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LORD MACAULAY

... Macaulay was strongly attached to his political friends, and deeply imbued with those immortal principles which have assigned the Whig party so glorious share in the annals and government of this country. But raised those principles to a higher power. He gave ...

Published: Wednesday 01 February 1860
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1485 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

TRUTH STRANGER THAN FICTION

... Baron Martin paid his funeral expenses. I know that a benefit took place the Haymarket Theatre, in behalf of his widow. He was whig of course, and his name was Charles Wilkins.— Nottingham Athenaeum (a monthly Magazine). ...

Published: Thursday 01 August 1861
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1674 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

??? Dress.—Cupid in Peg-Tops, a letter to the Northern Whig, observes—Of late years the fashions in dress have ..

... ??? Dress.—Cupid in Peg-Tops, a letter to the Northern Whig, observes—Of late years the fashions in dress have become more and more extravagant and expensive. A ' fine girl' now, en grande tenue, is a very handsome, very extensive, and very expensive ...

Published: Monday 02 September 1861
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 260 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Literature

... various causes, about the period of Earl Grey's first appearance in parliament, the political tone of the country was low, the Whig party, especially, suffering under temporary eclipse from the unpopularity of the recent coalition between Charles Fox and ...

Published: Monday 02 September 1861
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 3120 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Cottage Gardening

... field of Waterloo. He was a man of three-score years and ten*' when the angry debates occurred in the House of Commons the Whig Reform Bill ot 1832. During the whole of his long life, in which such important events in the world's history have occurred ...

Published: Saturday 01 February 1862
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1460 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

1863

... tabled. The two millions which, it is whispered, the govern- ment promise us will not satisfy our indignant representatives. Whig, tory, and radical will be at one on the question, and if we obtain five in- stead of two, we will hardly be able to believe ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1863
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1485 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MARRIAGE OF H.R.H. ALBERT, PRINCE OF WALES

... scions have not frequently been entrusted with the discharge of the duties of this important office, and that Whether they were whigs, or whether they were tories. As a rule, sheriffs are generally comparatively young men. for, upon coming their estates, the ...

Published: Wednesday 01 April 1863
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 10242 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE GREYS OF HOWICK

... some of the leading Whig statesmen, Lord Grey stood haughtily aloof, proclaiming in no whispered voice his want confidence. The people admired his consistency, and on the accession of William IV. he was the recognised head of the Whigs, and in that capacity ...

Published: Tuesday 01 September 1863
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1545 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE LATE DR. GEORGE WILSON

... and decide: cessible to any ions—frank and open in In politics he One, and altogether free inet the liberal interest on was a Whig—a firm supporter he communion of the all occasions. As a member of the co form- valued highly the regular perform Church of ...

Published: Tuesday 01 December 1863
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1294 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WILLIE WASTLE'S WIFE

... the practices and habits that had been handed down from generation to generation. I dinna ken if ever she heard the names | whig or tory in her life, but if tory mean an enemy o' change, then my Kirsty certainly was a tory o' the very | purest water. IJdinna ...

Published: Monday 01 August 1864
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 6348 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LAST HOURS OF PRINCE ALBERT

... LAST HOURS OF PRINCE ALBERT. THERE has reached us ( Northern Whig) from abroad @ Most interesting extract from a letter which was written by a member of the Queen’s household shortly after the death of Prince Albert. The extremely confidential posi- tion ...

Published: Tuesday 01 November 1864
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 664 | Page: 7 | Tags: none