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Politics & elections, 1852

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The French Elections. (From the Times, February, 17.)

Empire · Thursday 24 June 1852 · page 4

We have read more artful compositions —we have beheld more violent acts of oppression—but for unblushing effrontery in the exercise of despotic power by…

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The Irish Farmer Before Parliament and Before Ireland

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 1 July 1852 · page 7

Lord John Russell's answer to the Irish Farmers is a plump refusal. They may die or fly ; he will concede nothing. This is the upshot of the debate on Tuesday night…

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English Extracts. Imperial Parliament. House of Lords, February 28. Ministerial Explantations

Empire · Saturday 3 July 1852 · page 3

Their lordships met at five o'clock, at which hour Lord Redesdale, the Deputy Speaker, took his seat on the woolsack. The house was greatly crowded; the now…

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Imperial Parliament. House of Commons—march 15. Corn Laws

Empire · Tuesday 6 July 1852 · page 4

On the order of the day for going into committee of supply on the Navy Estimates, MR. C. VILLIERS rose and said he wished…

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Imperial Parliament. House of Commons—march 15. [A portion of the following appeared in our Second Edition of yesterday.] Corn Laws

Empire · Wednesday 7 July 1852 · page 4

On the order of the day for going into committee of supply on the Navy Estimates, MR. C. VILLIERS rose and said he wished…

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Imperial Parliament. House of Lords. Monday, March 15

Empire · Thursday 8 July 1852 · page 4

The attendance of peers was considerably more humerous than usual, there being present during the debate not less than 200. The Duke of Wellington was among the earliest arrivals…

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Imperial Parliament. Friday, March 19. (Summary in the Times, March 20.)

Empire · Thursday 15 July 1852 · page 4

In the House of Lords last night the Duke of NEWCASTLE presented a petition from the Commercial Association of Manchester, praying that the country might be relieved as specdily as…

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English Elections

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 15 July 1852 · page 3

NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE.—Mr. Christopher (the new Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster) says, in his address :—" I accept office under the administration of the Karl of Derby from a conviction, of…

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Irish Elections

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 15 July 1852 · page 2

TRINITY COLLEGE.—Mr. Napier die new Attorney-General for Ireland at his re-election for Trinity College stated his views relative to Ireland thus :—On the Land Question he said that during the last…

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Electioneering Curiosity

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 15 July 1852 · page 7

In giving the following address of an American candidate, we must beg our readers to understand that it is not intended as a joke. Electioneering in the States…

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What the Debates Will Come To. Imperial Parliament—house of Commons. Order of the Day

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 17 July 1852 · page 3

On Mr Morgan presenting a petition from the electors of Monmouthshire for a bill to secure a knowledge of the Welsh language on the part of clergymen appointed to livings in Wales…

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The English Elections

Empire · Wednesday 21 July 1852 · page 3

The interest awakened in the approaching elections appeared to be very vigorous and general. Several columns of the Times towards the end of March, are occupied from day to day with…

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Ireland. Election Movements

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 29 July 1852 · page 9

ANTRIM COUNTY.—The Belfast Chronicle states that Mr. George Macartney, of Lissanoure, and Sir E M'Naughten, the present member, both Conservatives, will come forward…

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Opening of the Parliament of Mutes. (From the Examiner, April 3.)

Empire · Monday 2 August 1852 · page 3

If, by any conceivable influence, M. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte at this instant could be metamorphosed into the very opposite of all that we have hitherto known…

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Imperial Parliament. House of Lords.—monday, May 10. Chancery Reform

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 August 1852 · page 1

ON the motion of the Lord Chancellor, the Masters in Chancery Bili was read a second time, and referred to a select committee…

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Imperial Parliament. House of Lords, May 11

Empire · Friday 13 August 1852 · page 3

A great number of petitions against the continuance of the grant to Maynooth were presented by the Earl of Shaftesbury and the Duke of Argyll…

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Sketches in Parliament. Men of War

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 14 August 1852 · page 11

The serio-comic, which has oftentimes so large a share in the proceedings of the American House of Representatives, is not always absent from the graver arena of our own House of Commons. If…

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The Irish Exiles and the Irish Elections

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 21 August 1852 · page 12

A generous English contemporary reminds the Irish constituences of a solemn duty, the neglect of which would cover them with ineffaceable shame.-- "At the hustings," observes the Liverpool Journal,…

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Imperial Parliament. House of Commons, May 3. New Zealand

Empire · Wednesday 25 August 1852 · page 3

Sir J. PAKINGTON movoed for leave to bring in a Bill to grant a representative Constitution to the colony of New Zealand. He had been induced, he said, to…

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English Elections

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 16 September 1852 · page 2

BURY ST. EDMUND'S.—Lord Jermyn has announced that he intends to sohcit a renewal of the confidence of the electors. Mr. Bunbury, the other member, has been canvassing the electors during the…

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