolving Parliament, and personally delivering the following gracious Speech from…

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English Extracts. Dissolution of Parliament

The Colonist · Thursday 7 December 1837 · page 7

ON the 18th of July, Her Majesty dissolved Parliament in person. The House of Lords was crowded to its utmost possible extent of capacity, by eleven o'clock,…

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Verses. Electioneering Squib. Charlie Napier. Air—"Billy Taylor."

The Sydney Herald · Monday 25 December 1837 · page 4

Charlie Napier was a dirty fellow, Dirtier never went to sea; And his hopes he did diskiver To the Lords of the Admiralty…

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Review of Mr. James M'Arthur's Book. New Southwales; Its Present New South Wales; Its Present State and Future Prospects; Being a Statement, with Documentary Evidence, Submitted in Support of Two Petitions to His Majesty and PARLIAMENT.—London : D. Walther 42, Piccadilly, 1837. (Continued from Monday's paper, Nov. 20.) Extract from page 27:—

The Sydney Monitor · Friday 29 December 1837 · page 2

"The natural consequence of this system was reaction,—a determination, on the part of the emigrant Colonists, to maintain the more strictly those distinctions which it was the object of the…

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