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Caledonian Mercury

Provincial Intelligence

... of a real and com- thuharen eiab IlIty plete Free-trade,' are divided on most other topics of discussion. Old Tories, old Whigs, moderate Con- servatives, Democrats, Communists, find themselves associated to effect a great financial and commercial ;revolution ...

Published: Monday 05 January 1857
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3579 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

PRESIDENT BUCHANAN

... the Conservative leaders and party in England have always been more inclined to be friendly with the United States than the Whigs. In this, by the way, he is not singular, for we have heard a similar opinion expressed by other distinguished Americans. ...

Published: Saturday 10 January 1857
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2323 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

Foreign Intelligence

... ebhe.will permanently,.place the Democratic party-in a the. same position with *respcct to ?? interest occupied by the late Whig party, thus enaibling them a to control the political doctrines of,. the .Reptzblic for a an indefinite period. t .Te newspaper ...

Published: Thursday 15 January 1857
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4801 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Home Intelligence

... the object of Liberals to .liberalise the counties, upon wh at principle of com- te mon sense or consistency can a professed Whig orgall oppose so palpable a mode of accomplish.. duing a common object ? .d It would have been much better for the repu- tation ...

Published: Tuesday 03 February 1857
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 9356 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Home Intelligence

... is evidently conservative..on this~point, indeed, there has always been no- great difference in the s actual principles of Whigs and ,Conservatives. It . is difficulte; to understand the philosophy of athosew'o desire to, maintain the existing. bofnd-; ...

Published: Friday 06 February 1857
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6261 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Provincial Intelligence

... be, days under a similar charge. E}XTRAORDINAY ]T RTSE N TIX E VLVIE OF SLAVE PROPEsTvY-Tbe editor of the Warrentown (Va.) Whig was ?? Di'ckiison''Hiqll 'and Co., auctioneers, of Richmon'd, that the gross amount of their sales of negroes last year reached ...

Published: Friday 06 February 1857
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1143 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Literature

... and seek another. The black rat is the genuine native of England; the brown con- queror, as the Reviewer almost proves, is a Whig rat, and came frorn Germany to England in the same ship with the House of Hanover. It is now in pos- session of the country ...

Home Intelligence

... any severe measures were taken, the heroes of the former escapade having pruriently secured their incognito. The Northern .Whig, a Belfast paper, says that it is pretty certain that while the commission is ostensibly to inquire into the state of the ...

Published: Wednesday 11 February 1857
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1850 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Provincial Intelligence

... or two yet remain, they are regarded as curiosities only valuable as specimens for the collec- tions of antiquarians. The Whigs, except in so far as certain aristocratic families desire to marshal their retainers, are as little to he distinguished from ...

Published: Wednesday 11 February 1857
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3580 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Court and Fashion

... generations pass away before an abuse is corrected. Too much is left to the tender mercies of the Government of the day, be they Whig or Tory. It is not sufficient that the representatives of the people recommend the abolition of an abuse, which involves a ...

Published: Monday 16 February 1857
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2704 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

CAN A CLERGYMAN MARRY HIMSELF?

... Robert Lindsay, partner in the house of Lindsay BEothers, ins Belfast, sued the Messrs Finlay, proprietors of tie' Novthen,I W/hig newspaper, for L.10,o0 damages for alalleged libel contained in a circular signed' 'John' Rea, which was published in that ...

Caledonian Mercury

... would have remained¶- thifig unborn of time had the opinions of Lord John Russell -and Mr Poulett Thomson prevailed in the Whig Cabinet. When the lat- ter was appointed Governor-General, and charged -with the duty of uniting two. provinces-antago- nists ...

Published: Saturday 28 February 1857
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2357 | Page: 2 | Tags: News