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... English counties the Conservatives have lost 27 seats. In Irish counties there has been a steady reaction against in1 the Whigs, showing itself in a net Conservative ce gain of 13 votes. In Scotch counties the Con- mi servative loss, between 1841 and ...

Published: Friday 05 September 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1678 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Letter to the Editor

... Kinsale, and of great influence in the locality During the active portion of his career lie w5s an ardent politician on the Whig side, asd always took a leading part in the electoas for the borough of Kinsale, He was himself elected member without opposition ...

Published: Monday 08 September 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 664 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

OUR LONDON LETTER

... ion of the Catholics, by which act he vo net -l 1 shoirved his gratilude to the Duke, but for le'altl a favourite with the Whigs. It has beenl me scrittee that his crace voted for the repeal of the drl (I ltil ald Test Acts; but this must be a tlt . t ...

Published: Saturday 13 September 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3013 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

OUR LONDON LETTER

... Great Amster- dam Mercantile House which in its day was very famous. Grenfell I know not personally ; but I hear he is just a Whig body, and nae mair- one who wvill vote as he is told, and take a place if he can get one. Sergeant Shee is a Roman Catholic ...

Published: Saturday 20 September 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2270 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

APPALLING ORANGE RIOTS IN BELFAST

... IAPPALLING ORANGE RIOTS IN BELFAST. GREAT DESTRUCTION OF PtorPCRTY. nniit para (FROM TIcuE NORTHERN WHIG OF SATURDAY.) press Since the time of the street riots in Belfast in 1857-the most scandlalous of the kind which have disgraced this town-no commotion ...

Published: Tuesday 23 September 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1758 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

GUIDE TO OBJECTS AND PLACES OF INTEREST IN AND NEAR EDINBURGH

... followers. SATAN reproving sin, or appearing as an angel of light, could not excite more profound astonish- ment than our local Whig cotemporary-the big one, not the little one-vindicating the rights of the working classes against injustice, oppression, ...

Published: Friday 03 October 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5782 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... held on Wednesday, the 15th v current. 1 OPENING OF TlHE CARnIcu;EnGus AND LARNE a RAILWAY.-This railway, says the Northern c Whig, which has been constructed in a most re- Y markable short period of' time, was opened on 3 Wednesday for public traffic, and ...

Published: Monday 06 October 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3440 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... few subordinate places may be assigned to them, to keep a Willis' Rooms compact to the letter but to break it in spirit. The Whigs since the days of the Corn- lawv agitation have been indebted to the ad- vanced party for the daily bread of their poli- tical ...

Published: Tuesday 14 October 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4870 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Court and Fashion

... of IWoodhill. Hle lived for many years in the valley of Strathmore, wvherc he was a sufficiently lprominent member of the Whig party to move Ior second the nomination of one of its mem- bers for Pailiament. He performed this ser- ,vice for a candidate ...

Published: Friday 17 October 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5548 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

FAILURE OF AN ORANGE DEMONSTRATION IN IRELAND

... the getting up of the demonstration. As a dishlay of nmmerival strength, it was the greatest failure of the kind we (Belfast Whig) have ever seen- in faet, it was aperfect farce, while it was all but unattended by notabilities, members of Parlia- ment, ...

Published: Monday 20 October 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 446 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE WAR IN AMERICA

... which prevailed amaorg good men in sup- porting the State and National Government, for- i i I I i I i I getting that they were Whigs or Democrats; and not less cheering was it in the generous devo- tion whick all of foreign birth have offered to their adopted ...

Published: Tuesday 21 October 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2670 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... as Disraeli himself once expressed No it, will regard the change as ushering in their doi political millennium. Toryistic-Whig jour- wh nalists, who make it a point to cry down hat municipal institutions when these institu- cre tions are in the hands ...

Published: Tuesday 28 October 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4789 | Page: 2 | Tags: News