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Facetiǽ

... her. WHIG AND TORY, ‘What means the name of whig, papa? I long to know the story; When’er I ask, it’s all in vain, The father as o'er and o’er Mamma knows nought of whig or tory.’ He viewed his darling’s face: Than a tory out of place.’ “A whig, my dear ...

Published: Friday 18 November 1853
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1319 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE PROTESTANT MEMBER

... July last, Mr bottleholder repeatedly told his audiences of the certainty of the Sutherland family and Mr Loch voting with a Whig ministry, no matter what the subject of discussion, and laid especial stress on their decidedly Popish tendencies. How far ...

Published: Friday 20 May 1853
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 297 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LATEST NEWS

... report that Lord Lansdowne had ceased to be a member of the Ministry. Serious dif- ferences are said to exist between th e Whig and Peelite portions of the Cabi net, and each party held a meeting on Monday. THE SINOPE AFFAIR. The Paris corres matises ...

Published: Friday 23 December 1853
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 344 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BIRTHS. At Pulteneytown, on the Sth inst., the wife of M At cooper, of a son. ‘ames Hoseason, jossbank, Zetland,

... Kirkwall, Brydon, Montrose. At St John’s, on the 4th inst., by the Rev. H. W. Wright, Mr James Bruce, editor of the Northern Whig, Belfast, to Eliza Margaret. youngest daughter of Mr Matthew Plues, Newcastle. At Dalvey, Morayshire, on the 26th ult., David ...

Published: Friday 12 August 1853
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 353 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE DEBATE ON THE INCOME TAX

... striking cha- racter to comment upon. It was opened by Sir E. L. Bulwer,—the well-known litterateur, who was knighted by the Whigs, but who hav- ing become possessed of an estate, has turned a Tory of the worst stamp,—who made a speech in the true Minerva-press ...

Published: Friday 06 May 1853
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 411 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

... ful to the Liberal party generally, and which he must have felt was sv completely at variance with the principles which the Whig leaders have always consistently maintained with reference to church property and ecclesiastical endow- ments, was manifest ...

Published: Friday 25 March 1853
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1139 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

UNIVERSITY TESTS

... that proof. It is woe- fully retrograde in its provisions, when compared with the Bill of last year, brought in under purely Whig auspices. The same Lord Advo- cate is the mover in both instances ; but “look on this picture and on that,” and further com- ...

Published: Friday 08 April 1853
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 492 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

IRELAND

... starved out. The Repeal agitation is dead ; the ** Religious Equality” movement is also defunct ; “the country is sold to the Whigs ;” and so there is no exciting the people to hand out their money for prayers, Parliamentary petitions, or rather of the ordinary ...

Published: Friday 08 April 1853
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 650 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TURKISH AFFAIRS

... untoward” battle of Navarina. It will therefore be a matter of coincident singula- rity if one of the first acts of the new Whig or composite Cabinet of Lords Aberdeen and Kus- sell become memorable by the hoarse echo of on the Dalmatian shores. We hope ...

Published: Friday 28 January 1853
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 674 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

IRELAND

... nounce that the magneto- this town and P. trick, in in full operation between expected to be complete Scotland, and may be thern Whig. to Dublin in a few days’ time. Tae Mayryoorn Commission.—_We learn from & private source that the following con- atitute the ...

Published: Friday 02 September 1853
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 548 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

IRELAND

... they could have had no idea of the disaster which was hastening them to so untimely an end. 1x Utsten.—The Belfast North- ern Whig of Saturday says :—We must not omit re- ferring to the establishment in our province, cf a branch of industry which has already ...

Published: Friday 18 March 1853
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 630 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

IRELAND

... by a totally different class of men, and at a rate of wages very much in advance. Last year, as we learn from the Northern Whig, of Belfast, the agent of a Belgian manufacturi ng firm induced some Irish girls to leave Belfast a nd take service in a mill ...

Published: Friday 04 November 1853
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 580 | Page: 2 | Tags: none