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Domestic Intelligence

... 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

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

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

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

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

SCOTLAND

... took active part most of the popular agitations of the day. He was the originator of the Argus newspaper, I the organ of the Whig party this city, under the successive editorships Mr William Weir, Mr William Lang, Mr Thornton Hunt, and Dr Charles Mackay ...

Published: Thursday 22 May 1856
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1855 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ENGLAND

... State in Ireland ! The bulk of the Liberal party voted with Mr Miall, and there are the list of the majority the names of Whigs whose votes aro not looked for. We believe that this launching of the Irish Church question under new auspices and with new ...

Published: Thursday 05 June 1856
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2251 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Literature

... and this High Court. Lift your veil; throw off all modesty, and look me in the face.' Sir John Henderson of Fordell, aealous Whig, had long nauseated the civil court by his burgh politics. Their Lordships had once to fix the amount of some discretionary ...

Published: Thursday 19 June 1856
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3741 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Domestic Intelligence

... confidence of the majority, and so avoid the risk of a defeat through a division of the votes. In this manner the delegates of the Whigs and Know-Nothings, assembled at Philadelphia, have nominated Fillmore for President, the seceders from the latter party on ...

Published: Thursday 03 July 1856
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4833 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Foreign and Colonial

... dois. in specie on freight Large mass conventions had been held the' West favour Fremont for President. There had also been Whig meeting in Boston in his favour. There was attempt made at a coalition in Pennsylvania between the friends of Filmore and Fremont ...

Published: Thursday 07 August 1856
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2477 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE VENOMOUS PROSECUTION

... influence every day, and bid fair to drive the pure Whigs entirely from the field, and to return both the members for ' Edinburgh. Hence the dislike of this party to Mr M'Laren. At the election last winter the Whigs returned their candidate, Mr Black, by what ...

Published: Thursday 28 August 1856
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5665 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Foreign and Colonial

... into a corner and pmioned there beyond the power of escape, the editor of the Whig has our permission to indulge his low-boru instincts in low-flung bravado. Of course the Whig replies in similar strain, to which its antagonist rejoins with increased vigour ...

Published: Thursday 28 August 1856
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1527 | Page: 4 | Tags: none