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Caledonian Mercury

... that Lord Aberdeen was once a Tory, or that Sir James Graham was once a Whig, or that Lord Jobn Russell passed an Ecclesiastical Farce Bill, or that two parties in the State called Whig and Tory ever existed at all. Itis sufficient for us to be assured by ...

Published: Monday 03 January 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5895 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Ireland

... retasal, Mr Brady will be, as a matter of course, called from his retirement to resume the high office he filled during the Whig regime. Cavan Ececriox.—There is now scarcely any doubt that the re-election of the new Secretary, Sir J. Young, will be hotly ...

Published: Monday 03 January 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 760 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Caledonian Mercury

... less claim to be called a homogeneous | Ministry thaa its admirers would make us believe, unless we are to conclude that a Whig who helped to frame and pass the reform bill, anda Radical who came out origi- | nally under the auspices of Mr Hume, were ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 7183 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Ireland

... ary to the Lord Lieute- nant has been conferred upon the Hon, Charles Clements, son of the of Leitrim, a politician of the Whig school. Tre Kirwayx. — An order for the immediate transmission of this calprit from Kilmainham Jail to Spike Island, previous ...

Published: Monday 10 January 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1251 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

DEATIL OF THE EARL OF STAIR. —— On Monday evening, at Oxenfoord Castle, John Ha- milton Dalrymple, eighth Earl of

... gratitude and confidence towards one of their firmest friends, by electing Sir John Dalrymple, for Mid-Lothian—and of the three Whig Baronets who were so well known, and so deservedly popular, during al; the contests of that exciting period—Sir James Gibson- ...

Published: Thursday 13 January 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 880 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE SOLICITOR-GENERALBHIP OF SCOTLAND

... parties, and the patronage has been, ac- cordingly, distributed in England and Ireland, it was supposed in some quarters that the Whig seetion of the Government, having secured the office of Lord-Advocate, the nomination to the next high office, that of Sol ...

Published: Thursday 13 January 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 920 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

COUNTY OF HADDINGTON ELECTION

... the fourteenth chapter of his life of that nobleman a Fe which you perhaps will allow - me to read to you :—“ f, indeed, the Whigs had been pared to form a Government on the economical principle of their own budget of 1542, the whole of the Protectionist ...

Published: Thursday 13 January 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4958 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE SOLICITOR-GENERALSHIP OF SCOTLAND

... mis-statement and misapprehension. We are very far from denying the propriety of introducing into the hitherto closed ranks of the Whigs, the representatives of other shades of political opinion ; and, had this course been adopted on the present occasion, with ...

Published: Monday 17 January 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 388 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Caledonian Mercury

... achieve the independence of Dumfriesshire after this pecu- liar fashion But he found himself unable to carry his point. The Whig candidate of 1806 was defeated, and Sir William Hope, the then representative of the family of Raehills, and of all the Tories ...

Published: Monday 17 January 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6114 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

England

... be out in a few days, will give the late Premier an excellent nity of ventilating his Whig notions upon constitutional liberty, and of apotheosising the great Whig statesmen ef the last ge- neration. If one may rely upon the rumours carrent in pub- lishers’ ...

Published: Thursday 20 January 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5667 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Ireland

... correspondents who are no doubt anxious to receive the slightest regarding the mys- terious fate of Sir Montague Chapman and his Whig. Exscriox.—Mr Sadlier was defeated at Carlow The relative numbers on Wednesday by a small majority. of the two candidates at ...

Published: Monday 24 January 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1060 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Caledonian Mercury

... According to Mr Lindsay, there are questions connected with the revi- sion and consolidation of our Maritime Laws “* which the Whig Administration grossly neglected, and which I have reason to fear, now that they are again in office (though I trust I may ...

Published: Monday 07 February 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5028 | Page: 2 | Tags: News