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A SERIES OF POLITICAL PORTRAITS. (From the second rolume—just published—of Memoirs of the Whig party during my ..

... A SERIES OF POLITICAL PORTRAITS. (From the second rolume—just published—of Memoirs of the Whig party during my Time, by Holland):— LORD TRURLOW, Lord Thurlow bati — besta --- Loid High Chancellor for fourteen years; and had then and since enjoyed ...

ELGIN DISTRICT

... Votes w . Claims lodged and supported by Whig agents, 4 Whereof re-eurolments. 2 I New Votef, Conservative gain, NAIRN COUNTV. Olaima lodged and supported Conservative agent, 14 Claims lodged and supported Whig agents. Whereof re-eorolmeuts, Presentation ...

AMERICA

... The wmk of fusing the Whig party of the North in an anti-slavery party is going on with more or less success. In Vermont and Maine, it has already been done, and the joint candidates put into office. In Michigan the Whigs have surrendered without terms ...

THE BURIAL OF THE SESSION'S BDSINESS. Not an Act was passed—nothing came to a vote, As each bill till next

... to see business begun With more action, and less aspiring. The historian will write on our funeral stone, When resolved into Whig dust and Tory— They passed not bill, but t'icy raised not loan; Be this their sole title to gloryP«nc/V ...

Published: Thursday 10 August 1854
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 158 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SIR W. NAPIER & SIR WALTER SCOTT

... Lockhart admits, gave great offence to the many sincere personal friends whom Scott numbered among the upper ranks of the Whigs. He had been gazetted Clerk of Session during Fox's Administration, and his anti-Foxite zeal was construed into ingratitude ...

Published: Thursday 12 January 1854
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 531 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PAST AND PRESENT BUDGETS

... Ministry routed. Pungent were the thrusts levelled at the Whig Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, represented as pitiably sitting on a bottomless money-box fishing for a budget ! Then came the election—Whig de- feat and Conservative triamph, succeeded by a ** ...

Published: Friday 19 May 1854
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1153 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

IRELAND

... reliance on the report, notwithstanding that it is supported by the communication of the New York correspondent of the Northern Whig.” The contemplated (imaginary) arrangements are thus set forth—Sir Edmund Heath, the present Governor-General of New Brunswick ...

DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS

... assailed them in 1831, but numerous scions of conspicuous or influential Whig houses had gone over to the other side. For instance, there was the Marquis of Douglas, the heir of the great Whig house of Hamilton (who attended Lord Derby's political dinner last ...

Published: Thursday 09 February 1854
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1698 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

IRELAND

... that a portion of the crap, perhaps an insignificant one. will be unfit for human consumption. Another paper, the Northern Whig, sa that of 602 tons of new potatoes brought into Ifast in one week, there were not ten cwt. in the whole in the least dis- ...

Published: Friday 18 August 1854
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 253 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MR BRIGHT AND THE REFORM BILL

... confidence of the Crown. The object of the minority-representation clause, he said, was to give the Whigs some of the forty-six new county seats; but Whig county members were of a class that only put a drag on Liberal Government, as much so as if they were ...

Published: Thursday 09 March 1854
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 808 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

COUNTY MEETINGS AND THE EDUCATION BILL

... cliquish spirit of some great Whigs, even Lord Dunfermline must have his kick at the compromise of a divided Cabinet, as if there ever was a Whig measure that was not a compromise since the beginning of time. Theox-ministerial Whigs have no popularity to spare ...