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COLONEL SYKES AT ABERDEEN,

... ons, embracing quasi-Liberal ism ; and the Liberals, numerous as they are, consis of oligarchical Whigs, Whigs of the old school, Liberals who are Whig followers; independent Liberals and ultra Liberals; but there are no common views in politics to ensure ...

Published: Thursday 07 October 1858
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1277 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Summary

... that the Whigs absented from the Hons;? during the discussion, that they might thus avenge themselves on Mr Cowan for having defeated their j favourite—Mr Macaulay. We trust that some less j mean and contemptible motive the truer one. The Whig organs say ...

Published: Thursday 03 July 1851
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 408 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Spirit of the Press

... difference is the extinction of that Tory party by whose obstinacy the Whigs ascended to power, and whom they were always able to play off against the people. Twenty years ago the Whigs assumed the place of moderators between the two extremes, and the more ...

Published: Thursday 14 August 1851
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1780 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TORYISM—SACRED AND PROFANE. The Lord Mayor of London boasted that Lord Derby had been elevated to office in ..

... from the Land's Endi to John O Groat's nothing is heard but their cry about the new India bill-from the snmptive yelpof the Whig at half-price and the bewildered) maze of the Scotsman, &c. Most people accustomed to the perusal of police reports, and the ...

Published: Thursday 15 April 1858
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 348 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

GAINS OF THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY

... all parts of the country strong determination has been expressed to return Conservative candidates to the Legislature. The Whig member for Taunton receives a Peerage, and a Conservative elected in his stead. And the change that has occurred at Taunton ...

Published: Thursday 18 August 1859
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 587 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS

... party names, the words Whig and Tory, although they are not much above thirty years old, having been pressed to the service of many successions of parties with very different ideas fastened them. Explain the origin of the words Whig*' and Tory, and examine ...

Published: Thursday 11 September 1856
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 545 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Summary

... other better For such result, the country will have Lord John Russell and the Whigs. much ,v result indeed possible, though unlikely ; (l that, too, Lord John liussell and the Whigs responsible. An extension of the ,i,S l tf prevented even Protectionist debate ...

Published: Thursday 27 February 1851
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 819 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE JOURNAL

... in Fife, intimidation, not bribery, was the rule, and human life counted u nothing provided the Whig beaded the pull. It appears that even yet certain Whigs in Fife are carrying out their election tactics : one especially, with a handle to his name, is ...

Published: Thursday 04 August 1859
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 695 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

POLITICAL GALLERY

... whatever talents, sagacity, and character, with incompetency to sit the British Cabinet. According Whig doctrine, the. people arc the rulers ; according to Whig practice, it U the aristocracy alone. If Ministers were only the personal servants of the Queen—a ...

Published: Thursday 24 April 1851
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2324 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WHO'S THE TURNCOAT?

... Liberal who forsakes his Liberalism to do the dirty work of the Whig clique who have forced Mr Wemyss on the constituency. Who's the turncoat?—The cringing, crouching Liberal who turns Whig maidof-all-work for fear of being falsely called a bad name. Who's ...

Published: Thursday 28 April 1859
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 575 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

(Front the Email+, Star, Radical )

... of a Liberal policy. He and his Mende why it should have bees peemed,er wby it abseil be given to the nation. It is set to Whig tradition, to expos diplomatic IsUars to the light of day, and the reams is beams* them letters are too frequently intrigue ...

Published: Thursday 13 May 1858
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 976 | Page: 3 | Tags: none