Threatening Letters About the Elections
MR. HOGAN of Gloucester-street has shown us an anonymous letter signed Tipperary, addressed to him, and threatening him and his property with "fire and sword" in case…
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Terrible Election Riots in Louisville
The LOUISVILLE COURIER (Anti-K.-N.,) gives the following account of a terrible election riot at that place: -- Never, perhaps, was a greater farce, or rather tragedy enacted. Hundreds and thousands were deterred from voting by direct…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Catholic Clergy and the Approaching Elections
WE have been favoured with a copy of the following letter. It speaks for itself, and we anticipate the best results for the Christian Education of our Colonial youth from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The California State Election. (From the Weekly Placer Times and Transcript, 22no September.)
The result of the late election has now been ascertained throughout the state, with the exception of two or three counties, whose vote cannot alter the complexion of the next state…
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A PUBLIC meeting, convened by advertisement, was held yesterday evening at Mr. Payton's, Australian Arms, Parramatta, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of adopting and forwarding requisitions to Mr. James Byrnas, of Parramatta,…
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It is an ancient maxim that the life of no one can be pronounced upon till its end has come. Men that are rich and prosperous may fall on evil days at the end of their pilgrimage in the…
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WE have read somewhere that if a person of very ordinary imaginative powers were to practice "the art of making verse" for some considerable time, he would most probably…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Queries Concerning Candidates
LETTERS from several parts of the Colony are lying before us, asking our opinion as to the fitness and honesty of purpose of some of the candidates for Parliamentary honors…
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SINCE we published our article on Parliamentary Privilege in the Colonies, which was called forth by a judicial decision in Tasmania, other proofs, of a nature more current and…
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THE Government may congratulate itself on the issue of Mr. DONALDSON'S amendment respecting the GOVERNOR'S Messages, but if his EXCELLENCY be gifted with the penetration for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Election Meeting. (From Wednesday's Maitland Mercury)
ON Friday last a public meeting of the electors of the Northumberland Boroughs, called by advertisement, was held at the Court-house, West Maitland, for the purpose of hearing a statement of the political opinions…
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The following list will, we think, give as correct information as can be collected, on the state of the impending elections in the different constituencies up to the present time. We do…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Election Meeting at Maitland. To the Editor of the Empire
Sir—I have just read a report, abridged from the Maitland Mercury, of a meeting hold at Maitland for the purpose of hearing Captain Russell enunciate his principles, and the concluding remark, taken in…
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The splendour of tradition here Lights up no line of deathless names, As proud old England's barons were, Whose worth our modern virtues shames…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The New Parliament
The splendour of tradition here Lights up no line of deathless names, As proud old England's barons were, Whose worth our modern virtues shames…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Goulburn. [From Our Correspondent.] County of Argyle Election
ON Wednesday evening, a meeting of the electors for the county, resident in Goulburn and its neighbourhood, was held, pursuant to advertisement, at the Salutation Inn, to consider the propriety of calling…
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