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Foreign Intelligence

... had declared for General Cass, and Ge Scott was the favourite of the Whigs in Oneida. vorted that Mr Clay fers Mr Fillmore to either Scott or It was currently re- Vebster as the next Whig candidate for the Presidenc > and erence of Cass as the candi- date ...

England

... ‘The prominent candidates of the respective parties are—Whigs, Millard more, of New York ; Winfield Scott, of New Jersey: Daniel Webster of Massachusetts. Mr Fillmore has now been regu- by Whig State in Tennesse ; Kentucky, and Louisiana; and it is probable ...

Published: Monday 19 April 1852
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4320 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

CITY ELECTION

... the origin of thing that they might know how they stood. Tere had been a good deal of idle and foolish talk about “the “the Whig Clique,” the « Parliament-house Clique,” but it all meant hear). They all knew that when a bad charge could not be brought ...

NEW MODE OF ADDRESSING THE INDEPENDENT ELECTORS

... supporter of the Administratic of Lord Derby. In fact, who the deuce else can I suppert? We have been at d gers-drawn with the Whigs; and, by- the-by, we have not forgeiten, my fine fellows, how you threw us overboard after the Reform bill, when you ina vio- ...

Published: Thursday 01 July 1852
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 697 | Page: 4 | Tags: Commerce 

Caledonian Mercury

... Abercromby on the Whig side, and Mr Hunter Blair as the Conservative candidate. Subsequently, in the summer of 1834, we had for one vacancy caused by the elevation of Jeffrey to the bench, three candidates, viz., Sir John Campbell, Whig, Mr Learmonth, Tory ...

Published: Monday 12 July 1852
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3736 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

MEETING OF MR CAMPBELL WITH THE NINTH DISTRICT

... duration of Parliaments. “That,” (said he) “is an old Whig question. and my family is Whig—(A voice, ‘No’). What! Is'nt it? Was not the Duke of Argyll a Whig? Tlave not all the Campbells been Whigs?”—great laughter). But as the aver- age duration of P ...

Published: Thursday 24 June 1852
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3793 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

OPINIONS OF THE LONDON PRESS

... of Com- mons, to create peers ad lilitam, to remove the constitution, or even tochange the dynasty; but impossible to mend a Whig Cabinet. With this solid and familiar existence, we have how to compare a sheet of paper inscribed with some respect- able ...

Published: Thursday 26 February 1852
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3681 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Ireland

... and Mr Keog latter gentleman shall second the motion for its iw lation of the Tue Bar —It is, we fiad, in the contemp posed Whigs to strike a deadly blow at the Irish Bar. It is pro to transfer to the coun'y courts a portion © f the equity juris- diction ...

Published: Monday 26 January 1852
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 794 | Page: 2 | Tags: Commerce 

CITY ELECTION. | TR BRUCE requests the of the ELECTORS to \ meet him in the LANCASTERIAN SCHOOL, Srreer, on

... not been for this known fact, he would never, I think, have dreamt of starting. Emboldened by this state of matters, the old Whig party conceived the idea of starting Mr Macaulay, who, however great his merits otherwise may be, certainly does not represent ...

Published: Monday 05 July 1852
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1784 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Caledonian Mercury

... taxes on newspapers are taxes on knowledge, and charges both the Whigs and Tories with being interested in upholding them in order to perpetuate their power. He seems to consider that the Whigs and Tories form but a Smuil portion of the public. * You are ...

Published: Thursday 28 October 1852
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4053 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY. On Tuesday at one the statutory half-yearly gene- ral meeting of the ..

... trying to act for the good of the people—(cheers). He was a Whig, and gloried inthe name—the Whigs represented the real ciples” of of liberty. Mr Adam then referred briefly to the the Whigs, from the Revolution of 1638 to the Reform Bill in 1832, as ...

Ireland

... spot where Mr Bateson was shot ar, and that the prisoner was one of three men whom he saw beating that gentleman, The North a Whig gives an account of an atrocious and partly successful attempt to destroy the mansion of Mr M‘ileroth, justice of the peace ...

Published: Monday 02 February 1852
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 949 | Page: 2 | Tags: News