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Caledonian Mercury

Caledonian Mercury

... House of Representatives have taken place without any effect, as no candidate has as 3et obtained an absolute majority. The Whig and Democratic parties can no longer mteaure their strengthi fairly against each other, as a third:party Ilas ariseni called ...

Published: Thursday 03 January 1850
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2482 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

MR COBDEN AT SHEFFIELD

... our last, Mr Cobden made the following, amongst other observations:- I feel exceedingly gratified at the course which the Whig I Cabinet has taken upon this subject. You remember I dare say, that all this hubbub through the country-this gathering together ...

Published: Monday 28 January 1850
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1376 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

LORD JEFFREY

... a similar fate. It is time that it should abandon the vain endeavour to preserve in a narrow circle of the Whig- born, Whip-connected, and Whig-ordered, that ascendancy which was won by popular intellects in the popular field. ...

Published: Thursday 31 January 1850
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1006 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

IRELAND

... of Banbridge, in the speeches of two Presbyterian clergymen; one of whom, the Rev. Mr Rutherford (we quote from the Northern Whig) spoke to the following effect:- He appeared there 'in the character of a minister of the gospel.' He fas for making rather ...

Published: Thursday 14 February 1850
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2602 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

IRELAND

... it necessary to send down a reinforcement of 100 men from the reserve force of the constabulary. It appears by the Northern Whig, that the Rev. Mr Rutherford has disclaim- ed the authorship of tire letter addressed to Lord Londonderry, and read by his ...

Published: Monday 11 March 1850
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 493 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

THE TEN HOURS' ACT

... it in point of fact that Sir George Grey was about nhen he was pronouncing those words with the true self-complacency of the Whig school? No- tlhing more nor less than making the people aware that Parliament was quite ready to break faith with them on the ...

Published: Monday 18 March 1850
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2421 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Caledonian Mercury

... only of I a dung.' The first hypothesis is supported by an explana- tion that vested interests are to be respected, viz. that Whig Ministers shall continue to draw fell salaries as lon2g as they can, but that their successors (of the country party) shall ...

Published: Thursday 28 March 1850
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2701 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

... most assuredly ex- tingusish. An aggregate meeting has been called, a- the expiring act of opposition, at which, doubtless, Whigs s and Tories, Orangemen and Ribboanmea, will record their dissent, and indulge their dislike to the removal of what i they ...

Published: Monday 08 April 1850
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6133 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE THEATRE—MR AND MRS CHARLES KEAN

... manifest ere a few of the earlier scenes have passed, that the leading idea was suggestedi by the character of the generous Whig Morton, in the Old Mortalitv of Sir Walter Scott. Strathmore is the I Morton of the tragedy, and Catherine torn, the Edith ...

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

... Russell Cabinet. These reports were deemed so ridiculous, except by the journals of the party that aspires to succeed the Whigs, that I had no desirle to trouble your readers with them, as they were only a repe- tition of the old story. However, as they ...

Published: Thursday 25 April 1850
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4161 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SUNDAY LABOUR IN THE POST-OFFICE

... subject, we will venture very confidently to assure our readers, that there is as much chance of Sir R. Peel displacing the Whig Cabinet just now, as of his becoming Empercr of Harri or Great Llarna ot' Thibet. XATIONAL EDUCATInON. (From the From iner ...

Published: Thursday 25 April 1850
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2514 | Page: 2 | Tags: News