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SECOND EDITION OF THURSDAY

... instrumental in carrying the r bill for the reform of the representative system. On the resignationof Earl Greyin August 1834, the Whig ?? was modified, and Viscount Melbourne was raised to the office of First Lord of the Treasury. This Ministry was dissolved ...

Published: Friday 06 May 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1376 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Foreign Intelligence

... country, and it would be bard to deal with such an event in mere diplomatic circles. Parisians take the exact view found in the Whig Examiner to-day of the Malmesbury eut di- rect given to the Italian tricolour at Leghorn, and they are, of course, unable ...

Published: Wednesday 25 May 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 711 | Page: 1 | 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 

OUR STATESMEN ON REFORM AND THE WAR

... month's warning-(laughter). Of course, Lord Palmerston is not going to elut himself into that mess again. Then you say to the Whigs, Why don't you sup- port Lord John ? They say, We like Lord John very well, but he always upsets our coach - (laughter) ...

Published: Friday 06 May 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 955 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

LINLITHGOWSHIRE ELECTION

... depended-(laughter and' 'cheers.) Mr ThOMA6s MILLER, of Briggs, seconded the no- mination. He considered that now 'the days 'of 'Whigs and Tories were hearly'extinct; it was Men and not measures 'the electors 'should 'attend to. No otbei' candidate having been ...

Published: Tuesday 03 May 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1090 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

EDINBURGH, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1859

... both parties. Qn ?? side was it expected; indeed, till Ta'esday night, v hen the chances were believed to be id favour of the Whig candidate, there was a very general impression here and throughout the county 'that Lord Longhborough might possibly i Ii. ...

Published: Thursday 05 May 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2265 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

OUR STATESMEN ON REFORM AND THE WAR

... r further than such a 'nan as Charles Jamis Fox, wo was the greatest light the Whig party ever possessed, or furrher than Lord Durham himself, and oteer chiefs of the Whig party, who had at some time or other contended for quite as much as be (Mr Bright) ...

Published: Tuesday 03 May 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4870 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

General Intelligence

... families which were itr Italy have announced that they intend to pass the summer in France. SHORT TIME IN THE MCLLs.-We (Northern Whig) regret to hear that it it the intention of several of the largest flax-spinning firms in Belfast to commence three-quarter ...

Published: Tuesday 31 May 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1523 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... great. Their -least indulgent opponents allow that there U a clear balance in their favour of ten or eleven 8 eats. It is the Whig following that has chiefly suffered at -the poll-the party that went in for I Upsetting the Ministry whatever might happen ...

Published: Tuesday 03 May 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1678 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... either s case. Universal deception, with universal condemnation, has ruled the majority of the con- i = testfil elections. 'Whigs who, when in power, woul-d not, move a -step towards the enfranchise- ment(of the people, have declaimed with Phara- saic hypocrisy ...

Published: Saturday 21 May 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3595 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

RETURN OF MR STIRLING FOR PERTHSHIRE

... and Lord Grey had all utered well-weigh dwords of arbing against rhebneiv doctrines of Reform. Mr Lowe, Mr Monc-eiff, late Whig Lord Advo-eate, and Lordl Panmure had expressed themselves to-the same tffect- and when he found men -of -that stamp con- teading ...

Published: Tuesday 03 May 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1944 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... division ' to the majority by which his celebrated resolu- tion was carried. On the contrary, to a tem- per like that of the Whig tactician, with, after all, fair chances of eventual success, partial re- verses will only give a keener relish for the sport ...

Published: Thursday 26 May 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4517 | Page: 2 | Tags: News