[?] E County of St. Vincent and the Southern Boroughs.—election Meeting at Braidwood. [From a Correspondent.]
Empire · Tuesday 29 January 1856 · page 3
A public meeting of the electors of the town and district of Braidwood was held on the 21th instant, in the Court-house, Braidwood, the object of which was the nomination of fit and proper persons as representatives…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Candidates for Italy. (From the Leader, October 13.)
Empire · Tuesday 29 January 1856 · page 3
Diplomacy is the safety-valve of despotism. King Bomba had worked his police-machiae at high pressure, until Austria feared the effect of an explosion upon her Lombard provinces. Thereupon, three powers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Plunkeit's Election
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 January 1856 · page 5
A MEETING of the Philip Ward electors favourable to the return of Mr. Plunkett, took place yesterday evening, at the Fountain of Friendship Hotel, Brick[?] field-hill, for the purpose of taking measures to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Sydney Election and the Sydney Morning Herald's Misrepresentations. To the Editor of the Empire
Empire · Wednesday 30 January 1856 · page 2
SIR—The following conserva[?]ons were made use of by m[?] on Friday evening last, at Mr. Campbell's meeting, with[?] the view of being made public, in order to set myself right with my fellow-citizens in reference to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Northumberland and Hunter Election. [From the Mercury's Singleton Correspondent.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 31 January 1856 · page 4
A MEETING of the electors of the above counties was held, pursuant to advertisement, at Mr. J. P. Borthwick's Hotel, on Wednesday evening last, for the purpose of hearing from Mr. Piddington his political…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Election Meetings. Representation of the City—meeting in Cook Ward
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 31 January 1856 · page 4
A PUBLIC meeting of the electors of Cook Ward was held yesterday evening at Mr. Bradford's, Blind Beggar Inn, South Head Road, to take measures to secure the return of Messrs. Campbell, Parkes,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Electioneering Delusions
Empire · Thursday 31 January 1856 · page 4
A GOOD cause does not stand [?] need of deluding its friends or its enemies; least of all,! of the laborious delusions attempted upon more than one constituency of late…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Empire. Friday, February 1, 1856. Tests for Candidates
Empire · Friday 1 February 1856 · page 4
JUDGING from the prospectuses of candidates and the speeches at meetings, there will be no lack of liberal professions for the new Parliament; and it is pleasing to see even hoary…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The "Champion of Liberty"—city Election. (To the Editors of the Freeman's Journal.)
Freeman's Journal · Saturday 2 February 1856 · page 2
GENTELMEN,— I am aware that your space is limited, and i shall not, therefore, inflict a long letter on you. I have been very much struck with an advertisement put forward by Mr. Hawksley,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Clap-trap Twaddle About the Election for St. Vincent
Freeman's Journal · Saturday 2 February 1856 · page 2
Our attention has been called to a verbose and frothy communication from the notorions Gr. U. A., which appeared in the People's Advocate of last Saturday. This lugubrious…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Election Meetings. Representation of the City of Sydney
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 February 1856 · page 6
A meeting of the electors of Bourke Word, favorable to the return of Mr. J. H. Plunkett as one of the representatives of the city, was held last evening, at Mr. G. Pike's City Wine Vaults, George-street…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rumoured Dissolution of Parliament
Empire · Monday 4 February 1856 · page 4
We learn from a second edition of the Dublin Daily Express, on the authority of its London correspondent, that a rumour of a dissolution of Parliament is now rife. The same journal adds that the difficulties of Lord…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Northumberland and Hunter Election. Mr. Piddington at Raymond Terrace
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 February 1856 · page 3
A PUBLIC meeting of the electors of the above counties residing in the police district of Raymond Terrace, favourable to the return of Mr. Piddington, as one of their representatives, was held at Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To W. Redman, Esquire, Candidate for the Cumberland Boroughs
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 February 1856 · page 7
SIR,—Permit me to direct your attention to, no doubt, an unintentional error in your address to the electors, published in this paper of the 2nd instant, and which I feel it my duty to point out, because the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Election Movements in the Western Districts. (From the Bathurst Free Press of Saturday.) Representation of the Western Boroughs
Empire · Tuesday 5 February 1856 · page 3
A meeting of the Electors of Bathurst took place on Friday evening, 25th instant, at the Daniel O'Connell Inn in pursuance of a preliminary meeting held early on the same day at the Royal Hotel, to consider the steps…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Candidates for "The Colonies." (From the Press, Nov 10.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 February 1856 · page 3
LORD PALMERSTON continues to be overwhelmed with applications for the vacant Colonial Secretaryship, and his lorship has been compelled to have a form of refusal lithographed, in order to save the time of his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The City Election.—public Meeting in Macquarie Ward
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 February 1856 · page 4
A MEETING of the electors favourable to the return of Mr, J. H. Plunkett, was held yesteray evening, at Mr J. Borton's, Cricketers Arms Hotel, Pitt-street. The meeting was numerously attended. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Independents and the Sydney Election. To the Editor of the Empire
Empire · Thursday 7 February 1856 · page 5
SIR—Although I am not an Independent, I should be sorry to allow that respectable and influential body to lie under the undeserved stigma which is now attached to it, in consequence of a few of its members being…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rumoured Dissolution of Parliament
The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 9 February 1856 · page 9
Also in Freeman's Journal
We learn from a second edition of the Düblin Daily Express on the authority of its London correspondent, that a rumour of a dissolution of Parliament is now rife. The same journal adds that the difficulties of Lord Palmerston were increased…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →