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FROM OUR PRIVATE CORRESPONDENT

... will give no satisfaction to the true reformers, who demand a wider measure of justice than any Lord John Russell and his Whig colleagues seem disposed to grant—at all events until compelled to do so. The bill for legalising marriage with a deceased ...

Published: Friday 15 March 1850
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 881 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BIRTHS. At Pulteneytown, on the Sth inst., the wife of M At cooper, of a son. ‘ames Hoseason, jossbank, Zetland,

... Kirkwall, Brydon, Montrose. At St John’s, on the 4th inst., by the Rev. H. W. Wright, Mr James Bruce, editor of the Northern Whig, Belfast, to Eliza Margaret. youngest daughter of Mr Matthew Plues, Newcastle. At Dalvey, Morayshire, on the 26th ult., David ...

Published: Friday 12 August 1853
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 353 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Contemporary Opinions

... alliance, in contradistinction to an Austrian or Russian connection—this, every one must see, would weaken the Whig ministry, and destroy the Whig paity, beyond all the slender talents of the Greys to uphold them. ...

Published: Friday 02 January 1852
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 750 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

IRELAND

... course; but how the poor animal could have kept afloat for such period as he must have been in the water, is a problem Northern Whig. A Modern Columbus : Perilous Votaoe to the World's Fair—A peifect mania, mitigated, it is true, in some cases, but generally ...

Published: Friday 06 June 1851
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 665 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ATTENDANCE AND VOTES

... will range at a higher level during the next twelve months than we have seen during the last quarter of acentury.—Northern Whig. ...

Published: Friday 19 May 1854
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 270 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE OPENING SESSION

... session to bccome engulphed in the absorbing question involved in the late Papal aggression ; and the line of demarcation between Whig and Tory is even now getting [iatftj degree* and beautifully leu. The window-tax is to be abolished; and there i* a probability ...

Published: Friday 07 February 1851
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 716 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE NEW MINISTRY

... that it may be beset with more than triple difficulties Aunion of Whigs, Peelites, and Radicals, each of these sections has of late been displaying anything but unity within itself. The Whigs have bad their long-continued feud between Lord Palmerston and ...

Published: Thursday 23 June 1859
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 750 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

John D' Groat Journal,

... been found compliant, but it dees say that the anxious to cut the Bright connection, have sounded ha Betonp this about the Whig chief, political bas no interest. Addresses, principally apon the bus: pess of last have been delivered by, others, Sir Cornewall ...

Published: Friday 08 October 1858
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 317 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

General News

... Government was in power This was for the removal of certain [he bill was not more Lord John Russells than any one else's in the Whig ranks, But the House of Commons adopted the bill by @ majority of 44; and the Tory of that day. instead of resigning office ...

Published: Friday 01 October 1858
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 922 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE SURPLUS REVENUE

... least, the opposition cannot indulge in their taunts, that a pecuniary deficiency may be considered as the concomit- ant of a Whig Ministry. In addition to many alleviations in fiscal burdens, and one or two important exemptions from taxation, against which ...

Published: Friday 15 August 1851
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 761 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

REPRESENTATION OF SCOTLAND

... the Held for the various counties and of Scotland. Those names marked with an * are Conservatives, those with + are either Whigs or Radicals:— Seats. Candidates. Aberdeenshire..'. Hon. W. Gordon* Aberdeen City. ' (Mr George Thomson Argyllshire Sir Islay ...

Published: Friday 18 June 1852
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 272 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

IRELAND

... qualified under the Franchise Bill, we can form some idea of the extent of the newly-croated Irish constituency. The Northern Whig estimates tho number of voters for Antrim to about 10,000. The return for the city of Cork 4505, while tho Examiner surmises ...

Published: Friday 25 October 1850
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 343 | Page: 4 | Tags: none