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PROPOSED MINISTER OF WAR

... Lord Melbourne. was the favourable opinion formed of him at that time by the merchants of London which first encouraged his Whig friends in the city to put him forward candidate for its representation. Relieved from the burdensome duties of the Bouse of ...

Parliament met yesterday week, after tho Whitsuntide recess, wlien the Earl of Aberdeen in the House of Lords, ..

... Ministry, consequenton this arrangement. Sir George Grey, who so ably conducted the duties of the Home Office under the last Whig Government, takes charge of the Colonies; and Lord Granville becomes Chancellor of the Duchy Lancaster—an office but ill suited ...

Published: Friday 16 June 1854
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 577 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LITERATURE

... connects the town of Cromarty with Kessock Ferry there was the Whig portion of the Inverness cavalcade just coming up. The newly appointed sentinel stood aside, to let his officer deal with the Whig gentlemen, as, of course, best became both their quality and ...

Farther Liberality—The Right Hon. the Earl Fife having heard of the splendid display of flowers, & C., the ..

... Parliamentary register. The number of claims lodged in this district of the county the Conservative agent is 30, and by the Whig agents 17 ; in all, 47. Burgh Registrations.—The number of claims lodged yesterday with the Town-Clerk of this burgh was 43 ...

GREAT ??? MEETING IN EDINBURGH

... extent tor saving from ruin those people who are poor and neglected, who are perishing and netted round with temptations. a man Whig, Tory, Radical, I would almost say Chartist, be he what shade politics he may, the man who, in my honest belief, is the most ...

Published: Friday 10 November 1854
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 551 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD BILL—ADMISSION OF DISSENTERS

... to an opinion, that he is about to desert the Derby-D'lsraeli flag, and either hoist a new standard or attach himself to the Whig party, with which the house of Derby was so long allied. As the University of Oxford bill stands at present, the Dissenters ...

Published: Friday 30 June 1854
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 700 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DEATH LORD COCKBURN. Another of our men of msrk, whose names and characters were the distinction and pride of ..

... attempt to pourtray the character and genius Lord Cockburn. The last, nearly the last, survivor of that brilliant group of Whig barristers, who signally adorned the legal profession, and the political history of Scotland—the of the friendship of Scotland ...

The Queen's Visit.—Preparations are being made at Balmoral for the reception of tlie Queen and Court Friday the ..

... votes 12 Claims supported by Whig agents 4 Whereof re-enrolments .. 2 New votes 2 Conservative g*in 10 NAIRN COUNT*. Claims supported by Conservative agent 14 Whereof re-enrolments 3 New votes 11 Claims supported by Whig agents 4 Whereof re-enrolments ...

His Grace the Duke of Richmond, accompanied by the Earl of March, Lord Alexander G. Lennox, Lord Hill, and Colonel

... party Whereof new claims sustained, o enrolments, Withdrawn, 1; Rejected, 1 Cl'iims supported by Messrs (irant& Leslie, for Whig interest, Whereof new claims sustained fi He-enrolments do., Withdrawn - 17 Conservative gain new voters. BUKGII REGISTRATIONS ...

The late Alexander Duff, Esq.—Our obituary to-day contains the name of a much esteemed and highly-respected ..

... by the Whigs who succeeded in four. The burgh appeal was not insisted on, and, consequently, the Sheriff's decision for rejecting was affirmed. Coutts, Banff, attended for the Conservative party, ond Mr Forbes, Solicitor, Portsoy, for the Whig. Gordon ...

Published: Friday 29 September 1854
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3296 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Death of Rear-Admiral Leith.—We regret to announce the death of liear-Admiral John Leith, who expired at ..

... Port-Glasgow, and was born in that seajwrt in the year 1782. He was called to the Scotch bar in 1807. the accession of the Whigs to office in 1830, he was appointed an advocate-depute, but did not long serve in that capacity, being promoted to the Sheriffship ...

THE WAR

... branches, the Whigs are largely in the majority. There are two Know-nothings in the Senate, and thirty-eight elected to the Assembly. A Know-nothing had been elected as coroner in Ontario county by overwhelming majority over the Whig and Democratic ...

Published: Friday 15 December 1854
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3580 | Page: 4 | Tags: none