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Spirit of the Press

... and then turning for the patch-work of his Cabinet to the ?? of all parties, the despised shreds and tatters of worn-out Whigs or suspected Radicals. The same absence of political honesty ho will see reflected in the commercial ranks of this country ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6696 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

'THE EDINBURGH NEWS, SATURDAY, JAN. 12, 1856

... 'Old Ebony' has also gone over to the enemy. After nine months' consideration, a notable period, Blackwood has permitted a Whig lawyer so blow his little trumpet through its pages on behalf of drinking, and temperance has been annihilated by a parade ...

THE RUGELEY POISONING CASE

... Speaker of the House of Commons, supported by the Conservative party, but Mr Shaw Lefevre, the present Speaker, supported by the Whig and Liberal party, gained the election—there being for Mr Goulburn 299 votes against 317 for Mr Lefevre. The deceased enjoyed ...

Published: Tuesday 15 January 1856
Newspaper: Scottish Press
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3590 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

' Gave to the lyre of Heaven another etriag.'

... duality of IL. tinglor States. Washington the former, Mr Hamilton eras its founder. Th e , w re Fvd•ralista, then Nationahre and Whigs. The founder of the latter party was Jeffenou. They Ye celled Democrats. Tim Cerra is of • House of Representative., which ...

Published: Saturday 19 January 1856
Newspaper: Witness (Edinburgh)
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5729 | Page: 2 | 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 MtmiCTPAr. EXTENSION BtLT

... not think the choice of successor fortunate, nor are the motives which have led to it, although strictly in accordance with Whig principles, quite consistent with true desire for the good of the public service.* The influence of British representative ...

Published: Tuesday 22 January 1856
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2850 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Caledonian Mercury

... that they *vill resent this mock- ery of their privileges by a strong expression of disapprobation upon the conduct of the Whig clirque. Wre have said that these centres of political ac- tion should not only be properly constituted, but that their machinery ...

Published: Wednesday 23 January 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1995 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23. MR MACAULAY'S P.ISIONATION. Mr Macaulay, as will be seen from our advertising columns, ..

... though Cambridge is popularly known the Whig University, in contradistinction to the Torified Oxford, yet, in point of fact, these names refer to the conditions of the two Utah versities times long gone by. No Whig candidate ventured to face the constituency ...

Published: Wednesday 23 January 1856
Newspaper: Witness (Edinburgh)
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1863 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE, Jan. 22, 1856

... a resemblance to days prior to the establishment of popular election, or, a still later reference, to the finished forms of Whig management, that the public, were somewhat surprised at the resuscitation of such relics; and assuredly the general impression ...

Published: Wednesday 23 January 1856
Newspaper: North British Agriculturist
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2489 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

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 

Spirit of the Press

... traces an epitaph. A moral and social effect was to have been achieved, equivalent to the perpetuation of Whig influence and the rejuvenescence of Whig fame; but we behold in it only the euthanasia of the party. So does the course of national destiny sport ...

Published: Friday 25 January 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6393 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

10 scoltisb ptss. EDINBURGH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25. SUMMArg

... only rather strong for the police. Ix Edinburgh we had a civic coup d'etat on Tuesday, and Mr Adam Black, as the chosen of the Whig clique, remains master of the situation. On Monday after midnight all the newspapers, saving the party journal, which had its ...

Published: Friday 25 January 1856
Newspaper: Scottish Press
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3811 | Page: 5 | Tags: none