Fatal Effects of Giving Drink at Elections
ALTHOUGH the provisions of the "Electoral Act" are pretty stringent regarding the "treating system" during election times, and are so worded as to unseat a member if…
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"Authentic Information" Anent the Recent Edinburgh Election. To the Editor of the Empire
SIR—In your issue of Thursday, 26th ultimo, we have a letter from "A Presbyterian Abolitionist," professing to give." authentic information" anent the recent election of ex-Provost Black, of Edinburgh. As the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Authentic Information" Anent the Recent Edinburgh Election. To the Editor of the Empire
SIR—In your issue of Thursday, 26th ultimo, we have a letter from "A Presbyterian Abolitionist," professing to give "authentic information" anent the recent election of ex-Provost Black, of Edinburgh. As the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Imperial Parliament. House of Lords. Monday, 7Th April. Postal Communication with Australia
The Earl of Hardwicke called attention to the establishment of a regular postal communication between this country and Australia, and to the discontinuance of that communication in 1854. A Treasury…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Imperial Parliament. House of Lords—monday, April 7. Postal Communication with Australia
The Earl of Hardwicke called attention to the establishment of a regular postal communication between this country and Australia, and to the discontinuance of that communication in 1854. A Treasury minute had lately…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Fresh Elections—re-elections
IT is not altogether to be wondered at that some of those politicians, who have long been before the public as the ardent and admired advocates of responsible government in Australia, should…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Imperial Parliament. House of Commons, April 3. Transportation and the Ticket-of-leave System
Mr. SCOTT, in moving for a select committee to consider how far and in what direction recont legislation and the substitution of other punishment for transportation had influenced the existing amount of crime, said…
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THE Herald is funnily at loggerheads with its pet Cabinet. The two authorities in the State are in antagonism on a matter of vital moment to the tranquillity of the lieges. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Four Days Later English News. Imperial Parliament. House of Commons, 14Th April. the American Questions
MR. BAILLE: I wish to put to the noble lord at the head of her Majesty's Government a question of which I have given him notice, and upon his Answer will depend the course I shall take this evening with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Imperial Parliament. House of Commons, April 4. the Conduct of Sir Charles Napier at Acre
Sir J. GRAHAM.—I am at all time's most unwilling unnecessarily to obstruct the business of the House, or to avail myself of the opportunity afforded by this motion to bring under its notice matters which personally…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Imperial Parliament. the Troofs for Canada
In the House of Lords on the evening of Thursday, 17th April, Lord Panmure, in reply to a question from the Earl of Elgin, said that it was true that troops and ammunition had been sent to Canada to supply the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Count Montalembert on Freedom of Election. Paris, Saturday Evening
In the sitting of the Corps Legislatif yesterday, Count Montalembert made an important speech on the subject of the recent decision of the Court of Cassation, with respect to the liberty of distributing election bul…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Imperial Parliament. House of Commons, April 10. National Education
On the order of the day for going into committee on this question. Lord J. RUSSELL said, he regretted to learn that the honorable member for the West Riding (Mr. Cobden),…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Imperial Parliament. House of Commons, May 1
Order read, for resuming adjourned Debate on Amendment (29th April) proposed to Question (28th April), "That while this House feels it to be its duty to express its admiration of the gallantry of the Turkish soldiery…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Imperial Parliament. House of Lords.—april 24Th. the Naval Review
Lord Ravensworth gave a most indignant account of the sufferings of the peers nt the naval review yesterday. They were too late to witness the sight. Their vessel ran down a gun-boat, and one of the masts…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Present Parliament. (From the Examiner, April, 19.)
There have been two remarkable nights this week in the House of Commons. On one Mr. Spooner carried his motion against Maynooth: on another a House could not be made to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Imperial Parliament. House of Lords, Tuesday, April 29, Communication with Australia
The Earl of Ellenborough, in the absence of Lord Hardwicke, presented two petitions, one from the bankers, merchants, and others of London, and the other from the General Association of the Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Imperial Parliament. National Education
ON Thursday, April lOth; in the House of Commons, on the motion of Lord J. Russell, the House resolved itself into committee on the subject of education, when the noble lord moved his first resolution—That…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Address to Her Majesty From the Imperial Parliament, on the Peace. (From the Times, May 5.)
Both Houses of Parliament will be called on to-day to present humble and dutiful addresses to her Majesty, expressing their joy and satisfaction at the re-establishment of peace on conditions honourable to her Majesty's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Imperial Parliament. House of Commons—april 11. Adjourned Debate on Education
The House having resolved itself into committee, Lord J. RUSSELL rose and said,âI read the other day in the newspaper an account of an examination of a witness before the Crimean Inquiry now proceeding, in…
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