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PRESIDENCY OF THE COURT OF SESSION

... member for Argyllshire, until May last year, when, on the resignation of Lord Mackenzic, ha was elevated to the bench by the Whig Government, such was the estimation entertained of his fituess fur the judicial oflice. Both at the bar, where, as we have ...

Published: Monday 17 May 1852
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 340 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

MEETING OF THE INDEPENDENT LIBERAL COMMITTEE

... Mr Cowan. His Lordship then reminded the meeting that triennial Parliaments was a Whig mea re, and was at one time a standing toast at all the Fox dinners, until t he Whigs got into power, and then the i suddenly dropped it; and that the ballot was a measure ...

Published: Thursday 13 May 1852
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3576 | Page: 4 | Tags: Commerce 

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 ...

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ANTI-STATE CHURCH ASSOCIATION

... principle. That vote, however, must be followed by votes of anor c kind, and if Edinburgh, in spite of Tory opposition, or Whig chicane, retarned a at next election, dissent in Scotland would display a front that mast soon precipitate the “erisis for ...

Published: Thursday 13 May 1852
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1013 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

it POLITICAL HORIZON CLEARS. . TO THE EDITOR OF THE CALEDONIAN MERCURY. Sm,—Excuse me for reminding you, that ..

... for reminding you, that about sis weeks ago, I stated to you the following: Tne AT LARC cares noliing for the nicknames of Whig anc Tory, and such like. Let these things settle themselves a they may. Whet the ¢ wants end demands, are gove measures : — ...

Published: Monday 03 May 1852
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1006 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Caledonian Mercury

... proceedings of the original Liberal Committee on Friday, and inclading men who, whatever may have been the alleged sins of the Whigs in afier years, dd cer- tainly bear the heat and brunt of the day, in times when like Launcelot Gobbo, they had to choose between ...

Published: Monday 17 May 1852
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2541 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

REPRESENTATION OF THE Crry, a Eriror or THE CALEDONIAN veil, trausy parent as it was, assumed by the so-called “

... shepherd. The Lord Provost has not issued his address. The old Whigs, with their liale red lion, are reducing their committees. The Free Kirk party are pawing the ground, but whether to the Whig lion or Volontary wizard it would be difficult to say, and aliabout ...

Published: Monday 17 May 1852
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4426 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

SIR DAVIs’S NEW WORK ON CHINA. _— Just Published, in 2 vols., post 8vo, with Maps and Wood | Engravings,

... charge us with acting as Agents for three Candi- dates, each of different sl that “ Mr Gillon was a Radical, Captain Speirs a Whig, and Mr Maitland a Tory ;” and you add—* the public will judge how far you were influenced in these agencies by political principle ...

Published: Thursday 13 May 1852
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1996 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

SIR JAMES GRAHAM AND THE REPRESENTATION OF CARLISLE

... accession to power; but we have had suffici ynt experie » of the econseque ulti actual Cabinet cannot d. from the replac The Whig Government was allowed, year after ye r, to do nothing, on the same frivolous plea which is now assigned as a reason for enabling ...

Published: Monday 17 May 1852
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2292 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Caledonian Mercury

... county meeting last weck, Mr Fox Maule, now Lord Panmure, stated, in allusion to the po- principles of his late father, that Whig and had now come very much to agree on man; quondam and fertil e subjects of contention The Government are all potent on the ...

Published: Monday 10 May 1852
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3271 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Caledonian Mercury

... materials for future Cabinets.” Keeping within the narrow though long es- tablished usages which, strange to say, have influeaced Whig even more than Tory Administrations, it will not be easy to recruit the ranks of our statesmen; and there- fore the Reviewer ...

Published: Monday 03 May 1852
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4112 | Page: 2 | Tags: News