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Spirit of the Press

... constitutional innovators in amd- vance of the Whigs. They could understand a Rus-. sell or a Bright administration; they would prefer positive and sincere Radicalism to the falterings of the Coalition Whigs ; but, if events have a meaning, Lord Derby is ...

Published: Tuesday 13 May 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6915 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE PEERAGE OF THE PRESENT REIGN

... 1840 Mr Miles Stapleton obtained in his favour the x revival of the ancient barony of Beaumont, and Sir , Jacob Astley, the Whig M.P. for Norfolk, that of Hastings. In 1841 English baronies were conferred on the Scotch Earl of Stair and the Irish Earl ...

Published: Tuesday 08 January 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1503 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

Spirit of the Press

... more than another? Professor Aytoun tells us that every man's hand was against ?? whole newspaper press of Edinburgh- Tory, Whig, and Radical, with one single exception, which was the Scotsman, took side with Mr M'Laren against Mr Black, and, as a natural ...

Published: Friday 22 August 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1588 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

Correspondence

... it as discreditable. I say nothing against a fair and legitimate canvass; but what will your readers think of a professed Whig-now an Esta- blished Churchman, but late Free Churchman, and formerly something else, everything by turns but no- thing ...

Published: Monday 03 November 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1598 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... to be. Precisely so. The question has nothing to do with party. It affects most intimately the entire mercantile community, Whig, Tory, and Radical, It comes, itn fact, within the category of those administrative monstrosities which have been of late so ...

Published: Saturday 06 September 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1753 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

The Question of the Day

... Its bearings are confined to no one .disti'ct county or party in the country. Scotland and England, Lancashire and Cornwall, Whig and Tory, Protectionist and Free-trader, High Church, Low Church, and Mr Spurgeon's Church, are all equally interested in it ...

Published: Thursday 18 December 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1633 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

SECOND EDITION

... reproach that has been brought against me is that I belong to the Whig clique. Now, gentle- men, I know that silly people are often carried away, by a nickname. I ask what is the meaning of a Whig Clique ? Is it uttering the sentiments of Fox, Grey, Jeffrey ...

Published: Thursday 07 February 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5116 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

CITY ELECTION

... exhibited exactly conduct and prin- ciples of the same kind - (cheers). It appeared to him that Mr Black was tied up with the Whig party, and that lie would not interfere in the way which hie (Mr Gibson) should expect for a man of hiis intelligence, candour ...

Published: Wednesday 30 January 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 7108 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Caledonian Mercury

... unholy combinations and motley crews ; and the answer was only None so black as you. Why is this ? The principles of the Whigs are the same as of yore, when Baronets harangued in the Queen's Park, and de- nonlced ?? till Arthur's Seat ?? Crags rang to ...

Published: Friday 08 February 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2061 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Correspondence

... fear, degenerating into a Daily scold. His pugilistic aram is always uplifted to boa, never to bless, unless may-hap some Whig fossil all of the olden time. As the Scotsman evi- dently believes that he can manage everything from a representative to St ...

Published: Tuesday 26 February 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1924 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Foreign Intelligence

... present it is necessary to follow closely the shifting fortunes of each party in each State. One afteranosher of the leading Whigs of the south are dropping in to support Mr Buchanan. At the late convention of that party at Baltimore an effort was made to ...

Published: Tuesday 07 October 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2174 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE PAST WEEK

... split up into so many divisions and subdivisions, and represented by so many shades, that its identity is lost. Where be your Whig and your Tory, your Radical and your Conservative now ? Lost, in a general adop- tion of all that is worth having in the divers ...

Published: Monday 17 November 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1977 | Page: 3 | Tags: News