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SECOND EDITION

... disgraceful con- tests. The Herald says, the Easter recess will probably witness desperate efforts for the reorganisation of the Whig junta. Kr Solley, well known in literature and science, is dead. The Daily News has a leader on the continued bad policy of ...

Published: Saturday 03 April 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 784 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE COUNCIL OF INDIA

... vulgar prejudice or personal disappoint- ment or spleen. MILlTIA RIOTING IN CARRICKFERGUS.-On Sa- turday, says the Northern Whig, the hitherto peace- able town of Carrickfergus became the arena of the most intense excitement, caused by the riotous con- ...

Published: Thursday 19 August 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 932 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE FORTY-SHILLING FRANCHISE

... cordial support.-I am. my friends, your countryman, JAMES BEOG- Alnwick Hill, Liberton, -April 29 1858. SUIcsDE.-The Northern Whig records a choly case of self-destruction which took s'lace in the Antrim County Jail on Tuesday. A boy of thesame of Patrick ...

Published: Friday 30 April 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1035 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SECOND EDITION OF SATURDAY

... disgraceful con- tests. The Hmerald says, the Easter recess will probably witness desperate efforts for the reorganisation of the Whig junta. Mr Solley, well known in literature and science, is dead. The Daily News has a leader on the c,,nrinned had policy of ...

Published: Monday 05 April 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1075 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Spirit of the Press

... less al in discerning the favourable circumstances and the vi happy houer for their perfect accomplishment. '1 So, stand by, Whigs, keep alont, Radicals, hands oi off, 3Pel-iles, whilie the Tories Iselp themselves to it the contents of 'your pigeonholes ...

Published: Saturday 27 February 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2235 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... Why not ?? was asked. Because I be a Whig, was the reply. A lengthened argument was entered into,. .but the obstinate voter would not be convinced. c; T'aint I of no good, he said doggedly, I tell you I'm a Whig; and now I tells you why I is,-'cause ...

Published: Tuesday 12 October 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4950 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SECOND EDITION

... best to keep up the cordial alliance with France. He says that nobody cares for a Reform Bill-not the Tories, nor even the Whigs; and he then enumerates the differ- ent loopholes through which Parliamentary Reform had dropped during the last five or six ...

Published: Tuesday 09 March 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1268 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... It told him in languae unmistakeable thait the to independent Edinburgh public are not influenced citi by the journalists, Whig and Tory, who have- Lo misrepresented and maligned him and' sought to nal persuade the country that it is satisfied with things- ...

Published: Thursday 16 December 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2679 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... him, though the exact nature of his offence, or its extent, does not, appear to be very clearly dellned. The old fiuality Whigs are in agony, and seem determined to perpetrate bei an act synil)tomatic of the worst description of of suicidal lunacy ; the ...

Published: Tuesday 14 December 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4191 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Foreign Intelligence

... expressed, has Con] been clear and emphatic-that the old, aristocratic, gard office-seeking, office-keeping, famialy-party Whigs had outlived their day-that they bad become any slow coach and unwieldy, unfitted either to and lead or drive, and therefore ...

Published: Friday 22 October 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5653 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER AT AYLESBURY

... representa- tion ; its real object was the consolidation of Whig power. Since that period two other Whig Reform Bills had been introdiced by Lord J. Rus- sell; but both were rejectcd by the Whigs them- selves, and they were withdrawn. Another had been promised ...

Published: Wednesday 10 March 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3955 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

COUNTY OF EDINBURGH

... ducting the emigration from this country t 1( Cape. Tar TWELFTH OF JUtLY IN BELFASI.-This At::r the town, says the Nortohern Whig, remained suie;.. throughout ' the twelfth, the magistrates hasing taken cornprehensive measures to preserve i: ?? Strotmg ...

Published: Wednesday 14 July 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1394 | Page: 2 | Tags: News