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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 

THE WAR IN THE EAST

... the democrats and w ,he'whigs in America, they set them down as exactly 6t Lnalogous to the parties who bear the same designations T n this country, although English democrats may be Or: *anked with American whigs, and our whigs would v( e too tory to ...

Published: Wednesday 15 February 1854
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1233 | Page: 8 | 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 

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 

LONDON, JUNE 12

... the police magistrates, too, are in a similar predicament. In fact, the elass of men, generally speaking, pro- moted by the Whigs were totally unfitted for the offices into which they were thrust by priestly in- fluence. To mnake the law respected the course ...

Published: Monday 14 June 1858
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 730 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

MR DISRAELI AT AYLESBURY

... there was a great Whig outery e against the close boroughs, and the people agreed e with the Whigs, and said it was an infamous system. r So they put an end to the close boroughs of the r Tories, but not to the close boroughs of the Whigs' n -(laughter) ...

Published: Thursday 02 April 1857
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1728 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SECOND EDITION

... record. The Whigs e- will have a majority in both'branches of the Legislature, the Senate, ?? which holds over from last year;; being composed of 17 Whigs arid if 15 Opposition; and the Assembly chosen at the recent election, of 82 Whigs, 44 Opposition ...

Published: Monday 25 November 1850
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1151 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

AMERICA

... steam-6hip Asia, lience, arrived at Nev Yorkw on the ]8th ult. almr h-d . he .Whig National Convention, assembled at Balti'morc, bid adopted the following resolihtions:-* Thlt the Whigs of the United States are assemnbled here by revereneeforthe constitution ...

Published: Monday 06 October 1856
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1022 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

SCOTCH LEGAL CHANGES

... mitg'appear, that whatever the complexiont of'the spaty in power in London-be it Liberal, Libei-al-Conserva- tive, or ?? same old Whig set invariably get the places in Edinburgh. Propriety is occasionally offended, i'ay dece-cy` -ahy :p'ssibly be. outraged, ...

Published: Friday 08 July 1859
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1156 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

MR COBDEN AND THE MINISTRY

... and that he himself vasihonritiaidl a member of the nbew Ministry. The fias6 thorough t surrbnder of the old principle of Whig exclusiveness had been signalised in his own case, andt he could scarcely fail to regard it as both a personal and a party ...

Published: Wednesday 06 July 1859
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1149 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

Correspondence

... Because the Whig party d choose to start a man who represents none but them- selves, nra all the other parties in the city to do the same ? And if they do not, and s only one other appear. are they then either all t to vote for the Whig, or not vote ...

Published: Wednesday 06 February 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1270 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Spirit of the Press

... of the facts. Edinburgh has been, ever since 1831, one of the few strongholds of Whiggism. It has a little knot of aspiring Whigs, called at Edinburghl the Par- liament House clique,' by which clieue all elections have been managed, ever since the passing ...

Published: Tuesday 12 February 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 742 | Page: 3 | Tags: News