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Politics & elections, 1851

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City Election.--dr. Lang's Meeting

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 6 September 1851 · page 2

A very crowded and respectable meeting of the Committee and friends of the Dr. Lang took place on Tuesday evening in the Old Assembly Rooms, King-street. Mr. Richard Driver was voted to the chair, and opened the business of the meaning with a few…

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Address of a Model Candidate To the Electors of No Boroughs

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 6 September 1851 · page 2

GENTLEMEN,—Nobody having gone down upon his knees and petitioned me to offer myself to: the representation of your extensive community. I do so on my own account, sooner than see you…

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Original Correspondence. the City Election. ^ To the Editor of the Empire. Sydney, 5th September, 1851

Empire · Saturday 6 September 1851 · page 4

SIR—I have been repeatedly requested, within the last two days, to state, through the press, the substance of what I stated verbally, at a public meeting of my friends and supporters, held in the…

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News From the Interior. (From our Correspondents.) Election for West Camden

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 September 1851 · page 3

A PUBLIC Meeting of the electors was held at Mr. A. G. Morley's Australian Inn, Sutton Forest, on Thursday, the 4th instant, Charles Throsby, Esq., Warden of the District in the…

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The Empire. Tuesday, September 9, 1851. The. Candidate for Argyle

Empire · Tuesday 9 September 1851 · page 2

THE reign of Dullness is about to undergo another invasion. The drowsy goddess, who has hitherto been the tutelar deity the electors of the County of Argyle, is to…

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Mr Longmores Election

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 11 September 1851 · page 9

A large assembly of the electors favourable to Mr. Longmore's return, was held at St. Patrick's Hull on last Friday evening when Mr. John Davis was called to the chair. He pointed out in very…

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"In Neccessariis Unitas, in Dubiis Libertas, in Omnibus Charitas." This City Elections

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 11 September 1851 · page 7

BEFORE our next issue the result of the approaching contest for the Represention of Sydney shall be made known. We are fully a wore, with all our fellow-citizens, how…

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The Coming Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 September 1851 · page 2

THE General Election is now close at hand—the first under our New Constitution, the first with the reduced qualification for the electoral franchise, the first…

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English Extracts. Imperial Parliament. (From the Home News, May 24.) House of Commons.—friday, May 16. Ecclesiastical Titles Bill

Empire · Friday 12 September 1851 · page 4

The debate, on going into committee upon the Ecclesiasticawl Titles Assumption Bill, which stood adjourned until this day, was not resumed, but upon the…

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Hunter River. the Elections.—county of Durham. (From the Maitand Mercury, September 11.)

Empire · Friday 12 September 1851 · page 3

For Durham, although the county is entitled to return two members, there has only been one candidate until within the last few days. The late member, Mr. Stuart A. Donaldson, again…

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Another Candidate for Northumberland

Empire · Friday 12 September 1851 · page 3

MR. ALDERMAN EGAN has proceeded up the Hunter River to offer his services to the independent electors of Northumberland. The candidates already in field…

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The Camden Election

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 13 September 1851 · page 2

IT is not a little singular that two of the candidates for the representation of the county of Camden, the one on the East and the other on the West should have been asked questions by the Electors pretty similar to e&oh other. At a meeting held at Sutton Forest,…

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The Elections

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 13 September 1851 · page 8

BEFORE our next issue several of the elections for our new Legislative Council will have been determined; already the nominations for some of them have taken place, we purpose, therefore, on this…

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City Election -- Meeting at the Surry Hills

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 13 September 1851 · page 5

Pursuant to advertisement a meeting of the friends and supporters of Dr. Lang was held at Mr. Taylor's, the "Happy Vale" inn, on Monday evening. At half-past seven o'clock, on the motion of Mr. Beaumont, seconded by Mr. Dewhurat, Mr. B. James…

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Bell's Life in Sydney. Saturday, September 13, 1851. The Approaching Election

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 13 September 1851 · page 2

ELECTORS OF SYDNEY!—Remember the duty which you will be called on to discharge nest Tuesday. Remember that the public weal, that not only your…

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The Election of the City Members

Empire · Saturday 13 September 1851 · page 3

THE very important duty of nominating fit and proper persons to represent their interests in the Legislative Council, will dovolve on the citizens of Sydney on the…

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English News. Imperial Parliament. House of Commons, June 2

Empire · Monday 15 September 1851 · page 3

The House having again resolved itself into a committee upon the Ecclesiastical Titles' Assumption Bill, Mr. Walpole stated the course he proposed to…

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The Elections. the Nomination for Gloucester and Macquarie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 September 1851 · page 3

A MEETING of the electors of the United Counties of Gloucester and Macquarie was held at Raymond Terrace on Thursday, at the Courthouse, for the purpose of nominating…

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Camden Election. To the Editor of the People's Advocate. (Per favour of the Sydney Morning Herald.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 September 1851 · page 3

SIR,—In your paper of this morning is a paragraph in which, after some strictures on Mr. Macarthur's alleged illiberality towards emancipists, you attack Mr. Henry Osborne, the…

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Original Orrespondence. City Election. Mr. Longmore and the "People's Advocate." To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 September 1851 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—Permit me, through your columns, to give a most decided contradiction to a statement in the People's Advocate of this day, "that at a meeting on Wednesday evening at…

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