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... quite rtb, so formidable in its strength, though better dis- of posed to do the work the country called it ock to perform. The Whigs were too long in uch office to keep themselves right. Having featheroed their own nests well, they manifested their cus- pe- ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 8659 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

RETROSPECT OF 1858

... to 1 me. argue with, themasterzof thirtyclegions. '.There can r i- .be no doubt that the ?? of Commons was tired of I ?? the Whig Ministr, and that the, coalition which took as advaiutae',of draini's' deiniq'u-encies wouln soon'liave ?? 'foiind'or'ii e'al ...

Published: Monday 03 January 1859
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3309 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE LAND OF RUINS

... the Jordan, and its lakes through its whole'course, from- north to south, INTER2soDIATE CUOOLS IN IRELAND.-The Nor-M- ein Whig, in referring to anr important' public meet- ing held on Thursday, in support of the projected establishinilt of a system of ...

Published: Tuesday 04 January 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 908 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

SOIREE IN HONOUR OF MR TAYLOR, OF BIRMINGHAM

... things in Ireland. It was a subject of congratulation, he continued, that they were free from the virulent opposition of the Whig officials; but, on the other hand, it was a subject of regret to men of their poli- tical opinions, that in looking forward ...

Published: Tuesday 04 January 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3059 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

General Intelligence

... Carolan, the approver, is the 15th arrested in the lodge, and Kelly, the other approver, com- pletes the number. The Northern Whig reports an- other arrest on Monday; that of Bernard Boyle, keeper of a public-house in Barrack Street. Boyle was, some ?? ago ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3114 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

EFFECTS OF THE INDIAN PROCLAMATION

... however, was to have been anticipated; but now that the corner has been turned, there can be little doubt, says the Northiern Whig, of 1859 being the most successful of the post ten years. No branch of general enterprise has shown greater evidence of progress ...

Published: Friday 07 January 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1076 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

MR. CARDWELL'S ADDRESS

... cavil at this assertion, but, upon the whole, we think it a safe one. The Tories being Reformers by virtue of office and the Whigs by tradition, it is safe to say that the country is alive to, though not excited on, the subject; the one satisfiestheaspirations ...

Published: Saturday 08 January 1859
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 635 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

Foreign Intelligence

... to reorganise the Opposition on a basis that wilt admit the Southern section of the old Whig party. h They had a meeting at Washington last week of r leading Whigs from va'ious parts of the country to devise some way to bring this about, and separatedt ...

Published: Tuesday 11 January 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2464 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

THE REFORM BILL

... corrup- tion, however, is likely to meet with a sharp measure d of repression in the disfranchisement of small burghs. yThe Whig Government in 1854 proposed to take no t e fewer than fifty members from the small burghs, which X at present possess a re ...

Published: Wednesday 12 January 1859
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1175 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

TEMPERANCE LITERATURE AND TEMPERANCE POLITICS

... species. It is the one touch of nature which makes them our kin in spite of teetotal differences. As our outer world has its Whigs and Tories, High Churchmen and Low Churchmen, Guelphs and Ghibellines, so Teetotalia has its two great factions-the Moral ...

Published: Wednesday 12 January 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1548 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

SCOTTISH REFORMATION SOCIETY

... gain the support, either of one party or another in the State; when they looked how ready Governments of this country-be they Whig or Con- servative-were to accede quietly to the demands of Popery; when they looked at all these things, was it not a matter ...

Published: Thursday 13 January 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 7225 | 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