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... alliance, in contradistinction to an Austrian or Russian connection—this, every one must see, would weaken the Whig ministry, and destroy the Whig paity, beyond all the slender talents of the Greys to uphold them. ...

Published: Friday 02 January 1852
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 750 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FROM OUR PRIVATE CORRESPONDENT

... ‘and it is not improbable that Sir James Graham, perhaps, others of his late colleagues, may shortly accept office under the Whig Premier. As if we had not enough of bishops already, & proposition is to be brought forward in the ensuing session of Parliament ...

Published: Friday 09 January 1852
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1762 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Facetie

... Why, my ve yi said the clerk, “‘ it’s ur vote at this very I ae said the independent that ‘are was Dimmoeratio 3 this is the Whig.”— —“* But if you atrive ta vote twice I shall have youarrested,—‘‘ You will, will 2” shouted thé son the sovereign pec -% ...

Published: Friday 16 January 1852
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1545 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TOWN AND TRADE OF BELFAST

... not many of our readers will peruse with interest the following account of its rise and progress, as detailed in the Northern Whig of the Ist inst. :— “There has been a great deal of great deal of improvement, abunda nee ment to a lar, and increasing population ...

Published: Friday 16 January 1852
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1128 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DOMESTIC

... the most persuasive in the senate, the mos¢ ambitious, and in all respects the most formida- | ble man in the whole circle of Whig statésmen. The Cabinet of last Session, which hardly sur- vived.it; is now minus ord Palmerston? It y not be a matter of much ...

Published: Friday 16 January 1852
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 763 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FROM OUR PRIVATE CORRESPONDENT

... probability of a fusion, and named Sir James Graham, the Duke of Neweastle, and one or two others as coming to the rescue of the Whigs. These re- ports, although unconfirmed, plainly indicate the helpless position in which our Government is at this moment laced ...

Published: Friday 23 January 1852
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2012 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FROM OUR PRIVATE CORRESPONDENT

... produce—were the props with, which Lord John was anxious to Mistain his crazy Administration. The political capacity of the Whigs is about as imbecile aa their theological character; and it is gratifying to find that, while the latter failing is made the ...

Published: Friday 30 January 1852
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1301 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

IRELAND

... the substitution Lord Granville for Lord Palme at the Foreign Office. Lord Palmerston has been acting too long with the Whigs to obtain the full confidence the Protestants Ireland ; but is man of courage and a true Englishman and at a time when concurrent ...

Published: Friday 06 February 1852
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 308 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FOREIGN

... has fully committed himself in favour of General Cass for the Presidency. If this be true, the last vestige of hope for the Whigs is swept away.—The anti- Kossuth feeling of the southern members of Congress still manifests itself. In the House, Mr Stanley ...

Published: Friday 06 February 1852
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1612 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Pickings from “Punch.”

... Cabinet Con. rather more ingenious conundrum than usual has fallen into our possession, and we hasten publish it. Why are the Whig Ministers in office like human souls in Wordsworth's Ode on Immortality? Because their Berth is but a sleep and a forgetting ...

Published: Friday 13 February 1852
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 688 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Varieties

... skimmed milk. There is stuff in him, and it is of the beat sort. He is not all his life hawk and buzzard whether he shall be a Whig or Tory, a friend or a foe, a knave or fool; but thinks that life is short, and that there no time to play fantastic tricks ...

Published: Friday 13 February 1852
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2224 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS

... From the Mi « | Lord Der testantism or by intend to abjure either Pro- 3 he does not intend to form a coalition either with Whigs or Peelites; he does not intend (after the a; ed fashion of the day) given in his adherence, and which will form the basis ...

Published: Friday 27 February 1852
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 657 | Page: 3 | Tags: none