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Spirit of the Press

... afterward a Radical as candidate, next a Whig as Member, then again a Tory, and again a Peelite, and yet again a Coalitionist, and now one knows not ?? James advised his bequeathed pupil to talke office under the Whigs, and since then to remain under Lord ...

Published: Thursday 03 January 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6370 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

EXTRACTS FROM MACAULAY'S HISTORY

... Scotland with a heart ulcerated by hatred of' his un- grateful master and of Isis successful rivals8 At Edinburgh a knot of Whigs, as severely disappointed as himself by the new arrangements, readily submitted to the guidance of so bold and able a leader ...

Published: Friday 04 January 1856
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2376 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

LETTER FROM LONDON

... Lord John Russell was Premier. The support of Peel was invaluable a to the Whig Cabinet, and that support was given in barter for the support of the Bank Charter Act by the Whigs. The I bargain was perfectly understood and acted upon, and accord- v ingly ...

Published: Friday 04 January 1856
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2190 | Page: 5 | 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

... Commons from the Tory to the Whig families. The people, deceived by the ap- I parent liberality of the measure, forgot their own just rdemands for usiversal suffrage and short Parliaments, Iwhich it was one great object of the Whigs to defeat, t were almost ...

Published: Tuesday 08 January 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 7863 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

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 

LETTER FROM LONDON

... would delight to honour by the first place in 'her Govern- ment if left to her own freewill. Neither is lie the chosen of the Whigs, or ths favourite of the Peers. I need hardly add that lie is hardly the man who would be placed on the Treasury bench by the ...

Published: Friday 11 January 1856
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2139 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

MACAULAY'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND

... ofthe- sod Whig camp acted the part of Tories, while the occupants of theC in- Tory camp acted the part of'Whiigs. But thatwliichsin ?? 0i :01was ' excess of wickedness,' was simply in a Whig I'ill-rega- I fihe hated conduct;' andlthat whichi ina Whig was ...

Published: Wednesday 16 January 1856
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3711 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

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 

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 

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