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... have been strong Liberals fornerlyS and may return to their early principles in mature l age. But neither as Tories, nor as Whigs and some- thing more, ean we endure their retention of office; E and good Bill therefore, or bad Bill, our business is l to ...

Published: Monday 27 December 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3425 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

IT will be seen from the account of the proceedings elsewhere published, that the appeal of Count de

... franchise to which those cmniieuit Wlhig statesmeni gave an (opposition! ) sanctioll at that distant and 3 stormy period when the Whigs were struggling for the Treasury Bench. But we know, and many of our readers remember the phases of that time, Ewhat was the ...

Published: Friday 24 December 1858
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3326 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

Court and Fashion

... last rebellion were entirely forgotten, and E- i while the nation was- still divided into two great parties, Presbyterian and Whig, Prelati aud Tory, astonish no pernGn, not even the most pmecti- t cal and unpoetical of mathematical land survayors s or public ...

Published: Monday 13 December 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3822 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

LEITH TOWN COUNCIL

... preluded probably by the songs of his children, at a time when sonlgst sounded as things profane in the ears of west country. Whigs, be did not tbink inaptly concluded writh, thle evening prayer; nor could hc ever be brought to see that there was anything ...

Published: Wednesday 08 December 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4484 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

ARMY AND NAVY

... state of political parties. An alliance between the great houses of Derby and Bedford,. the staunchest Tories and the leading Whigs, would be a. deathblow to the Palmerston interest and the various fac- tions into which the great Liberal party is split.-Iefraker ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1858
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4481 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM

... leading statesmen of this country have pronounsced in, favour ofc Parliamoentary Reform. (Hlear, h~ear.) The Government of the Whigs which ruledl the country from 1846 to 1852t was prsided ver b Lord ohn Rusell.(Partial cheering.) That (ilovernurent n.anuhluously ...

Published: Friday 17 December 1858
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 8836 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... the local celebration of the r loth anniversary of the birthday of the poet Burns, d the publishers of the Week-1y Northern Whig bave l offered a prize of two guineas for the best appropri- 1 ate poem on the occasion, and half-a-guinea for the a second ...

Published: Saturday 11 December 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5237 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Foreign Intelligence

... time, however, hle 1as, as Colpared w*ith his last performance, conlacted I himself with remarkable discretion. Somn -f the I Whigs will be charging him, as they chargei! Mr Bright, with -moderating. and changing his I opinions. He LAd not a word to say in ...

Published: Tuesday 28 December 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6567 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE DEAN OF FACULTY AT LEITH

... is put forward as fthe great exnmiple of -what the independent Lilberal party are going. to do, wvhichi is to shiamie the Whigs altog-ether. We 0 are going, to( have a ratinmg framichilse iii Sect- -land gemiermally. Now I. would like to know what a ratuing ...

Published: Wednesday 22 December 1858
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 7097 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

MR. BRIGHT IN GLASGOW

... introduced. (Hear, hear.) a tI have great respect for mnany gentlemen of thle Conservative party, aud I ?? respect for soany of the Whig party; a hot I cannot blimid niyself to the truth, that noss great ha-. t pellinig cause in their past soencmue-its iii Reform ...

Published: Wednesday 22 December 1858
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 14928 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

GREAT REFORM MEETING IN GLASGOW

... as to those principles on which we are to proceed in framing a new Reform Bill. Poli- ticians of all classes, Conservative, Whig, Liberal, are all agreed that a Reform Bill wve must have- (cheers). Now, gentlemen, it appeared to those by whose request ...

Published: Wednesday 22 December 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 8904 | Page: 3 | Tags: News