The Derby Election Committee
Mr. Goulburn brought up the report of the select committee upon the alleged bribery at Derby, which was in nearly the following terms: —…
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Late English News. Imperial Parliament. House of Lords, Thursday, Nov. 25
No business was transacted, except the prepentation of two petitions by Lord Shaftebury. Friday, November 26, The Earl of Malmesbury, in reply to Lord…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Late English News. Imperial Parliament. House of Lords. Thursday, December 9
THE House adjourned at an early hour, after despatching some unimportant business. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10. A short conversation took place on the Irish…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →House of Commons, Wednesday, December 8. Parliamentary Election Bill
Mr. de Lacy Evans moved the second reading of this bill, which he described not as a measure of enfranchisement, but to prevent disfranchisement…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Shiel and the Clonmel Bootmaker—waterford Election
While the, number of votes were calculating, a sallow, haggard-looking man, came forward to the centre gallery, and cried out, Shiel a word with you." This…
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Sir Charles Nicholson, Knight, the Honorable the Speaker in the Legislative Council, directs it to be notified for general information, that, it being established that the seat in the said Council for the electoral district of the United Pastoral Districts of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Sydney Election
Our Sidney neighbours, it would seem, manage election matters quite as badly as ourselves. They exhibit just as much indifference to the composition of the legislative body as we Victorians do. Indeed we begin to fear that fatal symptoms of a political…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Election for the Cumberland Boroughs
As yet only two candidates, from among the number named last week, are fairly in the field for the representation of these Boroughs, namely. Mr. Daniel Egan, and Mr. William Bowman. As…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Reflections on the Late Election for the City
"What the bright reward we gain? The grateful memory of the good." The late election of Mr. Thurlow in room of Mr. Lamb, is significant of a great change taking place in the views and principles of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →United Status. Signification of the New Elections. (From the Economist, November 20.)
It is settled, according to the arrivals from the United States this week, that Mr. Franklin Pierce, of New Hampshire, is to be the now President, and Mr. Rufus…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Have the Jews a Right to Sit and Vote in Parliament? To the Editor of the Empire
SIR—Urged by several of your readers, I again resume the above important question. I stated in my last on this subject, that the Jew's claim is toleration, and that his desire is…
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YESTERDAY, the election of a member to represent the Cumberland Boroughs, in the room of J. R. Holden, Esq., resigned, was held in the Court-house, at Windsor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Election for the Cumberland Boroughs.—return of William Bowman, Esq
The ordinarily quiet town of Windsor was, yesterday, the scene of unaccustomed excitemen from the election there of a member of the Legislative Council for the Cumberland Boroughs…
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On Monday the election of a member to represent the Cumberland Boroughs, in the room of J. R. Holden, Esq., resigned, was held in the Court-house at Windsor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Parliament. House of Lords.—february 10
Their Lordships met for the first time after the recess. A considerable number of peers were in attendance, although, judging from the sounds which constantly proceeded from the body of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Late English News. Imperial Parliament. House of Peers, Thursday, February 10
THEIR Lordships resumed their sittings to-day, after the recess. The Lord Chancellor gave notice that on Monday next he would state the intentions of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Imperial Parliament. House of Lords, Tuesday, March 1. the Punishment of Transportation
The Bishop of Manchester said he wished to ask the noble duke the Secretary of State for the Colonies what were the intentions of Her Majesty's Government with respect to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →English Extracts. the Election Committees
IN the House of Commons on Monday night Mr. Divett brought up the report of the [?] Committee appointed to try the petition against the return for the borough of Lancaster. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dinner to Nonconformist Members of Parliament. (From the Illustrated London News.)
A GREAT Dissenting demonstration took place at the London Tavern on Wednesday evening, when nearly 400 gentlemen from the metropolis, and from more than seventy towns…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Curiosities of Election Bribery
The earliest recorded instance of bribery at elections is that noticed by Blackstone ia his " Commentaries," when referring to 1571, 13th of Elizabeth, one Thomas Lo[?]…
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