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The new Parliament met on Thursday week. Tlio first business of the Commons was the election of a Speaker. Mr

... Shaw Lefevre was proposed by Mr Palmer, and seconded by Lord R. Grosvenor—the former supporter of the Government, the latter a Whig—and unanimously re elected. Sir Robert Inglis, Mr D'lsraeli, Lord John Russell, and others, congratulated the Speaker upon ...

Published: Friday 12 November 1852
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 264 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE MANCHESTER BANQUET

... fashionable among certain class of politicians ; but unless there is a clear and distinct understanding between them and the Whigs, any attempt to force on a division by either, will only end in diaster, and injure the cause it is meant to serve. At the ...

Published: Friday 12 November 1852
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1084 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

The pompous pageant, which on Thursday last conveyed the ashes of Wellington from the Horse Guards to St Paul s,

... greatly aggravates the transgression. But, a'ter all, should not create surprise that the man who last session appropriated the Whig measures, and this year appropriates Sir E.obert Peel's commercial Principles, should steal Thiers' r on Gouvion de Cyr, and ...

Published: Friday 26 November 1852
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1123 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE LORD ADVOCATE ON HIS IRISH CANVASS

... THE LORD ADVOCATE ON HIS IRISH CANVASS. (From the Northern Whig.) the quiet disposal of Sir J. E. Tennent on the shelf in the office which the late Mr Porter made anything but sinecure, vacancy occurred in the representation of the burgh of Lisburn, and ...

Published: Friday 19 November 1852
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1474 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FREE-TRADE BANQUET AT MANCHESTER

... the issue of our agitation. Had it been otherwise—had joined the Whig ranks —it was impossible that Sir R. Peel could havo taken up this measure. It was holding entirely aloof from both Whigs and Tories that we enabled Sir R. Peel to take up and to settle ...

Published: Friday 12 November 1852
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4857 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LOUD MAIDSTONE AND MR MACAULAY

... raise a laugh the expense of the absent, and the helpless, has long been the prevalent scabies of what is facetiously terni'd Whig humour. In the last category I have no design to figure. Give your own orders, Mr Macaulay! They shall be punctually attended ...

Published: Friday 12 November 1852
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1238 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HOUSE OF COMMONS

... the country soon possible, but, that they had previously expected that it would have taken place under the auspices of the Whig Government. He also maintained that the followers of Sir Robert I'eel had approved of all the motions lie had brought forward ...

Published: Friday 26 November 1852
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3102 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TESTS IN THE SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES

... abolished, but the Whig Government tor the last twenty years had uniformly refused take this question a Government measure, and even when it was introduced by members of Parliament on their own responsibility, the members of the Whig Government did not ...

Published: Friday 05 November 1852
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6352 | Page: 4 | Tags: none