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Politics & elections, 1850

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English Extract. the French Press and the Socialist Elections for Paris. (From the Constitutionnel.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 July 1850 · page 3

To give a lesson to the Government has been the bait with which Socialists, that is the men who desire to see the overthrow of society, have receruited their electoral auxiliaries amongst…

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Bell's Life in Sydney. Saturday, July 13. 1850. The Sydney Election

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 13 July 1850 · page 2

THER are many grounds why we believe the result of the approaching election of a member for the city, to serve in the Legislavtive Council of New South Wales,…

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City Election. Trishmen[?] Electors of Sydney!!!

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 18 July 1850 · page 6

THE day for the election of a Representative of your City approaches. A solemn and important trust devolves upon you, to choose the most fit, honest, and trustworthy man to guard your interests and those of your children,as a legislator,…

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City Election

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 18 July 1850 · page 5

NEXT to the rights of conscience, we consider the rights conferred by the " Elective Franchise" as sacred, and to be exercised with perfect freedom, after forming a prudent judgment of the fit object of one's choice. One of the…

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The Election

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 20 July 1850 · page 8

AS the election for this city will be decided before our next publication, we deem it but our duty once more to urge upon the electors the necessity there is for them to be determined on this most…

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Electioneering Chaunt

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 20 July 1850 · page 3

Poet Parkes Rose with the larks To carol a strain for Lang, And the whites of his eyes…

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Bell's Life in Sydney. Saturday, July 30, 1850. The Approaching Election

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 20 July 1850 · page 2

FELLOW-CITIZENS,—A line of truth is worth a column of garbled verbiage. How say ye—HOLDEN OR LANG—HOLDEN a man independent alike in purse and…

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City Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 24 July 1850 · page 2

YESTERDAY, being the day appointed for the nomination of a member to serve in the Legislative Council for the city of Sydney, in the place of William Bland, Esq., resigned, the…

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THE [?] Morning Herald. Wednesday, July 24, 1850. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I.' This Day's Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 24 July 1850 · page 2

ON this day the electors of the Austra[?]an metropolis have again to perform the most solemn and important of the duties attaching to them in that capacity—the…

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Sydney Election

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 25 July 1850 · page 6

The nomination of a member to supply the vacancy in the representative of the City Council, by the resignation of Dr. Bland, took place on Tuesday at the Hustings in Macquaria-place. The attendance on the whole was as large as we have ever seen…

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City Election—return of Dr. Lang

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 25 July 1850 · page 5

THE return of this reverend gentleman augurs no good for the success and stability of the measure of " free institutions and self-government," now so anxiously looked for by the Colonists. .His past political career…

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Election of Dr. Lang

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 July 1850 · page 2

DR. LANG has been elected one of the representatives es of Sydney by a majority of fify-six votes. This blot on the character of the city has been in some degree…

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The Election

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 27 July 1850 · page 4

On Wednesday morning, exactly at nine o'clock, the polling commenced in each of the wards, and was carried, on throughout the day with considerable spirit, From the first. Dr. Lang was ahead on the gross poll, but it was only in Cook and Brisbane…

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City Election

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 27 July 1850 · page 3

TUESDAY, being the day appointed for the nomination of a member to serve in the Legislative Council for the dry of Sydney in the place of William Bland Esq., resigned, the Right Worshipful the Mayer, in pursuance of notice given assembled the citizens at…

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The Election

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 27 July 1850 · page 2

IT is with no small degree of pride and pleasure that we congratulate our fellow-citizens upon the glorious victory which has this week been achieved for the great cause of human progress in this colony. The…

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The Great Event!!—the City Election!![?] a Chronicle in Three Parts. Part First.—the Preparation

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 27 July 1850 · page 1

SINCE the French Revolution, or the election of Bumble for [?]eadle of Bloomsbury, no topic has excited such vast, overwhelming and stupendous attention as the picking and choosing a man…

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Election for the City of Sydney

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 July 1850 · page 2

ON Saturday last, the declaration of the result of the Poll in the late election of a representative in the Legislative Council for the City of Sydney, was declared by the Mayor, at the…

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The Sydney Election

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 1 August 1850 · page 3

The declaration of the Poll was made by the Mayor on Saturday at the Hustings, The result of the Polling, as given in our last issue, was that announced by the Mayor at the Town Hall. The votes in the…

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The Late Election As a Popular Triumph

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 3 August 1850 · page 10

THOSE persons, if there are any such in the interior or elsewhere, who take the statements and opinions of the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD for their guide in arriving at a fair knowledge of political feeling in…

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The Last Squib of the Last Election

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 3 August 1850 · page 4

Why is Dr. Lang like a hare ? Because a Grey-hound is hunting him down. DREAD OF DEMOCRACY. -- On Wednesday last the Supreme Court was sitting to hear insolvency cases, and Mr. Dowling, little…

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