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COLONIAL REFORM

... which the more obnoxious Mr Hawes wins compelled to withdraw last session of Parliament. It may answer the purposes of the Whigs and their journalists to seem defighted with such stately trash, and to characterise it as the utterance of noble sentiments ...

POLITICAL AND PIRSONAL RILATIONS

... lordship with a shilling. Then Came the Sentinel affair in 1821-22, which ended in the death of Sir Alexander Boswell. The Whig press, particularly the EdioNtryls Review, transferred the power from the Tories to their rivals, even while the former were ...

THE EDINBURGH NEWS, SATURDAY, FEB. 16, 1850

... more inclined to banter than take for granted the Ministerial claim to good intentions; yet the great majority of even the Whig members expect that, after the Ceylon Committee has been set in motion, and the odium of the circumstances attending its a ...

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Published: Wednesday 20 February 1850
Newspaper: Scottish Press
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 388 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CO Srottisb prrss. EDINBURGH, WEDNE•II \l. I ilesatatati

... doors of the Treasury, were profuse in their . gratitude to the their proposition.- job t• be perpetrated, under the usual Whig pretence ' being • saying to the country, defeated. The pretext was • consolidstion of two bankruptcy offices, one admittedly ...

Published: Wednesday 20 February 1850
Newspaper: Scottish Press
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4223 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

NOOSES FOR INS WONIIINO-CLASSES

... elected to the unreformed House by the Forfar district of burghs. He was unseated on petition, and was then nominated by a Whig peer to sit for the burgh of Mahon. Britain was struggling in the fires of political and social agitation, when in May 1831 ...

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... Parliament on tins _interesting subject . In truththere is a _general _suspicion that _, however _otherwise at variance , _Whigs and _Conservatives are possessed with a _common horror of a vulgar _franchise and a democratic constituency ; and _accordingly ...

Published: Wednesday 27 February 1850
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3766 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

The TWinesgs., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27

... There are some of the Free Traders, properly so ealled, to be found in the ranks of the minority, and only one or two of the Whigs ; the kreat bulk of the Members who have swelled the minority to so high & piteh are to be found in | those who, originally ...

Published: Wednesday 27 February 1850
Newspaper: Witness (Edinburgh)
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1909 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... Po. -4 is asearminds. which raddlit dbiddil per** I the sorry lespeneind IN N. * Indy the eildmildie bid b. briae es an in Whig Ihndipa I Ms has'. ~i.e IN Ism 11.14 sod Mess me real, the phikerphy • We N. thials, that Mr will W perused nld se mai Istand ...

Published: Saturday 02 March 1850
Newspaper: Scottish Press
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1958 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

EDINBURGH SLAUGHTER HOUSES BILL,

... Dr Thomas Anderson, Professor of Agricultural Chemistry to the Highland Sogiety, Dr Douglas Maclagan, snd Dr Patrick Ne whigging, who were exumined at comsiderable leugth, and coneurred generally in stating that it was not the sluughter-houses in King's ...

Published: Saturday 02 March 1850
Newspaper: Witness (Edinburgh)
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 429 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

position of the Strathbogie ministers by the Nonintrusionists as a peace of cold-blooded and heartless tyranny. ..

... course answered in the affirmative; but upon that occasion the foolishness of the people turned the pretended wisdom of the Whigs to nought, and on none did the blow fall heavier than on Sir James Gibson-Craig. After this we never saw him at a public meeting: ...