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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 OPPOSITION

... THE OPPOSITION. It lias ever been a characteristic of the Whigs that in office they were we»k and out of office strong ; it remained for Lord John Russell to show that Whigs may be little in office and decidedly less out of it—from the once great leader ...

HOW WILL MINISTERS MEET PARLIAMENT?

... quartz, veins, and specimens of tertiary formation. No; Stafford House will not—cannot—rule the Whigs. Holland House had traditions—a ritual of Whig hero-worship; it had liberal principles, lax morals, and excellent dinners. Hungry sages from the north ...

MINISTERIALITIES

... events, certain, that a dissolution of Parliament must shortly succeed its reassembling. If the Peelites come not to the Whigs, the Whigs must come to the ground ; and in the event of an appeal to the country, the creation of a Protectionist Ministry is not ...

ELECTION NEWS

... Lushington, avow themselves thorough Conservatives, the latter approving Free-trade; Glover is whig radical, and Mr Cooper professes to be only simple moderate whig, also Sir W. Somerville. The contest rested entirely between Sir W. Somerville, the Hon. C ...

Published: Friday 25 August 1854
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 371 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE ELECTIONS

... stated. By the Ministerial organs of the press the Earl of Derby is said to have a working majority of 30 over the Whigs and Peelites. The Whig papers maintain, however, that the real out and out supporters of the Government will positively, if the other ...

THE NEW ELECTIONS

... former, the return of Mr Mowbray, the Conservative candidate, by a majority of over his Whig op;>o:ient, ISir C. Douglas; and, for tho latter, Mr Whallev, the former Whig member, who was unseated for some irregularities not disabling him from again becoming ...

THE PAST SESSION

... Lyndhurst, in reviewing the Parliamentary sessions of the Whigs. lie has this year again appeared a reviewer, but in different tone, and with a very different judgment. The doings of the Whigs were all bad, but those of the Tories are without a flaw. ...

Published: Friday 09 July 1852
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1042 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

COUNTY OF ELGIN REGISTRATIONS

... claims lodged which lodged by parties themselves, all sustained By Whig party, Whereof objected to and rejected 1 Withdrawn, 1 Re-enrolments, New votes sustained 5 Agents for the Whig party,Robt. Urquhart, and J. G. Manford, Esqrs. Do. for the Con ...

THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT’S MANSION

... doubt that publication by the Democrats of statements in relation to Mr Adams’ billiard-table, in the East Room; and by the Whigs of the gorgeous furniture, including gold spoons, of the White House during Mr Van Bumi’s occupancy, has inspired and sustained ...

THE NEW YORK HERALD ON THE CHARACTER OF THE BRITISH PRESS

... England now raised, and enthusiasm for the insulted Union Jack manufactured by the Tory journals, in order to embarass the Whig Administration and dnye it from office or compel it to go to war; and then it hoped, if it does proceed to extremities'with ...

Published: Friday 17 January 1862
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 277 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE ELECTIONS

... Liberal-Conservatives, ; total, (including three from Knaresborough). Horning Chronicle. About 290 Ministerialists; about 310 Whigs and more advanced Liberals; and between 50 and 60 Liberal-Conservatives or Peelites. Daily News.—Derbyites, 312; Liberals, ...