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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 

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 

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 

EDINBURGH

... dealings of Rome, in grasping at everything lucra- tive, especially in Ireland. Formerly there were but two parties in the State, Whigs and Tories, now they had a third party, who had no stake in the State. It was notorious that both the Attorney-General and ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3020 | Page: 3 | 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

... 31, 1856. SECOND and THIRlD EDITIOXS L're PLublishcd conltaiing all the Latest News of hillOrtnee-. TImE tactics of the old Whig party in this City have become so transparent, that its defenders have been reduced to the stale trick of getting up a quarrel ...

Published: Thursday 31 January 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1545 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE REPRESENTATION OF THE CITY

... the working hours of persons employed in factories to ten hours, h ut that the manufacturers bad made a compromise with the Whig Government, and the time was limited to ten hours end a-half. Mr BLACK-I think that it is a complicated ques- tion. How it ...

Published: Friday 01 February 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 7097 | Page: 3 | Tags: News