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SUMMARY

... been when the people looked to the Whigs as their true and staunch friends ; but it is no longer possible to conjure with either Whig names or WVhig watch- words. Every old distinctive principle with which the Whigs were wont to rally the country round ...

Published: Monday 11 January 1864
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4061 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

TORYISM AND MINISTERIAL WHIGGISM IN EDINBURGH

... TORYISM AND MINISTERIAL WHIGGISM IN EDINBURGIH. Our Tory cetemporary, the Courant, concludes an article on the Whig Banquet to Lord Palmer- ston thus:- The great man of the evening having set such a respectable example, any ?? oratory would have had ...

Published: Saturday 04 April 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 507 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Letter to the Editor

... and representation of the city e- with their constisat voting for the Whig Minist rs On . questions affecting the game of change seats and t the see-saw principle of Up with Whig and down with Tory-will tender their votes for Messrs M'Laren and Miller ...

Published: Monday 26 June 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 746 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM

... PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. To show how, far' the influence of the old Whigs in Edinburgh,.who represent the Govern- ment, and inspire the Whig press with their poli- ticlIeainirgs, are from fairly representing the general feeliog-of the Liberal party in England ...

Published: Saturday 17 December 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 577 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

IMPORTANT MEETING OF THE INDEPENDENT LIBERAL COMMITTEE

... increase of the Radical interest in Edinburgh. The reason is that the men in Edinburgh, presently called the old Whig party, are not Whigs at all, bat arl ?? toall intents and purposes-f0uld applause) -anct it is becauset the honest members of the Libeta ...

Published: Friday 21 December 1866
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 524 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Spirit of the Press

... OF THE I : WHIGS. The Lwidof Revith, One of the aolesg , though not always the safest of the Ioon-ln weekly journals, in an article entitled A Word in. Season, thus correctly describes the character and present state of our Ministerial Whigs: Why cannot ...

Published: Tuesday 03 September 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1454 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

Correspondence

... Blackie and Ifowden. The Whig Paradise may yet be regained, and the clique's first man, Adam, be perfectly happy at head-quatiers, St Stephens.: There at his leisitie hours-hours all leisure, we opine, till the ring of the Whig cliqle, voting bell-perhaps ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1860
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 568 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

TRUTH FROM THE LIPS OF A CONSERVATIVE LORD

... county-(apphlause)-a iRadical not nominated in a bye-street in .Markinch, and sup- ported by the influence of the old rusty Whig party, but a Radical who aims at independence, who would glory in the expression of the inde- pendence of the free electors ...

Published: Friday 15 April 1864
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 733 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... steamship, and at last dates thirteen had died. MR BRIGHT has bqen reading the thirty-three Whigs who fought under Lord Grosvenor's banner a lesson in constitutional Whig history. It is a lesson they muich, require. Mr Disraeli has confessed that no man can ...

Published: Thursday 03 May 1866
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3605 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

A CONCESSIONS

... over a style, we may venture a tarther sugyestion for his guidance. become wliieted to the habit of raving about the “base Whigs” 2 ' the Scotsman's sabserviency thereunto, especially ia this wew matter of “Justice to Seotiand.” We have sundry objections ...

Published: Thursday 17 November 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 571 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE SOLICITOR-GENERALSHIP OF SCOTLAND

... mis-statement and misapprehension. We are very far from denying the propriety of introducing into the hitherto closed ranks of the Whigs, the representatives of other shades of political opinion ; and, had this course been adopted on the present occasion, with ...

Published: Monday 17 January 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 388 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Our London Letter

... Gladstone and Gibson; mor that between the former representatives of the 0118. old Whig policy and the latter there is a wide erffic difference than there is between the Whigs and of t the Conservatives and that if the minority he could be disintegrated. ...

Published: Monday 06 May 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3480 | Page: 2 | Tags: News