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Caledonian Mercury

Spirit of the Press

... y a copy of Friday's Scotsmen to every elector in Edinburgh-the Whig Lord Advocate, with salary and fees amounting to about L.4000 a-vear; Mr E. Ellice, M.P., whose re- ]ativcs are Whigs and Government place-men; Dr Robert Lee, who enjoys some L.1400 ...

Published: Monday 04 February 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4081 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

General Intelligence

... through the influence of the Whig Earl of Star, by a majority of one, and by a very question- able exercise of power on the part of a Peer of the realm. Sir William Dunbar is a mere catspaw in the hands of Mr Moncreifft the Whig Lord Advocate, and has no ...

Published: Thursday 23 June 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1530 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Correspondence

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE GALEDONIAN MERCURY. Sin,-I read your strictures, in your paper of yes- terday, on the conduct of the Whig clique, and your report of the meeting of the Liberal Committee. I am bound to express my undisguised astonishment at the whole ...

Published: Thursday 24 January 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 371 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Ireland

... Conservative electors of the borough of Armagh purpose in- Mr Butt, Q.C., to try his chance with Colonel Rawdon, the present Whig member. In all the chops and changes in the representation it is certainly not a little remarkable that the ablest man to be ...

Published: Monday 08 March 1852
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 381 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

MR MACAULAY'S ADDRESS

... from one end to the other with the spirit of the Whigs of 1832. Able and elegant as it is, we seek in vain for ony deeper insight, any more comprehensive generalisation, than would be afforded by the Whig creed of Lord Grey and Lord Althorp in 1832. The ...

Published: Monday 08 November 1852
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1371 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

Caledonian Mercury

... 31, 1856. SECOND and THIRlD EDITIOXS L're PLublishcd conltaiing all the Latest News of hillOrtnee-. TImE tactics of the old Whig party in this City have become so transparent, that its defenders have been reduced to the stale trick of getting up a quarrel ...

Published: Thursday 31 January 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1545 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

SECOND EDITION OF TUESDAY

... colleagues without the smallest considera- tion for any so-called claims of connection, or filend- ship, or former employment. The Whig con- nection may well be disaolved for ever. The Liberal party has in its rauk; men capablo af tilling ?? success the highest ...

Published: Wednesday 19 May 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 849 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE CABINET WITH LORD J. RUSSELL'S CONDUCT

... would have been tendered but for the earnest solicita- tions of the leading Whig pacificator. Whether it can be much longer withheld by a- desperate effort to keep the Whigs together remains to be seen. In the hour of his need Lord Palmerston, it ap- ...

Published: Saturday 14 July 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 928 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

SECOND EDITION OF SATURDAY

... Pnrljwpent, which- the Government met witbdon Thur~sda,;rs night. ?? 25.inch ?? of, Scotlandtg onet of th'los& absurdities whig~, 'from time to time, raide up-plain men in insuirrection againist pedants an~d honest 'm~-d~gairnst jobbers'i ' ?? ; ' Theglaily ...

Published: Monday 22 June 1857
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 365 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Ireland

... Jreland THE DOWNFALL OF DERBY. (Belfast Northern Whig.) “ Off, Stanley, off!” were the last words of Parliament on He Friday morning—and off he goes. High time it is. should never have been in ; being in, he should have stood or fallen with his principles; ...

Published: Thursday 23 December 1852
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 386 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

REPRESENTATION OF SCOTLAND-GENERAL ELECTION

... for the various counties aud burghs of Scotland. ‘Those names marked with an * are Conservatives, those with a are either Whigs or Radics!s, Seats Candidates. Aberdeenshire ate Hon. W. Gordon* A. L. Hayt Aberdeen City ¢Mr George Thomsont . Sir Islay ...

Published: Monday 07 June 1852
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 319 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Spirit of the Press

... Greenwiics. If differeuces of princille arise on practical questions of the day, there exists, in the happy philosophy of thse Whigs, a yet greater pprinciple involved it thleir rcsigliation. If ever a controversy arises between the Wfhig Ministers, tteis ...

Published: Wednesday 22 August 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1432 | Page: 3 | Tags: News