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... repression priestly interferonco temporal matters. The organ is now credibly assured that it is assented to in a well-informed Whig circle of this city, that tho Government, appalled rumours which havo reached them of the influence wielded by tho Catholic ...

Published: Thursday 10 January 1856
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5682 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE RISE OF A FREE PRESS

... some reading and of some small literary talent, named Charles Blount*.' politics he belonged to the extreme section of the Whig party. the days the Exclusion Bill he had been one of Shaftesbury's brisk boys, and had, under the signature of Junius Brutus ...

Published: Thursday 31 January 1856
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1611 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

♦OHWCVLTO6 AL OPERATIONS

... language. varied retuoising, and yam. reading. His abeesos from the douse of Commons leaves a blank in the Whig party. Where now is there eiegle Whigs/ any genius in Parliament I It is with pride that the Conservatives can paint to the ran endowments and ...

Published: Thursday 31 January 1856
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2556 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SUMMARY

... will do well to be prepared. New political and ecclesiastical elements have made sad havoc of the wonted party combinations. Whig and Tory, Liberal and Conservative, can hardly be said now to exist for election purposes. The change has its advantages and ...

Published: Thursday 31 January 1856
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1189 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Education in India next week

... had been the very antipodes of each other. Mr Black has the advantage of his opponent— Bailie Brown Douglas—in this, that the Whig clique managed matters so well, that they had Lim as their champion in the field before any one knew that Mr Macaulay was out ...

Published: Thursday 07 February 1856
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1530 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE LAST IRISH JOB

... Conservative—the solitary fruit of all Sir Robert Peel's attempts to win over the Catholic body to his side in polities. When the Whigs came in office, his opinions were in some degree modified. He could still abuse them; but he drew closer to the extiene party ...

Published: Thursday 14 February 1856
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 340 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Imperial PArliament

... amendment. He felt so strongly upon the subject that could not give silent vote. It was no party question —no question between Whig and Tory between rich and poor—(hear, hear)— between Churchmen aud Dissenters; it was a question which most intimately concerned ...

Published: Thursday 28 February 1856
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6552 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SADDLES FOR THE CAVALRY

... amendment. lie felt so strongly upon the subject that he could not give • silent vote. It was no party question no question tween Whig and Tory—between rich and pour —(hear. hear)—between Churchmen and Dissenters; it wits • question which must intimately concerned ...

Published: Thursday 28 February 1856
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2020 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

OF AN OLD REFORMER. Alexander Mathieson, of Sandy Knowea, than whoa this locality never boasted a more noted ..

... anticipated for his country has not yet been got, but to the end he despaired not. He kept ever going with the tide, voting for Whig member for the county always in opposition to a Tory, and hoping still that time would come when radical principles would rule ...

Published: Thursday 13 March 1856
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1087 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ABRICCLTORA I. BPI:CATION

... etisp'cions instances), very few questions, be , ides the following, will be put to a proposer for assurance:- 1. Are you a Whig, Whig-Radical, Liberal, Independent politician, or under what class do yen desire to rank yourself I 2. slave you ever been afflicted ...

Published: Thursday 03 April 1856
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2966 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

EDUCATION IN SCOTLAND

... his scale, the adverse impression was too strong to be resisted, and the effort to break the fall of the former leader of the Whig confederacy served but to mark and testify its completeness. It is one of the many useful functions of the House of Peers, ...

Published: Thursday 17 April 1856
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 8265 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE TOWN COUNCIL

... but if he presume to say that Mr Puggins had done wrong in helping himself at his neighbour's expense, oh, he's a Tory, or a Whig, or something else—anything at all ; but admit that his criticism was true and his reproof deserved. Consequently a Journalist ...

Published: Thursday 01 May 1856
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 731 | Page: 5 | Tags: none