Select Poetry. Thanksgiving on the Prorogation of Parliament
The session is over—Hurray! hurray! And Tories and Whigs may now go play Like boys on a summer holiday. Adieu to the speeches, to dullness wed,…
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The British Parliament. (From the London Saturday Journal)
No civilised country exhibits any publia institution more suitable to the genius of its inhabitants than our parliament is to our general natural character. It may perhaps be said that this…
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The growth of our legislature, from its first small beginnings to its present rank and power in the state, is in perfect keeping with the happy, germination and eventual branching out of al…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Chronicle. Saturday, February 6, 1841. the Petitions to Parliament
THE "meeting" on Thursday was unquestionably one of the most curious that we have ever attended, either in this or any other country. Speeches and resolutions deprecating a "dismemberment" of the…
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IT was our intention to notice at length the "Memorandum" about to be transmitted to members of parliament by the petitioners against the new ministerial measures, but the public being so…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Memorandum. Division of the Colony, and Sale of Crown Lands. Memorandum for Members of Parliament, expl natory of the views of the Petitioners to Her Majesty, to the House of Lords, and to the House of Commons. FEBRUARY 4, 1841
The Colonists of New South Wales, in Public Meeting assembled, having this day adopted a Polition to the House of Lords, and another to the House of Commons, in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Varieties. the Anatony of Parliament (From the Britannig.) Lord Bro[?]ghan
Although the opinions of men differ as to the politics of Lord Brougham, all are unanimous as to his talents; Whig, Conservative, Rudical, and Republican, agree in describing him as one…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Anatomy of Parliament. (From the Britannia.) Viscount Palm Erston
Lord Palmerston enjoys the unenviable distinction of being the best abused of all her Majesty's universally abused Ministers. Justs at the present time, more especially, he is the…
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AMONG the advertisements of the Ayr Advertiser of Thursday last, we observe an electioneering address, "To the Free and Independent Electors of the County of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney Monitor & Commercial Advertiser Monday Morning, March 1, 1841. Nothing extenuate, nor ought set down in malice. SHAKESPEARE Atmospheric Railway Company. to Be Incorporated by Act of Parliament
PROVISIONAL COMMITTE.—St. John Blacker Esq., Alexander Doorman, Esq, Hannanel deCastro, Esq., John Ruck. Esq., Francis I[?]tins Vanzeller. Esq , by whom a List of the…
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BRITAIN gives too much personal freedom to the subject in the colonies, safely to withhold political power in the management of their local affairs. There is scarcely a possession…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →America.—awful State of the Country.—the Election.—frauds Produced by the Banking System. [From the "New York Herail," October 26th.]
We begin to fear that this unhappy country is on the eve of a bloody civil war—a final dismemberment of the Union—the destruction of the present Government—and the rain of all…
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THE supporters of Mr. Adam Black, in the Edinburgh Town-Council, have threatened to frustrate the majority which elected Sir James Forrest, by means of legal…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Sydney Herald, with Which Is Incorporated the Colonist. Monday, March 20, 1841. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." Parliament
ON the 8th of December a Proclamation was issued for further proroguing Parliament to the 26th of January, to meet for the despatch of business…
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The wealth, the government, the prosperity, and the extent of our colonial empire are such, that while we feel a national pride in reflecting on them, those reflections are not unattended with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Council Papers. New South Wales Act, 9 Geo. Iv., Cap. 83. Despatch from the Right Honorable Lord John Russell to his Excellency Governor Sir George Gipps, transmitting a copy of an Act of Parliament to continue until the 31st day of December, 1841, and to the end of the then next session of Parliament, and to extend the provisions of the New South Wales Act, 9 Geo.IV., Cap. 83. Downing-street, September 2, 1840
SIR—I transmit to you herewith a copy of an Act passed in the late session of parliament to continue until the 31st day of December, 1841, and to the then next session of parliament, and to extend the…
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HER Majesty left Buckingham Palace shortly before two, and was loudly and heartily cheered on her way through the park, the Horse Guards and the streets…
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EAST INDIA AND CHINA ASSOCIATION.—Lord Elienborough presented a petition from the East India and China Association, pointing out the Commercial disadvantages under which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →English Intelligence. Imperial Parliament. House of Commons.—monday, March 1. Parliamentary Voters (Ireland Bill.)
Lord J. RUSSELL said he rose to inform the house of the intention of government with respect to the Parliamentary Voters (Ireland Bill.) After tho division the other evening it was…
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THE NEWPORT CHARTISTS.—The supposed pardon of Frost was brought before the House of Lords, on Friday, by Lord Wharnicliffe, who, after alluding to the statements that had appeared…
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