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BANFFSHIRE REGISTRATIONS

... follows Banff district. Whig claims, Conservative claims Whereot re-enroll- Whereof re-enrollments' ments, double claims . Withdrawn & rejected, 6 Withdrawn & rejected' 9 -10 - 11 New claims admitted, Xew claims admitted, ~8 CULLEN. Whig claims, 20 Conservative ...

Published: Friday 30 September 1853
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 153 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE ELECTIONS

... the still more formidable and significant destruction it lias dealt to the Whig ranks. Last in point of time, but first and foremost in point of importance, the defeat of the Whig Home Secretary, Sir George Grey, in his native Northumberland. His victorious ...

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM

... The Whigs then denied the divine right of kings, which no one maintained, and this was the sum and substance their liberality. There was not then a third party in the Commons, representing the interes the trading and mercantile classes and Whigs and ...

MINISTERS AND THEIR OPPONENTS

... no party so utterly destitute of principles as the genus London Whig. (!) In the earlier portion of his letter the writer endeavours to make out the Whigs respectable possible. The Whigs have no idea setting themselves at the head of any questiou that ...

THE STATE OF PARTIES

... still attachos to one class of politicians, hut they are now far more liberal than the whigs who, before 1832, agitatod for Parliamentary Reform ; and as for the whigs, whioh then constituted a great party, they have almost ceased exist, being, as it were ...

BANFFSHIRE REGISTRATIONS

... Claim* admitted, . 17 CULLEN. Whig Claims. . . w P' ot fctionißt Claims, . enrolments, . . I enrolments. . . Withdrawn and rejected, • ''drawn and rejected, 10 New Claims admitted, . 1' N'ew Claims admitted, . 1) KEITH. Whig Claims, . . . Protectionist ...

Published: Friday 24 September 1852
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 335 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WHIGGERY REDIVIVUS

... most favourable for the ex periment. The occasion was the celebration of the retirement of Mr Ord, late Whig M.P. for the town, and all the Whigs which Newcastle possessed came to eat their dinner, and drink their wine in bumpers to the health of Mr Ord ...

CURIOSITIES NEWSPAPER LITERATURE. (To the Kdi'or of the Morning Herald.) Sir,—The Proteus of the press, true to ..

... which combinations they have we live. It may happen been almost obsolete, —it has recently hap- Whig traditions, indeed, pened in this country— hover about few Whig that one or both of these families; but the names parties have undergone of Pitt, Fox, and ...

PLEASANTRIES AT PERTH

... reader suppose he landed? Why, as brother Jonathan would say, he went squash into a plea ad misericordiam for the Whigs! Those Whigs whom his Lordship had just described as so immaculateall of whom had retired from office covered with personal glory ...

THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS AND THE RECENT LIBEL CASE

... influence every day, and bid fair to drive the pure Whigs entirely from the field, and to return both the members for Edinburgh. Hence the dislike of this party to Mr M'Laren. the elec ion, last winter, the Whigs returned their candidate, Black, by what was ...

Published: Friday 29 August 1856
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 830 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE NEW ELECTIONS

... in the return of Mr Mowbray, the Conservative candidate, by a majority of 85 over his Whig opponent, Sir C. Douglas; and, for the latter, Mr Whallev, the former Whig member, who was unseated for some irregularities not disabling him from again becoming ...

THE BETRAYAL OF THE IRISH M.P.'s

... rashness led him the other week, called forth insinuations that the Irish members had been betrayed the Whigs. When put into form, the charge against the Whigs anonnted to this—that they had promised to Irish members, if they would assist to throw out the Derby ...

Published: Friday 20 May 1853
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 548 | Page: 2 | Tags: none