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THE LATE WHIG SCANDAL

... kinsfolk and for the relatives of Whig judges. The chief legat appoi'ntiients which hare been of late con-' ferred or teadjustedliave been a'seheriffehip upon Mr Andrew Rutherfurd Clarkc, a uephew. of the late ,W'hig judge, Lord Ruthergurd; another e ...

Published: Saturday 09 September 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1305 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

THE CONSERVATIVES OF EDINBURGH AND THE DEPENDENT WHIGS

... OF' EDINBURGH q AND THE DEPENDENT WHIGS. The Conservatives =6f Mlinburgh 'are evidently day'bylday. becoming more and more-alive to the abssrdity of thir giving theirvotesato their arch and;uus cruinls enemies 0,AeV Whigs'-pien .ho almost eveiyWbere, W hile ...

Published: Thursday 29 June 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2894 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

WHIG PATRONAGE-AND EDINBURGH POLITICS

... WHIG PATRONAGE4NDEDINBURGA PomtT v `a. I A~b orgn = t of theN ing - Itis gl~l hig!ObS rare e e l, L n alon his>~ e~ of the Tories and Churchmen. But a change has already come over this dream. The z~oEriJ1 C§p . rchmer;.ax-ng, . .ine. state. ,of t r elin ...

Published: Friday 28 December 1860
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 554 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE WHIG PARTY

... THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE WHIG PARTY. The Manchester Examiner, in an article on the Liberation Society's Conference at Manchester, writes thus of Mr Miall's speech and of the Whig party:- In the paper read by Mr Miall before the Liberation Society's ...

Published: Monday 23 November 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1144 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

MR. POPE HENNESSY ON THE WHIG GOVERNMENT

... Dwindled down to five maillioniL (Cries e I Down with or j the Whigs ?? Fortunately for nis that hal been done bel already; they are ?? we must keep, ?? e them down. (Loud cheers.) Even ten years of Whig Ml e rule carries a terrible lesson; let me remind you ...

Published: Saturday 20 October 1866
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1327 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE NATURAL HISTORY OF WHIG-ANDTORY-ISM

... ith both Whig and Tory birds are one and the same le. species v with variations. That this proposi- in tion requires to be defended and still furthersup ported is no mere imagination of ours. On the of contrary, as already said, both Whig and Tory le ...

Published: Friday 11 March 1864
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2283 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

the coming elections. The Whig eleeiion agents arc in terrible qfundary about tie eleetiona which are coming ..

... the coming elections. The Whig eleeiion agents arc in terrible qfundary about tie eleetiona which are coming ,dB. First, there Borton. Here the Whigs Imd two memhe»-Mr Ingram ami Mr Stami—i bat it is very questionable whether Mr hgram’s place can ffllcd ...

Published: Monday 08 October 1860
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1205 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TttE Flax Tfcxtm in Ulster.—On the UlstcTl uen trade, the Ncrthem Whig, on Thuraday, observes: Last ir’a calmre ..

... TttE Flax Tfcxtm in Ulster.—On the UlstcTl uen trade, the Ncrthem Whig, on Thuraday, observes: Last ir’a calmre of flax in this province was very successful; many cases the yield exceeded eighty stone to the Irish acre. We know of instances in which an ...

Published: Monday 27 August 1860
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1350 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

people. Let never more hetr Umenttiions by Whig* end Tories ebont the ontreges of tredes’ nnions, when such ..

... however, for to do more than look and wonder when Cato falls upon his own sword. If the 1 old Whigs ’ will kill themselves alt we can say is that the old Whigs must just go their own way to the purgatory suicides or the paradise fools.” Of coune, Mr Black ...

Published: Tuesday 01 May 1860
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1149 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

OCCASIONAL HOMILIES ON COMMONPLACE SUBJECTS

... at that party less capable of embarrassing the Whigs, to while it snakes the Whigs more able to resist their ill natural enemies, the Tories. This judicious ed eclecticism is one leading element of Whig policy. a- It is acted upon only when the interests ...

Published: Tuesday 07 April 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3204 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... our while to inquire. Certain it is that no Whig official, higbh or low, has yet ventured to tell the country what his party is willing to do to obtain its confidence. There might be some hope of the Whigs if this silence was the effect of shame. We all ...

Published: Saturday 15 April 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1937 | Page: 2 | Tags: News