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A History of Parliamentary Elections and Electioneering in the Old Days: Showing the State of Political Parties and Party Warfare at the Hustings and in the House of Commons from the Stuarts to Queen VictoriaGrego, Joseph

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A History of Parliamentary Elections and Electioneering in the Old Days: Showing the State of Political Parties and Party Warfare at the Hustings and in the House of Commons from the Stuarts to Queen Victoria

Name: A History of Parliamentary Elections and Electioneering in the Old Days: Showing the State of Political Parties and Party Warfare at the Hustings and in the House of Commons from the Stuarts to Queen Victoria
Author: Grego, Joseph

Grego, Joseph

Great Britain -- Politics and government; Great Britain. Parliament -- Election

We, the People
    of England”--“Reorganizing the (Spanish) Legion”--Burdett
    for North Wilts--“Grinding Young”--Lord Durham--“The Newest
    Universal Medicine”--“The Rejected of Kilmarnock”--Joseph Hume
    defeated at Middlesex--“Figurative Representation of the Late
    Catastrophe!”--Dan O’Connell providing the rejected candidates
    with seats--“Great Western General Booking Office”--Hume for
    Kilkenny--“Shooting Rubbish”--The interval before parliament
    reassembled--“Retzsch’s Extraordinary Design of Satan Playing
    at Chess with Man for his Soul,” 1837--Party tactics--“A Game
    at Chess (again): the Queen in Danger”--“High Life below
    Stairs (inverted), as lately performed at Windsor by her
    Majesty’s servants”--“Election Day: a Poetical Sketch from
    Nature”--The hustings--The chairing--John Sterling’s poem,
    “The Election,” 1841--A New Election at Aleborough--Rival
    Houses--The Candidates--The attorneys--A corrupt bargain--The
    canvassing--Indirect bribing--The Bribery Act set at
    naught--Female voters, a fanciful prospect by George
    Cruikshank--“Rights of Women; or, a View of the Hustings with
    Female Suffrage,” 1835--Memorable electioneering experiences:
    Two eminent writers as candidates for seats in parliament,
    1857--Incidents in the canvassing of James Hannay--W. M.
    Thackeray’s contest at Oxford--Summary of bribery at elections:
    Bribery Acts                                                     374




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.


  SEPARATE PLATES.

        PAGE

  THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN; OR, A VIEW OF THE HUSTINGS WITH
    FEMALE SUFFRAGE. 1835                                 _Frontispiece_

  READY MONEY, THE PREVAILING CANDIDATE; OR, THE HUMOURS
   OF AN ELECTION                                                     84

  THE HUMOURS OF A COUNTRY ELECTION. 1734                             90

  TO THE INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF WESTMINSTER. VERNON AND
    EDWIN. 1741                                                       97

  MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF
    WESTMINSTER: THE SPY DETECTED. MARCH, 1747                       109

  THE HUMOURS OF THE WESTMINSTER ELECTION; OR, THE SCALD
    MISERABLE INDEPENDENT ELECTORS IN THE SUDS. 1747                 113

  GREAT BRITAIN’S UNION; OR, THE LITCHFIELD RACES. 1747              114

  BRITANNIA DISTURBED BY FRENCH VAGRANTS. LORD TRENTHAM FOR
    WESTMINSTER. 1749                                                121

  ALL THE WORLD IN A HURRY; OR, THE ROAD FROM LONDON TO
    OXFORD. 1754                                                     134

  THE OXFORDSHIRE ELECTION--THE POLLING BOOTH. 1754                  145

  “WILKES AND LIBERTY” RIOTS. THE SCOTCH VICTORY. MURDER OF
    ALLEN BY A GRENADIER. MASSACRE OF ST. GEORGE’S FIELDS. 1768      174

  THE HUSTINGS AT BRENTFORD, MIDDLESEX ELECTION, 1768. SERJEANT
    GLYNN AND SIR W. BEAUCHAMP PROCTOR                               178

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A History of Parliamentary Elections and Electioneering in the Old Days: Showing the State of Political Parties and Party Warfare at the Hustings and in the House of Commons from the Stuarts to Queen Victoria

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