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... bribery—has been warmly contested, by Sheriff Carden of London, a Conservative Liberal, and by Mr Bell, a London chemist, of Whig principles. The latter was successful, bnt the defeated opponent threatens a petition against the return, and has made some ...

Published: Thursday 02 January 1851
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 818 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE NAIRNSHIRE M THE PAPER ‘DUTY

... appliances of large capitals and vast establishments to the creation of popular literature, to promote the the great object of Whig aspiration—*tbe spread of nsefal knowledge; and that, by denying the straggling workman the healthful recreation of cheap press ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1851
Newspaper: Nairnshire Mirror
County: Nairn, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1771 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FROM OUR PRIVATE CORRESPONDENT

... First politician, drowsing ever his port and paper in his particular box, nods his Conservative head, and soliloquises— The Whigs, as usual, were bold when the battle was afar off—they are cooling now; aye, it is like Lord John. But they must keep their ...

Published: Thursday 09 January 1851
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2106 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... with interest as a revival of the old Orange ascendancy party. The meeting, however, was thinly attended, which the Northern Whig ascribes to the agitation having been too exclusively clerical; and although the noble chairman made a determined attack on ...

Published: Thursday 09 January 1851
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1237 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

IRELAND

... receipts of the same article in Belfast already announced are a little mote than barrels. Statu or tub Nobth,—The Northern Whig states, that Threatening notices have been posted in the neighbourhood ol Keady, ordering the tenantry in that part of the ...

Published: Friday 17 January 1851
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 398 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LOCAL ANTIQUITIES.—No. IV

... Ross. David Ross had no heirs nearer than the descendant of his great-great-grandfather, Ross of Pitealnie. Balnagown was a Whig and a Presbyterian, aud his lady was great pillar of the Kirk, while Pitcalnie was a Tory and Jacobite. Political considerations ...

Published: Thursday 23 January 1851
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2369 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MISCELLANEOUS. Lord John has announced the intention of Government plaoe £1000 the dlspooal the Royal Society ..

... intention of Government plaoe £1000 the dlspooal the Royal Society this year for purpoeee. Mr Roebuok writing 11 History of Whig Ministry 1130. The two first volumes, bringing the narrative down the p—lng of the Reform Bill, are nearly reedy for poblloation ...

Published: Thursday 23 January 1851
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 981 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

IRELAND

... the progress Belfast has made; and we wish the industry and skill of our local manufacturers hearty God speed.— Northern Whig. Encumbered Estates.—Twelve new petitions have been placed upon the file from parties seeking relief from debt through the ...

Published: Thursday 30 January 1851
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 670 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE COMING SESSION

... on the subject in the Cabinet. The Morning Advertiser assures us, that within the last few days at least one member of the Whig administration had all but sent in his resignation, and that even now it is toss-up whether he will not retire before the first ...

Published: Friday 31 January 1851
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 608 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. LONDON, Saturday

... woebegone a face as he pleased in relating the disaster, or he might have to endure the sarcasms of those who had come to consider Whig finance as synonimous with bungling; but at all events he was not pestered with applicants for relief. But now that there is ...

MR. FERRAND AT POCKLINGTON. (Front the Times.)

... what we wouldhardly venture to conjecture. When he says that just twelvemonths since a Whig Cabinet Minister got up a Protectionist demonstration at York; that the Whig Government had then determined to propose a duty on foreign corn; that this patriotic ...

MR FERRANDON PROTECTION TO NATIVE INDUSTRY

... tell you tenant-farmers who are here, that the meeting last year was originated by a Whig Cabinet Minister. (Cries of Oh.) Yes, her Majesty's Government— the Whig Qovernment, alarmed at the fearful distress which was overgrowing the agricultural interest ...