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GENERAL NEWS

... into contempt. will admit that Mr was clever, bold, and zealous ; but bis talent was for intrigue, his ardour was that of Whig-paid agent, and daring was, in political sense, synonymous with utter contempt cf scruple. Enlightened cynics have ■een engaged ...

THE NEW CHARTER

... in 1831. The rotten burghs of England were a standing reproach ; and had it not been for the interest which some influential Whig families had in that kind of property, schedule A. would undoubtedly have been much more comprehensive than it was. With that ...

Published: Wednesday 13 January 1858
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1494 | Page: 2 | Tags: Classifieds 

Ireland

... Ireland. Trade in Ulster—The Northern Whig on this subject, says : — Ulster has happily known little of the recent crisis, as regards stoppages of firms, although deep and general distress has been occasioned among the working population and small s ...

Published: Wednesday 20 January 1858
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 143 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE PAST

... were they who constituted the activity and life of Kirriemuir. Back to the days when the greatest distinction amongst us was Whig and Tory, when our great political champions were battling for the Reform Bill which we fondly believed was to accomplish so ...

Published: Saturday 30 January 1858
Newspaper: Dundee People's Journal
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 959 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

NEWS ABOUT THE NEW REFORM BILL

... India Company, to be drowned in a clamour for England for the Ten-pounders, and another coalition will be made between tie Whig oligarchy and the organised platform of Radical macontents. Thi Reason Why.—Friend Grace, it seems, had a very good lorse and ...

Political Extracts

... India Company, to be drowned in a clamour for England for the Ten-ponnders, and another coalition will be made between the Whig oligarchy and the organised platform of liadical malcontents. THE RESPONSIBILITY OF BANK DIRECTORS AND MANAGERS. (From the ...

Published: Wednesday 03 February 1858
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1068 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MR BRIGHT, M.P., ON PARLIAMENTARY REFORM

... with regard to it, the more frankly warn you of a danger which I see before us. Twentyfive years ago the Tory party, and the Whigs almost much so, were greatly afraid an extension of the suffrage ; now very few ])ersons of any intelligence, even among the ...

LOUIS NAPOLEON

... an’ I’ll no beleeve they've rnuckle manhood” aboot tiiem if they play sae nicely into the hands o’ the Tories or feenality Whigs as to throw awa’ their present chance o’ gettin’ a gude Reform Bill. Ane or twa that read my notes last week thocht I was jist ...

Published: Saturday 13 February 1858
Newspaper: Dundee People's Journal
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3231 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

GENERAL NEWS

... Reduction the Price of Gas Belfast.—On the lst of next July the price of gag will be reduced from 7d per 1000 feet to 4s 2d Whig. Dr Livingstone's Consulship.—Here is man whom the nation delights to honour: and what do the nation's rulers please to do ...

BIRTHS. At 15 Paton's Lane, Dundee, on the 13th mat., the wife of Mr David Sydie, inspector, Dundee New Gaa

... rather have seen Mrs Fletcher in a box at the theatre than have seen Mrs Siddons on the stage of the same theatre. She was a Whig, and long a widow. She married for love of what marriage is said seldom to give—liberty. Her husband, Archibald Fletcher, an ...

GENERAL NEWS

... rose-bushes, manufactured from tin plate, and painted in imitation of Nature. An Irish Exculpation.—On the 3d inst., the Northern Whig described a dangerous bet, in which it was stated that man named Greenaway had, in consequence of a wager, proceeded to drink ...