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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 

Letters to the Editor

... father's death he openly came forward as a Tory. And let it he re' collected that at this period the Whigs were in power and the young Mr Aytoun from his Whig conenxions and high talents was perfectly sureof rapid promotion had he adopted his father's opinions ...

Published: Wednesday 09 August 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 881 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

M. DUPIN ON THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH FLEETS

... sufficient quantity co)'II to eat and cotton to spin. A C5lQUE OF WVrIGS NOT THE LIBERAL PARTY. -The London Review remarks:-' The Whig leaders are not even identical with the true' and natural 'aristocracy of the nation; they are the descendants of the great ...

Published: Monday 16 September 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 981 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE MINISTRY

... is We4k in the ConmmoniA. Tbe Post remarks that. Earl Rusiell's Ministry is pretty nearly a 'homogeneous Whig Govein. ml nt. Its'almost purely Whig character is, ex.- ternr4ly speaking, a source of great disadvabntage aund'weakness. But where is the Government ...

Published: Wednesday 01 November 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 459 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

Letters to the Editor

... The Governmental metamnorphosis ad having been accomplished, the Whig Lords suddenly el0 discovered that the country did not want Reform- Ab-l only wanted to oblige the omnivorous Whigs I Since then Whiggery has, without a blush, continued to play the ...

Published: Friday 13 December 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1955 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Letter to the Editor

... Common gratitude and common humanity alike call out for a merciful consi- deration of his present state.-I am, &c., HUMANITAs. WHIG SECTARIAN AND DENOMINATION,1L EDUCATION IN IRELAND. SIn,-In these days when apostacy and ronezgadism from high principles are ...

Published: Thursday 29 June 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 923 | 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 

Court and Fashion

... glorious band 'of Whigs of wi: hououred aud self-sacrificing age, whose great ex- plbits; strrligles, and gains cornpriase the Reform erA. The degeneruto Whiglings of 1 805, h.d they n6t lost allfrace of oonnectton and identity wvith the Whigs of the pIltny' ...

Published: Wednesday 12 July 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3914 | Page: 2 | Tags: News