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REPRESENTATION OF TIIE CITY-MEETaG OF THE WHIG CLIQUE

... REPRESENTATION OF TIIE CITY-MEETaG OF THE WHIG CLIQUE. Ott Toeiday afternoon a meeting called by the Whig agent, Mr Jopp, and described in a circular bearing the date of the previous day, as a meeting of committee, was held in one of the Waterloo Rooms ...

Published: Friday 25 January 1856
Newspaper: Scottish Press
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5553 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE _EDINBURGH ELECTION

... mysterious entity or nonentity , the mention of whose very name is suJncient to produce a _general fit of hysterics . What the Whig Clique is , of whom it _is composed , and where it _meets—whether in the Scotsman office , the back shop of Sir Black , or ...

Published: Wednesday 30 January 1856
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1788 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

MILTON CLUB

... The dile, they feed the emoting of Roan, they wilt tame them ; and the Rooks are fed with heaps of Britain's Golden amiss,— Whig, Tory, and Radical Leaders Meld who will chuckle, chuckle, chuckle to then most. Every wise woman her home. Britannia, misguided ...

Published: Tuesday 01 January 1856
Newspaper: Scottish Press
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 99 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

RDINBURGH, SATURDAY, JAx. 19, 1856. Suminarp

... bonds. Lord Palmerston is the most illiberal of Whigs; the excitement produced by war will require to be satisfied, now that war has ended; great political and social questions will be stirred; the Whig families will stand still and their hold of office ...

THE _Advertiser _, of yesterday _makes Itself _rcaponsiblo for tho _following amazing _statement : — Several ..

... Lordship ' _s claims or chances have been discussed _' by any ; _junto , _and _especially _that , if there ' were a ' _'Whig junto , he . would be ' . likely to ; ' stand , very high in their _favour , is to say what no plea but that of the _grossest ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1856
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 567 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Summary

... disrespect; and, indeed, leading Whigs do not privately conceal that the elution of Mr Black is the first step towards the ousting of Mr Cowan, and the restoration of the represent& of the city into the hands of its Whig owners. pose on the part of (be ...

HETIHBMENT OF MR MACAULAY

... fine language, varied reasoning, and vast reading. His absence from the House of Commona leaves blank the Whig party. Where now there single Whig of any genius in Parliament ? It is with pride that the Conservatives can point to the rare endowments and ...

Published: Tuesday 29 January 1856
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3313 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

appearance in Edinburgh to expound the necessity of a reform in the repnmentation, Mr Black the principal if ..

... last year. Upon this principle the constituency and the Whig differ, wide as the poles asunder; and so tar as opportunity presented, during his occupation of the civic chair, he went with the Whigs and not with the citizens—in favour of Sheriffs and against ...

TIE Will TIICL

... TIE Will TIICL All is fair in an election.' The Whigs have always used this license with seal, bet now they have without cases aliened it with indecent haste. When, a hundred yew ago, it was proposed to hand over the electors of Edinburgh to Mr John ...

MI ADAM BLACL

... satisfactory. In this age of deierenos to wealth and lordlinp, it is refreshing to see the inveterate hunters after the great Whig homes' turning towards a man sprung from the people—one who, by honesty, energy, and Wiese talent, has earned a moderate competency ...

Correspondence

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE GALEDONIAN MERCURY. Sin,-I read your strictures, in your paper of yes- terday, on the conduct of the Whig clique, and your report of the meeting of the Liberal Committee. I am bound to express my undisguised astonishment at the whole ...

Published: Thursday 24 January 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 371 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Caledonian Mercury

... 31, 1856. SECOND and THIRlD EDITIOXS L're PLublishcd conltaiing all the Latest News of hillOrtnee-. TImE tactics of the old Whig party in this City have become so transparent, that its defenders have been reduced to the stale trick of getting up a quarrel ...

Published: Thursday 31 January 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1545 | Page: 3 | Tags: News