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NEW YEAR'S EVE

... supporters of the Whig candidate were soon bustled outside. The busi- ness commenced at 12 o'clock at noon, and shortly before the Mayor made his appearance the ?? Seymour, accompanied by his friends, and Mr Fenwick, waith the lead- ing Whigs and shipowners ...

Published: Thursday 04 January 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1686 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

WHY HAS SEBASTOPOL NOT BEEN TAKEN?

... thrown the whole blame of . this upon the Government of Lord Aberdeen. The Govern- ment should have sent out more troops-the Whigs have al- lowed the military establishments of the country to fall too low, &c., &c. Such are the reasons assigned by those ...

Published: Monday 15 January 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2247 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE WAR

... that the conduct of the W*hig party during the last two years fully justifies me in the opinion ; end I will venture to say that no such party ever behaved wvith greater honour or more distinguished patriotism than those of the Whig party, and wore it the ...

Published: Monday 29 January 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 12849 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE PRESS ON LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S RESIGNATION

... is impossible. The country will DOt sttund it. It is, o0 the other htanid, said that the Whig section of the Mitistrv will try 1o obtail strength from the Whigs and Radicas no't neIW in Government ; bilt the motioti of Lord Lvydhurst. which wilt, doebtless ...

Published: Monday 29 January 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3664 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

LATEST NEWS

... House of Corn- firs mons, or Lord Lansdowne and Lord John Russell may be to authorised to attempt the rcconstrction of the Whig Cabinet; wh or, lastly, Lord Palmerston may endeavour to retain in the ser- rat vice of the country the ablest members of the ...

Published: Thursday 01 February 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 8729 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Caledonian Mercury

... nineteen years, incitildiig the last six years Ef the great Contienetat Struggle, aud had been Foreign Secretary under all the Whig Admuinistrauiona for :a period of fifteen years. That extendlei experience he now brings to an Administration on ultich depends ...

Published: Monday 12 February 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5845 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Caledonian Mercury

... relished by itle Whigs, vwho, as Lord Campbell once said oln the Edinburgin Imstings, wishedl to consider Joseph's occn- patioti gon. MTr flume thought otherwvise, atid saw ample room for his vocationt throuighout the varions reigns of Whig and Tory Ad ...

Published: Monday 26 February 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 7985 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Foreign Intelligence

... taken. The most prominent candidates were Mr Gwin, now holding the office, and Mr C. L. Edwards, who was nominated by the Whigs. Business at the mines was generally dull, on account of an unusual scarcity of water. which prevented the miners f washing ...

Published: Thursday 08 March 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4752 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

THE MONTROSE DISTRICT OF BURGHS

... to confine that representation to one only, now that Mr Ilume had ceased to exist. He (Mr B.) was more of a Radical than a Whig, but he was no leveller. His maxim was, to be moderate in all things ; and, although a Dissenter, he would not wish to interfere ...

Published: Thursday 08 March 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 518 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

Caledonian Mercury

... or whether even tllat opportunity may be afforded at ill,-we cannot Of course predlicate. it is quite, possible that the old Whig- and 'lory hlarness, now indeed utterly decayed and inoaginary, may yet be strong enough in its bygone memories, to prevelit ...

Published: Monday 19 March 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6302 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE EARL OF DUNDONALD AND THE GOVERNMENT

... Ion the single point in which he prefers the present state of things to that in 1 852,-the possession of office by a purely 5 Whig Government-everybody in the country will be disposed to agree with him. Preparations are making at Cherbourg for the journey ...

Published: Thursday 12 April 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3761 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE KNOW-NOTHING MANIFESTO

... the keen opposition it has to encounter from the conmglomerate of all fragments and factions of the old effete democratic and Whig parties with their alien allies, names that were once hallowed and had a meaning. Errors it may commit-inferior men may attain ...

Published: Thursday 12 April 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1640 | Page: 4 | Tags: News