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THE MINISTRY

... on her Majesty at Windsor. The Timet repeats the chance of Derby Administration may at present summarily dismissed. A pure Whig Cabinet impossible; and the Times revert! with increased confidence Lord Palmertton. It fears that Sir James Giahsai's illness ...

Ireland

... was placed in a majority of over Dickson, and ot over the farmers' candidate. The following is the close the poll— Goold (Whig), . Dickson (Tory), . It)'.) Ryan (Tenant-League), - • Majority of over Dickson, „ „ over Ryan, 1 Lord John Russell's ...

Published: Friday 20 December 1850
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 668 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SPEAK UP!

... portion of the late Parliamentary session they held office, they did all the Whigs left undone—or rather all that portion of it which was worth doing—and a great deal more than the Whigs could have done. They can find no fault with what they are doing, though ...

EARL STANHOPE ON CONSERVATISM

... considerations of private advantage ? (Loud cheers.) It seemed to him to be a remnant of the old Whig party system carrying the Government means of the great Whig houses. It proceeded on the assumption that every one who held office once had right to that ...

Published: Friday 23 September 1859
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 820 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HOUSE OF COMMONS' NOTABILITIES

... Tancred's. The blue and bluff, once the distinctive costume of the Whigs, is quite passed away, not only the House, but throughout the country, except as a cover to the old Whig organ, the Edinburgh Review. Old Williams,'' the late aoor-keeper, used ...

LORD JOHN RUSSELL AND REFORM

... the Whigs, be immediate and inglorious defeat. When tbey were called to office, tbey bad really no plan a party for the reform the Honee of Common*. Mr Brougham, indeed, bad plan in petto, but Mr Brougham acted without the co-operation of the Whig party ...

MINISTERIAL EXPOSITIONS

... they have done or can do, but by exhibiting the evils which the Whigs have committed, and what they would still if they had the power. He reiterates substantially the charge against the Whigs, of encouraging and supporting wild and unbridled democracy ; ...

Published: Friday 08 October 1852
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1943 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS BILL

... should only find twenty supporters in the House of Lords; and there is no doubt that a little exertion, on the part of certain Whig Lords, would have swelled the minority into a majority. What may be the ultimate fate of the bill we have no means of know ...

Published: Friday 18 July 1856
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 341 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

The Ores Princes. —The elder the Princes in England died Thumb? se'nnighL At the Court of Bench, Saturday last. ..

... iru committed to take hi* trial for llbol the Emperor the French. New ADMili«T«iTiOH».—The following lut the AdwinUtratione, Whig and Tory, which bar# held office In England the year 1880, with tb« date* of their installation and dieeolutioc, vis. >- Earl ...

The Elgin Courant

... with one who paid him home in his own coin with large interest. The once powerful, but now alinoet forsaken, leader of the Whigs, threw out inuendoes, but caught a tartar in Mr Disraeli's reply. Lord Palmerston, in such a dispute, was much nearer a match ...

THE NEW MINISTRY

... the whole Whig party. That such Cabinet will require for its harmonious operation degree mutual forbearance the part of some its members is not to be denied. Rut, notwithstanding the public questions that have divided for a time some of the Whig statesmen ...

Published: Friday 31 December 1852
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2641 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

(From the Daily Newt.)

... —the first great stumbling-block the Ministry may expect. Public opinion urged the reforms made in the Stamp-laws, and the Whig Chancellor of the Exchequer who made the changes may now be honestly proud of the result. The Stamp-tax was revised, graduated ...

Published: Friday 14 January 1853
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 284 | Page: 4 | Tags: none