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MEETING OF THE REPRESENTATIVES FOR GLASGOW

... Commons to see the bye- play in the withdrawal of that maotion-(laugh- eC ter and applause). The Whigs, Sir William Napier ti( Iand the Conservative-Whigs, seemed to be quite gi abroad about what should be the result of a divi- hi sion. Neither of them ...

Published: Wednesday 29 September 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5194 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

GREAT REFORM CONFERENCE IN LONDON

... and to', the Govrnpient.-(hear, hear)., There is one class or'body of which I wish to say-afew words, and f it is composedof Whig politicians andastatesmen-f (hear, hear). It was said by somebody lately. thatt 'the only person I had coomplimented :at Birming- ...

Published: Tuesday 09 November 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4976 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

MR BERNAL OSBORNE AND HIS CONSTITUENTS AT DOVER

... in order to become a compact body, they must get, id of all private jealousits and personal piques -(hear, hear). The old- Whigs and the modern Liberals must unite together, for without union we are but as men of straw. I, for my own part, shall adhere ...

Published: Wednesday 11 August 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2491 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

Home Intelligence

... member himself has taken the oaths and his seat in the House. The system. is vicious and indefensible; not- withstanding, Whigs, Tories, and Peelites have all in their turn refused to interfere with or abolish it. For a long period, and as often as its ...

Published: Thursday 13 May 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5412 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH

... structive policy. The people are satisfied that they have nothing to expect from the faithlessness and- incapacity of the Whigs, while they have everything to hope for from the Conservatives. Lord Derby, wisely and encouragingly, trusted his performances ...

Published: Friday 19 March 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2479 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE DEAN OF FACULTY AT LEITH

... misfortune for the Whigs to go. out of office, and possibly if that had been all it might not have been a matter for us to lament over, because the cool breezes of the opposition benches a-re often very salu- tary to the health. The Whigs halve been in office ...

Published: Tuesday 21 December 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 9775 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... or driveln; by an official, tied to and dependent on thel Government of the day. It is not unlikely, new that we have lost a Whig and got a Conservative Ministry, that a different course of policy will be pursued-that mzembers wrill find ont that they have ...

Published: Friday 18 June 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6141 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE NEW MINISTRY

... all he asked for Lord Derby's Government was that they might have a fair trial; and he reminded the electors that though the Whigs, on taking office Eix years ago, had promised peace, retrenchment, and Reform, they had involved the country in two wars and ...

Published: Tuesday 09 March 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3338 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... fight, which will exhibit some novelty in the arrangement of the contending forces; the Palmerstonians, Peelites, and old Whigs com- bining to have a trial of strength with the Conserva- tives and the Manchester men. In the House of Commons last night ...

Published: Friday 14 May 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3243 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... leai-ly a quarter of - a century, the British ParliauLent has played fast and loose with the Irish land sytemn. Governmentts, Whig and Tory alike, have ploaled thlemselves, over and over agaicn, to a settle-ment. There has-not been for the rpast ten years ...

Published: Monday 22 November 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3017 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

EDINBURGH TOWN COUNCIL

... in ting contrast with the unreformed Town Council. Now, he No- (Bailie Johnston) understood that Professor SYmne was lock a Whig ; and he certainly would have expected. ring judging from the sentiments of that political sad, party, that the Professor would ...

Published: Wednesday 28 July 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3022 | Page: 2 | Tags: News