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A DINNERLESS PARTY

... ambition wag a1s noble as their sagacity WSE profond, And we have dwelt the mwrt ielosdly ot this brilliant attribute of the Whig aristocracy because it is well worthy the emau. Iaiion ci ttose who ador eand lead the greal dition of intellectual opinion ...

Published: Wednesday 31 October 1866
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 532 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

TRUTH FROM THE LIPS OF A CONSERVATIVE LORD

... this county-(apphlause)-a ?? not nominated in a bye-street in .Markinch, and sup- ported by the influence of the old rusty Whig party, but a Radical who aims at independence, who would glory in the expression of the inde- pendence of the free electors ...

Published: Friday 15 April 1864
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 733 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... steamship, and at last dates thirteen had died. MR BRIGHT has bqen reading the thirty-three Whigs who fought under Lord Grosvenor's banner a lesson in constitutional Whig history. It is a lesson they muich, require. Mr Disraeli has confessed that no man can ...

Published: Thursday 03 May 1866
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3605 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE RUSSEL PERSONALITIES

... gentlemen at the Whig candidates’ meeting of Wednesday are degrading alike to Edinburgh, to Whiggery, and to the newspaper Press. The practice must be frowned down. Is there one individual, Mr Alexander Russel excepted, connected with the Whig clique who, ...

Published: Saturday 10 June 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 362 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Our London Letter

... Gladstone and Gibson; mor that between the former representatives of the 0118. old Whig policy and the latter there is a wide erffic difference than there is between the Whigs and of t the Conservatives and that if the minority he could be disintegrated. ...

Published: Monday 06 May 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: News | Words: 3480 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

BRITISH PRESS FLUNKEYISM

... loss. Literary gentlemen of the Whig persuasion assure us that the death at eighty of a gentleman s who was a Radical in 1815, and a fanatical Con. servative convert in 186l3, who in 1.S31 carried the bag for the Whigs, and as Patronage Secretary s and ...

Published: Wednesday 23 September 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1194 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

POLITICS AND PLEASURE

... instinctively attribute the same genial attributes. Except the late Iord Melbourne, and probably the great Whig leader,'Mr. Fox, the leading Whigs have never been personally genial men; and even Lord Melbourne's light and witty sayings, though they had ...

Published: Monday 25 December 1865
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1729 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

A TRIBUTE TO MR DISRELI AND THE TORIES

... found their natursll1evel more easily with ?? than with the-Whigs,' The 'exampfe`of -Caning is there to .prov'e that ?? the' Toriet; 'and Mr Disraeli's tcaseer confirms -iti In t6he xnnrof 6the Whigs XrT - Siell woid neher have bedn Cbhtcellor of 'the .Exeqer ...

Published: Monday 19 August 1867
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 661 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... people that they have no principles that may not be conveniently ridiculed and set aside ; that Whigs and Tories are alike, with this difference, that the Whigs deem themselves entitled, by a sort of hereditary or Divine right, to enjoy the emoluments and ...

Published: Tuesday 13 October 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3903 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE LORD CHANCELLOR AND THE EDMUNDS CASE

... that the connivance of the Chancellor public defaulter has obtained a pension of some £BOO a year. The Herald remarks that the Whig Ministers went into the jury-box to their own cause, and their verdict, carried by a majority of, one, reflects disgrace on ...

Published: Saturday 06 May 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 158 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Court and Fashion

... repeating the announcement, and removing all doubt on the subject. An Old Whig'-Osr remarks apply to the mo1ern, not the old Whigs of the city. When referring to the Whigs of the present day we always make the necessary distinction between them and ...

Published: Wednesday 29 April 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 802 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

OUR POLITICAL FIASCO

... reason why neither Mr White-Millar nor Mr Pyfe hadanychanceof a Government appointment, since all favours were reserved forthe Whigs. Our contemporarydoes not deny the fact, but contents itself 'with; sneering first at -the capacity of Independent Liberals ...

Published: Monday 01 April 1867
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 718 | Page: 3 | Tags: News