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THE GOVERNMENT AND THE WHIGS

... parliamentary or financial reform. At that time the most liberal whigs were far more conservative than any member of the present government; but a new party arose the Commons, and made the whigs radicals, and, to all appearance, the conservatives, influenced ...

THE WHIG LAMENT

... THE WHIG LAMENT. Air, —Exile of Erin. L /Performed with great applause at the Assembly Rooms, Leith, Monday, Dee. 20. There lectured in Leith a sage Whig politician, His sconce, wise and learned, sad visions did fill— As sadly he wailed o'er bis fallen ...

The Herald says, the Easter recess will probably wit- ness desperate efforts for the reorganisation of the Whig ..

... The Herald says, the Easter recess will probably wit- ness desperate efforts for the reorganisation of the Whig Junta, Sir R. Peet a Swiss Robert Peel, whatever be his amvuunt of popularity at home, is idolised le in. Switzerland, as it was chiefly iM ...

Published: Friday 09 April 1858
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1162 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM

... The Whigs then denied the divine right of kings, which no one maintained, and this was the sum and substance their liberality. There was not then a third party in the Commons, representing the interes the trading and mercantile classes and Whigs and ...

THE STATE OF PARTIES

... still attachos to one class of politicians, hut they are now far more liberal than the whigs who, before 1832, agitatod for Parliamentary Reform ; and as for the whigs, whioh then constituted a great party, they have almost ceased exist, being, as it were ...

COLONEL SYKES AT ABERDEEN

... ramifications, embracing quasi-Liberalism; and the Liberals, numerous as they are, consist of oligarchical Whigs, Whigs of the old school, Liberals who are Whig followers; independent Liberals, and ultra-Liberals; but there are no common views in politics amongst ...

Published: Friday 08 October 1858
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1293 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

IRELAND

... IRELAND. Death ov mr, Krv. Dr Goody. —The Belfast Whig announces the death of the Iter. I)r Goudy, one of the most and riling members of the G. neral Assembly of the Irish Presbyterian Church. Incident.—An advertisement lately appeared to the efftct:—The ...

The Elgin Courant

... course of two short weeks the load cry raised against Derby by extreme politics! partisans has greatly subsided, and rabid whig journals are now found moderating their tone of bitterness, shamed out of their vituperation by many of the radical papers ...

LITERARY AND ARTISTIC GOSSIP. M. Guizot has arrived in England on a visit to Earl Grey. Madame Ristori,—The ..

... have left Hayter's dishes, At the pay-office dawneth no Whig quarter day ; uespite Cardwell's motion, and Bob Lowe's devotion, Hopes of the Session are all fled away the lobbies at gloaming the Whig whips are roaming, heir pack, once tame, running wildly ...

Published: Friday 23 July 1858
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 987 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE LATE DEBATE

... back to a Pam-Russell cabinet. How woefully crest-fallen these placehunting noble Lords must bo, and how, inconsolable the Whigs, far and near, high and low degree. actually pity the case of the Member for the Burghs, and bis penny whistle, the Banffthir« ...