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OUR LONDON LETTER

... promptly gave up his seat. The Earl of Zetland is the patron of Richmond, and having lately received a blue rib. bon from the Whigs, will,.of course, return Mr Palmer at the request of Lord Palmerston. EBRLIGIOUS TESTS. You will have seen that Mr Black strongly ...

Published: Tuesday 09 July 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1819 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE BETRAYAL OF REFORM

... break with the cause, to be ranked with its enemnies, this is too dreadful even for the most re- actionary of House of Commons Whigs. The intolerable annoyance which Mir ]aines's Bill has given to these gentlemen comes of this, that it puts one more obstacle ...

Published: Saturday 13 April 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 858 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE REVIVAL OF RELIGION IN ANNAN

... POLITICAL PRoPsEcY.-The following is from Hurst & Blackett's new work Courts and Cabinets of William IV. anl Victoria. -The Whigs were drawing upon themselves the change of the tide which one of the wise t of their leaders had foreseen. Daring one of the ...

Published: Friday 01 February 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 868 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

OUR LONDON LETTER

... hiadicals, itud effectually stop this tide of democracy, which threatens to cngulph both Whigs and Conservatives. I confess I have not observed this. The Whigs are getting weaker, the Tories stronger; but I do not perceive any signs of coalition. But ...

Published: Monday 29 July 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1773 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

General Intelligence

... boys are not to be allowed to take up tobacco, or to smoke, either on shore or' afloat. MMB WmmSIDx.-Mr Whiteside, says the Whig, has a longleeway to make up if he would desire to-make a reputation as a senator. His mis- chievous legislation in the co ...

Published: Tuesday 12 November 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1800 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE TIVERTON ELECTION

... iitentd to carry it, or you wvould niever have given it upi after it had been d(lebated night after night. I have given yo.u Whigs a lonjg trial, an(l I(ow I :ive thnl(II you overboard altogether-(lord laig~litei). I w-ill tell youL Why. I never found a ...

Published: Saturday 30 March 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 828 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

COURT AND CABINETS OF WILLIAM IV. AND VICTORIA

... at this moment on better terms with our former friends than we were. I firmly believe that the majority of them prefer the Whigs to us. The reason is this, their ob- jection to us is without reason, and personal. They must see that we were right and they ...

Published: Friday 25 January 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 964 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

DOGMA'S OPINIONS ON THINGS IN GENERAL

... sympathy to be most sincere which is obh tained from old-tried friends. I see that the Whig and Tory papers sail in the same boat. Bassured fren, th a , I When Whig and Tory do agree, It bodes some great calamity. However, I have no doubt but that Liberalism ...

Published: Thursday 24 January 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3156 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... solemn assurance that the rights of the t people in the matter of electoral reform would t be secured by the return of tile Whigs N to power. The agreement in Willis's Rooms, r repeated in the House of Commons by Lord c John Russell before the vote that ...

Published: Friday 08 February 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5147 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... independent members willing to perform the work. Though Whigs and Tories are com- mitted to Mr Lorlce King's £10 franchise for coun- ties, both seem resolved not to allow it to pass. Though the Whigs promised the £6 franchise for boroughs, and the Tories ...

Published: Thursday 21 February 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5480 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SKETCHES OF BRITISH STATESMEN

... associations were formned, the registers were everywhere assiluously attended to ; and, what with the wretched management of the Whigs and the active energy of their opponents, in a few years the Conservative party was fairly upon its legs again, an'l in 1834 ...

Published: Friday 25 October 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3662 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THF ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS

... many here who are calculating on a good season at last-on full hotels and much profit. A lady correspondent of the Northern Whig graphically describes a journey to the scene from Naples:- Still, we proceeded bravely on for about two hours, when, indeed ...

Published: Thursday 19 December 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1164 | Page: 4 | Tags: News