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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 DODGE OF THE LIBERAL COMMITTEE

... play with pro ten. It will be sad to think that la the annals of the constituency he shall be recorded as the Masautello of • Whig plot, who reigned In power for a coMparadve day. I regret this trick also, became the which many electors made to effect a ...

Published: Friday 25 January 1856
Newspaper: Scottish Press
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 959 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE RETIREMENT OF MR MACAITLAY. (Frain the Daily News.) _ _

... traces an epitaph. A moral and social effect was to have bun 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: Scottish Press
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2878 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

_Corwuioirtimrc

... meeting which I _muled originalid _in a _committee _meetiny , after certain secret oommunings of a _subcommittee of the old _'Whig party and of Mr _Cmnn ' i Committee hid taken place ; and that it wae _after these oommitteea had reitod for a while _from ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1856
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1623 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

_EPIDEMIC POISONING

... of business , ' an& one of her _most . reliable _politicians . • A _man of worth , of perspicacity , and of decision _; a Whig , to be sure , _rather too exclusively . Yet _, though Auld _; Reekie had been to search the country through , we _don't ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1856
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 8795 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

_RETIREMENT OF MR MACAULAY

... when _Astrtea Redux was supposed to have returned to _this planet for the express _purpose of inaugurating a _millennium of Whigs—young Macaulay was everywhere spoken of as M the man of _the epoch _. ' Brilliant _, indeed , for many a year was the dust ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1856
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1691 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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

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 ...

THE _manner in which _the _suggestion of the name of _Air _Adam Black _has been _received by the _mass of

... be . . _displeasing to _tho other party ;• and _to _think that merely by bringing all parties together to _make speeches , _Whig and Tory , or oven the ; various sections of each , _would _all _agree in favour i of any one man , is to imagine something ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1856
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 10686 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Spirit of the Press

... United Kingdom. What are Mr Black's qualifica- tions ? Hle has for fortyv years been a firm and un- flinching adherent of thle Whigs. He has stuck to his party through good report and through bad re- port. He has, moreover, gained bv this means a small amount ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5787 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

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 ...

to tub rnrroß of thk Scotsman

... public meeting which I exiled originated in a committee meeting, after certain secret coinmunings of sub committee of the old Whig party and Mr Cowan’s committee had taken place; and that was after these committees had rested for while from their labours” ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1856
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 832 | Page: 3 | Tags: none