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Spirit of the Press

... OF THE I : WHIGS. The Lwidof Revith, One of the aolesg , though not always the safest of the Ioon-ln weekly journals, in an article entitled A Word in. Season, thus correctly describes the character and present state of our Ministerial Whigs: Why cannot ...

Published: Tuesday 03 September 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: News | Words: 1454 | Page: 1 | 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 

SECOND EDITION OF WEDNESDAY

... House, voted on all occasions with the Whig party, and although an unfrequent speaker fin the House of Peers, invariably supported the Fviews and measures of the Whig Governments. In the dissensions among the Whig perty, the .political congresses provided ...

Published: Thursday 16 May 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: News | Words: 936 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

M. DUPIN ON THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH FLEETS

... sufficient quantity co)'II to eat and cotton to spin. A C5lQUE OF WVrIGS NOT THE LIBERAL PARTY. -The London Review remarks:-' The Whig leaders are not even identical with the true' and natural 'aristocracy of the nation; they are the descendants of the great ...

Published: Monday 16 September 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: News | Words: 981 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

Letters to the Editor

... The Governmental metamnorphosis ad having been accomplished, the Whig Lords suddenly el0 discovered that the country did not want Reform- Ab-l only wanted to oblige the omnivorous Whigs I Since then Whiggery has, without a blush, continued to play the ...

Published: Friday 13 December 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: News | Words: 1955 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

DOGMA'S OPINIONS ON THINGS IN GENERAL

... is not to be wondered that that of the Scotsman was only 5s. 9d.-exactly the price I saw paid for a rather shabby wig-not a Whig- at a public sale yesterday: that the writer of the following letter deserves our pity for losing his pence Dear Sir,-The ...

Published: Saturday 16 February 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: News | Words: 976 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SKETCHES OF BRITISH STATESMEN AND M.P.'S

... of these decisions. Lord Palmerston certainly never was, and is not now, a Whig; and I doubt whether be ever was really a Tory. Whilst on the one hand there is nothing of the Whig doctrinaire pedant about him, it is equally certain to my mind that he is ...

Published: Thursday 03 October 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: News | Words: 3109 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

OUR LONDON LETTER

... current. If theWhigs 'are .inwe move on; if 'the. Conservatives overthlokv the Whigs, even then we move on. 4In shirt, In a there is' i power behind both Governments,. ls whether Whig or Conservative-to wit the power re of 'agrea intelligent people, rgter' ...

Published: Monday 26 August 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: News | Words: 2290 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Spirit of the Press

... ' be In sooth, the Whigs and Peelites have of late reti gone to the full length of their tether in jobbing ten for their whippers-in. Here is a list, which Art we believe to be tolerably correct:- Col Mr Grenville Berkeley (Whig whip) appointed S to ...

Published: Friday 08 November 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: News | Words: 1801 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

SKETCHES OF BRITISH STATESMEN

... the House, too, lie has shown the same lack of principles. He abused the Whigs, he professed to believe in free trade; but when it suited his purpose, he took to praising the Whigs, re- nounced free trade, and became the most rabid of its opponents. But ...

Published: Thursday 10 October 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: News | Words: 3902 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

BIRMINGHAM ADDRESS ON REFORM

... they have taken his word and faithful promise, the only reason they have not risen in their might and demanded from a rotten Whig Government the fulfilment of the pledge given. When drones in the hive consume and destroy all the honey, the industrious bees ...

Published: Friday 22 February 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: News | Words: 458 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

Letter to the Editor

... demonstrative politician; but his pre- dilections were, IYbelieve, Conservative. This trivial circamstance ought not, even under Whig rule, to have obstructed a promotion which was the just re- ward of talent, and learning, and character; and it is happily ...

Published: Thursday 25 July 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: News | Words: 528 | Page: 3 | Tags: News