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Politics & elections, 1847

57 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 3

Extracts. Young Ireland's Parliament--1860 a Report by Anticipation.--april 1

The Sentinel · Thursday 4 February 1847 · page 2

On the order of the day for going into a Committee of Supply--Mr. Shanaban took that opportunity of ascertaining the sense of the House, as to whether the resort…

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THE Sydney morning herald. Thursday, April 22, 1847. Sworn to no master, of no sect am I." Ensuing Election—legislative Council. Electoral Lists — Last Day for Correcting Errors

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 April 1847 · page 2

WE deem it our duty as public journalists once more, and, for the last time, to remind the electors of the city that this is the last day allowed by law for lodging…

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News From the Interio (From our Correspondents.) Parramatta. Election for District Councillors

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 May 1847 · page 3

YESTERDAY (Tuesday) being the day appointed for the nomination of members to serve in the District Council of Parramatta by noon (the hour of meeting) there was a very numerous…

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Parramatta. Election for District Councillors

The Australian · Thursday 6 May 1847 · page 3

Tuesday being the day appointed for the nomination of three fit and proper persons to supply the vacancies in the District Council, occasioned by the retirement of Messrs. James…

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News From the Interior. (From our Correspondents.) Parramatta. Election of District Councillors

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 May 1847 · page 2

THE polling for members to serve in the District Council took place yesterday (Friday). The following was the result at the close, at four o'clock:—…

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News From the Interior. (From our Correspondent.) Parramatta. Election of District Councillors—declaration of the Poll

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 May 1847 · page 2

AT noon on Saturday, the Warden (Dr. Hill) appeared on the hustings and announced the number of votes polled on the previous day, Friday, (see Saturday's Herald), and declared…

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Opening of Parliament. Tuesday, Januany 19. the Queen's Progress

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 May 1847 · page 1

AT a-quarter before two o'clock, the royal cortège proceeded from Buckingham Palace in the usual order, and by the accustomed route, along the Mall, through…

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Country News. Parramatta.—district Council Election

The Australian · Tuesday 11 May 1847 · page 3

On Saturday the Warden declared the result of the poll, and that Messrs. James Pye, James Howison, and George Robert Nichols were the duly elected members…

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Imperial Parliament. House of Lords—tuesday, Jan. 12

The Australian · Thursday 13 May 1847 · page 2

Parliament was further prorogued to-day until Tuesday, the 19th Instant. The Lord Chancellor and the other Lord Commissioners took their seats in front of…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Thursday, May 27, 1847. Sworn to no master, of no sect am I." Qualification of Candidates for Municipal Elections

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 May 1847 · page 2

THE question of the qualification of candidates for election as members of our constitutional institutions is au important one, although perhaps somewhat…

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The Late Election at Parramatta

The Australian · Saturday 29 May 1847 · page 2

How Mr. Hill, the Warden, and his brother Magistrates, could, in the face of tho Act, refuse to accede to Mr. Taylor's demand, previously to going to the poll, to require…

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Imperial Parliament. Service in the Army

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 July 1847 · page 3

MR. FOX MAULE moved the second reading of the bill for altering the established term and conditions of service in the army. He did not say that limited enlistment…

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The Approaching General Election

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 10 July 1847 · page 1

THOUGH a charge of apathy to the political movements of the day, may with an apparent show of reason be laid to our account, we have neither been idle nor…

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Lord Brougham.—the Irish Parliament

Sydney Chronicle · Wednesday 21 July 1847 · page 1

There is no member in either House of Parliament whose talents and abilities are so unquestionable as those of Lord Brougham; but with those talents and abilities there is…

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The Forthcoming Bills and Measures in Parliament After Easter. (From Bell's Weekly Messenger, March 27.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 July 1847 · page 4

PUBLIC holidays are as useful to states. men and others acting in the higher stations of life as to men in inferior condition; they dispel for a while that heat…

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Imperial Parliament. (Abridged from the Home News.) Monday, April 12. Military Reforms

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 August 1847 · page 3

IN the House of Commons, on Monday, the order of the day for going into Committee on the remaining military and naval estimates was the occasion for a string of propositions on the…

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Prerogative Above Parliament

The Australian · Tuesday 24 August 1847 · page 4

The most striking and systematic endeavour to set prorogative above parliament, that we have seen for many a year, has been reserved for the descendant of…

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Late English Extracts. Imperial Parliament. House of Lords:—tuesday, April 20. Transportation

The Australian · Friday 27 August 1847 · page 3

Earl Grey observed to reply to a question from Lord Ellenborough, that no change was made in the law with respect to transportation. At present persons sentenced to transportation were…

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Imperial Parliament. House of Lords.—monday, April 25. the Army Service Bill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 September 1847 · page 3

EARL GREY rose to move the second reading of the Army Service Bill, and having alluded to the objections brought on a former occasion against the…

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Citizen Lists—election of City Councillors

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 September 1847 · page 2

WE beg to call the attention of the citizens to an advertisement from the Town Clerk, which appears in our columns to-day, announcing that copies of the citizens lists for the city of…

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