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MORE IRISH TRAFFICKING!

... to believe this. That the Whigs are immaculate, we are not prepared to affirm that some of the party may have been guilty of buying Irish influence with offers of places, is equally possible ; but if the doings of the Whigs and Tories for the last 25 ...

Published: Friday 17 February 1854
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 739 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MR HUME AND LORD JOHN RUSSELL. The following letter has been addressed Joseph Hume, SI.P., to Mr C. D. Collett:—

... course you propose. shall certainly succeed—but it wilt be against both the Whigs and Tories ; and I would hold both parties cheap in regard to their assistance. AH the Whigs deprecate in words the fettering of the press; and yet, with power in their ...

BANFFSHIRE COUNTY REGISTRATIONS

... party, Whereof Re-enrolments, 2 Withdrawn, Objections sustained voters on the roll, 3 _ Total Conservatives, Whig party, 49 Couservative party, Whig Majority, understand there are u number of appeals lodged for both parties, which will be disposed of the ...

Published: Friday 01 September 1854
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 206 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Mr D'lsraeli's Motion.—The following analysis of the division on Mr D israeli's motion has been going the round ..

... the motion. Against the irioticn. Protectionists, 212 Whigs, 247 Tellers, 2 Tellers, 2 Whigs, 23 Peelites, 23 Peelites, Protectionists, 254 275 The fact that F. O'Connor is classed among the Whigs, raised our suspicions as to the correctness of this analysis ...

Published: Friday 01 March 1850
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 585 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE DEBATE ON AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS

... AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS. Trig important debate on the question of Agricul tural Distress has nearly been a fatal one for the Whig Cabinet. It was only saved the narrow majority of 14; so that, had there been eight more seceders to the side of Mr D'lsraeli ...

The Member for Inverness-shirb and his Glass-House.—The Scotsman,, in noticing the discussion the Scotch Reform ..

... honourable member for Inverness-shire :—Mr Baillie said it was a cool Whig job that Sutherland had a member to itself, instead of being joined with Caithness. Was it also by a Whig job that the Reform Bill dealt with equal liberality with such Tory counties ...

Published: Friday 11 May 1866
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 241 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY—LORD DERBY'S MANIFESTO

... difference between the old Whigs and the Conservatives. Well, he it so; but which of the parties have shifted their ground ? Suppose we accept Lord Derby's doctrine, have the Conservatives come up to the Whigs or the Whigs gone down to the Conservatives ...

Published: Friday 10 May 1861
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 817 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MR DISRAELI'S DEFINITIONS

... knowledge Conservatism by the fact that the Whigs are a confederation of great families. This favourite formula of Mr Disraeli's might have been nsed in the early part the last century to discriminate the Whigs from the Tories ; but present, though not ...

Published: Friday 29 July 1859
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1386 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LATEST NEWS

... troubles should break out the Italian Duchies. MEETING OF THE WHIG PARTY. The Advertiser re-affirms that a meeting did take place between Lord John Russell and certain leading men among the Whigs, and that the result was a determination on the part of Lord ...

Published: Friday 11 March 1859
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 329 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LORD PANMURE ON REFORM

... my own particular principles. Essentially—however unpopular the expression may be—essentially I say they are those of Whig. The old Whig principles I understood from the life, conversation, speeches of tho character of the man whose name I bear—Charles ...

Published: Friday 14 January 1859
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 981 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE CRISIS OF POLITICAL PARTIES

... Russell was the most complete partisan of his whole party. He worshipped Whig lived Whig traditions—he measured everything by Whig compasses—he looked at everything through Whig spectacles—and could seldom rise high enough above the ideas and interests ...

Published: Friday 20 August 1852
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3256 | Page: 2 | Tags: none