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THE SPEAKERSHIP OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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

GLASGOW, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1855

... Botts. In 1840, or thereabouts, they were both leading and violent Whigs, and contributed largely, by their eluquence and exertions in and out of Congress, to the success of the Whig ticket. They parted in time, Mr Botts denouncing with characteristic ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1855
Newspaper: North British Daily Mail
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 700 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

lig scettisb Fuss. EDINBURGH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25

... he is in his own person a sort of Whig institution. Although slightly erratic, and out of his orbit for the present, yet when he falls into it again, he will draw to himself, by the force of attraction, all the Whig atoms now floating through space. Lord ...

Published: Tuesday 25 December 1855
Newspaper: Scottish Press
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1344 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WANTED-A NEW PARLIAMENT

... contrary; for have we not seen one of the highest post, in the state offered in succeteion to a Derbyite, a Peelites and a Whig, and that within the space of some ten days? We are not discussing the merits or demerits of any of these offers—that were ...

Published: Wednesday 26 December 1855
Newspaper: Glasgow Chronicle
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 630 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

IRELAND

... Greene, M.P., in Tipperary and Kilkenny; and estates in Cavan, Meath, and Carlow. Rumoured Government Prosecution—The Northern Whig announces that a conference of the law officer* of the Crown was held, with a view to the consideration of the propriety of ...

Published: Thursday 27 December 1855
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 363 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

The Elgin and Morayshire Courier

... he is so indiscreet as to make the offer, would Lord John accept it ? We do not think he would. He is still the head of the Whig party. Although temporarily unpopular, his extensive Parliamentary experience, his family influence, his honesty of purpose ...

Published: Friday 28 December 1855
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 871 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A PEOPLE'S STATUE FOR THE PEOPLE'S MEMBER

... posthumous gratitude will accord him a niche in the proudest of modern fabrics. In proportion, however, to the obstinacy of the Whigs on this point, should be the persistence of the people. Joseph flume was emphatically their member. Fertius O'Connor or Thomas ...

Published: Wednesday 26 December 1855
Newspaper: Glasgow Chronicle
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 577 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Literarn Memoranda

... Literarn Memoranda In notice of Macaulav's new volumes, the Daily News says Mr Macaulay's truth lies at the bottom of a Whig well. The mania for lecturing continues. From one time to the other, we learn from the ever-watchful press, that Lord So-and-so ...

_THE CASE OF _COLONEL _THRU _. —A _letter from Vienna of the 18 th inst ., in the _Augsburg Oazetle

... _th-ay may conscientiously hold to be erroneous ? Whnc is the famous Act of _Toleration _itself , as described _by its eloquent Whig apologist _, Mr Macaulay _, but an ingenious and incomprehensible _jumble of _heterogeneous principles , an eternal monument ...

Published: Thursday 27 December 1855
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1861 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

*daub

... Very Rev. Theophilue Blakely, who died last week in Dublin at an waned age. The deceased was appointed Dean of Connor by the Whigs in 1807. Ile was of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, which is chiefly resorted to by law students, and it is believed that he was called ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1855
Newspaper: Orcadian
County: Orkney, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 775 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

RUPTURE AMONG THE PEELITES

... acceptance of these proposals. Mr Frederick was supposed to be a peace man in the Ministry, and as the sub to a Russellite Whig, and a reel too, the supposition was natural. Ile may, therefore, and others with him, have come to his v senses. He may see ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 765 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

Zliipping intelligencc

... Barclay, Kenetpansom us; Faille, Brace, Charleston, coals; Britannia, Pra•t, Neiseasile, general; Moreator, Smith, London, Whig. 15. Gath, Thomson, Bo'ness, coils; Hope, Taalor, Lerwick, general; Creolen, Chri-tenmen, Copenh igen, general; Xantbo, Allison ...