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Caledonian Mercury

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: Article | Words: 3109 | Page: 2 | 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: Article | Words: 3902 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

SKETCHES OF BRITISH STATESMEN AND M.P'.S

... sits side by side in the same Cabinet withithe noble Lord. Lord Palmerston was then a ''ory, aml nowl he is the head of a Whig Ca. binct, %vith a sprinkling of Radicalism in it. Such arc the changes changing time (loth bring. Lord Palnmerston did not ...

Published: Wednesday 02 October 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3004 | Page: 3 | 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 

Foreign Intelligence

... being 1792. The de- wh| scendant of ais ancieit Scottish family, he was re: born at Netherby, and like many of the young i Whigs, was educated at Westiniuster School. rs, From there he went to Queen's College, Cam. le bi'clge, and very speedily entered ...

Published: Monday 28 October 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6040 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

Literary Notices

... cusses at considerable length, and in a tone of contemptuous indignation, the charges brought against the accuracy of the great Whig historian by Mr Paget in his New Examen; or, an In- quiry into the Evidence Relating to certain Pas- sages in Lord Macaulay's ...

SKETCHES IN AND AROUND EDINBURGH

... one side and the other. It a 'was, perhaps, the first time the Muse had been t t invoked on so prosaic a subject; but the Whigs i e triumphed, and the Royal Bank was opened with e acapitalof £111,000. The rivalry whichnow sprung i dup between the two ...

Published: Monday 14 October 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4014 | Page: 2 | Tags: Commerce 

Court and Fashion

... of the electors ap- prove of that mode of action. We have suffi- cient faith in the sense of right of Governments (whether Whig or Tory) as to believe they will not shIuit their eyes to a display of public opinion given through the ordinary medium of ...

Published: Wednesday 23 October 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3725 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... a nlighit in the Town Hal1, Newcastle-c'U9,v e r 'its. ccasion hua. been daaraeterised as; oanF sC.ond inl importance, as a Whig demonawtios: 1 to tlhe g'reat n1%eetings hold at the time lho3 ]ahe- E tni Grey retired from public life. Thc attend,- t anca ...

Published: Tuesday 15 October 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4090 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

EDINBURGH AND MID-LOTHIAN RIFLE ASSOCIATION

... Col. elioster on Wednesday night. Major Beresford spoke vigorously iii favour of maintaining the 01(1 Isarty distinctions of Whig and Tory apparently in reply to Lord Robert Mointagu's recent speech in supp-'ort of opposite views. Captain Jervis made souse ...

Published: Saturday 19 October 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3249 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... paper as it did in corn, and in a few years so powerful did the 6iganisatiou hff'Yoinr 6f bhnii books ancdpaers become, that Whigs and Tories, in andiout of power, felt that resistance was hopeless and-delay on the ground of financial difficulties the only ...

Published: Tuesday 01 October 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4171 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... ry to the opening oF any negotiation for their support. 1 Enlightened Tories, bid- ding high fur at Radic-al alliance ; Whigs, who thiink the cry of I No Church-rates' a less ui- palatable watchword than Reform ; members (f all sides and schools, afflicted ...

Published: Tuesday 29 October 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4503 | Page: 2 | Tags: News