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Caledonian Mercury

SECOND EDITION

... THE CALEBOKIAK MERCURY. ]f any citizen had doubts to Brown Douglas, the present occupant the civic chair, being hound to the Whig-Tory Clique, which now attempts to rule this city, I think his lordship’s conduct in the chair at the public meeting this day ...

Published: Wednesday 26 December 1860
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1271 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Caledonian Mercury

... in the State. The actual question, oft verging into an abstraction, was thus lost sight of in the great stake at issue. The Whig party, all triumphant when the Reform Bill was on the waters, had scarcely secured that great innovation when, as- sailed by ...

Published: Friday 10 August 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1899 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

OUR LONDON LETTER

... thtown ovetboard. Well; no doubt, to the Whig mind' this :might be a satisfactory way of settling this question, as it certainly would be to the gentlemen opposite. One can fancy a genuine Brooks' Club Whig's satisfaction at such as result.; Therre ...

Published: Saturday 05 May 1866
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2738 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Correspondence

... the Edinburgh Whigs, on his visit with this known addition to his influence, to a man refused to countenance. I have used the word gr, at in reference to this man, and I use it de- nignedly. He was offered the Clhief-Jusdioeship by his Whig allies. In ...

Published: Thursday 09 June 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1742 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Correspondence

... Morrison, now the paid secretary of the Old Whig Clique, has been most indefatigable in his exertions, going about amongst the Chinrchmen and Tories, and asking them to attend the meeting to support the Whig members! ! ! Do you remember Mr Campbell Smith ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1860
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1288 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... duct of the Gvvernment in passing Liberal mea-t sures which the Whigs would not pass, md in I thai proposing to effeeb reforms- desired by the people- m(a and long resisted by the Whigs, is a shocking blew (as 0 ?? iniflicted on what is- called ' Ministerial ...

Published: Wednesday 22 December 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4405 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

TO CORRESPONDENTS

... the treachery of both Whigs and Tories when enshrined in place; it has seen what we insisted upon twelve months ago, that the Whigs, a body, have no sympathy with the people ; that the battle of last year was fonght by the Whigs with other motive than ...

Published: Thursday 14 June 1860
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1999 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

RENEWED ORANGE DEMONSTRATIONS IN BELFAST

... RENEWED ORAN:GE DEMONSTRATION'S IN BELFAST. . (FROM THEN XORTaHERN WHIG.) On Tuesday evening, the Orangemen of Sandy Row went through the mock ceremony of interring the remains of the O'Connell effigy. A-crowd, almost as large as that of the pievious ...

Published: Friday 12 August 1864
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 363 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

Spirit of the Press

... ' be In sooth, the Whigs and Peelites have of late reti gone to the full length of their tether in jobbing ten for their whippers-in. Here is a list, which Art we believe to be tolerably correct:- Col Mr Grenville Berkeley (Whig whip) appointed S to ...

Published: Friday 08 November 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1801 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE PRESS ON THE REPRESENTATION OF EDINBURGH

... last hour ot the l polling he would have stood booby on the ilist. The result of this election will teach t the Edinbdrgh Whigs a lesson, by which it is Ito be hoped they will be benefited. It must be rather galling to the Lord Advocate to find himself ...

Published: Friday 21 July 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2671 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... bTHAT a sensation the telegraphic report of Mr Adam Black's speech on the Reform Bill created in this city! Ho* our Toryistic Whigs looked amazed and confounded at the blunder of their member in so incautiously letting the cat out of the bag; how our anadvanced ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1860
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2433 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Spirit of the Press

... its members are so entangled; and if it were I not for the hopes of a pure Whig Cabinet, and that a share of the power of Government would again fall to I certain influential Whig families, it is certain that the Commons would never have asserted themselves ...

Published: Thursday 17 July 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2400 | Page: 4 | Tags: News