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Letters to the Editor

... father's death he openly came forward as a Tory. And let it he re' collected that at this period the Whigs were in power and the young Mr Aytoun from his Whig conenxions and high talents was perfectly sureof rapid promotion had he adopted his father's opinions ...

Published: Wednesday 09 August 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 881 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

M. DUPIN ON THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH FLEETS

... sufficient quantity co)'II to eat and cotton to spin. A C5lQUE OF WVrIGS NOT THE LIBERAL PARTY. -The London Review remarks:-' The Whig leaders are not even identical with the true' and natural 'aristocracy of the nation; they are the descendants of the great ...

Published: Monday 16 September 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 981 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE MINISTRY

... is We4k in the ConmmoniA. Tbe Post remarks that. Earl Rusiell's Ministry is pretty nearly a 'homogeneous Whig Govein. ml nt. Its'almost purely Whig character is, ex.- ternr4ly speaking, a source of great disadvabntage aund'weakness. But where is the Government ...

Published: Wednesday 01 November 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 459 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

Letters to the Editor

... The Governmental metamnorphosis ad having been accomplished, the Whig Lords suddenly el0 discovered that the country did not want Reform- Ab-l only wanted to oblige the omnivorous Whigs I Since then Whiggery has, without a blush, continued to play the ...

Published: Friday 13 December 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1955 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Letter to the Editor

... Common gratitude and common humanity alike call out for a merciful consi- deration of his present state.-I am, &c., HUMANITAs. WHIG SECTARIAN AND DENOMINATION,1L EDUCATION IN IRELAND. SIn,-In these days when apostacy and ronezgadism from high principles are ...

Published: Thursday 29 June 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 923 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Court and Fashion

... glorious band 'of Whigs of wi: hououred aud self-sacrificing age, whose great ex- plbits; strrligles, and gains cornpriase the Reform erA. The degeneruto Whiglings of 1 805, h.d they n6t lost allfrace of oonnectton and identity wvith the Whigs of the pIltny' ...

Published: Wednesday 12 July 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3914 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

A HEARTLESS CONSERVATIVE

... Lorid Pialmerstea .-Ihe;, greapt o~stagle, tq iall pro' gress-would produce a weaderful. tqfofrm :Bill.' He did not like the Whigs saying that jthe~y were the frieuds ofthe people, and thrb~tbe'Gouserva- tives had no interest it' the welfareonf the corn ...

Published: Tuesday 24 October 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 545 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

DOGMA'S OPINIONS ON THINGS IN GENERAL

... is not to be wondered that that of the Scotsman was only 5s. 9d.-exactly the price I saw paid for a rather shabby wig-not a Whig- at a public sale yesterday: that the writer of the following letter deserves our pity for losing his pence Dear Sir,-The ...

Published: Saturday 16 February 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 976 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... or all hones't writ- ing on the subject by Whig journalists; it is noticed in the extremely cautious and guarded expressions of opinion as to the fate or prbs- pectsof the bill, on the part of recognised Whigs in the -House of Commons; and it re- ceives ...

Published: Monday 23 April 1860
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2232 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

EDINBURGH AND THE CLERICO-POLICE TAX

... ?? not be. alarmedl-it is sou-ething mrore serions thin tole Social Soience squablule. T'l'ins to the l:i:i!ip,. lation of Whig oficials an .hld sore has br! ''jt -with fresh virulence. If I lnistaklie n' ' Mr Disraeli at one time propodei to ab ?? e) ...

Published: Thursday 31 December 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1416 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

SKETCHES OF BRITISH STATESMEN AND M.P.'S

... of these decisions. Lord Palmerston certainly never was, and is not now, a Whig; and I doubt whether be ever was really a Tory. Whilst on the one hand there is nothing of the Whig doctrinaire pedant about him, it is equally certain to my mind that he is ...

Published: Thursday 03 October 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3109 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE SCOTSMAN AND THE CITY ELECTION

... sThe people, the legi. titlate Sourceof political power, wasthe favourite I toast at Whig banquets; butnow, when the people E are no longer disposed to follow Whig dictation, I lt3 journalists pursue them with malediction I and execration' After racking ...

Published: Saturday 19 August 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1635 | Page: 7 | Tags: News