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WHIG PATRONAGE-AND EDINBURGH POLITICS

... WHIG PATRONAGE4NDEDINBURGA PomtT v `a. I A~b orgn = t of theN ing - Itis gl~l hig!ObS rare e e l, L n alon his>~ e~ of the Tories and Churchmen. But a change has already come over this dream. The z~oEriJ1 C§p . rchmer;.ax-ng, . .ine. state. ,of t r elin ...

Published: Friday 28 December 1860
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 554 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE WHIG PARTY

... THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE WHIG PARTY. The Manchester Examiner, in an article on the Liberation Society's Conference at Manchester, writes thus of Mr Miall's speech and of the Whig party:- In the paper read by Mr Miall before the Liberation Society's ...

Published: Monday 23 November 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1144 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

MR. POPE HENNESSY ON THE WHIG GOVERNMENT

... Dwindled down to five maillioniL (Cries e I Down with or j the Whigs ?? Fortunately for nis that hal been done bel already; they are ?? we must keep, ?? e them down. (Loud cheers.) Even ten years of Whig Ml e rule carries a terrible lesson; let me remind you ...

Published: Saturday 20 October 1866
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1327 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE NATURAL HISTORY OF WHIG-ANDTORY-ISM

... ith both Whig and Tory birds are one and the same le. species v with variations. That this proposi- in tion requires to be defended and still furthersup ported is no mere imagination of ours. On the of contrary, as already said, both Whig and Tory le ...

Published: Friday 11 March 1864
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2283 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

OCCASIONAL HOMILIES ON COMMONPLACE SUBJECTS

... at that party less capable of embarrassing the Whigs, to while it snakes the Whigs more able to resist their ill natural enemies, the Tories. This judicious ed eclecticism is one leading element of Whig policy. a- It is acted upon only when the interests ...

Published: Tuesday 07 April 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3204 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

-I'M M A K V

... worth our while to inquire. Certain it is that no Whig official, high or low, has yet ventured to tell the country what his party is willing to do to obtain its confidence. There might be some hope of the Whigs if this silence was the effect of shame. We all ...

Published: Saturday 15 April 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1859 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE OUTGOING MINISTRY

... Palmerston had' tried a Government directed by Whigs, and a joint Government' of Whigs. and Radicals; it remained to try a Government directed on Radi. cal principals, and supported as far as possible' by Whigs reduced to a secondary place. So bold an experiment ...

Published: Saturday 30 June 1866
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1832 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

ARCHDEACON DENISON ON POLITICAL PARTIES AND THE CHURCH

... intellect- (great laughter)-and he thought a Whig was truly described by a man who said dogmatically, A Whig is a tyrant in office and a tyrant out ' -(laughter). He did not, however, think that the Whigs had any desire to do damage to the Church of ...

Published: Friday 02 September 1864
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1013 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

A SCOTCH LESSON FOR ENGLISH LEGISLATORS

... attempts were made for its abolition, which, like similar attempts to deal with Church-rates, were defeated by Whig and Tory opposition. In 1860 the Whigs undertook to settle the matter by a political shuffle, such as is often recommended in the English case ...

Published: Friday 08 January 1864
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 869 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE RIGHTS OF SCOTLAND, No. III

... of wh1at they call popular aggression. Then we see them change sides-tbe Tories accusing the Whigs of heading mobs and preaching insurrection, and the Whigs the Tories of raising the cry of the 1 Throne and Church in danger. Now a national movement ...

Published: Thursday 06 July 1854
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 529 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

AN OLD REFORMER ON WHIGGISH IN EDINBURGH

... distributors a few names stand out prominently, as, for example, Sir William Gibson-Craig and Lord Panimare. The Whig Lord Advocate and the Whig Scotch Lord of the Treasury for the time being, have also great influence; and there are several smaller men of ...

Published: Thursday 16 June 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1536 | Page: 3 | Tags: News