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Caledonian Mercury

ELECTION NEWS

... cleared away. It may done thus. Suppose, for instance, that the supporters of Black and Moncieiff are the Parliament House Whig clique, the Tories, certain other parties whom I need not name, it is a wellknown fact that not one of these parties will give ...

Published: Thursday 08 June 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1462 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SUMMARY

... no means. Both seats mast be kept. Edinburgh must crushed. •* My Lord Advocate,” forsooth, will not act except with a Whig of the Whigs—that is, with one who will do nothing himself, and will not trouble his Lordship asking him to leave his own personal ...

Published: Monday 26 June 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1876 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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 

MANCHESTER CANDIDATES AND

... Manchester, and believe not untruly, 'that Mr Bagefaot, of the Economist, who offered himself as the candidate of the Tory-Whig coalition, was anxious to secure the endorsement of Mr Bright, M.P., to his candidature, with the view of introducing himself ...

Published: Monday 31 July 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 270 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SUMMARY

... Liberal to the back-bone pure and veritable Whig. Where has been the proof of it | during the past five years ? Of course Black may be a Whig, and the ranks are welcome to the acquisition ; but as a very good Whig may, in these days, a very sorry Liberal ...

Published: Monday 12 June 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1888 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SPIRIT OF PUNCH

... have been, And queerish bed-fellows I've seen, But never aught like this- Then swelled the wrath of Gladstone's tail- To Whigs and pries shall Progress quail ? And Stansfeld was the cry- But Clarendon upreared his head, His cigarette fung by, With ...

SUMMARY

... dissemble my suspicions of jobbism, to which ray Whig friends are getting prone. All good measures are endangered by being clogged with the creation of new and un- necessary offices.” Here Jeffrey alludes to a Whig measure professedly for the Improvement the ...

Published: Tuesday 13 June 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1910 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WHAT WILL HE DO ?

... backwards if they could not urge it forwards. From outside it rather seems that the Radicals were injured rather than the Whigs improved. Like that old swearing parrot, whose master sent to a neighbour who had a praying parrot that the swearer might leave ...

Published: Saturday 02 December 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 700 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MR BRIGHT AND THE GLASGOW TRADES' COUNCIL

... law; and it is, I th ink, univer- sally felt that tle Arraugemnwn then made can no longer 4'e'ddend or uiintaine. ' . Three Whig Governments, one Coalition Government' alnd one Tory 0oveinment have, within the'Iast 'ten years; admitted this. .The Qneep ...

Published: Tuesday 19 November 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Commerce | Words: 640 | Page: 4 | Tags: Commerce 

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 

STIRLING FLAG REGATTA

... fonr-oared jolly boats. 1. Son the Bock ;2. Craig N.ppu. Won easily. Second heat not run. DERBY as Packet SrAXIOK.-The Northern Whig reports great rejoicings in Derry on rwcasion of the maiden city being port of call for the Canadian line of The North Briton ...

Published: Tuesday 05 June 1860
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 252 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

OUR LONDON LETTER. IS THE LORD ADVOCATE TO BE THE SPEAKER !

... for choosing a Scotch member. In 1835, when the Whigs determined to oppose the re-election of Sir Charles Manners Sutton, because he had tendered to the Sovereign advice opposed to the interests of the Whig party, they put Mr Abercromby, the member for ...

Published: Saturday 14 October 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1151 | Page: 5 | Tags: none