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The Armidale correspondent of the Maitland Mercury writes as follows:—The returning officer of these districts. Mr. Hargraves, declared the poll on Thursday last, 6th instant. The result of the contest is the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The House of Commons, having relieved itself of its, terror of a dissolution, departed cheerfully for the Whitsun holidays, and reassembling on Monday, the 4th of June, resumed the discussion of the war in a very…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Electoral contest which has just terminated in the return of Dr. EMBLING to the Legislative Council of Victoria, is of interest beyond the boundaries of that colony, at a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in moving the second reading of this bill, said he would merely trouble the House with a few words as to the form in which the measure had been introduced. It was evident that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE position which Mr. Glad[?] took up in the debate on the conduct of the war at once gives to the proposal of making peace with Russia on her own terms the stamp of recognised statesmanship, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ORDER OF THE NIGHT. -- This important document having been read to the House, to the effect, that it was highly necessary to determine what was privilege of Parliament, and what was not; what language was Parliamentary and what…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Upon Clause 4, Mr. LOWE moved to omit all the words after the word " colony" in the 34th line. The offect of the clause was similar to a corresponding clause in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stephen Kemble used often to laugh at the strange candidates who presented themselves for first-class business when he was manager at Durham. One day, a tall, raw-boned Highlander…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →IT is generally believed that the mail packet which left England August 5 will bring out to the colony the Constitution Act. That date would allow fifty-two days from the second…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On the order of the day for the second reading of this bill [?] Mr.LOWE said that almost all the objections which [?] had taken to the bill that the House had just…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Liverpool Mail, June 16, has the following account—far more graphic than gratifying—of the state of the House of Commons, when the bills for conferring constitutions on New South Wales and Victoria were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lord LYNDHURST.—I rise, my lords, to call the attention of your lbrdships to the treaty of the 2nd of December; 1854, and the recent conferences at Vienna, with reference to the position of Austria in Her relation…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE may reasonably anticipate that the next mail will bring us the New Constitution Bill, and in a short time therefore the present Council will be dissolved, and a New Election will have to take place,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mr.LAYARD then rose and moved the following reasolution:—" That this House views with deep and increasing concern the state of the nation, and. is of opinion that the manner in which merit and efficiency have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—The anticipation of the speedy arrival of the New Constitution Bill in its full integrity as it left these shores without alteration or amendment (excepting the two-thirds majority clause, and the clauses containing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Layard came into Parliament at the very moment when his spwciality the East, was the question of the day; and that would seem to be an astonishing piece of good fortune to a public man; but, in reality, it has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IT would be a great advantage if we could find out, distinctly, for practical use, the grand influence which regulates the motives and actions of Members of Parliament as the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir S. NORTHCOTE was anxious to say a few word on the latter part of the subject, to which he had paid great attention—namely, the state of the civil service. He agreed in many of the observations of the hon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MRb. GIBSON rose to ask for explanations from the Government relative to the opposition of her Majesty's Ministers to the views of their colleague, the late British plenipotentiary at the Vienna…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. ROEBUCK brought up the Report of the Committee to inquire into the condition of the Army before Sebastopol, amidst loud cheers. Mr. DISRAELI moved that the Report be read at the…
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