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THE YEAR 1856

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Published: Friday 02 January 1857
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 641 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE FUTURE OF LORD JOHN RUSSELL

... Parliament ? It kuown that the present Premier of England looks with uneasy glances at the once puissant 1 cder of the great Whig connection. The Ministerial parasites scarcely hide their attempts to ruin the future prospects of the statesman whose name ...

Sib Rohekt Peel and the Ministry.—l mentioned, day or two since, that Sir Robert Peel's most rer.cnt escapade ..

... presided, and which Mr Butt, M.P., was tho leading speaker, in condemnation of the monster system. A Belfast journal (the Northern Whig) refers to the proceedings these terms:—The monster establishments of Dublin, appears, are ruining the little shops, and the ...

Literature

... and discriminating taste of a historian. For example, at the wcaponschaw, with which the story is introduced, he makes the Whigs to shout repeatedly at Morton's suecess, and cry, The good old cause for ever! although every one acquainted with the state ...

TOWN COUNCIL

... one year. It enabled people get the roll in a cheap and easy manner. Formerly the 'whole registration business was managed by Whig and Tory law agents, and any independent man wished to be an elector, he was opposed both of these parties. It would be of ...

Published: Friday 30 January 1857
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3619 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE EXTENSION OF THE SUFFRAGE

... present House of Commons?—we stand in no need of advocates for financial reform, for now-a-davs have them by the hundred, Whigs, Tories, and Radicals, all agreeing to every reasonable project of economy, and as for trade, common*, civil and religious ...

The Elgin & Morayshire Courier

... against Lord Palmerston ; the Peelites took the same course ; and Sir James Graham, who can scarcely be said to be either Whig or Peelite, also took strong ground against the Palmerston Ministry. The Manchester politicians were with Cobden to a man; ...

Published: Friday 06 March 1857
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 7263 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

IRELAND

... that the Rev. Dr Burke and other priests of influence are favourable to the pretensions of Mr Waldron, in whose behalf the Whig party general, this barony at least, are resolved to make a vigorous coup. It is confidently stated that the Right Rev. Dr ...

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE

... Mr Cowan has made no sign, but it is authoritatively announced that he will again stand tor the city. It is said that the Whig party who support Mr Black, and the supporters of Mr Cowan have effected a junction, so that should any other candidate appear ...

Published: Friday 13 March 1857
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2371 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DEATH OF THE EARL OF FIFE. is this week our painful duty to record the death of Bight Hon. the

... charities and publicspirited generosity of the late Earl, may say a word on the part ho took in national affaire. He was a liberal Whig, and gave his hearty support to the llcform Bill in tho House Lords in the year 1832 ; but during the past twenty years he ...

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE

... members were consistent Conservatives. The members who are usually associated with Mr Gladstone number 18. The Liberals and Whigs were 36; that number containi:ig many of the most eminent names of the Liberal Party, as regards talent, principle, and political ...

LORD JOHN RUSSELL AND THE LONDON ELECTION

... stand for Middlesex, so long represented by his namesake; and, had the county been agreeable to the arrangement, one of the Whig families would still have had metropolitan constituency. Lord John Russell, however, never in the whole of his long and varied ...

Published: Friday 20 March 1857
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1272 | Page: 4 | Tags: none