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Pickings from Punch

... these announcements excites the reflection, how much pleasanter an importation is an elephant calf than a papal hull. How the Whigs Get Rid of the Public Dust.—Lord Seymour, answer to a question from Mr Hume as to the disposal of a sum of £1260, * explained ...

Published: Friday 11 July 1851
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 433 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ELECTIONEERING MOVEMENTS IN THE NORTH

... new converts, to make up for the loss of one or two of their leaders, who have gone over to the Free Trade side. But Whig against Whig is unmeaning and unusual, and can serve good end, except the squandering of a few thousands of pounds—a matter, however ...

Published: Friday 06 June 1851
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 665 | 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

John O'Groat Journal

... Presidential election, The two Whig candidates, Daniel Webster and Gen. Seott,: differ, or are supposed to differ, on that vital question, and will be supported or opposed on that ground, by different sections of the. Whig party. The Democratie candidates ...

Published: Friday 04 July 1851
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2106 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Pickings from Punch

... Members make One Full House. Full House makes One Defeat. 1 Defeat makes One Large Minority. 20 Minorities make One Whig Ministry. 1 Whig Ministry makes. .One regret the death Sir R. Peell Cool.—Old Gentleman (politely). 'Oh, Conductor ! I shall feel greatly ...

Published: Friday 11 April 1851
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 768 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

IRELAND

... course; but how the poor animal could have kept afloat for such period as he must have been in the water, is a problem Northern Whig. A Modern Columbus : Perilous Votaoe to the World's Fair—A peifect mania, mitigated, it is true, in some cases, but generally ...

Published: Friday 06 June 1851
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 665 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE OPENING SESSION

... session to bccome engulphed in the absorbing question involved in the late Papal aggression ; and the line of demarcation between Whig and Tory is even now getting [iatftj degree* and beautifully leu. The window-tax is to be abolished; and there i* a probability ...

Published: Friday 07 February 1851
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 716 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE SURPLUS REVENUE

... least, the opposition cannot indulge in their taunts, that a pecuniary deficiency may be considered as the concomit- ant of a Whig Ministry. In addition to many alleviations in fiscal burdens, and one or two important exemptions from taxation, against which ...

Published: Friday 15 August 1851
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 761 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

IRELAND

... suggestion of the originator of the shindy, adjourned to neighbouring tavern, talk of their prowess over a glass.—Northern Whig. ...

Published: Friday 21 November 1851
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 324 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WHAT WILL YOU CALL YOURSELVES?

... John’s—what shall we say ? ry erhaps the most appropriate name would be to call it ‘the Walmsley party will that do? But the Whigs—how are you to apply to the men who go in and out of office with Lord John Russell the same epithet that history applies to ...

Published: Friday 27 June 1851
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1002 | 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