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THE BALLOT

... has I condemned, because it will make more easy, bribery, I intimidation, and the other evils of the present system. Y Their Whig opponents do not now offer you the ballot, I but bear in mind that the ballot was part of the plan c of Reform recommendedin ...

Published: Tuesday 12 April 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 878 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

SECOND EDITION

... Lord Plamerston mention only MIlr Disraeli's Reform, and Lord John dismisses, in an uieaning phrase, the subject of future Whig Reform. This great popular cry has become a taunt and not a toast. etRDPAL.tERSTON ?? address is now issued. He repeats his ...

Published: Friday 08 April 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 530 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... do-nothing character of late Whig Governments, and though we have more than once had, in accordance with our sense of public duty, to complain of the downright disregard of Scotch interests, and Liberal interests generally, by Whig l officials; in a word, ...

Published: Friday 08 April 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3847 | Page: 2 | 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 

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 

THE CITY CANDIDATES AND THE WORKING CLASSES

... by the Whig party in this conntry-(cheers and hisses). He observed that one of the newspapers said that the city of Edin- burgh had resolved to send to Parliament two petri- -fied Whigs-(laughter). Now, he was not ashamed to call himself a Whig; but he ...

Published: Wednesday 27 April 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4911 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Caledonian Mercury

... statesmen of the ege who can stummon such afe hand to the rescue. Oa the opposite side wrere v ranged old Whigs, moss exclusive than any Tories, Ita pure Whigs, Liberals of all degrees, Radicals, the j: Irish brigade, and politicians of every hue, with y opinions ...

Published: Monday 04 April 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6579 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... prodigious influence on the minds of the British. public. The current is setting dead in favour of Sardinia, and our Statesmen,. Whigs and Tories, ought to take notice of the fact. A good deal depends on it. If the compass continue for a few weeks more to veer ...

Published: Wednesday 20 April 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4182 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE

... advocate Sir Win. Gibson-Craig; Mr Adam Morrison, ?? Mr Robert Chambers ; Mr Constable, and all the leading members of the Whig party in Edinburgh. The Lord Provost was called to the chair, and opened the business of the meeting. He said that the Commit- ...

Published: Friday 08 April 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2868 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Correspondence

... tebohearted 'stronghold of Liberalism ?? for better a high-and- dry Tory, chosen without electoral concussion, Ohan a ' pure Whig,' pushed in by territorial noblemen. MR WILLIAn LsYON MIACxnNziE.-The Dvndee Courier says this celebrated Canadian Radical ...

Published: Thursday 14 April 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1521 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

General Intelligence

... on 01 record of similar cases. tI PRESENTATION TO TEE GRANDDAUGHTER OF ROBT. BURNS.-On Thursday evening, says the Northern Whig, Messrs Robert Young, C.E.; W. J. Young; A. C. Colville; J. Auld, and several other gentle- men, waited on Mrs Everett, the ...

Published: Tuesday 12 April 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1600 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... Liberal ranks, and on the unques- tionable hostility of a large section of the pre- sent House of Commons to Government by the Whigs; they are evidently labouring under the delusion that the country has lost confidence in Lord John Russell, and that deceived ...

Published: Wednesday 06 April 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4225 | Page: 2 | Tags: News