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THE SOLICITOR-GENERALBHIP OF SCOTLAND

... parties, and the patronage has been, ac- cordingly, distributed in England and Ireland, it was supposed in some quarters that the Whig seetion of the Government, having secured the office of Lord-Advocate, the nomination to the next high office, that of Sol ...

Published: Thursday 13 January 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 920 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

RETIREMENT OF MR MACAULAY

... parties of England which had been held by Burke, has taken leave of another of the many fields in which he reaped renown. A great Whig light has become self-extinguished. Henceforth the poet, essayist, orator, politician, all are merged in the historian. It ...

Published: Friday 29 February 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1323 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

Spirit of the Press

... THE WHIGS. (3forning Herald.) Centralisation has- latterly become the principal idol of our Whig and Liberal statesmen. The idea seems to be to convert the kingdom into a bus, hive of functionaries, owing their elevation and- iimportance to Whig officials ...

Published: Wednesday 12 March 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1295 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Ireland

... = Scemarive Terecrara.—The Nerthera Whig 0 An effurt was made yesterday to lay dows the cable the channel from Donaghadee to Portpatrick. The cable was coiled on board the Reliance schooner off Do- waghadee, and the Belfast steam-tug having towed her ...

Published: Thursday 22 July 1852
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 257 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Ireland

... again failed ; and both the Government steamers solicited to aid in the operation, it is said, left for Liverpool yesterday. Whig, Belfast, Nov. 29. Tue Evecrric Tevecrarn.—The Magnetic Telegraph Company completed the laying of their wires through the streets ...

Published: Monday 05 December 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 246 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... be dragged at the heels of the Whig party, have been recently mani- fedtug a disposition to think and act on their own account, and without any special anxiety as to whether the reins of power are in the hands of a Whig Chief or a Conservative Lord, They ...

Published: Monday 06 June 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4713 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

TWELFTH OF JULY RIOTS IN THE NORTH OF IRELAND

... midst of, the spectdttoras, Major: Hoo4 eiclaimed -.-l herae aarehese d-..d -reporters? ,Is the d-d reporterofr the. Northern Whig here ? ?? . ' - - - After giving vent to some further choice after-dinner expressions,, the military werieorderecd offtoclea6rthe ...

Published: Wednesday 22 July 1857
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 868 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

LORD JEFFREY

... a similar fate. It is time that it should abandon the vain endeavour to preserve in a narrow circle of the Whig- born, Whip-connected, and Whig-ordered, that ascendancy which was won by popular intellects in the popular field. ...

Published: Thursday 31 January 1850
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1006 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

THE MINISTERIAL DEFEAT

... about to be dealt by the that bad so long kept others from stabbing Whiggery to heart. Charteris got up ; but, though a Whig, the Whigs immediately clamoured him down, and cried oat for the divi- sion. Bat it was too late—too late. ‘oo late, indeed! “How ...

Published: Thursday 26 February 1852
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1474 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

LEGAL PREFERMENT THE NEW LORD CHANCELLOR

... themselves to a party, or lifted up their voices in Parliament. The new Lord Chancellor has the ad- vantage of being a staunch old Whig. He was for some years Solicitor-General under the Melbourne Administra- in that capacity the honour of knighthood— was appointed ...

Published: Thursday 10 February 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1499 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Foreign Intelligence

... 1855. GEonoGi REx, (The signatures of all the Misisters follow.) AMERICA. TIME ANTI SLAVERY PAlT~Y. The Whigs of New York are mutating the Whigs if Ohio, and saurreder to the anti-slavery party. The Republican, or anti-slavery party propei, is to meet ...

Published: Thursday 09 August 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1999 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

COLONEL SYKES, M.P., AND HIS CONSTITUENTS

... that the honour of my country would be wounded by any such concession, and I unhesitatingly went into the lobby against the Whig Mliristry-(hear, hear.) Lord Derbv's Government followed, but it was plain that it could only exist a single day upon sufferance; ...

Published: Monday 04 October 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2010 | Page: 3 | Tags: News