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REGISTRATION COURTS

... New claims, . • • Claims supported by George Leslie, Esq., for Whig party, Whereof withdrawn, . . 1 Rejected, . 1 He-emolments, . . . New Claims, . . 8 Conservative gain, . . 3 Add Whig voter expunged on objection, . 1 4 9 Forres District. Claims supported ...

Published: Friday 31 August 1855
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3527 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM

... into the Cabinet, he was immediately subjected to such influences, that he could not carry out his own convictions, and became Whig. He cited Macaulay, Sir W. Molesworth, and Sir B. Hall, instances in point. If ever any minister was carried into power by ...

Published: Friday 22 June 1855
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1035 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... present moment, and will find many readers. Administrative Reform furnishes a text for having a hit at the Peelites and Whigs, and showing the superlative purity and singleness of purpose of the Conservative party! But the great political paper of this ...

Published: Friday 06 July 1855
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1147 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

POLITICAL NEWS

... spirited contest, Captain Jolliffe (Conservative), was returned small but decisive majority over his opponent, Sergeant Kinglake (Whig.) Mr. W. J. Fox addressed his constituents at Oldham on Saturday last, and spoke strongly in favour carrying on the war. His ...

Published: Friday 30 November 1855
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1173 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE RESIGNATION OF LORD JOHN RUSSELL

... Aberdeen would have stood before the country having preferred the services the Duke of Newcastle to those of the head of the Whig party. In any view of the case, it must be admitted, that there air of hasty pettisliness about the conduct of Lord John Russell ...

Published: Friday 02 February 1855
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1336 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE SCOTTISH NEWSPAPERS

... the same pious object in view. In Edinburgh a similar state of excitement exists. The Scotsman, the well-known organ of the Whigs, is enlarging its borders vastly, and assuming many forms. In the first place, it remains a twice a week paper, as at present; ...

Published: Friday 06 July 1855
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1238 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

COURT AND PERSONAL NEWS

... suffrages of the Commons; but it is understood that Mr. Fitzroy, the Chairman of Committees, will be put forward by the old Whig party. The salary is £6,000 per annum, with peerage on retirement, and £5,000 for three lives. House of Commons.—The Queen ...

Published: Friday 21 December 1855
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1728 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Foreign Intelligence

... at Philadelphia:—Resolved, that the American party, having arisen up on the ruins and in despite of the opposition of the Whig and democratic parties, cannot be held in any manner responsible for the obnoxious acts or violated pledges of either ; that ...

Published: Friday 06 July 1855
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1977 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

The Elgin & Morayshire Courier

... House of Commons to pass a resolution which first drove Lord Aberdeen from office, and then split up the coalition between the Whigs and Peelites, but he has failed to 6ecure its consent to a secret committee. On Friday last he appeared in his seat in Parliament ...

Published: Friday 09 March 1855
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2056 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

England

... into power, or endeavoured to retain power, perpetual reductions of the army and navy. That had not been matter of party. Whigs, Tories, and Radicals had bad the same end in view, and among them they had done their best to render this great nation utterly ...

Published: Friday 12 January 1855
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2153 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CONVENTION OF ROYAL BURGHS

... which he was well paid, and the Sheriffs, who had year or two ago got large additions to their salaries. It was just a gigantic Whig job. He would move that they petition against the bill. Sir W. Johnston suggested that the Annual Committee be empowered to ...

Published: Friday 27 April 1855
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2090 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DEATH OV JOSEPH HUME, ESQ., M.P ( From .'the Times.) The living political reformers of Great Britain have Jest ..

... for years the throne at the Old Crown and Anchor Tavern, in Palace Yard, and in Covent Garden meetings. Hume worked not for Whigs or Tories. He laboured for his country —for the world large. He never put his faith in Sovereigns or in Governments. he ever ...

Published: Friday 02 March 1855
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2235 | Page: 2 | Tags: none