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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 

THE NEW PRIME MINISTER OF ITALY

... OF ITALY. The following sketch of Barou Ricasoli, the new Premier of Italy, which we extract from the columns of the Nothern Whig, will be read' with interest at this juiicture I calling Baron Ricasoli to the head of affairs, Victor' Emmanuel has taken ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1080 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

General Intelligence

... (brother-in-law to the Chancellor of the Exchequer) denies that he had given his interest in fav! ur of Lord Richard Grosvenor (the Whig candidate) in the late contest in Flintshire. The hon. Baronet preserved a strict neutrality. A NoTBs CLANr oF PssvzITEGaZ-Intthe ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1114 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE NEW PRIME MINISTER OF ITALY

... ITALY. The following sketch of Baron Ricasoli, the new Premier 'of Italy, which we extract from the columns of the YNorthern Whig, will be read with interest at this juncture':- ;fId calling Baron Ricasoli to the head of affairs, Victor Emmanuel has taken ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1099 | Page: 4 | Tags: News