The Elections
NORTH RIDING OF CUMBERLAND.â P. HOGAN, ESQ.â WE heartily congratulate such of the electors of the above-named independent constituency, as have boon the means of bringing so…
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The Coalition Candidates. (To the Editors of the Freeman's Journal.)
GENTLEMEN,— It is rather remarkable after the hooting and hissing with which the overtures of the Quadruple Alliance hare been every where responded to, that none of the members of that…
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To take place both in City and Hamlet--Town and Country; on the--day of--,1856. Irish Melody--"I'm not the boy for bewitching them"... J. H. Plumpitt…
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FEBRUARY 26.—There was a great stir among the principal electors of West Camden, assembled at the Crown Inn, Berrima, by the invitation of Mr. Barker, who promised to meet them there, and expound his…
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A VERY large assemblage of people took place yesterday evening opposite the St. Andrew's Tavern, at the corner of King and Kent streets, for the purpose of hearing Messrs. Campbell, Parkes, Wilshire, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Empire. Monday, March 3, 185[?]6. the History of the British Parliament
THE peculiar circumstances of the presen Australian era demand that every point connected with the essential constitutionality of the British empire should be well understood,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Hargrave's Election Meeting at Armidale. (From Saturday's Mercury.)
ON Thursday evening, the 21st ultimo, a meeting of the electors of New England and M'Leay was held at the Crown Inn, Armidale, when Mr. Hargrave, one of the candidates for the representation of these districts,…
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ON Saturday evening last a meeting of those persons favourable to the return of Mr. Merion Moriarty as the representative of the Sydney Hamlets in the new Parliament, was held at Mr. Chuter's, Billy Blue Hotel,…
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A MEETING of the friends of Mr. Arkins was held on Saturday last, at Mr. George Cobcrof[?]'s inn, Wilberforce. The meeting was called for three o'clock p.m., but business did not commence till four o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Writs of Election. (From the Supplement to the Government Gazette, published on Saturday last.) PROCLAMATION
BY his Excellency Sir William Thomas Denison, Knight, Governor-General in and over all her Majesty's Colonies of New South Wales, Tasmanis, Victoria, South Australia, and Western…
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A PUBLIC meeting of the electors of Cook Ward, convened at the instance of the supporters of Messrs. Campbell. Parkes, Wilshire, and Cowper, was held on Tuesday evening, at the Hand of Friendship…
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ELECTION MEETING IN GIPPS WARD.—Yesterday evening, a meeting of the electors of Gipps Ward, favourable to the return of Messrs. Parkes, Campbell, Wilshire, and Cowper, as the representatives of Sydney in the New Parliament, was held at the Hero…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The History of the British Parliament. To the Editor of the Empire
SIR—The interest and importance of the subject of your leading article on Monday last.—"The History of the British Parliament,"—must be my excuse for addressing you, particularly as (to use your own words) I am…
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SIR,—Having learned that many of my friends are under the impression that I am the Mr. Simmons named in this morning's report of the Cook Ward Election Meeting, who moved the resolution in favour…
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A MEETING of the electors favourable to the return of Messrs. Campbell, Parkes, Wilshire, and Cowper was held at the Australian Inn, Parramatta-stre[?]t. There were between ten and twelve hundred persons present. Mr Parkes and Mr. Cowper…
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SIR—Having learned that many of my friends are under the impression that I am the Mr. Simmons named in this morning's report of the Cook Ward Election Meeting who moved the resolution in favour of the four…
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THE Elections now pending all over the colony present some peculiar points of interest in the distinctive character of particular contests. Thus, in the city of Sydney the broad features…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Empire. Saturday, March 8, 1856. Antiquity and Power of Parliament
THERE is every rational ground of belief that the ancient great Council of England was what we now understand by the term "Parliament," and consequently, that, as BLACKSTONE asserts…
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I am not an elector of Sydney, nevertheless i take the liveliest interest in the present contest, because i hold it to be perfectly monstrous that four individuals, all very ultra in their ideas,…
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BEFORE our next publication the election of representatives for the two most important constituencies in the colony will have been decided. The election for the Sydney Hamlets is to take…
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