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Mr. DISRAELI came forward amidst loud cheering, and addressed the meeting as follows:—Gentlemen, electors of the country of Buckingham, I have to return you my best thanks for the great honour you have done…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →COMMISSIONER Yeh is a more formidable personage than men of some mental calibre haye apprehended. It is a vulgar effort of Mandarin power to decapitate some five hundred denizens…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. COBDEN, on stepping forward to address the meeting, was received with loud and enthusing applause. He spoke for upwards of an hour He said that although his friends had need…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The new Parliament is now almost entirely constituted; but contains so many untried ingredients, and has altogether been elected under such peculiar circumstances, that till it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—In the report of the proceedings at the declaration of the poll at the recent election for the South Riding of Cumberland, as published in the Empire of the 16th instant, the following passage occurs near…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. WARREN said:—This is an occasion both inter. esting and serious to you and to me, for I stand here, through your deliberate act of favour and confidence, a second time your representative, and that, not at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE New York Tribune records the following fact:— "A NOVEL MEETING.—In accordance with a previous arrangement, the employ of the American Telegraph Company's lines between Boston and Calais, Mo., held…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE discovery of gold, has led to such rapid advance of the colonies of Victoria and South Australia, that we, that is, New South Wales, scarcely had time fully to perceive the great…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. MORPHETT, in moving the consideration message from the House of Assembly returning Tonnage Duties Repeal Bill to this Council, would request the President to state how far, in his opinion, that House…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Several gentlemen connected with the colonies were candidates for seats in the House of Commons at the late general election. Amongst others, Mr. Robert Campbell, a native of Sydney, and formerly so well…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. BAKER was about to resume the debate on the motion of Mr. Morphett, when The COMMISSIONER of PUBLIC WORKS' requested that the motion should be read…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A second supplement to the Government Gazette, published yesterday, contained the following proclamation:— By his Excellency SIR WILLIAM THOMAS DENSION,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. MORPHETT said, that in giving notice on that subject he was careful to do so for such an extended period that all the members of that House should have time to give the mattera calm consideration. He trusted…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Though the country was called upon unexpectedly to furnish itself with a new Parliament, it is clear that the Catholic party has come out of turmoil in a far belter condition than it did at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE first session of the fifth Parliament summoned during the reign of her present Majesty formally commenced this day. The opening of a new Parliament, at all times a great constitutional ceremony, is at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →When representatives are being elected, every Briton, who is an elector, becomes actually a member of the Government. The voice of the people is our supreme law, but the people…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It may be true, that, beyond a hearty response to the personal appeal of Lord Palmerston under personal attacks, the character of the new Parliament cannot be predicted from the elements of its composition. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The members of the House of Commons were summoned to meet at 2 o'clock for the election of a Speaker They began to assemble shortly after 1, and at the half-hour upwards of 40 hon. gentlemen were present. From…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Queen's Speech requested the two Houses of Parliament to take up the public business where Lord Palmerston's dissolution had set it aside. The Commons appear to be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir G. Grey said—It will not be necessary, in asking the House to read this bill a second time, that I should repeat the statements and arguments which I addressed to the House in February, when I moved for…
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