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SUMMARY

... with di Xfivir3righ*, party,' and 1to prove- that he 4tt ?? belonged to the old Whigs; and there- fore, if any party- must suffer blame on I his account, it is the, old Whig party. v 'e--need hardly'add, that the idea of .Mr, Leatham being a young Psan ...

Published: Friday 28 October 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3113 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

General Intelligence

... before 1 830 the whigs were the only leaders of the liberal party, because they were the only liberals of the governing class. But the Reformr Bill made a change in all that. Since 1830 the liberals had been advancing in power, while the whigs had been as ...

Published: Friday 14 January 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1496 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

General Intelligence

... political creed:- Essentially, however unpopular the expression may be, essentially, I say, my principles are those of a Whig. The old Whig principles I understood from the life, conversation, speeches, and character of the manawhose name I ?? James Fox. Tue ...

Published: Thursday 13 January 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3086 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

COUNTRY DWELLINGS FOR THE WORKING CLASSES

... ELECTIXN SONG. ny A ?? AND INXDPENDENT. i(ruox INrrcir.) I've a vote ! I've a vote I for no muatter which side,, To neither Whig, Tory, nor Rad am 1 tied: Up, up witls the hustings !-'tis a gold mine to me I've a vote ! I've a vote ! independent and free ...

Published: Friday 06 May 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 704 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

SPIRIT OF PUNCH

... majority got: His Reform Bill b ought on, His majority's gone- Whiggery, trickery, hot. 2. RUPERT and BEN took up the pea, Old Whig Reforms to slaughter: RU'PEiT fell down, From serving the Crown, And BBsT camne tumbling arter. 3. -HENLEXr and WALPoLu were ...

Published: Friday 08 April 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 594 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

MR LINDSAY AND HIS CONSTITUENTS

... Reformer ri anxious to have this great question of Reform settled, prepared to accept a sound Refofni Bill,k whether from a Whig or a Tory Administration, tb there was ro other course left to him than to give P his opposition to that party which was made ...

Published: Thursday 25 August 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1645 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE ART OF PUTTING THINGS

... THE ART OF PUTTING THINGS. (FROM THE NORTHERN WHIG.) Suppose there were but one newsvender in Belfast, and that our well-known friend Smith ware to enter the shop for the purpose of buying his copy of the illustrated London News, making due tender of ...

Published: Thursday 27 January 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 627 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE EDINBURGH PRESS

... ancient institutions. Edin- burgh will therefore, meanwhile, have but two daily newspapers-the Scotsman, as the organ of the old Whig party ; and the A1ercury, as the organ of Independent Liberalism. The Herald, the Bxpress's weekly sheet, which was the first ...

Published: Monday 29 August 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 772 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... Lord Advocate and his party Bu to very considerable expense; he imperilled the cot lseat of the head of the Parliament House Whigs blc in this city; he polled 701 out of 1525 electors, sir and would have Secured more, had not a B stupid cry, got up on the ...

Published: Monday 18 April 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3605 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SECOND EDITION

... struggle respecting reform. TUB GoveRaSMSjS IlapFOast BILL.-The Times ?? are informed that at a meeting of the ieads of the o d Whig party on Saturday, it was de- ermined tbat Lord John Russell should move a resolution, as an ameedment, upon the motion, for ...

Published: Monday 07 March 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 816 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

BATTLE OF KILLIECRANKIE

... pierced his line. In the midst of the shock many of the Highland army fell; among others, Dundee. Thus died Ithe terror of the Whigs, the supporter of King James, and the glory of his couniry.' Thus, Amidst the battle's thunder, shot, and steel, and scorching ...

Published: Saturday 16 July 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 809 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

ATTEMPTED POISONING

... 'into custody. of A' CiaunD's Vxw OF. TRH G.o6VRjMXT. y. or V~7 ANCouvA's ISPANIL-A Canadian 1writei es 'thus to the British *Whig, Kingston,' ?? in ill regard to .Vanconvee's Island:' The Govern- te- ment.'of Vancouver's Island :is a cariosity in' ti- ...

Published: Tuesday 29 November 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 769 | Page: 4 | Tags: News